Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-09-23
HAVOC WROUGHT
FLORIDA STORM
Know Death List Yesterday Morning
Passed 400 Mark, and Still
GROWING
PROPERTY DAMA7 LAY
REAcHAr IF BILLION
Miami and Other : ms Are Almost
Entirely s troyed

Entirely s troyed
Miami, Fla, 21.-At least
400 dead; $50 ore missing: 5000
injured and 200 homeless-this
was the knows m tonight of human
life and suffering in cities and towns
along Florida's Southeastern coast in
the tropical hurricane of last Satur-
day and Saturday night
At Miami the death total increased
as Biscayne Bay gave up more of its
dead. Authorities said the list prob
ably would reach 25O, although it
was around 200 tonight. Hospitals
and Red Cross stations here treated
more than 5000 injured during the
day. many Of them only slightly
hurt
At Hollywood the list of known
dead was 32 with possibly eight other
bodies to be brought in and with 70
persons listed as missing. Earlier re-
ports had included many 70 the mis-
sing as definitely dead and the total
had been announced as IS known
dead. 1t is believed now that many
Of those missing fled into the inter-
ior when the first hurricane ap-
preached and while many possibly
perished, it is regarded as more
likely that they were only injured.
There were about 25O injured listed
at Hollywood today and slightly over
200 of them were definitely located
and treated
Fort Lauderdale's death list re-.
manned at II during the day but the
list of seriously injured increased to
300 as the interior sections were
reached and the victims brought in.
Of the seriously injured probably
score wimll not survive. There are
500 others less seriously hurt in the
Fort Lauderdale, Floranda and Pro-
gresso neighborhood.
Reports from other localities indi-
Gated little change in the death list
with the exception of Dania and
Davie, both of which reported sew
eral additional bodies had been To-
Gated but could not be removed until
high waters receded and broken trees
were removed and tangled under
brush was cut away. The injured
from these sections continued to in
crease.
The threat of sickness and possible
epidemic which threatened yester-
day as the result of lack of sanitary
drainage and sewage methods was dis
sipated today by the arrival of addi-
tional relief trains bearing necessary
medicines, anti-toxins and bady1-
need chlorine, lime and formaldyhyde.
Relief trains brought today not
only medicines but clothing and food
and arrived almost hourly, passenger
and freight trains giving way to them.
Persons who yesterday were wander
ing through the wreckage clad in pa
jamas, bathing suits, bath robes or
overcoats, today were outfitted COM
fortably.
The plea at all of the devastated
towns was that medicines and money
be sent in preference to bulky heavy
objects, heavy clothes or perishables.
The West Palm Beach chapter Of the
American Legion obtained issuance of
an order from civil and military au-
thorities to stol all automobiles or
traffic of any kind moving south from
West Palm Beach into the hurricane
area. AS a result scores of anxious.
relatives and friends en- route to the
wrecked cities have been stopped and
held here.
In the devastated area where the
waters have receded, millions of fish
were left to flop about BIT then die.
Countless thousands of crabs and fid-
dlers swarm over the land in search
of the watering places from which
they were so rudely swept last week.
Other animal dead add to the picture
and make it most attractive for
birds of prey circling numbers over
head.
From Deerfield south, the coast
continues an appalling scene of
desolation and tragedy. Despite the
attempts today by brave-hearted resi-
dents to bring some semblance of or
der out of chaos the picture has
changed little. Hardly house of
any description remained standing
and those that did showed well the
force of the winds and rain. Palms,
pines, telephone poles, gateways and
| garages were all dumped together
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