 | Nathan C. Green - Galveston (Tex.) - 1900 - 390 pages
...heard. They simply knew that human beings were in danger and they counted their own lives as nothing. The maximum velocity of the wind will never be known....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... | |
 | United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Meteorology - 1977 - 536 pages
...natural disaster. Could it happen again? Galveston £ £ ^~X T'"'1 a l'ii.^i"." sea rolling around ^y Vf them, with a wind so terrific that none could hope to escape its fury, with roofs being torn away and buildings crumbling . . . men. women and children . . . huddled like rats in the... | |
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The maximum velocity of the wind will never be known. The gauge at the Weather Bureau registered 100 miles an hour and blew away at 5.10 o'clock, but the storm at that hour was as nothing when compared with what followed, and the maximum velocity must... 