Either this shows that the Catholics are in high favor with the fates or they know how to choose their contractors. It is in order to remark also that Frank T. Budge's hardware store, which has stood the storms of many summers, also was solid as a rock. Indeed, there were many of the larger buildings that suffered little damage. Burdine's department store, which seemed intact from the north, was battered in from the south and many days following the storm there were sales of damaged goods at cheap prices. This was common all over town.
By little and little information concerning the damage at Coral Gables, Hialeah, Hollywood, Dania, Fort Lauderdale, Pompano and West Palm Beach floated in. Hollywood and Fort Lauderdale, with Dania in between, seemed to have felt the full force of the storm, though the Weather Bureau officially located its center over Miami. It would be difficult to imagine more frightful scenes of wreckage than those in the Hollywood-Fort Lauderdale area. Hollywood, seventeen miles north of Miami, had sprung into being like magic under the genius of Joseph W. Young, but it was mowed down like grass before a scythe, and so was Fort Lauderdale. In all of the subdivisions that had been sold and settled during the boom period, Coral Gables seemed to have been the least damaged. The total loss there was estimated at $1,500,000, consisting largely of the injury to ornamental trees and foliage plants.
West Palm Beach was north of the storm track, but there was loss in the breakage of glass and also to the Ocean Boulevard, but the damage there was reported less than had occurred in the July storm.
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