New Britain herald., 1926-09-21
Revised Reports Put Dead at 400 and 5000 Injured-Loss About 50 Millions Still Doubt as to Fate of Pensacola and Baha- ma Islands Mobile Not Seriously Damag- ed.
5ulf Storm Now Sweeping on Towards New Or leans But Decreasing in Intensity-Relief Work Progresses Rapidly.

Miami, Fla, Sept. q Fl-Four hundred dead and five thousand in ured was the estimate placed today Is the result of Saturdays hurri- fanes which laid waste sixty mile tretch of Florida's east coast. Fifty persons were missing.
 Tolls Mount Steadily As the out of the way places be- fame accessible, more injured refu- bees were found and more bodies To- lated. The money loss also was fhcreased. Actual damage to houses Ind business buildings was estimat- l d at nearly s5Q,0O0,000 but many keld that the value Of the millions IT priceless palms and pines which |eere uprooted or cut to the ground, |yould double the damage estimate. Paved roads. sidewalks, develop- bent gateways and clubhouses also Fere added, as we'll as the loss to business firms by the cessation of |;ork due either to storm damage or bck of power or water.
 Sewage and water systems and over plants in dozen of the |tricken localities suffered great amaze but most of them had re- |umed limited service today, Relief Work Progresses Relief work was under way every here and at Miami and West Palm beach active headquarters were es- |Rblished to collect money and oth- + donations. Medicines by the tuckload were rushed over the torn ighway between the two cities, Physicians. surgeons and nurses sped through the military lines in official hrs bearing in front a blazing red ] gn of the Red Cross.
 The cross won its way through he traffic and sirens with which the ars were equipped screeched warn hg as the workers whirled from one Fagic spot to another to leave drugs md bandages or to drop off medical hen and nurses. Traffic could turn side and stop and militiamen would lear their way as the Red Cross cat ] pproached headed by a speeding motorcycle officer. Ambulances, the | |earses from undertaking establish ! hents, and the ncwspapermen who l Fere trying to tell the world the ! Rcts also had the right of way.
 More Dead Certain.
 The known death toll, computed | y the Associated Press from all i ources last night at 369, was swell d early today by a dispatch from ebring telling Of word brought | 1ere by Tampa Boy Scouts of the cath of six persons at Rockport, hat the back country" in the will yield a still larger oll of death seemed certain today hen the pilot of a Florida airway lane which flew to Miami with re- ef supplies, returned to Tampa and i'd a story of settlements along the reams with the Everglades being yelled,
 Relief trains were speeding from I directions to the aid of the lower lorida east coast. A train from \ outh Carolina passed through At nta last night, pausing for only w minutes.
 Relief Measures.
 From sections of Florida un- uched by the storm trains were as rapidly as possible to 10 scene carrying physicians, f lrses, medicines and other needed ipplies. The airplane from Tampa , at flew across the Everglades took z 0,000 in gold to a Miami bank. r The death list in Miami and Hol- T wood, the hardest hit with the pos z ole exception of Moorehaven, to- y stood at more than 800 with the S that 1t would grow. oorehaven's list still was\ uncer- in, estimaees running as high as 0, with 56 known to have perish l !. Outlying suburbs of Miami ac- | unted for 45 dead. I
 STORM MOVING ON ' New Orleans, Sept. 21.-tRl-The f cal weather bureau announced at I
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