COBHAM'S FLIGHT.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18802, 21 September 1926, Page 9

COBHAM'S FLIGHT.

DELAYED BY BAD WEATHER. (BY CABLE—PRESS AS3OCIATTOK—COPYEIGHT I (AOSTHALIAS AND N.Z CABLE ASSOCIATIOK ' (Received September 20th, 8.25 p.m.) CALCUTTA, September 20. Captain Cobham has been detained here by bad weather. skyscraper in Miami being completely wrecked. The urban communities, however, were not alone as large sufferers. This area includes some of the richest farming districts in America, particularly holdings whero fruit is grown for the northern city markets, and these are now lying waste, many acres being literally covered by sand brought in by the sea.

A telegram from "West Palm Beach, Florida, states that the deaths due to the hurricane in Miami and Miami Beach are estimated at 230 according to reports reaching that place to-da.y Another report telegraphed to the Associated Press said that hundreds of lives were lost and tho property damage amounts to millions of dollars. A report received at Tampa, Florida, to-day, said that there were 140 dead at Clewiston and Moorehaven, and tho roads between the two towns were littered with bodies. Both towns were in ruins. The number of injured in the various districts throughout Florida affected by the hurricane, is estimated at 1000, while thousands more are homeless.

ESTIMATE OF CASUALTIES. (AUSTBALUX AND K.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received September 20th, 10.35 p.m.) VANCOUVER, September 20. A message from Jacksonville, Florida, late last night, estimates the dead in the hurricane which swept. Lower California, at moro than 1000. Revised figures of the casualties in Miami section, alone show 500 dead in Miami, 250 in Hollywood, and 54 in Hialeah. Both the last-named places are suburbs of Miami.

Other reports indicate that the dead in Fort Lauderdale number 100, and in the Moorehaven section 140, The total number of injured is put down at more than 2000.

It is impossible to obtain an accurate check of the dead and injured, as the water is still from 12 to loft deep in some sections of Moorehaven.