The Miami News from Miami, Florida • 34

8C THK MUMf M-frS. Tu.Ijv. Sfj.ti-ml.rr 1, 06t I I JL 1 1 i. i ft 4 "ft A Ship Is Driven Ashore Along MacArthur Causeway. Fallen Trees Block The Highway To Miami Beach j.

I 'f i found hi neighbor, George Wrrrn, of 5761 SW 23rd and hit twa krange torn were carting off (he last of the oYbrli. The bovg had even buried deed turtle dove star the hedge end placed a blbUrus flower en the grave, Cleo was punching away with both hands and seemed to enjoy socking communications. TV Channel 7 and 10 went off the air and Channel 4 stayed on, although iti representatives frequently complained about water coming In. Most radio stations were off et one time or another, but WIOD lost its tall antenna and WINZ'i studio atop the Biscoyne Terrace Hotel was blown opart. To top it off, the Hurricane Forecasting Ccntcr'i wind pauge blew away after It regbtcred 110 milei an hour.

Then a roof top air conditioner was blow away. Leaks appeared in the old Aviation Building on NW 27th Avenue and windows went out. Then communications went and hurricane data had to bo collected here and sent to Washington for rebroadcast. Cleo apparently was making sure the weathermen knew where she was. At 10 a.m.

Cleo'i eye was moving farther north and reaching a little more west. Her western edge took In the Miami International Airport Terminal and her eastern edge was engulfing the big luxury hotels. A big plate glass window blew in at the Fontaincblcau and an employe was badly cut, the only serious injury in the entire hurricane. One of the Alpha Tau Omegas trying in vain to hold a convention gave the man first aid. The ATO in levis and sweatshirt turned out to be a pre-med student from Johns Hopkins University.

The hotels took a fearful battering all along the Beach. Structurally the hotels withstood the pressures, but glass broke and rooms were sucked clean by the winds. Guests huddled In lobbies and in some of these water ran and sand blew. Expensive furniture, rugs and draperies were ruined. The losses will run into many millions of dollars.

Some plant and grounds loss will be hard to replace. In the middle of the highest winds a secretary in the office of Miami Beach Police Copt. Jesse Webb answered the phone and heard the frightened voice of a woman who said she was in ber 70's, a widow, alone and the windows in her home had blown out. Could someone help? Within minutes Webb had a patrolman at her house. He found her safe but terrified.

He spent several minutes talking quietly, and left her much calmer. Beautiful Lincoln Road Mall was badly punished. Storefronts were blown in and huge potted trees rolled up and down the Mall like bowling balls, sure death if they had struck anyone. The breaking windows triggered hundreds of burglar alarms, trilling feebly in the roar of the wind. Two patrolmen checked a smashed window and found a black and white bird, its feathers ruffled, cowering inside.

Birds also flew in through the smashed windows of the Fontaincbleau the wealthier ones, that is. Out in Shenandoah, Don Kelly recalled an experience from the 1926 hurricane when the eye also came over the city. In the calm center of the storm Kelly thought it was all over as many Miamians did, to their sorrow and started to walk downtown. When the winds reversed and came on harder than ever, Kelly spotted a big section of sewer pipe and crawled inside to wait out the winds. During Cleo, a Hialeahan dashed out during the calm eye and looked at his grapefruit tree.

Dozens of green fruits were on the ground. He immediately discovered a use for them. He squared off the bottom, then cut a hole in the stem end big enough to hold a red candle. It was tip-proof and the red-and-green color scheme made him think of Christmas. There were other crop losses in Dade last week.

Avocado losses ranged from 5 to 50 per cent, but there was little loss of limes, and tomatos were in good shape, but many householders had lost their favorite mango or loquat tree. Mrs. Emma Folscheid, of 246 NW 58th forgot her corset outside on the clothesline. She remembered it as the eye came over and she looked out in the clear, calm air and could see the corset had blown away. Then the hurricane resumed from the other direction.

When all was calm again, she looked out and saw that Cleo had put the corset back on the line! The Miami International Airport area suffered serious damage. More than 500 stranded travelers slept in the terminal. Windows on Concourses 4 and 5 blew out and were roped off. Trees blew across the road into the airport and the tower was finally abandoned. Water cascaded down the airport steps.

Many persons spent the night in the airport watching a. movie which featured Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds. All commerical airliners were safely hangared for the night and nearly 100 private planes were accommodated, but many planes at the industrial end of the field had to be left out and morning found a number of them upside down. Dawn also showed about 20 blown into Perimeter Road, and one DC-4 hung with its tail over a rockpit. Another apparently had taken off in the wind while crossing the west end of the airport and had made a perfect landing.

At Opa-locka Airport, nine planes were crushed and a DC-3 was plucked by the wind, carried over obstacles and belly landed with little apparent damage, in a canal. There was a silver lining apparent to many of the younger residents of Dade as the hurricane continued to batter away during the early morning hours University of Miami and Miami-Dade Junior College schedules were being disrupted and there was even a chance public school opening would be delayed. But the colleges quickly returned to their schedules and public schools opened yesterday. It was Sunday before the power returned to Miami Springs Villas and there was much tree and shrub damage. Water got into King Arthur's Court and ruined $5,000 worth of carpeting.

Looking woebegone as he directed attempts to clean up the grounds, owner Art Bruns could only mourn the loss of a flamingo he found standing with its head hanging and had rushed to a veterinarian's office. There the flamingo died of a head injury caused by flying debris. Trees were still falling by the hundreds and windows were crashing as Cleo's eye pushed farther north, dragging along at less than nine miles an hour. The eye at 3:40 a.m. was still south of Opa-locka on its western, edge and brushing Broad Causeway to the east.

Cleo was tough on boats not moved inland. A full assessment of damages at the marinas was at first impossible because a boat swamped at dockside is not necessarily much damaged. All marinas reported some luxury boats were badly battered or on the bottom. Urpowered houseboats were particularly vulnerable. r-- 1 TU I IK i i I I Slf-J.

C'V i ''v" A i I v1 3 r. A Liherty City DriveJn 3Iovie Has That Drive-Through Look WIOD Radio Tower Toppled 3 i jr.r v. '4 to 41 1 jI' vft ill. 'i rf 8 5" 4-N protected waters outside the Fontainebleau, but it wasn't an ordinary event. At least the Surfside 6 could claim it had been rammed by a really luxurious yacht, the Electromatic.

In the logistics of disaster, ice suddenly became all-important the regular kind and dry ice. With no power foods would spoil, especially food stashed away in freezer chests. Ice-making firms were soon exhausted. William Eastham, of Royal Palm Co. reported happily that his business had gone up "1,750 per cent" but his 100 tons a day capacity fell far short of demands.

A Hialeahan reported he saw ice sold out of the back of a truck at $1 for a 35-cent chunk. There were other stories of profiteering. This infuriated doughty Hialeah Mayor Henry Milander, who ordered 37 tons of ice from Fort Pierce and sold it at cost at City Hall. Hundreds of persons who lacked so much as a cube for a highball bought out half the ice tonnage in the first hour and a half. Robert Smith, of 801 NW 35th feared 100 pounds of fish in his freezer would spoil.

So the day after the hurricane he threw a big fish fry in bis back yard, using three two-burner Coleman gasoline stoves. Inviting the whole neighborhood, he cooked the snook and snapper he had caught on the West Coast and tossed up a batch of hush puppies. an ill wind, etcetera, etcetera," commented a full-bellied neighbor. But, of course, Florida Power Light was struggling to turn on the lights. The first checkup after Cleo had left showed 80 per cent of the homes in Dade were dark.

1 1 Short circuits caused around 40 fires. Mere than half of the county's power had been restored by noon Friday by an army of 2.000 men. Hundreds of emergency crewmen were called in from out of state and dozens of local electrical contractors pitched in to help. Now only a few scattered areas are still without power. The situation had an odd sidelight, however Florida Power Li-ht went into the dry ice business.

It provided frozen carbon dioxide to appliance dealers so they could sell it at nominal prices to owners of freezers to keep foods fresh. It was not recommended for refrigerators. Cleo, still rambunctious at 4 a.m., began her last half-hour in Dade County. Already in South Dade the winds were dying Several commercial vessels were briefly aground in the harbor, one deliberately grounded to ride out the storm. The Coast Guard dragged another out of harm's way off Sombrero Light.

Dinner Key had been virtually deserted. Some small sailboats were scuttled to protect them against the storm. Boats lodged up the Miami River escaped with little buffeting. The tongue-laihing their owners got from motorists delayed by bridges was much more painful than the wind-lashing from Geo. And then another problem arose: Bridges stuck at times and two 95-foot Coast Guard launches couldn't get back down-river to get to work.

I ana peopie were venturing out on the streets to survey damage. Even the famed houseboat Surfside 6 came to grief in the Now North Dade was under the gun, with ffe path of the Biscayne Sea Cluh Severely Damaged By Geo's.