![]() ![]() Photo taken MaCremated remains were placed beneath this tile memorial. Main-buried at Arlington National Cemetery In addition-a US Army medical officer died in the hurricane Major Daniel C. *7 Civilians and 7 Veterans unknown/buried *6 Civilians and 9 Veterans sent to relatives *42 Civilians and 81 Veterans known/buried 1 at mile marker 82 near site of Islamorada Post officeĪccording to reports of deceased in 1935 Hurricane: Monument/Crypt is Standing just east of U.S. Public health officials ordered plain wood coffins holding the dead to be stacked and burned in several locations. Three days after the storm, corpses had swelled and split open due to the tropical heat. The links-rail, road, and ferry boats-that chained the islands together were broken. Nearly every structure was demolished bridges and railway embankments were washed away. The hurricane left a path of near-complete destruction in the Upper Keys centered on what is today the village of Islamorada. ![]() An estimated 423 people died as a result of the storm - an estimated 259 of them were World War I veterans, who were on a road project to build a bridge in the upper Keys. This hurricane is sometimes referred to as the "Storm of the Century". To date, it is believed by some to be the strongest hurricane to ever strike the United States, and one of only a few to strike the US as a Category 5 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale. The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 was a very compact storm that caused catastrophic destruction in the Florida Keys. ![]()
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