HURRICANE TOLL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 September 1928, Page 5

HURRICANE TOLL.

0 •••■■/ 800 DEAD IN FLORIDA. EED CROSS ENGAGED IN CRUSADE ' AGAINST PESTILENCE. TRANSPORT PARTLY RESTORED. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Day, 10.25 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. 'Vyith estimates placing the total Florida. dead at 800, with 1500 persons Blissing, reports of rioting; amongst the negroes indicate that a, vast problem is facing the relief workers. A'grave condition exists at Pahokee, where an epidemic of typhoid is already gaining ground. The Red Cross, in an effort to check the spread of the disease, is continuing to resort to whole- - sale burials of unidentified dead. An 1 eye-witness declared that- • kee was the worst-affected by the' storm, which raced- across Lake Okeechobee and-'swept the village and surrounding county. It is estimated that nearly every .building was demolished. Dead- bodies were discovered floating in the lakes and swamps nearby. Serum and chlorine are being rushed to . all the areas. Governor Martin, of Florida, has advised that aid .should be rushed by ' boat, owing to the uncertain condition of the railways. The coastal railway . j i has established a partial service, but has abandoned regular schedules and put all trains Hat the disposal of relief. ■ work. ■ ■ V' : . ■ It is. reported that the highways leading to Palm Beach are now-parti-.-ally ‘in iuae, - ?. over which automobiles and wagons are employed in bringing aid. ; ' All animal life throughout the stricken. State has been seriously affected. Tropical birds were killed by thousands. The storm’s toll on the North Atlantic coast now totals four dead in the New York metropolitan district. Reports of marine collisions 'and wrecks continue, none of. which are regarded as serious. Advance warnings of the atom enabled shippers to anchor the boats in sheltered places outside the ■: • storm. ; ; THE DEATH-ROLL. (Australian Press Assn, and Sun.) (Received This Day, 12 noon.) NEW YORK, Sept. 20. A message from West Palm Beach states that the deaths in Florida as a . - result of Sunday’s hurricane stood be- ‘ tween seven.and eight hundred to-day.