The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-10-20
\ MONTH AFTER The STORM.
NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE or GIL
TESTON ILNPLR1 TVE

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As Winter Apprenticeship Barton
Issues an Appeal to The Merchants
Material TO Rebuild Several Thousand
Houses-Stoves ind Blankets Espec-
tally Needed-sielkness From Cold and
Exposure.
Especial Correspondence of the Journal
and Courier.)
Galveston, Oct IA month after the
storm the remnant of Galvestonians
are really suffering more than in the
first days of loss and bewilderment. 1t
is always the same after any great ca
Y lamity. At first the people are too
stunned to realize the full measure of
their distrese-as a man with broken
leg, or a bullet in his flesh, feels little
pain for a time, because of the over
helming shock, Strange to say, even
from the first, more smiles than tears
\ have been seen in Galveston. Soon as
\ the, survivors were able to creep forth
from such shelter as remained, they
hurried into the streets to learn what
+ had happened to others, being almost
as ignorant of the extent of the catas-
trophe as the outside world. In the
blessed ignorance Heavens mercy was
shown. If those who were battling for
their lives in the waves, or praying at
home while the walls were crumbling
around them, had known that thou
sands of their neighbors were perishing,
frenzy would have taken the place of
courage and the number of dead would
have been doubled. During those first
days citizens meeting on the streets,
though comparatively strangers,
grasped each others hands like bosom
friends and dialogues such as this ere
common. $50 glad to see youw alive.
Did you lose anything?' only my
house, thank God Everything l owned
In the world is gone, but my family was
saved. How it it with your" EVERY
thing gone-home, wife and children"
People reported the loss of father,
mother wife and children without a
tear. There are cases in which from
half a dozen to eleven members of one
family are dead, and the sole survivor
goes calmly about his business. At
least misery has plenty of the company
hich she Is said to love.
For several days chilly winds have
been blowing across the gulf, accompa-
MED by rain and cold weather. which
greatly increases the sufferings of the
destitute. There is hardly a roof in
Galveston that does not let the water
in, drenching anew the bedding that
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while thousands would be absolutely
destitute but for the bounty of others.
They are crowded into the houses of
their more fortunate friends or packed [
like herring in public halls, or living in
tents along the beach; and all are suf-
fering untold discomforts from INSULT
cient clothing and bed-covering. The /
danger now is not so much of an cpl
demic as was imminent while the sun I
poured his fiercest rays upon bodies, as
of deaths from pneumonia, typhoid and
other fevers resulting from cold and
exposure The immediate crying need
is for blankets, stoves and warm under
clothing, of which too much cannot pos
sibly be sent. Train-loads of clothing
still continue to pour in upon the Red
Cross for distribution, but most Of it is
old cloths, bedraggled finery, than
which nothing could be more inappro-
pirate; and much is so worn and dirty
that to offer it is an insult to these un-
fortunate ladies and gentlemen, who
enjoyed all the comforts of life until de-
prived of them in a night. Perhaps the
sending of useless trash gives to the
donors something of that satisfying
feeling of having lent to the Lord, but
1t does no good at this end of the line,
and piles up on the workers burdens
too heavy to be borne in silence. Mer-
chants of many cities have sent us gem
erous consignments Of goods--mostly
unsaleable articles, shop-worn or out of
fashion, but new and useful; and In ev-
cry instance they have been very
thankfully received. If the good peo-
pie of the country would only consider,
and put themselves in ina gination in
the place of these, their donations
would be less in uantity, but more to
the purpose.
Galyestons new "White City" con-
Hists of several hundred tents set up
near the beach on the broad swath
which the storm swept clean of so
many beautiful dwellings, On one
side of 1T is a ridge of debris more
than mile long and from ten to forty
feet high-roofs, chimneys, splintered
timbers, houses smashed to atoms On
the other side the gulf ripples softly on
the sands as If innocent of mischief
though dancing white caps further out
hint that it's awful work of death and ,
destruction may any day be renewed.
In these tents more than thousand
people are enduring life as best they
can The wind flaps open their canvas
DOORS rain beats in and mothers and ,
children huddle together for warmth;
and lucky IS the family which has one
thin cotton bed-blanket to cover the
whole of 1t. Such trials come hardest :
upon those at either extreme of life
he aged and little children. Many
deaths will surely result from the pres
INT mild ''norther" which would hardly
De felt in normal times, when people :
were in their comfortable homes with :
he conveniences of life about them !,
There was distribution of gasoline
stoves as long as those useful articles !
held out, but there We're not enough to 8
count as more than a drop in the buck :
It. Wood stoves have arrived in con- d,
'iderable number, but of course not
learly enough to go around among the ;
destitute. There are very few Chin
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