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If there were a Pulitzer for bleak irony, however, it would go to the News for its Saturday-morning report on one of the most important local stories of the yearβthe Galveston count of the 1900 U.S. census, which the newspaper had first announced on Friday. The news was excellent: Over the last decade of the nineteenth century, the cityβs population had increased by 29.93 percent, the highest growth rate of any southern city counted so far.
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Erik Larson (Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History)