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TROPICAL STORM I SWEEPS FLORIDA j EAST COAST TODAYi Coming Up Out of Carribean | Sea Winds Attain High Ve-| locity and Many Ships Post-poines Sailings.—Communications With Nassau NILMiami, July 26—A hurricane swept up today, out of the Carribean Sea side-swiping the lower Florida East Coast with a heavy wind traveling at between 40 and 50 miles an hour^ No damage has been reported*The storm was believed to be the tropical d'sturbance which orlginat ed in the southern portion of the We#t Indies Friday aid continued northwesterly, passing near Porto Rico where vessels Saturday report, ed a wind velocity of 60 miles an hour.The section of coast felt the first blow soon after 8 o'clock, when the wind increased approximately 30 miles an hour before 9 o’clock.. Me-terologist Gray of the local weatherbureau, repdrted that the storm proceeded about 150 miles east of Miami, in the region of Bahama Islands.All efforts by the Tropical Radio Company’s station here to establish communication with Nassau today failed. Outbound vessels remained in^ ^port while several other unidentified Bh’p8 rode at anchor beyond Miami Beach, awaiting storm devejppment befort continuing their course or en-| tering the harbor.Anxiety was felt here for persons aboard the 75-foot yacht Cinnabar, 'owned by Phil Pomeroy, well \nown Automobile distributor of -this city, who with a crew of five and a party of five others left here Saturday noon for a brief trip to sea in the Bahamas group.- The party planned to return early today.Biacayne Bay was lashed to a white capped fury as the wind increased in velocity, reaching approximately Bix* ty miles an hour off shore, where the American tanker Sun, of Newport News, Va.f and the freighter Bifrost were encountering heavy seas and dragging anchors.' The Bifrost was listing heavily and being washed closer in shore, while the Sun was in no immediate danger, although hardly a mile off shore and about the satne distance from the government jetties.Several smaller motor boats and launches broke away from their moorings and drifted helplessly about the harbor. One small boat battered against the side of the Barquentine Prinz Valdomar until the current drifted down the bay, while an open speed boat smashed itself against the cause way, no persons being reported on any of these craft.
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Thomasville Daily Times Enterprise
Thomasville, Georgia, US
Mon, Jul 26, 1926
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