[Polybius]

The 35 storm was a 5 tore up the railroad and devestated the area.

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.

[RDTF]

I saw this on the History channel not too long ago. Riveting.

[samantha]

An elderly friend of mine lost her Uncle in that Keys Storm, and it was a horrific tragedy for all of the victim's family members. She was only ten when it hit and was living in Miami, but it is still vivid to her. They never told the Soldiers that the storm was on the way because they did not have good communications.