The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-09-21
REBUILD
GALVESTON
The Plucky Citizens Refuse
t0Give up
And Will at once Commence
a Bigger and Better Gal
weston
MUST Be SUBSTANTIAL
Probable that the City Will
Compel Observance
OF a Strict Building Law as
Well Built Houses With
stood the Storm
MUST Be SUBSTANTIAL
Probable that the City Will
Compel Observance
BY scrlpps-MeRae Press Association.


the hammer is beginning to be heard
and the spirit displayed by the cit
liens remaining here, is remarkable.
The work of rebuilding will be pushed
as, soon as material is secured. Bust
ness houses are beginning to restock
and other business will soon resume.
AUTHENTIC LIST OF 5000 DEAD.
Houston Texas, Sept. 1.-THE
Houston Post prints list of 2,70l
names of the Galveston dead today,
compiled from various sources, but
believed to be authentic. There were
hundreds of bodies burned, buried at
sea and in the sand of which no iden-
LITIGATION was possible. There are
many bodies still in the ruins of Gal
weston and scattered along the beach
of the mainland and in various marshes
where they were thrown by the water.
Some of these bodies have been sent
twenty miles inland along small water
courses by the rush of high waters.
Taking all things into consideration
the number of dead will reach beyond
the estimates of 1000 which have been
made by Mayor Jones, Mayor 2. G.
Lowe and other reliable citizens of
Galveston.
WILL REBUILD THE DE sTRoYED CITY.
Galveston, Texas, Sept. -, by tug
to Houston, Sept. lathe idea that
Galveston is being abandoned by its
people is a mistake. Hundreds and
thousands are leaving, ID is true, ebut
this does not mean that thousands OF
people who havelost and suffered will
not remain here and build new homes
and continue their business. There
is little fear of repetition of the dis
aster among the old-time Galveston
people. They say that Lisbon might
as well have been abandoned after the
storm. In few days the cotton men,
bankers and business men of Calves
ton will get together, so they say, to
make the city's rebuilding definite and
decisive. They say that the chief les
son of the storm was that the building
laws had been criminally lax.
The fact that every heavy we'll con-
structed building in town is standing
gives the survivors consolation and
hope. They say that if Galveston haC
been substantially constructed, there
would have been comparatively little
loss of life and if the people had MOI
been permitted to bui d to the waters
edge in the gulf side, the chief invita-
ton to disaster would have been re
moved. In this statement they are
certainly right to the extent that the
clean swash and sweep was along the
gulf beach whose cheap lots encOurag
ed the building of little homes, nearl,
always nimsy frame houses. The PEG
pie built rightupto the water, although
the water and land were apparently
on the same level.
1t seems that the people of Galveston
had been clinging to the "Mora,
theory" Moray, in his "Physica
years ago, said that the island o
Galveston would never be caught i
the center of great hurricane. Th
idea was that the island, being on' tn
extreme convex of the arc of the GU
of Mexico would be protected on bot
sides. In 1875 and 1886 the grea
storms caused no loss of life and littl
loss OF property ip Galveston an
seemed to bear out the MORAY
theory.
James s. Montgomery, who ha
lived here thirty.six years, Is leade
in the new movement OF confidence
He sites his own safety as an instanC
of what could have been the gener'
story, instead OF the story OF deatl
He lived in strong frame hou'
which was pinned down by mud sill
and not sitting on pins, as was tn
rule. The roof was shingles, whiC
withstand the wind and rain hes
Upon going home he nailed the dOol
tight and braced them to keep out Il
wind. Then he fastened the window
which were Of heavy glass, and as IL
water rose, cut holes in the floors !
as to let the house fill to the level
the water and prevent it from beir
lifted by the tide. The house stoo'
Mr.. Montgomery, who is an old tin
Galveston citizen, proposes that