I veterans building a bridge from the Keys to the mainland. Carla also spawns a tornado which sweeps across Galveston Island killing eight persons. This is the latest such occurrence on record, excluding 1875 when it was never reached. Great New England Hurricane strikes the New England coast. Storm rapidly crosses Long Island, New York and New Haven, Connecticut and then moves through Massachusetts and Vermont.
Storm causes massive forest damage, widespread flooding and coastal damage.
Over 600 deaths attributed to storm. It was the worst storm in nearly two centuries, equal in strength to the 1938 hurricane. Afternoon thunderstorms in drop inch-diameter hail on Pinckney, Michigan, and wind gusts to 68 mph at Wyandotte. Another thunderstorm in northern Indiana produces wet snow at South Bend. Typhoon winds fan fires set by quake.