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A Patriotic Lady

The following incident is vouched for by a correspondent of the Christian Register: A daughter of Massachusetts, living in New York, was riding in a crowded street-car. An intelligent young…
Photo with label "Bay Shore Drive After Hurricane, Miami, Florida, September 18, 1926". It shows a boat sitting on land behind pine trees that would have been between buildings and the ocean.
Posted inLocal Histories Natural World

Spectators Tell Harrowing Tales Of Awful Damage

Hurricane Slices Top Floors From Brick Buildings as if Cut by Razor

NEWSPAPERMEN BATTLE ELEMENTS TO GET NEWS

Climb for Miles Through Mud and Wreckage to Get to Scene of Disaster — Heavy Concrete Benches Blown Through Air As If They Were Bits of Paper.

Savannah, Ga., Sept. 20 (AP)—A graphic story of havoc wrought in St. Petersburg and the west coast of Florida, by the tropical hurricane was told here last night by J. A. Kelly, Washington, dining car steward on the Seaboard Air Line’s “The Southerner.”