Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1900-09-14
FOUL AIR RISES
FROM THE DEBRIS.
Sickness viii Set in Unless Calves
ton Is Quickly DepOpulated.
BODIES BURIED AT
SEA ARE RETURNING.
The Tide Il bringing Many Back Yak.
Ing the Situation More Grave.
Much suffering for Water
and Medical AID.

Galveston, Sept. l3-Arl attempt a,
hurying the dead has boen utterly
abandoned aud bodies are now being
disposed Of in the swifiness manner
possible. Scores Of them were burned
Wednesday and hundreds were taken
out 10 soa and thrown overheard. The
safety u the living is now the para.
mount question aud nothing that will
tend 20 prevent the outbreak Of an
awful pestileuce is being neglected. II
Is found that large numbers of the
bodies which had previously been
thrown In the bay have been washed
back upon the shore and the situation il
thus rendered worse thnn before they
We're first put In the hargcs aud thrown
into the water.
Great piles Of human bodies. dead an.
finals. roitng vegetation. household fur.
niturc and fragments of the houses
themselves nre piled Ia confused heaps
night iu the main streets 1f the city.
Along thc gulf front human bodies arc
floating around like clrdw1oi. Inter.
mingled with them are % b. found the
carcas.ns ot horses chickens, dogs and
rotiiug vegetable matter, Above all
rises the foulest stencil that over oma.
mated from any c',-p11l. absolute sick.
cniug in its intensity aud most danger.
ou, % health in its effects Along the
strand adjacent % the gulf front where
arr located all the big wholesale ware.
house. and stores the situation almost
dehes successful review Great store,
of frush vegetation have betu invaded
by the incoming waters and are now
turned into garbage piles of most hofoul.
ing od1r,. The gulf waters while ON
land played at viii with everything.
smashing in doors ~ stores, depositing
dead bodies of humans and animal.
where IL pleased and then rcceded. leav.
ing the wrcckagc % tell its own tale Of
how well the work had been done. As
result the great warehouses are foul
tombs wherein are 90 be found tho dead
bodies Of hundreds Of human beings, thu
oarcasses Of horses. COWS, dogs and
chickens. midst All the rotting and de.
oayiuR cabbage, potatoes. onions. hama
mas aud fruit Of every kind, adding t,
thu odor aud almost dofying any invhs
ion from relief parties
II will never bc known how many
have lost their lives in this awful catas
trophe. Estimates run all the way from
1000 20 10000. The former figure i
given by Lieutenant Perry. an aide OF
General McKibbon's staff.
His estimate Is laughed at by a mum
Der Of men who have been In Galveston
and returued here earlier in the week
they claiming that az least $500 bodie
were buried or carried out TO sea in IN
harges before Lieutenant Perry arrived
! No list Of the dead has been kept and /
will b. utterly impossible 10 formulat
one from now on. Mayor Jones Of GA
weston claims that the dead viii amour
20 500 and others place il ~ high a
10000.
Relief committees from the interior q
the state have commenced 10 arrive. an
as usual they are much too large /
numbers and 20 certain extent are /
the way Of the people Of Galveston an
an impediment 10 the prompt reli'
which they themselves are so desiroy
Of Offering. Several OF the relief exp
ditions have had committees lArl
enough 20 consume 20 per cent of Il
provisions which they brought,
The relief sent here from Beaumon
Tex, arrived yesterday morning au
was distributed as fast as possible.
ccusisted Of two carlaads Of ice and pr
visions and came by way Of Port Arthu
The great trouble now seems 10 be thl
those people who are in the create
need are. through no fault Of those
charge Of the distribution, the last TO r
Ceive aid Many Of them arc 80 bad
manned and wounded that they are n
able to apply 10 the relief cOmmitte
snd the committees are 30 oyorwhelm'