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to have delivered it's heaviest
punch at Panama City, Fla.
No loss of life was reported.
Mayor Carl Gray of the coastal
resort in extreme Northwest
Florida said in radio broad
cast a dock was destroyed by
high winds and tides. Several
other docks and beach property
were damaged. He said $500
persons were evacuated from low
ground to Red Cross shelters.
This storm first was reported
In 7:30 pm. advisory by the
Miami Weather Bureau yester-
day.
The Weather Bureau at San
Juan. Pureto Rico, said today that
reconnaissance aircraft had ac-
curately located the newest hurri-
cane in the Atlantic Ocean east of
the Lesser Antilles at 8 am.
The hurricane is located at
latitude 1914 north and longitude
5s.3 west or approximately 110
miles east of the Island of Guade-
loupe. It has winds of more than
100 miles an hour near the CEN
ter" the advisory said.
THE direction and velocity of
movement of this storm is still un-
certain but it Is believed to be
moving in a northwest or west
northwest direction at 10. to II
miles an hour"
Hurricane warnings were Or
dered displayed from Dominica
through st. Martins and Anguilla.
Another hurricane blew north
ward in the Atlantic about 500
miles east of Bermuda. The Wash
ington Weather Bureau said this
hurricane offers no threat to land
and no further advisories would
be issued on 1t.
e. A. Aime, weather forecaster
at New Orleans. in discussing the
Gulf Hurricane, said:
There isn't any explanation for
the fact the hurricane did not
do as would be expected, except
that hurricanes are by nature
freakish things.
Basis for Predictions.
Predictions are based on the
average Of what previous hurri-
canes have done and the extremes
are so far apart the average
doesn't nearly represent any one
hurricane and certainly not one as
freakish as this one was" he
added.
Some Pensacola residents -
especially those who had made
elaborate arrangements for a stiff
blow-were disappointed, although
relieved. The canned goods they
stored up won't spoil. anyway.
At $50 pm. a gust OF wind was
recorded at 64 m.p.h. That was
about five hours before the power
full center was expected.
The center never showed.
There was virtually no damage
beyond the usual small tree limbs
which snapped of. There was q
little litter in the streets-a very
little.
Some Tide Damage.
Most damage came from high
tides, and that wasn't much. Some
beach property was washed out
and some wharves damaged Slight
ly when the waters rose 5Ia feet
above normal.
Coast Guardsmen at Santa
Rosa Island, long sand spit s
miles off Pensacola, estimated
winds there reached SO m.ph
There was no wind recorder on
the island. In fact, where the
strongest winds hit Santa Rosa
there is nothing but an isolated
Coast Guard station and damage
there was negligible.
Probably the most Pensacola
excitement came when the high
tide ripped loose the moorings OF
a sea-going, two-masted fishing
smack.
No one was aboard, but the
crew raced around to a rival fish
company dock, caught the fleeing
vessel and made it fast again.
The city's power failed about
$50 pm. and was still out in
the downtown area eight hours
later.
The power failure prevented
the Pensacola News-Journal from
printing its regular morning
paper. The presses were ready to
roll when the juice went out.
Two ships in the Gulf reported
hurricane winds and full gales
about so miles south of Mobile
shortly before midnight.
For that reason the New Or
leans Weather Bureau continued
storm warnings early this morn
ing east OF Mobile to Cedar Keys
Fla, while lowering hurricane
warnings.
At Mobile. 1850 persons were