To date, experts recognize the 1900 Galveston hurricane as the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history. ... which killed more than 3,000 people in 2017, and Hurricane Katrina, ...

Sept. 8 will mark the anniversary of the worst natural disaster in U.S. history – the Great Hurricane of 1900 that devastated Galveston.

It was the hurricane that struck Galveston in 1900. It hit before storms got names. It was referred to as the "Great Storm of 1900" and it claimed the lives of 12,000 people, including 8,000 on ...

Waves crash into the Galveston seawall during Hurricane Ike in 2008 by the memorial to the 8,000-plus who died in Galveston's 1900 Hurricane. Johnny Hanson/Houston Chronicle ...

How many people died in the 1900 hurricane was never fully established. Some fled the devastation in the days afterward, and many others were washed out to sea, their fates never to be known.

The 1900 Galveston hurricane in Texas is the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history, according to NOAA and other authorities. The storm killed at least 8,000 people, ...

The Atlantic hurricane season brings heavy rain, strong wind, storm surge and sometimes catastrophic damage to locations from the Caribbean islands and Central America, all the way up through the ...