Before modern forecasting, hurricanes were mass casualty events. The 1900 Galveston Hurricane killed over 8,000 people, wiping out an entire city with a 15-foot storm surge. Less than a century ago, ...

Hurricane and Flood. This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996.

Sept. 8 will mark the anniversary of the worst natural disaster in U.S. history – the Great Hurricane of 1900 that devastated Galveston.

The federal infrastructure bill’s passage renewed hopes that Texas would finally get a coastal storm barrier. But Galveston and Houston could still get hit by a hurricane before it is built ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The Hurricane of 1900 that struck Galveston was an unspeakable tragedy that may have killed as many as 8,000 people, although the exact toll will never be known. However, there ...