FLORIDA STORM.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16719, 2 May 1925, Page 7

FLORIDA STORM.

BUILDINGS LIFTED IN AIR

NOISE LIKE CANNON

MIAMI, Fla., April 6.—Three persons were dead hero to-day and twentythree others were in hospitals, the toll of th 0 tornado which swept from the Everglades on Sunday and left £30,000 property damago when it vanished over the Atlantic. The bulk of the damage was done at a, dairy six miles west of Miami, where ■Mrs. Mathilda Schultz, 70. was killed, several injured and six buildings demolished before the twister rose to strike a<n\in at a roadhouse near Little River. °Two died there, John Wdsdin and F. E. Sullivan. . Several others were injured. A mile and a half further ■pounced on E izabeth Park. len houses were splintered there and thence if. bounded along irregularly, swooping to snap trees from their roots, lilt a house and ham from foundations, toy with them and deposit them in a field a quarter of a mil? away. Several homes were demolished in Biscayne Park before the tornado headed scti ward, leaving several hundred homeless. In the path of the storm, houses were unroofed and debris carried to a height of several hundred feet. Arthur Prvor. bandmaster, who lives at Hialeah, near where the storm started, said lie saw house roofs raised 200 feet in the air. The noise of the storm was terrific. he. asserted, similar to hundreds of cannon being fired, t Thousands of automobiles choked roads to the scene of the greatest damage. A number of accidents and collisions were reported. One ambulance was wrecked in Miami, lance was wrecked in Miami