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The Big Blow Broward County and the 1926 Hurricane A P U B L I C A TION OF THE B ROW A R D C O U N T Y H ISTORIC A L C OMMISSION volume 28 • number 1 • summer 2008 The Big Blow Broward County and the 1926 Hurricane The Original Palm Avenue Swing Bridge Book Review: Florida’s Big Dig Curcie House, circa 1920s You Can Help Save History from the Dust Heap. Each day more of our local history is lost by the passage of time, the passing of early pioneers, and the loss of historic and archaeological sites throughout Broward County. But you can help. The Broward County Historical Commission has been working to preserve local history since 1972 with help from people like you. By donating old family photos and documents, volunteering at events, and providing donations to the Broward County Historical Commission Trust Fund, your efforts help preserve our history. Consider how you can help save our heritage and create a legacy for your community by contributing your time, historical items, or your generosity. What you do today maintains the dignity of history for the future. Call us at 954-765-4671. Monetary donations may be made to: Broward County Historical Commission Trust Fund 151 SW 2 Street Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301 Christopher Eck Collection A publicati O N O F the B R O ward C O unt Y H ist O rical C O mmissi O N Board of County Commissioners Ilene Lieberman, Commissioner, District 1 Kristin D. Jacobs, volume 28 • number 1 • summer 2008 Commissioner, District 2 Stacy Ritter, Broward County Vice Mayor and Commissioner, District 3 features Ken Keechl, Commissioner, District 4 Lois Wexler, Broward County Mayor and The Big Blow Commissioner, District 5 Broward County and Sue Gunzburger, Commissioner, District 6 the 1926 Hurricane John E. Rodstrom, Jr., Commissioner, District 7 By Denyse Cunningham Diana Wasserman-Rubin, Page 2 Commissioner, District 8 Josephus Eggelletion, Jr., Broward County Commissioner, District 9 Spotlight: Bertha Henry, Interim County Administrator Historic 1916 Cottage Broward County Historical Commissioners Moves to City Park Phyllis Loconto, Chair By Diane Greer Smart Hazel K. Armbrister, Page 30 Vice Chair Thomas A. Hasis, Secretary The Original Palm James Bradley Betty Whatley Cobb Avenue Swing Bridge Ray Collier by Robert K. Hathaway William G. Crawford, Jr. Wally Elfers Page 33 Gypsy Graves Mona Habib Elsie Johns Sandy Johnson Book Review: Bill Julian Margaret McPherson Florida’s Big Dig Veronica Quiñones-Laughlin By William G. Crawford, Jr. Christopher Ryan Reviewed by Donald C. Gaby Dawn LaVoir Marla Sherman Dumas Page 41 Frank Fernandez Broward Historical Copyright 2008, by the Broward County Historical Commission. All rights reserved. No part of this work may Commission Staff be reproduced or copied in any form or by any means, whether graphic, electronic or mechanical, including Helen Landers, photocopying, recording, taping or information and retrieval systems, without permission of the publisher. Broward County Historian Broward Legacy is published semi-annually by the Broward County Historical Commission. Location and mailing address: Broward County Historical Museum Dave Baber, 151 S.W. 2nd Street, 2nd Floor Administrator Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301 Denyse Cunningham, Phone: 954-765-4670 • FAX: 954-765-4437 Editor, Curator Annual subscriptions and back issues are available. Marcia Seldine, Unless otherwise noted, photographs are from the archives of the Historical Commission. Administrative Coordinator 1 Neither the Board of County Commissioners of Broward County, Florida, nor the Broward County Historical Matthew DeFelice, Commission is responsible for the statements, conclusions or observations herein contained, such matters being County Archeologist the sole responsibility of the authors. This public document was promulgated at a cost of $2,369.00, or $2.369 per copy, to provide historical information to the public about Broward County. The Big Blow: Broward County and the 1926 Hurricane by Denyse Cunningham n the night of September 17, 1926, a hurricane struck the southeast coast of OFlorida. Winds of 140 miles per hour hit Miami-Dade and South Broward. The storm started around midnight on Friday and raged and scourged the Florida East Coast for twelve hours.1 The U.S. Weather Bureau in Miami described the storm as probably the most destructive hurricane ever to hit the United States. Occurring many years before hurricanes were first formerly named, the storm was known to those who suffered through it as “The Hurricane” or “The Big Blow.” 2 • Broward Legacy Wall Street looking west. Bryan Family Collection n Broward County alone the Laura Crawley, 42, was found Philemon Crory, buried in Dania Ideath toll reached at least 64; in Lake Mable; her home was in cemetery24 in the entire state the number Nashville, N. C. and she was visiting Phyllis Crory, buried in Dania was nearly 400. The local paper from Ocala10 cemetery25 reported that 15 died in Fort R. D. Crawley11 Jim J. Gordon, Hollywood, died in Lauderdale, 25 in Hollywood Alma Thompson, 23 and infant12 hospital of injuries26 and 9 in Dania, but the death toll Walter Martin, Fort Lauderdale13 Unknown woman, found in varies from source to source. 14 wreckage in Hollywood27 More than 800 others affected by Four African-Americans the storm were never accounted Others who lost their lives included: Grady Albert Rogers, 36, 28 for.2 The Chamber of Commerce Leroy Bishop, internal injuries15 Hollywood tried to assist friends and relatives The infant child of Ivan and D.A. J. Wunneberg, Biscayne Park, desperate to find their loved ones. Francis Montgomery Austin, (formerly of Burlington), Iowa, 29 Information requests appeared in Fort Lauderdale16 buried in Dania 30 the paper listing those missing. Frank Williams, 59, Fort Vick Driver The Fort Lauderdale Daily News Lauderdale, African-American17 James Terrell, 31, Hollywood31 on September 22, 1926, listed the J. B. Story18 George Frass, at Administration 32 following victims of the storm: Robert Nelson, African-American, Building in Hollywood Mrs. A. W. (Fern) Tillman, 34, of exposure19 Florence Goodrich, residence 3 Progresso Jack Merrel, 58, of Danville, Illinois20 unknown, at Administration Building in Hollywood33 Robert Tillman, 3, son of Peter and Mrs. Havelock (Edna Allen) 4 34 Fern, Progresso Churchill, Dania, body was found Mrs. Sarah Head Bertha Tillman, daughter of Peter in the wreckage21 L. W. Pool, at Administration 5 35 and Fern, Progresso Roy G. Coleman, 27, bookkeeper Building in Hollywood Martha Tillman, 10, daughter of for Sawyer Motor Company of Mrs. L. P. Pool, at Administration Peter and Fern, Progresso6 Hollywood, found in the wreckage Building in Hollywood36 P. E. Gamble, 317 of his home in the Little Ranches Mrs. Rhonda Louisa Priest, 55, James Terrell, Hollywood, 318 section22 at Administration Building in 37 Ralph McClure, 31, Fort Lauderdale9 Margorie Emma Crory, buried in Hollywood 23 Dania cemetery Volume 28 • Number 1 • Broward Legacy • 3 The Beach Road, now A1A, was washed away by the storm. Meeks Collection Peter Vighes, 2117 Polk 50, wore blue overalls, Andrew Hevelock, Dania53 Of the 64 individuals Street, at Administration killed in Sawyer Motor Henry Grady Luther, 34, listed only two were Building in Hollywood38 Company, body at Dania, buried Sunday54 registered to vote in 42 Grady Albert, 36, from Hollywood Mortuary Peter (or John N.) Broward County. Only Hollywood Mortuary39 Thomas M. McCarrell, Jr., McAllister, Dania, at one was listed in the 1926 Mrs. Yeager, Washington 22, Hollywood43 Administration Building55 Fort Lauderdale City Street, at Administration Gordon Brown, 35, Grant Directory and Broward Andrew McFarland, 64 40 County Gazetteer. This Building in Hollywood Street, at Hollywood Dania, at Hollywood 44 is not surprising given George W. Vinson, 30. Mr. Mortuary Mortuary56 the huge number of Vinson died at the local Mrs. Gordon Brown, Mrs. R. W. Moore, newcomers who moved hospital October 5, 1926 Dania, at Hollywood Dania57 45 to Broward County in from injuries received Mortuary 58 Moore infant, Dania the boom years of the during the storm. Vinson Murlean Brown, Dania, 4, Jenny Ferral, Dania60 early 1920s. The Fort had been in Florida only 10 at Hollywood Mortuary46 Mrs. H. J. Kimball, Lauderdale News of days, going to Hollywood 47 Annie Carley, Dania 61 September 17, 1926 in search of a home, when Hallandale Mrs. Cory, Dania at warned on the front page the hurricane struck the Infant Kimball, Hollywood Administration 62 that “Signals Warning of coast. Mrs. Vinson was still Hallandale Building48 Storm Given Between in the hospital suffering Earl Bateman of Davie Key West and Jupiter. from a fractured skull and Mrs. J. H. Craft, Dania, 49 was listed in the local Weather Bureau reports other injuries. Her mother at Hollywood Mortuary paper as “critical with ‘Very Severe Storm’ and sister were killed, all Nettie Hickman, Dania, fractured skull” but, of Hurricane Force being crushed beneath at Administration Building luckily for him, he appears Centering off Bahama the house.41 Netty Kielman, Dania50 in the 1930 Federal [sic] Islands; Coast May 51 Unidentified man, about Leon Helms, Dania Census with the rest of his Escape.” Most of the 63 Lorena Helms, Dania52 family in Davie. victims had not lived 4 • Broward Legacy through a storm of this type. They may not have prepared. Also, an earlier rather mild storm had occurred that summer, so many thought that was all the damage a hurricane could do. Many Homes and Las Olas Beach Devastated Fifteen thousand homes were damaged in the entire storm and 6,000 to 7,000 of these were totally destroyed.65 In a complete survey of storm damage made by the Red Cross to assist in administering aid relief, it was estimated that in Fort Lauderdale 868 homes Red Cross tents were set up to house the homeless. were entirely destroyed, 76 in Floranada (now Oakland Park) and 88 in Davie.66 Property loss was estimated to be from 8 to 10 million dollars in Fort Lauderdale.
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