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The Great Storm of 1900 slammed into Galveston on Sept. 8, 1900 without warning, killing at least 6,000 people and changing the island forever.
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.
As Galveston Evacuates Before Hurricane Laura, Some Choose To Weather The Storm. The northbound lanes of the Gulf Freeway were already seeing heavier than usual traffic and some gas stations were ...
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.
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 ...
Ironically, until the storm hit Galveston was known as a kind of refuge for orphans, having two fully operating homes for parent-less youngsters in a city of just 37,000 people in 1900.
A professor of history at the University of North Texas and co-author of the book "Galveston and the 1900 Storm" discusses the devastating hurricane in 1900 that nearly wiped Galveston, Texas off ...
Forecasters expected it to turn north, but it headed west instead. The cyclone intensified into a major storm before making landfall near Galveston September 8,1900. The storm, weakened but alive, ...
That’s because he thinks that Galveston waited too long in ordering a mandatory citywide evacuation less than two days before Hurricane Ike’s Sept. 13 landfall.
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