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 ...

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 grandest city in Texas The Great Galveston Storm came ashore the night of Sept 8, 1900, with an estimated strength of a Category 4. It remains the deadliest natural disaster and the worst ...

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 ...

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 ...

“About half past 3,” she continued, “Jacob and Allen came running, shouting excitedly that the Gulf looked like a great ... disaster in U.S. history. In the years after the horrific storm ...