“1935 Labor Day Hurricane...literally, the salt and wind and rain literally blasted clothes off people. That’s how strong that kind of wind is.”
Yep, the force of the sand literally sandblasted away victims facial features and made tem hard to ID. Many were buried in a mass grave in Islamorada.
That hurricane was so strong an compact that people in Miami really didn’t feel anything.
There’s a good book about this hurricane - Storm Of The Century: The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 - by Willie Drye
https://www.amazon.com/Storm-Century-Labor-Hurricane-Adventure/dp/0792280105
Are you sure about that? It's hard to bury people in the Keys because of hard limestone just under the surface. I read that the victims of the 1935 hurricane had their bodies piled in pyramids and then set ablaze.