The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-09-28
Times FINDS TAXI THAT RODE MIDNIGHT Mop ERSON VISTO
KEY WEST IS HIT
BY MILE
HURRICANE

ORLANDO, Fla, Sept. 20
U.N.S.).-UncOnfirmed reports re.
ceived there this afternoon said
the wind velocity at Key West
had reached 80 miles an hour.
KEY WEST, Fla, Sept. %
By radiO)-0.N.S.).--Key West
was being whipped by 8O-miie-
an-hOur gale shortly before noon
today. The barometer was falling.
No great damage has been
done so far.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla,
Sept. 20 N.N.S.).-Lashed by .
65-mile an hour gale, West Palm
Beach today anxi0usly awaited
what developments the day might
bring. .,,...
The United States Weather
Bureau ordered storm warnings
changed to hurricane warnings
south Of Miami to Key West.
Northeast storm warnings were
ordered hoisted north Of Key
West to Tampa. Tropical storm
moving westward through Florida
straits with center almost due
SOUTH. Caution advised all yes.
sells Florida straits and south.
eastern Gulf Of Mexico" said q
bulletin from the bureau.
MIAMI, Fla, Sept. 2S u.N.S.).-
Twenty persons are known to be
dead at Nassau and additional
deaths are feared in other sections
Of the Bahamas as a result of the
tropical hurricane which swept the
islands for three days, according to
messages received by the Tropical
Radio Station here early today.
The storm was felt at Miami to
the extent Of Gripping the city's
electrical system and throwing it
into darkness throughout the night.
Messages received by the tropical
radio revealed that hardly build
ing in Nassau had escaped damage,
and that the poor" sections NJ
the city suffered to a tremendous
degree.
The official residence of the gov
ernor Of the Bahamas was reported
to have been badly damaged.
Houses Unroofed
Nassau is flooded, and has been
in total darkness for three nights.
Telephone communications are hope.
lessly disrupted, and the lack Of
reports from other islands in the
group has led to fears that other
towns and cities may have suffered
similar or even worse fates than
that sustained by Nassau
la&A q
the tersely-worded dispatch telling OF
death, destruction and suffering
which served to revive fears that
this section was not yet freed from
the menace of a hurricane catas-
trophe approaching that of last year
and Of 1925. 49,.
-he dispatch telling of the disaster
stated that the storm damage was
worse collectively than ever before
and that no building escaped injury.
The sea-wall, built to protect the
city from just such mountainous
waves as the high wind created, was
broken in several places, causing the
waters to inundate low-lying sections
of the city. Backing-up Of sewers
caused a general flood throughout
Nassau, aggravating the suffering
OF those TSuucESu HOIllCACSS ny SAS
storm.
Virtually all small vessels anchored
inside the sea-wall were wrecked by
the wind-lashed waves. the dispatch
added.
NEW ORLEANS. La, Sept. 2S
u.N.S.rThree busses containing
passengers were overturned on Male
con sea drive, Havana, by heavy
seas. according to hurricane re-
ports received here by tropical radio
this afternoon. The message fol-
lows:
AUGUSTA, Ga, Sept. % Q.N.S).
Terror swept Augusta today when
the nine-mile levee holding back the
flood waters Of the Savannah River
crumbled on the edge of town.
The toll OF dead or missing al
ready stood at five before the
levee fell.
A dozen other persons were known
to be clinging perilously to tree
tops in Hamburg, s. c., and rescue
seemed impossible.
Despite the efforts Of a virtual
army of workmen, a 2O0-foot break
opened in the crumbling dyke op-
posite McElmurray farm, four miles
from here.