Evening Star Newspaper, September 21, 1926, Page 4

T4 CAPITAL RESPONDS T0 RELIEF APPEAL Citizens. Business Firms and Organizations Giving Sup- plies or Cash. » Having presidential people for the Natio day, un; of the Rt yreaches The public sources of the ded in overnight the Am orida disa a4 forth ed tice promulgated speal to iid in the | Al Capital = the experd 1 Cross, to pr and private relief ity were being mar ‘mined front, rea rash steadying influences into stricken of the far South. With the military and other govern mental machinery of the Nation al ready turning into paths of mere in immediate response to the plea of the Chief Executi zens of Wash- ington today took stock of their tinan clal or other resou 8 nd were be ginning to give, without stint, to the cause of thelr stricken countrymen in Florida's hurricane-swept sections. Business Profits Sacrificed. Business interests offered to sacri- flen commer srence to the eries fo E anged with ief authoritie: turn over generous allotments of th profits to those furthering the wor of relief. the of life in th day with e ranging from supplies to libe While their Nation at large grand total to £743,000, accordi national headquarte Red Cross, residents of this city subscribed’ through the local Cross chapter the sum of §41 counting §2§3 received 1 collected by various other Al came forws nees of self-sacrifice gifts of clothing and donations of funds fellow cl 'ns of the were rolling up date of more than to a tabulation 5 of the Ameri “ap und sums agen Damage Being Surveyed. anwhile the damage wr wood und othe; tion w und public autho: conducted un Depait ing to the military for best iudvan in prot work. Another was being pushed by the Ited 4ross, itself, in the face of great obstacies. The fn numerou s of ht in Miami, Holl centers of devasts way by responsibl One was being Luspi the War ith extent s Wt obstacles included the wreck + hurryi “tor Henr Bakes i to the distress ine was forced unspent fury of s it was en route to Miami, ¢ und at Gordon, Ala. nor his pilot, s injured, scene the still al storn either Tdeut. her plane m on to his destination. = under instructions radioed rdiy by Sceretary of War Davis, . Ha commanding the “urps Area, at Atlanta, has offered weilities unde his control tin, Le mnotified the War today of Relief Supplies. equipment ran the g 1z kitchens to airplanes, prepared to maks of tents, cots, Ll d number of rollin Hagood We patrol n Ivisc wire and messenge Army officers on duty 4 and Re in pliced at r dis- <h m with vou de officers, It onal Jones of the hie capreity Gen, wk eived by 'l Florida 81 Ny Mr D. W Lidward Inez M Miss 1 $288.00 Dis. rerican $100.00 10000 B 00 2500 10,00 it 00 5.00 00 00 5.00 5.00 5.00 7.00 .00 Tillman, Anna B.. 00 00 2.00 | 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 | 100 1o PR 10.00 1000 10.00 L. $416.00 DI INT WORRY about room this or Fall securing 4 apartment for and Winter. Rather read the Rooms Apartments to Let classifications in The Star. for Rent and day attractive rooms and apartments are listed there. Some to suit any taste and purse. Every . from newspapers to banks. | the tem. | | | | | | | l \ guidance | what it | | | ashing | 5 nd the former | ; Letter Attributes Florida Hurricane To Falling Meteor By the Associated Press LONDON, _September Daily Mail displays toda front pace a letter signed the pseudonym “Appian Wa, tributing the Florida hurric the fall of a meteor, which was seen in England last Friday night, into the sea between Florida and the Bahama I The writer, from a hou: the resi- of Mowbray irs, naval assistant to the first lord of the admiralty, and claims he has studied the causes of hurricanes, tidal wi and me- teors, does not submit_his view as mere theory, but boldly contends that “there no question about the accuracy” of his explanation. 21.—The on its under LIST OF DEAD AND JURED DEAD. aby, mund, Coral owles, Joseph, Moorehaven, Bowr Bowms Brown, Mrs. Gordon, Hollywood. G Clure, Ralph, Fort Lauderds ol Mrs., Hollywood. ‘rawley, Laura M., Fort Lauderdale. Cum Mrs. Adolph, Moorehaven. D Agrelia, baby, Moorehaven. ¥ Moorehaven sorehaven . Hollywood. G Mrs., Homestead. r., Moorehaven. Florenc Hollywood H Helm, Lorene, Miami. Henderson, Moorehaven. Heppard, Mr at Moorehaven, Hickman, Netty, Hollywood. Iowell, two children of Horace, Moore- haven. 1 Irmenger. two boys, Moorehaven. K Kellman, Nettie, Miami. L L. A. L., woman wearing wedding ring with initials, Moorehaven. Lee, Mr., Moorehaven. Lee, Susie, Moorehaven. Lundy, B. J., Moorehaven. M ., Miami. , Andrew, Miami. herine, Hialeah. . R., Miami. . Mr. and Mrs. R. A, and five children, Moorehaven. P Petty, John, Coral Terrace. R Rader, Mrs,, Hialeah. Reeseburg, Mr. and Mrs. Chris, Moore- haven. Rowe, Mr. and Mrs., Moorehaven. Ruthbebm, Coralyn, Miami. Seley, son of Joseph, Moorehaven. e, Mr Smith, Clem De Gluck Goodrich, Moorehaven. . Moorehaven e, Hollywood. Sturn, Bruce, Moorehaven. T Te: James, of Danville, Lauderdal Tillman, Fern, Fort Lauderdale. Tillman, Martha, Fort Lauderdale. Tillman, Mrs. Robert E., Fort Lauder- rrell, 1., at lon the city before | dressing room of the ¥ THE Photo shows Fort Lauderdale on the New River front, The hotel pictured is reported demolished and the surrounding buildings destroyed. The New Rive s 30 feet deep here and is part of the ship channel from the Atlantic through Hhy Mabel, crossing the State to Fort Meyers. VIVID HURRICANE STORIES TOLD HERE BY EYE-WITNESSES __(Continued from First Page) withstand them. It was a steady, heavy northeast wind and it w pil- ing up the waters of Biscayne Bay steadily. Then it required only a sud- den big push. such as that glven by the hurricane, to send them over the lower portions of the city. “The Miami shore line is not more than 4 feet above sen level, while in Palm Beach we are protected by bluffs from § to 10 feet high. Shipping | suffered terribly, but the push was not | bix enough to send the wate ross these blufls into the city itself. Phe g tragedy must have heen at Mo aven, where literally | a considerable part of Like Okeecho- | bee was lifted up and set down bodily | Nothing could stand up | such u foree.” Just a Little Wind." | da tragedy is not without | st its com! ton new de. A group of Washing- | per men broke into a na Limited | Washington this Prosperous-ap- finished reached An elder] aring gentleman had just shaving. “Did_you come he asked. when 1t through from Mi- of the hur- hurricane! Tt's damn lie, all o damn contemptible le. The newspapers are trying to ruin Florida. They are printing wild ru- . They don't want the truth. v won't print it if they get it.” “You don't mean to there wasn't any storm there wa asked. “Certainly there Just a little wind few slates, and I have hit somebod *'Hurric all_a he asn't any storm. that blew off ieve they may But that's apt to happen anywhere. It doesn't amount to a thing—not a thinz in the world. All the way north they came through the train with newspaper: of | a big hurricane. . It's § gush. en our own that ought to know better ing it. This newspaper nor going to cost Florida a lot of mone: Official. your name?” he wi none of your bus haven't any use for newspape after all this nonsense appen to be a Florida ed through the area of destruction in darkness and were able to tell little of the appear- ance of the devastated country. The iman couductor said that he saw everywhere small houses in ruins and predicted that it would be impossible to finance their rebuilding for years. Storm Story Told Here. | laid flat. | sinking streets with our bathing Then the wind, which had blown from the northeast. suddenly struck up from the southeast and emed to suck the ocean out. People who had ventured down towards the er were forced to crawl on their stomachs to get back to something solid. Walking was impossible. There wasn't a tree standing in Miami Bea There was confusion everywhere and nobody knew an: thing. - That southeast wind ble: until about 1 pm. and then the people took stock. “The roof was off our hotel and every window was out. Everything from Collins avenue east to the ocean and straight up to First street was Drinking water was not to be had, so we found cocoanuts, broke them open and drank the milk. There n't the sign of an automobile in- anywhere. ‘About a mile out in the ocean a rge with 50 men was anchored. t barge went down; how many lost their lives I do not know. But three men, L. W. Darrow, Allen Mc- Connell and a third whose name is unknown took a small boat, made six trips out to that craft as she was | and rescued 15 men. The clung to the ‘rigging all of night and early Saturday into the suits on. crew Friday morning. “There wasn't a boat left in the harbor and the beach was littered with equipment that had been in them. In addition to this debris there were hundreds of fish. The first in- dication of the loss of life we had came just before we ventured out into the street. We saw a man run- ning up and down yelling, ‘For God's sake, get a doctor!’ Concrete Blown About. “The entire east side of the Bis- ayne Collins Hotel was blown away many homes were These residences had heavy their rvofs and we could see it flung through the air like sheets of pape of con- crete were carried how, I do not know. Big chunks of con- crete from the streets and sidewalks ed entirel; Svery one, no matter who he was, was deputized to work. I saw one millfonaire driving a truck, and he appy because he could do some- The municipal authorities took in hand in wonderful rationed the food, pro- ¢ one to buy more than $2 v gave orders, I thing. the situation stvie. They hibiting an worth a d heard, o'clock at night and shoot kill where looters were at wo! “The county cause running four miles across the bay to Miami, condemned, and the Vesetian . upened last May, was just ble. A stecl pier, under and running for ahout three blocks out into the ocean from the beach, was a mass of wreckage. About 150 feet of it at the shore end was blown a and the piling farther out was bent and twisted to a degree that new piles will be neces- sary. to construction s we crept across the causeway aw the bay littered with automo- {ings against the wind. ¢ one out after 6| ye advertising sign of any description standing. Al that is left of a huge electric sign over the Olympic Theater is the letter ‘0. Several raflroad cars near the waterfront were over- turned, but the depot, about a mile in- land, was not dumaged. “The tall buildings in Miami, every one of which was heavily damaged, acted as a buffer to the small build- When I left Sunday night nobody knew how many ons were dead. Rumors of all were flying around. Nobody was allowed to .enter but doctors, Red Cross rescue workers and newspaper men. The first bite of bread I got was on the train. I felt embarrassed about boarding the train because of the way I was dressed, with borrowed clothing, but I soon found that every one else was in the same fix I was i What has not been totally destroyed in Miami Beach never can be rebuilt, in the opinion of Mr. Bernstein. A new city must go up cver the ruins of the one that thrived just a week ago. There isn't a single person in the en- tire city who has not lost heavily, he added, and the suffering of the poor 18 tremendous. DEATH TOLL NOW 400 IN MIAMI STORM ZONE; PENSACOLA IS ISOLATED _(Continued from First Page. homeless, many clad in bathing suits, searched among the wreckage for traces of missing relatives. Temporary relief headquarters were established in the city hall and the Hollywood Hotel, the latter virtually the only structure in the city which escaped the fury of the storm. Long lines of people waited at Red Cross rellef units for scanty supplies, meted out only to persons showing written permission from civil and military authorities, Saniiary System Wrecked. The entire system w wrecked by the storm, and sanitar inspectors believe a large quantity of drugs and_disinfectants is necessary ‘0 siave off an epidemic. Surgeons, who © been working night and day attending thousands of injured, are badly in need of tetanus serum, At nita s the per- da where 7,000 the tabli Fort Lauderdale, toll reached 14, waited throughout ¢ in breadlines ¢ 1 and outside relief agencies. Six hundred injured were said to be packed into the three structures left intact by the hurricane. Twenty of these are not expected to live. noon yesterday the high waters ew River receded enough for to begin their search of the wreckage of the city, which was expected to vield large numbers of dead and injured. Progresso, a suburb of Fort Lauder- dale, was reported totally destroyed. Two thousand persons were made homeless and no check of the possible dead and injured has been attempted. Looks Like War Sector. of th rescue we STORM NAY CLRB TRADE NBODTLEG Coast Guard Officials See Possibility of Smugglers’ Boats Being Wrecked. The Southern hurricane may be a great blow to the bootleg and rum- running industry, in the opinion of Coast Guard officials. The number of launches storm area formerly ged in smuggling activities of one kind or another was placed by one officlal at 2,000. Many of these are small boats, not of sufficient size to have weath- ered the storm, and are believed by officials to have been destroyed, blown inland and otherwise dar On the other hand, the Govern- ment forces which had been used to combat the bootleggers fortunately proved of great assistance to the stricken populace, and many of the facilities were seaworthy, weathered the storm and were among the first available and the first to reach the scene of disaster. ‘Concentration of Coast Guard ac- tivities, however, from other sections was contiuning today, and it was es- timated that a thousand men, four destroyers, six cruising cutters and a large number of patrol boats would be in action. Hamlet Heads Relief Group. Comdr. H. G. Hamlet, in charge of the destroyer force of the Coast Guard, has been named by Rear Ad- miral F. (. Billard as commander-in- chief of forces in the hurricane area, and is expected to arrive momentarily from New York with his squadron. Alrcody some of the cutters and small boats which were stationed in Southern ports have arrived on the spot, and were among the first of the United States forces to extend relief. The Coast Guard cutter Saukee, a- tioned at Key West, proceeded direct to Miami with provisions, doctors and nurses, and was accompanied by all oot patrol boats, and even the 36- foot launches at that_station. Saukee carried 45 marines. smporarily in command of all t Guard forces, Lieut. Comdr. stopher G, Porcher, stationed at Lauderdale, 30 ' miles from Miami, was sent with 200 men to Miami. He will relinquish command upon arrival of Comdr. Hamlet Comdr. Porcher is in charge of the Coast Guard Reservation Fort Lauderdale, to which was recently moved also the Coast Guard floating base from Miami, including the mother ship, cutter Moccasin, and 20 patrol hoat: in Fort water at Fort Lauderdale -~ HURTINENGLAND Policeman Hero Given Credit for Succoring Score By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla., September 21.—P. M. Hannan, Mfam! Beach policeman, was one of the heroes of Saturday’s storm. Arriving at the city docks about 4 o'clock that morning, Hannan found many persons jumping overboard from yachts in the harbor. “They seemed to have lost their heads completely,” Hannan sald today. With another policeman he threw out lines to several boats which were being buffeted and personally v credited with having rescued more than a score of men, women and children. Twenty-five men jumped overboard from a dredge which sank and Han- nan was credited with the rescue of 23 of them. AMERICAN FLYERS Burg and Tinker Have Nar- row Escapes From Death in Plane Crash. By the Associated Press. CAT! . Surrey, England tember Two American ched to the Kenl drome for instructional purp Able escape from afternoon when their plane and burst into flames. o The officers are Lieut. (omdr. Rob- ert A. Burg, assistant attache for naval aviation at the American embas sy in London, and Maj. Clarence L. Tinker, assistant attache for military aviation. Their machine, Haviland 4 ing trees n an American de somersaulted after strik- r Caterham, and landed only a few yards from the edge of a chalk pit 200 feet deep. | As the wreckage burst into flames. Maj. Tinker, the pilot, managed to| mble clear and extricate his com- | Both w aken to a hos | Purley. It is reported that | are seriously burned, but the | ct extent of thefr injuries has not | vet been determined. | R Steamer Aground Aided. | | HAVANA, September 21 ().—The | |tug Warbler hus left to assist the steamer Kiowa, aground Acklin | Island, in the Bahama | The Kiowa, a Clyde Line steamer of 1,264 tons, left New York Sep | ber 11 for § antanamo, Manzanillo. was swept away during the hurrican there a few weeks ago, and the othes was completely demolished in this storm, according to pst ady = here. No direct word has been heard | of the condition of the old cutter Moc- casin, which officials fear may not have weathered the storm so well as ships ast_Guard is enforcing mar tinl v in Fort 1 dale. Two airplanes which the Coast Guard had stationed at Lake Worth were reported to have been lost in the storm, but two other planes Fer nandina were said to have survived dale, Torril, James, Miami w Wells, Dorothy, South Miami. Y Young, S. R., Moorehaven. INJURED. A story of those terrifying hours in which the wind, rain and_turbulent ocean combined in one mighty attack on M ch and emerged over- victorious, was brought iy by city B ring clothing he had picked up here and there and suffering from a Hollywood. heavy cold brought on by living in o a hathing suit for two davs und : i oily. | nights, Ar. Bernstein’s only thoughts - . B, and baby, Holly- | FERTAC heip dn the form of food and workers to eliminate the hazard of fire and disease should go to the Ken area immediately. he attorne Miami Sunday night on the second train to depart from that elty, and on or he had invoked the influence « official s he permitted to de- G ar A train that resembled an Asia Minor refugee escape. 2y il Warning of the hurricane came Fri- ST day evening in the form of an an. H nouncement in the new s that a Robert J., Miami k mi Beach, | cter, John, M mined not | Chiristina, M Bishop, Leroy, Caldwell, Mr d. Jack ., Miami D W. D., and baby, Holly Criag Duncan, Mrs. wood. E and Mrs. W, Holly . Mrs B., Hale, Hen Hiley Bernstein to be frightened who told him of warned him not to retire, the attorney went to bed. Then he related: The storm hit about 3 a.m. day. The first indications that it wi a real storm came with the destruc. tion of the awnings at my hotel, whose heavy frame wc ashed into the windows. Then came the rain. bed was covered with broken and the rain, heavier than I imagined it could fall, rushed oom in torrents. People were up and down the hall shout- ing to the guests to prepare for es- cape. They all donned bathing suits and donned mine. When I got down rs the water up to our Mr. Jordan, J Miami T. L., Miami. neh, Miami M Lapera, Mrs. Luden, Mr Lyles, Bla Martin, MeCarl Melnt Moore Moore Moun Mys hom Mary M ami . Miami. Miami W., Miami Mrs. W. J., Miami Mrs, I K., Maimi 0 1. Andrew, Miami ever = A Y in my I Calls Women “Wonderful.” “We all thought an earthquake had hit us. And in t confusion, made all the more horrible by the ck of lights, the women were won derful. 1 never saw such determi- nation disy them. By 8 am. there A1l went out Miami Strickland, * 1., Miami. lell, Mr. and Mrs. J Miami. son, Mrs. Ha Miami. 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They were swollen by the heavy rains and the ocean, broke their banks and reached places that the ocean couldn't. Boats Swept Far Inland. “When we got into Miami we saw an oil barge sitting in the middlc of Biscayne drive, which is about two blocks from the ocean. Farther up the street was a five-masted schooner, and in addition there were any num- ber of smaller boats, all piled up on dry land as much as four blocks in- land. One launch had parked right in front of a drug store. The boats or were sunk on the spot in the or or washed far up into the wspaper men who flew over the ted area in airplanes compare ne to the shell-torn sectors of ¥ and Belgium during the World War. They found glant palm towering pines and large oaks snap- ped off, uprooted and strewn about in a tangled mass of wreckage. Reports from farm and citrus grow- ing areas show a steadily mounting of damage to crops. In the ad section of the Redlands district in the southern section of de County $2,000,000 is believed to have been the toll in damage to the orange, grapefruit and avocado erops, while Fort Myers, on the West Coast, reached an estimated loss of more an $1,000,000 to the crops from high winds. Homest Czechoslovakian Schools Thrive. 4 maintained in De- 1,416 infant schools, kindergartens, 366 nursery The schools n. The Mey Kaiser Building, in Miami, 19 stories high, was from six to cight feet out of plumb, and the top ories all had been blown aw: wonderful botanical garden in is no more, and there popular Victor artists PALACE THEATER September 19th to 25th BanTa, Burr, Silver, Mathieu, Murray, Baugh- man, Stanley, Herman—one might almost call them a company of super-entertainers! Their varied and brilliant talents will give you mirth, melody, pathos, syncopation—the whole gamut of human emotions. 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