The final chapters of the book deals with the aftermath of the hurricane that struck the city and the surrounding region. People that traveled to the city described a bleak and depressing scene. Even though the people that were riding the train could not reach Galveston, they were still able to see the effects of the hurricane, such as flooded strands and wreckage from the city. Meanwhile, survivor accounts all recall that there was a large number of corpses everywhere in the city. As mentioned by\u00a0 zhoeffken<\/a>, there was too many corpses throughout the landscape that the only way to properly dispose of them is to burn the corpses in a huge funeral pyre. This was done out of necessity because burying the corpses was taking too long due to the large numbers of dead and dumping the bodies into the ocean resulted in the corpses floating back to the coast.\u00a0 Due to the rapid need to dispose of the corpses fast, a proper count of the total number of dead was never conducted, which resulted in estimates.<\/p>\n

As I was reading the last few chapters, I could not help but realize that even though this occurred in a different era with different technology and customs, there are some similarities in disasters, natural or man-made, in different eras. For example, during World War II, the Allied military conducted a bombing raid to the city of Dresden, Germany, with firebombs. In the end, there was also an unknown number of dead that was also scattered throughout the city, along\u00a0 with the need to dispose of the bodies quickly, which made tallying the total number of dead difficult. In the tsunami disaster that struck multiple Asian countries in 2004, there was also an unknown total number of dead and they also faced the challenge of burying the bodies. Lastly, the Johnstown flood also faced a similar pattern that the mentioned disasters faced. It is very depressing reading the survivor accounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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