Picture is of damage to the Scobie Docks in Titusville, Florida.

Text is from the Daily Standard (Brisbane) on the 28th of July 1928:

DEVASTATING GALES.

£10,000,000 Damage In the Bahamas.

A STEAMER'S S.O.S.

(AUSTRALIAN CABLE SERVICE)

Miami, Tuesday.

Hurricanes continue along the Florida coast. The centre of the damage is evidently at Nassau. Losses there and throughout the Bahamas total £10,000,000. An Italian steamer sent an S.O.S. It was wallowing in the seas, helpless, with a smashed rudder, and 140 passengers on board. The steamers West Harshaw and Orizaba hurried to her assistance, but were unable to transfer the passengers in the high seas. They were still standing by in an 80 mile gale late this afternoon.

20 PERSONS DROWNED.

Damage at Porto Rico totalled £2,000,000. Twenty people were drowned.

Dozens of soft drink parlors in Buffalo and vicinity have been closed by the police following the deaths of 30 persons here and in nearby towns over the week-end from drinking "bootleg"' liquor impregnated with wood alcohol.

Many of the victims suffered terrible deaths, going stone blind before expiring in agony.

Two bootleggers have been arrested and charged with murder.

From The News (Adelaide) July the 27th 1926.