23,100 others. Many cocoa trees were destroyed. Though these industries recovered quickly by the year's end, the storm was ultimately part of a decade-long series of natural disasters and political events that eventually led to the demise of the island's cultivation economy by 1925. The hurricane may have generated tidal waves that wrecked the USS Memphis, resulting in 43 deaths. Caution was advised for shipping in the vicinity of Jamaica on August 30 as the storm approached. The passing storm brought showers and heavy surf to Jamaica, marking the second time in two weeks that the island was affected by a tropical cyclone. Torrential rains inflicted damage to some roads and cultivations. At Mandeville, of rain fell due to the storm within a day. Tropical Storm Nine The ninth tropical storm of the season was first detected over the eastern Bahamas at 12:00 UTC on September 4. Moving north-northwestward, the storm intensified slightly and peaked with maximum sustained winds of and a minimum pressure of , based on observations from a ship. Early on September 6, the cyclone curved north-northeastward and made landfall near Holden Beach, North Carolina, around 06:00 UTC at the same intensity. About 12 hours after moving inland, the system weakened to a tropical depression near Rocky Mount, shortly before dissipating over the northeastern parts of the state. Storm warnings were issued by the Weather Bureau on September 5 for coastal areas between Savannah, Georgia, and Cape Hatteras, North Carolina; warnings were later extended north to the Virginia Capes. Ahead of the storm, of rain fell in Wilmington, North Carolina. Gale-force winds were produced inland following the storm's landfall. Rainfall from the storm spread across the East Coast of the United States from North Carolina to Maine. Hurricane Ten A tropical wave became a tropical depression on September 13 about northeast of Antigua and Barbuda. The depression moved just north of due west and intensified into a tropical storm early the next day. On September 15, the cyclone turned north-northeastward and intensified into a hurricane early on September 18, shortly after curving northeastward. The hurricane peaked with maximum sustained winds peaked at and a minimum barometric pressure of , both estimates based on ship observations. Late on September 20, the cyclone turned eastward and weakened to a tropical storm. The system transitioned into an extratropical cyclone several hours later about west-southwest of the northwesternmost islands of the