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200 InjuredWhen BlastHangarsTropical Gale Sweeps Inland Across Keys As 50,000 Persons Driven to Seek Emergency Shelter; One Death ReportedMIAMI, Fla., Sept. 15 (AP)—Over. 200 persons were reported injured Saturday in a fire -at the Richmond navy blimp base as a violent tropical hurricane that reached a peak velocity of .143 m.p.h. swept inland across the Florida Keyslt; +----Hurricane warnings wereordered hoisted over all of peninsula Florida, 50,000 persons were driven to' seek emergency shelter in south Florida alone, and at least one death was reported.Flames whipped by' the ‘great winds threatened- to destroy the giant navy blimp hangars at Richmond, 30 miles- from Miami, which were described by the navy as the - world's largest single - arch wooden constructed hangars.Ambulances were called to Miami's municipally-owned Jackson Memorial hospital to remove 70 pregnancy, cases to make room for injured from the blimp base.Emergency Call IssuedMercy vehicles that sped to the Richmond lighter-than-air station carried 200 units of plasma, and 75 additional units were rushed there later. 'An emergency call. was sent to. Red Cross officials in Washington for 250 additional units to be sped..here by?:plane!The extent/.of;the' disaster at the blimp.. base's; was kept hidden by ripped communications,, flooded roads- and washed out bridges..The Red Cross reported that the blimp baset fire -was caused' by an. explosion, of undetermined origiti-while heavy winds roared outside. Six doctors reached the scene to treat victims, and some injured already - have entered the naval dispensary at Miami.Wooden structures at Homestead, 40 . miles south of Miami, were badly damaged by the storm, the Red Cross said, but no injuries have been reported.Three hundred enlisted men from(Continued on rage Twoj iColumn ThreejDefender of WakeAmong PrisonersHomeward BoundBy Associated Press Lieutenant Colonel James P. S. Devereux, gallant defender of Wake island, was among the many liberated prisoners moving toward their homes Saturday, hopeful that his two brood mares in California had acquired colts during his long absence. .• Meanwhile army and navy rescueteams removed hundreds of allied► • . * - aprisoners, and minesweepers cleared waters in various areas so ships could reach shore.Two More CampsThe U. S. navy added two more prisoner of war camps in Japan to its list. Carrier pilots found one in the Kobe-Osaka . area, containing 400 internees, and the Japanese reported the other, Camp Kamikita in Aomori prefecture of northern Honshu.Word that 864 allied prisoners, including 586 Americans, had been removed from the Sendai-Kamaishi area of northern Honshu Thursday came from army-navy rescue teams.Captain ^G. K. Carmichael directed operations of minesweepers in
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Sun, Sep 16, 1945
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