A fire at Galveston's historic George Ball House echoes a much more devastating 1885 inferno that consumed 40 city blocks of the East End in November 1885.

Both men went to the hospital with severe burns and smoke inhalation, according to the Galveston Fire Department.

The comptroller’s office estimates shoppers will save about $2.3 million in state and local sales taxes during the tax holiday, which was approved by the Texas Legislature in 2015.

Cuban meteorologists predicted: It would move over the Gulf of Mexico, strengthen and wallop the Texas ... The hurricane did not skew towards Florida. It did not die out. It slammed into Galveston ...

Out of those seven to 10 storms that could become hurricanes, three to six could make landfall in the U.S. Texas, Louisiana, ...