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Show IRIS LEVELS FLURIjf S CITIES i j INJURED TOTAL OVER 2,000; LOSS j . IS $125,000,000; RELIEF IS RUSHED TO RUINED CITIES 120 Miles-anhour Winds Scatter Tragedy Along Play Region of America; Dead Lie in Streets; Troops Guard Area j Jacksonville, Fla. Harry II. Ovven, ! general superintendent of the Flor-! Flor-! ida East Coast railway, reported to the chamber of commerce here an estimate es-timate of S04 dead in the Miami storm area. Mr. Owen's figures showed 500 dead in Miami, .250 in Hollywood and 54 in Ilia'.eah. No estimates for Fort Lauderdale and other piaces were in-clm'ed. in-clm'ed. Miami, Fla. Cat, water and sanitation. sani-tation. This tr'.rr'y alone will rave Miami and the ."Tieuter Miami district dis-trict from complete eradication Monday. Mon-day. The total tLad list mounted to 145 from Miami and outlying districts dis-tricts and thousands appealed to po- j lice for hospitalization for injured following the worst storm in the history his-tory of the Flordia cast coast, which took another toll of uncounted rtiil-lions rtiil-lions in property damages. Miami, beaten to its proud knees, was unable to tell the world of the intensity and scope of its great suffering- until Police Chief II. Leslie Guigg of Miami chartered an airplane air-plane and sent this correspondent northward to seek a telegraph wire. Scenes of indescribable suffering were left in the wake of the great airship. Coral Gables, Hollywood, Fort Lauderdale, Dania, Pompano and even Palm Beach suffered from effects of the unprecedented hurricane which ; leveled every house within a radius i Of several hundred miles and set back ! the advancement of Florida east coas-t j at least five years. " Miami and surrounding cities were j declared under martial law by city ' authorities after looting hy-cl com- j menced. Miami now is in charge of , state troops after seven looters were j shot and severely wounded and three i reported killed. Estimated dead 1000 -Estimated injured 2009 j Homeless bG.OtJO : Property loss $125,000,000 j Zone of hurricane Along Florida j east coast from Miami to Fort Lau- i derdale and Palm Beach, seventy-five I miles north. Relief steps Troops on scene and national appeal by Red Cross. |