September 1900 - September 9, 1900 (Sunday)

September 9, 1900 (Sunday)

• The Galveston hurricane ended after the entire island had been under 8 feet of water. "Without apparent reason", reporter Richard Spillane would write later, "the waters suddenly began to subside at 1:45 a.m. Within twenty minutes they had gone down two feet, and before daylight the streets were practically freed of the flood waters." When the survivors ventured out, the full extent of the storm was realized, with thousands of corpses across the island. By month's end, at least 2,311 bodies had been recovered.