 Due to racial segregation, all but eight of the victims that received a proper burial at Woodlawn Cemetery were white.The remaining 674 bodies who were black or of an unidentifiable race were mass buried at a site near the junction of 25th Street and Tamarind Avenue, which was the city's paupers' cemetery.After the burials were complete, Mayor Vincent Oaksmith proclaimed an hour of mourning on October 1 for those who died during the storm.