OVER 100 DEATHS

Taranaki Daily News, 5 September 1935, Page 5

OVER 100 DEATHS

FLORIDA HURRICANES TOWN PARTLY DESTROYED TRIALS OF THE REFUGEES CAMPS ON KEYS WRECKED REPORTS OF DEVASTATION By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 7.30 p.m. Miami, Sept. 3. As a result of the storms more than 100 deaths are reported along Florida’s hurricane-swept keys. Winds estimated at 100 miles per hour were experienced at Bocca Grande and Saint John (New Brunswick). Unconfirmed reports telephoned to the Miami Daily News said that 78 persons, 75 of them war veterans, encamped in the Florida Keys died as the result of the tropical hurricane, which partly destroyed Tavernier early on Tuesday. Storm-battered refugees reached Miami after braving the tossing waters of Snake Creek in small boats. Deaths at the veterans’ camp No. 1 on the Upper Matecumbe Key, are variously estimated at from 25 to 100. Broken communications prevented definite confirmation of the deaths along the Keys. Three persons were drowned at Tavernier when a bus overturned. St. Petersburg and Tampa made ready for the approaching storm. St. Petersburg with a falling barometer had a 68 mile an hour wind. The storm beat across Florida Keys last night and as it whirled in a northwesterly direction the residents of the entire southern tip of the peninsula were warned of a possible hurricane wind. The citizens of Key West were relieved as the storm centre moved to northward of the island city, but those in the mainland cities all'the way round from West Palm Beach to Puntagorda on .the Gulf ,took hasty precautions. The weather bureau announced that the hurricane passed into the Gulf of Mexico near Everglades City this morning and continued on a north-westward course.