So many people died in the Great Galveston Storm of 1900, there was not enough time nor manpower to bury them all. Within days, the victims were piled like cordwood onto barges for a quick burial at sea. However, the currents in the Gulf of Mexico are so strong that many of the bodies wash back onto Galveston Island and other Texas beaches. Some books, about the Great Galveston Storm, claim that for several weeks pyres of bodies could be seen burning on Texas beaches day and night. When found, many of the dead, were still tightly clinging to each other for support (the support that had failed them in Life).
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