Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-09-14

Keep vandalism DOWN. Inere is Only
one road operating to the coast from
Houston, and that will be placed I'M
der military supervision temporarily.
Offers of Aid.
Gov. Sayers received upward of
1000 kilograms during the day from
parties in the east and west offering
assistance to the flood sufferers at
Galveston, and from various portions
of the state reporting the collection
of money and supplies. During the
day Gov. Savers estimated that the
receipts in money from collections in
this state would amount to $4,000,
though from reports great deal of
money has been sent direct to Gal
weston instead of coming through the
governor, and the amount may be
much larger than that stated. Quite
a number of eastern newspapers are
wiring the governor offering to estab-
fish themselves as bureaus for relief
funds if desired and asking what they
can do to relieve the situation. A
telegram from New York informed
the governor that two relief trains
of supplies had left New York for Gal
weston. The Cincinnati chamber of
commerce wires that it win send any
relief desired that it can give. Chi
cago, Philadelphia. st. Louis and sew
eral other points did likewise.
DisposinE of the Dead.
Houston, Tex, Sept. 12. = People
from Galveston are now, numerous
and all tell of terrible calamity.
More bodies have been picked up on
the beach at Virginia Point and Texas
City and searching parties are now
getting into the country between the
two points. One member of the life
saving crew says he believes that not
one-third of the dead bodies are being
recovered. Many sank before reach-
ing the beach, and he believes that
week will pass before the bay gives up
all the dead. A man who arrived from
Galveston Tuesday says that bodies
are being cast into the gulf with
weights as the best method of dispos-
ing of them, while others are being
buried in the sand where found. Many
al these are unidentified, and so the.
death list will never be known.
Scores of people are here trying to
get into Galveston. Many of them
claim relatives there, but it is not
possible to reach that city at present.
All of the small boats and tugs in the
bayou have been taken down to the
bay to be used in ferriage.
Cotton Crop Ruined.
The great storm covered a large
area of the cotton-growing section of
Texas and did tremendous damage to
the crop. A travelling man who COW
ers a big area of the state reports
that for hundred miles west of
Houston the wind and storms have
wrought great havoc and all chances
for a crop have been destroyed
Southwest of Houston the fields are
ruined. In large cotton-growing
counties around Houston, it is said,
crops have been beaten into the
ground and are worthless
Another Relief Train.
Another train over the Internation-
al & Great Northern road left Hous-
ton at eight o'clock Tuesday morn
ing. This train carried men, water.
supplies, burial necessities and other
things of which the sufferers are in
most urgent need. Only men of the
best character and those who will
shirk no duty We're carried on this
train 1t is deemed advisable to call
the militia companies into service on
account of their being we'll disciplined
bodies. 1t is believed they can do
effective work in burying the dead,
rescuing the living and doing what
general work is necessary to be done.
In addition to the relief trains dis
patched to Galveston and intermediate
points that We're devastated by wind
and water, the general relief commit
tee will send supplies out to Velasco,
Angleton and Hitchcock.
Government Aid En- Route.
Gen. McKibben arrived at an early
hour Tuesday morning with aid and a
number of soldiers. Following him on a
fast freight are two cars loaded with
10000 rations and 1000 tents. These
were sent " odlN III lllt dIlGl
noon on barge.
Offers of relief and telegraphic Of
fers of assistance are pouring in from
all over the United States. The whole
country is responding to the appeal for
aid. The money coming by telegraph
already amounts to several thousand
dollars, and according to all accounts
will be needed. The relief committee
is too busy to keep books, but a state
ment will be issued in short time.
Swept Clean of Residences.
Houston, Tex, Sept. Traditional
details by tug from Galveston show
that west of Thirty-third street the
storm swept the ground perfectly
clear of the residences that once
stood upon it and piled them up in a
conglomerated mass five blocks back
on the beach, strewing the piling with
the debris and the bodies of its many
victims. Many of these We're lying
out in the afternoon sun and were
frightful to look upon. The fearful
work of the storm was not confined to
the district along the beach, but took
in all the district in the city and the
Denver resurvey, but it was near to
the beach that most destruction to
human life occurred. The waves washed
away the home for the homeless
and it is thought that the inmates,
consisting of 10 orphans and three
lady matrons, were drowned Out in
the Denver resurvey the destruction
was terrible and it is thought many