Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-09-18
EAST :
COAST IS HIT
HURRICANE
Huge Trees Uprooted
AT Miami; High Surf
Pounding w ater-
front at Palm Beach

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Sept. 49,
tP,--Lashed BY the second hurricane
that has whipped out Of the West
Indies within the last two months.
portions Of the lower east coast Of
Florida were isolated from commun-
ication with the outside world to-
day.
Telephone and telegraph com
panies reported their lines down in
the vicinity Of West Palm Beach and
Miami where a severe gale was
blowing. All messages were subject
TO indefinite delay.
The Western Union cable office nc
Miami beach reported that the island
was under three feet OF water"
and that six feet OF water" was
running over the Miami beach cause
way.
Electric light and telephone wires
were reported down and the tele-
graph company's men were isolated
in their office with water sweeping
through the streets.
No communication was available
between the beach and Miami proper.
MIAMI. Fla. Sept. Is.-(Pi-Ship-
ping scurriad 10 cover early today
before the first force Of tropical
hurricane which centered Yesterday
at Nassau. capitol city of the Be-
hama islands.
A storm barometer and steady
rising tide and sea forecast the APP
proach OF the storm which was re-
ported from Havana last night as
having n wind velocity of 100 miles
per hour.
At Miami beach heavy surf was
pounding twenty feet or more above
the usual high water line, and high
waves in Biscayne bay endangered
the causeway connecting Miami
beach with the mainland. Pine trees
were uprooted near Miami.
High waves were beginning their
attack along the waterfront at Palm
Beach and the ocean walk which
was washed out in a score Of places
BY the flood OF July being reinforced
Yachts anchored in Lake Worth
were msved 70 safer berths in in
land canals. Lack of communication
with Nassau handicapped Nv the
dismantling Of radio stations. made
news Of possible destruction in the
Bahamas impossible.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 1s.-lRl-
The wire chief OF the Western
Union telegraph company here was
informed today that n hundred mile
an hour gale was sweeping Miami.
driving water over the causeway-
The roof or the Miami Western
Union office was coIIapsinE. the
wire chief said he was informed. and
six feet of water had risen in the
building, demolishing such circuits
as had not already been paralyzed
BY the gale The electric lighting
system also had been paralyzed. he
said.
ATLANTA, Ca. Sept 1s.-tF1--
Reports 10 the telegraph companies
in Atlanta today said that the
Florida storm was in triangular
area roughly between Fort Pierces
Okeechobee and Key Largo and winds
in some parts were blowing between
so and 100 miles an hour.
All wires 70 Miami and vicinity
were down. An unconfirmed report
said that water was flowing over the
causeway between Miami and Miami
beach. roofs had blown off some
smaller structures in Miami beach
and that flooding OF manholes had
put the telephone lines out Of COIN
mission.
WASHINGTON. SeptA ts.-tFt--
The Weather Bureau this AFTERNOON
issued the following storm warning:
Advisory y. w. northeast storm
warnings extended y. NJ. west 0f
Mobile 70 mouth of Mississippi river
Hurricane center noon over eK-
treme southern Florida. Fort Myers
reporting barometer 29.O4, fifty two
miles north. Hurricane will pass
into Gulf of Mexico this afternoon
and continue 10 move west north
westward for the present