TAILIEUCHUNG - The Complete Story of the Galveston Horror

In presenting to the people of this country and the world a chronicle of the frightful visitation of hurricane and flood upon the beautiful and enterprising City of Galveston, which unparalleled calamity occurred on September 8, 1900, the Publishers wish to say that the utmost care has been taken to make the record of the catastrophe complete in every particular. No expense has been spared to obtain the facts; the illustrations contained in the work are from photographs taken by artists on the spot; the experiences of survivors were obtained from the victims themselves, their language being faithfully reported, while what they wrote is reproduced without. | Complete Story of the Galveston Horror by Various 1 Complete Story of the Galveston Horror by Various Project Gutenberg s The Complete Story of the Galveston Horror by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The Complete Story of the Galveston Horror Author Various Editor John Coulter Release Date November 12 2010 EBook 34304 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 Complete Story of the Galveston Horror by Various 2 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COMPLETE STORY--GALVESTON HORROR Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive American Libraries. IN MEMORY OF THE DEAD AT GALVESTON SEPT. 8TH 1900. The Complete Story of the Galveston Horror. Written by the Survivors. Incidents of the awful Tornado Flood and Cyclone Disaster Personal Experiences of Survivors Horrible Looting of Dead Bodies and the Robbing of Empty Homes Pestilence from so many Decaying Bodies Unburied Barge Captains Compelled by Armed Men to Tow Dead Bodies to Sea Millions of Dollars raised to aid the Suffering Survivors President McKinley Orders Army Rations and Army Tents issued to Survivors and orders U. S. Troops to protect the People and Property Tales of the Survivors from Galveston Adrift all Night on Rafts Acts of Valor United States Soldiers Drowned Great Heroism Great Vandalism Great Horror A Second Johnstown Flood but worse Hundreds of Men Women and Children Drowned No way of Escape only Death Death Everywhere Edited by John Coulter Formerly of the N. Y. Herald. Fully Illustrated with Photographs. UNITED PUBLISHERS OF AMERICA. Copyright 1900 by E. E. Sprague. PREFACE. In presenting to the people of this country and the world a .

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