Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-09-15
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
Conditions at Galveston.

Galveston, Tex, Sept. l5.-Tbe
sound of the hammer is beginning TO be
heard throughout the city and every
man who is not engaged in the grim
YORK of looking for and cremating the
dead is patching up the holes made by
Saturdays great tidal wave. The clIl-
zens seemed determined TO begin i'm
medistely the work of rebuilding the
stricken city and TO that end are eL-
deavoring to secure building material
as speedily as possible. Business
houses are are being restocked and res
turateurs are conducting business on
the sidewalks. The cleaning up pro
cess is being pushed with vigor, but it
will be many days before all of the
debris has been removed. A large
number of children who lost their
parents are being sent to Dali
las asylums. Two more kodak
| fiends who insisted on photograph
! log nude corpses of women are
said to have been shot by the soldiers.
| The latest estimate of casualties places
the number of dead at 5000 and the in
iured at 10000. Five hundred of the
injured are in critical condition, the
others are recovering rapidly. More
| lime is needed and unless 1t comes soon
the early predictions of plague may
come true. The condition TO the
corpses is frightful. The buryiDg squads
are compelled to tie cloths saturated
with disinfectants over their mouths
and noses. 1t is proposed to gather the
bones OF all those who have been
cremated and bury them In one
grave over which monument
commemorative of the great dis
aster will be erected. The many
pyres throughout the city are being
closely guarded. In great many in
stances jewels were not taken from the
persons of those who were cremated =,
and mingled with the bones are melted
gold and many gems of considerable
value
Dallas, Tex, Sept. 1.-THE coasl
country is being heard from. A bull, =
tin from Hitchcock says: 1.-THE cout =
try districts are strewn with corpses,
the prairies around Hitchcock are
dotted with the bodies of the dead
Scores are buried as the bodies are too
badly decomposed to handle and the
water is too deep to admit of burial
Dallas, Tex, Sept. ia special
from Galveston says: "There is no con-
ceilment to be made of the fact that 3
pestilence is feared. The stagnant
water in the streets filed with all man.
ner Of decomposiDg matter is threat
against the living which makes men
tremble. Fully 10000 barrels of lime
can De used to good advantage. The
community that will donate train
load of lime at once and get it here,
| will render greater service than by
| giving twice the value 10 money. The
loss of life will never be known. There
nave already been handled on Calves
ton island and along the bay shore, op.
posite the island, about 1000 corpses
| The long stretch of debris along the
beach and the western portion of the
island, has not been heard from. Il
Is thought that after an investigation
| the conservative estimate of the loss of
life on Galveston island will be 5000
rhe names of thousands OF victims will
never be known.
Fort Worth. Sept. 15.-Estimate e.
this morning indicate the total fatalities
! 10 the Galveston food will reach 10, 600.
The building of the city has already
commenced. The railroad bridge will
be built across the bay in seven days.