Galveston: The Queen and the Great Storm (3/4)

On Saturday, September 8, 1900, the show began. What started as a "grand sight" for curious onlookers quickly turned into a fight for survival as the bridges to the mainland were destroyed, trapping nearly 40,000 souls on the island. As darkness fell, the city was assaulted by winds so powerful they ripped the Weather Bureau's measuring instruments from the roof after clocking a gust at 100 miles per hour.

In Part 3, we plunge into the terrifying heart of the storm. At approximately 7:30 P.M., the true monster arrived: a 15.7-foot storm surge that rose four feet in just four seconds, erasing the city in an instant. Hear the harrowing firsthand accounts of survivors like Isaac Cline, whose own home collapsed around his family, and Milton Elford, who was separated from his loved ones in the chaos. We tell the tragic story of the St. Mary’s Orphanage, where a desperate act of love became a death pact for ninety children and the ten nuns who cared for them. This is the story of the city's final, horrifying hours—a night of unimaginable terror as a grinding, three-story-high wall of debris consumed Galveston in the dark.

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