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Story from 124 years ago about the deadliest hurricane is US history. Looters were shot, as well as vandals and those taking pictures of partially naked bodies of dead women. Controversial now that most of those shot were black.
1 posted on 10/04/2024 3:11:01 PM PDT by xxqqzz
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I read a book by a survivor. That is hardship.


2 posted on 10/04/2024 3:13:54 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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The left is full of it. If there was a racial component to it, the newspaper would have specified same. They weren’t shy about that sort of thing back then.


3 posted on 10/04/2024 3:16:21 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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A lesson for our modern National Guard and riots.

“A soldier of Captain Rafferty’s battery, while patrolling the beach, ordered a man to desist from looting. The fellow drew a weapon and the soldier shot him dead. The soldier was attacked by four other men and he killed all of them. He had five cartridges In his rifle and each of them found a victim. Other men have also been shot and It Is probable that twenty-five have been killed.”


4 posted on 10/04/2024 3:17:58 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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“Looters of the dead”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eaters_of_the_Dead


5 posted on 10/04/2024 3:22:04 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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Looters were shot

We were much more civilized back then......


6 posted on 10/04/2024 3:27:05 PM PDT by vivenne
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Read about that hurricane. Sisters at an orphanage did not want any of the children to be swept away so the tied together link by link with rope. The bodies of the children and Sisters were found several days later, still connected by the rope.


7 posted on 10/04/2024 3:28:56 PM PDT by mware
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My father had a box of random books in our storeroom when I was a kid. One of them was “The Great Galveston Disaster.” It was illustrated... some very graphic photos for a youngster, but also some very interesting survival stories.


8 posted on 10/04/2024 3:36:24 PM PDT by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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I read “Isaac’s Storm”, it was tough reading about St. Mary’s Orphanage, and those poor children.


11 posted on 10/04/2024 4:00:19 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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...and not one mention of climate change.


12 posted on 10/04/2024 4:10:00 PM PDT by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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The looters shot after the Johnstown flood were said to be “low brow Eastern European Huns.”
Don’t know the the race of those looters shot in the San Francisco Earthquake.


13 posted on 10/04/2024 4:42:30 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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Is anyone surprised that the usual suspects were looting? Nothing changes.


15 posted on 10/04/2024 4:46:14 PM PDT by rod5591
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The 30 Deadliest U.S. Mainland Hurricanes
https://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/articles/deadliest-us-hurricanes

#1 is Galveston, TX in 1900 with 8,000 deaths.


16 posted on 10/04/2024 5:03:12 PM PDT by Tom Tetroxide
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David McCullough's first book, The Johnstown Flood has similar stories, though there was far less looting and much heroism.
17 posted on 10/04/2024 6:36:05 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (לעזאזל עם חמאס)
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