Massachusetts on September 10, with maximum sustained winds extending to a radius of from the center. Sustained hurricane-force winds were observed in both Rhode Island and Massachusetts as the storm moved ashore. The system transitioned into an extratropical cyclone shortly thereafter. Several rivers in Puerto Rico overflowed, leading to extensive flooding. Five homes were destroyed along the coast of Juana Díaz, and strong winds caused isolated Fujita-scale F1 damage. Later, the storm generated damaging winds along the Northeastern United States coast from New Jersey to eastern New England, wreaking havoc on beachfront property and small craft. High storm tides inundated streets, wharves, and cellars along the coast, while farther inland, high winds damaged crops and stripped orchards of their fruit. Wind gusts reached at Point Judith, Rhode Island, where five vessels were destroyed, and on Block Island. In Providence, the storm brought down communications wires and lodged numerous yachts against the coast. To the north, four sloops sank in Dorchester Bay. In Boston, the storm caused minor wind damage, mostly limited to chimneys, fences, and signs. On September 14, a stricken Italian barque called the Monte Tabor grounded out on a sandbar off Cape Cod after encountering the hurricane several days earlier. Seven of the ship's crew members made it safely to shore, but inexplicably, three others—including the captain—committed suicide upon running aground. Hurricane Three An unusually large storm formed east of the Lesser Antilles by September 18. It tracked northwestward, and on September 22, falling air pressure was observed at Havana, Cuba, some southwest of the storm's center. Several ships encountered the hurricane in the Gulf Stream on September 23, with one of them suffering damage to her sails. The hurricane recurved to the northeast far from the East Coast of the United States, but still produced northeasterly wind gusts as high as at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and at Cape Hatteras, roughly northwest of the hurricane. Although its intensity and path are not certain, the Atlantic hurricane database tracks the storm until dissipation south of Iceland on September 28. Hurricane Four The Cedar Keys Hurricane of 1896 The most destructive tropical cyclone of the season, and one of the costliest hurricanes ever to strike the United States at the time, passed through the Leeward Islands as a tropical storm on September 22, and moved westward Through Caribbean Sea south of Hisponiola and Jamaica. Intensifying into a Category 3