DISASTER AGAIN

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 111, 6 November 1935, Page 9

DISASTER AGAIN

HURRICANE IN FLORIDA

COMMUNICATION WITH KEYS DISRUPTED

SEVERAL DEATHS

Unilcd Tross Association—By Electric Tele-

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MIAMI, November 4.

A tropical hurricane with wind velocities exceeding 100 miles an hour swept from the Bahamas in a southwesterly direction across the lower Florida peninsula today, causing a number of casualties and much damage to property here. Possibly the hurricane was more disastrous in the Florida Keys, from which area communications are disrupted.

The full force of the gale hit Miami Beach and Palm Beach in the middle of the afternoon. It is reported that eight were killed at Miami, mostly from crumbling buildings and homes. Several liners plying on the coast were forced to seek shelter.

j The freakish hurricane churned up the Gulf of Mexico off the southwestern coast of Florida, ieaving four dead, 100 injured, and heavy property damage along the southern tip of the State.

An unidentified tanker was sending up distress flares several miles off Miami Beach as two coastguard cutters fought in the tumbling seas to reach her. '

Early in September a hurricane swept the Florida coast and the Red Cross estimates of the casualties were 256 dead and 252 injured. Along the Florida Keys walls of water as high as fifteen feet left devastation in their path and the railway linking the Keys with the mainland was a -mass of twisted wreckage. Again at the end of last month the eastern coast tensely awaited a hurricane which caused fatalities in Havana, but the gale just missed the mainland.