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Galveston hurricane of 1900
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People walk through scattered debris and collapsed wooden houses, searching for belongings after the 1900 Galveston hurricane in Texas. Map showing the storm track of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, beginning as a tropical storm near Cuba, strengthening as it moves northwest across the Gulf of Mexico, making landfall at Galveston, Texas, and continuing northeast through the central United States before dissipating over the northern Atlantic. Key dates, hurricane categories, and wind speeds are marked along the path. Infographic bar graph comparing U.S. death tolls from major events, with COVID-19 at over 1.1 million deaths, the Civil War and 1918-19 flu pandemic each above 675,000, and smaller bars for wars, pandemics, and disasters such as World War II, the Vietnam War, and September 11.
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Galveston hurricane of 1900
People searching through the wreckage of the 1900 hurricane in Galveston, Texas.
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Galveston hurricane of 1900
Path of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, one of the deadliest natural disasters in...
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Bar graph showing the death toll in the United States during major events.
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