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GULFPORT—Gov. John Bell Williams declared limited martial law for the Mississippi Gulf Coast hurricane damage area at 11:35 a. m. today. The “limited” martial law will apply to law and order and population movement as an effort to control floods of sightseers and unnecessary movements of local people as well as to control looting and other criminal activities.
By TOM GREGORY (States-Item Staff Writer)
GULFPORT—The death toll from Hurricane Camille rose to 128 today and officials said there are many more bodies still unreached.
Wade Guice, Harrison County Civil Defense director, said the toll may go as high as 200, not including those who may have perished in rural areas behind the coast.
TWENTY-THREE BODIES, included in the 128 total, were reported found in one place—the demolished Richelieu Apartments in Pass Christian.
“I think we have a line on most of the dead,” said Guice. “The total won’t be much more than 200.”
Patients were being evacuated from the 200-bed Gulfport Memorial Hospital after it was pronounced structurally
Other stories and pictures of storm damage will be found on Pages 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13 and 27.
unsound because of storm damage. The patients were transferred to hospitals in Biloxi, Hattiesburg and Jackson.
OFFICIALS FEAR RATS running loose in the storm rubble are posing “a definite health problem.” Otherwise, they said, there is no serious disease problem among refugees.
Officials at Biloxi asked the New Orleans coroner’s office to handle at least 100 bodies and arrangements are being made to accommodate them.
New Orleans police also said their communications van may be sent to the coast for the next three days.
Arrangements were being made to send aid to the devastated areas. Biggest needs were water, food, ice, medical supplies and fuel.
Mississippi Sen. Ned Cassibry, coordinator of Civil Defense. estimated the final death toll will be between 150
By CHRIS SHEAROUSE
A light plane on a mission of mercy to the hurricane-stricken Gulf Coast crashed into a seawall at the Lakefront Airport this morning and all four occupants died in the resulting fire.
Police identified the pilot as Dr. George J. Garzotto, a New Orleans attorney and physician.
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John Slavich, attorney.
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Crow and his wife were in New Orleans apartment hunting and he decided to return to the coast in the plane.
A witness said the plane, which was laden with penicillin and medical supplies “never got off the ground.”
HE SAID there was no attempt to abort the takeoff. The plane struck the seawall, the tail flipped up and the plane landed nose-first on the west seawall, where it caught