A devastating hurricane makes a direct hit on the east and north of the island. The hurricane hit about midnight on 28 August without warning, when nearly everyone was asleep. While sparing Plymouth and the south for the most part, it took only 2 hours, 1 AM to 3 AM, to devastate the north of the island.

When the hurricane reached Montserrat on August 7th, 1899, the area of the storm had increased, the barometer was almost two inches lower (than on August 3.), having fallen to 27.45 inches, the wind blew with hurricane force, causing immense damage and loss of life, and the rainfall was excessive (Monthly Weather Review, Oct.1900). The pier was blown away and the material newly laid in for its extension gone to sea. The courthouse and a school are standing and crowded with homeless women and children. Not a church or parsonage is standing in the island.

A hurricane and flood in Fort Ghaut. Fort Ghaut is undermined, half of Plymouth is destroyed. Houses are washed away with many dead and something like 200 homeless. Ships in the Plymouth roadstead were blown ashore. Planters were forced to provide slave labor to rebuild roads and bridges.

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