A hurricane overruns a Spanish fleet bound from Havana to Cadiz and sinks the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuestra_Señora_de_Atocha" id="mwJQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Nuestra Señora de Atocha">galleon Atocha</a>. Only five men are rescued, but 260 passengers and 200 million pesos are buried with the Atocha under 50 feet of water.<sup about="#mwt20" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"}}' id="cite_ref-2" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./September_5#cite_note-2" id="mwJg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwJw">[2]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"><cite about="#mwt17" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFDaniel1989">Daniel, Clifton (1989). <i id="mwB-k">Chronicle of America</i>. Chronicle publication. p.<span id="mwB-o" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>55. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwB-s" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwB-w" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/0-13-133745-9" id="mwB-0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/0-13-133745-9"><bdi id="mwB-4">0-13-133745-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt17" class="Z3988" id="mwB-8" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Chronicle+of+America&amp;rft.pages=55&amp;rft.pub=Chronicle+publication&amp;rft.date=1989&amp;rft.isbn=0-13-133745-9&amp;rft.aulast=Daniel&amp;rft.aufirst=Clifton&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASeptember+5"></span></span>