Galveston marks 100 years since deadly plague outbreak
(WorldNews Sport)

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) - It´s been 100 years since the Black Death came to Galveston. A seaport city that has seen more than its share of death and destruction, the island is approaching one of the most gruesome anniversaries in its long history: a 1920 plague outbreak that left more than a dozen people dead, sent a bolt of cold fear through the populace and led the city to declare war on rats. The war was over by the year´s end, with more than 40,000 dead rats and the plague successfully eliminated. The outbreak is not the most well-known disaster in Galveston´s often bleak history. Even other pestilence, such as yellow fever, comes more quickly to mind. But local historians argue the public...