The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-09-21
HOPE At GALVESTON.
Takes the Place Of Despair a
Week After the City's Ter
ribIe Visitation.
NO STOP TO THE CLEANSING WORK.
Cash Is the Great and Immediate
Need to Pay the Cleaners
Estimates of Losses.

than 1000 dead bodies have been ideE-
tilted and the estimate of Mayor Jones
that 5000 souls persisted in Saturdays
great hurricane does not appear to be
magniied. The city is being patrolled
by troops and citizens committee
and a semblance of order is appearing.
Galveston, Tex, Sept. 17.-Yester-
day week gloom, desOlatiOn and
despair prevailed in this stOrm-tOrn
city. Yesterday hope and determina-
ton seized the people; they realized
that the task before them was gigantic,
yet with the generous aid that is flow
ing to them in broad stream from all
parts of the civilized world and their
own indominable purpose the sick and
wounded will be healed, the destitute
relieved, and the recuperation of Gal
weston will be speedy and the city will
be rebuilt and placed Oh a more cndur-
ing foundation, and her commercial
career started anew. Such is the spirit
displayed by this grievously stricken
people.
Nobody IL Complaining.
You can hear no complaining, no eX-
preston of want of confidence, but
only of hope, zeal and determination,
and this is eXemplified by the vigorous
enterprise visible on every hand. AL
though yesterday was Sunday work
was being pushed under systematic
plan of operation that was rapidly
bringing order out of chaos. The search
for and burial Or cremation Of the un-
fortunate victims within the corporate
limits was rapidly prosecuted by a
large force in organized squads under
military direction. Down the island
and on the mainland the work Of in
terring the dead is conducted with the
same system. Looting and the desecra-
ton Of cOrpSes have ceased since the
military have assumed charge of af-
fairs. and they are cooperating har-
mOniOusly with the civil authorities.
Guarding the Ingress and Eeress.
The Rangers and the militia and
civil guards stationed at Texas City
and Virginia Point are under the di-
rection of Marshal Grant. These are
the two points of ingress into the city.
He also has control over all the rail
ways running into this city and all
craft plying between Virginia Point
and Texas City, and no one can en-
bark or disembark at these places
without his permission, unless having
authority so to do from his superior
officers The destitute wishing to go
to friends in the country are given
free transportation and being sent out
of the city as rapidly as limited trans
,,Orta tiOn facilities will np1synit
COLD CASH is MOST NEEDED.
Wanted Immediately for Clearing Away
the Observation-Disclosures of tho Loss.
Galveston, Sept. 1.-THE great i'm
mediate need of the city at present is
money-not subscriptions, but cold,
hard cash. It is needed in every di-
rection and for multitude of purposes.
The most important of these is to pay
the men who are cleaning up the
streets, which work must be done and
done quickly if a pestilence is to be
averted.
The waters of the gulf cover about
100000 square feet of ground that
was formerly part of Galveston.
| This loss has been suffered entirely on
| the south side of the city, where the
| finest residences were built facing the
| gulf and where land was held at a
| higher valuation than in any other part
| of the city with the exception of the
| business district. For three miles
| along the shore Of the gulf this choice
residence property extended, but the
| shore line was SO changed by the
| storm that at low tide the water is $50
| feet higher along the entire three miles.
Estimates of the loss of life vary.
| One writer says: ut is beyond all pos
| sibility that any actual count will ever
! be had: but the best evidence obtain
| able, allowing for those bodies which
| have been cast up by the waters after
| being once thrown into the gulf and
| twice counted and for the number that
were carried out to sea and will never
| be heard of, shows that a total of list
| of the dead cannot be far from $1,000
and is under that figure rather than
over it,
| Again L. J. Workman, writing for
| the Galveston News, says: "It is diff
| ficult to go into detail, either as to
| property or life. No man in Galveston
| island can do that now with accuracy,
and it is doubtful if this can ever be
| done. There are, or We're 10000 peO-
| pie on Galveston island when the hur-
| ricane came up. What the assessed
property valuation was do not know,
but it was larger than that of any city
in Texas. Many men in whose judg-
ments | can have naught but conf
dence tell me that not less than one
third of the property value of Gal
weston was swallowed up in the grind
ing STERN and flood. No man looking
on the scene will question this esti-
mate. He is more likely to advance
| it. Certainly not less than 5000 lives
have been destroyed, and twice that
number made homeless"
| PUSHING THE RELIEF WORK.
Gov. Sayers in Charge, and $1,3OO,OOO
| Observation-Disclosures ton Reports.