I'm still tracking down the bits and pieces.

Two months, almost to the day, before the big September 1928 storm this song came out about the 1926 Miami hurricane. The Palm Beach Post bunch never picked up on the similarities for some reason:

Florida Storm

"September eighteenth, nineteen hundred and twenty-six,
The people cried mercy in the storm,
Their cries were too late their crying was in vain,
Crying, Lord have mercy in the storm...."

(J.Jackson, July 13,1928, The Colored Sacred Harp, p.87-89)

Joe: Your call on moving all of the above to the main "hurricane" thread:
https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=72422