As the newspapers reported itThe 1926 New York Labor Day rainstorm

1 day of original coverage, September 7, 1926, one clipping a day from the papers of 1926. Newest last, the way readers lived it.

Tuesday, September 7, 1926

New York storm · digging out

As printed: NEW YORK AREA IS DAMAGED BY STORM

ContextOne of the season's heaviest rainstorms struck the metropolitan district at the height of the Labor Day rush, flooding Brooklyn subways waist-deep, washing out pavements and crippling light and power. Two men were killed on the third rail after jumping from a subway train during a panic when a landslide buried two trains, and some 200,000 were marooned at Coney Island.

New Britain Herald · New Britain, Connecticut · page 1 · View the page at the Library of Congress
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