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Show 71, Jeffries, Islamorada [Section 2] "At Islamorada it was 26.35, a record low for the hemisphere. Track sat only seven feet above sea level; water was crashing over it; in the spray the engineer couldn't locate right away the little station, runs several car lengths past, little things like that. "8:20 P.M. "Can you picture men, women, children, them Russells, the bonus army, struggling and wading toward the cars. "At that moment the water backed up over Islamorada in a seventeen-foot tidal wave. "Eye of the hurricane is over Islamorada that night. "Over the next days, there's that unnatural heat after a tropical storm. And 588 bodies counted. Then Islamorada knew the greasy smoke of the cremation pyres. "Years later kids find old automobiles in a rock pit. The out-of-state plates all read 1935." "Tourists!" "Rossmore, there's something I don't understand, this railroad was not a money-maker. . "No it was a. . .like a hobby. See these Standard Oil millionaries such as Rockefeller and Flagler, we don't really apply the standards of men to them, insofar as they was titans. "Now Flagler had run the FEC down through St. Augustine to Palm Beach, and there was a logic to that, |