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I.I. I. .11,1,11., THE MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE: THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 5 1935 PAGE EIGHT HURRICANE BLASTS HIGHWAY LINK WITH FLORIDA KEYS FERRY STATION WRECKED BY HURRICANE 1 i 4- -1 Hi sit. if, 0 MORNING EDITION ig. i S4 Ski-? i -t 1' I "ft 1 1 (I'KTI RE YilRVU TO TRIBI'SE tXCLrSlVEII IN NORTHMKHT.l Miami, Sept.

4. Here is another Wirephoto showing devastation wrought by Florida's latest tropical hurricane. This is one of the worst breaks (indicated by arrows) in the Florida East Coast railway and the overseas highway linking Key West and the southern keys with the Florida mainland. DIXIE RESCUERS AT WORK MINNEAPOLIS MAN INJURED IN STORM ns BACK HI (PICTtRE WIRED TO TRIBl'NE EXCtl'SIVFXT IS NORTHWEST) Miami, Sept. 4.

(Wirephoto) Here, before Florida's latest hurricane, was the station for ths ferry connecting the southern and northern stretches of the. Overseas highway. The photograph was taken from an airplane Wednesday. (1) Wrecked terminal building and boat. (2) Ferry with superstructure carried away.

(3) railroad track twisted and turned over. (4) Croup of unroofed buildings. (Continued from Page 1.) the and move out Into con, LINER AGROUND ON REEF OFF FLORIDA' Harry L. Hopkina, federal relief administrator, asking for an investigation of the deaths of war veterans in the keys. He wanted to ocean through the Carolinas.

Coast guard headquarters at i find out, he said, why the islands i were not evacuated when notice was given of the storm's approach. 'They had plenty of notice, and I want to fix the responsibility," Peterson said. 'A f4 Jt" 1, a ii li He said he was asked by Arthur R. Boring of Plant City, state Washington were informed by the Jacksonville station that between 200 and 400 persons were dead at Matecumbe, where a number of World war veterans were engaged in a road building project. An estimate that the dead in the keys would not exceed 300 came from Dr.

Joe Stewart, who late Wednesday completed an aerial survey of the storm swept keys. Georg Branch, station master at Islamorado toward the north end of the island chain, reported to the Florida East Coast railroad he had counted nearly 150 bodies and estimated the storm had claimed several hundred lives. Hurricane Passes Inland. While struggling against odds to render help to the injured and homeless and obtain an accurate survey of the damage wrought by i I the disturbance, Red Cross and ana commander of the American Legion, to take the action, A boat owned by the Miami Daily News returned from the keys Wednesday night with 52 injured, 50 of them veterans. They were transferred to hospitals for treatment of injuries.

Send Out Last Boat. The Jacksonville division of the coast guard drew out its last available boat and plane to meet combined emergencies of distressed ships and devastating hurricane winds. Other divisions also rushed all available help to the scenes. Uprooted trees, crippled communication lines and unroofed buildings were left in the path of the storm at Sarasota, on the west coast, and similar damage resulted at Bradenton, farther north. In Tampa, the storm damaged some roofs, uprooted trees and broke windows, while at St Petersburg, across Tampa bay, "considerable" property damage and some injuries were reported in a dispatch from the coast guard cutter Nemesis.

High tides prevailed all along the coast, halting shipping. Torrential rain accompanied the swirling winds. Several fish houses were blown ft 5 other relief workers kept a close watch on the progress of the storm. Crossing the western coast of the peninsula north of St. Petersburg after swinging out over the gulf, the howling hurricane passed inland again in the vicinity of the little sponge fishing village of Cedar Key and apparently took up a north, northeast course.

No seri Joseph Nepsha. Joseph Nepsha of Minneapolis is among those reported injured by the tropical storm in Florida early Wednesday. He was taken with others to the First Baptist church at Homestead for treatment. Nepsha, 45, was working on a federal emergency works project in Florida, ac- ous damage was reported there, from Cedar Key is more or iidm strett sparsely settled and is composed largely of farm and timber land. Farther back from the coastline toward the Georgia state line, how- storm struck, but that there were housing accommodations for about 683.

Some of them, however, were away at the time. Red Cross Sends Aid. The veterans were engaged in a FERA project of building an over ever, are such cities as Cross City, Live Oak, Lake City and Madi son. In his report to Washington, dis down and small craft in the harbor shattered when the storm re aster Relief Chairman Thompson said the 100 known dead were seas highway linking Key West with the Florida mainland. Some of them were among the bonus curved and headed back inland near Cedar key.

No injuries were from the neighborhood of World reported there, however. war veterans' camp No. 1, located Storm Reaches rain at Quitman, her on Upper Matecumbe key. One out of every three persons at that alded the advance of the storm in that vicinity. Greenville, 30 miles south of there, received high wind and much rain.

III seekers who marched on Washington several years ago. They came from all sections of the country. Co-operation with coast guard, Red Cross and other relief agencies, the ran American Airways urned over a number of its airplanes for relief work. A complete radio station was flown to one of the lower keys and set up to establish contact with the affected area. Four Miami doctors were flown into the il -Jf Farther north, as far as Beau fort, N.

residents along the coast boarded up their homes, moved their boats to safest possible harbors and prepared for the storm rr' in the event it should strike there. stricken section to aid the injured. Presumably the storm passed Intercepted on his way to Kan into Georgia between Tallahassee sas City lor a speaning engage H.J ment, Dr. William de Kleine, medi camp was said to be dead. Trying to Reach Camps.

Rescue workers still were having difficulty reaching two other veterans' camps, Nos. 3 and 5, located on lower Matecumbe, which was isolated when winds and flood waters carried away the bridges, highway and railroad tracks that linked that island in the key group. It was in the vicinity of Islamorado, to the north, in the vicinity of camp No. 1, that Station Master Branch reported he had counted nearly 150 bodies. A radio message fro ma coastguard amphibian plane flying over the storm-stricken keys said only 70 men remained alive in camps Nos.

3 and 5 on Lower Matecumbe. It added that three doctors were on hand and that survivors were being taken aboard three yachts and a coastguard cutter to be transferred to Miami. and Madison. Once over land, where it encountered trees and other obstacles, the wind gradually cal director of the national Red Cross, entrained from St. Louis Miami, Sept.

4. (Wirephoto) Here's the first photo of the Morgan liner Dixie aground on French reef early today, awaiting calmer seas so that rescue ships can remove the 372 persons on board. Some of her passengers are seen at the stern rail. The Dixie was driven aground Monday night by the hurricane that is still raking parts of Florida. diminished in intensity.

The weather bureau said points farther north late Wednesday for the storm swept area of Florida. He said the might not get much more than high winds. llMlllitL TO TKIULNK XCI.LSlVEI.V IV NOBTHWFKT life in the immediate vicinity as far as could be learned. national Red ross has II rescue and two hospital units in that area. Preparations were made Wednesday night to start another rescue train south from here.

All Buildings Demolished. M. W. Keysei, Jacksonville Telephone Co. official, said he received Gainesville, where the state university is located, escaped with only minor damage to trees.

A huge pine tree fell on the campus, however, and smashed windows in the engineering building. Miami, Sept. 4. (Wirephoto) Here are three pictures showing progressive phases of the removal of passengers from the stranded Morgan liner Dixie, aground off the Florida coast. Lifeboats which took off passengers, and tugs and other craft which aided in the rescue work are shown.

munication with outside points. No casualties were reported. The damage consisted mainly of broken windows, shattered roofs, fallen trees and many trolley, telephone and light wires down. Several smaller frame structures were wrecked. FERA headquarters said it was a message from Long Key that not known exactly how many vet every building on that island was erans were in the camps when the YOUNT HEIR PAYS $778,917 TEXAS TAX Austin, Texas, Sept.

4. WV-Tex. as pocketed $778,917.91 Wednesday of the $8,042,499 inheritance of Mildred Yount, heir of the late M. F. Yount, Beaumont oil man.

It was the largest inheritance tax collected by the state. Co-ordinated statt and federal tax laws permitted double collection. The state's receipt was 80 per cent of the amount collected by the federal HEAVY DAMAGE AT BRADENTON Bradenton, Sept. 4. (flV-No lives were reported lost Wednesday but heavy property damage remained in Bradenton and vicinity as the tropical storm roared up to the west coast of Florida, bringing winds of hurricane force.

No ct-tempt was made to estimate the demolished but that no lives were lost. The message said there were ST. PETERSBURG DAMAGE REPORTED Jacksonville, Sept. 4. The cutter Nemesis described in a radio message to the coast guard base here Wednesday the storm damage inflicted on St.

Petersburg, which is cut off from wire com- SURVIVORS OF STORM ON FLORIDA KEYS 14 persons on the key when the storm struck. Congressman J. Hardin Peter jy uiiiiiiimimhpuiii i i i im nmjuiii, jumii in iiu ijl ilium iiim imp il son said at Lakeland he had wired BUILDINGS UNROOFED IN SARASOTA AREA Sarasota, Sept. 4. (P) Uprooted trees, crippled communication lines and unroofed buildings were left in the path of tropical storm here.

There was no loss of is The Free State government seeking new uses for seaweed. Areas Struck by Storm and Estimates of Toll ALL THAT WAS LEFf OF VILLAGE aging editor of Clearwater Sun, on survey to Tampa, lists damage in mai area cnieny to crops. Cedar Key Island of 1.200 norm. By the Associated Press. 1 Areas hardest hit in the Florida hurricane, which took an estimated death toll of from 400 to 500: Tavernier, Plantation key Red Cross reports at least 100 killed.

Twelve to 15 houses left standing lation, 90 miles north of St Peters burg, awaits storm. Buildinss mostly old, of flimsy wood. Evacua in town or 4uu. Matecumbe key Two war vet erans construction camps demolished. Many crushed in collapse of m- 1 'r ri i i 'it 4 'tf W.i..'' lit JWsrjw4 I i 4 I'M, j' 1 1- Z1.

i rr'-l-ii 'ik .3. I hotel used as hospital. Washington relief officials estimate 150 veterans killed. Rescue train wreck- ed; crew saved. Rock Harbor Meager dispatches au.

'V V. -r I report 75 or more dead. Key West Associated Press cor respondent, on aerial survey, finds tion started. St. Petersburg Tide rises, sea heavy as storm swerves up west coast.

Property damage reported "considerable." Messages say none believed dead, but have no knowledge of conditions at Clearwater and Tarpon Springs." Miami "All down the keys, isolated frame houses have been crushed," reports Associated Press correspondent after flight over area. "About them there is no sign of life." Cedar Key Most of 1,200 in village connected by single strand to mainland huddle in school and other buildings as high winds blow; craft shattered, no injuries re-ported. Sarasota Wire communication disrupted but section apparently escaped lass of life, wireless report says. Bradenton Heavy property and railway to Florida mainland twist ed and broken: miles of track lifted from roadbed. Trees flattened on crushed houses.

Vaca Keys Ferry station wrecked. Lsla Morada Station master estimates several hundred dfad; only 25 residents saved. Island housed 250 fishermen and families. Estimate of dead may Include veterans on lowrr Matecumbe, nearby, rail (PICTIRE WIRED TO TRIBUNE EXCLIKI V1XY JN NORTHWEST.) Miami, Sept. 4.

These ara the few houses left standing in the little Florida key wppc. maiciumue. 4. (Wirephoto)-For hours more than 50 members of a war veterans' CCC camp clung for their lives to a tank car while the hurricane lashed the Florida keys. When help came early Wednesday they were too exhausted to move.

way ouiciais ceiieve, crop damRge, power lines down, yillags of IlMmor jifter Kurncajnue. CAlver ma but no Uvts reported left.