The Galveston Hurricane bulldozed portions of the city up to 15 blocks from the beach. Some 3,600 structures were smashed into a chaotic mix of splintered wood, broken glass, smashed furniture and ...

The Great Galveston Storm of 1900 destroyed two-thirds of the Texas city and heavily damaged surviving structures. It remains the most deadly natural disaster and worst hurricane in U.S. history.

Hurricane Harvey is similar in many ways to the Galveston Hurricane of 1900. ... There were too many bodies to bury so the corpses were weighted, shipped out into the Gulf of Mexico on barges, ...

It hit Galveston in 1900. Sign Up for Our Ideas Newsletter POV. Subscribe Subscribe. ... Men use ropes to pull away the debris of houses in order to look for bodies, after the Galveston Hurricane ...

This fact should be borne in mind by anyone trying to understand the events of Sept. 8-9, 1900, when a hurricane snuffed out at least 6,000 lives and virtually destroyed the city of Galveston.

On this day in 1900, a hurricane made landfall in the island city of Galveston, Texas. Galveston was a rich port city, but it was less than 10 feet above sea level, and it wasn’t prepared for a ...

Waves crash into the Galveston seawall during Hurricane Ike in 2008 by the memorial to the 8,000-plus who died in Galveston's 1900 Hurricane. Johnny Hanson/Houston Chronicle ...

Hurricane Ike caused 74 deaths in Harris and Galveston counties and was one of the costliest hurricanes in U.S. history, according to the Harris County Flood Control District. The storm's record ...