Typhoid Follows Tornado

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 465, 21 September 1928, Page 9

Typhoid Follows Tornado

RIOTS AMONG NEGROES Bodies Float In Lakes and Swamps TERRIBLE TALE OF DISASTER

(Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Received 9.5 a.m. WASHINGTON, Thursday. WITH estimates placing the total Florida dead at SOO. and 1,500 persons missing, reports of rioting by the negroes indicate that a vast problem is facing the relief-workers. A grave position exists at Pahokee, where an epidemic of typhoid is already gaining ground.

The Red Cross authorities, in au effort to check the spread ot the disease, are continuing to resort to wholesale burials of the unidentified dead. An eye-witness declared that Pahokee was worst affected by the storm, which raced across Lake Okeechobee and the village and the surrounding .country. It is estimated that nearly every building was demolished. Dead bodies were discovered floating in lakes and swamps nearby. Serum and' chlorine are being rushed to all the areas. Governor Martin, of Florida, advised that aid should be rushed by boat, owing to the uncertain condition of the railways. The coastal railway has established a partial service, abandoned regular schedules and put all the trains at the disposal of the relief workers. It is reported that the highways leading to Palm Beach are now partially in use, and over them automobiles and wagons arc employed in bringing aid. Animal life throughout the stricken State is seriously affected. Tropical birds were killed by thousands. The storm’s toll on the North Atlantic coast now totals four dead, the New York metropolitan! district reports. Marine collisions and wrecks continue, none of which is regarded as serious. Advance warnings of the storm enabled shippers to anchor boats in sheltered places and outride the storm. WEST INDIES DAMAGE 17 DEAD IN TURKS ISLANDS RELIEF WORK WELL IN HAND British Official Wireless.

received by the Colonial Ollicc to-day in a telegram from the officer administering the Government, of Jamaica. It states that the Commissioner of the Turks and Caicos Islands reports that the first news received from Cockburn Harbour, Turks Island, indicates that the hurricane damage is serious. Seventeen lives were lost, including those of eight married men. There is no news from Caicos Islands yet. Replies were received to-day from the Governors of the Leeward Islands and the Bahamas, expressing the grateful thanks of sufferers, to whom the King sent messages of sympathy when the first news of the disaster was received. The Governor of the Leeward Islands, in a telegram thanking the Colonial Secretary for the telegram of sympathy, adds: “Although the damage as reported in my telegram is very serious and many are homeless, relief work is well in hand, and cases of immediate distress are being dealt with. Assistance is being rendered as far as is possible.”

Reed. Noon. RUGBY, Thursday. A further report of the havoc dofle by the West Indies hurricane was