The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-11-15
SWEET CHARITY.
Her Followers Pour Their
Treasure in the Lap Of
Galveston.
Huntington Send. $4,000 For
The Destitute The Fund
Reaches S6O,O0O.
Total Insurance Si,O6O,9O5-
One Company Gives $1,000
and Pays ut Once.
Some Employers Reimburse
Their Faithful Servants For
Their Losses.
Caring For the Destitute-The Relief
Fuud.

uALVESTON, NONeinUeT iuc
weather to-day is spring-like warm.
Business is generally resumed aud
the stores are open, but the city has
no holiday air about it, and people
are moving quietly about with very
sad faces. Several thousand people
constantly visit the burnt district and
small smouldering fires are still seen,
here and there. The fire department
is tearing down dangerous chimneys,
and clearing the streets in the vicini-
ty. Relief committees are actively at
work and every poor homeless family
has been comfortably, but temporari-
ly, sheltered. kilograms of sympa-
thy and aid continue to arrive. Gov
ernor Ireland sends 800 and the city
of Denison, $3.50; even distant Fargo,
in Dakota, telegraphed $50. Fort
Worth, Austin, San Antonio, Hous
ton and other sister cities are sending
private contributions to unfortunate
friends. Joseph Pulitzer, editor of
the New York World, wires
sympathy and offers aid, to
which Mayor Fulton has
Just responded as follows:
Hon. Joseph Pulitzer-lD response
TO your highly appreciated dispatch,
beg leave to say that while we are
not soliciting outside aid, we will not,
for the present, reject any voluntary
contributions.
[Signed. IL. l.. FULTON.
This reply may be said to reflect
the sentiments of the people.
The corrected list, just completed,
shows the total insurance to be ST.
O6O,9O5. The following companies are
added to the list previously teie.
graphed: -
Etna, of Hartford, 1884 $50; Niagara,
of New York, $4,000; Hartford, OF
=, $3.50, $50; North British, Mer'
camille, of London. .$2S, 800; National OF
Hartford, Sl4,425; Phoenix, of London
$500; Williamsburg, of New York
1880: Union, New Zealand, $4,000
Springfield Fire and Marine, of Mass
achusetts, $4,000; Germania, of New
York, S2,l00; California, Of San Fran
cisco, 1900. Total, reported to-day
$l70.l70; previously reported, SSso.
$50.
The seven sub committees organiz
. ed for the purpose of searching GU
and relieving the victims OF yes'er
days conflagration have had bus!
day. Two hundred heads of families
k have been listed as worthy of ever,
J. relief that il is possible TO extend
= Twenty thousand dollars has thu
been expended, but this sum only fur
nishes temporary relief to familie
!, tina, have lost everything.
u Pitiful cases of destitution are re
norted. and among the victims ar
2 found a goodly number Of educated
and refined ladies, of small means
who lost their homes and who heel
tate at permitting their destitute con
dition to become known. One mem
Der of the relief committee receive
six letters from families
this description asking whethe
aid could not be extended {
them privately by the committe,
The grand Jury, which has been in SCI
= sion Several days, took official reco.
milton of the disaster to-day, by r,
solving as a body that In Its opinio
the citizens of Galveston were unab
to provide adequately for tho reii
of the many victims of the lire al
that contributions from every sour
should be, and were heret
solicited. The honorable jur
men place the number of destitu
much higher than the citizens col
mittee.
AT meeting of the relief comm
tee this evening, the following res
. ton was adopted:
Resolved, That II is the sense
this committee that while the peoT
# Galveston are not soliciting CO
tributioDs frc III abroad for the suit,
ers, vet they are deeply grateful I
all donations which may be ma
from any quarter.
The state executive board of I
knights of Labor, II. ii. Golden mi
ter workman, have resolved the
selves into a relief committee tor t
\ purpose OF receiving aud disbursi
: money, clothing aud provisions sc
Z to the sufferers This committee
= quests all local assemblies of knigi
\ Of Labor throughout the state to I,
: ward their contributions to II for d
y tribution, and likewise extend III
solicitation to Knights throui
= out the entire country. Contril
lions can be addressed to p.
:. Golden, master workman, Galvest
n The cash subscriptions have ste
lily increased. Among to-day's
this evenings subscriptions are:
L a p. Huntington, who telegraphs
sincere sympathy aud an order
draw on him for $1,000; G. IL. n
lory Il Co, of New York, send 81,
the Springfield Fire and Marine
.uranoe company, of Springfi
Mass, sends $1,000, aud ordersits
icies to be Immediately p
Colonel W Il. Hughes,
Dallas, subscribes $500;
The sun Mutual issuance comp
of New Orleans, $780,; Other |
seriptiops in smaller sums, to
amount Of $1,000 were received, II
- ing the total thus far from
~ sources 100000.
n Mayor O'Brien, Of Boston,