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BY SIEGFRIED BJURSTROM
(Chicago Herald-American Reporter) (Written Expresslv for International Ne- - s*rvice)
i§ews Service)
Biloxi, Miss., Sept. 21.—I was an eye-witness to the full fury of the hurricane that swept in over the sea to devastate Biloxi and
Gulfport.
This once-lusl. Mississippi coastal playground is in ruins today. Gulfport's new S80,000 yacht club has vanished into the sea. Paradise Point, the resort center of tourist courts and hotels at Mississippi City, no
longer exists.
Long Beach, west of Gulfport, has disappeared into the Gulf—I along with its dozens of resorts and small hotels. The coast highway is a mass of wreckage from Biloxi to Bay St. Louis. The Louisville & Nashville railroad bri'dges and roadbeds are washed away.
I saw most of this damage done —at one swoop—by a ten-foot tidal wave that rolled in off the Gulf, pushed by a hundred-mile-
and-hour gale.
It picked up 40-foot yachts and carried them 50 yards inland. Tourist courts and stucco houses collapsed like cards.
The huge wave washed over' Highway 31 and automobiles i along Biloxi beach were crushed, i The sea coast highway was raked away just east of Biloxi and the $3,500,000 seawall on Highway 90 at Biloxi had great gaps torn in it in several places.
The Gulfport docks were washed away and a section of the Biloxi bridge and causeway was torn from its fastenings. It was washed up on the shore and deposited along Highway 31, five
miles away.
The ballrooms and lobbies of the resort hotels are filled with cots sent from Keesler field, and the cots hold tired, homeless refugee.*. They are dirty and unkept.
There is no water. Paradoxically, it was water that mixed with the wind to do this thing to them, and now there is no water for washing and little for drinking.
We have had no water from the city mains for three days and bo electricity. What water we salvaged from other sources has to be boiled before use.
Biloxi has been hit—and hurt —and is suffering. But its people »re not doing much complaining. They are looking at Gulfport and
»re thankful.
Gulfport was literally churned
into the sea.
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cause institutions and veterans! failed to report interruptions in1 (training promptly.
The -Veterans Administration is-[required by law to collect the ex-' cessive payments, refunds of. which are coming in at the rate j of $5,000,000 a month.
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STANDS AT 20 PERSONS
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LATEST ADVISORIES WARN OF NEW STORM APPROACHING FLORIDA
The hurricane-lashed Mississippi Coast pushed ahead t day with rehabilitation work as the revised death toll sto< at 20 persons, the majority from the hard-hit Waveland-Lak shore area in Hancock countv.
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the majority from the hard-hit Waveland-Lak Hancock county.
Even as workers went about the huge -task of recove:
from last Friday’s hurricane, which reached a peak of wir
gusts of 100 miles an hour, an anxious eye was turned to new storm brewing off Florida.
Latest advisories said the new storm was approaching tl
southern Florida coast, moving north-northwestward to nor'
with winds up to 60 miles an hour—only 15 miles below hu ricane force.
The Mississippi Coasts death toll scaled downward Sui day to 19 and was increased to 20 today with the recovery i another body in Long Beach.
Listed as dead are:
Mrs. Archibald Boggs, 80, Long Beach; Joseph St. Gabrif
Antonci, 79, Gulfport; Nathaniel Burwell Jones, 34, Lon
Beach; Mrs. Vester M. Smith, Mississippi City; George Augu:
Wiltenmuth, 63. Biloxi; Mrs. Agnes Davison, 60, Milwauke>
Wis., visiting in Long Beach; two unidentified negro girl both found in Long Beach.
Mrs. Elece Shackford, Waveland; Mrs. Isabel Holman Har
Waveland; Mrs. Stanley Nall, 38. Clermont Harbor; Mrs. Tsab<
Foltzer, 48, Clermont Harbor; Mrs. Kate Krutcher, 32, Lake
shore; John J. Bordage. 72, Lakeshore; W. W. Simmons, 8(
Sobral street, Waveland; Mrs. Lulu Mogabgab, 80, Clermor
Harbor; Mrs. Marie Louise Spreen, 65, 554 Beach Boulevarc
Waveland; Frank A. Spreen, 68, same address, Waveland
Beatrice White, colored. 48, Clermont Harbor; and a six-year
old colored boy, Lawrence (last name unknown), Clermon Harbor.
There is anxiety that this figure may increase as the de bris, piled high along the beaches, is gradually cleared awav
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