FLORIDA DISASTER
HORRORS OF DISASTER. DEATH ROLL MOUNTING. ENORMOUS LOSSES. (Australian Press Association). (United Sendee). - (Received this day at 8.30. a.m.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 24. Red Gross officials engaged in relief work in Florida declare the conditions in Lake Okechobee regions surpass the horror of the World War. The wholesale cremation of bodies is now taking place and it is discovered that the town of Pelican Bay and 250 inhabitants was obliterated. The death roll is placed at two thousand. ~, Disease is reported to be almost checked in the refugees’ camp near Palm Beach, where fifteen hundred homeless people , are herded, but influenza and typhoid are said to be ravaging the outlying districts, particularly Overglades area, where thousands of destitute negroes are being innoculated, and thereafter rushed to a separate refugee camp, adjacent to Palm Beach. A group of seventy-two business men estimated the loss to commercial property along Palm Beach country in ex- - cess of twenty million dollars.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1928, Page 4
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