The Great Galveston Disaster / Containing a Full and Thrilling Account of the Most Appalling Calamity of Modern Times Including Vivid Descriptions of the Hurricane and Terrible Rush of Waters; Immense Destruction of Dwellings, Business Houses, Churches, and Loss of Thousands of Human Lives; Thrilling Tales of Heroic Deeds; Panic-Stricken Multitudes and Heart-Rending Scenes of Agony; Frantic Efforts to Escape a Horrible Fate; Separation of Loved Ones, etc., etc.; Narrow Escapes from the Jaws of Death; Terrible Sufferings of the Survivors; Vandals Plundering Bodies of the Dead; Wonderful Exhibitions of Popular Sympathy; Millions of Dollars Sent for the Relief of the Stricken Sufferers

by Paul Lester

Or like a demon in a shroud.

And rearing Lindus, backward pressed,

Shook all her trembling banks amain,

Then madly at the eygre’s breast

Flung uppe her weltering walls again,

Then bankes came down with ruin and rout,

Then beaten foam flew round about,

Then all the mighty floods were out.

So farre, so fast the eygre drave

The heart had hardly time to beat