America’s Most Notorious Natural Disasters by Charles River Editors

Author:Charles River Editors
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3, epub
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Published: 2016-12-01T00:00:00+00:00

To his credit, Cline was not merely being optimistic about Galveston’s future but also continued organizing plans for what should be done. One of his most telling observations was about the mistakes that had been made in the past: “Improvements will be made stronger and more judiciously; for the past twenty-five years they have been made with the hurricane of 1875 in mind, but no one ever dreamed that the water would reach the height observed in the present case. The railroad bridges are to be built ten feet higher than they were before. The engineer of the Southern Pacific Company has informed me that they will construct their wharves so that they will withstand even such a hurricane as the one we have just experienced.”

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