mate was that five thousand houses had been damaged to the extent of $500 each, total $2,500,000. A close survey would probably prove this to be underestimated. Nearly every house that was damaged at all was hurt to a greater extent than $500. Many were demolished altogether, and some that did not appear to be damaged to any extent from the exterior revealed a sorry plight inside. An insurance journal gave estimates received evidently from insurance adjusters in Miami that the loss in the Miami district was $165,000,000. This figure has the seeming of being more nearly correct, but damage throughout the storm area, a path sixty miles wide across the lower peninsula, a jump across the Gulf to Pensacola, damaging that city to the extent of $2,000,000 after leaving a million dollar loss at Fort Myers, is difficult to estimate. An item of damage which has not been given due consideration was that to ornamental and fruit trees. Many citrus, avocado and mango groves were ruined. The trees were broken and split down the middle, a condition that forbids salvage except by sawing off and rebudding which would cost more, perhaps, than resetting new groves in their places. No adequate estimate can be placed upon this kind of loss. The citrus crop loss was estimated at $5,000,000 to $10,000,000.
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