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Tw. INDEX
Amusement. J-B Classified . . 7-C
Comics....... 8-B
Deaths...... 8-A
Financial . Society . .. Sports . .. Television
6-B
2-B
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9-B
.st 19, 1969
Associated Press, United Press International
GULFPORT, Miss. (UPI) — Rescue workers struggled through the mangled remains of Gulf Coast towns Monday finding more victims of Camille, the strongest hurricane ever to strike the U.S. mainland.
The grisly toll seemed certain to mount for days. At least 50 persons were confirmed dead, many more missing and scores injured. All but one of the dead were on the Mississippi Coast, which bore the brunt of Camille’s 190-mile-an-hour winds and 20-foot tides.
Wreckage stretched from the Florida Panhandle to New Orleans. Villages were virtually wiped out and survivors staggered in shock through the splinters of; their homes, searching for loved ones.
At least 200.000 persons were homeless. About r,00 square miles of the Mississippi Coast was without power or water pressure. Those who left Sunday in the mass exodus began streaming back, creating
Additional stories and pictures on the Louisiana and Mississippi damage from Hurricane Camille are on Pages 10-A and J4-A and 1!-C and 15-C.
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By J. C. TILLMAN Advocate Staff Writer JLFPORT, Miss. — “Never before have I seen utter destruction.”
ris statement was echoed over and over Monday
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monumental traffic jams that blocked ambulances and emergency water and food trucks.
At Pass Christian, Police Chief Jerry Peralta said 15 persons were dead and “many more missing.” Among the dead, he reported, were five couples who were throwing a hurricane party in a three-story apartment Sunday night.
Good Time
“The last time I went up to try to get them out, the water was just about over the sea wall. They were having a good time and they wouldn’t leave. Thar/s the last anybody saw o' them.”
Near the little town of Lakeshore, the wind whipped the roof off the elementary school where 600 persons were hiding. Principal Oren Seal said “men broke down. There was screaming and crying and praying, just about everything a fellow could think to do."
Parents fell on their children (Continued pn Page 8-A, Col. 3)
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GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) -The state adjutant general surveyed Hurricane Camille's devastation cf Mississippi's gulf coast Monday and said: “It looks like Hiroshima after the atom bomb.”
Ravaged by 190 m.p.h. winds, rain, raging tides and fire, this port city cf 30,000 and nearby Biloxi, a city of 44,000, lay shattered.
Many of the residents had evacuated to safer areas inland before Camille shrieked in from the Gulf of Mexico Sunday night.
22 Now Dead
Adj. Gen. Walter Johnson, reporting to Gov. John Bell Williams, said rescue workers had been unable to reach many areas of maximum damage and he expected the death toll to rise.
“We are going to find more in those houses when we start searching areas we can't even get into now,-’ said Johnson.
In Washington, President Nixon declared the three storm-battered coastal counties of Mississippi a federal disaster area-making it eligible for an initial $1 million in federal disaster assistance, with more appropriations to be considered.
At Atlanta, a dozen C - 124 Globemaster planes at Dobbins Air Force Base were assigned to airlift 375,000 pounds of food and supplies to the stricken area — fn hf> unlnaried at Keps-