The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-09-05
Miami Paper Claims
749 Died In Storm
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Dixie went aground.

from the southeastern tip Of the
Florida peninsula in southwest
erly direction to Key West, when
the storm hit Monday night.
No Accurate Estimate
Until this count is completed no
accurate estimate of the missing
and believed dead" can be made.
Approximately 200 persons lived
were established in four FERA
camps along the Metacombe Keys.
Approximately 200 personse lived
in the fishing village of Tavernier
on Key Largo. Approximately 40
persons lived on Plantation Key.
The population on the other Keys
was not known, but probably to-
tailed approximately 1000.
Assuming these first tentative
figures accurate, and assuming 900
to be the final figure on the known
dead and 500 on the injured, APP
proximately 1850 persons either
are among the survivors or are UNI
accounted for. The survivors had
not been counted, but it was not
believed they would total that
many by at least 200, which would
give credence to private estimates
that placed the dead at 500.
Many sections of the Keys re-
manned untouched by rescue work.
ers SO hours after the rescue work
got under way. They had been
viewed only from airplanes and re-
vealed the same scenes of waste
and death as in the sections al
ready searched. These will con-
tribute to the toll of dead and in
jured today.
Destruction Scenes.
Miami, Fla, Sept. 5-(UP)-
Chaotic scenes Of destruction were
left behind today along the Florida
west coast and South Florida by
the hurricane which destroyed
property and crops valued at mil
lions.
Citrus crops were especially hard
hit in Pinellas and Hillsborough
countries on the west coast, with
estimates of the loss running as
high as rs per cent, made by
coast guard cutter crew which was
sent to that area to aid in rehabili-
tation.
Unofficial estimates indicated
that damage to citrus crops near
Tampa would run from rs to SO
per cent. Fruit was blown off and
trees uprooteI' by the flashing So
mile-an-hour winds.
Fruit, Vegetable Damage.
In Sor2h Florida, Dade county's
loss WIS placed between $500, 900
and 100000, almost all fruit and
veg/table damage. Minor damage
was done to buildings. Broward
county, also in South Florida, went
through the storm with little dam
age, while the Hollywood Fort
Lauderdale sector suffered only the
inconvenience of interruption of
power and telephone service.
Sarasota and Tampa both sus-
tanned heavy losses, reports indi-
Gated. An unofficial estimate plac-
ed Tampa's loss at $1,000,000. En-
gineers feared that mile and a
half of the seawall there had been
undermined. The waterfront of
Tampa was flooded; scores of
homes were unroofed with conse-
quent water damage. The Ybor
city postoffice was partially I'M
rofed.
Other Reported Losses.
Since the fall crops have not
been planted, no serious damage
was done near Tampa to the truck
crops.
Clearwater reported a citrus crop
damage of SO per cent.
In Sarasota, filmsy buildings
were demolished, garages collapsed
on cars, small yacht was destroy
ed, and other damage done to run
the loss into thousands. Resort no.
tells and buildings on the Keys near
Sarasota were damaged.
While communication lines were
out in many sectors. companies re-
ported that the loss would not run
as high as in storms of 1926 and
1928