As it generally happens with tropical hurricanes (T. C.) from the XIX or previous centuries, the sources of first order meteorological information are scarce or nonexistent. The Hurricane of Matanzas doesn't make an exception.
For the study of this system we have
taken as basic bibliography two works edited in the second half of the XIX
century (Viñes, 1909; Fernández de Castro,
1871), and one of the first half
of the XX century (Robado, 1933). Also, we revised newspapers and printed
magazines from October 1870 (Aurora del Yumurí, from
Matanzas, and Diario de
la Marina, from Havana), with the purpose of analyzing the news published
about this T. C. and the damages it caused.
