The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-20
Relief Work Started in Va
riouS Parts of Devas-
tated Florida.

ASldIeu uOWILCWn BUSINESS ulStIlcl
Of storm-wrecked Miami today, ac-
cording to word reaching here.
The homeless, all their family
possessions swept away by the
tropical hurricane, and with rela-
tives in morgues and hospital, filed
in long lines to get their first feed
and pure drinking water since the
storm broke over the city early Sat-
urday.
The lines are in charge Of the
Red Cross. Bread tickets are being
issued to those in need by the po-
lice.
A relief train bearing fifteen
physicians, a staff of nurses, pro-
visions, medicine and supplies and
two cars of drinking water has ar
rived in Miami-the first outside
help into the stricken area.
State militiamen, patrolling the
beautiful streets Of the Magic
City" which now lie in almost com
plete ruin, met the relief train and
closely guarded its cargo, escorting
physicians and nurses to hospitals
where the most seriously injured are
being cared for.
Guard Water Cars
A guard was Immediately estab-
lished about the water cars to pre-
vent the exhausted people from raid
ing them.
Miami health officials have massed
their forces and, aided by the relief
medical men, are taking every pre-
caution to prevent any epidemics APP
pearing to add new horrors to the
stricken city.
Despite strict precaution to pre-.
vent looting, considerable OF it has
been done, and one man was shot by
guards Sunday night after he had
been caught rumaging through a de-
stroyed Office building, according TO
meager reports received here.
The name Of the victim was not
learned
Newspaper men returning here
early today from the storm-swept
city reported the high waters which
had overlooked the streets were re-
ceding.
Lines in Other Cities
At Red Cross headquarters .estab-
lished in the Central school house,
it was learned that bread lines also
have been established in Hollywood
and Hialeah, which were practically
levelled by the hurricane.
A relief train that started from
Jacksonville, Saturday night, with
food and medical supplies and ply
sicians and nurses, was expected to
arrive today in Hollywood, where
200 are reported 10 have been killed
and hundreds seriously injured.
AS in Miami, all pedestrians and
are kept off the streets
after p. m. Special police passes
have been issued to newspaper re-
porters who are stopped at every
block by guard and forced to dis
play their credentials.
Strict Regulations
Even city officials who are taking
no part in the first aid work, are
to remain indoors by the
strict regulations of the militiamens
commander.
Wholesale burial of the dead was
imminent today as calls went out
from the devastated area for collins.
Trucks were leaving from West
Palm BEACH for Miami, Hialeah and
Hollywood with food supplies, shar-
ing space with black caskets.
A temporary field hospital and
morgue base was established at 4
a. m. today at Sebring, Fla, and 800
Of the most seriously injured from
the wrecked districts were assem-
bled there for first aid treatment.
Forty Die in Sebring
Reports said forty were dead in
Sebring.
In the small cities the badly
manned victims were taken to rail
way stations temporarily trans
formed into emergency hospitals,
where they were cared for pending
the arrival of the relief trains.
Rail progress was slow and the
condition of the injured was aggra.
waited by the frequent stops the
trains were forced to make to take
aboard more cargos of manned flesh.
Physicians aboard the hospital
specials" passed from berth to berth,
cries Of the more serious
ly hurt, administering hastily to
their wants.
Not Identified
No attempt has been made to
identify the injuned or dead at Sc.
bring.
Suddenly transformed into hospi-
tai camp, the citizens of Sebring dis
hand to the fatisued medical men
and nurses who have been on duty
for more than thirty-six hours.
Private cars are massed around
the railway station hourly to re-
move the wounded. Several are re-
ported to have died from their in
juries en- route to the field base.
Relief Train Arrives
The first relief train from Tampa
arrived here at 4:10 a. m. and car
ried at least a three-day medical and
food supply, according to physicians
in charge.
Scenes of AFFECT sorrow in Miami
followed the first relief from the
storm.
AT police headquarters where thir-
ty unidentified dead had been re-
moved, groups of anxious men and
women moved in an hourly process
sion until guards compelled them to
leave the streets at the 6 p. M, dead