BirdsEye View of Dock Front Galveston (1900)

At the first news of the disast by cyclone and tidal wave that devastated Galveston on Saturday September 8th 1900 we equipped a party of photographers and sent them by special train to the scene of the ruins Arriving at the scene of desolation shortly after the storm had swept over the city our party succeeded at the risk of life and limb in taking about a thousand feet of motion pictures although Galveston was under martial law and photographers were shot down at sight by the excited police The series taken as a whole gives a definite idea of the most terrible disaster since the Johnstown flood of 1889