Show W NORST ST RM mAMA m IN AHAMA AMA HISTORY S HUC TOLL TOU Persons Missing Islands Islands Is- Is lands Are Virtually Without Communication Communication FISHING FLEET LOST v Beautiful Capital of Is Islands Islands lands Presents Picture Picture Pic Pic- ture of Deso lation NA NA S S SA A U New Kew Providence land gland Bahamas July 30 AP AJ Ag- Ag aged ged by wind and wave more ian Ian persons missing the BaaI Bam Ba- Ba aI ama m islands remained virtually i ted from communication with ae Je outside world today while residents took further count the toll of destruction from the first hurricane in the recorded his his- of the Isla island The majority chose missing are to have hav been Deen drowned with lie lie sponge fishing fleet which has hast t been seen since it set sail three ij's before the West Vest Indian hur- hur cane cane struck the islands Monday Ight Several weeks must elapse eCore the official toll of death and hipping ping and property damage is own While conservative esti- esti i ites tes place the damage at 8 S- S reports have not been re- re from several islands of the roup and communication with fern iem em may not be established for irs ays CITY Nassau assau the beautiful capital of ofie ie Bahamas group with a on of df more than l presented picture of desolation Debris from proofed trees wrecked houses and Wintered boats washed up by the theares es a ayes ares cluttered the stately drive- drive ays ys of the ancient city where vir- vir fally all business has been sus- sus ended Abandoning efforts to reHr reir re- re ir Hr her confusion Nassau turned rat ratto t to search for the r missing i onge fleet and to ascertain con- con on the other islands under er r administration The outer lands of the group are known to aye aye suffered suffer d greatly but inside the ri flung line of islands islands' and banks nd rid d toward the coast of Florida the ilef lief damage was at Nassau and arid ande e Isle of Gun Key forty miles mUes om Miami MISSING Only three tiree e fishing sma smacks ks were ft t in Nassau harbor from sixty alt iu which were moored there Suny Sun- Sun ly IY y Between and sloops missing with the sponge fleet arbor officials estimated that at ast st seventy five vessels were dero de- de ro royed ed at Nassau and other Islands i Continued on page 4 WORST STORM IN BAHAMA BAH MA HISTORY TAKES HUGE TOLL TOLLI Continued d from rom p page g 1 I not pot counting the th boats boas s som seme m of ot p possibly found sh shelter iter on I Isolated b banks ot or near uninhabited Is islands ands v t Nassau assau had meager warning Of th dv ti e of the the i ne The Tropical radio stat n ri near near ar Miami f radioed w weather ather reports reports' reports Sunday Sunda I when brisk k winds vinc s and iid a t rapidly falling b barometer r met r indicated d tt- tt the tte e approach ap approach ap- ap preach of a storm The The wind y nd steadily steadily stead stead- ily increased In itt v velocity locHy throughout tHrough t th the day and id at a g gale le lashed the Island tearing hous houses s th d lt it foundations and aM ui roof roof- ing irig tt fees cs Wires Wh s were wet blown bt n down d wn and the tM utility plants damaged damaged dam dam- ag aged d to such an extent nt that t th the Hy Ity ty w was wag s into d darkness ss The rh government r reCord cord showed d the wind r reached ched its velocity peak peal at 13 miles s an n at G C oclo o'clock k M Monday morning SEETHING MASS Churning the harbor Into a seething seething seeth seeth- ing mass of waves the hurricane piled water high over the wharves Into B Bay y street a block into the city Soon a gale swept down froth from l the northwest meeting the onrush from irom the Ca Caribbean n and ships were were lifted high from their and sent onto th the Wharves s Several were blown to sea Att r g the v vessels ss s's ls known to h have e sunk in the Uie li Harbor tb l' l here wa was wag the ton eighty yacht Isosceles les form former formerly fly f- f ly the Shamrock IV tV Sir s Lipton's famo fantods s Americas America's pup up challenger It lies under forty f feet t Of water ter beside n numerous us small sinaI craft varying from sailboats to sm tall en-tall lI yachts ts At the Island of GUn Key K y eight large rum ruin running boats heavily lad laden n with liquor were r dashed to pieces by the waves The cr crews ws escaped es escaped es- es S- S rowing ashore In small boats I at lit th the tiro first t tl ap approach h of i th ht h hur r r FATE UNKNOWN Nothing w was s known of ot the f fate t of the th government mall mail boat which proc proceeded ded for Sap Sail Salvador shortly before the onrush of Jf the storm The fhe Alb Adou with forty fatty i persons ob td Sailed gaited for the the- heIstand island of a few hours before the hurricane It was vas also dire clawed clashed the missing craft r ft The Th m mall mail ll boat carried carried car car- ried rl d twenty fw nty persons car I Cr Crews ws of th the luri 1 Munson n steamship te M Manat for r from N New W York and the C Canadian n dl n Fisher from Kingston J Jamaica which h arrived at nt N Nassau shortly after atter the storm abated told I of I. I battling terrific winds and arid waves waves' v v s. s CRIPPLED D STA STATIONS IONS Isolated froth from the U world for three three days with a crippled d g I wr wireless less station statton Nassau received her first word of ot outside damage milgo from n newspaper l' l m men n n arriving in an airplane front froth Miami l late Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday Wednes Wednes- day and min in turn hirn s supplied first i In Information In- In n forin formation of ot her own awn pit pitiful fu i condition The liquor trade one of the chief sources of income of the islands has been en dealt a crushing blow and the probable loss of ot the sponge fleet will curtail for some time the groups group's oldest and ana chief industry of sponge fishing Attempts w were rc b being continued today to communicate with Miami radio stations some repair having been done to the government wireless wireless wire wire- less tess towers whose thick steel ribs rills were snapped by the hurricane ne I |