from Naguabo to Arecibo, while areas from Humacao to Aguadilla suffered hurricane-force winds. Citrus trees sustained heavy fruit losses throughout the path of the storm; some trees were snapped and uprooted. Fifty percent of the grapefruit crop was lost in the storm. Coffee crops in eastern Puerto Rico suffered a 75 percent loss. The Puerto Rico Leaf Tobacco Company alone reported $600,000 incurred by its drying barns. Rainfall was heaviest in central Puerto Rico; a station in Cayey observed of precipitation in 24 hours. A resulting flood on the La Plata River overtopped a dam, inflicting substantial downstream damage to bridges and crops. Winds at San Juan, some north of the center of the hurricane, remained above for two hours with a peak 10-minute sustained wind of . Across Puerto Rico, one death occurred and the damages were estimated at $1 million. A peak wind speed of accompanied by of rain in four hours was measured in Miami, Florida, when the storm passed nearby. Streets in the city's business district were flooded but the damage was slight and non-extensive. The storm downed telephone wires from Miami to West Palm Beach. Hurricane Eight On August 27 at 12:00 UTC, a tropical storm was observed about east of Barbados. It strengthened into a hurricane about 12 hours later. The storm attained its peak intensity around the time it struck Dominica with maximum sustained winds of and a minimum barometric pressure of early on August 28, with the former being based on the latter, which was observed at Roseau. This fast-moving hurricane tracked westward through the Caribbean and weakened to a tropical storm on August 30 while south of Haiti's Tiburon Peninsula. The cyclone weakened to winds of by the following day, but re-strengthened somewhat prior to its landfall in northern Belize with winds of on September 1. The storm moved west-southwestward into Guatemala and weakened, falling to tropical depression intensity on September 2 and dissipating shortly thereafter. The hurricane struck Dominica with little warning with winds exceeding . Fifty people were killed and two hundred homes were destroyed. Many of the homes, bridges, and culverts were overtaken by swollen rivers that rose to unprecedented heights. The storm was particularly destructive to the island's agriculture, including cocoa, coconut, lime, and rubber production. Over a hundred thousand barrels of limes were lost due to the downing of 83,198 lime trees and the loss of