Imperial Valley press., 1928-08-07
s FORMS
MENACE
FLORIDA
Tropical Disturbance Is
Moving Toward East
Coast.
REPORT NO DAMAGE
Vessels in Storm Area
Warned to Beware of
Hurricane.
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| PALM BEACH, Fla, Aug. t.
| Palm Beach and the Florida east
| coast towns north of here for 40
miles were lashed by high winds,
| hnqvy rains and a laundering sea
! today from hurricane believed
! ccmtcred 100 miles off the coast.
: At p. m, the barometer reading
! here was 29.45 and continued to
( drop.
Telephone and telegraph lines
north of here were down. No re-
ports were available at that hour
/ of damage north of Palm Beach.
Small boats in Lake Worth were
torn from their moorings. Palm
trees were uprooted on the ocean
boulevards but no other damage had
been reported here.
The velocity of the wind increas-
ed before ) p. m, and the barometer
steadily continued down. The read
ing at 5 p. M. was 29.3S.
Power was out all over the city
by late afternoon as the gale tore
down wires.
The wind velocity increased
steadily during the afternoon, ave"
raging between so and 65 miles an
hour. The rain became heavier.
i High combers broke over the sea.
walls here.
Advices from the Miami weather
Bureau had indicated the full force
of the hurricane which is moving
northward was being felt at sea
and only the fringe of the distur-
bance would lash Palm Beach and
towns 40 and so miles northward.
However, before noon communica-
tion with Jupiter II miles from
here had stopped, all wires were re-
ported down and damage there was
unknown.
PALM BEACH, Fla, Aug. "A
gale of 63 miles an hour velocity
swept Palm Beach and vicinity to-
day from the northwest.
The vicious wind was believed
from the outer fringe of a hurricane
east of here.
At noon, the only damage was to
plants on estates along the shore.
Some palm trees were uprooted.
The gale sprayed heavy rain
before it.
At noon the barometer read 29.74,
the lowest since the first intimatiOn
two days ago of a tropical disturb
ance moving toward the Florida
east coast.
At l p. M, the storm appeared
to be increasing, The barometer
reading was 296S.
the saawall but failed to go over
it.
Palm trees along the boulevards
were propped up by laborers to keep
them from topping under the pres
sure.
Wires We're reported down at
1:3O p. m. to Jupiter, north of here.
The weather bureau shortly be.
foro noon said the center of the
tropical disturbance moving north
ward between the Florida coast and
the Bahamas, was 90 to 100 miles
east of Palm Beach.
No reports were available at that
time concerning a hurricane off the
southeastern tip of Florida.
MIAMI, Fla, Aug. 7.-Squally
winds, averaging "a miles an hour,
began to blow here today.
The weather was cloudy, clearing,
however, in the south.
Weather bureau reports were
that the tropical disturbance east
of Miami yesterday apparently
centered out to sea northeast of
here.
At 10 a M, there was no indi-
cation of disturbance south of
here.
WASHINGTON, Aug. "A hur'
ricane of considerable intensity -
but small in diameter centered to-
day off the southeastern tip of
Florida, moving north northwest
ward, the weather bureau reported.
1t was indicated the disturbance
might shift directly north, i'll which
case it would miss the Florida
coast, though this was not certain.
All vessels within 800 to 400 miles
north northwest 10 north northeast
of the storm center were advised TO
exercise caution within the next "a
hours.