78 – The Galveston Hurricane of 1900: No Tongue Can Tell

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🗓️ 11 September 2017

⏱️ 22 minutes

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The Great Galveston Hurricane arrived on a Saturday, September 8, 1900 — almost without warning. Galveston, the grand dame of Texas, a vibrant port city sitting haughtily on a sand bar facing the Gulf, was reduced to a splintered wasteland. Some 6,000 people perished on the island and at least 4000-6000 on the mainland. Survivors struggled to save themselves amid the towering waves, rocking debris, and floating wreckage of their city.

As part of our Lost & Found Sound series, producer John Burnett revisits the deadliest natural disaster in US history with recorded oral histories and memoirs from the children, the lovers – the survivors of the 1900 storm.

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1:13.2	Thank you very much. It's so much to tell you about it till I don't know what to start to tell in you.
1:27.0	Wherever you want to start?
1:29.0	Oh, it was an offer thing you want me to tell you, but it's no tongue can tell it.
1:38.0	In 1900, Galveston was the Grand Dam of Texas, a vibrant port city sitting hoddily on a
1:46.1	sandbar facing the Gulf. The Great Hurricane arrived on a Saturday, September 8th, almost without warning, reducing the town to a splintered
1:56.2	wasteland.
1:57.9	Some 6,000 people perished on the island and at least 4 to 6 six thousand on the mainland.
2:04.0	In 2000, as part of our Lost and Found Sound Series on NPR,
2:08.0	producer John Burnett revisited the worst natural disaster in US history.
2:14.0	Today, the Kitchen Sisters present this extraordinary and timely story.
2:18.8	No tongue can tell, the Galveston Storm of 1900.
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