Show n NEWS NES NE S WRITERS F FACE ACE BIG BIC STORM STOR Walk 14 H Miles In Blind Blind- Blinding Blinding ing jug Rain Haill Describe Florida Wreckage WEST PALM BEACH Fig Fla Sept O-By O 0 Br Tho Associated Press With news new dispatches from Crom the th stricken storm-stricken area es esterday by the de devastation along Florida's lower east coast came details ot or obstacles encountered red redby by The Tho Associated Press representative representative In getting news of o the th disaster to the th out outside world Torn and tangled fancied communication lines roads strewn with wreck wreck- wreckage I age and debris and bUn blinding ding raIn I confronted th the men when after taking a hasty basty check chec of or the tollof toll tollof or of life lite and property they began their tortuous journey to 10 a tele- tele telegraph tele graph office COMMANDEER TRUCKS n It P Mitchell Miami corre corre- correspondent correspondent correspondent of ot The Associated Press and Reese Amis telegraph editor of the th Miami Dally Daily News walked eIght miles from Miami to Coral Gables Cables for tor an automobile to bring them to West Palm Beach and the nearest communication lines linci Find Find- FindIng Find IDE log Ing their automobile wrecked they commandeered a delivery truck ot of the Miami Dally Daily News and began beean their Journey at 4 15 p m Saturday In the face fac of blinding rain they picked their way through woods and over railroad tracks often octen encountering water so to deep that It rose ro e above the th floor door boards or of their truck All along alone the th 6 6 route rout they found Cound towns wrecked telephone poles and wire blocking the th roads with a tangled mass of o wreckage and were forced many times limes lime to climb to th the top ton o or of the truck and clear oft broken limbs ot of trees DOLE OUT WATER V Six miles south or of o Fort Lau Lau- their truck became mired In a a muddy bank hank They walk walked d dI the railroad track to Fort Lau Lao Lau I and slept Saturday night In th the womans woman's club there wIth 50 refugees Water was doled out In glass hair portIons Sunday morning nomine they borrowed a small automobile and continued their journey to West Palm Beach where on their arrival at 11 1130 30 a m they sent tent out the first meagre dispatches ot of the toll orIme of or life and property damage damace of o the Ime hurricane op 00 |