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 ...

"My great grandmother Webb survived that hurricane in Galveston," wrote Chelsea Ann ... The rail workers were sent to dispose of the bodies not washed out to sea already," wrote Brenda Will.

The Galveston Hurricane is the deadliest natural disaster in the history of the United States. There were too many bodies to bury so the corpses were weighted, shipped out into the Gulf of Mexico ...

But what happens to an American city when a hurricane strikes without warning? The grandest city in Texas The Great Galveston Storm ... jewelry from the tangled bodies. "It was a terrible time ...

Other footage showed the daily search for bodies beneath the rubble ... RELATED: Study: Houston-Galveston area not prepared for major hurricane At the time of hurricane, the U.S. Weather Bureau ...

GALVESTON, Texas — Galveston was known as the grandest city in Texas at the dawn of the 20th century. But with the arrival of the hurricane ... so many that their bodies were loaded on barges ...

HURRICANE BERYL: What the storm taught ... One hundred twenty-five years ago, as Galveston collected its bodies, the Houston Post wrote a scathing editorial: “With the weather bureau saying ...

Disaster struck Galveston, Texas, on Sept. 8, 1900. The devastating hurricane took thousands of lives, homes and businesses. Before the hurricane, in the late 1800s, Galveston was ranked as the ...

Men are pictured using ropes to pull away the debris of houses in order to look for bodies, after the Galveston Hurricane of 1900. Men are pictured using ropes to pull away the debris of houses in ...