Evening star., 1926-10-16
THE FACTS

lHE FAClO
AT Miami Miami Beach and Coral Gables there
are approximately: 1877 hotels 1900 apartment houses
10000 places of business including bank, office and
business buildings and stores, and $4,000 to 10000
dwellings.
Of the hotels damaged, approximately 859e sus-
tanned slight damage and all will be in full operation by
December 1st year-round hotels in operation.
OF the apartment houses, approximately 1870,
mostly in operation, sustained slight damage and
will be repaired by December 1st.
Of places of business, approximately $50, with
substantially all at present in operation sustained some
damage and all repaired by December 18th, excepting
few.
Dwellings of modern permanent construction with
stood the Storm sustaining slight no damage while
buildings Of fmsy construction were damaged to the
extent of 7O%.
Property owned by the City of Miami to the value
of $248i326 is reported by the authorities sustain
ing damage of only $328,2oO, or 1882.
Of all permanent school buildings in Miami and
vicinity, only was destroyed classes continuing in
At Hollywood, the three large hotels of modern
permanent construction withstood the Storm with more
less damage local to EACH two being now in operation
and the thrd-the Beach Hotel-wil be in full opera
ton by December 18th. The remaining hotels in the
Hollywood district sustained damage and will be in
operation about the period. Apartment houses,
places of business and dwellings of modern permanent
construction whstood the Storm the damage local to
each has been will be repaired by December 10TH
Buildings of fimsy construction sustained severe
injury.
At Fort Lauderdale which in some sections suffered
considerably from the Storm it is represented that the
damage will be repaired by December 18th and that the
damage to structures will average approximately 2O2
of their total value.
In the intervening territory to Deerfeld (25 miles
south Of West Palm Beach,, where buildings of
modern construction, they suffered to the extent of
approximately $50. Repairs will be completed by De-
cember 1st.
From Deerfield to West Palm Beach damage to
E11IS JSrhf
to West Palm Beach-P Palm Beach, to the City of Lake
Worth and other places in this area.
At Moorehaven approximately 800 inhabitants),
south Of Lake Okeechobee the damage and loss of life
was considerable from the breaking of the levee which
built to protect the town from the rising waters OF
Lake Okeechobee. A permanent levee should be built
by the State if practicable Every serious rise of water
in Lake Okeechobee has damaged Moorehaven. The
overflow mandates large section of the Everglades
south of Moorehaven. The death loss at MoOrehaven
was approximately 150 nearly one.haf Of the total
deaths Of $40 reported by the American Red Cross in
the entire storm area.
The State of Florida contains $4,000 square miles
The area affected by the storm covered approximately
495 square miles confined to Southern Florida large
part of this area was not seriously affected
Florida's citrus fruit CROP while considerably dam
aged within the storm area will equal that of last year.
this years original crop having been much larger.
The storm fell hardest on the poorer classes of
the communities. Within the area mentioned there
were approximately 1875 automobile camps of fsy con-
structon without foundations and covered with canvas
in any hard storm subject to damage. The occupants
numbered approximately 18,0O0 mostly n-permanent
The President of the State Board of Health has
announced that there has been of communicable
disease developed in the storm attributable to the
storm. This effectively rmors to the contrary
REHABILITATION
The progress of the work of rehabilitation has been
remar' able. Those who have visited these particular
sections of Florida in the past will find before the
opens ilties equal not surpassing those Of 1926
reasonable hotel rates are promised.