The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-09-05

military honors in Arlington Ma
tional cemetery.
The president, it was revealed,
talked to General Hines on the
telephone from Hyde Park. Hines
informed him that he already had
designated Col. George Z. IjamE as
his representative at the disaster.
In addition, Mr.. Roosevelt au-
t.lorizsd the use of all availa BILE
facilities of the army, navy and
coast guard in meeting the emer-
gesacy.
Rescuers Pick Way
Miami, Sept. 5.-UP)-Relief
workers picked their way to-day
through highways piled with deb
ris into the hurricane stricken
Florida Keys in an attempt to pro-
vide an accurate check of casual
tios and property damage.
Fifty bodies had been recovered
but rescue parties were unable to
penetrate beyond Snake Creek.
w. P. Mooty, Dade county GRIM
inel court clerk, who surveyed
the Keys by boat, telegraphed
Gov. Dave Sholtz that fatalities
may reach 1000"
The Red Cross, however, stood
on its earlier estimate that total
loss of life would approximate 300.
Private estimates were that the
death toll might be between 500
and $50.
Governor Going In
Gov. Sholtz, at Tallahassee, an
nounced that he was leaving inn
mediately by automobile for Miami
to take personal charge Of relief
work. He will be accompanied by
w. r. Smith, assistant secretary
to the governor, and they will be
joined at st. Augustine by Ad-
jutant General Vivian B. Collins.
II find there has been little
organization of relief work and |
ann going there to take personal
charge myself" the. governor said.
Mooty, travelling in large mo-
tor launch from Key to Key. told
of witnessesing scenes of desola-
ton that almost defied the pow
ers of description.
"I found dead scattered all up
and down the Keys" he related
Some of the areas were COM
pletely wiped out. When saw
bodies floating a good way out In
the ocean and other bodies tangled
in matted and uprooted under
brush, knew the loss would be
terrific.
Weeks to Find Bodies.
cit will be weeks before bodies
buried in the mud and forced into
ha nj ont nd
winds and tides that forced houses
out into the water must have been
so terrific, that they tossed many
persons out past shore to drown
At Homestead. one of the relief
centers, r. S. Kennedy, director OF
sanitation of the state board oil
health, announced he was seeking
permission to cremate bodies left
in storm debris.
"It Is essential to sanitation" he
said. "but l would hesitate to dc
this without permission of the fed.
eraf government. / have wired DR.
NJ A. Baltzell, president Of the
United States board of health fol-
such permission"
Work Continues.
Work of bringing bodies from
the Keys moved ahead, meanwhile
as the emergency machinery estab.
lished in the wake of the death.
dealing tropic storm began to func-
ton more efficiently.
Evacuation of the desolated area
by airplane, boat and foot pro.
gressed to such stage that relief
authorities were considering a
thorough study of Cape Sable, or
the mainland, which was immedi.
ately In the path of the swirline
hurricane.
Survivors being taken to varlou,
emergency hospitals continued tt
tell of the stark horrors of the
storm.
A coast guard boat brought bod
les of 20 identified dead men Il
Snake Greek today from the WRECK
age Of veterans camp 3, on the
Keys.
A survey plane, piloted by Lieut.
Ballard of Miami, with a co-pilo
and two passengers, crashed neal
/ lower Metacombe Key. No one wal
hurt.
He Rigged Radio
New York, Sept. 5-(UP) -
Henry C. TRIGGER, passenger on the
liner Dixie, related today how he
and a ships officer climbed up tht
outside of a smokestack In 130'
mile an hour gale to rig emerg-
efacy apparatus on the stranded
ship.
TRIGGER, radio engineer for Ma.
tional Broadcasting company, told
OF the feat In a telephone con.
versatioh with his home office,
here. At
'sThe emergency antenna pu~ uE
by the crew was useless" TRIGGER
said. 1.-THE third officer and
2 climbed the outside smokestack