HURRICANE IN AMERICA

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22517, 27 September 1938, Page 19

HURRICANE IN AMERICA

DEVASTATION OVEBSVIDB AREA lj| DEATH-ROLL REACHES WIBLT SIX HUNDRED" £l mwmat hum uiocuiioi-hi (Received September 26, 2 gtm.) NEW YORK, September : 'M The coastguard cutter Chelan ns reached Watch Hill, the summer resort 'at the tip of Island, where 200 or more li*e found .dead, as a result of the tafl' cane. '"'...'' ]^£ The sea : cut a swath throw. Watch Hill, engulfing 68 houiei, «i| drowning whole families. Tbjjjj Jt one of the many tragedies revtijK as the storm floods subside. _ ,*sg| Exclusive week-end resorts vp£g ' wiped off the map, and the ]mmm| death roll«is now nearly 600.reads like a page torn from the" "social, register. " ' •'"*- Workers are feverishly engaged inr '; strengthening damaged dykes, but-?; with the Connecticut river slowly^''. receding from its high level of 35 - feet the'danger :has passed. ~. Altogether 150,000 are engaged in ' recovering bodies and restoring communications. Airmen are distributing anti-tetanus and antityphoid serum, by parachute. "C Looters are active. The fired on numbers of them and' ! wounded one at Buzzard's Bay. _?" The actor, James Cagney, is misf~ ing. The body of Mrs Helen Lewis, first Republican woman candidate for the; office of Secretary of State, wagwashed ashore. Her husband also drowned when a tidal -wave en-, gulfed Thimble Island.