a major hurricane, and peaked at early on August 13. At 01:00 UTC, the strong Category 4 hurricane made landfall in northern Tamaulipas, south of Port Isabel, Texas, and passed over Matamoros and Brownsville. The system weakened as it paralleled the Rio Grande, curved into South Texas, and dissipated on August 14. The storm caused several ships to be lost or stranded in or near the Yucatán Channel. Hurricane-force winds occurred offshore of western Cuba. Hitting close to the Mexico–United States border, the powerful cyclone severely impacted both nations. The pressure in the storm was determined to be at the time of landfall, based on a reading of coincident with hurricane-force winds at Brownsville, an inland site. The cyclone destroyed three hundred homes in Matamoros and downed buildings and fences in Brownsville. At the latter place, debris covered streets. Strong winds destroyed twenty structures at Fort Brown, the barracks sustained damage, and thirty-five horses and mules died. Ten vessels sank in the Rio Grande and at Port Isabel, resulting in three deaths. The storm levelled buildings, killed domestic pigs, and generated a storm surge of on Padre Island. The storm also ruined of track bed in Texas. Seven deaths took place on land: two in Matamoros, "at least" five in Brownsville. Total fatalities in the storm numbered thirty or more, primarily at sea. Hurricane Three The third tropical cyclone and second hurricane of the season developed northeast of Barbados early on August 15. Pursuing a parabolic path, it headed west-southwest across Saint Lucia, and a ship noted heavy squalls near Guadeloupe. On August 16, the fast-moving tropical storm, then nearing hurricane intensity, turned westward over the eastern Caribbean Sea. At 00:00 UTC on August 18, upon reaching hurricane status, it commenced a northwestward course toward Jamaica. On the same date, the ship Nith registered a pressure of in the storm. At 00:00 UTC on August 19, the cyclone peaked with winds of , and shortly afterward struck Kingston, Jamaica. While traversing eastern Jamaica, the cyclone weakened, and turned northward to strike Pilón, Cuba, with winds of . The storm lost hurricane intensity after landfall, turned to the north-northeast, and swiftly crossed the Bahamas on August 20. The storm was last identifiable at 18:00 UTC, over the southwestern Atlantic Ocean, with winds of . The eye of the storm passed directly over Kingston, Jamaica, with a measured central pressure of .