Evening Star Newspaper, September 22, 1926, Page 4

+ JWOMAN DESCRIBES HOLLYWOOD RAZING o Her House Turned Upside .Down as She Left It—City ' Being Cleared. [ B¥ ™a Ascociated Press. v the fantastic wreckage of Saturday's “térm and is clearing away for an- ofther start. As men and women la- @orad to restore order to this devas- dated city a band marched through ade streets, playing “Pack Up Your Trovbles in Your Old Kit Bag"” and “fall, Hall. the Gang’s All Here." The death list now stands at 32. Authorities expect but few more bodles to be found. In Dania there is one tourlst camp which has not been searched, and there is a possibility of dead th Red Cross rellef stations bhave be- come thoroughly organized, and peo- ple are recefving food and clothing from outside points. Martial law still prevails. Sanitaty engineers and phy- sicians are getting sewers into work- ing condition and vaccinating hun- dreds for tvphoid and inoculating st tetanus. Health authoritles say danger from an epidemic is ed and the general health of the Fantastic Stories Told. Fantastic stor upside down. hairbreadth escapes and heroie rescues still come to light. Mrs. E. E. Wooten said she iwa: asleen when the hurricane struck her home, and that she escaped just as the building turned completely upside was sleeping soundly when I heard the wind howl. I called my hushand. who got up and dressed and started for the door. As he opened the door the house shivered and rocked, and I sprang from bed. Reach. ing out for clothing, I grabbed what 1 thought was a dress and ran to the door. As 1 came to the steps I felt the front of the house lift, and mmped. When I looked back I saw it lift 30 or 40 feet into the air and then topple over on its roof. Later I found what I thought was my dress was a bathing suit. I was glad enough, the water had begun to rise around my ankles, “I cannot tell you how awful it was. Mothers had been separated from their children. I saw one little girl sitting on a doorstep crying. She told me her father and mother had been killed. ‘T saw homes smashed in and houses torn to shreds and flung into the air, and a whole line of freight cars blown off the track. There was nearly two feet of water in the street, and splinters, planks and plaster filled the air. T cannot understand why we were not all khled."” REFUGEES TELL OF MIAMI. Glant Trees Snapped, 19-Story Build- ing Bent, Strange Birds Appear. By the Associated Press. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., September 22— Eve-witnesses of Miami's boom- erang hurricane are thronging into Jacksonville with tales of miracu- lous escapes, freaks and tragedies wrought upon the inhabitants by the storm's fury. - They reporteq: t trees that withstood the ele- ments for more than a century snap- ped off at their bases like match- stems, while others stood with naked trunks, their branches and follage whipped away, while still others were lifted, roots and all, from the ground. huge steel barge loaded with was hurled from the waters useway, its anchors avail- ing nothing. Rain was blown through crevices seuled s tight as battleship decks before the hurricane hit A 19story office building was bowed in by the winds to a point where city engineers say it will have to_come down Man and woman searchers brought into Miami's biggest hotels 2,200 women, children and men from out- lving districts Saturday afternoon. The refugees had remained some 14 hours huddled about their shattered homes \ striking picture of contrast was painted as the homeless sufferers stood in varying degrees of and undress in the handsomely inted million-dollar hotel lobbies. | A man safety of stood death, declinin that the from the they had the storm, to their to heed the pleas of remain with them | ANl sorts of stange sea birds, never seen hefore on Miami shore: arance as the storm sub ; reds of pigeons that had made homes for vears in Miami's | Roval Pulm Park weathered the hur ricane in some unaccountable way and were 1 on the job Saturday afternoon seeking food bits from pedestrian: Wav Miami B . T Ccauseway RBeach were if ships. 0 to 80 feet high' lashed Miaml to ! high with he from Miami piled hulks NASSAU RADIO WEAK. Intermittent Reports Show Island Was Not Seriously Hurt. w 3 s | #au has been maintained spasmodical- Iv for the past several hours by the Palm Beach Radio Co. Information | recelved indicated that while the | apical hurric: lust Saturday Nassau, fts force was not near- in the Miami area the Nassau storm were | most of the time that ‘tion was established the tion was unreadable, al (ppavently they could read ard from for the » be that Jured by the stol It had been dis- mantled just before the force of the gale was expected to reach there. YACHT IS MISSING. e | Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Comstock and Friends Unheard From. MIAML Vla., Coast night to search for Jey Comstock stor, on whi and two f roon last FPriday. The yacht h been heard from since Mr. Comstock, who last Spring was reported engaged to Peggy Joyc actress, and Mrs. Comstock out on a reunt the hurricane struck the East Coast. ¥ € Hodge., Comstock’s brother-in- Jaw, asked the Coast Guard to begin & search September were asked last Ordered to Walter Reed. Capt. John L. Dunn, United States Infantry, who has been under treat. | ment at the General Hospital, Hot Springs, Ark., has been ordered to Wealter Reed General Hospital, thi citg, for further tieatment ;\ € of houses turning | 7 (Continued from First Page.) the waters of Biscayne Bay. More than 3,000 injured have been given medical assistance by hospitals and Red Cross workers. Twenty-twd were reported dead at Miami Beach. Five Relief Ships Arrive. Five relief ships came into Miami today and work was at once begun to unload their cargoes of food and medi- cal supplies and to distribute it among various relief agencies and hospitals. Besides two Government craft, the relief ships were the Merchants and Miners liner Berkshire, the Clyde liner Cherokeeand the Gulf and South. ern frelghter Louisiana. The Berk- shire carrfed 431 tons of provisions and medical supplies, and the Louisi- ana, which came from Key West, had 1,200 tons consisting chiefly of flour, canned goods and roofing materials. An additional appeal for physic and nurses was issued today from the McAllister H&tel, which has been used as the chief hospitalization point in the city. All persons in the city again were warned against the danger of typhoid fever by Dr. W. F. Snyder, chairman of the medical committee. He advised every resident of Miami to be vacci- nated. Acting Mayor Gilman an- nounced the arrival of 280,000 units of tetanus anti-toxin by alrplane from Richmond. C. H. Reeder, chairman of food re- lief stations, announced that upward of 500 families have been supplied with necessities of life in the last three days and that 3,000 are being More than $75,000 in cash as well as tons of sup- nlies from nearby points have been received by the relief organization and additional contributions from distant points were pouring in. 70 Missing at Hollywood. A missing list of 70 at Hollywood was expected to increase the 40 known dead as the back country, where many are belleved to have fled at the ap- proach of the storm, is thoroughly searched for possible casualties. Two hundred and fifty injured persons have been given medical attention. The death list at Fort Landerdale re- mained at 11, with the seriously in- jured numbered at more than 300. Twenty of these are expected to dle. Five hundred others are reported in- Jured in the suburban cities of Progresso and Flora Martial law remained in force throughout the storm area, with Na- tional Guardsmen patrolling /the streets. With the location of the sixty-eighth body at Moorehaven, workers placed the probable death total at 150. Mar- tial law was established here yester- day with batteries of National Guard artillerymen in charge. Twelve per- sons lost their lives at Fort Myers, on the west coast; 8 were killed at Lakeport, and virtually a score of small coastal cities in the territory between West Palm Beach and Miami on the east coast reported scatter- ing casualties ranging from 1 to 7. Better Sanitary Conditions. With arrival of an adequate supply of fresh water, sanitary conditions have been greatly improved in Miami and Hollywood, where water and sani- tary systems were totally destroyed. As search went on for additional dead throughout yesterday and last night in Miami long lines of destitutes filed past emergency relief centers for small portions of bread, water and fuel. Seventy-four persons were arrested for looting stores and other places of business destroyed by the storm. Grocery men and druggists are dis- pensing foods and medicines freely, in THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1926. RUSH RELIEF WORK IN FLORIDA ' D ALABAMA STORM AREA; many cases to persons unable to pay. At Hollywood, La Monica's Band, which has been giving regular concerts on the beach throughout the Summer, marched through the streets playing lively airs as injured were given medical aid and needs of th homeless were filled. » Scene of Desolution. Virtually the whole of the devastated area presents a scene of destruction beyond the telling. Parts of auto- mobiles, limbs and trunks of huge trees, roots, telephone poles, glass and wreckage, were stren through the streets by the high wind, while the in- rushing waters of the gulf stream cast scores of yachts, schooners, steamers and pleasure craft high on the_beaches. Both the Miami River at Miam{ and the New River at Fort Lauferdale are clogged many blocks inland with marine wreckage. Reports from the citrus and vegetable grow- ing sections show that the loss to crops was high, one estimate yester- day placing the damage at $3,000,000. More than $100.000 has been sub. scribed to the rellef fund in Miami alone early today, and reports have come from cities to the north of other thousands of dollars for the sufferers. Meanwhile relief units are arriving hourly from the North with supplies of food, fuel, water, medicines and money. Henry M. Baker, national director of disaster rellef of the American Red Cross, is on his way here to take personal charge of the Red Cross workgrs. Hotel Used as Hospital. The McAllister Hotel, largest of the emergency hospitals, was filled with storm victims. Many families still were broken up and hundreds of in- quiries were received at City Hall and other rellef centers for missing per- sons, Several hundred children separated from their parents were sent to the White Temple, one of the larger churches of the city, and notices were printed in the papers calling upon parents and others to visit this place and help in the effort at identification. The youngsters were cared for by a committee of ladies from various churches of the city. All banks of Miami established a ruling yesterday that nobody could be allowed to draw more than $10. Insurance Agent’s Estimate. G. C. Stembler, general agent for 15 insurance companies, said today that property loss in greater Miami amounts to more than $60,000,000. The companies he represents are expected to pay $6,000,000 to $10,- 000,000 to cover losses due to the storm. The money represents between 10 and 12 per cent of the value of im- proved real estate in the Miami area, Stembler sald. Only 5 per cent of the property insured against fire was insured against winds. THREE DEAD IN ALABAMA. Property Damage in Milllons Reported at Pensacola. NEW ORLEANS, La. 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C. and nearby suburbs. 5% Loan Correspondent HLRust Company -~ ESTABUSNED 1889 -~ 1001-15® Street. N.W. for*The Prudeht!nl iof than other cities in the Gulf section. Crops were laid bare over a wide area. Three children were drowned in Baldwin County, Ala. More than $2,000,000 will be re- quired to replace property destroyed in Pensacola by the wind, which at Er'ln" attained a velocity of 120 miles hour. Several bridges there were ‘washed away, roofs were lifted from buildings and some of the ships anchored in the harbor were sunk. Santa Rosa Island, a natlural breaker, is believed to have saved the destruc- tion of buildings located near the water front. ‘The Naval Air Station, situated near Pensacola, was hard hit. Many air- planes were placed out of commission and several structures within the reservation were partially demolished. As in Pensacola, the naval post was without city water and electricity. A bridge connecting the station with Pensacola was made impassable by the hurricane, g . Damage in Mobile was expected to exceed +$1,000,000. Many homes and some business buildings there were unroofed and several houses demol- ished. Had the wind blown southeast Instead of north, the damage in Mo- bile would have been far larger. The north winds caused the lowest tides in the history of that city. The peak of the storm In' Mobile was reached Monday when the wind's speed was 94 miles an hour. Monday night's barometer reading of 28.7¢ represented a new low pressure record for Mobile. The Coast Guard cutter Tallapoosa, which rode out the gale in Pensa- cola Harbor, was en route to Tampa, Fla., to aid storm victims of that sec- tion of the Alligator State. Damage to property of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in the Pensacola district was unofficially estimated at $800,000. Construction crews of that railway endeavored today to make tracks leading to the city safe. Sev- eral hundred feet of track were re- ported to have been washed away between Pensacola and Flomaton. KILLS WIFE AND SONS. Polish Former Official Hangs Self After Three Murders. WARSAW, Poland, September 22 (#).—Edmund Statkiewfez, former di- rector of the credit department of the finance ministry and a director of a branch of the Bank of Poland, to- day shot and killed his wife and two young sons and later hanged him- self in a doorway in his home. Police believe he became suddenly insane. A servant found the body of the older of the sons, 16, with evidences of a flerce struggle with his father. It is belleved that Statkiewiez first chloroformed his wife and two sons before shooting them, but failed to anesthetize the older boy sufficiently to prevent a struggle. DIVERS MISSED _S'I:ORM. Under-Water Movie Workers Felt No Effects of Hurricane. 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It was stated, however, that this estimate was ‘“conservative.” ‘The damage, according to the state- ment, is about one-third covered by insurance, the remainder being about evenly divided between the city, the Coral Gables Corporation which de- Vdopid the city and Individual propefty owners. The statement was {ssued under the auspices of Edward E. Dammers, mayor; Telfalr Knight, a city com- missioner; S. Miller, in charge of re- construction work; M. P. Lehman, di- rector of public safety; F. J. O'Leary, president of the Chamber of Com- merce, and George E. Merrick, presi- dent of the Coral Gables Corporation. TYPHOID MENACE SEQUEL. Miami Beach Water Front Wreck- age Sti]ll Yielding Bodies. MIAMI BEACH, Fla., September 22 (#)—Fatalities from the hurricane rearhed 22 here today, with the num- ber mounting as additional bodies were found in the wreckage which litters the water front. 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