It also killed at least 423 people that included 259 World War One veterans employed by the WPA to work on the Overseas Highway Project. Some of the bodies were recovered as far away as Cape Sable (the southern tip of what is now Everglades National Park).
Most of those veterans died when the storm surge hit this train that had been sent from Miami to recue them.
About 350 veterans were already in Miami that Labor Day to watch a baseball game. If it had not been for that Labor Day baseball game, the death toll would have been much higher.