How One Storm Killed America's Richest City in the South: Galveston, Texas

In 1900, Galveston was the largest city in Texas, the third richest city in the United States per capita, and the leading cotton port on the continent. It had just surpassed New Orleans. By the morning of September 9th, between 6,000 and 8,000 people were dead. It is still the deadliest natural disaster in American history. This is the story of what the storm actually killed — and it wasn't just the people. ErasedPlaces covers the forgotten history of American cities.