Many persons were killed on top of the drifting debris by flying timbers after they had escaped from their wrecked homes. While we were drifting we had to protect ourselves from the flying timbers by holding planks between us and the wind, and with this protection we were frequently knocked great distances. It continued falling, and on the following morning the Gulf was nearly normal. When we landed about 11:30 p.m., by climbing over floating debris to a residence on Twenty-eighth Street and Avenue P, the water had fallen about 4 feet. During the last hour that we were drifting, which was with southeast and south winds, the wreckage on which we were floating knocked several residences to pieces. There were two hours that we did not see a house nor any person, and from the swell we inferred that we were drifting to sea, which, in view of the northeast wind then blowing, was more than probable. Cline joined me five minutes later with my other two children, and with them and a woman and child we picked up from the raging waters, we drifted for three hours, landing 300 yards from where we started. I was nearly drowned and became unconscious, but recovered though being crushed by timbers and found myself clinging to my youngest child, who had gone down with myself and wife. "Among the lost was my wife, who never rose above the water after the wreck of the building. He wrote this harrowing account of his personal experience during the deadly hurricane: Weather Bureau at that time, tried to warn residents of Galveston just hours before the hurricane hit, but for many it was too late. Isaac Cline, the local forecast official at the Galveston office of the U.S. The category 4 hurricane made landfall on the island, taking the lives of at least 6,000 people and leaving another 10,000 homeless. GALVESTON, Texas (KTRK) - September 8 marks the somber anniversary of the Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900. A look back at the Great Galveston Hurricane.
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