Posted on Sep 2, 2021
Most powerful hurricane in U.S. history? AP was there for Labor Day hurricane of 1935
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On September 2, 1935, the Labor Day hurricane made landfall in Florida killing over 400 people. It is the strongest and most intense hurricane ever to make landfall in the United States. Form the article:
"The 1935 Labor Day Hurricane, which hit the Florida Keys, was the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the United States, based on barometric pressure. The hurricane killed 408 people and was one of the 10 deadliest storms in U.S. history.
The Associated Press was there and published this story on Sept. 2, 1935.
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The fury of a tropical storm beat across the Florida keys tonight and as it whirled northwestward the entire southern tip of the peninsula was warned of possible hurricane winds.
Citizens of Key West breathed a sigh of relief as the storm center moved to the northward of the island city but those in mainland cities and towns all the way around the coast from West Palm Beach to Carrabelle on the Gulf hastily took precautions.
An advisory at 10 p.m. placed the center of the disturbance near Matacumbe key, about fifty miles north of Key West and seventy-five miles southwest of Miami. A lighthouse keeper at Alligator key, seventy-five miles northeast of Key West, reported a sustained wind of eighty miles an hour swept the keys in that vicinity around 9 p.m.
Little Damage Known
Only minor damage reports had been received. No word had come from Matacumbe where a special railway train went late today to remove 700 veterans engaged in highway construction there.
The dispatcher’s office was inclined to believe the train had reached its destination, but was halted there by the storm. Railway telegraph and telephone lines were down south of Homestead.
Traffic confusion caused of number of automobile collisions in Miami and a five-story construction elevator was blown over at Miami Beach, without damage to adjacent property. Small debris was being blown about in several cities and towns in the southern area, mostly from trees and shrubbery.
Two Boys Saved
Hugh O’Neal, 50, was taken to a hospital here when he suffered cuts from a wind-blown plank.
Two boys, Don and Harold Summers, marooned on a small island in Biscayne bay here, were rescued by the marine ambulance Philcris as they clung to coconut palms to avoid being washed away by the huge waves.
They had gone into the bay this afternoon in an auxiliary powered sailboat but the motor failed when a wave slapped the side of the craft. The boys, fourteen and fifteen years old, managed to reach the island and tied their shirts to the upper fronds of the palm trees to attract attention.
Some resident of Everglades, on the West coast, left for Fort Myers until the passage of the storm.
The disturbance was described by the weather bureau as of full hurricane intensity but rather small in diameter, moving northwestward.
Northeast storm warnings were ordered from West Palm Beach northward to Titusville on the Atlantic coast and from Punta Gorda to Carrabelle on the west."
On September 2, 1935, the Labor Day hurricane made landfall in Florida killing over 400 people. It is the strongest and most intense hurricane ever to make landfall in the United States. Form the article:
"The 1935 Labor Day Hurricane, which hit the Florida Keys, was the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the United States, based on barometric pressure. The hurricane killed 408 people and was one of the 10 deadliest storms in U.S. history.
The Associated Press was there and published this story on Sept. 2, 1935.
——
The fury of a tropical storm beat across the Florida keys tonight and as it whirled northwestward the entire southern tip of the peninsula was warned of possible hurricane winds.
Citizens of Key West breathed a sigh of relief as the storm center moved to the northward of the island city but those in mainland cities and towns all the way around the coast from West Palm Beach to Carrabelle on the Gulf hastily took precautions.
An advisory at 10 p.m. placed the center of the disturbance near Matacumbe key, about fifty miles north of Key West and seventy-five miles southwest of Miami. A lighthouse keeper at Alligator key, seventy-five miles northeast of Key West, reported a sustained wind of eighty miles an hour swept the keys in that vicinity around 9 p.m.
Little Damage Known
Only minor damage reports had been received. No word had come from Matacumbe where a special railway train went late today to remove 700 veterans engaged in highway construction there.
The dispatcher’s office was inclined to believe the train had reached its destination, but was halted there by the storm. Railway telegraph and telephone lines were down south of Homestead.
Traffic confusion caused of number of automobile collisions in Miami and a five-story construction elevator was blown over at Miami Beach, without damage to adjacent property. Small debris was being blown about in several cities and towns in the southern area, mostly from trees and shrubbery.
Two Boys Saved
Hugh O’Neal, 50, was taken to a hospital here when he suffered cuts from a wind-blown plank.
Two boys, Don and Harold Summers, marooned on a small island in Biscayne bay here, were rescued by the marine ambulance Philcris as they clung to coconut palms to avoid being washed away by the huge waves.
They had gone into the bay this afternoon in an auxiliary powered sailboat but the motor failed when a wave slapped the side of the craft. The boys, fourteen and fifteen years old, managed to reach the island and tied their shirts to the upper fronds of the palm trees to attract attention.
Some resident of Everglades, on the West coast, left for Fort Myers until the passage of the storm.
The disturbance was described by the weather bureau as of full hurricane intensity but rather small in diameter, moving northwestward.
Northeast storm warnings were ordered from West Palm Beach northward to Titusville on the Atlantic coast and from Punta Gorda to Carrabelle on the west."
Most powerful hurricane in U.S. history? AP was there for Labor Day hurricane of 1935
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