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Stories: Welcome
Burnett, John. "The Tempest at Galveston: 'We Knew There Was a Storm Coming, but We Had No Idea.'" NPR, November 30, 2017.
Stories: Text
"The hurricane changed Isaac [Cline]. He gave up the study of climate and health and concentrated instead on trying to find out why the storm had been so deadly. He wrote two books on hurricanes, thus fulfilling his childhood dream of writing an important scientific treatise. He became one of the nation's leading hurricane experts." (1)
Stories: Intro
Dear Margaret, oh, you can't imagine the awful tales we hear. One man's head was cut right off his body by a piece of flying slate. Telegraph poles were flying in the air like straws, and trees were falling everywhere. Old man Murdock(ph) was washed out to sea in his bathing house, which collapsed. He grabbed a piece of wood and was blown into shore and dashed against a house, climbed in the second window, and that house was carried out in the gulf and smashed to pieces. He grabbed onto a section of roof and again blown to shore. Next morning was found amidst debris with both arms broken. Your loving sister, Ella.' (2)
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Stories: Body
Stice, Joel. "Haunting Photos of the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, the Deadliest Disaster in American History."
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My mother carried in her hand her jewelry in a small, shiny bag. And once she stepped on a barrel concealed by the water. It rolled, and she went under with it. She grabbed at something to pull herself up. It was the body of a small girl. Her self-control gave way, and she wept hysterically. (3)
Stories: Body
Galveston and the Great Storm of 1900 - the Victims." Awesome Stories.
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About daylight the storm began to subside, the waters to recede. As the light came, a call from outside brought help from the house, and in shocked silence they saw standing, stripped stark naked except for a piece of mattress ticking, their neighbor from across the street, Captain Munn(ph). His home, his wife and her mother were all gone. He had floated all night on a mattress and so was saved. As friendly, sympathetic hands drew him into shelter, tears rained down his face, and there are no words to describe his desolation. (4)
Stories: Body
(1) Larson, Erik. Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History. First Vintage Books ed. New York: Vintage Books, 2000.
(2) "Profile: Remembering the Galveston Hurricane of 1900." Weekend Edition Saturday, September 30, 2000. Literature Resource Center (accessed January 14, 2019). https://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A167311718/LitRCu =va_p_collegiate&sid=LitRC&xid=6ecbdbb8.
(3) "Profile: Remembering the Galveston Hurricane of 1900."
(4) "Profile: Remembering the Galveston Hurricane of 1900."
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