The Complete Story of the Galveston Horror

On Friday, May 31, 1889, at 12:45 p. m., the stones in the center of the dam which confined the waters of Conemaugh Lake began to sink because of leaks in the masonry; at 1 o'cl...

The actual number of lives lost at Galveston will never be known, but over 4,500 bodies of victims of the frightful catastrophe were identified; and these, together with the hun...

The experiences and adventures of those who were in the great and disastrous storm and escaped only after undergoing frightful anxiety, make interesting reading. Those who emerg...

Houston was the great rendezvous for supplies sent to Galveston, and they poured in there by the carload, beginning with Tuesday. The response to the appeal for aid by the peopl...

The frightful West Indian hurricane which descended upon the beautiful, prosperous and progressive, but ill-fated, city of Galveston, on Saturday, September 8, 1900, causing the...

Fully 1,500 bodies were cremated at Galveston after it became apparent that the time necessary to bury them or cast them into the sea could not be taken, owing to their advanced...

It was given out from Galveston on Tuesday, September 20, that so far as could be ascertained on that date, the loss of life in the great catastrophe was as follows:

Relief Sent from All Parts of the World as Soon as the True Situation of Affairs was Made Known--Millions of Dollars Subscribed and Thousands of Carloads of Supplies Forwarded t...

Twenty thousand people were fed and cared for daily in Galveston for many days with the supplies which poured in from all parts of the country. This number was cut at least one-...

The surviving people of Galveston did not awaken from sleep on Sunday morning, for they had not slept the night before. For many weary hours they had stood face to face with dea...

Business Resumed at Galveston in a Small Way on the Sixth Day after the Catastrophe--"Galveston Shall Rise Again"--How the City Looked On Saturday, One Week after the Flood.

Galveston Island, with a stretch of thirty-five miles, rises only five feet above the level of high tide. To the south is an unbroken sweep of sea for 800 miles. Twelve hundred...

A woman--a newspaper correspondent, and the first of the fair sex from the outside to gain admittance to the Sealed City of Galveston--wrote a description of what she saw and he...

Perhaps the world is not so bad as it has been painted, or so heartless and indifferent as some pessimists would have us believe. Ordinarily men and women have enough to do in a...

One of the serious dangers which Galveston faced for many days was fire. Not a drop of rain had fallen during the two weeks succeeding the hurricane, and the hot winds and blist...

Galveston's property loss by the hurricane was hardly less than $20,000,000; outside of that city, in Houston and other points in Central and Southern Texas, together with the a...

Hundreds of people became insane during the week succeeding the flood. They had bravely borne the loss of relatives, the hunger and fatigue, had apparently been unmindful of the...

The situation at Galveston on Saturday night, just a week after the calamity, was thus described by a competent authority who arrived in the city the day after the flood:

Monday, September 17, Galveston presented a far different appearance than the Monday previous. Street cars were in operation in the business part of the city and the electric li...

Although Galveston had been struck three times with floods and hurricanes even this experience was not enough to convince the residents that it might happen again. Only a few of...

Since the great flood which covered the earth, and of which Noah and his family were the only survivors, the world has seen many calamities of this nature, and millions of lives...

Until the elements wreaked their vengeance upon the fair City of Galveston and vented their wrath upon its unoffending population, the awful disaster at Johnstown, Pa., which oc...

When the hurricane was through with Galveston and central and southern Texas it sped north through Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska--its path being 300 miles in width--and then tur...

Relief Sent from All Parts of the World as Soon as the True Situation of Affairs Was Made Known--Millions of Dollars Subscribed and Thousands of Carloads of Supplies Forwarded t...

Not More Than Half the Bodies of Victims Identified--Hundreds of Corpses of the Unknown and Nameless Cast Into the Sea-- Others Buried in the Sand and Cremated--List of Identifi...

Galveston Island Directly in the Path of Storms, With No Way of Escape--What is the City's Future?--All Coast Cities in Danger--New York Will Be Flooded--Hurricane Foretold-- Ga...

Business Resumed at Galveston in a Small Way on the Sixth Day After the Catastrophe--"Galveston Shall Rise Again"--How the City Looked on Saturday, One Week After the Flood 159