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The Enterprise
Seattle, King County, Washington
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Photographs depict the 1928 Florida hurricane's devastation in Palm Beach, uprooting trees and buildings, killing hundreds including a cameraman and a nurse-maid holding a baby, and near the Everglades where 200 Black residents and 1,900 white residents died.
Merged-components note: Merged news story on Florida hurricane with its descriptive text and accompanying images for complete logical unit; relabeled from domestic_news to story as it is a full narrative article.
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Photo by arrangement with Fox News from P. & A. Photos. Released by National Feature Service
The upper picture is a telephoto view of the Florida hurricane in action as it twisted its way through Palm Beach, uprooting trees, destroying office buildings, killing hundreds, and rendering thousands homeless. In this scene a P. & A. Photo cameraman was blown against an iron fence and killed. Arrow points to spot where body of colored nurse-maid was found with three-year-old baby clinging to her breast.
The lower picture is a view of the disaster near the everglades where the Negro populace was hardest hit. The Negro dead will number close to 200, while that of the white population will run close to 1,900.
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Palm Beach, Florida; Near The Everglades, Florida
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Upper picture shows telephoto view of hurricane twisting through Palm Beach, uprooting trees, destroying buildings, killing hundreds, rendering thousands homeless; P. & A. cameraman killed against fence; arrow to body of colored nurse-maid with three-year-old baby clinging to her breast. Lower picture shows disaster near Everglades, hardest hit on Negro populace with close to 200 Negro dead and close to 1,900 white dead.