Friday, September 14, 1900. Henry F. Schroeder.

Twenty-two men of the 16th Infantry defeated a Filipino force of 400 insurgents at Carig.  The man in command, Sgt. Henry F. Schroeder, won the Medal of Honor.

His citation read:

With 22 men defeated 400 insurgents, killing 36 and wounding 90.

Schroeder was a career solider who had joined the Army in 1896 and retired as a Major in 1930.  He died in 1959 at age 84.

The Transvaal proclaimed Schalk Willem Burger to be acting president of the South African Republic.  Paul Kruger had fled.

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Thursday, September 13, 1900. High costs.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, Cuba, Disease, Medicine, Personalities, Philippine Army, Philippine Insurrection, Philippines

Wednesday, September 12, 1900. First acts of the Taft Commission.

The Taft Commission, the precursor to the Congress of the Philippines, enacted its first four laws.  They dealt with monetary appropriations for road construction, surveys, and the salaries for two new government employees.

Remnants of the Galveston Hurricane.

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Monday, September 10, 1900. Shooting looters.

Labels: 1900, 1900 Galveston Hurricane, 1900s, Crime, Disaster, Texas, Texas (Galveston), Texas National Guard

Monday, September 10, 1900. Shooting looters.

The Galveston Sharpshooters, a unit of the Texas state militia, began patrolling Galveston and shooting looters.  About 250 such people were shot.

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Sunday, September 9, 1900. Horrors.

Labels: 1900, 1900 Galveston Hurricane, 1900s, Texas, Texas (Galveston), Weather

Sunday, September 9, 1900. Horrors.

The full devastation in Galveston started to become known, while ot the outside world they remained unkown.

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Saturday, September 8, 1900. The Galveston Hurricane makes land.

Labels: 1900, 1900 Galveston Hurricane, 1900s, 1910s, 1915, 1915 Galveston Hurricane, Disaster, Texas, Texas (Galveston), Weather

Saturday, September 8, 1900. The Galveston Hurricane makes land.

The 1900 Galveston Hurricane, the "Great Galveston Hurricane" made landfall.  It killed no less than 8,000 people and maybe up to 12,000 and destroyed Galveston.

It remains the fourth deadliest storm in U.S. history.

The water rose 8'.

Notable in this, this was a slow moving hurricane.  It'd be hard to imagine this occurring today.  In Galveston, it wouldn't, as a seawall was built after the storm which was tested, and passed the test in the 1915 Galveston Hurricane.

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Friday, September 7, 1900. Austro Hungarian Mess.

Friday, September 7, 1900. Austro Hungarian Mess.

Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary ordered the dissolution of the Abgeordnetenhaus, the elected portion of the Austrian Reichsrat. rather than have to suspend constitutional rights.

The Abgeordnetenhaus was confusing and divided along ethnic lines between German and Slavic parties.

Hungary, which was separately administered, didn't participate in the whole mess, which was also part of the problem.

Austro Hungaria was a house of cards.

Even the seal was awkward.

The Galveston Hurricane was approaching landfall.

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Thursday, September 6, 1900. Emilio Aguinaldo set up his headquarters at Palanan.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, Emilio Aguinaldo, Luzon, Philippine Insurrection

Monday, August 27, 1900. A hurricane forms.

Lord Robert's British troops defeated Gen. Botha's South Africans in the Battle of Dalmanutha.  South African Republic President Paul Kruger was forced to flee the country.

The 1900 Galveston Hurricane began to form.

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Sunday, August 26, 1900. Unidentified Olympian.

Labels: 1900, 1900 Olympics, 1900s

Tuesday, August 17, 1915. The hurricane hits Galveston.

Waves hitting the seawall.

The 1915 Galveston Hurricane made landfall.  Atmospheric pressure was recorded at 27.76 inHg (940 mb) with wind speeds of 135 mph (217 km/h) leading to $921 million in damage, but the construction of the seawall in the city following the 1900 Hurricane prevented large scale loss of life. 

The German battleships SMS Nassau and Posen dueled with the Russian battleship Slava at Riga.

Jewish American Leo Frank was abducted from his prison cell in Milledgeville, Georgia and lynched for the alleged murder of former employee of the plant he supervised, the impoverished 13-year-old Mary Phagan in Atlanta.  The mob included a former Governor.

While Frank was convicted of the crime of rape and murder, there are significant doubts about his guilt, which is why the original sentence of death was commented to life in prison.

Charles Kettering patented the electric starter for automobiles.

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Monday, August 16, 1915. Entering Texas.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, 1915 Galveston Hurricane, Battle of the Gulf of Riga, German Kriegsmarine, Imperial Russian Navy, Mexican Border War, Texas, Weather, World War One