The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1900-09-18
four THOUSAND
KNOWN TO Be DEAD
More Bodies Being Unearthed
at Galveston Every Hour.
TRAINS EXPECTED THURSDAY
Horse Cars Running and Water Service
Partially Refugees Pour
0ut Of City Ia Continual
Stream.

GALVESTON. Sept. 17.-Reports filed
at General scurrey's headquarters up
to . o'clock tonight reported the re-
covery and disposition Of but forty
five bodies during the day. The News
representative. however reports The
burial Of 100 bodies.
Health officer Wilkinson stated to-
day that 40 per cent Of the debris OF
every description had been removed
from the streets and that 80 per cent
of the dead bodies had been disposed
Of and 45 per cent Of the carcasses OF
animals had been removed from the
city. But as the work Of removing
the debris goes on more bodies are be-
ing unearthed every hour. The revised
list Of the dead contains about 400
names.
There IS stIll an immense amount Of
work to be done and in some quarters
hardly an impression has been made
in the mountains Of wreckage piled UP
fifteen and twenty feet high.
The hopeful feature Of the situation
is the rapid progress being made by
the railroads in their efforts to restore
rail communication. It is announced
that trains will enter the Union depot
here Thursday next.
Galveston is beginning to look like
itself again. Horse cars are in opera
ton in the business part OF the city
and the electric line and water service
has been partially resumed.
The stream OF refugees is kept up.
Every departing train across the hay
is packed. There will be refugees leav-
ing for a week to come. No sadder
sight could be imagined than the pic
ture presented by a boatload Of refu-
gees. when the ropes We're cast off and
the craft swung out into the bay and
away from the storm-swept city. Ev-
cry face was turned toward the ruin.
every eye moistened by tears. So
great was the rush to leave behind
the scene of the storm that the Law
renee. the boat which connects with
trains at Texas City. has not failed
to leave her wharf a single day with
out denying passage to portion Of
those who wanted to get away.
At Texas City a Philadelphia news
paper has established a relief depot
which is doing splendid work. This
journal sent down a trainload OF sup
plies. staff OF special correspondents.
a co:ps of physicians and a band Of
trained nurses. Instead Of waiting un-
til Galveston was reached to begin
work. stens were taken to care for ref
.ugees at the hay terminal Of the CAL
weston. Houston & Henderson. and dur
ing the night and yesterday hundreds
of hungry refugees were fed. while
many sick and wounded were cared
for.
There is plenty of work on hand for
ten times the forces Of laborers at
present employed. The area which has
as vet been untouched embraces four
and a half miles of frontage on the
beach ana bay. and before it is cleared
the bodies which lie rotting beneath
the tangled timbers viii fall to pieces.
Even now there is no semblance Of
humanity in the gruesoma things which
are uncovered by the workers.
Acknowledgement Scurry. who is in
supreme control now. Is unable TO pay
the laborers for their services. He ar
IDENTIFY desires to do so, and today inn
pressed upon the committee the need
of money.
There is a great deal of trouble in
properly distributing supplies. the rush
at the depots being as great today as
at any time since they were opened.
In line before the relief stations were
women Of evident refinement. They
were jammed In between negroes and
the poorer classes Of whites. 1t must
have been a terrible struggle for thern
to accent succor in such guise. but
there was no alternative.
1t has indeed been a divine mercy
that the weather since the storm has
been clear and dry, Had it ralned
single day the suffering would have
been terrible. for there is scarcely a
whole roof in Galveston
There are now about 200 soldiers in
Galveston doing police and guard duty.
There are numerous cases of insanity
in Galveston as a result of the terrible
sustained by the surviv-
ors.
GAINESVILLE, Wis. Sept. 17.-An
appeal TO all knights Of Pythias for
money contributions to relieve the Tex
as sufferers was sent out from the Of