The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-20
PASS OUT DOLES
AT HOLLYWOOD
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erishly in debris of homes and build
ings seeking the dead and NAMED.
authorities doubted If the death toll
would rise to 200, as was reported
shortly after the storm hit Holly
wood.
First care is being given the in
jured in the Hollywood Hotel and
the Parkview Hotel-show places of
Florida-which have been trans
formed into emergency hospitals.
Over 1,5OO Injured
Between 1900 and 1000 injured
are being treated in homes and other
buildings that could be quickly made
into first aid stations.
The city is without lights, food
and water and call went out last
night as darkness added new terrors
to the frightened citizens, for medical
supplies and physicians and nurses
A tiny portion of bread and
small cup of coffee was doled out
to each of the homeless refugees
who formed bread lines more than
block in length.
The city is under martial law and
American Legion members are as
sisting in preserving order.
No looting has, been reported.
The gale which leveled Hollywood
reached 100 miles an hour and short
ly after the barometer had dropped
to 29.01 Saturday the city was
! flooded.
Rushed Buildings Suffer
Buildings that had been thrown
up hastily to accommodate the rush
of tourists suffered most.
The small staff of medical men
on the scene when the storm
broke have worked without sloan
and with only the slightest
noLrishment. They are expected
to be relieved today by doctors
and nurses from West Palm
Beach, Tampa and other cities.
At day break today all available
man power was put to work chop.
ping away debris. Restaurants were
doing practically no regular bust
ness, but were giving warm food
to physicians.
AS reports were received here
from the stricken area Hollywood
appears to have been the hardest
hit. In proportion to it's gsize it
suffered more than did Miami.
Bodies Recovered
Reports from Sebring, where a
temporary field hospital and morgue
have been established, said the bod
les of fifty-one men, women and
children who were drowned when
the dam holding Lake Okeechobee
collapsed had been recovered at
Moorehaven. Autoists report bodies
strewn along the road from Moore
haven to Clewiston.
All night, trucks carrying rough
boxes and food ploughed through
the debris strewed road from West
Palm Beach to Hollywood, All other
vehicles except those on official bust
ness were turned back.
Troops with fixed bayonets patrol
the roads every few hundred yards.
1t is impossible to move without
lice department.
One unidentified man was killed
by / State trooper at Miami when
caught prowling about a building.
A drunk was taken into custody by
another militia man in Miami, when
caught near the First National
Bank
Miami now is able to cope with
the situation, city officials have
advised. Relief trains bearing food
and water were turned back at
Miami and redirected to Hollywood,
where the situation is said to be
acute In Hollywood school build
ings and churches have been blown
over, hotels have been transformed
into the emergency hospital and
search in the debris for further
victims began with the town S
| surviving lnan-power all at work.
80 Bodies Recovered
Thirty-three' bodies have been re-
covered there. The death list is ex-
pected to mount to at least 100. At
Hallandale, near Hollywood, Mrs. H.
baby were drowned in an attempt to
reach town from a house boat on
the water front. Every member OF
the family were killed. They were
found all huddled up in one room
where they evidently had fed to
escape from the driving gale which
had unrooted the house a few mo-
ments before.
At Hialeah, Venetian Carter, l.
year-old girl, was found in the ruins
of home by her mother as the
frantic parent tore away stone and
twisted timbers with her bare hands.
She collapsed on finding her baby
with its head crushed by a falling
concrete block.
Outside of the tropical radio sta
tons at Hialeah one family of eight
lay in the Palmetto thickets, huddled
together for twelve hours during the
entire hurricane. They escaped in.
jury. In the more exposed places
between Miami and Hollywood,
houses were rolled along the ground
for hundreds of yards. The Pancost
Hotel at Miami had an entire side
caved in by huge barge which was
hurled from the ocean a hundred
yards away.
Covered by Water
Miami Beach was entirely covered
by water blown in from the ocean
bay and open ocean being all one
body of water.
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