It had no name and gave no warning, but crept stealthily into the
Gulf and then roared ashore, killing six thousand people. Nearly
one hundred years after its landfall, the hurricane that struck
Galveston Island on September 8, 1900, remains the worst natural
disaster the nation has seen.

    In Through A Night of Horrors, witnesses describe, in many
never-before-published accounts, their encounters with this deadly
storm.

   Casey Edward Greene and Shelly Henley Kelly spent several
years culling the Rosenberg Library's unparalleled collection on the
storm for this work. Some of the survivor accounts included were
recorded in the days immediately following the disaster; others
were put down after many years had passed.

   The letters and memoirs included in this volume not only
provided catharsis to their writers but also left important
documentation about the events for future generations.

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CASEY EDWARD GREENE is head of special collections at the
Rosenberg Library in Galveston, and SHELLY HENLEY KELLY
is the university archivist at Neumann Library at the University of
Houston—Clear Lake.



What people are saying about this book

". . . captures the post-storm anguish of Galveston's people and
their fleeting hopes for the city's future . . . well worth a read for
those who seek to immerse themselves in the storm."—Southern
Cultures