Before the hurricane, in the late 1800s, Galveston was ranked as the Lone Star State’s largest city. Tourists flocked to the location for the historic sites and enjoyable beaches.

The storm, moving at about 16 mph, would grow to a monstrous size before its center careened up the Houston Ship Channel on Sept. 13 - one of the most destructive storms ever to hit the Galveston ...

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.

GALVESTON, Texas, Sept. 7 -- Before there was the Perfect Storm, there was the Great Storm and Galveston will remember the hurricane on its 100th anniversary Friday. Ceremonies will recognize the ...

A group of windsurfers took advantage of the high waves on the shores of Galveston Island in Texas before Hurricane Beryl made landfall. Newsom calls special session to fund California's legal ...

Hurricane season is here. ... The deadliest hurricane in U.S. history is the Galveston hurricane of 1900, ... 1908, an unnamed storm that arrived months before the season's official start.

In 1900, a Category 4 storm hit Galveston Island, killing an estimated 8,000 people and wiping out nearly all structures. That storm hit decades before oil and gas infrastructure began to line the ...