The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-17

(Contlnueu rom PaRe D here and along the coast and dam age was expected to be slight. Planes from the Charleston Army air base had been flown to St. Joseph, Mo, on Saturday.
 The winds whipped waves up onto the old Charleston Battery but the height of the storm came at low tide causing small damage.
 Charleston streets had been large- ly deserted as residents sought safety.
 Schools were closed and workers at the Charleston navy yard, the port of authorization and the Army Air Base were told not to report for work.
 Power was going on and of spor- adically as gusts buffeted electric power lines. Radio station WCSC continued broadcasting with auxil- iary power. Residents of the nearby resort beaches at Sullivan's island, Folly beach and the Isle of Palms had been evacuated to safety.
 As 1t moved northward, the storm gained momentum, but wind veloc- ity was barely half the l43-mile per hour force which caused havoc and misery during the weekend in southern Florida.
 Before losing, much of It's force during the overland Florida pas. sage, the blow had been the worst since the disastrous big storm of 1926.
 This morning, hurricane warnings flew from Brunswick, Gap to Cape Hatteras, N. c.
 Storm warnings were flying as for north as the Virginia Capes, less than 250 miles from the New Jersey resort coast, focal point of devastating but Tlilder storms in recent years. Small craft warnings were hoisted as far north as Block Island. Chill rains and rising winds were predicted for the whole At- lantic coast today.
 The three southern states were warned to expect high winds and abnorimal tides even before a prob- able inland sWereVer. Gusts up to 63 miles an hour were felt ct Bruns- wick.
 Terrific Destruction
 The hurricane left wake of de- struction in Florida. It was the worst battering that state had taken from a tropical storm in l0 years. At its height three hurricane-proof hangars at the Richmond, Fla, Naval base, collapsed and caught fire.
 Naval officers said damages would reach $40,000, ,000. Twenty-"ve Navy blimpS, 2l3 naval planes and l5S civilian planes were destroyed. Harry Schultz, the bases civilian fire chief, died in the fires. His charred body was bound as the storm roared away to Q cut 8 wide swath through the states citruSt belt.
 The avocado crop was hardest hit. Growers estimated crop damage would exceed S600,000. There was no estimate of other property dam. age. More than 1000 were made homeless ct Homestead, the town took the greatest licking from winds which reached velocity of i43 miles an hour.
 Thirty-five Homestead homes were destroyed. Eight hundred others were badly damaged. FlImsy shacks were crumpled like matchwood all along the path of screaming winds.
 The rnillionaires' playground MlamI-was filtered with debris. Power lines were down and water only trickled from taps during the storms peak.
 The only other reported death was that of Pamaican Negro, who died trying to rescue the dog mas cot on his small fishing vessel.
 The hurricane tore into the South- ern tip of Florida Saturday, batter. ing the Florida Keys and whipping 90 nile-an-hour wind Into the resort centerS. It whipped across the state to the gulf and then circled back to the west coast, blowing to sea near St. Augustine last night.
 Weather observers said once over the open sea 1t would pick Up hurrI- cane force again before sucking it. self inland. They said sometimes storms of this hurricanes intensity bounce of the coast line for hun dredS Of miles. They push inland, diminish slightly, blow to sea and then push back again. day. said that he had heard of the