The Weather Bureau chief in charge of Cuba “saw conspiracies everywhere,” wrote Erik Larson in his 2000 book "Isaac’s Storm," which chronicles the lead-up to the 1900 Galveston hurricane and ...

Over Labor Day weekend 1900, while many of his ... Cline, the station chief at the Galveston weather bureau, was concerned with the movements of a hurricane packing winds in excess of 100 m.p.h ...