The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-09-23
HURRICANE HITS
SOUTHERN FLORIDA
ESTIMATED DEAD WILL EXCEED
FOUR HUNDRED-MANY
INJURED
PROPERTY LOSS HEAVY
DOCTORS AND SUPPLIES ARE
BEING RUSHED TO STRICKEN
AREA-RELIEF NEEDED


man of the Stearns county
chapter of the Red Cross, has
issued an appeal to all branches
of the chapter to make an ap-
peal for funds to assist in re-
lieving storm stricken Florida.
DR.. Clark pointed out that
Stearns county may be in need at
some future time, and in such
event other communities would
F, give assistance. The entire ma
ton is assisting in raising funds
for relief work in the Florida
storm area. All contributions
should be sent to DR.. Clark, or
the daily newspapers of St.
Cloud, who will turn them over
to Dr.. Clark, or to A. A. Weber,
treasurer of the Stearns County
chapter.
Having left trail of death and de-
struction in southern Florida, the
tropical hurricane which swept in
from the Bahamas last Friday night
and passed over Penscola and Mobile
today~and was converging on New
Orleans, but with demolishing force,
after striking several southern Ala
bama towns.
AS relief workers penetrated into
the debris ON THE west coast of Flor
ida, the death list there continued to
mount steadily. Conservative esti-
mates placed. the dead at 400 and the
injured at 5000.
The known dead in Florida at noon
stood at 388 and the known injured
at 1852, but many of the rescue
workers thought the list of dead
might reach 700 when wrecked build
ings had been cleared and final word
had come from the isolated sections
in the everglades.
Feverish efforts We're being made
to get in touch with Pensacola, which
has been isolated for more than "a
hours after the wind there had reach
ed a velocity of 100 miles per hour.
The last word from Pensacola
fragmentary radio message yesterday
said property damage was heavy, but
that there mad been no loss of life up
to that time.
That the "back country" in the
Everglades will yield a still larger
toll of death seemed certain today
plane, which flew to Miami with re-
lief supplies returned to Tampa and
bold story of settlements along THE
streams within the Everglades being
leveled. Mobile and Pensacola were
cut off from the outsire world yester-
day when the hurricane after wan
dering about Florida for two days,
hit both places with a velocity of
100 miles per hour. Last reports
were that it had gone inland over
Southern Alabama and Mississippi
with waning force.
What may have happened in PEN
sacola early today still was unknown
No inkling of the damage that may
have been done and as ito whether
or not there may have been loss of
life still was unknown. Mobile es-
capped with comparatively small dam
age according to disptch filed to the
Associated Press by the Mobile reg
lister. The dispatch was carried to
Citrondelo, Alabama, on a train by
an employee of the register and there
transmitted to Birmingham over a
railroad wire. Preparations for the
storm prevented much damage in
Mobile, the dispatch said. The last
wire 5on an Associated Press circuit
wentGout ait noon yesterday: News
papermen last night were endeavor-
ing to reach Pensacola but up to mid
night had got little beyond Montgom-
cry, Ala. -
Shortly after midnight this morn
ing, however, staff man of the As
ISOLATED Press, got out of Montgom-
cry on a special train carrying the
private car of one of the general of