By Sara G. Stephens, Managing Editor Although perhaps in excess of 12,000, the exact count of people who died in Galveston on September 8, 1900, will never be known. “The death toll is the reason the Great Storm stands apart from all other hurricanes,” says Casey Greene, head of Special Collections at Rosenberg Library, Galveston. … Continue reading Portrait of a Legend: The Great Storm of 1900: St. Mary’s Orphan Asylum