New Britain herald., 1926-10-05
PRAISES RED GROSS
 IN MIAMI CRISIS
Local Woman Back From
 Devastated Area

Mrs. J. & Wool of Miami, Fla, who before her marriage was Miss Rose Koplowitz. daughter Of Mir. and Mrs. I. S Koplowitz of 3S View ey street this city, is resting at the home of her parents after expert encing the terrifying experience of having lived through the hurricane which devastated Miami in its path through the state of Florida two weeks ago last Saturday. She re- gently arrived in New Britain with her four children, two of whom were seriously i'll from infections which developed from bites of pois- onous insects.
 One son, Arnold. has completely recovered from the effects of the infection, but another, Leonard, two years and 10 months old is serious ly i'll with blood poison which has set in in his arm. His condition to- day, however, is better than it has been and the attendant physician, Dr. David Waskowitz, believes that the child will recover.
 Mrs. Wool has been a resident of Miami for the past year. Her hus- band is the president of the Miami Roofing Co.,, and was unable to come North for a visit because his com pany has been impressed into ser vice at home aiding in the recon struction which set in after the storm.
 The family lives in the Southwest section of the Florida city and they are among the few whose homes were not totally destroyed in the devastating wind that swept calamity over the southern peninsula This Mrs. Wool attributes, to the fact that when the wind grew heavy, her husband nailed boards across the windows and the wind was unable to penetrate and lift the roof off the house as it did in other homes about the city.
 The storm started about 1 o'clock Saturday morning and continued without interruption for 14 hours. Mrs. Wool believes that a tidal wave accompanied the storm because ot the fact that boats. both large and small, were carried into the heart of the city and deposited in parks and in the city's thoroughfares.
 Total desolation in one of the fairest cities of the country was the picture presented by Mrs. Wool after the storm had subsided but one golden ray of light and hope appear ed on the scene in the unstinted aid given by the American Red Cross.
 q never thought people could be SO good said Mrs. Wool, -'l couldn't believe that in catastrophe like that which swept over our city that the Red Cross could do so much. I am unable to describe the york those women and men accom- nlished." Everything was done for the comfort of the survivors, she continued saying and almost lm- mediately after the storm had SUD sided. airplanes, carrying suppileS and serum to be used in the fight against typhoid fever, came num- ming into the stricken area
 "It was nerve wracking, hearing those sirens keep going all day and all night as the bodies of the deaa were found beneath the shattered homes" continued the former local woman. "Ambulances screeched' bells changed and a continuous bustIc of noise kept people awake all through the disaster and the follow ing hours. as Miami took toll Of us dead and injured. It was awful, but inc Red Cross-I cant begin to tell you what those people did for us all"
 Carloads of doctors were sent in fron, Chicago and other cities to ald in the relief. The hospitals, schoois and other buildings were croWded with the dead and wounded ana all other buildings which were standing were utilized in the crlsls.
 People called "snow-birds' by the residents of Miami, who own winter homes and occupy them only during the cold season in the North, sent taIegrams to the Red Cross telling them 10 break into their places and use them for the wounded and the homeless.
 "Our house was damaged by hrok- en windows but only slightly shf said "The only thing that distressed us was the water which reached height of several inches in the mouse and ruined all our clothes. I housed five families who had lost then homes for three nights because they had no place to go. I believe tha tbe storm was a result of curse put on the city by the people "h' lost their money their"
 She said that the Red Cross sent in airnlanes laden with food Into the city. carloads of foodstulfs were sen' in and in a short while, there werf few who had to go hungry. Restaur' ants put signs in the windows read ing "Tf you are hungry. come in anc eat" and bakeries supplied bread and other foodstuffs for nothing while the turmoil was on Tt wa: all done through the American Rec Cross" stated Mrs. Wool
 Everybody helped in any way they could" she continued, There was no profiteering. no charging tc poor people who lost everything The Red Cross even furnished lum Der and other building materials tc the people who were paying fol their homes and lost everything