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.

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.

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 ...