Disaster struck Galveston, Texas, on Sept. 8, 1900. The devastating hurricane took thousands of lives, homes and businesses. Before the hurricane, in the late 1800s, Galveston was ranked as the ...

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 ...

This site from the PBS Online NewsHour contains tables and comparisons of hurricanes from 1900 to 2000 ... "Case Study: Galveston, Texas" which looks at how a major hurricane changed the direction ...