Wikipedia has a good article on the disaster for those interested...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Galveston_hurricane
The Galveston Bay area has had some rough luck over the years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster
I thought about that this morning. I’ve got a couple of books on that and they used to have an attraction dedicated to the storm in Galveston on the Strand. One was you go into this dark room and they play what might have sounded and looked and felt like during the storm for those who had been thrown out of their destroyed homes. It was scary to say the least......RIP to all 6000 or so souls who didn’t make it......
Must have been due to GoreBull warming!
Shots of Galveston in the 1960s. A bit faded I must admit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDRXADEJuKo
I had an aunt who lived in Galveston in the 1960s and she was wealthy enough that she always went elsewhere from July/August to October. The weather was always hot and humid, and some of the storms she did experience went from small to giant in hours over very warm water in the Gulf. She said everything was insured and she saw no reason to do anything else.
Galveston, before this wipe-out was THE SEAPORT CITY for Texas and the west. Probably richer than New Orleans and definitely richer than any other Gulf Seaport of that era. Afterwards, the money moved to Houston, although we have seen that even there it gets real bad.
There was a folk-style song about that storm back in the sixties, IIRC:
Mighty Day
The Chad Mitchell Trio
I remember down in Galveston,
When storm winds swept the town,
The high tide from the ocean, Lord,
Put water all around.
Chorus:
Wasn’t that a mighty day? (A mighty day)
A mighty day. (A mighty day)
A mighty day, great God that morning
When the storm winds swept the town.
The winds began to blowin’.
The rains began to fall.
The lightning shafts were cracklin’, Lord,
And the thunder started to roll.
CHORUS
The trumpets warned the people,
They better leave this place.
But never meant to leave there homes,
Till death was in their face.
The seas began to rollin’.
The ships they could not land
I heard a captain crying, God,
Please save this drowin’ man.
CHORUS
The trains they all were loaded
With people leavin’ town.
The tracks gave way to the ocean, Lord,
And the trains they went on down.
The waters like some river,
They went a-rushin’ to and fro.
I seen my father drownin’, God,
And I watched my mother go.
CHORUS
Now Death, your hands are icy.
You’ve got them on my knee.
You took away my mother now,
You’re coming after me.
CHORUS
Wasn’t that a mighty day? (A mighty day)
A mighty day. (A mighty day)
A mighty day, great God that morning
When the storm winds swept the town.