, 1900-09-14
RELIEF P0URS IN
ALL THE NATION GOES TO THE
HELP OF TEXAS SUF-
FERERS.
Mayor of Galveston Says the Number
of Dead is Five Thousand-Twen-
ty-Five Thousand People Home
Iess-City Will be Rebuilt on the
Old Site.

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island and city. backed by a commit
tee of citizens, and state and govern,
ment authorities. Instructions to the
police and guards were not to take
any prisoners. If an offender is deem
ed worthy of arrest he is deem
ed worthy of the death sentence, and
it is dealt summarily through Win
chester rifles. Thirty-two vandals
were shot Tuesday. They cut off fling
ers for valuable diamond rings. and
one cut off a human hand to secure
a diamond bracelet. Robbers are shot
as soon as caught.
inc negro attempted to take a wo-
mans diamond ring at the point of
a revolver, and to accomplish his pur-
pose shot his victim. He was in turn
shot and killed.
Houston is full of persons from the
interior searching for relatives and
trying TO get to Galveston.
There is enough food and water in
Galveston for immediate relief and the
living are given care by the citizens
committee.
The people of Galveston do not want
any sightseers, and all persons disem-
barking are Immediately conscripted.
given a shovel and put to work bury
ing bodies.
Soldiers on Duty.
General McKibbon of the army and
Adjutant General Scurry of Tex"s are
IN Galveston, and have soldiers polio
ing the city in conjunction with the
police and citizens committee. Hun
dreds are yet in the ruins in the city,
and where possible are being buried
in trenches or burned. Many bodies
in the ruins, WERE, perhaps, only pin
Toned down during the collapse, but
who must have died from starvation.
pain and suicide.
All m and children have been
ordered out of Galveston by proclama-
ton, leaving only able-bodied men TO
do the work. On the mainland the
mortality among women and children
is greatest. Out of the forty-siX
bodies buried in Texas City only two
We're men.
All bodies are now beyond recogni-
ton. Your correspondent walked six
blocks on the debris in Galveston, see
ing here and there a leg or arm pro,
trudnig. Many negroes refused to
work at first, and those who persist in
their refusal are shot.
The correct death list will never be
known. In going in Il stream tug from
Texas City to Galveston the CORE
%spondent passed siXty-seven floating
bodies.
Dead Lie Thick.
Houston, Tex, ept 13.-Mr. John J.
Moody, a member of the committee
the relief station at Texas City, re-
ports bodies thick for twenty miles.
About 1000 lie on beach at Bolivar,
in East bay, and in sight of the salt
marshes which line the bay.
Houston, Tex, Sept. 13.-From all
parts of the United States and some
portions of England many thousands
o. dollars are pouring into this city for
the relief of Texas destitute storm suf-
ferers. =
Trainloads of provisions and cloth
ing are also hurrying toward Houston
and Galveston, and those of the refu-
gees who have arrived here are being
made as comfortable as possible.
Estimates of the number of dead
still vary. Mayor Jones of Galveston
will be no less han 5000. Property
losses are mounting highing as details
arrive, and some estimates for the city
OF Galveston reach as high as $40. OOO,-
900.
There are $4,000 homeless in that
city to be taken care of, and it is a
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will be rebuilt. There seems to be a
disposition on the part of the leading
citizens, however, to start resolutely
where the storm left off md raise a
new city from the ruins of the old.
At moo today no new features had
developed since last night, but wires
are expected to be working late his
evening direct to Galveston, and in
that event fuller and more accurate
details may be expected tomorrow.
Rebuilt on Old Site.
New York, Sept. 13.-Railroad men
in this city have been discussing with
great interest the possibility that Gal
weston may be rebuilt on a different
site, less liable to the onslaught of the
Gulf of Mexico than the fiat sand isl.
and which has twice been denuded by
wind and ave. 1t was rumored that
the Southern Pacific company will
head a movement to build the city on
a spot forty miles to the southwest Of
its present location at the mouth of
the Brazos river.
But representatives of the railway
systems which connected Galveston
with the outside world before the &C.
c~urrpnco NJ tho nraoont diooafor COW