Evening Star Newspaper, September 19, 1928, Page 2

\WANY CONTRIBUTE * 10 STORM RELIEF $6,000,000 Believed Needed i to Aid Hurricane-Strick- “en Areas. Where to Deposit Contributions for Hurricane Victims Contributions from the public to the hurricane relief fund being raised by the American Red Cross may be sent to the following places: The cashier, The Evening Star, Eleventh street and Pennsylvania avenue. Victor B. Deyber, finance chair- man, District of Columbia hurri- cane relief fund, Second National Bank, 1338 G street. District of Columbia Chapter, Red Cross, 821 Sixteenth street. All donations received by The Star will be acknowledged and forwarded to the national fund. J——————— As national relief agencies moved on- ward today to the aid of stricken Flor- ida, Porto Rico and other hurricane- lashed territories, a sympathetic people came forward with generous offers of money, food, medical supplies and clothing for the growing host of suf- ferers. From the big industria] concerns with | their offers of needed commodities to the lain individual of modcst means with gis donation of $1, the entire civilian as- sets of the Nation were being put at the disposal of the Red Cross and Federal, State and local authorities. $1,700 Raised Here. Citizens of thé National Capital dug gown in their pockets and started rolling up an emergency relief fund expected to exceed $40,000. Although the rais- ing of the fund was getting under way overnight, Victor B. Deyber, treas- of the local relief fund, today re- o direct contributions totaling $385, to which is to be added $1,136.50 in The Star's fund, started by $1,000 from this paper, and donations through other sources, yet unrecorded. National headquarters of the Red Cross . received the encouraging word that one Red Cross Chapter in another city already has “gone over the top.” The message came from the Broome County Chapter, at Binghamton, N. Y., which announced that its quota of $10,000 has been exceeded by $302, and that the quota is likely to be doubled. Of the total reported $10,000 was raised among workers of the Endicott-John- son Co., it was stated. Because of the impossibility of esti- mating accurately the needs of the storm_victims at this early date, the Red Cross has fixed no limit on the smount being sought for relief work Several millions of dollars will be need- ed, however, one guess being that the 'onotoal fund should approximate $6,000,~ Meanwhile railroads offered free transportation for relief workers, refu- fees and supplies; medical firms con- ributed anti-toxin, the United States Army rushed thousands of cots into the sffected area, the Coast Guard organ- {zed a relief expedition, the Navy stood ready to aid, the Commerce Department essisted and, in fact, every agency of Government responded to the call for d. aid. Remembering the aid rendered by America to the people of Belgium dur- ing the World War, the Belgian charge d'afaires today called at the State De- artment to express the sympathy of e people. 700,000 Homeless. Vice. Fleser of the cmii has hed rellef officials the stricken area that the situation in Porto Rico, the Islands and Florida is “increasingly serfous.” The #HE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. €. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 19, 197%8:- | PORTO RICO TAKES STOCK OF HURRICANE DAMAGE l DONORS TO FUND FOR STORM RELIEF The list of contributors to the storm cluded the following: The Evening Star W. D. Jamieson Nelle M. Dyer. C. O. Schudt.. Mrs. H. Abraham.... Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Joseph Edmonston _Studio. Mr. and Mrs. R. C. McAuley August Ammann Cash John A. Phillips John Ki fund, as compiled at noon today, in-|nary Anonymous ....... Mrs. Lemira A. Langille. Miss Letitia A. Langille Robert A. Lord.. Laura M. Scott Anonymous . Ada G. Fuller. Evelyn M. Ford. Mrs. Fred C. H: By the Associated Press. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla, Septem- ber 19.—Graphic eye-witness stories of death and devastation in the backwoods region around the Great Lake Okeecho- bee, in southern Florida, were brought here today by injured and destitute persons from that region. Thrilling stories of escapes were told by all refugzes who were brought here by the Red Cross for medical treatment. lodging or food. D. H. Walker, a farmer of South Bay, who escaped with his wife and five children, said the dike broke about 11 p.m. Sunday, sending a wall of water through South Bay to a depth of 8 feet. House Washed Away. His house was washed away and he and his family sought refuge on a house boat, where approximately 150 other persons were lodged. He sald he saw many persons unable to get to the house boat, holding to drift wood. He counted 22 bodies tied to trees with rope by rescue workers to keep them from floating away. Practically all the ter- rlw.r{‘ én that section was under water, he R L. A. Hargraves, who has been farm- ing in the section between Belleglade and Pahogee, said when his home start- OKEECHOBEE REFUGEES TELL GRAPHIC TALES OF DEATH'S REIGN Farmer Pictures Wall of Water Eight Feet High Which Washed House Away: Bedies Tie d to Trees. ed to collapse, he sought refuge in an- other house only to leave it when it, too, was being blown away. He ran to & third house, where two white men and 10 negroes had sought refuge. ‘When it started to collapse he crawled a quarter of a mile on his hands and knees to a tree, where he found a ne- gro man and wife clinging to a top limb. Shortly afterward, he said, he gaw the house containing the two whife men and the negroes washed away when the dike broke. He never saw the occu- pants of the house again. Water around the tree arose about nine feet in 30 minutes. he related. He and the two negroes were rescued the next morning and brought here for treatment. The names of the white men in the house were Horace Redding, 25, and his brother-in-law, Harrison Roberts, 21, Hargraves reported. Carroll Winegardner of Boynton, & dairy worker, was injured about the head when the dairy house in which he and his family and several other workers had sought refuge was carried away. His father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Winegardner, were seriously injured and brought to a refugee camp here. Byrd’s Ship Halts In Chesapeake With Radio Out of Order By the Associated Press. NORFOLK, Va., September 19.— The Eleanor Bolling, one of the supply ships of the Byrd Antarctic expedition, which has been delayed in reaching Norfolk from New York, and for the safety of which some uneasiness had been felt, was anchored in lower Chesapeake Bay enlly”dm night, Comdr. Byrd was advised. News of the arrival of the ship was made known through blinker ;g:m picked up by a Navy tug. ‘message did not say what trou- ble the had encountered to put her radio out of commission. NORFOLK SWEPT BY SHIFTING GALE Lines of Communication Broken, Trees Felled and Rain Causes Fatality. By the Associated Press. message said that a minimum of 700,000 rsons are homeless in Porto Rico and he Virgin all of whom are lcoking to the Red Cross for immediate aid, followed by some permanent meas- ures of rehabilitation. Red Cross chapters in Florida, he said, are wiring frantic appeals for im- mediate help. A thousand tons of food is on its way to Porto Rico, together with surgeons, nurses, ital equi) ment for 2.000 beds, supplies. Additional relief workers are laflrnz this week for the West Indies. “It is imperative that contributions from all sources must be generous and prompt,” Mr. Fieser declared. He suggested that chapters make a public appeal for women's and child- ren's clothing of washable material, suitable for tropical wear, and for lay- ettes and other clean clothing. Ship- ping instructions may be obtained from nv.foml headquarters. Gov. Evans Appeals. Appeal on behalf of homeless.natives of Er Croix, Virgin Islands, for ma- terial to cover their heads was received today by the Navy Department in a radio message from Capt. Waldo Evans, governor of the islands. The great need now, his communica- tion nfcll‘, is for 250,000 square feet of galvanized corrugal iron sheets, screws and washers; 200,000 board feet of roof sheeting and 400,000 board feet of lumber. Ppnl for such aid,” the message , “through the newspapers or other gources and ask that the shipment of this material be made as soon as pos- sible, with no expectation of cash payments except perhaps in small amounts.” Funds Are Authorized. An urgent appeal for funds from James H. Gilman, chairman of the dis- aster relief committee at Miami, brought an authorization from National Red Cross headquarters here for expendi- ture of $10,000 for relief work. Edward Selby, chairman of the Palm Beach County Chapter, also was authorized to spend 310,000 for immediate emer- ency needs. . Vice Chairman Fieser wired A. L. Schafer, director of relief operations in Florida, to make every effort to get in touch with Red Cross chapter workers at West Palm Beach and Miami. Gilman's wire to Vice Chairman Fieser follows: “With two members of city commis- sion of Miami, have just completed personal survey all towns from Fort Lauderdale to West Palm Beach in- clusive. Situation very critical. Need of relief immediately. Miami Chapter endeavoring to furnish bare necessities and carry on, but short of funds. Suggest you provide certain amount to take care immediate relief necessary for these communities until national organization has made. survey and can take over relief, We are equipped to handle with practically same organization used in our disaster 1926. Our entire relief organization at your disposal any way you wish, but must have funds. $10,- 000 minimum emergency amount re- quired for bare necessities for Fort Lauderdale, Pompano, Deerfield, Del Ray and Lakeworth for the next few @ays.” Tents Are Sought. Responding to the suggestion that t cities be set up in several of the owns, Red Cross headquarters has ad- vised Gilman to appeal a$ ance to the | State Guard for tents. Margaret Shepherd of the Fort Myers Chapter has requested authority to pro- vide tor burial of the dead at Okeecho- bee, South Bay, Miami Lock and Bear Beach—all in the Lake Okeechobee ter- Titory. She said the bodles are being pssembled at Clewiston. She was told the Red Cross would pay for burial, | Leaving behind it hospl P-18 am. and_shifted serums and other | Lo o ¢ NORFOLK, Va., September 19— broken lines of com- and other % hurricane swept the Vi ia coast last had passed out to sea today. Weather Bureau at Cape Henry reported that the wind, which reached a maximum velocity of 64 miles an hour early today, had droj to 24 miles at rtheast to munication, uprooted trees small damage, the troj S no; . ‘This was taken by bureau officials to mean that the storm center veered out to sea after leaving Cape Hatteras. A check of the damage in the Nor- folk area was impossible, due to inter- rupted communication, but it was be- lieved to be small. SCHOONER ASHORE. NEW YORK, September 10 (#).—A 50-foot schooner was driven ashore to- day off Atlantic Highlands, N. J., in the storm, according to advices from the marine observer at Sandy Hook. miles-an-hour wind, were pounding the Jersey coast. . PORTO RICANS SEEK AID. HAVANA, September 19 (#).—Porto Ricans resi in Havana today de- cided to form a relief committee to aid their countrymen. An organization meeting was called for Saturday, and efforts will be made to raise $100,000. ers and refugees, and for medical w&- ;Al;kes. Mr. Plre‘sler was advised hty E;m. en, general passenger agent. e railroad is duplicating the service ren- dered during the big storm two years ago. A telegram from M. R. Cartwright, secretary of the Stuart, Fla, Chapter, said that property damage there extremely heavy. There was one fatal- ity and many persons were injured. The county commissioners have re- quested the Red*Cross to make an im- mediate survey, the worker said. Cart- wright was informed that national rep- resentatives of the Red Cross are en route to Stuart with aid. graphed to the American Red Cross director in Plorida: dred people cared for in courthouse. d in need of emergency assist dale. ‘Tampa—Slight ds “Citrus—No great damage -to t; “Marion—Ocala, slight damage. “Levy—Cedar Keys, no loss of “Leon—Tallahassee reports no “Dade—Miami, slight damage. providing no other public funds were available The Southern Railway is supplying {ree transportation to Red Cross work- needed.” Mountainous seas, whipped by a 55-.1 e FULL STORM FORCE DUE HERE TONIGHT WITH STRONG WINDS (Continued from First Page.) east warnings hoisted north of Boston to Eastport, Me. ¥ The Norfolk & Washington steamer City of Washington docked on time this morning after a stormy overnight passage from Norfolk. According to members of the crew the main rain was unusually thick and the seas very heavy. At times huge waves broke against the bow of the vessel and threw themselves up over the pilot house. The trip was completed, however, without any undue inconvenience to pas- sengers or crew, company officials stated. All boats, it was announced, will sail on schedule time today. The Weather Bureau described the blustering wind and rain as “a good healthy storm of whole gale propor- tions, but not a hurricane.” To war- rant the latter description, it was said, the wind must attain a velocity of at least 90 miles an hour. ’ The storm swung shoreward from the sea last night and settled over the land, dissipating hopes that it would blow itself out over the open Atlantic. ‘The Weather Bureau, however, as it patiently followed the trail of the twist- ing wind up the shoreline last night, received no reports of any great dam- age. Al persons in the path of the storm were adequately warned of its [ and apparently availed them- selves of the opportunity to “dig in,”" officials said. Rear Admiral Guy H. Burrage, com- mandant of the fifth naval district at Norfolk, Va., reported today that con- siderable minor damage was caused by the gale at Hampton Roads, but that the wind was subsiding. No casualties were reported in the Navy personnel, but frame ildings, plers, some barges and tug boats were damaged, but not seriously. The Weather Bureau knew that the storm was brewing in the neighborhood of the West Indies 19 days ago. Since hurricanes do not drop down out of a blue sky the experts were able to detect its approach hours before it took its ravaging toll of the helpless islands lying southeast of Florida and every- bedy in the path of the storm was fully warned of its coming. 700,000 ARE HOMELESS, Porto Rican Governor Reports Property Loss on Island ‘“Be- | yond Computation.” By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, September 19.—A cable- gram reporting that 700,000 persons had been made homeless in Porto Rico by last week’s hurricane was received here today from Gov. Horace Towner by Martin Travieso, former acting gov- erndr of the island. The message, dated yesterday, sald the loss of life was comparatively small, but that the property loss was “beyond computation” and that all parts of the island had been devastated. The gov- ;rnodl' reported the situation well in and. Mr, Travieso broadcast a radio ap- peal for aid for the hurricane sufferers over station WOR last Monday night. Before he went on the air he cabled Gov. Towner for information on the storm’s damage. The message received today was in answer to his request. RED CROSS GETS DETAILED REPORT ON SITUATION The following summary of conditions in 22 Florida countles was tele- today by A. L. Schafer, disaster relief “Hardee County—Town of Wacula reports no great damage. Four hun- Few injured. ““Okeechobee reports 27 killed and many injured, great property dam- tance. ‘‘Glades County—Moorehaven reports slight damage. “Palm Beach—All reports indicate every building damaged, with 40 &er cent destroyed. Food being supplied from Miami. Medical situation sat- factory, with doctors and nurses from Miami and Daytona Beach. Loss heavy in rural districts, including Bearbeach, Ritta, Miami Locks. District in need of food and shelter, some loss of life. o County—Heavy property damage, one dead, many injured. “Broward—Northern part of county suffered greater damage than in 1926. Heaviest at Deerfield and Pompano, some destruction at Fort Lauder- "“Hendry County—Clewiston, slight damage. lamage. “Pasco—Dade City reports slight damage. rees and fruit crops. ‘life; property damage slight. “Suwanee reports normal conditions. “Pranklin—Appalachicola, no damage. “Columbia—Lake City, property damage slight. “Bay—Panama City, not touched “Walton—Defuniak Springs reports no damage; working on relief fund. by storm. damage. “Hernanda—Brooksville, no casualties; some damage to citrus crop. / “Volusia—New Smyrna, slight damage. “De Soto County—Arcadia reports small damage; no nmemfinlflet TOWNER’S RADIO SAYS! | tained up the Atlantic Coast as far | five. ] HEAVY TOLL LEFT Dead and Injured Lists Mount as Blast Spends Its Fury. (Continued from First Page.) regions are terrible,” Selby said, “al- though conditions along the coast are fairly good. In the lake region, two companies of State National Guard troops arrived last night and are on duty. The sections around Pahokee and Canal Point, are under military control. “Clothing, especially shoes, are badly needed.” Sheriff Bob Baker of Palm Beach and a squad ef deputies who went to Paho- kee, Canal Point and South Bay to bting in bodies of thg storm victims, said on their return’today that the out- board motorboats in which they went were “wholly inadequate” to meet their needs. The sheriff said a sea skiff would be taken into the area today, stationed at a strategic point as a base of opera- tions and that motor boats would brin; the dead to the skiff. He said most o the dead were colored. Rum Chasers Aid. Reliet workers have sent eme: supplies in boats to the lake area. Guard rum chasers have gone up New River from the base at Fort Lauder- dalek to aid in the rescue and rellef work. * Some bodies have been taken to Fort Pierce for burial, reports reaching re- lief headquarters here said. Sclby said he had received very few renorts of looting in the stricken areas. Red Cross officials said that damage o property was greater in proportion to the size of the cities than in the hurri- cy cane that swept Miami in 1926. Palm Beach snd West Palm Beach were hard hit. Red Cross officials estimated that between 90 and 95 per cent of the build- ings in the two cities were either dam- aged or destroyed. Streets were filled with debris and expensive trees by_the score were strewn everywhere. Bodics found in the lake regions were buried as soon as they were recovered and there were no way of checking the actual casualty list except through re- ports made to Red Cross headquarters. Trucks Run Through Water. Ambulances and trucks rolled through water often over the running boards, brlnglngnout the injured and dead and evacuating the homeless. Belle Glade was completely evacuated last night. From Okeechobee City came word that the Seaboard Airline Railway had brought in relief train, with physicians, nurses, food, embalmers, caskets, cloth- mwg medlca[fisup%g’e‘s. were _dispatched to outl, points to check on reports of dm{l;rg' Many of the refugees, scores of whom were injured, were brought to West Palm Beach for medical treatment and food and shelter. The hospitals, hotels and churches were filled with destitute persons. More than 7,500 refugees were cared for at the Red Cross headquarters Es?or:;l; and scores were being brought Facilities Are Taxed. . With facilities taxed to capacity, plans were made transfer l.(?;: r’;tgzm to Miami and Fort Lauderdale today. Food, clothing and medical supplies are ample here to cope with the situa- tion, Red Cross officials reported, but tbehg‘ein is urgent demand for cots and .were due here today, and Mayor Vincent Oaksmith has asked that martial law be declared. The soldiers were being sent here on the m‘:fif of city officials to Gov. John W. At least $200,000 in outside fu; needed to meet the situation ux’l‘tdtf a:: anonnotfle.flmcron kt:.m take complete charge wol $ al iy rl ‘,‘h:mch]a of the r many parts of State offers of aid have been rece: el ] ved from Red Cross MILITARY AID ORDERED. Florida Checks Death List as Hurricane Roars North. . JACKSONVILLE, Fla., September 19! (). —While the West Indian hurricane | was roaring up the Atlantic Coast, Flor- ida today checked a reported known death list of 400, injuries in the thou- sands and an emergency requiring mili- tary aid and immediate relief. ‘h:or the first time since Sunday, when hurricane struck the south of West Palm Beul:umrghi“l:-' sive figures on the dead and official computation of dam: comi; ";r“:xmi e e acing his estimate with the statement that “this storm can't be exaggerated,” Howard Selby, chair- man of the Palm Beach County Red Cross committee, last night said the death toll in the county alone, one of the worst hit areas of the State, would range around 400, and that dam- age would be $30,000,000. Senator Joe T. Rol n, Democratic vice presiden- tial nominee, who left the area last night after donating use of his private car, sal e was estimated be- tween $75,000,000 and $100,000,000. 300 Believed Missing. Out of the border towns of Lake Okee- chobee came word of the greatest loss of life, the missing reported by various re- lief committees ranging around 300. The hurricane swept up a huge wave in the | house lake, which overran the countryside all along the eastern shore, from Okeecho- bee City, en the north, to Belleglade, on :‘I;;‘ ”‘t‘e'h:m :fih%fl'lt‘lhe lll:t as verified by petent au es, however, was identified dead. 2 Gov. John' Martin authorized mili- Shens, from TR Afeadis Sndeser ), pa, cadia other Foint& instructing Adjt. Gen. V. B. Col- ins to confer with the Red Cross at West Palm Beach and use his troops wcordlnz!{. On receipts of reports from the Red Cross at Miami, which escaped harm, that conditions were “extremely crit- ical” from Fort Lauderdale to West Palm Beach, the governor sent a tele- gram to Charles H. Mann, president of the State board of health, which asked fullest co-operation. Army Sends Cots. The United States Army co-operated to the extent of sending 1,000 Army cots from the 4th Corps Area head- quarters at Fort McPherson, Ga., and seven disaster relief workers were mov- ing into the West Palm Beach area from the Washington offices of the Red Cross. The United States Public Health Service authorized a representative to co-operate from Jacksonville and plan- ned to e?ed!u delivery of anti-toxins Typhoid and other serums were badly needed, particularly in the Okeechobee section, where tary conditions were extremely serious. Relief wrokers sent in from Miami reported that 150 bodies had counted south kee, i 55" Joor Tasiice: “Meesy mere o es. were le mflm to await t.mchd.lw parently serious conditions obtain- ed Rx P!mdvn ‘olnt and Okeechobee and ih the Palm Beach area, which embraced, Pompano, Deerfield, Del Raj Boynton, Lake Worth and smaller ad- joining communities. Central Florida escaped harm of serious nature when the disturbance turned Monday morn- ing somewhere east of Tampa and struck toward Jacksonville, minor damage, together with interrupted com- munication lines, conditions which ob- North as the Carolinas. Western Florida escaped unscathed and Clewis- ton and Moorehaven on the western Upper: Home of Dr. Fassig, Weather Bureau chief, wrecked by the storm. —Associated Press Photo. Center: Uprooted coconut trees blown across raflroad tracks at San Juan. —Associated Press Photo. Lower: The Teatro Tres Banderas in wake of the big blow. —Wide World Photo. side of Lake Okeechobee apparently escaped with only minor damage. DELAWARE COAST HIT. Yacht and Barge Aground, Other Ves- sels Sheltered in Harbor. LEWES, Del, September 19 (#).— The West Indian hurricane struck this section of the coast early today with great force, piling up a heavy sea. The wind reached a maximum velocity of 76 miles an hour with a heavy rain. The 45-ton motor yacht Tigress, owned by Samuel P. Curtis, Philadel- phia, and a barge dragged their anchors and went aground on the main beach. About a dozen other vessels that sought shelter behind the Delaware Breakwater are riding out the storm in safety. Reports from down the coast are that the sea is pounding heavily on the beach and eating the sand away in some places between Cape Henlopen and Assateague, Va. PNEUMONIA THREATENS. Rescue Worker Says Many Refugees Are Suffering Expésure. MIAMI, Fla., Sptember 19 @).— Obstacles confronting relief parties penetrating the hurricane-stricken sec- tion along the southeastern portion of Lake Okeechobee were told here by W. H. Combs, sr., of Combs Undertaking Co., which is operating six ambulances. ‘Twenty persons seriously injured were taken from Belleglade to West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale hospitals by his ambulances, Combs said, and part of the time the cars were plowing through water above the running boards. One hundred injured in that area were suffering from exposure and must be taken to hospitals quickly if the death toll is to be kept down, Combs said, adding that it was extremely difficult to estimate the dead, as bodies of those drowned would remain submerged for two days at least and some may be pinned beneath water-covered wreckage. Caskets Made Hurriedly. Rough wooden caskets were being manufactured hastily in West Palm Beach and sent inland to bury the dead, he said, and some coffins had been made at Belleglade. Combs also told of seeing refugees huddled closely together in a school- at_Pahokee, where women and children have been in wet clothing for three days. He said the threat of pneumonia hung over many of the survivors unless they were removed to more habitable places and equipped with dry clothing. cks have pressed into service to sup- lement the nine ambulances working the lake region, he said. Belle Glade, Pahokee and South Bay were communities Combs said were in dire straits. Combs' reports were supplemented by George R. Brewer, member of a relief gxu-ty from here who returned today. e said 40 persons were unaccounted for at Belle Glade and at South Bay an_undet number of men, women and children were isolated in a hotel without food, and at one place on the Miami Canal 32 people were afloat on a barge in similar condition. Flood Water Recedes. Water at Belle Glade had fallen from 6 feet deep to 18 inches, Brewer said. J. W. Ives of Ives Dairy, Miami, and 30 other residents of Little Kraemer Island, seven miles southwest of Paho- kee, were saved Monday morning after floating in Lake Okeechobee on a house top all nl{:l. Everything on the island was de- molished in the storm, during which more than nine feet of water spread over the entire island. Ives said today that he and a Mr. and Mrs. Hooker, their 5-year-old daughter and a Mr. McLeod and 25 negroes floated on the roof for more than five miles. the roof drifted to the south shore of :hed-hka they succeeded in getting on an Eight Negroes Missing. Big Kraemer fared better. None of the 30 white residents was in- jured, but 8 of the 35 negroes are missing, J. Wallade, a resident of the island, reported when he came to Paho- kee in a rowboat yesterday for medi- cal supplies, Wallace said water was 9 feet deep on the island during the storm. Max Yarbourgh, 12, of Bacom Point was the only survivor of a family of His clothing caught in a timber of their partially wrecked home and he was held fast ',h‘uhout the storm. He saw his mof brother, sister and aunt go down in a churning mass of water. ‘When day came Monday he was rescued, the bodies of the other mem- bers of the family being found in the muck near the wrecked home. His mother was Mrs. Mary Yarbourgh and his aunt Elizabeth McLendon. The sister, Thelma, 11, and brother, 8, per- ished with them. TWO DIE IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Railroads Washed Out—North Carolina . Towns Isolated. CHARLOTTE, N. C., September 19 (#).—Passing on into the Virginia Cape country, the hurricane that yesterday held the eastern section of the Caro- linas in its grip today had left behind a toll of two deaths and a mass of tangled communication wires and un- estimated and unchecked damage to railroads and highways. i Aside from the severance of commu- nication lines to a number of points and retarding railroad and highway travel, the storm appeared to have done comparatively little damage. Torrential rains accompanied it near the center of the disturbance, with heavy to light | rains as far as 250 miles inland. Two deaths occurred in South Caro- lina when a Northwestern Railroad mixed train was wrecked near Sumter, 8. C. The engineer and fireman were |, buried in the mud and water of a wash- out when the locomotive overturned. In North Carolina, Wilson, Henderson and Raleigh were cut off this morning. A wire worked into Raleigh for a short time. Reports from that point were that there was no storm damage in the city. Other points in the eastern part of the State were reported isolated, with | bighways flcoded and extremely high tides at seacoast points. * BAND CONCERTS. By the United States Navy Band, at the bandstand, Navy Yard, 7:30 o'clock tonight. March, “Call Me Henry”, Overture, “Maritana” “Souvenir Melodie” . Scenes from the opera fantastique, “Tales of Hoffman” .....Offenbach Valse, “Blue Bells of Scotland”..Tobani Exee;rlu from “The Song of the im¢ . . .Stodthardt .Galimany .Galimany 1, Germain “Amistad,” Pasillo “Dance Chesterfield” . Three dances from “Henry V! Morris dance. Shepherd's dance. Torch ce. Foxtrot, selected. . . “The Star Spangled Banner.” I Dead and Missing l The list of known dead included: Mrs. P. L. Burke and three children of Chosen. V. H. Smith, Chosen. Mrs. W. R. Smith, Chosen. Mrs. Julia Bagley and two children, Wanda, 3, and Gerald, 5, Chosen. Raymond Martin, 13, Belle Glade. Minnie Martin, 6, Belle Glade. Mrs. Mary Yarbrough, 30, Bacom Point. Thelma Yarbrough, 11. and her 8- year-old brother, Bacom Point. Elizabeth Mae McLendon, 24, Bacom Point. E. E. Schilechter, Chosen. Irma Schlechter, Chosen. Flora Farr, West Palm Beach. Mrs. Julia White, 76, Delray. John Anderson Blaylock, 46, native of Cumberland County, Tennessee. Kilpatrick, identification incomplete; elderly man, died West Palm Beach Hospital. ‘Two unidentified white persons, Belle Glade. Infant son, Mr. and Mrs. Pred Nelms, Kelsey City. Six negroes at Pahokee. ‘Three negroes at Delray. A negro boy at Deerfield. The list of known missing included: Mrs. W. W. Britto, Pahokee. 3 Béh‘a‘fs{ husband of Mrs. Julia . I W. Leatherman, farmer, Chosen. INVESTIGATE DEATH OF SLAIN WOMAN Boqy Found in Farmhouse Cellar After Lover’s Suicide. | By the Assoclated Press. MUNFORDVILLE, Ky., September 19. —Hart County officlals today expected early afrests in the killing of Miss Lula Kirchner, 40, of Cincinnati, whose body was unearthed last night in & shallow grave in the cellar of a vacant house on the old John Marshfield farm, near Rowletts. Detectives from Cincinnati were or- dered here to aid local authorities in their investigation, which resulted from an inquiry iito the purported suicide Monday of the murdered woman’s sweet~ heart, William Ferris, 35, at the home of his sister, Mrs. Garland Martin, on the farm adjoining the “Guestioning 'of George o butcher of Horse Cave regarding ris’ death led to the discovery of the woman's body. Ferris was found dead, shot in the hedrt with a shotgun. Officials were not satisfled at the time that the case was suicide, although au- thorities said today that devel nts indicated that Ferris had ended life in a fit of remorse and possible fear of detection. m(d)mcmrslld Miller told fil‘em that h; seen Ferris washing what aj e to be blood from a buggy and umad seen him bury a suit case in a gully. Miller told them that later he dug up the suit case, took some clothes from it and then reburied it. PARIS REPORTS 660 KILLED IN GUADELOUPE, FRENCH WEST INDIES . (Continued from First Page) they at once plunged into the work of organizing relief measures. With about one-third of the island heard from, the list of kn tfgll f of 1,000 and a property loss of $100,000,000. B In many instances it seemed probable no reports of deaths would come to the authorities. Pedro N. Mortiz, health commissioner, said that in the coun- try many of the dead were buried where their bodies were found and no attempt was made to inform the authorities. San Juan police the prevalence of spair in a 1 . 15 killed persol themselves and four others attempted to v':'ui.ks n:ek own lives. ithout adequate supplies or efficient help, physicians in the small interior towns have been working 24 hours a day to_care for the injured. Many places have no hospital facilities. In others the hospitals have been mostly tients might be cai dors and basement copal, returnnig from Croix, Tslands, described the situation there as “utter destruction.” He said there was hurricane the British steamer Natura put to sea to escape the storm and in- stead landed in the very center of it and for two hours the needle ran off :he g:mph. with the barometer be- low 28. DAMAGE TO FLORIDA'S CITRUS CROP $4,000,000 By the Associated Press. Florida citrus growers will suffer a gm of uth:nt u.oon'.ggo. not radm‘lmg lamage to groves, Department o Agriculture said today. Preliminary reports received by the Bureau of Agri- cultural Economics indicate that the reduced the prospective crop 000,000 boxes, worth about storms by about 2, $2 per box. HAVRE DE GRACE ENTRIES FOR_TOMORROW. First Race, 2:15 P.M. RACE—] . $1,300: ; 3 sear-olds: § Tarionger S0 claiming; 3 Minotaur . Micmac *Comman Billy McFadden. Lemona SECOND RACE—Purse. $1.300; - 3-earoite aua G: 8 Turloneey; Claiming: Bramablau 114 *Marsh Vi . 1§ jMarsh Violet Charles H. i 110 y 107 *Silvermire THIRD RAC se, $1.300: thy : 23car-old iiies: 31s furlongs. ¢ Ondabout Ralph Cherry and family, Torrey Artas Island. W. D. Williams, his wife and daughter. Chosen. Mrs. Dawn, Chosen. Walter Vay Eyck, farmer and his wife, Chosen. Mrs. E. E. Schlechter, Chosen. Esther Schlechter, 8, Chosen. guhn Lon !, Chosen. james Lonerswe, 3 ‘Willlam Snow, Chosen. COL. BURGESS APPOINTED. Named by President as New Pan- ama Canal Zone Governor. President Coolidge today appointed Col. Harry Burgess, Corps of Engineers, U. 8. A, as governor of the Panama Canal Zone, to succeed Gen. M. L. | Walker, who recently resigned. At the present time Col. Burgess is engineer officer for maintenance for the Panama Canal. The appointment was made upon recommendation of the Secretary of| Wi le and Samuel Ross entry. FOURTH RACE—Purse. $1,500; - ern Purse; Myesr-olds and ub, T ‘miter” o asta Klan FIFTH RA s e iy d T vardes ly am Line B U o i e TR RACE_Purse, $1.300; clatmine; 3- yfi.! > o Eenen o SEVEER B4R, 1.0, i Jane Brooke: " *Gottage Boy ... 103 "fi'fi':fi,r"“',d,‘ fié Parmac'nee ‘Belie 1 Ao sligibie— iste 1,800; the Vogue: and mares; 1 mile Jonhng Vietot nny Vietor ioag Poin Gratf und Ondora *Tillie Ki Sun Here's How ‘Weather eclou A . “hoprentics slowsace ai uddy.