Through a Night of Horrors: Voices from the 1900 Galveston Storm

Book Overview

It had no name and gave no warning, but crept stealthily into the Gulf and then roared ashore, killing six thousand people. Nearly one hundred years after its landfall, the hurricane that struck Galveston Island on September 8, 1900 remains the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. In this work witnesses to this deadly disaster describe, in many never-before-published accounts, their encounters with this monstrous storm. Casey Edward Greene and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1585442283
• ISBN13: 9781585442287
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.2"