The Montgomery Advertiser
- Church Services Feature Sabbath Program in Miami
- Redouble Efforts to Rescue Miners
- Climbing Mercury Promised Chicago
The Montgomery Advertiser of September 27, 1926, followed communities confronting disaster and cold. In Miami, thousands attended services for hurricane victims while relief workers continued assisting flooded neighboring towns. At a blocked mine, crews pursued a narrow supply hole and an approach from adjoining workings as families waited for news. A Chicago dispatch forecast warmer weather that would halt further immediate frost damage to Midwestern vegetables and late corn.
Translation
Church Services Feature Sabbath Program in Miami
MIAMI, FLA., Sept. 2*.—(AP)—Regular Sabbath services which took the form of funerals and requiem masses for the many storm victims buried without benefit of clergy were attended by thousands here today.
Churchgoers flocked to places of worship spared by the hurricane of a week ago as well as to temporary structures hastily erected on the sites of those destroyed. A union open-air service in Royal Palm Park attracted hundreds.
The day, however, found no cessation in the work of rehabilitation and relief. Workers concentrated on Fort Lauderdale, Dania, Hollywood and Hialeah, where, with water still flooding most of these regions and many persons reported in need, conditions were described as most desperate.
Redouble Efforts to Rescue Miners
Others continued to remove tons of debris which was carried down a shaft and sealed the men within the mine.
Down the main shaft, in which the cave-in occurred, killing three men trapped in the cage, one crew set to work drilling a one and a half inch hole through 400 feet of debris which blocks the shaft. If the miners are found to be alive, food in tablet form will be sent down to sustain them until a passageway can be dug. Officials believe the men are alive.
Efforts are being continued to clear the main shaft. At the same time another crew, which had entered an adjoining mine a half mile from the wrecked shaft, had started digging from a lower level hoping to connect with the mine level on which the men are trapped.
While it was expected to be some time before the men could be reached, coats, blankets and first aid supplies were brought to the mine today and ambulances were held in readiness, while relatives and friends of the men gathered about the opening awaiting news.
Climbing Mercury Promised Chicago
CHICAGO, Sept. 26.—(AP)—A climbing thermometer tomorrow will end further immediate damage to vegetables and late corn of the middle west, the weather forecast promises.
Unseasonably cold weather from the Great Lakes to as far south as Indianapolis, Ind., and Springfield, Ill., brought frost to some sections and laid a film of ice at several northern Illinois points.
Context
Religious buildings served mourning and relief
The Miami dispatch describes congregations holding funeral services and requiem masses for victims already buried without clergy, using surviving churches and temporary worship spaces while relief continued through Sunday. Religious buildings also supplied space for emergency assistance: a September 26 Jewish Telegraphic Agency report quoted Rabbi I. S. Ravech saying that emergency committees had formed in affected towns and available synagogues had become Red Cross stations. These accounts show how religious communities responded to both disrupted burial rites and urgent material needs after the hurricane. [Jewish Telegraphic Agency](https://www.jta.org/archive/six-jews-perished-and-over-one-hundred-were)
A supply route and a rescue passage had different jobs
The mine rescue depended on operations serving different purposes. One crew drilled a narrow hole through 400 feet of debris so that tablet food could sustain the trapped miners if they were found alive. Another crew entered an adjoining mine half a mile away and dug from a lower level toward the miners’ level, while clearance of the main shaft continued. The small supply opening was intended to keep the men alive until a passage could be opened. Officials’ belief that the men had survived also explains the coats, blankets, first aid supplies and ambulances assembled while relatives waited at the opening.
Late crops faced a race against frost
The Chicago forecast mattered because crops still maturing faced further injury from cold. Wisconsin agronomy guidance, written in 2006 and updated in 2014, explains that freezing before corn matures can reduce yield and quality, while lightly damaged corn may continue maturing if conditions improve. Iowa State’s guidance, reviewed in 2024, distinguishes frost-sensitive vegetables from hardier crops whose harvest can continue afterward. These later explanations clarify why a warmer spell could help remaining crops and why vegetables would not all suffer alike; the newspaper promised an end to further immediate damage, not recovery of crops already destroyed. [Wisconsin](https://corn.agronomy.wisc.edu/Management/L041.aspx), [Iowa State](https://yardandgarden.extension.iastate.edu/how-to/fall-planting-vegetables)
Original
CHURCH SERVICES FEATURE SABBATH PROGRAM IN MIAMI
MIAMI, FLA.. Sept. 2*.—(AP)—Reg
ular Sabbath services which took the
form of funerals and requiem masses
for the many storm victims burled
without benefit of clergy, were at
tended by thousands here today.
Churchgoers flocked to places of
worship spared by the hurricane of a
week ago as well as to temporary
structures hastily erected on the sites
of those destroyed. A union open air
service in Royal Palm Park attracted
hundreds.
The day, however, found no cessa
tion In the work of rehabilitation and
relief. Workers concentrated on Fort
Lauderdale, Danla, Hollywood and Hia
leah, where, with water still flooding
most of th^se regions ahd many per
sons reported In need, conditions wsie
described as roost desperate.
REDOUBLE EFFORTS TO RESCUE MINERS
Others continued to remove tons of
debris which carried down a shaft and
sealed the men within the mine,
Down the main shaft. In wh^ch the
cave-ln occurred, killing three men
trapped in the cage, one crew set to
work drilling a one and half ipch hole
through 400 feet of debris which blocks
the shaft. If the miners are found to
be alive, food in tablet form will be
sent down to sustain them until a pas
sage way can be dug. Officials be
lieve the men are alive.
Efforts are being continued tp clear
the main shaft. At the same, time
another crew, which had entered an ad
joining mine a half mile from the
wrecked shaft, had started digging
from a lower level hoping to connect j
with the mine level on which the man
are trapped.
While it was expected to be. some
time before the men could be reached,
coats, blankets and first aid supplies
were brought to the mine today and
ambulances were held in readiness,
while relatives and friends of the men
gathered about the opening awaiting
news.
CLIMBING MERCURY PROMISED CHICAGO
CHICAGO. Sept. 26.—(AP)--A climb
ing thermometer tomorrow will end
further Immediate damage to vege
tables and late corn of the middle
west, the weather forecast promises.
Unseasonably cold weather from the
Great Lakes to as far-south as Indian^
apolls. Ind.. and Springfield. III.
brought frost to some sections and
laid a film of ice at several northern
Illinois points.
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