100 YEARS AGO TODAY The modern record book shows that the tropical storm east of the Caribbean became a 75-mph hurricane on the morning of September 12, 1926. It was heading in the general direction of the waters just north of Puerto Rico. On that same morning, a tropical depression with 35 mph winds was creeping north in the Caribbean south of western Cuba. That Sunday, the newspapers in Miami and Fort Lauderdale had no coverage of these two systems, which would eventu