The Hurricane of 1900, also known as the Great Galveston Hurricane,[REF] made landfall on September 8, 1900, in Galveston, Texas, in the United States [REF].
The hurricane caused great loss of life with a death toll of between 6,000 and 12,000 people;[REF] the number most cited in official reports is 8,000, giving the storm the third-highest number of deaths or injuries of any Atlantic hurricane, after the Great Hurricane of 1780 and 1998's Hurricane Mitch.