Story of the 1900 Galveston Hurricane
In order to present as vivid and accurate a picture of the Galveston Hurricane as possible, author Nathan C. Green decided "to depict the horrors of those terrible days at the time of the storm and after in the language of those who were on the spot and saw with their own eyes what had taken place."  Some examples: "I had been here some years and had built my house with special reference to possible hurricanes from the Gulf. I had made it, as I thought, strong enough to resist any storm that might come. . . . The house went to pieces." --Dr. Isaac Monroe Cline, chief of the Galveston Weather Bureau and author of Storms, Floods and Sunshine: An Autobiography "But when the character of the storm is considered it is wonderful that anything in its path escaped death or wreckage. . . . The wind was only a part of the wrecking force of the storm. The measureless waters of the sea were its ally and undermined and churned into bits what it failed to overturn." --Adelbert Beecher, Pullman car conductor "Many of the survivors got through the flood almost by a miracle. I saw young men who were black-haired on Saturday come from the ordeal with hair turned completely white on Sunday." --Joseph E. Jonson "I pledge the children to total abstinence at communion, but I went to the men who were handling those bodies and I gave them whiskey. It had to be done. . . . You will hear people talk without emotion of the loss of those nearest to them. We are in that condition that we cannot feel." --Father Kirwin, Catholic priest Green's work, and the words of those who survived, together serve as a faithful and trustworthy depiction of one of the greatest calamities in history. To further memorialize the events of the Galveston Hurricane, Pelican has reprinted Dr. Isaac Monroe Cline's Storms, Floods and Sunshine: An Autobiography, which it first published in 1945.