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Deadliest hurricanes

Associated Press
Published June 6, 2004

1. Galveston, Texas, 1900, 8,000 to 12,000 dead.

2. Lake Okeechobee, 1928, 1,836.

3. Florida Keys and South Texas, 1919, more than 600 to 900.

4. New England, 1938, 600.

5. Florida Keys, 1935, 408.

6. Audrey, Southwest Louisiana and North Texas, 1957, 390.

7. Northeast United States, 1944, 390.

8. Grand Isle, La., 1909, 350.

9. New Orleans, 1915, 275. 10. Galveston, Texas, 1915, 275.

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