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"or hurricanes"
The great storms of the Gulf and Keys come each year in October "with the full moon." In 1910 the wind is said to have run 110 miles per hour at Key West.
The motion of the wind is notatory and the vortex rises over the Keys or that daily at some times during the storm, stored in a crust up to his arm pits. A return change of wind are nature takes on an orange color. The entire camp was near the drowning point. Many vessels are wrecked and sailing craft is thrown into the most unimaginable places. One ship was saved by heaving out a small channel for a half mile, another had a channel dugged through the sand for nearly a mile.
It requires these storms that once tore the future of the railway.
Flagler, the builder and owner of the rail- way looks for his return in the frighting of the perishable things as tropical fruits. They expect the ships of Cuba, Central America and later of North America when the Panama canal is built, to unload here at Key West. In this event, Key West is destined to be one of the great shipping ports of the world. It is the great north that cannot be fed and that must cloth.