The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-10-25

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with her young husband in their new
| dollhouse of a home when the storm
broke. Their house, the paternal
wedding gift, furnished with all that
love and wealth could suggest, was one
of the many of which no trace can now
be discovered. Suddenly the young
couple found themselves struggling in
water up to their necks, beaten about
by huge pillows and menaced by float
ing and flying debris. Determined to
| die together, if the worst came, they
clambered upon a bit of broken roof
andkwere whirled away in the darkness.
Presently the roof went to pieces and
the pairswere wrenched apart. Hours
later somebody rescued the unconscious
husband, got him into st. Mary's mfr
mary, which was one of the few build
ings comparatively uninjured, and the
| good Sisters resuscitated him. Mean
while the poor little bride was swept
away alone into the storm-tossed Gulf
| of Mexico, far beyond sight of land.
| All night long she was beaten about by
| the pillows. but somehow managed to
keep herself atloat, though chilled to
| partial Inconsistencies: and with the
morning tide was brought back again in
to the emptied graveyard of ST. Mary's,
as it fortunately happened. Seeing the
walls of a building, she had just life
enough left to call for help. The grief
crazed husband, pacing the corridors
| mourning for her whom he believed to
be lost, heard the cry by some mysteri-
Gus soul-sense rather than by mortal
ear and insisted on going out to the
rescue. TO quiet him, though with no
idea any living thing was in that swirl
ing flood. the two or three men about
the pace went with him. They found
a young woman, stark naked, clinging
to board which had temporarily moor
ed itself against tombstone: and,
Heaven be praised, the husband held his
own dear wife in his arms again.
A widowed lady of considerable
| wealth lived alone with two daughters,
II and - years of age. Their house
went to pieces and both girls, being
pinned under the walls, were drowned
The mother kept their bodies concealed
for several days, lest they be cast into
the sea, or cremated on those CHASTITY
heaps. as cotfins were unobtainable and
separate funerals for thousands out of
the question. \ friend, also widowed,
had lost three small children. The lat
ter brought her precious dead over
secretly, one by one: and together, in
the darkness of night, the two women
| dug shallow graves for the five with
their own hands, and buried them in
| the door-yard of the demolished home.
A couple OF miles from town, beyond
the fort, was Catholic orphan asylum,
isolated from any other building
| When the sisters in charge saw that
death was inevitable. they roped the IS
children together. and each Sister tied
herself firmly to a certain number of
| them; and thus they We're found next
day, ali drowned but three small boys,
who had somehow become united and
lodged in a tree. Hardly one brick was
left standing upon another of the OF
phanage building
| One of the most astonishing freaks
of the storm was its gruesome work of
robbing graves. Vaults. built OF stone,
concrete and iron, We're crushed like
egg-shells and their contents scattered
abroad, costly monuments We're slatter-
ed, headstones carried hundreds of feet
and old graves washed open, disturbing
the peaceful rest of those long dead
| In one private vault, where nine
members of a family We're laid, only
two baskets now remain, the rest hav-
ing been carried off by the greedy Gulf.
know, and merrily these raced after
each other, as if rejoiced to escape the
moldy earth. The new Catholic GENE
tries suffered most, being nearest the
beach. In the receiving vault of beau
tiful Lake View were eleven caskets,
and all but three are gone. Among the
missing is that of Rose Coughlin's
| husband, the actor He died in Calves
ton nearly year ago, and his often-ex-
pressed wish to be buried within sound
of the sea is likely TO be more than real
lied. This mornings Galveston News
contains novel ADVERTISEMENTS:
gentlemen desires information concern
| ing plush-covered coffin, containing
corpse, which has been found on his
premises, on the open prairie, p miles
distant The coffin is being held
awaiting identification.
| A noticeable feature of Galveston in
these days is the scarcity of household
pets, such as cats, dogs, canaries, etc.
to say nothing of horses and COWS, most
of them having persisted in the flood.
A parrot was found on top of wreck
ed home, drenched and shivering. but
cackling feebly, "Polly is a poor bird
| Polly feels like darned foolv'