Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-09-18
DEATH Isl 600
Now Believed That Many People
Were Killed In the Texas
Storm
Twenty Thousand People Being Fcd
and Cared For by the Rsltef
Committees.
Many Bodies Still Being Recovered
and Are Being Crematsd
Some Sickness


Some Sickness slss5
Galveston, Sept. 1s.-The names of
1871 persons killed In the storm disaster 8
have been listed and accounted for. It
is believed by many that the number OF
deaths will reach 5000, altho the exact
number will never be known.
Twenty thousand people are being fed
and cared for daily in Galveston With
the supplies which are pouring in from
all parts of the country. This will be cut
at least one-half in ten days. 10 the
statement Of VA. McVities chairman
of the central relief committee.
The estimated cost OF the aid which 10
now beiEg extended is $4,000 a day. The
great bulk of the aid is going to the 1000 3
nlen i. no are at work cleaning up the
5wiccsase, digging for bodies and clean- ss
ing the streets. Thru them it goes to 81
their families. No able bodied laboring
man is allowed to escape the work
whether he needs aid or not. tho most Of
them do. The business men who are In
position to resume are allowed to attend
to their stores, ana their clerical forces
are not interfered with. Today the de-
abris-hunting and street -cleaning work
were put upon cash basis, the wages
being s1.50. Time has been kept from
the beginning, tho the records are not
complete and it is the expectation, II
the money which comes in from outside
is adequate, that the men will be paid
for the full time they have worked.
This will apply to those who had to be )
made to work at the point of bayonet
as we'll as those who volunteered their
services. This will not be given in cash,
but in the form of orders for tools for
mechanics lumber for those who have
homes they wish to repair, etc.
One hundred bodies OF storm victims
were recovered and cremated yesterday,
nine days after the hurricane and still
there are hundreds more to be found.
They lie for the most part under the
twisted heaps of debris that line the city
for three miles along its southern side.
] The problem Of clearing away the
4 wreckage in this par. Of the city where
lit is thickest. is still q very troub blesome
one despite all the work that has been
done The quickest and beet way would
doubtlers be by fire. but the very mem
ton of fire has a terror for Galveston
j ians now. The city is practically with
out protection from fire, and II the
/ flames onee get a. good start a holocaust
might be the result, which would be
! only second in horror to the hurricane.
The problem is all the more serious
i because the danger OF an epidemics
i caused by the many dead bodies Of men
land animals Is still great. Sickness of
4 a malarial type is already prevalent
The debris and garbage is being res
moved with the aid Of 25o wagons to-
4 places where II can safely be burned.
but that Is a very slow process.
Among the bodies recently found was
i that of Ma. w. T. Levy, United States
Iemigrant inspector for Galveston. His
i! wife and three children perished but
i their bodies have not been recovered.
/ In one place yesterday the body of a
4 mother was found with a babe of a few
4 months tightly clasped 10 heg breast.
Eleven hundred tents have been re-
ceived by the board of health. All ex-s
i cept 800, which were retained for the
b marine hospital on the beach, have been
distributed to the homeless in the diff
Il ferent wards
The revenue cutter Winona. from Mo-
j. Abile arrived Monday and Capt. Perry
placed the cutter at the disposal Of the
board Of health FOR the removal of the
3 sick and wounded who are able TO leave.
the city for interior points.
Il Miss Clara Barton . giving her time
I and attention TO Aestsrlng in the work
: of relief and ascert atrsans what supplies
i, are necessary to meet the sxtgsncies Of
q the situation. The board OF health says
i, more trained nurses are needed. and
q one of the members made serious
{. charges against several nurses who
j | have come to assist in relief work and
; they We're asked to return home.
r a systematic effort was begun yester-
t Eday morning to obtain the names OF the
8 dead. so that the information can be
4 used for legal purposes and for life
Insurance settlements. Sworn state
ling recorded and communication with
4 people with information who have left
e the city is being opened.
s STILL THE HORROR GROWS.
/. just Learned That 400 People wers
. Killed at High Island.
! Dallas, Sept 1s.-The news rached
: Dallas today that High Island, sea-
cid resort thirty miles northeast OF Gal.
: weston and in the southwestern corner
of Jefferson county. was entirely de-
stroyed. The place had about 1,oo0sres
: idents many of them visitors Not /
Ihouse was left standing and more thar
= 400 dead bodies wre yesterday found b,
n exploring parties. The Gulf & Inter
state railway has received information
u that more than thirty miles OF roat
e are entirely destroyed between BOLIVIA
\ Point and High Island.
Il Mexico Aids Sufferers.
st City of Mexico, Sept. H. bill wa
Il introduced In the Mexican congress
= yesterday providing for an appropria
ton of $4,000 for the Galveston sutfer
=: ers.
50 Census BuIleilns.
to washington, Sept. IS. The census bu
81 reau announces the populat tion Of 6ac
1e ramento. Cal. to be q. .2s2. agafnst 1e
he aS6 in 1890. increase, 1923 per cent
ID Pueblo. Col, q, LET: increase. 14.se ~