The Great Storm of 1900 slammed into Galveston on Sept. 8, 1900 without warning, killing at least 6,000 people and changing the island forever.

So were the graves of many past residents. Galveston was, in a real sense, a city whose slate had been wiped clean and rewritten. One fact about Galveston remains the same: It is vulnerable to attack ...

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, ...

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 on Sept. 8, 1900, the city would struggle to ever ...

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 ...

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.

It slammed into Galveston as what would today be classified as a Category 4 on Sept. 8, killing over 8,000 of the island’s 35,000 people and knocking Galveston’s shining future inland to Houston.

The 1900 Galveston hurricane killed between 6,000 to 12,000 ... Men are pictured using ropes to pull away the debris of houses in order to look for bodies, after the Galveston Hurricane of 1900.

The Houston-area death toll from Hurricane Ike has reached 32 with the discovery this weekend of two unidentified bodies along the shore in Galveston County and the body of a Port Neches man found ...

On Sept. 8, 1900, the Galveston Hurricane struck Texas, putting the entire city at risk. Thousands lost their lives as a result of the storm. Of those who survived, many were left without a home.

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 ...