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MOOREHAVEN :.
COMPLETELY
UNDER WATER
Wind Drives Lake Wa
ters Over Dikes;
People Are Rescued
From Roofs

AVON PARK. Fla, Sept. 2o.-tPl-
With fifty-six bodies IN an rmpro-
vised morgue here today and the
missing totalling nearly 200, rescue
workers in Moorehaven were bending
every effort 70 remove all persons
from the flooded area. Nearly 500
refugees arrived last night. Off
cials who returned here this morn
ing said the water was recedinF and
that the collection OF the dead would
be resumed Immediately. According
TO one eye witness the dyke along
Lake Okeechobee broke at a. m.
Saturday and the water poured over
the land until IL stood from 12 to
IL feet deep in the highest spot in
Mocrehaven. In lowlands IL was over
the roofs of houses. Few expected
the break, as the dyke was supposed
20 be invulnerable.
No one had been able to reach
Clewistown. 20 miles southeast on
Moorehaven today and fears we're
expressed that many lives were lost
there. An aviator flew over the viii
lage and reported the only signs of
life was small group Of people on
the roof of the only building left
standing
Lake Port. q village Of about 200
people. also was isolated. Stories of
tragedy and occasionally OF hcrOism
were told BY the refugees from
Moorehaven. But incidents OF
humor, so often found in times Of
stress. were not described; humor
seemed not % have penetrated the
realm az death.
DR.. Y. W. Chandler. one Of the
fifty-eight refugees, told Of the find
ing of eleven bodies in one building:
az "A mother who tied her three chill
dren TO her and when two were
drowned in raging waters, cut them
free and raised the third TO her
shoulder. She held out until res
cued
A boy saw another youngster car
rying his father on his back through
water up to their necks.
Mr.. and Mrs. y. "A. Harvey and
their four children were driven from
two houses by rising water and when
forced TO the rafters in a third the
father knocked the gable end out
and the six clung 70 the roof from
noon Saturday until Sunday morning.
The body Of J. De0grella, station
agent at ClewistoR. father OF nine
children. still clutched two Of them
when washed ashore.
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FIRST CRIMINAL
CASE ON TRIAL

Emilio Garza is on trial in the
district criminal court here today on
a charge Of assault to murder on the
person Of Trinidad Gomez on the
highway on May 2l, 1921. This is the
first criminal case of this term of
court and began this morning.
Tomorrow Manuel Roseras. Charles
Villareal and Jose Guerra will be
tried on charge of cattle theft, ac-
cording to the way the docket now
stands. s. r. Cornor is to be tried
on charge Of receiving stolen cattle.
The grand jury, which has not
been in session for a week, has about
a days work left. according to Judge
A. W. Cunningham II probably will
be recalled soon to finish its inves-
LEGATIONS and to make its report.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
MEN REACH MIAMI

ATLANTA, Ga. Sept. 20.-tPi
The first news coming from
Miami. Fla. since that city WIS
cut off by the hurricane came
today from Il. :. Pickans and
NJ. 3. Alexander. staff men OF
The Associated Press, who were
despatched 70 the storm area
by airplane.
They start "a from Atlanta
Sunday morning in a plane
piloted by Beeler Blevins of
Gambler field. They stopped NJ
Tifton. Ca. and Palatka. Flori-
da, for rcfueling. Nothing more
was heard Of them until today
when their story came through
from Miami.
The airplane had 10 buck
hcadwinds and storms enroute.
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DEPUTIES TO
GET HEARING
Man Wounded on Riv-
er Saturday Night
Is Dead

Harrison Polk and c. A. Clark,
themselves TO Sheriff l.. G. Nichols
Immediately after gun battle Sat
urday evening on the river near Villa
Nueva in which jose Esparza was
fatally wounded. probably will re-
ceive an examining trial this eve
ming. This was indicated at the
courthouse today.
Esparza and two other companions
who had just crossed the river with
some liquor were surprised by the
Officers who called on them to halt.
Esparza is said to have given a yell
and started firing. He shot four
times and then his gun hung. He
was wounded four times by the off
GERS, shot through his windpipe
proving fatal at o'clock Sunday
morning in Mercy Hospital where he
was taken Immediately after the
fight.
Two companions Of the dead man,
a man and a boy, abandoned a sack
containing liquor and their hats, in
their flight which began as soon as
the first shot was fired.
Esperza was buried in the city
cemetery at 5 o'clock Sunday evening
from the funeral parlors Of Mercelo
Cara. He is survived by a wife and
nine sons. He was resident Of
Mexico, living on the Rancho de
Guadalupe. about six miles from
the place at which he received his
fatal wounds.
The deputies made bond of $500
each on charges CT assault to murder
Saturday night but with the death Of
Esrarza the charges will be changed
TO murder.
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GALVESTON, Texas, Sept. 90
Rl-Radio reports reaching here
this morning from Pensacola. Mo-
bile, Gulf Port, and New Orleans
indicated the wide sweep of the
storm approaching the north cen
tral section of the gulf coast.
At ten o'clock the barometer
reading at Pensacola was 29.10
with the wind blowing at 100
miles an hour from the northeast.
the report said. Earlier in the
day the barometer reading at Pen
sacola was 29.0s. The report gave
the barometer readings and wind
velocity NJ the other points nc 10
o'clock today as follows: Mobile.
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Storm of Wide Sweep
IS NotU Driving Inland

barometer 1926, wind IS miles
northeast; Gulf Port, barometer
2e.42. wind As miles northeast;
New Orleans, barometer 29.6l,
wind 25 miles northeast.
Pensacola was the only one Of
the four points where the baro-
meter showed any tendency to rise,
according to these reports.
At noon another report received
by radio from New Orleans said
that the Weather Bureau there
expected the center cf the storm to
stay to the east Of New Orleans
and that high winds might be ex-
pocted there along with high tides
on Lake Ponchartrain. No further
news had been received from Pen
sacola, Mobile and Gulf Port.
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ACCIDENT SHOCKS
MRS. FERNANDEZ

Mrs. Miguel Fernandez Is suffer
ing from the shock Of an accident
which occurred at the corner Of
Madison and Twelfth Streets and in
which the coupe driven by her son,
Miguel Fernandez, Jr., was wrecked,
at . o'clock Sunday night.
John Armstrong, lieutenant of po-
lice, Investigated. Information he
uncovered was to the effect that a
camidn or bus, and car were rae
ing down Twelfth Street. The car
crashed into the coupe. Mrs. Fer
nandez was shocked as a result OF
the accident. Two arrests have
been made.
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guard ships were ordered to Mi
ami, post masters in Florida were
authorized to do whatever they
could for sufferers; army officers
in the state were ordered to CO.
operate in every way with relief
workers and Florida Naval reserv-
lists were called to active duty and
sent into the disaster zone.
The Red Cross was concentrating
in southern Florida its most eff
cient relief personnel and the best
available equipment. National
headquarters itself made an ini-
tial contribution Of 100000 TO the
relief fund
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CHINESE fire
UPONU.S.BOAT
Three American Sail.
ors Wounded; Boat
Returns Fire

PEKING, Sept. 2O.-(Pl-Three
American sailors ware wounded,
none Of them seriously when the
gunboat Pigeon was fired on Sunday
while passing the city of Hanyang
on the Cangze river. according 70 re-
liable foreign kilograms from Han
kow.
The Pigeon replied with gun fire.
the Chinese casualties being unde-
termined. The Pigeons commander
estimated that the vessel was struck
a hundred times by machine gun fire
and rifle bullets from both the
Hanyang and Wuchang sides Of the
irver.
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Fort Lauderdale, and Other
Stricken Cities Under Martial Law
(By The Associated Press

The first dispatches received direct from the storm
shattered city of Miami since the disaster estimated the
dead at between 600 and 1900 These figures did not in
cude the casualties at Fort Lauderdae where 100
ported dead at Mooehaven 75 miles northwest of Miami
where huge from Lake Okeechobee took heavy human
toll
Untold thousands homeless and the injured
estimated at 5000 to $4,000.
Continuing its path of devastation the tropical hurricane
that struck the Florida East Friday night crossed the
Everglades and Toaed into the Gulf of Mexico today
was striking at Pensacola according to advices
ceved just before that city isolated from communca
ton.
Word from Pensacola at the extreme northwest tip of
Florida said 100 mile gale blowing this morning and
the barometd reading 2A16.
Two staff correspondents of The Associated Press,
rvng IN Miami by aeropane estimated the damage in that
section at $15O000000 indicating the property toll Of
the tropical storm may exceed exceed S200000,0O0.
Two hundred children separatS I'd from their families
wandering through the ruins of their homes in Miami the
neWspapermen reported while the roads leading to West
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Charge Negro With
Murder of Farmer

DALLAS. Sept 2O.-tP,-No trace
Of negro. believed to have slain
J. c. Nansee, Roaring Springs farm
er who was found dead in the river
bottom near Corsicana with a bullet
in his head. Sunday afternoon has
been found by Dallas police search
ing the city in the belief that the
killer fled here.
Nansee. who was seen with the ne
gro in search Of cotton pickers Fri
day and Saturday is thought TO have
been shot for a large sum of money
he is said TO have carried.
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Untold Thousands Injured and Homeless IN Florida
Coolidge Appeals to Nation
to Assist Florida Sufferers

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.-CP)-
President Coolidge today appealed
to the American people to come TO
the assistance Of sufferers in the
Florida disaster.
In a presidential proclamation
he asked that contributions to a
relief fund be sent to the Ameri-
can Red Cross.
He promised that the federal
government would render "such
assistance as is within the means
OF the executive departments
Meantime several agencies of the
government already were at work
TO provide relief. Eight coast
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MASKED BANDITS
LOOT SMALL BANK

AMARILLO. Texas, Sept. 2O.-tP)
Three masked men today ordered
three officers Of the Friona State
Bank and three customers into the
banks vault, scooped up several
hundred dollars in currency and
fled in an automobile, it was re-
ported here today. A posse was or
ganized immediately. Friona is in
Farmer county, 20 miles southeast
OF here.
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MOBILE. Alav Sept. 20.-(Via
telephone to Hatchburg, Miss). 41
With the wind at 80 miles an
hour at 1920 o'clock this after
noon and the barometer register
ing 29.06, Mobile and vicinity
found itself in the midst of hard
est part Of the hurricane.
Tus far no lives have been re-
ported lost, only minor injuries
have been sustained. and the prop
erty damage was confined chiefly
to broken plate glass windowns
and signs.
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AUSTIN. Texas. Sept. 2O.-tP)-
The senate Monday finally passed
the general validation bill by Sena-
tor John s. Bailey Of Dewitt county
by vote of - to 0. This bill vail
dates and legalizes the creation of
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CATHOLICS FACE
SEDITION CHARGE

MEXICO CITY, Sept. 2O.-(P)-
About geo Catholics, men and wom-
en-, were under arrest today. From a
meeting last night under the aus
pices of the league for defense of
rligious freedom, they were taken
to police headquarters.
The charge is that they were hold
ing meeting for seditious pur-
poses.
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GOVERNOR ASKED
FOR FULL REPORT

WASHINGTON. Sept. 2o.- -
As a result Of Mexican Embassy
representations. the State Depart
ment today asked the Governor of
Texas for n report on the killing
Of the Tomas Nunez and his two
sons, Mexican, at Raymondville,
Texas, recently.
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I'm OUR
VALLEY

GAY BENJAMIN CUTTER, Browns
Pyillej sporting fans, is now writing
for the Racing Reporter, Hy Schneid-
/ er's weekly sporting sheet in New
YorH
y Several weeks ago the Racing Re-
porter carried a little story from
Gutter stating that arrangements
were being made for race track in
Brownsville, with betting across the
river, in Matamoros.
Now Cutter has ventured into new
fields of fancy, as shown by the fol
lowing story on the first page Of
the Racing Reporter for September
1S:
SUPERIORITY FAvORITE IN
TEXAS SNAKE DERBY-tBy Gay
Benjamin Z utter brownsville, Tex,
September FIN view Of the fact
that the bullring mt Matamoros has
been destroyed by fire, the cockpits
in that quaint little city, closed by
ordinances, horse-racing and prize
fighting barred by Legislation, the
citizens of Brownsville and the Mag
ic Valley have been called upon to
secure some form Of a sporting di-
version unobjectionable 10 the hu-
name societies and one that will not
be hoped upon by our long-whisk
cred legislators, hence the innova-
tion Of snake-racing.
Snake-racing, for the present, is
immune from interference. The
busybody reformers have not yet
l discovered the new sport.
Fv-~A running pit $50 feet long, four
feet wide and three feet high, with
concrete bleachers along both sides
of the pit, has been constructed.
FORTY, FIFTY and sixty-yard
races are matched, or wriggled.
There are five classes for entrants,
heavics, middles, welters, lights, and
feathers. The heavies are 35-pound-
ers and over, while the feathers are
five pounds and under. Entrance fees
for heavies and middles are $500,
and $3.50 for each Of the other
three divisions.
From 10 to Is snakes are entered
in a race. On September 10 W. A.
SNAKE" Kings Monte Cristo will
race Superiority for $500 side bet.
Odds of to are being laid on
Superiority.
"Clockers have timed Kings Monte
Cristo in recent workouts at 2:01
the 30-yard mark. There have been
the 30-yard mark. Theer have been
no public workouts for Superiority.
Not-a-Smfle has been eliminated on
account of unruliness at the starting
post. She is on the schooling list.
There are now some 900 snakes
In training at Kings snake ranch,
The largest Snake Farm in America >
Two shipments of Missouri Blacks
are in transit from Joplin and a
large consignment is expected from
the state Of Tamaulipas, Mexico"
80 THIS ADDS TO the list of news
papers in New York City which
frequently carry Brownsville date
lines. It's a form OF advertising.
though some may question the de-
STABILITY of the sort touched upon
in the above story by Gay Benjamin
Cutter.
Newspaper offices in New York
which have editorial-side friends in
Brownsville now include, besides the
Racing Reporter. the New York
Morning Telegraph. the Sun and the
World.
THOSE VALLEY TIES who are
radio fans and have receiving sets,
had an opportunity last night to
listen in on a dramatic radio con-
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wITHDRAws DIVORCE SUIT

STROUDSBURG. Pa, Sept. 2O.-tPl
Of his suit for di-
vorce was entered on the records of
the Monroe county common pleas
court today by Richard Washburn
Child, former American ambassador
to Italy.
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BOSTON DEFEATS
CINCINNATI 4-3

BOSTON. Sept. 20.-Cincinnati's
hope for the National League pennant
were slightly DINNER this fter-
noon following 70 defeat ad-
minstered by the Boston Braves
Cincinnati 49,. 100 010 1903 10
Boston ..... 01O OOi O2x--4 5 o
Rixey and HarErave; Benton Mo-
gridge and J. Taylor.
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NEW ORLEANS. Sept. 2O.-tF)-
All telegraph and telephone COM
munication between New Orleans
and Mobile was severed shortly be-
fore noon today.
The Tropical Radio Telegraph
Company reported a short time
later that its station at Mobile re-
ported a hundred mile an hour
gale mt ten O'Clock with the baro-
meter down to 29.05.
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BANGKOK.-The island volcano
cff the coast Of Cochin-China l. re-
po.t "A BY passing ships 10 De In
eruption again.
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JACKSONVILLE. Fla. Sept. 20.
-tPp-Efforts 20 communicate by
availing up To i0:45 a. m today.
west and near Pensacola reported
to be in the new path Of a hun
drcd mile an hour wind, were un-
available up to l0:i5 a. m. today.
Telephone company officials re-
ported that wire trouble was acute
in the area.
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GULF PORT. Mississippi, Sept.
20.-lPl-Barometer at IL o'clock
1886. Wind still holding close to
north and blowing about so miles
nm hour in gusts. Light rain with
sky becoming more overcast. Tide
normal and falling.
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sPalm Beach were crowded
with automobiles filled with
refugees.
Fears for the health Of many chill
dren were prevalent because Of lack
of water, milk and proper sanitary
condition.
Hundreds CT persons were injured
in Miami by flying debris during the
nine hour storm. a Pullman conduc-
tor reported. He said the wind tore
heavy galvanized iron sheets from
the roofs Of buildings and carried
them about like paper.
Bread lines have been formed in
Miami and severe penalties fixed for
hcarding and profiteering. The city
is under marital law and no one is
allowed on the streets at night un-
less on urgent business.
Conflicting reports were received
from Moorehaven and Clewistown.
on the south and west shores Of
Lake Okeechobee. Refugees reach
inT SeabriEht said that only the
brick building came through the gale
unscratched and that wreckage was
strewn over wide area. They said
the Mayflower hotel at Moorehaven
was turned completely around and
that numerous small buildings were
wrecked.
A man reaching Lakeland from
Moorehaven, however. said most Of
the buildings were standing. Is
Inmates Of the death toll in this sec
tion ranged from so to 10O The
flood was receding today.
Doctors and nurses were arriving
in the disaster section today. bring
ing supplies Of food and medicine.
Urgent calls had been. sent out for
| bread and an appeal was made for
equipment 10 handle 800 X-ray cases
at Fort Lauderdale.
Additional reports today told OF
mounting damage to shipping along
I, the East coast. Several schooners
were reported in distress and hun
dreds Of small craft had been piled
up on the shore.
WEST PALM BEACH. Fla. Sept. 90
-tFl-Southeast Florida. lashed by d
violent hurricane for nine hours Fri
day night and Saturday. early today
had an estimated death list OF more
than 1000 and property loss in ex-
cess Of sl25.O0O.OO0 with indications
that the toll would mount still high
er when daylight made n more com
plete check up.
The playground OF America was
metamorphosed into n scene Of desc
lation over n wide area. Pleasure
resorts were turned into temporary
morgues and hospitals and trains
bearing physicians and nurses were
arriving in the storm-torn section
from many directions. Houses and
office buildings were crowded with
refugees. The Palm Beaches on the
fringe Of the storm escaped the
heavy damage suffered by their sis
ters. The injured in the ravaged
district were placed mt 1000. with
5000 homeless persons seeking re-
lief. Tales Of severe suffering and
hardship were recounted by mes
sages received here. Many persons
searched the ruins OF their homes
for lost members Of their families
while others anxiously sought rela-
tives and friends in hospitals and
morgues.
Miami Flooded
WATERWAYS knee deep in the streets
of Miami and Miami Beach, all pub
lie utilities were disabled and res
taurants were closed Drinking water
was served In half portions. Ur-
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STORM BULLETINS

TAMPA. Fla. Sept. 20.-The path
of the STERN was through ono of
the principal citrus producing sec
tions Of Florida. and while no esti-
mate is available il is evident the
fruit crop will be reduced mate
rally.
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KWWG PROGRAM
CWave length. 27S meters)
MONDAY NIGHT

MONDAY NIGHT
8 p. Morgan recital from Meth
odist Church by Walter Dunhani or
San Benito.
$3.50 p. m.-Footwarmers 0rches-
ira.
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THE WEATHER

For Brownsville and the Lower Rio
Crande Valley: Fair to partly
doudy tonight and Tuesday; not
much change in temperature.
For East Texas: Fair tonight and
hesday. Moderate to fresh north
ely winds on the coast.
Storm Bulletin
WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept. 20.-
he hurricane center moved inland
cDse to Pensacola and Mobile. At
4 a. m. Pensacola reported the
hrometer 29.1O inches, and the
vnd 100 miles from the northeast.
MI No. nrs.ss
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10 0a. m.-Cotton markets.
IL m.-T. G. Barber. guitar and
songs Weather and river bulletins.
D. m.--Cotton markets.
y. Weather and river re-
ports.
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MOBILE. Ala Sept. 20.-lPl-
The Weather Bureau here reported
mt 1870 o'clock that the wind We
iocity had reached one hundred
miles an hour at Pensacola
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Sept. 90
-tPi--A radio message from the
Warrior, a barge service boat. IL
miles north of Mobile said that all
lines Of communication with Mobile
had been lost there and that the
storm was rapidly gaining in in
tcnsity. All boats on the river had
scurried to cover.
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Miami Flooded
WATERWAYS knee deep in the streets
of Miami and Miami Beach, all pub
lie utilities were disabled and res
taurants we're closed. Drinking water
was served In half portions. Ur-
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