To: Knitting A Conundrum
Galveston lost about 6,000 in the great storm. It will be a true horror of mismanagement if it tops that.
I thought it was more like 8,000.
3,021 posted on
09/01/2005 6:51:41 AM PDT by
cwiz24
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To: cwiz24; Knitting A Conundrum
From what I heard about the Galveston hurricane, there was no firm, final death toll. I've heard numbers anywhere from 6,000 to 12,000 from that one.
3,042 posted on
09/01/2005 6:55:45 AM PDT by
steveegg
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To: cwiz24; Knitting A Conundrum
Some more recent studies actually think the real total for the Galveston storm was more like 12,000 and that there just were no good records of the mass burials kept. That the 8,000 figure just included part of the mass burial sites and didn't include people that were never found.
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