TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Preface	[4]

[CHAPTER I.]
West Indian Hurricane Descends Upon Galveston, Causing Immense Losses of Life and Property—Catastrophe Unparalleledin the History of the World—A Night of Horrors and Suffering	[33]

[CHAPTER II.]
Sad Scenes in All Parts of the Ruined City—Corpses Everywhere—A Sombre, Solemn Sunday—PeopleApathetic, Dejected and Heartbroken	[51]

[CHAPTER III.]
Crowds of Refugees at Houston—Fed and Housed in Tents—Regular Soldiers Drowned—Government PropertyLost—Fears for Galveston’s Future	[64]

[CHAPTER IV.]
Thrilling Experiences of People During the Great Storm—Eighty-five Persons Perish by Being Blown from aTrain—Adventures of Survivors at Galveston	[89]

[CHAPTER V.]
Relief Sent from All Parts of the World as Soon as the True Situation of Affairs Was Made Known—Millionsof Dollars Subscribed and Thousands of Carloads of Supplies Forwarded to the Desolated City	[117]

[CHAPTER VI.]
Cremating Bodies by the Hundreds in the Streets of Galveston—Negroes Faint While Handling the DecayedCorpses—How Some of Those Rescued Escaped with Their Lives	[133]

[CHAPTER VII.]
Lives Lost and Property Damage Sustained Outside of Galveston—One Thousand Victims and Millions of Valuein Crops Swept Away—Estimates Made	[149]

[CHAPTER VIII.]
Business Resumed at Galveston in a Small Way on the Sixth Day After the Catastrophe—“Galveston ShallRise Again”—How the City Looked on Saturday, One Week After the Flood	[159]

[CHAPTER IX.]
Galveston Nine Days After—Great Changes Apparent—Life in a Business Exhibited—Systematic Effortsto Obtain Names of the Dead	[172]

[CHAPTER X.]
Magnitude of the Relief Necessary—Twenty Thousand Persons to Be Clothed and Fed—System of ReliefOrganization—How the Storm Effected Trade	[180]

[CHAPTER XI.]
Insanity Follows Frightful Sufferings of the Poor Victims—Five Hundred Demented Ones—Indifferentto the Loss of Relatives	[188]

[CHAPTER XII.]
Serious Danger from Fire—Scarcity of Boats to Carry People to the Main Land—Laborers Importedinto Galveston—Untold Sufferings on Bolivar Island—Experience of a Chicago Man	[196]

[CHAPTER XIII.]
Two Women Tell How They Were Affected at Galveston—One Arrived After the Catastrophe, While the OtherWas in the Storm from Beginning to End	[206]

[CHAPTER XIV.]
Twenty Thousand People Fed Every Day at a Cost of $40,000—Incidents at the Relief Stations—Applicantsand Their Peculiarities—Great Mortality Among the Negroes	[216]

[CHAPTER XV.]
Total Dead and Missing at Galveston and Vicinity 8,661—Five Million Dollars in Relief Necessary toCarry the Survivors Through the Fall and Winter to Spring	[246]

[CHAPTER XVI.]
Galveston’s Inhabitants Refuse to Heed the Lessons Taught by Their Experiences—Carelessness inFailing to Provide Against the Recurrence of Catastrophes	[261]

[CHAPTER XVII.]
Galveston’s Storm Flies Over the United States and Does Great Damage—Many Lives Lost—It FinallyDisappears in the Atlantic Ocean	[267]

[CHAPTER XVIII.]
The World Not So Heartless as Supposed—People Give Generously to Aid the Suffering—A SocialPhenomenon—Value of the United States Weather Bureau	[271]

[CHAPTER XIX.]
Galveston Island Directly in the Path of Storms, With No Way of Escape—What is the City’sFuture?—All Coast Cities in Danger—New York Will Be Flooded—Hurricane Foretold—Galveston’sSettlement—Storm Will Recur	[281]

[CHAPTER XX.]
Comparisons Between the Galveston and Johnstown Disasters—The Latter Not So Horrible in ItsFeatures—Frightful Plight of the Texas Victims	[294]

[CHAPTER XXI.]
Great Calamities Caused by Flood and Gale During Past Century—Millionsof Lives Lost Through the Fury of the Elements	[299]

[CHAPTER XXII.]
Overwhelming of Johnston, Pa., by the Waters from Conemaugh Lake—One of the Most Peculiar Happeningsin History—Actual Number of Deaths Will Never Be Known—About Twenty-fiveHundred Bodies Found	[321]

[CHAPTER XXIII.]
Not More Than Half the Bodies of Victims Identified—Hundreds of Corpses of the Unknown and Nameless Cast Intothe Sea—Others Buried in the Sand and Cremated—List of Identifications	[361]