RESCUE ESCUE CREWS IN GAS MASKS RECOVER RECOVER DEAD Delay in Sending of f ft t Train to Move Vets Is Probed J v MIAMI Rescue Rescue workers wear wear- ga gas m masks enter Florida hurricane hur- hur areas reas to recover the dead estimated d by the Red Cross at i Governor says de death th of war Veterans caught in storms storm's path 7 hows gross c carelessness s ss lom some some- was responsible for tragedy State Attorn Attorney y G. G GA A. A Worley Vorley begins in investigation into alleged delay riding mending special train to evacuate the veterans in the Florida Keys ey f r J JACKSONVILLE Coast guard dispatches plane fro from St SL Petersburg Peters Peters- b burg rg and th the cutter Triton ln from lampa t to bring aid ld to isolated fish fish- ring g communities alon along th the Florida west c coast ast f RICHMOND Va Va Tornadoes kill fc person and d injure 12 others in Thursday afternoon and 4 kit 1 Ii BALTIMORE The ALTIMORE-The LT MOR The storm ac- ac r. r companied nied by heavy heay ea Y ra rains ns tears fears t down own wires and sweeps away j bridges in Maryland Warnings for fori i m email Jl craft raft displayed o on upper Cupper l Chesapeake h. h bay Three towns marooned mao ma- ma o ned x w 2 AdvIsory storm warnings ordered order d north off oft Sandy Hook N. N Y to Boston oston The Th tropical trop trop- ical disturbance froth from Florida de de- defA fA a as u central near Virginia Capes moving rapidly northeastward northeast- northeast ward NE NEW NEWBERN BERN N. N NC C Two C. Two to persons when they t touch u ch h p power wires s s lown 0 down b by galef gale KL f II MIAMI Fla Sept Bed Red ned 1 Cross s h headquarters here received word this thin afternoon that Governor Gov Dave had authorized cremation of t the bodies of sturm storm victims still sUll in the Florida ne Keys Kejs 4 MIAMI Fla Sept 6 The P UP The Thet t possibility of ot pestilence pestilence eternal eternal l aftermath af- af of wholesale d death death- ath con on- on fronted fronted authorities today as the tas task of ot finding in more e 1 bodies bodles odle Iri In 11 Florida's for Flor r das ida's ravaged hurricane ravaged K Keys Kes y wont went laboriously forward 2 Like a wartime corps corp sl combing a battle at le zone after a big drive has passed on g masked gas armies of men penetrated the law lower lawer r Keys made A shambles by last Mondays Monday's j hurricane t Their S b b was to to re recover over more f bodies Codies of or war war veterans who per- per J j Continued on Pate Eight RESCUE CREWS RECOVER DEAD Continued Irom rare esa One shed when the storm raged t through rough their F FER E B R A c camps Already the Red led Cross estimated the death lollIs toll toil Is x 2 6 Would Burn D Bodies Funeral pyres may burn In the desolate spots where the veterans v were struck down on the Keys The only thing to doIs dods to burn those bodies down there was the opinion n today of ot Dr T. T S. S Kennedy district sanitary officer of the tho FlorIda Florda Flor- Flor Ida da state board of health Dr Kennedy said he wired the president of ot the bo board rd to seek permission per- per mission at Washington for lor cremation cremation cremation crema crema- tion of the victims Earlier Gov Governor had said If It the state board of health re reports reports reports re- re ports it necessary we must have quick luick disposal of these bodies and It If f necessary they must be burned however much V w we regret to take this action Probes Pr Train Delay The question of whether the veterans veterans vet vet vet- erans crane had needlessly died whether died whether they might have been safely evacuated evacuated evacuated evac evac- If warned sooner of ot the coming coning cornIng corn com ing ng hurricane hurricane enmeshed enmeshed officials in a a. welter of ot arguments Independent Investigations were pr pressed w. w tae ate Attorney G. G A A. wor- wor worley ley Icy began an inquiry into alleged delay of a train sent into the Keys Monday night to evacuate the veterans vet erans crane What he be described d as a relentless Investigation was Initiated by Aubrey Aubrey Aubrey Au Au- brey Williams assistant to Federal Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins Hopkins Hopkins Hop Hop- kins who charged that thal th the weather bureau had bad been remiss In n not t forecasting forecasting fore fore- casting the hurricane soon soon enough Wants STants to Fix Any Blame Everybody seems to have done what they thought was the right thing at al the right time Williams said in Jacksonville He added But we mean to follow this thill thing relentlessly and let Iet the chips fall lall where whee they may If any of our men are to blame we wa want to o know it The question of ot the Ute evacuation train puzzled Williams clear he hes What I want to up said s id is why if it tHe Uie evacuation train tram was ordered at 1 p. p m. m Monday Monday Monday Mon Mon- day in Miami it didn't get to the camps until 7 o'clock that thal night Farther north and up the Atlantic Atlantic Atlantic Atlan Atlan- tic seaboard the hurricane con con- Off Cape Henry miles the oil tanker Vacuum lay hove to In a a. mile 55 gale unable to proceed on its southern course The gale was driving heavy rains before it It the tanker messaged and the seas were heavy Three Three- deaths one deaths one In Virginia the other two in North Carolina Carolina- were counted as heavy winds small tornadoes and rain plagued the Carolinas Carolines Virginia and Maryland Property damage was heavy as roofs fools build build- the twister picked ot off of Ings logs Flood waters water marooned at least three towns lowns owns on the eastern shore of M Maryland ryland As abruptly as a's as asit asit I It it t struck the storm veered away away from front the coast today Trainmen Killed Near Harrington Del swirling flood lood waters washed out Pennsyl Pennsyl- Pennsylvania Pennsylvania vania railroad tracks and Sl t two o trainmen trainmen train train- men were killed and a third was missing when a freight train I I I plunged into the submerged hole Crews searched the waters for the body of the head brakeman A count of the hurricane victims victim at the general morgue and funeral homes in Miamia totaled Of these more than bodies re remained remained remained re- re unidentified The Red Cross made these estimates estimates estimates esti esti- mates persons missing in Florida 14 bodies recovered of veterans known to be alive 2 6 dead In Washington Federal Relief Relle Administrator Harry L. L Hopkins declared declared de de- de- de dared that In his opinion the weather bureau had not nol warned the residents of ot the keys In time to enable them to prepare themselves for lor the hurricane Weather reports he said Indicated Indicated Indi Indi- all allaround the storm was hopping around around and and nobody could have known where it was going to hit bit The Th veterans who died were stationed sta eta tl ned in F FER E R A camps Wherever we had bad a camp continued continued continued con con- Hopkins at Key West or anywhere else had the storm hit bit it would have hav been wrecked I SI I dont don't think from reading those weather reports that tha anybody would necessarily have havo e evacuated those people Technically the veterans were Inthe in inthe inthe the care of the Florida re relief iet administration administration administration ad ad- ministration he added They had been sent to Florida to help the state elate highway commission Replying to Hopkins Hopkins' charges Charles C C. Clark acting chief ol of the government weather bureau at al Washington said laid all aU storm warnIngs warnings warnings warn warn- ings had indicated the course of of the storm Admiral Cary Gary T. T Grayson Red RedCross RedCross RedCross Cross chief agreed ed with ClarkA ClarkA ClarkA Clark A complete unbiased and impartial Impartial partial par par- investigation was ordered by Frank N. N Belgrano national commander commander com corn mander of ot the American legion He appointed Howard P. P McFarlan of Tampa past department commander commander commander comman comman- der of the state to conduct the l le legion gion lon Ion Inquiry Records Record In Cabinet What may bo be the only accurate key to the exact number of at casualties casual- casual tics ties suffered among the veterans' veterans camps He lies in a a. battered steel filing cabinet resting in the wreckage of ot the Matecumbe hotel on upper upper Matecumbe key keyThe The cabinet contains the records of ot the veterans at three work camps near by The cabinet is visible In the debris of ot the hotel No one has had time yet to retrieve It Another investigation of ot the Catastrophe catastrophe catastrophe ca ca- was launched today Florida State Attorney G G. A. A Worley Wor- Wor Worley ley Icy opened an inquiry Into alleged d delay lay in the sending of a special train to evacuate the veterans in inthe lh the ke keys