Houston Papers are on microfilm at the downtown library (Julia Ideson Building - the old Library. There may be some at the University of Houston. Betty Pat and Charley Burgess wrote: > Angus, > The below site resulted from a search and all appear to be about the > Hurricane in Galveston in 1909. Is it possible that your hurricane was not > in 1907, but in 1909. These are all articles in the Houston Post and I have > no idea where you may find the archives. As you may or may not know, the > Houston Post is no longer in existence. It was bought by the Houston > Chronicle a number of years ago. It may be that Clayton Genealogical > Library in Houston may have copies. Or perhaps at the University of Texas. > > Pat > > http://www.srh.noaa.gov/FTPROOT/lch/txhurbib.htm > > : "Hurricane Raged in the Gulf but Seawall Saved Galveston" Houston Post 22 > July > > 1909: 1,4. > > - : "Trains Late" Houston Post 22 July 1909: 8. > > - : "Excitement in Houston" Houston Post 22 July 1909: 9. > > - : "Losses Are Heavy Over Wide Territory" Houston Post 23 July 1909: > 1. > > - : "Damage is Heavy" Houston Post 23 July 1909: 2. > > - : "Stores Demolished" Houston Post 23 July 1909: 4. > > - : "Storm at Austin" Houston Post 23 July 1909: 5. > > - : "At Galveston" Houston Post 25 July 1909: 4. > > Angus P. Robinson wrote: > > > Good Morning, > > According to my foster father another hurricane > > of equal intensity hit the same region in 1907 with > > much of the same horrendous loss. My foster father > > said he lost his father in that hurricane. The father > > had been working on a dredge in the harbor. Dad > > Lewis had photo's of his father's sunken dredge and its recovery in his > > photo album. His father's body > > was never recovered. It may have been swept out to > > sea with the storm waters when the tide changed. I > > have searched for but never found his name (Charles Andrew Lewis) on any > > list of the dead or missing. > > Angus "Scotty" Robinson