Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-09-24

Miami. Fla, Sept. 23.-(P)-Addi-
tional surveys and rechecks made
today in the storm devastated
southeastern coast of Florida show
ed 500 known dead, HOO injured
probably 500 seriously, and property
loss of approximately $165,OOO,OOO.
AS compiled by w. H. Combs, in
charge of the bureau of missing
persons here, Colonel L. S. Lowry
Jr, leader in the rescue work al
Moorehaven, the Associated Press
and the Daily News, the deaths by
cities and towns were as follows:
Moorehaven 126, Miami and i'm
mediate vicinity 100. Hollywood and
immediate vicinity 81. Hialeah %
Fort Lauderdale 10, DANA II, Full
ford s, Seaboard Park Z, Ingleside
8. Hallandale ., Homestead 2, Pom
pano ..
An accurate check of the dead at
Clewiston and Progresso remained
to be made.
Property loss was given as fol-
lows:
Greater Miami district, including
Miami Beach, Coral Gables and CO.
coanut Grove, S100,000,000 estimated
by Miami chamber of commerce.
Hialeah, S15,OOO,OOO estimated by
Mayor Grethen.
HOLLYWOOD and Dania, $4,000, OOC
TO $50, 600 900, estimated by J. w.
Young. developer of Hollywood.
Fort Lauderda1e S25,000,000 to
S33000,OO0. estimated by city off,
Gals
Searchers and divers still were at
work in Biscayne Bay and at Moore
haven and it was expected that when
their work was finished there would
be large additions to the death list.
Colonel Lowry estimated that there
were at least 100 more dead at
Moorehaven with the possibility that
some bodies would not be recovered
until the food waters had receded a
week or more hence.
Searching parties found seven
more bodies at Miami and the IA
talty list was increased by two more
with the deaths at Coral Gables of
small girl and a man who had
been injured.
An unidentified mans body was
recovered from the sunlen schooner
Evelyn D. which foundered in the
harbOr with a liquor cargo valued
at $40, 900.
Divers were sent into the Nohab.
formerly the private yacht of the
German kaiserin, which ended its
existence as a supper club anchored
In Biscayne Bay. The captain and
six of the crew of this craft are
missing.
Eleven persons, seven of them
children. were rescued today from a
caved-in apartment house where
they had lain in darkness since last
Saturday night. None was injured,
but their plight was described as pit
liable
Fears that the Seminole Indians,
gathered in two camps in the Ever
glades, had suffered heavy casual
ties in the hurricane, proved ground
less today as newspapermen search
ed out their camps.
As the work of rehabilitation went
forward here and in the other coast
towns and resorts, American Red
Cross and state officials centered at
ttention on an effort to prevent out
breaks of disease.
AS yet, no case of typhoid has
been reported, but medical men are
agreed that conditions were such
that an extensive outbreak is posi-
bic.
Sanitation experts, doctors and
nurses, sent in from as far as Chi
cago, found their staunchest ally IN
blazing, semi-tropical sun. which
mas glared from virtually cloudless
Skies ever since the storm passed.
Serums still are being rushed here
from many points and incubation
against typhoid and tetanus is pro-
ceeding as rapidly as possible.