Hurricane damage,Galveston,USA,1900. Boys next to the remnants of a terrace of brick houses that have been destroyed by the Galveston hurricane and flood of 1900. This is Lucas Terrace. 51 people were killed here. The hurricane hit the Galveston,Texas,area on 8 September 1900. Galveston was,at the time,a major port on the US Gulf of Mexico coastline. The hurricane,sometimes called the Great Galveston Hurricane,had winds gusting up to 217 kilometres per hour. The storm surge washed over the offshore island on which the city was built,destroying most of the buildings. It is estimated that as many as 8000 people were killed,making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in the history of the USA |