The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-09-04

20. the largest being Cape Sable. In addition there are more than g. hundred islets where are fisher mems shacks and tiny hamlets. Of- ficials directing the rescue and re- lief battalions feared many would show their own toll of dead and injured.
 Particular concern of the rescI- CTS was a relief train dispatched to the keys Monday to evacuate the EZRA war veterans. The train was believed to have picked up some veterans before the hurricane struck, and it's fate and the fate of its passengers was unknown. Mrs. Bradford reported that during her flight over the Keys she had looked for the train. but saw "only some thing that may have been half a car."
 President Orders Aid
 At the summer White House in Hyde Park. N. Y., President Roos- evelt ordered the army and the navy to give every possible aid to the national Red Cross in caring for the injured, providing shelter and food for the homeless, and collecting the bodies.
 In Tallahassee, Gov. Dave Sholtz mobilized two companies of the National Guard and gathered all the resources of the state in the rescue work. Men at the St. Augus- tine National Guard arsenal imme- diately began loading tents on x< fN hn ota tad region.
 A Miami police detail penetrated to Rock Harbor on Metacombe Key last night and found scenes of horror. Hardly two blanks were left together in the settlement that sheltered war veterans employed on an EZRA road building project.
 Did Not Count Bodies
 The detail did not count bodies and therefore co. Id not verify first reports that 75 of about 200 mem- bers had been killed. They brought out eight injured women and chill dren and sent them to an emer- gency hospital at Homestead on the mainland. Many more injured were being cared for on the Key by men skilled in first aid. No phys icians were available. Reports said that four physicians regularly as- signed to the camp had been killed.
 At the fishing village of Tavcr- nier, at the other end of the same key, like scenes of horror and devastation were found. The Red Cross reported that 100 had been killed there. and 35 injured. Only one building was spared, according to reports. An acute water and food shortage threatened survivors. On Plantation Key, which tips Key Largo to the east, the detail found 10 bodies-three war vet erans employed by the EZRA. their wives and their children.
 Many Were Veterans Many of the victims were from the ranks of the approximately 1000 war veterans employed on the road building project. They were esta ablished in several camps scat tered through the keys and so far only Camp No. 1 at Rock Harbor had been adequately accounted for although 1t was not believed that a death toll as high would be , found in the others.
 On the mainland scattered deaths were reported. Three were killed at Homestead and one at Fort Myers. Authorities feared that presently isolated west coat towns would in crease the list.
 The hurricane, first of the 1885 season. came roaring up out of the Caribbean last week. Sunday and Sunday night 1t crossed Cuba. causing no damage. In its short passage across the Florida Strait 1t apparently gained in velocity. When 1t struck the Keys Monday night it's velocity was estimated at 1 12O miles an hour. Tuesday 1t reached the mainland, diminished somewhat in velocity, crossed north westward across Florida. emerging into the gulf west of Clearwater early today.
 First reports from the Keys yes- terday indicated there had been little damage. Then reports, each one little more ominous in tone. began Altering throguh. Late yes terday a Miami rescue party reached Snake Creek, separating Metacombe Key from the main land. They saw a group Of dis traught men on the other bank. They shouted across the interyen- ing water that 75 men had been killed. that injured among sur vivors desperately needed medical n nnA AN N 04N