Rescue train swept off the tracks by the 1935 Labor Day hurricane

Title

• Rescue train swept off the tracks by the 1935 Labor Day hurricane

Image Number

• N041488

Year

• 1935

Date Note

• Photographed in Florida Keys on September 5, 1935.

Series Title

• General: General collection

Biography Note

• The hurricane washed this eleven car special train off the track soon after reaching the strickened area. The train was trying to rescue 683 World War I veterans in a rehabilitation camp, of which around 250 died as a result of the hurricane. The veterans, a remnant of the Bonus Army that marched on Washington, were employed for highway construction in the federal work relief project.

Physical Description

• 1 photonegative - b&w - 4 x 5 in.

Subject Term

• Hurricanes--Florida--Islamorada
• Railroad accidents

Geographic Term

• Upper Matecumbe Key (Fla.)
• Overseas Highway and Railway Bridges (Fla.)
• Islamorada (Fla.)

Subject Corporate

• Florida East Coast Railway.

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