The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-20

from a fve-story building and de-
capAated him.
An unidentified girl, about IA, was
found in Miami with a piece of tim
Der driven through her chest.
Half of the 300foot smokestack of
the power plant in Miami was top
pied over.
The courthouse lawn and vicinity
looks like an armed camp. National
guardsmen arrived from Palm Beach
Sunday night and pitched dog tents
in the heart of town.
Water supply mains in Miami
were turned on for a short time
Sunday night, but were shut off
again. Physicians decided the wa
ter was unfit to drink.
Linemen from the Florida Light
and Power Company, who have been
on duty since the hurricane broke
over the city, are attempting to es-
tablish temporary lines to hospitals
and relief centers.
Call Not Issued
Sheriff Chase Of Miami today told
the United Press he had not. issued
a call for 600 collins for the stricken
city, as had been reported.
1--WE have no need for that many
collins no wand do not expect to
have" he said.
. At Hollywood it was impossible to,
obtain food except by official per-
NIT from police. All food supplies
in wrecked groceries and ware
houses have been confiscated by the
police and are being rationed.
United Press representatives, who
visited Hollywood and Miami late
Sunday night and early today de
clare the former city was the
hardest hit.
Long lines of refugees, penniless,
distracted and hungry, crowded all
roads leaving Hollywood, the
beautiful city, which in three years
sprung from a mango plantation to
one of the garden spots Of the
State.
Telegraph offices are besieged by
survivors seeking to send word to
relatives in the north that they are
safe, but at noon today wire COM
munication was still crippled.
1t was six days ago that the hur-
ricane was born out in the West In
dies. 1t rolled westward and at 2
a. m. Saturday it broke upon Miami
from the northwest.
For four hours the wind roared
and whirled at a velocity of $50
miles an hour.
The great tower of the Miami
News, famed over the world for the
beauty of it's architecture, leaned
to a 20-degree angle, twisted and
wrenched.
Meyer-Kiser Building
The ten-story MeyerKis bank
building was practically demolished.
Building after building was blown
down or was shattered and torn.
Boats were tossed, sunk or de-
stroyed in the harbor as if they were
but things of flimsy tissue.
People were crushed, injured and
killed.
Wires were twisted into entangle-
ments such as on the battlefields of
France.
Lights went out. Communication
was an impossibility. Railroad lines
were disrupted and tracks destroyed.
Rain fell in torrents.
Ao-Ixad 80 ~ no
by the vast power Of the hurricane,
swept onto the shore. wrecking what
was in it's path and leaving boats
high on the land.
And while this was going on in
Miami, other of the magic cities of
the Florida east coast were almost
equal sufferers.
Hollywood, perhaps the most ia
nous of the Florida developments,
was wrenched and torn. Estimates
Of the dead there were placed at 200.
FIT. Lauderdale, hardly less famous
than Hollywood, was visited with
hardly less fury. Fifteen bodies
have been recovered from its wreck
age and the dead there may go much
higher. ~
Race Track Ruined
Hialeah'sA famous race track was
ruined and seventeen were reported
killed.
The storm swept inland over Lake
Okeechobee and an aviator, who, on
Sunday flew in that vicinity, came
back with an estimate that probably
140 persons had been killed in Moor
haven and Clewiston.
Another man who had been over
the territory said he estimated the
dead along the railway between
Moorehaven and Muckway at forty.
Coral Gables suffered, with six re-
ported dead. -
Out of Key Largo and in Home
stead the hurricane visited with it's
fury and the dead in those communi-
ties was reported to approximate
forty.
Key West also suffered and
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