Lowest pressure?

It says in this article:

. . . the central pressure was unofficially measured as low as 26.35 inches of mercury (892 hPa). This measurement of barometric pressure was lower than in the other two category 5 hurricanes, Camille and Andrew, and a record for the Western Hemisphere.

But it says in the Hurricane Gilbert article:

Gilbert also reached a minimum pressure of 888 millibars, the lowest pressure on record in the western hemisphere.

Is this article trying to say that the Labor Day hurricane set a record for lowest barometric pressure in the western hemisphere at the time (if so, that could be made clearer)? Or is the Gilbert article faulty? Or something else? --Camembert

Most sources I've seen list the labor day hurricane as the strongest (lowest pressure). But I don't necessarily believe the gilbert article is incorrect. The most reliable hurricane data comes from the NOAA which is very US-centric. Mitch isn't included in any of the lists, and although Gilbert did cross the mainland US it wasn't a very strong hurricane when it did so. Jdorje 22:20, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Update: I found some NOAA data on Gilbert that confirmed the 888 number. So I added the external links to Gilbert and changed the labor-day article. Jdorje 22:38, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The article said that the Labor Day storm had the lowest pressure? I know this to be completely false. It's pressure was the lowest of a hurricane to hit the U.S, not the lowest in the Western Hemisphere.

-E. Brown, Hurricane enthusiast

I'm making some changes after checking back on some references. In particular, Marjory Stoneman Douglas' book HURRICANE, Rinehart & Company (1958). Keys Historian Jerry Wilkinson calls it "the best account" on his Keys history website. This and other info on the Keys History Museum site contradict some of the current narrative. In particular, that the vets died on the relief train. In fact, the train never made it that far; its only passengers were 11 Keys residents it picked up on its way down to the FKRA work camp. The number of vets killed on the train in the current version is actually the total number killed, according to the coroner's report, which I cite now in the article.

One poignant detail from Hurricane is that the vets were waiting by the train platform for the evacuation train. They kept thinking they heard it coming. Never has the cliche about a storm sounding just like a train been more tragic. DavidH 01:25, July 18, 2005 (UTC)