The number of dead was eventually put at twenty-two hundred—twice as many casualties as in the burning of the General Slocum on the East River in 1904; many more than in the San Francisco earthquake and fire; nine times as many as in the Chicago fire. The only single disaster in American history that took more lives was the hurricane that struck Galveston, Texas, eleven years later.
Approximately 2900 people were killed in the 9/11 attacks. Casualties in the 1900 Galveston hurricane are estimated at more than 6000.