He arrived in the city at 8 o'clock tonight from Galveston. He was one of the first to reach here with tidings of the great disaster which has befallen that city. After remaining through the ...

While thousands died in the “Great Flood of 1900,” only 23 were killed in Galveston County during Ike. And while recovery continues three years after the city’s most recent disaster ...

The city of Galveston in Texas already knows what it is like to be in the crosshairs of a devastating hurricane. Most of the city was levelled during the great storm It was almost wiped off the map by ...

The Great Galveston Hurricane of Sept. 8, 1900, slammed across the south Texas coastline and made landfall at Galveston. The storm’s 120 mph winds and 20-foot storm surge claimed 12,000 lives at ...

GALVESTON, Texas — It was called the grandest city in Texas at the dawn of the 20th century. But with the arrival of the hurricane on Sept. 8, 1900, the city would struggle to ever regain its ...