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Subject: Hurricane victims listed
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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 9:33:48 PDT
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	MIAMI (UPI) -- A partial list of the victims of Hurricane Andrew
including the circumstances of their death from the police report. All
were in south Dade County unless otherwise noted.
	--Naomi Browning, 12. ``A piece of timber came through the window and
struck the child.''
	-- Emma Grace Parker, 74. ``The victim was apparently attempting to
remove duct tape from the apartment window located on the seventh floor
of the building (her apartment). While doing so, she fell through the
open window causing her death.'' Occurred in Liberty City north of
downtown Miami.
	--Vidal Perez, 49, and Francsco Sospedra, 74. ``... The victims along
with 12 other family members were inside a wood-frame house. The house
began to buckle. The victims and family members fled the house and
entered a steel utility trailer. The trailer was turned over several
times by the wind. The trailer came apart and all were ejected. The
family took shelter in another area of the house. The bodies were found
later at approximately 8 a.m. (Perez) was found in front of the house.
(Sospedra) was found about 1-4 mile west of the home.''
	--Anthony Margiotta. ``The victim and his girlfriend are blind. They
went to check the screen of the seventh-floor apartment and fell off
balcony.'' Apartment is located in north Dade County.
	--Unknown. ``The body was found floating in the canal by the homeowner
at 6857 Sunrise Terrace, Coral Gables. The canal is a close distance
from the Dinner Key Marina. The victim only had on a pair of blue
paisley shorts.''
	--Miguel Pulido, 62. ``The victim was attempting to ride out the
hurricane when the mobile home he was in came apart and rolled over
several times, causing the victoim to be crushed. The cause of death is
mechanical asphyxia. The victim's wife and three children escaped to a
neighbor's house unharmed.''
	--Unknown male. ``The victim was brought into Deering Hospital by a
neighbor who told hospital officials that the victim was found crushed
in his collapsed home.''
	--Herman Lucerne, 67. ``The victim went to his garage to obtain some
plywood during the hurricane at approximately 1:45 a.m. The victim fell
in the garage and complained of pain on his right side. He then vomited,
and went into respiratory arrest and expired. A small amount of trauma
was noted on the vitim's right side of his head and right arm.''
	--Claude Owens, 46. ``At the height of the hurricane, the victim's
roof collapsed and part of the roof struck him in the neck opening a
large laceration.''
	--Roberto Ramos, 40. ``As the victim's pre-fab house began to
collapse, he left the residence and ran toaward the barn. The winds and
flying debris battered him to death.''
	--Gladys Porter, 91. ``The victim refused to evacuate mobile home.
After the storm, she was found deceased under mobile home wreckage.''
	--Mary Cowan, 67. ``The victim spent the night (at home). She was
alive during the eye of the storm. During the second half of the storm
her apartment complex was flattened and she was crushed to death.''
	--Harry Boyer, 67. ``The victim was found in the rubble of the
collapsed retirement home.''
	--Jesse James, 46. Died in downtown Miami when a tree fell on an
abandoned truck in which he was sleeping. His family had urged him to
remain in his home, but he insisted in sleeping in the truck.
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