Freaks of the Storm
{{di|O||NE of the most impressive evidences which the wind left as a token of its force was the steel flag pole in front of the fire station at Miami Beach, which was bent into a triangle, and another was the huge dredgeboat of the Meteor Transport Company which was cast up on the County Causeway, crushing a yacht of considerable size as it was beached.
Among those most thrilled by the storm were Mr. and Mrs. Chas. J. Blake, of New York, who were occupying a ground floor apartment at Miami Beach, only a few blocks from the ocean. In the midst of the storm they heard a call for help, which proceeded from a building to the rear of the apartment from a couple who feared that their house was doomed and wished for assistance in removing their children. Mr. Blake felt duty bound to respond, and started out alone, facing the wind and feeling his way to the house, which he found empty. The occupants had been rescued by two men who were in the apartment above the Blakes. They had gone out through the back door, holding hands, as a protection, and had reached the house before Mr. Blake got there. When they returned and Mr. Blake was not with them, Mrs. Blake became frantic and implored them to rescue her husband, whereupon the men returned to the scene of the first rescue, but in the meantime Mr. Blake had made a safe return. Nobody was injured, but for the time being there was plenty of excitement, as there was cause to be, for it was easy enough for one to be lost in the storm when rain was blowing down in sheets and it was impossible to see more than a few feet ahead.
One Miami Beach resident made a ghastly find on his front porch after the storm in the form of a man's dead body which had floated in, probably one of the many who were drowned on dredges and other vessels .
It was a common thing to see a mere shack of frame structure standing undamaged by the side of a concrete house that had been demolished.Queerest of all the many idiosyncrasies of the storm, perhaps, was the sparing of two beach umbrellas that were left standing after practically every building about them had succumbed to the combined furies of wind and water.
Many physicians and nurses from other cities in and out of Florida came to Miami to assist in relief work, and some weeks after
