, 1900-09-18
L00T|NG CHECKED
RIGOROUS MEASURES HAVE PUT
A STOP TO WANDA
LISM.
,ton-Rait Communication Will be
Opened This Week-CIara Barton
and Her Red Cross Nurses Arrive
b. to Minister to the Sick.

Galveston, Tex, Sept. 17.-Sunday in
Galveston was no different from other
days of the week in so far as the work
OF rejuvenating the city was concern
ed. The work went right on with all
the energy possible, and no able-bodied
man was permitted to escape his share
of the physical toll. Better order is
being maintained since the arrival OF
United States deputy marshals. Fifty
were sworn in yesterday and ninety
more commissions were given out to-
day. The revenue cutter Winona, load,
ed down with relief supplies, arrived
yesterday. Continuous labor is max
ing itself felt in the appearance Of the
streets of the city. The search for and
burial or cremation of victims within
the corporation limits Is being rapid
.ly prosecuted under military command.
Looting and Dissertation of bodies has
ceased. United States Marshal Grant
has been given full authority by Adju'
tant General Scurry and is directing
affairs on the mainland, aided by a
troop of rangers, who are ordered to
make short work Of looters.
Constant Labor.
The wisdom Of concentrating all eff
forts on n bridge is becoming ap-
parent each day as the large force Of
men at work nov rapidly toward the
city from the mainland. 1t is conf
IDENTIFY asserted the stricken city will
be given rail communication by
Wednesday,. In the meantime the
craft that ply between Virginia Point
and Texas City and Galveston are In
der government jurisdiction and extor-
ton is not permitted. The destitute
are given free transportation and
prices are kept low for those that can
pay.
All supplies are brought in by boat,
and those intended for the sick or in
jured are dispatched with promptness.
The board Of health continues it's vir-
lie policy and a depot for sanitary sup
plies has been established. Yesterday
it issued fifty-four sacks and eighty
four barrels Of lime. twenty-five sacks
OF charcoal, twenty boxes of powdered
disinfectants. and three barrels Of car
boliC acid.
Red Cross Nurses.
Miss Clara Barton, with her com
pany of Red Cross helpers, were com
PEELED to remain in Texas City Satur-
day night, but got into Galveston Sun,
day and Immediately began their min
istering duties to the sick.
Services of a religious character yes
were confined to st. Mary's ca
thedral, where Father Kirwin preach
ed an eloquent and feeling sermon. At
ter expressing sympathy with the af-
flicted and distressed, he advised all to
&c to work to burying the dead. To-
day a census Of the Catholic popula-
ton was commenced to ascertain the
number of widows and orphans caus-
ed by the storm and the exact number
Of Catholics who persisted.
Yesterdays official report showed
corpses having been dug
out Of the ruins about the city.
With fire hydrants buried in many
places from so to 100 feet under the
debris. apparatus disarranged and the
water supply less than half that re-
Galveston's great danger now
Is fire. The sun has shone with all the
heat of midsummer, %blistering the
wrecked houses and buildings until
they have become 10 much finder.
Crippled as 1t is the fire department
would be entirely unable to stay any
serious conflagration.
The nearest help is Houston, and
that Is hours away. In view Of these
and other conditions the cry is to get
the ONE and children away to the
mainland, but there is only one steam
er with a daily capacity Of 600, hence
the exodus Is slow.
The electric light service is COM
pletely destroyed, and the city cleo
tlician says it may be sixty days be-
fore the business portion can be light
ed.