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In 1934, hundreds of jobless World War I veterans were sent to the remote Florida Keys to build a highway from Miami to Key West. The Roosevelt Administration was making a genuine effort to help these down-and-out vets, many of whom suffered from what is known today as post-traumatic stress disorder. But the attempt to help them turned into a tragedy. The supervisors in charge of the veterans misunderstood the danger posed by hurricanes in the low-lying Florida Keys. In late August 1935, a small, stealthy tropical storm crossed the Bahamas, causing little damage. When it entered the Straits of Florida, however, it exploded into one of the most powerful hurricanes on record. But US Weather Bureau forecasters could only guess at its exact position, and their calculations were well off the mark. The hurricane that struck the Upper Florida Keys on the evening of September 2, 1935 is still the most powerful hurricane to make landfall in the US. Supervisors waited too long to call for an evacuation train from Miami to move the vets out of harms way. The train was slammed by the storm surge soon after it reached Islamorada. Only the 160-ton locomotive was left upright on the tracks. About 400 veterans were left unprotected in flimsy work camps. Around 260 of them were killed. This is their story, with newly discovered photos and stories of some of the heroes of the Labor Day 1935 calamity.

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The sources listed below represent a selection of sources consulted during the research for the first and second editions of Storm of the Century: The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 .

Books and Pamphlets

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Tufty, Barbara. 1001 Questions Answered About Hurricanes, Tornadoes, and Other Natural Air Disasters . New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1970; New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1987.

Viele, John. The Florida Keys: A History of the Pioneers . Sarasota, FL: Pineapple Press, 1996.

Journals and Periodicals

Report of Special Investigating Committee, Florida Hurricane Disaster. Digest of Minutes , National Executive Committee Meeting, American Legion magazine, November 1936.

Bellamy, Jeanne. Newspapers of Americas Last Frontier. Tequesta: The Journal of the Historical Association of Southern Florida , no. 12 (1952).

Boulard, Garry. State of Emergency: Key West in the Great Depression. Florida Historical Quarterly , vol. 67, no. 2, October 1988.

Bremer, William W. Along the American Way: The New Deals Work Relief Programs for the Unemployed. The Journal of American History 62, no. 3 (1975): 63652.

Burt, Al. Fury in the Keys. Tropic magazine, August 20, 1978.

Cox, Merlin G. David Sholtz: New Deal Governor of Florida. Florida Historical Quarterly , vol. 43, no. 2, October 1964.

Davis, Elmer. New World Symphony. Harpers Magazine , May 1935.

Gentry, Richard E. Early Families of Upper Matecumbe. Tequesta: The Journal of the Historical Association of Southern Florida , no. 34 (1974).

Hemingway, Ernest. The Sights of Whitehead Street: A Key West Letter. Esquire magazine, April 1935.

. Who Murdered The Vets? New Masses magazine, September 17, 1935.

Jeans, Paul. Tropical Disturbance: The Story of the Making of the Miami Tribune. Miami Tribune , April 4, 1937.

McDonald, W. F. Lowest Barometer Reading in the Florida Keys Storm of September 2, 1935. Monthly Weather Review , October 1935.

. The Hurricane of August 31 to September 6, 1935. Monthly Weather Review , September 1935.

Mitchell, Charles L. The West Indian Hurricane of September 1422, 1926. Monthly Weather Review , October 1926.

Painton, Fred C. Rendezvous with Death. American Legion magazine, November 1935.

Rovers, Richard. End of the Line. The New Yorker , December 15, 1951.

Weightman, R. Hanborn. West Indian Hurricanes of August 1928. Monthly Weather Review , October 1928.

Saunders, William H. The Wreck of Houseboat No. 4, October 1906. Tequesta: The Journal of the Historical Association of Southern Florida , no. 19 (1959).

Websites

www.rice.edu/fondren/woodson/exhibits/wac/rogers.html: Edith Nourse Rogers biography by Dorothy M. Brown.

www.indo.com/distance/: a website maintained by Darrell Kindred that provides a link to a navigation computer.

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