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FT. LAUDERDALE DAILY NEWS. Sat. Aug. 27.

1949 Poge 5 HURRICANE ROUNDUP ROOFS TORN OFF AT TAMPA PLANT CITY. Hurricanetent of damage to the big Polk tfeds Fly Out Of Third Story As Storm Hits Delray Beach i DELRAY BEACH. 15 Beds flew out of third floor apartment windows and sailed a full block away. Wooden and metal doors ped through the air like magic carpets. These were the tales of residents along this hard-hit hurricane coastal area today.

And MIAMI, Reports of hurricane damage to Florida cities: Belle Glade City officials place damage at $1,000,000. Tower winds tore the roofs from several.couniy citrus crop. At this season most citrus is sun so green it wm of radio station WSWN toppled. Wind recorder blew away after houses and felled trees across Auto Top Ends Flight Of Roof STUART. UP Here's an Idea of the force of the hurricane wind in just one place.

It ripped the roof off a two-story flung: it against the roof of an adjoining building, and then whirled It over to city hall where it damaged a corner. The roof stopped finally on top of an automobile three blocks away. many streets here today. withstand heavy buffeting. Meteorologist W.

W. Talbott of the Tampa weather bureau said peak winds there were 45 miles Police Officer A. J. Keene said County Receives Storm Orphans Two ten-year-old Inmates of the Broward county receiving home at the naval air station got a warm reception when they arrived at the Seaboard station from Avon Park at 4:12 p.m. Friday, just as the hurricane struck.

Marjorie Seymour and Sandra Emery, one motherless and the other fatherless, had been in camp at the mid -state city. They were met at the train by Red Cross drivers and by Mrs. Anderson, matron of the home and were rushed to safety and comfort. there were no reported cases of thy could show the evidence to support their hair-raising stories, personal injury or single instances mf journey nortnwara irom mi of major property loss, although minor damage was extensive. Storm Hurls He estimated highest winds at abdit 75 to 80 miles an hour shortly before 6 ajn.

clocking winds at 140 miles an hour. wires and trees down, some roofs and signs blown away, and windows broken. Boynton Beach Police department officials reported extensive damage to trees and shrubbery, and considerable property damage. Several roofs blown off. Store damage heavy in negro area.

Power off and many phones failed. Bridge to beach impassable and no report of damage there. Boca Raton Phones to fire and police stations, most other connections out of order. No report available on damage. Ft.

Pierce Police reported city had 100-mile an hour winds that "tore things up pretty badly." Seven persons stranded at radio station WIRA by high waters that roared in from the Indian River. Radio station off air and nearly all power off in city. Red Cross reported several persons given first aid. Fahokee Considerable destruction reported by Florida highway patrol. All communication lines out.

Some injuries. Florida Power Light co. asked state authorities to lend its phone facilities until regular lines are repaired. Stuart All communication lines to city went out about 11 p.m. Cement Chips State highway patrolmen trying to enter plant city from Tampa an hour, with gusts at 58.

The Tampa situation was moderating at 7:30 Talbott said. Reported damage was limited to scattered trees down and power failure in scattered suburban areas. The highway patrol said gusty winds still made driving dangerous on Gandy bridge, across Tampa bay, but it was not officially closed. MacDill air force base at Tampa planned to send rescue planes over the entire hurricane path as soon as weather cleared. 19 miles east of here, found their path blocked by a tangled mass High In Air 500 Residents Left Homeless In Stuart Area of fahen trees.

Electric power had failed. Tele By JAMES F. FOWLER WEST PALM BEACH. UP I CENTRAL FLORIDA TELEPHONES OUT phone lines with Tampa were in use. but those to the east, with watched sheet metal flying through the air last night.

Lakeland, were out. That shut off reports of the ex JACKSONVILLE Iff) "So STUART. UP At lease 500 Amateur radio operators report severe damage and winds that I saw winds hurl chips of con many" hurricane-hit communi ami on the heels of Friday night's hurricane showed damage and debris growing worse by the mile from Pompano Beach up to West Palm Beach. At Boca Raton the front of a house had collapsed in the yard. Jast south of Delray Beach a metal house trailer was scattered over more than 50 feet of 'roadside.

Bedsprings lay off to one side while a sofa was up-'fcirned at the other end of the wreckage. Only a small stove stood upright on the bare trailer floor. Clothing flapped from the debris. A solid steel box car loaded with lumber was smacked off a railroad traclc. A worried motorist ran his car on a ramp under the Delray Beach freight station, used as a Red Cross shelter for negroes, fell down on the car.

'Assistant Police Chief E. B. DVese estimated at least half the houses vin Delray Beach had suffered some damage. Parts of the palm-lined highway between Delray Beach and ties In the center of Florida were people were reported left home' less today by the pounding At' lantic hurricane. crete 100 feet in the air and lift tons of water higher than palm trees.

without telephone communication today that an immediate list was reached 125 miles per hour. Roof of city hall reported blown off. Power off since 3 p.m. Damage to property reported considerable. Elmer Bryant, southeastern area Red Cross disaster director, said three hospitalized.

West Palm Beach Two companies National Guardsmen called in to prevent looting, patrol downtown section Palm Beach and West Palm Beach. Many shutters blown off stores and merchandise Nature on a bender is an awe Four northbound trains were halted by a washout under a almost impossible. some sight. Nature unleashed her bridge crossing the St. Lucie river.

fury on this winter resort colony. Efforts to reach Sebring, Avon Park, Bartow and Lake Wales LU MB Six persons received injuries were fruitless. but no deaths were recorded. sucked out by winds. Damage expected to reach several millions George Hironimous.

chairman The Southern BeU Telephone co. I braced against the fabulous Palm Beach Biltmore hotel and watched 110-mile winds scoop 40-foot waves out of the At said circuits were out there and of the Red Cross disaster unit here, estimated more than 500 Building Materials that direct circuits were out, also, to Lakeland, Winter Haven and of dollars after winds up to 155 winds per hour. WJNO's 196-foot radio tower toppled into Lake Worth. Railroad crossing tower blown across tracks. Parking meter heads blown off.

George Washington hotel's $6,000 stained glass dome smashed in, and waters from Lake Worth flooded lobby four to five inches deep. Westgate school lantic and hurl them onto the were homeless. He said the manicured lawns of this playground of the wealthy. Ft. Myers.

The company said "so many damage ranged all the way from shingles and tile blown off roofs gymnasium caved in while being used for emergency shelter. communities reached through From the sixth floor of the to complete demolition. Palm Beach No injuries have been reported. Royal Palm bridge "FRIGIDAIRE" APPLIANCES George Washington hotel in West other exchanges were cut off that an immediate list would be very An auto repair shop was flattened and the fronts and Palm Beach I saw the wind twist impassable. Many trees down.

Power out. Boats reported smashed into southern boulevard. Lake Worth looked as if Insects cuiiicuit to compile. sheets of corrugated steel from backs of many buildings in the Vero Beach Report that winds reached 110 miles per hour. a service station and hurl them over a 3-story building.

had stripped many of the trees of limbs and gnawed many others completely down. Police Officer D. E. Majewski The hotel building shuddered Growers fear considerable citrus fruit damage. Most telephones failed and power off.

Lake Worth Sustained winds reached 125 miles per hour and gusts reached 150. RCA communications radio station reported. No business district were blown out. Florida east coast and Atlantic -roast line service to the north through here halted when railroad officials reported the St. Lucie bridge on the eastern end poriPAfJo Liue co.

Pompano Beach Phone 371 or 372 in Lake Worth gave a capsule as though slammed with a giant fist with the powerful gusts that exceeded 125 miles an hour. version of his town: "It looks like a steamroller ran through this injuries reported but property damage extensive, according to police. Power off and most' telephones failed. Several roofs reported blown off and store fronts blown in. Septie I watched the wind play weird of the cross state canal unsafe tricks.

They said heavy wind-driven rains HEATHER VET Riviera Beach Corrugated steel city garage collapsed. Fire At least 10 heads were snapped caused a washout. Majewski. a veteran of rough off parking meters. A service sta The Roosevelt bridge was open weather in Iceland and the Eng and police telephones failed at 11 pm.

Delray Beach Heavy damage resulted from winds of 125 miles per hour. Many business houses reported badly damaged. Power tion operator had chained a batch to north and south bound automobile traffic, however. lish channel, said he iiad never aeen anything like the storm of new tires together, but the wind's force snapped the chain failed and most telephones out of service. Police said there had been no there last night.

and the tires rolled merrily away, looting as far as they knew and nlanned to ask the American An iron utility pole was bent trees and signs. Greater Miami area on fringe of hurricane and highest winds reported 54 miles an hour. Double windows blew out of an apartment bedroom and all the furniture was sucked out behind like a hairpin. Legion to help patrol debris lit CLEANED and INSTALLED A eust clipped a pedestrian on tered streets in front of shattered the windows, he said. shop windows.

his feet and skidded him at least 20 feet down the street, smacking Maiewski and Police Officer Among the injured were two Water Major him against a utility pole. children who received cuts and bruises when winds estimated up Hurricane Tossed Trees Block Road Bob Blair said they had Just Xlked out of a downtown restaurant when the windows and I saw new ladies' frocks sucked from a dress shop and hurled to 125 miles per hour slashed Storm Worrry doom went out on one side on into the street. away part of their home. Three rushing air lifted doors high above BROWARD ABSTRACT CORPORATION N. B.

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In the half hour lull which JACKSONVILLE. CP) Hurri All electric power went out at FORT FIERCE. UP) This east coast city saw debris-lit "We were Just a few feet away 7:30 p. m. Friday night and more cane tossed trees and debris followed the brunt of the storm I found the streets littered with than half the telephones were re when, zing, there goes the door; Majewski said.

blocksd the highway around the broken glass, foliage, signs, and ported out of order. tered streets and high water marks as the hurricane took its punch east side of Lake Okeechobee, the Another time the two officers boards intended to serve as bat tens. Port Sewall on the waterfront some three miles east also was were Inching their patrol car hi' U. S. Army engineers office said at the peninsula a few miles south of here Friday night.

to the full force of the hurricane here today. During the height of the storm, violent blue flashes caused by reported badly hit. There was no immediate estimate of the when they saw a sheet of cor It felled trees, power lines and Reports from eight engineers' rueated metal floating on a per- falling power lines looked like -iamage. poles. stations around the big shallow factlr even keel about six feet miniature lightning.

lake showed two bridges impasS' Millions of gallons of water In the four hours crammed with dSove the pavement toward their car. It dropped to the street a poured on the city and probably spectacular sights, the most impressive' came when the wind few feet In front of them and able. The highway bridge between Moore Haven and Okeechobee was closed by a deep washout. A bypass bridge near Moore Haven Rain Aids County Citrus Growers they decided they had had enough lifted a huge section of roof from a two story garage, eased it back of heading into the vicious winds. also was out.

Police Sgt. T. W. Tritschler es in place momentarily, then hurled it into the air where it was lost Drain Tile 10c ea. Broward Septic Tank COMPANY ''Member of American Society of Sanitary Engineers" So.

Federal Highway Zti. Ft. Lauderdale Dania Phone 2-2112 DAVIE Prank Stirling, pio Some damage was reported to the St. Lucie locks, which took the brunt of the storm. Winds FREE HURRICANE MAPS Available at Our New Office in the driving mists.

timated 75 percent of the business houses in downtown Lake Worth lost their windows and that "there's some damage to almost neer citrus grower or this area declared today that the 3.12 inches The entire area is a shambles. reached 128 miles per hour at the Oldtimers already are comparing of rain that fell during the hur locks station. ricane Friday was "just about did the most damage. Red Cross distaster chairman J. B.

Harrison said about five percent of the population a little more than 700 persons took refuge in Red Cross shelters. Disaster workers waded In water in their own headquarters. National guardsmen had to take out the crew of radio station WIRA when water flooded their building. Finally all vehicles flooded out and rescue work had to wait until morning. About an hour before dawn the rain stopped water was receding.

this storm to the famous storms of 1928. Whether this hurricane can meet that disaster In damage what the area needed," and that Winds still blew at 40 miles an hour about 6 a. m. and rain con every building." Authorities throughout the area said they could make no estimate dU cash damage until later today but it would be very heavy. no other serious loss was caused.

remains to be seen but first sur tinued to fall. The late Valencia orange crop veys show the damage extensive. suffered not more than one per 222 EAST LAS OLAS Ground Floor of Hortr Bldg. cent loss, according to Stirling, But the lake Itself big killer of the 1928 hurricane behaved like a lamb as the hurricane whipped around Its eastern shore last night and in early morning hours. with the larger, earlier navels taking about 10 percent loss in the blow.

A negligible quantity of 1 grapefruit also took a 10 percent Attention! loss in fruit blown from trees Stirling said. Loss of limbs and foliage was likewise discounted by the veteran grower, who said the rainfall in! the hurricane brought the total "TP lib to date to "just about normal for F.M. UILE AND mis time or year. i WHEN IT'S TIME fS TO PAINT. plP TCO NTOACTE! Charles Davis, Red Cross chairman for Davie reported no in-iuries to either persons or houses in the area.

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