General Discussion

In the Texas City Disaster of 1947, whole families disappeared, most of them Mexican workers for whom there were no official records. Lots of unidentified bodies in a mass grave. The total casualties will never be known.

Huge disasters like these, the Halifax Straits Explosion (in which a NA encampment vanished) the Great Peshtigo Fire (likewise unknown numbers of NAs vanished), the Great Galveston Hurricane, and even the more recent Hurricane Katrina (heckuva job, Bu**sh**) will always bring with them substantial numbers of unrecorded, unrecognized casualties, even in a modern society which tries to keep records on all its citizens -- those on the fringes of society simply disappear in death, as they were rendered largely invisible in life.