The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1900-09-22
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Galveston. Texsept. lsr-Never did
thfes Who We're unable 10 set out 81 fious.
tor. gave way to despair and wired resiE..s
nations to their papers. chose no got
degreesthat make working q torture. Il
ts safe to say that one meal q day was
all they cared for n that wa simplysto
through the lines at Houston could not
get past the guard Mt Texas City. Plead
ing and curses were alike In vain. He
some distance from the guard and felt that
at last he would succeed. He had arrived
IN Houston Tuesday morning from St
and pleading to get more han a snnd-
wich: It was now "Wednesday night and the
schooner became becalmed md he was In
his reputation was lost and his paper for
ever done with him. He did get U
into Galveston Thursday morning and
Ing he had not removed his clothes or
slept or eaten. q square meal for sixty
James H. Quarrels, of.sthe Houston Post.
He was travelling from Fort Worth
to Houston last Sunday morning. AT 9
O'Clock Sunday morning he wOke@up and
found his sleeper on q sidetrack and was
told there. was q wreck nhend.
RAN Al d syn ssn Ne nv fhe s car lay III there rnad n the the
cleared. Mr.. Quarrels reached Houston
witt an account of the damage by. the
storm n. along m; the he road; 9 zig story IN a! isself;
rest. At 4.o'clocR Monday morning he ar
land and walked to Where the railroad
bridges had been swept away. His shoes
became intolerable on his feet and he
tore them on and walked along h bali
lasted railroad track In his bare feet. He
saw so many boaies on the mainland that
he was determined to go Into Galveston
Point he secured a skin and rowed into
H~untington's wharf In Galveston, n dis
lance OF two miles, and walked to the
first newspaper man from the outside. at
noon Monday, He mad waded in water up
to his waist and his bare feet were cur
He secured q pair of slippers, Hooked
over the town for three hours and rowea
back to Virginia Point at s O'clock. He
had a chill, But met some railway men
who revived him with whisky and nabled
him to set out to walk five miles to the
railway, but he fell exhausted in the road
and slept In the mud. He had not slept
since 6 o'clock Sunday morning. Another
man came along and helped him to n rail-
way camp. The railway men made him !.
bed OF plankS and gave him coffee. MIR.
Quarrels tossed In a fever from ! O'Clock
to 8 O'Clock tuesday morning IN the rail-
AT moor Tuesday General Manager
Trtce came along In his private car and
man Into Houston, where he rested n few
hours and wrote the first story of the re-
suit of the Galveston disaster by an eye
P Pesassi He ier c msehss q So m0i back in the bay.
between Houston and Galveston Mt ;
O'Clock Wednesday morning and reached
Texas City. but was refused passage by
Returning to the mayors office at Hous-
ton to get a pass he met With biank re-
fusal. Representations only resulted IN
the retort:
were the car of Russia
when he cached the station he found ..le
AT boat left at 5 O'Clock Wednesday
was permitted to get aboard. He stayed
there long. Berore the boat left orders
were issued TO disregard all passes
unteered to Join the Red Cross corps of
DIR. l.. L.. Shropshire, of a Antonio, and
vas ' s,a accented by the dos5Sas: ALFRED ths din in
tunes OF the San Antonio boys, who We're
marched to and fro In the hot sun, and
finally h,,s ! f TssndfS p pas 'a{sc In = i sgRPp pGst sTain;
charge agreed to take the correspondent
along. After the train had started a
in nr her fl, the o eGtson SoIh eomm NJ se
boss of the supply train, and a regular
army officer ended hed dispute by politely
putting the correspondent OFF to walk
back. 1900 go
six mites back in Houston In despair.
he caught glimpses of the San Antonio
boys dashfng to the train in a carriage.
Unable to get a carriage to follow them.
he had to run q mile and ut last caught
a train at 1 O'Clock In the afternoon, but
at Texas City. opposite Galveston. IA
guard of artillery barred the way with
bare sabers. DR.. Shropshire had quite u
time to get his men In. They We're nearly
all young doctors and medical students.
Peffner. Erwin. Taylor, ]. Watts. and g.
Watts. Confines, Wagner, Lampkin and
Fuller got through and then the sabers
barred the correspondents way.
"Oh, don't cried the unhappy news.
paper man.
.iYes, come on. doctor said the big
San Antonio physician. and the sabers
were lowered.
Once In Galveston, there was no get
ting out. The telegraph was broken and
dispatches had to be sent to Houston,
where, heaven only knows when. they
could be sent to the waiting country.