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The Great Galveston Disaster

by Paul Lester

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Introduction
  3. 3Chapter I
  4. 4Chapter II — The Tale of Destruction Grows — A Night of Horrors — S…
  5. 5Chapter III — Incidents of the Awful Hurricane — Unparalleled Atroc…
  6. 6Chapter IV — The Cry of Distress in the Wrecked City — Negro Vandal…
  7. 7Chapter V — Vivid Pictures of Suffering in Every Street and House…
  8. 8Chapter VI
  9. 9Chapter VII — Not a House in Galveston Escaped Damage…
  10. 10Chapter VIII — Fears of Pestilence…
  11. 11Chapter IX
  12. 12Chapter X — Details of the Overwhelming Tragedy…
  13. 13Chapter XI — Galveston Calamity One of the Greatest Known to History…
  14. 14Chapter XII — Thrilling Narratives by Eye-witnesses — Path of the S…
  15. 15Chapter XIII — Refugees Continue the Terrible Story — Rigid Militar…
  16. 16Chapter XIV — Dead Babes Floating in the Waters — Sharp Crack of So…
  17. 17Chapter XV — Family in a Tree-Top All Night — Rescue of the Perishi…
  18. 18Chapter XVI — Startling Havoc Made by the Angry Storm…
  19. 19Chapter XVII — Governor Sayres Revises His Estimate of Those Lost a…
  20. 20Chapter XVIII — An Island of Desolation — Crumbling Walls — Faces W…
  21. 21Chapter XIX — Thousands Died in Their Efforts to Save Others…
  22. 22Chapter XX — The Storm’s Murderous Fury — People Stunned by the Sta…
  23. 23Chapter XXI — Unparalleled Bombardment of Waves — Wonderful Courage…
  24. 24Chapter XXII — Galveston Storm Stories — Fierce Battles With Surgin…
  25. 25Chapter XXIII — Heroic Incidents — Arrival of Relief Trains — Hospi…
  26. 26Chapter XXIV — One Hero Rescues Over Two Hundred — Traveler Caught…
  27. 27Chapter XXV — Storms of Great Violence Around Galveston — Wrecked C…
  28. 28Names of the Victims of the Great Galveston Horror

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