Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-06
PeStiIence Possibility Con-
fronts Officials and One
Health Officer Urges Gre
nation of Bodies.
"GROSS CARELESSNESS"
is SEEN BY GOVERNOR
Maryland and Virginia Hit in
Aftermath of Hurricane as
Winds Sweep Coasts Heading
for Sea-U. S. Inquiry Opened
by Williams.
The Hurricane Toll.

The Hurricane Toll.
MIAMI-Rescue workers, wearing gas
masks, enter Florida hurricane
areas to recover the dead, esti-
mated by the Red Cross at 256.
Gov. Sholtz says death of war vet
Grams caught in storms path shows
'gross carelessness somewhere was
responsible for tragedy" State
Attorney G. A. Worley begins in
vestigation into alleged delay in
sending special train to evacuate
the veterans in the Florida keys.
The Red Cross reports LA bodies
of veterans recovered; 375 other
veterans are known to be alive,
the organization says, and 800
missing.
EN- ROUTE TO NEW YORK BY
TRAIN-PaSsenger and members
of the crew of the steamer Dixie.
rescued off the Storm-Swept Florida
coast, in a happy frame OF mind
after the ordeal.
JACKSONVILLE-Aubrey Williams.
assistant to Relief Administrator
Hopkins, said here he has already
begun a RELENTLESS investigation"
of the death of war veterans in
work camp. Coast Guard dis
patches plane from st. Petersburg
and the cutter Triton from Tampa
to bring aid to isolated fishing
communities along the Florida
West Coast.
RICHMOND. Va.-Tornadoes kill one
person and injure IL others in
Virginia Thursday afternoon and
night.
WILMINGTON. Del.-Two men killed
when freight train is wrecked due
to washout two miles south OF
FELTON,.
BALTIMORE-The storm. accom-
panied by heavy rains, tears down
wires, and sweeps away bridges in
Maryland. Warnings for small
craft displayed on Upper Chesa-
peake Bay.
WASHING ON-Advisory storm
warnings ordered North off Sandy
Hook, N. j., to Boston. The tropi-
cal disturbance from Florida de-
scribed as central near Virginia
Capes moving rapidly Northeast
ward Federal Relief Administrator
Hopkins granted 100000 to be used
in relief work in the storm area.
Copyright. 1888. by the Associated Press)
MIAMI, Fla, September 6.-The
possibility of pestilence-eternal after
math of wholesale death-confronted
authorities today as the task of find
ing more bodies in Florida'S hur-
ricane-ravaged keys went laboriously
and painfully forward.
Like a wartime corps combing a
battle zone after a big drive has
passed on gas-masked armies of men
penetrated the lower keys, made
shambles by last Mondays hurricane.
Their job was to recover more
bodies of war veterans who persisted
when the storm ragged through their
F. E. R. A. camps. Already, the Red
Cross estimated, the death toll is 1856
Funeral pyres may burn in the
desolate spots where the veterans
were struck down on the keys.
Urges Cremation.
'The only thing to do is to burn
those bodies down there" was the
opinion today of DR.. T. S. Kennedy,
district sanitary officer of the Florida
State Board of Health.
DR.. Kennedy said he wired the
president of the board to seek per-
mission at Washington for cremation
of the victims.
Earlier Gov. Sholtz had said
IF the State Board of Health re-
ports it necessary, We must have quick
disposal of these bodies-and if neces-
sary they must be burned" said Gov.
Sholtz of Florida, however much
we regret to take this action"
The question of whether the vet
Grams had needlessly died-whether
they might have been safely evacuated
If warned sooner of the coming hur-
ricane-enmeshed officials in weller
OF arguments.
Independent investigations into the
tragedy were pressed.
Florida State Attorney G. A. Worley
began an inquiry into alleged delay
of a train sent into the keys Mon
day night to evacuate the veterans.
Williams Begins Probe.
What he described as "a relentless
investigation" was initiated by Aubrey
Williams, assistant to Federal Relief
Administrator Harry Hopkins, who
charged that the Weather Bureau
had been remiss in not forecasting
the hurricane soon enough.
Everybody seems to have done
what they thought was the right thing
(See HURRICANE, Page A.