HORBOR OF WORLD WAR IS SURPASSED

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 40, 25 September 1928, Page 5

HORBOR OF WORLD WAR IS SURPASSED

I WHOLESALE CRESVfATI lON OF BODIES. TOLL OF THE HURRICANE. TOWN WIPED RIGHT OUT. (Received 8.45 a.m.) __ WASHINGTON, September 24. Rod Cross officials engaged in relief work in Florida declare the conditions in the Lake Okechoheo regions surpass the horror of Hie world war. Wholesale cremation of bodies is now taking place, and it is discovered that the town of Pelican Bay and its 250 inhabitants were obliterated. The death roll is now placed at two thousand. DISEASE CHECKJEI). Disease is reported to be almost checked in the refugees' camp near Palm Beach, where fifteen hundred homeless people ar ® herded, but influenza and typhoid are said to be ravaging the outlying districts, particularly the Everglades area where thousands of destitute negroes are being iun| habited and thereafter rushed to a separate refugee camp adjacent to Palm Beach. A group of seventy-two business men estimated that the less to commercial property alone in the Palm Beach county is In excess of twenty million dollars. —Australian Press Assn.