THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1928,
FLORIDA HURRICANE HAVOC: PRELUDE TO LAST WEEK'S DISASTER.
The havoc wreaking burricans which has devastated Florida, had a forerunner only a month before in the form of a hurricane of only slightly less violence. Highwayя and buildings were flooded. Top picture shows a horseman, ploughing through the floods, and the bottom some wrecked houses.
El Quafi, the French Arabian runner, who furnish- ed the greatest surprise of the Olympic Games at Am- slordam, by defeating tho world's best in the Marathon.
Tho aftermath of the first Florida hurricane was the tor- rential rain. The half-submerged motor-car in the upper ploture was taken just outside Okeechobee. The bottom ploture was a flashlight, taken while the gale still blow, of a bridge which was wrecked. Okeechobee also suffered savorely last week.
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Furious storme in North and South Carolina wore respon- sible for the above scenos, the top taken in Ashevillo, and the bottom one, showing what was left of a bridge near Col umbia. Savon men narrowly escaped when the bridge was carried away, saving themselves by clinging to a sablo.
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Two piotures illustrating the extent of the floods brought by the first Florida hurricane,
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