SEARCH STILL ON AFTER HURRICANE

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28324, 9 July 1957, Page 20

SEARCH STILL ON AFTER HURRICANE

(N.Z Press Association —Copyrtaht > LAKE CHARLES (Louisiana), July 6 A careful search of about 20 cars piled up in a church cemetery will be conducted today, in an attempt to account for more of the 86 persons missing and officially listed as dead in the aftermath of the hurricane on j J une 27. The cars, driven by 105-mile-an-Ihour winds and a giant wave, crashed into tombstones behind the Sacred Heart church at Creole. Searchers expected to j find in the cars many of the I missing who met death while I trying to flee the hurricane area. Giant wheeled vehicles, built to travel over soggy marshlands, and helicopters will be used in an elaborate search of the 1444-square-mile Cameron parisn (county) disaster area. Although the official number of missing persons now stands at 86. some estimates placed possible missing at 400 or mor: as some families were completely wiped out. Cameron parish was the hardest hit when the hurricane smashed into Louisiana. Humane Society Awards.— , Seventeen awards to those who had promptly risked their lives tc 1 save life were given by the Roval Humane Society of New ! Zealand last year. Eleven bronze medals and six certificates ol j merit were awarded.