| Show VAR NO WORSE THAN FLORIDA I i mm STORM ClAI CLAIM Railway Official Describes es Terror of Citizens In ST ST AUGUSTINE Fit FIs Sept 21 I Ily Dy Ey The Associated pre Press Press- Press If It they tell rue me ther there are 04 0 thousand persons dead I would not doubt it declared Harold v V Cole manager of ot the pUblic relations bureau of th the tho Florida Florid East Coast railway who reached here today from the th stricken area War Yar can be no more mor terrible than tha tho devastation wrought Miami Is smashed Coral Gables Gable Is badly wrecked wr Hollywood badly hurt h urt while Fort L u f- f dole dale Dan I and Pompano aro practicallY leveled The Tho storm began at a am m Saturday It c continued until with the wind vind blowing at a about 70 to 83 miles an hour our It was terrible beyond description tion Our windows window crashed cra hed In falling tile from surrounding homes crashed crushed against our house and afterwards we wo saw that these blown with the tho wind with IncredIble ibi Ible velocity made gashes In the house that an ax could dould not have made GREAT T TERROR My My wife ICe ifo was badly cut about the arms by hy flying glass The roots roofs o ot of the tho frame framo buildings sway sway- swayed swayed ed cd and rocked as If It they were ready to fly Cly oft off The Th terror ot of the tho thin thing was so co great that It beggared description Ye We W were In total darkness In a IL toot loot or of water on the living room floor and prayed praed as we never prayed e At 30 o'clock there was I a lull The wind ceased The skY was clear People left lert their homes to survey the wreckage and hun hun- hundreds of ot people left Miami Beach Deach DeachIn In their automobiles to come across the tho causeway to th the city proper At 7 I o'clock came camo the disaster The wind Ind bl blew w with witha an a estimated velocity of to miles There Thero was I water everywhere o Some people think there thero nas as was a tidal wave I think It wa-i wa the tho cutting spray driven from the tho ho ocean and bay by a 0 wind of such uch force torce tore that that- the th city elly was WIlS Inundated ALTOS BLOWN AWAY I I d do not believe believe- that any anyone one will ever er know the number ot of dead People conlin across the causeway way from Miami Beach be- be be before fore foro the tho second and more deadly hurricane struck must murt ne necessarily s- s have been tossed tosse Into the i ibay bay with their automobiles The i 1 beautiful little Islands In I bay have been swept clean Conditions are arc improving down there now Water Yater has 3 been turn turn- turned I cd ed on in some somo pace paces There are arc areno areno no electric lights light an and as great poles were vera ere snapped mapped off ocr like little twigs and the wire in twisted I balls or hanging In the street It will take somo some time to get set lights and and power although construction I gangs ganSs ar are aro already busy |
