The Sept. 29, 1906 NYT reports on an unnamed hurricane that struck Mobile and Pensacola on Sept. 28, 1906. Let's see if there is anything in the article that sounds familiar:

Three lives at least have been lost and damage estimated from $8,000,000 to $5,000,000 has resulted from the hurricane that struck Mobile Wednesday night and continued with unabated fury until yesterday morning at 10 o'clock...all telegraphic communication with the outside world is cut off, the river boats are sunk at their wharves, and hundreds of launches and small boats are at the bottom of the river...

The business section, four blocks wide and running the entire length of the city, is inundated to a depth of from six inches to seven feet...

a large number of houses, mostly of the poorer class, have been razed and the contents destroyed....

Several persons, one a woman 94 years old, were injured when some buildings fell, and one [African-American] child was killed. The streets are littered with signs, roofs, and other debris. All electric light wires are down, and last night the city was in utter darkness...

The city hospital was badly damaged by the storm, the roof of the [African-American] ward hospital was blown off, and the rooms flooded...

The town of Frederick, three miles away, has been wiped off the map...

Robertsdale, thirty-four miles away was practically destroyed. Of the ninety-five houses only three stand, and three are tottering. The schoolhouses are destroyed, as is the village store. The total loss, $35,000...

Summerdale, thirty miles from Bay-Minette, is wholly destroyed...

Granted the destruction of 1906 Mobile was likely not as "big" of a deal, at least from the pure value of property and magnitude of the destruction, as Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Yet, perhaps because the storm wasn't of the magnitude of Galveston and/or because the storm didn't have name, how many people are aware of a "great storm of 1906?" Likely those in Mobile have heard stories, but the rest of us?

I wonder how Katrina will be viewed in 100 years viz-a-viz Galveston and (now) Mobile/Pensacola.