Show A VICTIMS TELL Ull Of NARROW By T. T R. R GILL Associated Asso Press Staff Writer WEST P PAL ALl I BEACH Fla Sept 19 AP Graphic witness eye stories stories sto- sto ries of ar death and privation in in the backwoods region around the great Lake Oke Okeechobee In southern Florida Florl- Florl da daw were re ere by injured in- in Jurea and destitute persons from that region Thrilling stories a of escapes were told by y all refugees who were yere brought here hereby by the Red lied Cross far medical medica treatment lodging or ar food D D. D H. H Walker a farmer of South Bay who escaped with Iris wife VUe and five fhe said the dyke bl broke ke about 11 p. p m. m Sunday sending a aWall Wall of water through South Bay Bayto to toa a depth of eIght feet His house was washed was 0 way away and he and his family sought refuge on a houseboat where approximately other persons persons per per- sons were lodged He said he saw many persons unable to get to the houseboat holding to driftwood lIe Ho counted two twenty bodies tied to trees with rope by rescue workers to l keep them from fram floating away Practically all the territory in n that S section was under water he saId L. L A. A Hargraves who has b been n farming in the tho section between tween Belle Glade and Pahokee said when his home started to collapse he sought refuge in another house only to leave it when it too was being blown away He ran to a a. third house where two white men and ten negroes es had sought refuge When it started to collapse he crawled a quarter of a mile mUa oh his hands and knees to a tree where he found a a. negro man and wIre wife clinging to Do a top limb afterward aft aft- erward he said he saw the house containing the two white men and the negroes washed away when the dyke broke brake He never saw occupants oc of the house again Water around the tree arose about nine nino feet in thirty minutes h he re- re He and the two negroes were rescued tho next morning and brought hero for tor treatment The names of the white men Inthe in inthe the house were Horace Redding 25 and his brother in Harrison Roberts 21 Hargraves reported of af Boynton Baynton n a dairy worker was injured about the head when the dairy in which ho and his family and several others workers had sought refuge was carried away His father and mother Mr and Mrs C. C M M. Wine Wine- gardner were seriously injured and brought braught to a refugee refuge camp amp h here re |