The Miami News from Miami, Florida • 2

2-A MIAMI SUNDAY NEWS, Sunday, August 23, 194? ncomplete Reports Place State's Hurricane Devastation At Millions Of Dollars Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Miami, telephoned home that, "these things are age. However, damage to citrus crops in the area was believed heavy. FORT PIERCE About five per cent of the population 700 persons took refuge in shelters. Trees, power lines and poles were downed and it was believed damage would be great from millions of gallons of rainwater which flooded the city. DELRAY.

BEACH Heavy damage was caused by winds up to 125 miles an hour. Ford agency front caved in; a service station was badly damaged and most telephone and power lines were down. on the beach road and tore off the hangar doors. At Municipal airport, 10 miles away, wind velocity reached only 28 miles an hour. FORT LAUDERDALE.

Three thousand persons sought shelter with the Red Cross. Damage to trees and store fronts was heavy. Power lines went down. LAKELAND The storm broke countless windows and blew down a number of trees, but caused no serious damage. CANAL POINT Information was not complete, but citizens said the damage was "worse than in 1928," when 1.800 persons lost their lives in the area.

ORLANDO More than 2.000 Hurricane damage to Florida mounted into the millions of dollars yesterday as incomplete reports reached Miami. It appeared that it would be days before an accurate appraisal could be made. Some of the points which reported damage and a summary cf their losses follow: WEST PALM BEACH Damage is estimated at more than 54,000,000. Of 7300 homes in a three mile square area, more than 2,000 suffered some structural damage, Windows of downtown stores were blown out, roof3 were ripped off and neon signs destroyed. Sixteen of 17 45 cargo planes at West Palm Beach International airport were damaged or destroyed.

Florida East Coast crossing tower blew across tracks, i George Washington hotel's $6,000 stained glass dome was Three of the four radio stations Palm Beach county surrounding the city had their towers blown down. A 52-foot cruiser in the lake broke loose and hammered itself to pieces on the seawall. Another cabin cruiser went aground. Police Sgt. T.

W. Trit-schler estimated that 75 per cent the business houses in downtown Lake Worth lost their win-j dews. FORT FIERCE The roof was blown off the Fort Pierce hotel. Officials said every house the city suffered some damage and shelters, which housed 800 persons Friday night, were kept open last night. Most wires in the city were down and business houses were damaged heavily.

JACKSONVILLE Sixty-two mile an hour winds ripped metal roofs from hangars at Craig field greatly overrated." Sullivan, in Miami, saw only the fringe of the blow. International News Service Photographer Herb Davies, who had covered every hurricane in' this section since 1926, except; those during the war, wrote, i "this one is among the worst. It was freely estimated that urduie'So. ITS fOt YOUI HOME persons moved into storm shel ters, but there was little dam LAKE Area Hard Hit (Continued From Page 1-A) ROBESON: Vets Riot (Continued From Page 1-A) SAVANNAH JC i (i I tC a smashed in and waters from Lake Worth flooded the lobby to a depth of six inches. Radio Station WJNO's 196 foot tower toppled into the lake.

PALM BEACH Two sections of Ocean bhrd. caved into the ccean. A nearly completed cabana and pool at the Palm Beach Biltmore hotel collapsed. Mansions underwent expensive damage, to tile roofs and grounds. RIVIERA BEACH Two stores collapsed.

Fifty business places and 500 homes were damaged. i STUART Damage' was estimated at more than $3,500,000 and more than 500 persons were left homeless. Three sections of the mile tang Jensen bridge leading- to Port Sewall were Sugar Corp. plantations were flattened. Some observers reported large arras of cane torn out by the roots, but H.

T. Vaughn, executive vice president of USSC, said today at Clew iMon that he could not teI how much damage the cane had suffered until a survey is made. Experienced sugar men point ed out that often cane which has merely been flattened appears "torn out by the roots" to the casual observer, that th Clewisfon was battered by hur ricane winds but a quick survey this morning failed to disclose any major damage. Scores of families took refuge during the night in the plant of the Oewiston water works. A generator shrieked close by all night, making shouts necessary to.

conduct a conversation, but many slept through it so exhausted were they by the day's events. The torrpntial raine anrJ Viirrh winds today added to the discomfort of the hurrican's victims all around the lake. Roofs nnppnprf hv tw. Blasts dnnnpfi wator- and on Jiving rooti chairs. inn was jammed with storm refugees many of whom bedded down on extra mauresses wherever room could be found.

At the height of the storm, a young couple deaf mutes arrived at the Inn by auto, traveling from Hamtramek, to Miami. Manager Eddie Jones pains- iaivuiKi.y wime aown wnat was transpiring and advised them to stay the night. They did. Most lake communities were without electricity, power or telenhone servi side world today. Some towns iui.cu puone service.

But the residents were cheered because there was no repetition of the tragedy of 1928 when the death toll was great. However, great anxiety is felt for Okeerhohpp ritv 4i residents of other lake' shore cmes nave relatives and friends. YMHA Speaker Named Kurt Singer, author and world traveller, will speak on "Grave Diggers of Democracy' at a program sponsored by the YM WHA Adult Planning Council of Miami Beach, in Beth Sholom Temple, at 8:30 p.m. today. ripped out and an airplane hangar and beacon were flattened at the airport.

The Florida power and Light co. estimated its loss in Stuart at between $150,000 and $200,000. BELLEGLADE An implement shed at the state prison farm valued at $3,500 collapsed on $50,000 worth were destroyed and another barn, a garage, dormitories and the dining hall were damaged. Power lines were knocked down, leaving the, prison farm without electricity. Total damage was estimated at $1,000,000.

LAKE PLACID Wind indicator blew away, palm trees went down, and a meteorologist told the weather bureau: ''Observer will blow away if he goes out to estimate winds." LAKE WORTH A house had its entire back wall blown out. Cult Ueie FLORIDA klalull uill' HURRICANE (Continued From Fage 1-A) all came through with only a few littered streets. In Jacksonville the fringe of the storm broke hundreds of power and telephone lines as gusts of 65-miles an hour were recorded. The city was littered with limbs and roof shingles. Some windows were broken and some homes were without electricity.

The top floor of a downtown brick building crashed beneath a wind-toppled sign. Bus service out of Jacksonville was suspended last night except on one line running to Savannah along the coast. Near Tallahassee, residents of the unprotected coastal community of Eastpoint were evacuated to nearby Apalachicola. The evacuation was made by state road department trucks. Despite the heavy state property loss, casualties were re markably light.

Red Cross workers listed one dead, a Mi ami boatman who drowned, and about 60 injured. Forecaster Pardue of the Miami weather bureau said the storm "would compare with the great hurricanes of the past." GEORGIA I ALABAMA r. X. OoKo. IS Ap.UttKoU bnt in of in Tome Bo, groes, but most persons were White.

The hospital paid the injured apparently were beaten with 'rocks, clubs, anything they could get their hands on." i Robeson did not appear on the wene. The Negro singer was reported tied up in the huge traffic jam that the riot caused on nearby roads. His concert appearance had been scheduled by the Peoples Artists committee for the benefit of the Harlem branch of the Civil Rights Congress. The congress has been labeled subversive by the U.S. Justice department.

on the scene report- ed the bitter rioting broke out when thousands of paraders marching under veterans' groups colors met head-on with thousands of persons gathering for the concert. In the fighting that follow ed, at least seven automobiles upside down, and one was tossed off an embankment into a stream. A cross was seen to be burn ing atop a hill above the picnic grove. Several local veteran organiza tions announced earlier today that they were staging a "patriotic" parade around the. picnic grove.

They said four brass bands would blare forth during Robe son's concert. At 6:30 p.m. the parade started past the grove, located the nearby town of Cortland. The parade turned into a dirt road leading to the concert bowl, where 2,000 camp chairs had been set up. Concert goers formed a line across the road and then moved a huge 'truck across it as a roadblock.

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At Pahokee, 62-year-old Mrs. Anna Upthegrove, proprietor of a grocery store, gazed at the wreckage the 100-plus-miIe wind had made of what was once her home a few yards west of her store. Th rain was murine down in sheets as Mrs. Upthegrove who has kin in Miami, started to sal vage what she could of her possessions. "That houe and what It held were all her earthly possessions," said a son, Osceola Upthegrove." Osceola has his own troubles.

He's postmaster at Canal Point, a few mile north, and the hurricane picked out a telegraph pole and slammed it against the top of the structure. It's still resting there. On Connor's highway, near the intersection of Route 17 at Canal Point there was a frame dwelling. A few months ago it was condemned as unsafe. It was.

When Canal Point residents came out of their homes and hurricane shelters this morning, they found the house deposited across Connor highway. G. L. Sims, who's been around for a long time, said: 'It was worse than the 28 storm as far as Canal Foint was concerned. Official figures from the lock at Canal Point put the wind as high as 120 miles per hour last night, but residents say 150 would be more like it.

"Sot a house in Canal Point escaped some damage," Sims said. Residents of other communities on the east, south and west sides of the lake said the same. Citrus groves suffered, as did vegetable farms. C.Yeat areas of rane on U.S. WILY HEW YORK Special Sunday Flight Non-Stop 5Y2 Gnvrrnmrnt approved plane and pllota with "million mile" exprrlrnre.

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Sullivan of San Francisco, a delegate to the national two bodies of persons met, and the concert forces started to sing a Negro spiritual, "We Shall Not Be Moved. Two county sheriff's men held the surging mart hers back for a time, then fell back as pieces of wooden railing from a fence along the began to fly through the air. One ittHii, Identified as William Srtr of Mohegan, N. was re-ki ted Htahtwd. Members of the veterans parade broke through the woods, overran the concert bowl, and utartrd to rip apart the tage where Robeson was to sing.

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