Show DEAl JOll Of nORIDA STORM REPORTED 2200 1700 of Victims Negroes Property Loss Estimated Esti Esti- i mated l By GORDON SHEARER United Press Staff Correspondent WEST PALM BEACH Fla Sept A t death estimate of 2200 of whom 1700 are arc negro negroes s wu was reported report report- ed early today to Howard Selby West Palm Beach Red Cross chairman chair chair- nan man by P. P M. M Geiger who had been sent into he Lake Okeechobee district dis dis- to make a survey of the hurricane hurrI hurri- cane toll Sanitary conditions condition have irn- irn proved In refugee camps where 15 homeless are being cared for No o outbreak of dIsease has been reported re- re ported except In isolated camps at Clewis Clewiston ton and an em camp campat lit at These cases of Influenza influenza enza and typhoid fever are believed well Isolated Jn In a report made public today loss to property exclusive e of per onal property was estimated by a committee of two seventy members nt at In Palm Beach Deach county Union services were held In the few remaining church structures Undamaged yesterday while prayer meetings and Sunday school classes met in private homes Relief and emergency reconstruction work Went ent on uninterrupted The Conners highway Into the dIstrIct was opened over the week end and several hundred storm survIvors still In that area yero ere beIng evacuated by way of Okeechobee City which will be used es as tI 0 supply base now Plans to remove danger of flood a In the future on Lake Okee- Okee were discussed at a a. Sunday ference between Governor John JohnS JohnY Y S Martin Fred EllIott chief draIne draIn draIn- e engineer ot of the state and rep rep- of the ruined towns niong lilon- the lake Many In the flood dIstrict where here tile the appallIng toll of life Uta was vas taken blamed med the tho heIght at which waters have lin been retaIned In the shallow la lake e as responsible |