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Flora Hurricane Chronicle Traces Toll Across Caribbean
An editor note recounts the formation and path of Hurricane Flora from its Caribbean birth on Sept 16 1963 to its devastating strike, noting at least 5 000 deaths in Haiti and over 1 000 in Cuba and the storm’s historic death toll surpassing Galveston 1900.
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Florida
Flora
Caribbean
Ben Funk
Associated Press
Atlantic
South Atlantic
Tiros 7
Trinidad
Roosevelt Roads
Puerto Rico
Tobago
Haiti
Hispaniola
Tiburon Peninsula
Cuba
Oriente
Bahamas
Gulf States
Camaguey
Triente
Cuban
North Atlantic
Fidel Castro