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The 1935 Labor Day Hurricane was an extremely powerful and devastating Atlantic hurricane that struck the southeastern United States in early September 1935. For several decades it was: the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record in terms of barometric pressure, until surpassed by Hurricane Gilbert in 1988; [1] the strongest Atlantic ...
Sep 8, 2017 · It hit the Florida Keys on September 2, 1935. It was late summer, in the depths of the Great Depression. In the once-prosperous city of Key West, residents were trying to survive on an average ...
The Morgan liner Dixie, which went aground on a Florida reef during the Labor Day hurricane, was towed to her pier yesterday by the Merritt-Chapman-Scott salvage tug Relief, after a voyage...
Boats which had been left at the city mooring dock, adjacent to the Air Station were badly battered, and four boats sank at the dock. At 7:00 p.m., second of September, the city power supply failed, and our Kohler system was used to supply power for the station. At 8:00 p.m. telephone communications failed.
For four hours during the height of the hurricane that swept the Morgan liner Dixie onto French Reef off the Florida coast on the night of Sept. 2 the ship was virtually unmanageable and...
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Sep 7, 2017 · (AP) It was Labor Day, Sept. 2, 1935, when the nation’s first-recorded Category 5 hurricane struck the Florida Keys. The winds: between 200 and 250 miles per hour. The storm surge: 15 feet...
The Labor Day Hurricane that struck the Florida Keys on September 2, 1935 is the most powerful storm to ever hit the United States. With wind gusts estimated up to 225 miles per hour and a storm surge bringing waves as high as 20 feet ashore; the hurricane was devastating.
