Official: Searchers Find Bodies in Hurricane-Stricken Town

Boats are seen among the rubble along the canals Oct. 12, 2018, in Mexico Beach, Fla., two days after a Category 4 Hurricane Michael devastated the small coastal town just outside PANAMA CITY, Fla. Pedro Portal/Miami Herald via AP

MEXICO BEACH, Fla.—Search-and-rescue teams began finding bodies in and around Mexico Beach, the ground-zero town nearly obliterated by Hurricane Michael, an official said on Oct. 12 as the scale of the storm’s fury became ever clearer. But he gave no details on the number of dead.

The death toll across the South stood at 13, not counting any victims in Mexico Beach.