The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-09-14


About thirty ghouls, despoilers Of the
dead, have been shot down. A negro
who assaulted a woman has been
killed. Martial law reigns here
Fiends who thrive at such a time as
this receive no mercy, receive no trial.
The orders are to shoot them down,
and these orders are obeyed.
A horde of negro rowdies attacked q
squad of soldiers guarding st. Marys
hospital Monday night. Hundreds OF
shots were fired and sixteen negroes
killed. Every hour during the night
other shootings of negro thieves were
reported at headquarters.
Tuesday morning a negro attacked a
white woman and murdered her in the
most cold-blooded manner. The SOL
diers caught him and blew his head
off.
Reports Of many similar cases have
reached headquarters.
Eight marauders caught looting bod
les and wrecking stores, Tuesday night,
were killed by the soldiers.
A grand total of fifty of these dew
elish ghouls have been killed to date.
AS long as martial law reigns, they will
be shot down when caught looting the
dead.
Stories Of the desecration Of the dead
are so numerous and horrifying that
it bodies i'll for any one to be seen eyeing
body. Most of the thieves came from
the mainland under the guise of relief
workers.
FRESH HORRORS ADDED.
Houston, Sept. i2.-Words are made
quate to convey any real conception of
the Galveston horror. The mind be-
comes dazed amid the grewsome scenes.
Dead, dead, dead, everywhere. Bodies
of human beings, infants and aged ones
carcasses of animals strewn on every
hand like leaves following a winter
blast.
There are countless number of bod
les. The bay is full of them. Like
jelly fish the corpses of humans are
swept with the changing tide. Gal
veston's fairest daughters and noblest
and bravest sons in one awful night
were swept from the warmth of life into
the chill Of death and their bodies fed to
devouring sea.
Such scenes drive men to desperation
and in the bounds of once fair Calves
ton, today are many frenzied people.
4 number have sought freedom in the
death which they so strongly fought.
DIED LIKE DOGS.
Yesterday eight men were shot and
killed. They were pilfering the dead,
tearing jewelry from the fingers and
ears of dead women. Not a warning
was given the men. Like ours they
were shot down.
1t Is believed the mortality list In
the city alone will reach 1900 souls.
perhaps more. In one morgue alone at
the city hall, total of / LOO has been
found. All attempts at Identification
have ceased In great wagon loads the
bodies are hauled from the streets and
placed on barges and taken out and
thrown into the gulf. This hasty
method Of disposition is necessary, and
hundreds were thus buried without GER
emony.
The destruction of property is incal-
culable. No one has paused to consider
II amid the awful destruction of life.
Nearly half Of the residence portion of
the city is swept into the gulf. Not
SO much as even a foundation remains.
Those who passed through the storm
say the uproar was appalling and deaf
ening. Moments of lull would come
and then the piercing and heartren-
dering screams Of women and children
could be heard in all directiona They
We're struggling and clinging to float
ing debris or being suddenly torn there
from. The awful
NIGHT OF TERROR
came to an end at last. and on Sunday
morning a streak of dawn lighted the
east, the sun came forth. the waters
receded.
Those who had escaped from the hor-
ror OF the night came from their hiding
places. The bodies Of friends and rel
atives were on every hand. Nearly all
were nude. the fury of the wind and
waves tearing away all their clothing.
Dead dead. everywhere. Up one
street and down another into the hidden
gecesses ehtsnGlsd with dsbris and