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214 DOOMED CITY TURNED TO CHAOS.
building could withstand them and none wholly escaped injury.
Others were picked up at sea. And all during the terrible
storm acts of the greatest heroism were performed. Hundreds
and hundreds of brave men, as brave as the world ever knew,
buffeted with the waves and rescued hundreds of their fellow men.
Hundreds of them went to their death, the death that they knew
they must inevitably meet in their efforts. Hundreds of them
perished after saving others. Men were exemplifying that supreme
degree of love of which the Master spoke, "Greater love hath no
man than this, that he give his life for his friend." Many of them
who lost their lives in this storm in efforts to save their families,
many to save friends, many more to help people of whom
they had never heard. They simply knew that human
beings were in danger and they counted their own lives
TREMENDOUS FURY OF THE GALE.
The maximum velocity of the wind will never be known.
The gauge at the Weather Bureau registered Ioo miles an hour
and blew away at 5.IO o'clock, but the storm at that hour was as
nothing when compared with what followed, and the maximum
velocity must have been as great as I20 miles an hour. The
most intense and anxious time was between 8.30 and 9 o'clock,
with raging seas rolling around them, with a wind so terrific that
none could hope to escape its fury, with roofs beginning to roll
away and buildings crashing all around them, men, women and
children were huddled in buildings, caught like rats, expecting to
be crushed to death or drowned in the sea, yet cut off from escape.
Buildings were torn down, burying their hundreds, and were
swept inland, piling up great heaps of wreckage. Hundreds of
people were thrown into the water in the height of the storm,
some to meet instant death, others to struggle for a time in vain,
and thousands of others to escape death in most miraculous and
marvelous ways.
Hundreds of the dead were washed across the island and the
bay many miles inland. Hundreds of bodies were buried in the
wreckage. Many who escaped were in the water for hours, cling-
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Lester, Paul. The Great Galveston Disaster, Containing a Full and Thrilling Account of the Most Appalling Calamity of Modern Times, book, 1900~; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth26719/m1/265/?rotate=270: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.