Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-09-11
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
Galveston's Deplorable Condition.

Galyeston's DeplOrable Condition.
Houston. Tex. Sept. 1l.--Galveston,
with probsbly 1000 of its residents
killed by the hurricane and the flood,
ia suffering from the added terrors OF
footing, impending starvation and dis,
ease. All towns within radius OF oO
miles from Galveston are half wrecked
and have a hundred dead of their own.
Although Galveston ia only fifty miles
from here only one relief party has sue
cseded In getting to it by boat from
here with such supplies and means OF
aid as could hastily be gotten together.
It il still impossible to make any exact
estimate of the number OF dead or any
computation of the amount of damage
caused by the hurricane. The four
bridges to the mainland are known TO
be at the bottom of the bay and tho
wharyes and docks have been wrecked,
while most all the vessels 10 the harbor
al the time of the storm are either sunk
or stranded. With all of its shipping
gone, with its business brought to q
standstill, and with conditions almost
fatal for recuperation in the pear fu'
ture. the financial condition Of the peo.
ole is deplorabe. Across the bay on
the mainland from the city is heaped
I'D for distance OF Is miles debris OF
the houses and furniture of the city on
the island. Masses Of matter, big
enough almost to build new city out
of, are found 90 far away as Texas City,
| Is miles to the north. Among the rub
bish are scattered the corpses OF
men and women. At least three-fourths
OF them will have to be buried without
Identification. The awful scenes on the
mainland shore are as nothing, however,
compared with those which are reported
by the handful of men who have made
their way from Galveston. With Their
weterworks destroyed and with their
cisterns ohoked up, the inhabitants Of
Galveston who are still alive must DC
In great suffering
A refugee from Galveston who ar
rived here early this morning, says that
the dead In the stricken city are being
taken out into the Gulf in barges and
tossed into the sea. This mode OF bur.
| ial, he declares, is necessary to save The
living, who would otherwise be threat
ened with death by pestileDce.
Dallas, Tex, Sept. ia report
from Galveston makes the situation
look more horrible The representa-
tive of business concern in that city
operating with more than a million dol
lars capital, said to your correspondent
this morning: ~ have just heard di
rect from my house. There is no hops
for Galveston. The city is as com
/ Dletely ruined as a seaport, as if thu
Iisland had sunk. Men who have sur
yiyed the storm, cannot survive finan
cial bankruptcy. No more capital viii
be invested a Galveston because east
ern and foreign ananciers will not risi
it there. We are all ruined beyond re
covery as there is no Insurance agains
such losses as a hurricane or tids
wave. Our policies will be Rpudlateo
by insurance companies, and il we were
inclined to start anew, we could EpI
The property loss in the city will NO
fall below twenty millions and the live
sacrificed, fear from what learn, viii
approximate 5000
New Orleans, Sept. 1.-THE tots
damage in Louisiana by the late storm
is estimated TO be about 1920, 900. Tn,
greatest damage was done IN southwes
. Louisiana and the sufferers were il
oearly all cases farmers.
New York, Sept. 11.-There art
grave fears among shipping men as tC
the safety of the Mallory liner COmal
which doubtless struck the hurrican'
while on her way from Key West t.
Galveston. The vessel should hav'
reached Galveston early today but thu
far she has not been reported.