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The City of Galveston September 1900 The Total Destruction Of An American City
A panoramic view of what remained of Galveston with storm surge flooding after the unnamed hurricane of 1900
Houses tossed like toys	Damage to business district
Where a city used to be	Carting the bodies away
What once was the jewel of Texas
A family sifts through the remains of their home	House floated into a pile by the storm surge
University of Texas Medical Branch	Destruction of the docks area, note the paddle wheel boat at right
No structure was immune to the storm surge	Almost no vegetation left - one home remains as flood waters drain out of the city
The bodies were laid out in one of the remaining buildings to keep them out of the sun while they awaited disposal at sea	Homes washed up together
Still photo from a film made by Thomas Edison Search looking for the bodies	Still photo from a film made by Thomas Edison Dock workers loading bodies to be taken out to sea for disposal.
Galveston survivors assess the damage	Survivors search through the rubble of destroyed homes
The Gresham house, center, now known as the Bishop's Palace, sits relatively unscathed behind a wall of debris that is the heavily damaged Sacred Heart Catholic Church is at right.	City Orphanage
Galveston's Sacred Heart Church	A home lies in ruins at 15th & K
Bodies were everywhere after the storm	The Main Street on Galveston Island after the storm
Lucas Terrace - Almost nothing remained at all	Another view of what remained of Lucas Terrace
The SS Alamo lending aid after the storm	Survivors try to salvage what they can
This used to be a neighborhood - 16th & M Ave.	Surprisingly, some homes did survive, but their neighbors lost everything
The storm surge move whole house when they were not well secured, such as the one at left that move about 100 ft	What were once homes were turned into mountains of debris - this was 19th street in Galveston
A panorama of total destruction from the storm surge - notice that homes survived the wind relatively well but were turned into kindling by the water marching ashore - looking north from 27th St and M Ave.
Hundreds of homes just gone	What was once the 1st Baptist Church
Note the house standing behind the piled up rubble	The read of the Opera House built in 1894
Men search the rubble that was the Grand Hotel	Just a sea of broken lumber was left behind
Boats washed ashore	Ships washed ashore amidst the debris of the docks
Docks area	A few surviving structures raise above the destruction
" The story of Galveston's tragedy can never be written as it is. Since the cataclysm of Saturday night a force of faithful men have been struggling to convey to humanity from time to time some of the particulars of the tragedy. They have told much, but it was impossible for them to tell all, and the world, at best, can never know all, for the thousands of tragedies written by the storm must forever remain mysteries until eternity shall reveal all. Perhaps it were best that it should be so, for the horror and anguish of those fatal and fateful hours were mercifully lost in the screaming tempest and buried forever beneath the raging billows. Only God knows, and for the rest let it remain forever in the boundlessness of His omniscience. But in the realm of finity, the weak and staggered senses of mankind may gather fragments of the disaster, and may strive with inevitable incompleteness to convey the merest impression of the saddest story which ever engaged the efforts of a reporter. " Published Sept. 13, 1900 - in The Galveston Daily News
After The Storm
Dredge material is pumped into the island during the grade raising after the 1900 hurricane. Residents endured years of pumps, sludge, canals, stench and miles of catwalks during the project.	Building A New Seawall
Known Sources: NOAA, USARMY, State Of Texas, Daily News archives, Galveston County Museum, Rosenberg Library, Associated Press, Library Of Congress, and others If sources or credits are in error or need to be added please notify us.

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