Telegrapher Oscar Donald Parker (1907-1961), who was able to receive ship radio reports of the 1928 hurricane and then warn people to escape to safe ground.
Several men with beauty contestants in front of a train engine. Published in the Bradenton Herald (16 Jan 1927) with the caption "President S. Davies Warfield, of the Seaboard Air Line Railway, and members of his official party are shown being welcomed as the first section of the Orange Blossom Special arrived in Miami. Standing in front of the engine, which headed the first of the four sections, are, left to right: Miss Grace Mattison, as "Miss Hialeah"; Mr. Warfield, Miss Ruth Wooddall, as "Miss Miami"; Governor John W. Martin, Miss Erma Wooddall, Colonel Peter O. Knight, of Tampa, and E.E. Dammers, mayor of Coral Gables."
