The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-10-21
SUFFERERS.
APPEAL TO THE COUNTRY
BY THE GALVESTON
RELIEF COMMITTEE.
COCHRANE'S SPEECH AT SAN AN
TONIO--SENSATIONA NEWS
THROUGHOUT THE STATE.
Special Telegram to the Statesman.

GALVESTON, October l9-Subscrptions in Gal
weston towards the relief of the sufferers by the
great storm along the Sabine Pass coast now ag-
gregate fully ,00O including the $500 voted last
evening by the city council This is a larger sum
than any city in the United States has thus far sub
scribed, not excepting New Orleans, which city
holds mnch closer relations towards a great
majority of the sufferers than Galveston The
Galveston relief committee, which comprises some
of her best known and most enterprising citizens,
this evening issued the following appeal;
10 the charitably disposed people of the United
States, and especially to those of Texas and
Louisiana:
We. the undersigned committee, organized for
the relief of sufferers by the recent disastrous
flow of portions of the gulf coast of Louisiana and
Texas most of lis having visited the scenes of the
disasters silce their occurrence, make this ap-
peal 10 behalf of those who were by
that calamity at once bereft of the
homes and the means of replacing them there.
Though Beaumont and Orange fO lowed by Gal
weston, Houston and oJher cities, have already
done much to relieve immediate distress, and al
though some ten to fifteen thousand dollars, from
various sources, have already been devoted to that
purpose, more, much more will, still he required
to be of such benefit as the gravity of the situa-
ton demands, should be bestowed.
The nature of the disnster differs from similar
calamities in this: While much greater financial
losses were achieved in such public misfortune as
the grelt fires in Chicago, Boston and Portland,
and more recent catastrophes at Charl 'ston and
Galveston, and the numbers afflicted in the cases
cited were from hve TO hundred fold greater than
in this instance, there were in the
places named good neighbors, who could
and did relieve immediate distress, while in this
deplorable visitation 50 per cent. of the nhabit-
ants of the inundated district are rendered home
less, penniless and broken in spirit. The very soil
on which they lived, and from which they gained
their sustenance is no longer habitable. What has
thus far been done will afford but temporary re-
lief? The question is how are these people to sub
sist hereafter, with the woeful domestic bereave-
ment in well righ every family-with many of
these good people beyond the age when a new
start in life can be made without help -despOiled
of deprived of means and dispirited by
their trouble and misfortunes will become
of these people unless the large hearted
charity of our own country responds with willing
hearts and open hands? Let all such as can and
will help these homeless unfortunates join in the
work of relief by forwarding such contributions as
they may wish to render to the treasurer of this
committee, or the mayor of either of the cities OF
Beaumont or Orange, through any of which chan
nels sach aid will be properly and prudently dis
tributed.
Signed NJ. LAsKER,! chairman,
FEN BANNoN, Treasurer.
Albert Weiss, G. B. Miller Sylvan Blum G. M
Penland G. W. Burson, Charles II, Moore, JOSEPH
E Mason, Edward Webster, q. M, Mason, c. NJ
GunaId James Moore,