Show Ii River Floods Maryland Town i S r f. f J Z iw r f r I ir I S fri 5 S S S i j- j S S' S I I 4 Ar I 4 7 45 ct i 4 sf i j S fr 1 bf 44 A 1 c 5 i i Airplane pl photo oto shows show flood waters swirling ground around ro nd buildings at Fe Md as the river overflowed its banks as as the result of torrential rains rains Ther The r 1800 residents of the town vere were forced to flee to high higher r ground Burning i of Bodies Begins In Path P of Florida Storm tir- tir Governor Orders Cr Cremation mation of Hurricane Victims Who Who Cannot Be Quickly Buried k Copyright Copyright b by Associated Press I fj MIAMI Fla Pla Sept 7 AP AP Sheriff Sheriff D. D C. C C Coleman man directing tescue operations per in ir the lower keys reported to the Red Cross at Km m. m eastern standard time today that burning of b bodies dies of Monlay's Mon Mon- I lays flays storm victims had started S i 2 It was after daylight the sheriff said before the fi first st match vas as s applied to a pile of soaked oil bodies Orders for cremation o of bodies which could not be be buried buried qui quickly k y were Issued by Governor Dave on re recommendation Uon o of state health authorities as ns a precaution against possible outbreak of pe pes pes- UJ tHence nce A priest a rabbi and a minister were flown to Snake Creek by the coast guard to conduct burial services services ices ices for the dead there Despite instructions to bury as many of of th victims as possible It appeared ppe red likely that few e of the bodies would d be placed in the ground because of or difficulty of digging graves In la the coral rock Keys eys Burn All AU Bodies Bodic I 1 think it will be necessary to burn virtually all the the bodies bodles in the Keys said Conrad Van Hyning state welfare commissioner Relief workers wearied and sickened sickened sick siek- ened by sights of horror proceeded pr as s rapidly as possible to dispose o of the bodies bodies' which Dr Henry Hanson state health officer said were in advanced decomposition The Tho burned victims victims- will rest in inthe inthe inthe the little Mat Matecumbe c cem cemetery near where the hurricane wrought its greatest havoc Dr Hanson Hanso said that graves to receive the storm dead in the Keys could not be dug in the coral rock without dynamite Some Some- off of the victims may be buried in the little mUe cemetery cemetery cem cern near the place where here th the storm wrought its greatest havoc but cremation apparently is t to be the end for most of them Here in Miami graves gra were dug I In Woodlawn cemetery to hold the bodies of ot World w war r veterans brought out of the storm area They were killed with comrades comrade and civilians in great n numbers when the mad storm slashed the government relief relic camps where they were quartered on n Matecumbe Key ley The Red Cross Cress said the thc Jumber num Jum number umber um- um ber of dead or missing totalled to Even though President Roos Roosevelt yet at Hyde Park Pane N. N Y still BUn was reluctant f to take the the step f for fez r. r cre ere cremation mation of the bodies Governor and Dr Hanson said lit it wa waa was wasa was wasa a question of ot protecting public c health and that bodies which could not be buried Immediately in ln the Keys would be bo burned Burial Iny Seen Sten Hanson as state health i officer said he ha would not allow shipment of ot bodies from front the e. e K Keys unless they Continued on Pan Fait To T o S S S 4 STORM VICTIMS BODIES BURNE Continued from Scorn Pile Pate o Oni Ons l were in hermetically scaled calel e keta Actual burial of at the veterans W wd expected to be bo delayed until lat Itt today oday or Sunday W. W R. R Smith a it 1 to Governor said laid a aj ter er a midnight conference attend by y federal state city county pu put lic Ic health and Red Cross Gross official Suitable arrangements must II made Smith said Governor announced i h would go to Washington next w wet wee to hand to President Roosevelt Roosevell report on casualties property das age possible rehabilitation ai ar a charges that adequate warning 1 the storms storm's approach was not gien gj gi en by the weather bureau i State Attorney G. G A. A Worle Aubrey Williams WiIliam personal of Harr Harry L. L Hopkins fe fed eral cral relief administrator and th American Legion launched inv Invest t into the disaster that ov ove took ook the three veteran camps camps' j the Keys V Worley Worly y after an Inquiry ex crated the Florida East Ease Coast ral ni raji way of at charges of at unreasonable d di lay in sending a 8 train to get t veterans The storm wrecked t train V Governor Sholts said he found j n. n n- n occasion on a personal inspect tour in the death area are to order I additional national guardsmen to place the area under mill control Except for the relief worker all aU those not dead already 11 hay been moved out he said ald Conditions Condition Appalling I The governor Dr Hanson and a others who visited the area are d de I conditions there as app appi Ing Hanson said g gas p po poL wasa danger to rescue work ers V Lieutenant J. J E. E Fairbanks di rector of coast guard rescue opera operations I radioed his headquarters i i recommendation that a lO 10 stretch from Snake Creek through lower Matecumbe be burned onas over ovi as a precaution but Govern said aid he did not believe tji th thU would be practical because of th the water there 1 The Red Cross received fro from Thomas Thoma Conroy a rescue rescue worker workers ai report that the body of or an j fied woman was burned on Flam Ingo Key It w was the first report of the final disposition of a body Persons returning from Snake Creek base of ot relief operations in IIi inthe the upper Keys said 41 u coffins were piled up there and workers were about to set fire to them when guardsmen halted them Streams swollen by heavy rains as the Florida hurricane swept m sea seaward ward across North Carolina caused flood warnings to be posted in thi storm-battered storm eastern part of 01 N North rth Carolina today Jj Search for lor Body f t Wrecking crews still searched for lor forthe the body of or a missing trainman at Wilmington Del where a wash wath washout washout out caused a wreck and the de death th of ot an engineer 1 c Mea Meanwhile n w hi I e the disturbance which the havoc moved on northeastward and caused storm wa warnings to 10 be posted from i Sand Sandy Hook N. N J. J to Boston l Food shortage threatened refugees refu refugees J gees made homeless at Federalsburg Federals Federals- burg burg- Md where flood waters more than from their homes Extensive crop and property damage damage damage dam dam- age was done to Maryland's east nit em ern shore by wind and rain Tobacco Tobacco To To- bacco stored in southern Mary Mar Maryland Maryland land was lost Jost when barns b-arns bit bleW down 1 Meanwhile J a a. checkup of ot damage damage dam dam- damage age by Thursdays Thursday's inJa inland tornadoes and costal revealed a n. few demolished build buildings buildings ings damaged crops crippe communication systems and b bIt bt t wharves Ir j Two deaths were indirectly at attributed j at-j t to the storm At New Berna Bern a middle aged couple David W W. Thompson and his wife touched high tension wires which had fallen taU fall en in their yard and were killed Four persons were injured two seriously by a tornado which struck Clinton N. N C. C winds hit ht near Red Oak N. N C. C and Florence Chapin Dillon and Darlington all iii allIn In III South Carolina No damage was done however t There was no extensive along the CO coast although win reached almost hurricane proper proper- tion Thursday night and yesterday Several beach cottages at Pawleys Pawleys Paw Paw- leys ley's island near Georgetown S. S c Cj were svere slightly damaged Wind and high waves demolIshed demolished demol demo officers officers' quarters at the Fort Macon C C C camp a across ross the sound from Beaufort N. N C C. but none of ot the 25 boys at the tho cwm camp was hurt |