Tornado Rips Miami A night of terror and calamity in Miami, as a rare tornado smashes through the city, unroofing houses, overturning autos, and hurling telephone poles like monstrous arrows. Casualty lists top one hundred, and property damages exceeds $1 million. Dramatic aftermath scenes. Caucasian people, some still in pajamas or nightgowns, walk among rubble and wreckage. Overturned cars, smashed homes. One car door was impaled (!) by a pole or branch; man pulls it out, shows the hole. Damage.