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 ...

Sept. 8 will mark the anniversary of the worst natural disaster in U.S. history – the Great Hurricane of 1900 that devastated Galveston.

AUSTIN, Texas — The Hurricane of 1900 that struck Galveston was an unspeakable tragedy that may have killed as many as 8,000 people, although the exact toll will never be known. However, there ...