Horrors Worse Than War
TRACK OF THE TORNADO
Wholesale Cremation of the Dead 15,000 HOMELESS IN CAMP (Australian and K.Z. Press Association) Received 9 a.m. WASHINGTON, Monday. RED CROSS officials wlio are engaged in relief work in Florida declare that the conditions in the Rake Okechobee region surpass in horror the World War.
Wholesale cremation of bodies is now taking place. With the discovery that the town of Pelican Bay and its 250 inhabitants were obliterated, the death-toll is placed at 2,000. Disease is reported to be almost checked in the refugee camp near Palm Beach, in which 15,000 homeless Floridians are herded; but influenza
and typhoid are said to be ravaging the outlying districts, particularly the Everglades area, where thousands of destitute negroes are being inoculated, and rushed to a separate refugee camp adjacent to Palm Bach. A group of 72 business men estimated the loss to commercial property along Palm Beach county at over £4,000,000.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 468, 25 September 1928, Page 9
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