The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-11-19
GALVESTON.
The Island City After the ConfiaSratio1
Total Insurance,

| GALVESTON, November 14.-The weather to-
| daY is springlike and warm. Business is gen.
orally resumed; Stores are open, but the city
has holiday air about 1t. People are moving
quietly about with very, sad faces; Several
| thousand peOp'e constantly visit the burnt dis
| trict. Small smoudering fires are still seen
here and there The fire department is tear
| ing down dangerous chimneys and clearing the
| streets in the vicinity. Relief committees are
| less family has been comfortably, bus temper
arily sh' Itered. kilograms of sympathy and
| aid continue to arrive Gov. Ireland sends 800;
| the city of Denison $3.50; even distant Fargo,
Fort Worth, Austin, San Anton o. Houston
and other sister cities are send
| unfortunate friends. Joseph Pulitzer, editor
of the New York World. wires sympathy and
offers aid, to which Mayor Fulton has just re-
Zion. Joseph Pulitzer: In response to your
highly appreciated dispatch, beg leave to say
that, while we are not soliciting outside aid.
BUTTONS but IONS vol Voluntarily mt iii pprof4red Guy 00
(Signed) X. l.. FULTON.
This reply may be said TO reflect the grateful
sentiments of the people A corrected list,
81, 900, 9o5. The following companies are added
to the list previously telegraphed: Etna,
Hartford, 1874 30; Niagara, New York, $50, 900;
s5 sSSSO Moth B 81 I
Phoenix, of London. 50 800; Williamsburg City,
New York, $3.50; Union, New Zealand 800 ,OCO,
Sprln HHlQ FIRE Marine, MASSACHUSETTS, SZ,9OO;
Germania, New York, 81, 100; California, San
Francisco, $1,000. Total reported to-d1y, S170,
175. Previously reported, $500 730.
The seven sub committees organized for the
purpose of searching out and relieving the
victims of yesterdays CONFEDERATION: have had
busy day Two hunred heads of families
have been listed as worthy of every reli.f that
lars has been thus expended, but this sum
only furnishes relief temporarily to families
that have lost everything.
n n nnCfIfnfinn
ported, and among the victims are found
g geday nG Tadisa edafated mes and
who lost their little h )meS and
who hesitate at permitting their destitute con-
d1t1on becoming known: ne member OF the
relief committee received six letters from fam,
lilies of this description asking whether aid
could not be extended them privately by the
committee.
several days took official recognition of the
disaster, to-day, by resolving, as body, that
in its opinion the citizens of Galveston were
unable to provide adequately for the relief of
tons from every source should and were here
by solicited. The honorable jurymen place
the number of destitute much higher than the
At meeting of the citizens relief committee
this evening the following resolution was
unanimously adopted.
mittee that whilst the people OF Calves on are
not soliciting contributions from abroad for the
sufferers, yet they are deeply grateful for all
donations that may be made from any quarter
OF the ate.
The executive board of Knights of Labor, P
| II. Gold II, master workman, have resolved
| themselves into relief committee for the pur-
pose OF receiving Misunderstanding money Clothing
| and provisions sent 20 the sufferers. This
committee requests all local as 'emDlteS, X. OF
j., throughout the state, TO forward their con-
| tributionS to it for distribution. The commit
tee have extended their solicitations to knights
throughout the entire country. Contributions
| can be addressed to 2. II. Golden, master work
| man, Galveston.
| Cash subscriptions have steadily increased
| Among the largest received to-day and to night
| are:
| G, P. Huntington, who telegraphs bis sincere
| sympathy, and an order to draw on him for
| $4,000.
=. ii. Mallory s. Co., of New York, send a
| thousand dollars.
The springfield Fire and Marine company of
Sprinetield, Mass, sends thousand dollars
/ and orders its policies Immediately paid.
Col. W. p. Hughes, OF Dallas, subscribeS five
| hundred.
The Sun Mutual company, New Orleans, give
| five hundred.
Other Subscriptions, in smaller sums, to
amount Of five thousand dollars were received
making the total thus far subscribed from all
sources, sixty thousand dollars.
| Mayor U Brien,of Boston, telegraphS: "We
| extend our Sympathies to the citizens OF Gal
| weston, and desire to know If we can ASST
| you in Any way"
TIE Beach hotel, the largest structure on the
| Island, was closed for repairs about month
| ago. Its 200 vacant rooms are Tonight filleC
with victims of the fire, who are lodged at the
expense ofthe City Railway company, which
are reported. q ~. '2De..,hS have
| themselves I1<| fu
/ much moneylt would require to fully REIN
| burse them, and on being told the amount
would Immediately pay it over and tell them
| to buy what they had lost.