The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-09-24
spiinters from the storm wrecknse

TO the Editor OF The Poet.
Columbus Texas, September 22.--Just
In the edge Of the cyclcue-hurricane wo
have hardly yet got our breath or normal
heart beats. For two weeks. day after
day, whole columns, pages and editions
CT The Post have been filled almost en-
clusively with descriptions and dstails of
this 'unme iciful disaster" and people
have not cared TO think or read about
anything else. Some OF these nave been
so graphic as to make and merit more
than a pessing thought. They are classics
In descriptive literature. Dr. S. y. Young
writes d column OF most fascinating inter
est, wonderful, when you think of 1t, how
he could get the analytical links of mis-
mind in such lucid shape. beginning with
The barometer at Key West on Tuesday,
clear and straight on through up to the
holocaust OF Sunday morning. Tine course
and velocity of the wind, the swell AMI
bounding OF the tides the time, 20 the
minure by the watch. when the mad guf
Was piling the water thirty feet deep IN
his house, how he was impaled oy the
blast against the door facing watching his
neighbours house as 1t reared high UP and
then plunged like a huge white steamboat
down to it's death; how he was SEM like a
nautilus over the waters with no crest on
the waves because the wind blew SO hard
as to beat them smooth, then into a
maestrom, and then, bruised and cold,
into a cabin OF colored people. who forgot
their own terrors and with good hearts
and faithful hands ministered to him.
There was no sunday school service in
Galveston that Sunday morning and yes
the lesson was about the good Samaritan,
and in that negro cabin an object lesson
that no chapel class Will ever learn. DR.
Young is put together with sound, soma.
ex-Confederate timber, and we knod tlRt
he welded a good sword then as ha d.es
a good pen now.
/ Another writer, with clear-cut faCile
/ style, is from a set where one would little
expect such lines--the Galveston 400"
and Mr. G, Herbert Brown Is their orac ?
His picture of the society young men tnert
making mud stills of themselves would be
pathetic If II were not heroic. In 1862 [
saw the Crescent regiment Of New Or
leans made up OF the best OF that artistic
cratic city, gay in light blue uniforms with
white kid leggins. march through the
mud OF Shiloh to their death from Tho
guns of their own comrades, who mistook
them, from their uniforms. for enemies
That was war. this was--was 1t peace !?
Surely not white winged"
In the list of the lost notice the names
Of Mrs. r. D. Lauderdale and children,
Last summer. just year ago, Mr., Lauder
dale had a young daughter who was
just out of school drowned while
la hing in the gulf and now all the
others have gone to death in the same
waters
patriotic Englishman once said: 81
love England, but hate the English" We
here love our country and love our poo
pie, too now more than ever. Was ever
such quick, generous and general response
made to the call OF dlstressf Money can't
buy back the lost loved ones, but 1t can
help the living: 1t can't bind up broken
hearts but 1t can build up broken down
homes God will bless the people OF New
York. Chicago, Philsdelphia-hut no use
trying to write list, the whole continent
Is quickened with one impulse of sympa
thy making equal the blessing of yiying
and receiving.
The school children even are organizing
relief societies. Ours has raised $3.50 and
sent il TO the sufferers at Richmond, who
lost their substance last year from HCod
and now life and home from storm.
For more than twenty-five years there
has been prophetic foreboding that Cal
weston was doomed to destruction. | he.
lieve that the same God who
plants his footsteps on the sea
And rides upon the storm"
will help the stricken pc aple there to re-
build wisely and we'll. and that He. who
In one night so awfully blighted the crop
OF selhshness that was growing rank all
over the land and planted seeds OF kind
ness, will prove that all things work to-
gsther for good" J. R. Griffin.