Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-09-17 | Page 1 | Senator Offers Aid in Hurricane

o 1 Ready to Quit I Campaigning to toI o I Assist Florida 0 7 I S SE SEN JOE ROBINSON I i I I SENATOR NAJ H OFFERS Am AID IN HURRICANE May Cancel Speeches to Proceed to Scene of Disaster MIAMI Fla Sept 17 AP- AP Senator Joseph T. T Robinson stood ready today to abandon temporarily his his role of Democratic vice presidential candidate and become a relief worker during the Florida hurricane emergency Should a call for assistance be berec rec received from rom the section of the state affected by the hurricane which was crossing the state early arly toda today the nominee nOW In Miami was read ready to cancel all engagements engage engage- ments here and proceed Imme- Imme to the scene o of the disaster The senator was scheduled to to speak In Bay Front park tonight and planned to give the address storm relief work ork shoUld Continued on page Ii 5 I Large Casualty List Lilt Is F Feared Mile 90 Wind Blowing Continued from page 1 ally out Public utilities were ere crip- crip pled Scores of oC towns and cities on the edge e-dge ot of the storms storm's path were In darkness as a result last night TREES PULLED UP Before wIres vires to West est Palm Beach Bech tailed failed reports came ot of housetops sailing through the air trees pulled up like grass and Cag Iii 35 to 40 feet high pounding on the shore What was vas happening to human lives Ihu endangered In the unprecedented dented storm remained temporarily a a. matter of oC conjecture Red Cross and American legion units mobilized for tor relief work at Miami Jacksonville and Tampa TA TAMPA IPA Fla Sept 17 AP-A AP wireless dispatch from Vest cst 1 Beach pIcked up b by tation B here says as two persons were ere killed and fifty Injured as a result ot of the West est Indian storm torm that Isolated d that vicinity last night The message roes roes- sage was received from station and was signed It added that an unconfirmed en- en port from Boynton south of there said forty persons were burled In Ina ina a school building which collapsed Another report from said several negroes were dead Many buildings in the business district or of West Palm Beach were dama damaged d the message added ST. ST PETERSBURG Fla Sept 17 AP WIth the tha West Indian hurricane centered between between be- be tween Wauchula and Arcadia tn in the central part of oC Florida early this morning the entire west coast area was wa waiting for the co coming mint or of the main blo blow WhIch was expected to pass out over the coast cout about 8 a. a m. m PREDICTIONS DIFFICULT With Uh practically no Information from the sections through whIch the storm has passed since it entered entered en- en Florida in the vicinity of Palm Beach late Sunday afternoon It was wag difficult for weather bureau officials daIs to predict the path of the storm or what velocity might be ex- ex At the office of oC the United States weather bureau at Tampa It was expected that the center ot of the storm would pass out over the suit gulf somewhere south ot of St St. Petersburg early today and a maximum velocity velo- velo city of seventy miles an hour was predicted This would Indicate that the storm has b been n reduced In Intensity intensity In- In considerably since It hit Palm Beach Deach where It was said to have blown miles an hour at t 6 o'clock Sunday afternoon NEW ORLEANS Sept 17 AP- AP The steamship Tampa which te- te ported last last night she was held oft off the Florida coast by the storm left here Saturday with 27 passengers David B. B Penn vice president and general manager ot of the Gulf Gult Southern Steamship company compan which operates the boat said here early today he thought the vessel would weather the storm without serious mishap lIe was of the opinion the vessel was northwest of the greatest danger zone 1 NEW YOnI Sept 17 The AP-The Atlantic coast ot of Florida south of Titusville was cut off from Crom communication with the rest of the countr country today b by the hurricane officials of- of or of the estern Union and Postal Telegraph Cable companies reported MIAMI Fla Sept 17 AP Ida today turned to the administration tion ot of relief and a checking up ot of damages in the section devastated by the West Indian hurricane and to protective measures In places places- lying within the Indicated path of th the storm RELIEF UNITS RUSHED Relief units were dispatched to Palm PaInt Beach Beuch and West Vest Palm Beach which late yesterday together wills wilh a dozen other corn com Before communication lines went ent down meager reports Indicated In In- that severe damage ma may have been inflicted and unofficial wind velocities ranging as high as miles an hour were ere reported