Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-19
PNEUMONIA THREATENS.
Rescue Worker Says Many Refugees Are
Suffering Exposure.

Rescue Worker Says Many Refugees Are
Suffering Exposure.
MIAMI, Fla, SEPTEMBER 10 R.-
Obstacles confronting relief parties
penetrating the hurricane stricken Sec
ton along the southeastern portion Of
Lake Okeechobee were told here by
w. H. Combs. ST., Of Combs Undertaking
Co., which Is operating six ambulanceS.
Twenty persons seriously injured were
taken from Belleglade to West Palm
Beach and Fort Lauderdale hospitals
by his ambulances, Combs said, and part
Of the time the cars were blowing
through water above the running
boards.
One hundred injured in that area
were suffering from exposure and must
be taken to,hospitals quickly if the death
toll Is to be kept down, Combs said,
adding that it was extremely difficult to
estimate the dead, as bodies of those
drowned would remain submerged for
two days at least and some may be
pinned beneath water covered wreckage
Caskets Made Hurriedly.
Rough wooden caskets were being
manufactured hastily in West Palm
Beach and sent inland to bury the dead,
he said. and some collins had been made
at Belleglade.
Combs also told of seeing refugees
huddled closely together in a school
house at Pahokee, where women aud
children have been in wet clothing for
three days.
He said the threat of pneumonia hung
over many Of the survivors unless they
were removed to more habitable places
and equipped with dry clothing. Trucks
have been pressed into service to sup
plement the nine ambulances working
In the lake region, he said.
Belle Glade, Pahokee and South Bay
were communities Combs said were in
dire straits.
Combs reports were supplemented by
George r. Brewer, member of a relief
party from here who returned today
He said 40 persons were unaccounted
for at Belle Glade and at South Bay
women and children were isolated In
hotel without food, and at one place on
the Miami Canal 80 people were afioat
on barge In similar condition.
Flood Water Recedes.
Water at Belle Glade had fallen from
feet deep to IL inches, Brewer said
j. w. Ives Of Ives Dairy, Miami, and
80 other residents of Little Kraemer
xSldIlU, ScVCIl uIllcS SUuLIlWeSC Oh EhDO-
kee, were saved Monday morning after
floating in Lake Okeechobee on house
top all night.
Everything on the island was de-
molished In the storm, during which
more than nine feet of water spread
over the entire island Ives said today
that he and MIR. and Mrs. Hooker,
their 5-year-old daughter and q Mr.
Mcleod and IS negroes fioated on the
roof for more than five miles. When
the roof drifted to the south shore Of
the lake they succeeded in getting on
land.
Eight Negroes Missing.
Big Kraemer Island Jared better.
None of the 80 white residents was in
jured, but Of the IS negroes are
missing, j. Wallace, a resident Of the
island reported when he came to Paho-
kee In a rowboat yesterday for medi-
cal supplies, Wallace said water was
9 feet deep on the island during the
storm.
Max Yarbourgh, 10. of Bacon Point
was the only survivor of family of
five. His clothing caught in a timber
of their partially wrecked home and he
was held fast thvhushout the storm. He