Evening star., 1926-09-24
THOUSANDS
CITIES IN FLORIDA
Supplies of ARti-Typhoid
Serum Used Up as Fast as
Received by Planes.
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla. September 24.-Flori
da's hurricane-stricken lower East
coast today bent it's efforts to pre-
vention of disease and removal Of
homeless refugees to cities to the
northward for shelter and care.
Thousands yesterday barred their
arms to the anti-typhoid needle, and
stores of incoming serum were being
exhausted as fast as received. Re
ports here were that airplanes with
thousands of units of anti-tetanus and
typhoid serums were speeding from
northern points, and that a Coast
Guard destroyer was rushing to Miami
from Charleston, S. c.. with an addi-
tional supply An airplane with sc, 700
units of serum was forced down near
Marietta. Ca. but the supply will
come today.
Thousands Going North.
Meanwhile, thousands of refugees
were leaving for their former homes
in the North and for northern Florida
cities, where food, clothing and shell
ter awaits them. Several thousand
passed through Jacksonville yesterday,
while other cities north of West Palm
Beach sheltered thousands in city
buildings and tourist camps.
All women and children are being
removed from Hollywood. where the
greatest fury of the storm was felt.
All men have been conscripted for the
work of clearing away the mass of
tangled wreckage. Several carloads
Of food supplies received by the Miami
nr{(
distributed through the Miami, Holly
wood and Fort Lauderdale areas and
10 per cent of building and roofing
materials received during the last few
days is being reserved for repair Of
homes whose owners are unable to
finance the work.
As Red Cross units, Public Health
Service details and other relief work
ers went about their tasks of bury
ing the dead and relieving the in
jured, large forces of city workers
continued their search for bodies in
the mass Of wreckage Of buildings and
marine debris.
349 Known Dead.
Additional surveys of the 60-mile
coastal area between West Palm
Beach and Miami and Of the Lake
Okeechobee region, where the hurri-
cane spent its fury, showed 349 known
dead, 100 injured, and a property
loss Of approximately $165. 900.
Moore Haven, overwhelmed by flood
waters when Lake Okeechobee burst
it's dykes, suffered the greatest death
toll, with ITO. Miami and the imme
date vicinity came next with 109;
Lauderdale, 10: Dania, IL; Fulford,
8; Seaboard Park. Z; Ingleside, 8, and
Hallandale, Homestead and Pompano,
2 each.
Miami officials have estimated that
the property loss in the Miami area
alone will reach 500, 100000; Holly
wood and Fort Lauderdale each suf
fered damage between $4,000, 900 and
S35. .O0O.0 900 and damage to other
smaller cites has been estimated In
the millions Of dollars.
While divers searched sunken
wrecks in Biscayne Bay, at Miami.
for possible bodies Col. r. S. Lowry,
in charge Of military forces at Moore
Haven. estimated there were at least
200 more dead there which will not be
recovered until flood waters have re-
ceded.
From Pensacola comes word that
property loss there will reach $5,-
600 900 to shipping alone. and Mobile
and other Gulf coast sections In the
path Of the gale are counting their
damage in hundreds of thousands Of
dollars.
Restoration Of Miami's harbor and
relocating of the scores of boats
beached by the mountainous waves
will be a major task of the next few
months.
Approximately 900 craft were esti.
mated by the Miami committee Of
maritime affairs to have been de-
stroyed or sunk in the harbor. A
number were laid high and dry along
the bay front, one five-masted
schooner resting 80 feet from the
waters edge. Two ta.nkers, anchored
in the inner harbor during the storm.
were beached by the gale.
Divers explored the hulk of the
sunken Nohab, formerly the private
yacht Of the Kaiser of Germany,
which ended its existence as a supper
club in Riscayne Bay by plunging
into the mouth Of the Miami River.
The captain and six of the crew are
missing.
State headquarters for relief opera
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