Find 3 interesting facts about the Galveston Hurricane in 1900?

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Answer 2

Since I only live an hour and a half from Galveston, I'll answer your question:

1)  On September 8, 1900, a killer hurricane struck the Texas coastal city of Galveston.

This hurricane would become the greatest natural disaster, by number of deaths, in United States history.  

The tragedy killed more Americans than any other natural disaster, indeed, more than the legendary Johnstown Flood, the San Francisco Earthquake, the 1938 New England Hurricane and the Great Chicago Fire combined.

2)  Historians contend that between 10,000 and 12,000 people died during the storm, at least 6,000 of them on Galveston Island.

More than 3,600 homes were destroyed on Galveston Island and the added toll on commercial structures created a monetary loss of $30 million, about $700 million in today's dollars.

3)   Ignoring advice from its sister paper, The Dallas Morning News, that it move temporarily to Houston, The Galveston Daily News continued publishing from the island and never missed an issue.

Sept. 9 and 10, 1900, were published together on a single sheet of paper.

One side listed the dead.

The other reported the devastation of the storm.

4)  Along the Texas coast and just inland, the towns of Texas City, Dickinson, Lamarque, Hitchcock, Arcadia, Alvin, Manvel, Brazoria, Columbia and Wharton suffered great damage and loss of life and property.

Over half of the buildings in Houston were damaged.

Along a path two hundred miles wide, wind and rain blasted inland Texas from the Gulf to the Red River Valley.

The inland towns of Hempstead, Chapel Hill, Brenham and Temple were ravaged.

5)  Leaving Texas, the storm moved northward across Oklahoma, Kansas and Iowa where it became an extratropical, but no less deadly, storm.

Copious rain fell in Minnesota, as much as 127 mm (5 inches) being measured.

Six logger were killed on the Eau Claire River in Wisconsin. Winds in Chicago were reported at 128 km/h (80 mph) on the 11th. Telegraph lines were downed, cutting communications across the Midwest.

6)  The storm next moved across Michigan toward southern Lake Huron and the Canadian Province of Ontario.

Toronto experienced winds of 80 km/h (50 mph) on the evening of the 11th. Windows were broken across the city.

To the south, orchard owners in the Niagara Peninsula and along the Lake Erie shore saw apples, pears and peaches ripped from their trees.

About half of the crop, which was ready for harvest, was destroyed -- a loss estimated at $1,000,000 at the time.

7)  On September 13, the last remnants of the storm raced northeastward across the North Atlantic Ocean curving toward Scandinavia, and finally dying, according to Erik Larson's book Isaac's Storm, somewhere over Siberia.