A Bat Dress of an Episode: The St. Mary's Orphanage Disaster

Content warnings:Having COVID-19, endangered animals, brief reference to children dying in a fire in previous episode, very brief mentions of miscarriage and infertility, being an orphan, forced medication, orphanages, tragic implications of poverty, violence against Native Americans, yellow fever, foster care, building fire with children in peril who survive, Catholicism, hurricane, large-scale death of children as an unavoidable part of the episode, drowning, decomposing bodies, mass casualties, large scale damage to city, water rescue, ghosts, racism/white people virtue signaling, structural racism in education, very vague mention of domestic violence, media representations of LGBTQ+ and POC and trauma, traumatic childbirth/emergency c-sectionLinks:BRIA 14 3 a How Welfare Began in the United StatesGalveston's Haunted OrphanageOriginal Site of St. Mary's Orphan AsylumOrphanages: An Historical OverviewPortrait of a Legend: The Great Storm of 1900: St. Mary’s Orphan AsylumQueen of the WavesSt. Mary's Orphanage, GalvestonThe heroic nuns who lost their lives in the Galveston hurricane of 1900The Sisters of Charity OrphanageYellow FeverOutro music:Galveston Hurricane 1900 - Film: Thomas A. Edison - Music: Tom RushMusic clip used in episode:Queen of the waves1