A look back at the devastating Great Miami Hurricane, 100 years later

"Late that night, in absolute darkness, it hit, with the far shrieking screams, the queer rumbling of a vast and irresistible freight train." (Marjory Stoneman Douglas)

A look back at the devastating Great Miami Hurricane, 100 years later

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"Late that night, in absolute darkness, it hit, with the far shrieking screams, the queer rumbling of a vast and irresistible freight train." (Marjory Stoneman Douglas)

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"Late that night, in absolute darkness, it hit, with the far shrieking screams, the queer rumbling of a vast and irresistible freight train." (Marjory Stoneman Douglas)

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