1900 STORM – CHURCHES

Churches of every denomination sustained damage or destruction during the 1900 Storm. Sacred Heart Church, where 400 people sought shelter during the hurricane, was gutted. Its twin spires remained standing as perhaps the most evocative symbol of the Storm’s wrath. St. Patrick’s Church lost its steeple, which crashed through the church’s roof as it fell. Yet, in the days after the Storm, services continued there. As the authoritative post-Storm account, Galveston in 1900, noted, “The Holy Sacrifice is offered at one of the altars still remaining, with blue sky for a canopy, the rays of a semi-tropical sun beating down on the worshipers, and the winds of heaven whistling around the altar.” The south wall of Trinity Episcopal Church collapsed. First Baptist Church was destroyed. Rabbi Henry Cohen of Temple B’nai Israel, which sustained minor damage, allowed the Baptist congregation to hold its worship services at his synagogue. Every African American church in Galveston, fourteen in all, was destroyed.

12th Street: CH1-1
14th Street: CH1-4, CH1-8, CH1-14
20th Street: CH8-4
22nd Street: CH3-1, CH3-2, CH3-3, CH3-4, CH3-6, CH3-8, CH5-3, CH5-4, CH5-5, CH5-7, CH5-8, CH5-9, CH5-10, CH5-11, CH5-12, CH5-13, CH7-3
25th Street: CH4-3, CH4-4, CH4-6, CH4-7, CH4-8
34th Street: CH2-5
African Americans – Religion: CH7-1, CH7-2, CH7-3, CH7-4
Avenue G: CH3-8
Avenue H: CH8-4
Avenue I: CH5-5, CH5-7, CH5-10, CH5-11
Avenue J: CH1-1, CH1-2, CH1-4, CH1-8, CH1-14, CH2-5, CH4-4, CH4-7, CH7-3
Avenue J – 1226: CH1-12
Bodies: CH1-5
Churches: CH7-1, CH7-4
Churches – Baptist: CH5-1, CH5-2, CH5-3, CH5-4, CH5-5, CH5-6, CH5-7, CH5-8, CH5-9, CH5-10, CH5-11, CH5-12, CH5-13
Churches – Catholic: CH1-1, CH1-2, CH1-3, CH1-4, CH1-5, CH1-6, CH1-7, CH1-8, CH1-10, CH1-11, CH1-12, CH1-13, CH1-14, CH1-15, CH2-1, CH2-2, CH2-3, CH2-4, CH2-5, CH2-6, CH2-7, CH6-1, CH6-3
Churches – Episcopal: CH3-1, CH3-2, CH3-3, CH3-4, CH3-6, CH3-8
Churches – Methodist Episcopal: CH4-1, CH4-2, CH4-3, CH4-4, CH4-5, CH4-6, CH4-7, CH4-8, CH4-9
Churches – Protestant Episcopal: CH7-2, CH7-3
Colleges and Universities: CH1-8, CH8-1
Crucifixes: CH2-7, CH6-1, CH6-3
Deke, Wm. A.: CH7-2
Fences: CH2-2
Fire Hydrants: CH5-11
First Baptist Church: CH5-1, CH5-2, CH5-3, CH5-4, CH5-5, CH5-6, CH5-7, CH5-8, CH5-9, CH5-10, CH5-11, CH5-12, CH5-13
Gresham (Walter) Residence: CH1-2
Horses: CH1-1, CH1-8
Houses: CH1-2, CH1-12
Interior Views: CH2-6, CH2-7
People: CH2-7, CH5-11, CH8-4
Priests: CH2-7
Privies: CH5-3
Sacred Heart Church: CH1-1, CH1-2, CH1-3, CH1-4, CH1-5, CH1-6, CH1-7, CH1-8, CH1-10, CH1-11, CH1-12, CH1-13, CH1-14, CH1-15
St. Augustine Protestant Episcopal Church: CH7-2, CH7-3
St. John’s Methodist Episcopal Church: CH4-1, CH4-2, CH4-3, CH4-4, CH4-5, CH4-6, CH4-7, CH4-8, CH4-9
St. Joseph’s Church: CH6-1, CH6-3
St. Mary’s Cathedral Parochial School: CH8-4
St. Mary’s University: CH1-8, CH8-1
St. Patrick’s Church: CH2-1, CH2-2, CH2-3, CH2-4, CH2-5, CH2-6, CH2-7
Sanitation: CH5-3
Schools – Parochial: CH8-4, CH8-5
Street Railways: CH5-3, CH5-5, CH5-7, CH5-8, CH5-11, CH5-12, CH5-13
Street Scenes: CH1-1, CH1-2, CH1-8, CH1-12, CH2-5, CH3-1, CH3-2, CH3-3, CH3-4, CH3-6, CH4-3, CH4-4, CH4-6, CH4-7, CH4-8, CH5-3, CH5-4, CH5-5, CH5-7, CH5-8, CH5-9, CH5-10, CH5-11, CH5-12, CH5-13, CH7-1, CH7-3, CH8-4
Trinity Episcopal Church: CH3-1, CH3-2, CH3-3, CH3-4, CH3-6, CH3-8
Underwood & Underwood: CH8-5
Ursuline Convent: CH8-2, CH8-3
Utility Poles: CH5-12
Water: CH1-1, CH1-12, CH3-2, CH3-6, CH5-5, CH5-12, CH8-3, CH8-4
Weis Residence: CH1-2

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