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S. O. 8. CALLS(MIAMI. Fla. — Advice* received here by wireless Tuesday said that the Italian steamer Andaldo San tiuiogio Secondo, in distress ott Northeast Hillsboro, had been lost by the Ward liner Oriiaba and the steamer West Harshaw, which had been standing by. The Ansaldo, with a crew ol thirty men, was carried out of sight by high seas at 11:45 A. M.f Tuesday.Damage estimated at flOO.OoO was caused in the city by the hurricane. This includes two thirds of the avacado pear crop.In the past twenty-four hours the storm center has moved only 50 miles.The first death was reported Tuesday when F -A. Lancaster, lineman, was electrocuted atop a pole at Miami Beach, when he .came in contact with a-livd wire while attempting repaif work.With unabated intensity the tropical disturbance raged Tuesday along tbs tower Florida coast with Miami* apparently as the storm center. It played havoc with shipping and caused consid# erable property damage through this area.* The storm retraced its course • rftcr bideswiping this section Monday, postponing its onrhught until early Tuesday. It hit here at a 55 mile an hour gait, driving ahead a furiou* min. The seafront and Biscayne Bay were bvihed and sea craft did not venture from their moorings.The tropical radio station at Hi-eleah, near here, maintained spas-1 modic communications with ships cff tht k»wtr coait - gevcn vessels | were reported in distre*** at ten-thirty. ftVlcck. Only one, an ItaL i*in rtearner, bound from Mobile 16 Letcfort. broadcast 803 calls. Tin* Ward liner Orizaba from New York to Havana, raced to bar aid I
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Athens Banner Herald
Athens, Georgia, US
Tue, Jul 27, 1926
Page 8
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