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6000.

Yeah. Different times. A lot was learned from that.

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Retired Atlantic hurricane names
Name	Year	Location(s) affected
Agnes	1972	Florida, Northeast USA
Alicia	1983	North Texas
Allen	1980	Antilles, Mexico, south Texas
Andrew	1992	Bahamas, south Florida, Louisiana
Anita	1977	Mexico
Audrey	1957	Louisiana, north Texas
Betsy	1965	Bahamas, southeast Florida, southeast Louisiana
Beulah	1967	Antilles, Mexico, South Texas
Bob	1991	North Carolina, Northeast USA
Camille	1969	Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama
Carla	1961	Texas
Carmen	1974	Mexico, central Louisiana
Carol*	1954	Northeast USA
Celia	1970	South Texas
Cesar	1996	Central America [Crossed into the Pacific Ocean, becoming Douglas]
Cleo	1964	Lesser Antilles, Haiti, Cuba, southeast Florida
Connie	1955	North Carolina
David	1979	Lesser Antilles, Hispaniola, Florida, Eastern USA
Diana	1990	Mexico
Diane	1955	Mid-Atlantic & Northeast USA
Donna	1960	Bahamas, Florida, Eastern USA
Dora	1964	Northeast Florida
Elena	1985	Mississippi, Alabama, western Florida
Eloise	1975	Antilles, northwest Florida, Alabama
Flora	1963	Haiti, Cuba
Floyd	1999	Bahamas, North Carolina, mid-Atlantic & Northeast USA
Fran	1996	North Carolina, mid-Atlantic USA
Frederic	1979	Alabama, Mississippi
Georges	1998	Greater Antilles, Florida Keys, Mississippi, Alabama
Gilbert	1988	Lesser Antilles, Jamaica, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
Gloria	1985	North Carolina, Northeast USA
Hattie	1961	Belize, Guatemala
Hazel	1954	Antilles, North Carolina, South Carolina
Hilda	1964	Louisiana
Hortense	1996	Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic
Hugo	1989	Antilles, South Carolina
Ione	1955	North Carolina
Inez	1966	Lesser Antilles, Hispaniola, Cuba, Florida Keys, Mexico
Janet	1955	Lesser Antilles, Belize, Mexico
Joan	1988	Curacao, Venezuela, Colombia, Nicaragua [Crossed into the Pacific Ocean, becoming Miriam]
Keith	2000	Mexico
Klaus	1990	Martinique
Lenny	1999	Antilles
Luis	1995	Barbuda, St. Martin
Marilyn	1995	U.S. Virgin Islands
Mitch	1998	Honduras, Nicaragua, San Salvador, Mexico, Florida
Opal	1995	Northwest Florida, Alabama
Roxanne	1995	Yucatan Peninsula
*The name "Carol" was used again to denote a hurricane in the mid-Atlantic Ocean in 1965. However, because the name does not appear after that time, it is assumed that the name was retired retrospectively for the damages caused by the 1954 storm of the same name.

[AnAmericanMother]

NOAA website says over 8,000 dead. Some bodies were never found, and of course with the poor record keeping of the time there were dead that no-one missed.

NOAA - Galveston Storm of 1900

American Heritage magazine, my old standby for American history, had a very comprehensive article with many photographs. The most pitiful one was a dead child's outflung hand from under a pile of debris, the most horrible the barges loaded with bodies. I read it as a young child and it gave me nightmares.