CHAPTER XXIII

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Not More Than Half the Bodies of Victims Identified--Hundreds of Corpses of the Unknown and Nameless Cast Into the Sea-- Others Buried in the Sand and Cremated--List of Identifications 361

[Illustration: THE GALVESTON STORM RAGING]

[Illustration: SISTERS OF MERCY FOUND TIED TO THE LITTLE CHILDREN WHOM THEY TRIED TO SAVE]

[Illustration: BLOWN OUT INTO THE GULF]

[Illustration: WHEN THE WATERS REACHED THE ORPHAN ASYLUM]

[Illustration: A RACE WITH THE WIND AND TIDE AT GALVESTON]

[Illustration: SOME WERE SAVED IN THE GALVESTON DISASTER BY FLOATING ON BOX CARS]

[Illustration: VANDALS ROBBING THE DEAD]

[Illustration: GATHERING THE KILLED AND INJURED AFTER THE STORM]

[Illustration: DROWNING OF GALVESTON SUFFERERS BY THE TIDAL WAVE]

[Illustration: DEATH ON THE GALVESTON SHORE AFTER THE STORM]

[Illustration: THE STORM DEALING DEATH AND DESTRUCTION IN ITS PATH]

[Illustration: FURY OF THE STORM AND DESPERATE PREDICAMENT OF RESIDENTS]

[Illustration: AT DEATH'S DOOR IN THE GALVESTON STORM]

[Illustration: SURVIVORS, NEARLY STARVED, RANSACKING A GROCERY STORE FOR FOOD]

THE GALVESTON HORROR.

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