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Katrina
makes top 10
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[SEPT. 22, 2005]
HOPEWELL JUNCTION, N.Y. --
With more than 700 people confirmed dead, Hurricane Katrina has
become the seventh- deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history. The
Galveston hurricane of 1900 sits atop the dubious list, with some
8,000 deaths attributed to the storm.
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Other occurrences that have resulted in more than 1,000 deaths
include the great Okeechobee hurricane that hit Florida in 1928; the
Johnstown, Pa., flood of 1889; and two hurricanes that struck in
1893: one in Louisiana and the other along the Georgia-South
Carolina border. The remainder of the list includes the great New
England hurricane of 1938, the San Francisco earthquake, the
Georgia-South Carolina hurricane of 1881 and the tri-state tornado
of 1925, which took an estimated 695 lives in Missouri, Illinois and
Indiana.
[Compu-Weather
news release]
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