The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-19
WORK GOES ON SWIFTLY
Trains Will Begin Rolling Into the
City Thursday.
PART OF THE TOWN lSLlGHTED AT NIGHT
The Hospitals Are Now Supplied With Water
Car Loads of Disinfectants Are Being Dis
tributed. Two Thousand Men at
Work Removing Debris.
(By the Associated Press.)

(By the Associated Press.)
Galveston, Texas, September 1S.-The
work of clearing the streets of debris is
progressing rapidly under the perfect or
ganization instituted by military rule.
Ninety-eight bodies are reported as hav-
ing been found in the wreckage and re-
| moved today, making total of 1861 vic
tins so far recovered. This list is far
short of the accurate number of dead
found because no official records are
| kept. Bodies found are buried or cremat-
ed and no systematic record has been
| kept. The storm wrecked almost every
vault in the six cemeteries and many of
the dead were washed to sea in metal
cases. So far only one casket was been
| found. It had been carried three miles
| from the vault.
The extension of the electric lighting
| system continues By tomorrow the dis
| tanee from Twentieth to Twenty Seventh
street from the Bay to Broadway will be
equipped with street lights. More than
200 skilled mechanics were brought here
today from Texas cities.
I
| mated at from five to six thousand. The
newspaper list is over 1000. The names
of many negroes, Mexicans, Italians and
other foreigners can never be secured.
The work under the direction of the
| health department was pushed with vigor
and rapidity today. AS fast as disinfect-
| ants arrive they are being distributed
over the city. Over a carload of disinfect-
,bop tod
and sent to the health department sup
ply depot, and almost as much was taken
| from that place and distributed over the
| city.
Much was done today in the way of re-
moving debris and disposing of animal
| carcasses. The sick and wounded are re-
| ceiving the best of treatment and the fa-
| cilities are such that any one needing
| medical attention can have it on applica
| tion. Besides the other hospitals and
| medical relief stations already in service
| the marine hospital and refuge camp was
opened this afternoon and will accommo-
| date a large number of patients. Persons
| able to travel have been taken from the
hospitals and sent in the revenue cutters
and by other means of transportation to
Houston and other relief stations on the
mainland.
The outlook from a health standpoint
| is very encouraging. Three pile drivers
are at work closing up the breach in the
| Galveston Bay bridge made by the steam
| ship Roma. The rebuilding of the bridge
| is progressing rapidly.
message from Superintendent Nixon,
| of Santa Fe Railroad. to General Mana
ger Polk this evening said trains will be
able to cross on Thursday Orders have
| been issued. to allow freight to proceed
| to Galveston. The one bridge will be
| heavily taxed to accommodate all the
| trains. The tracks of Galveston Island
will be completed to the bridge tomor
row noon. Engines are again running
| into the Union Depot and switching in the
wharf yards and are bringing freight to
the ships in port. A prominent exporter
| from New York said that serious misrep-
| reservations of the port and the grain
stored here have been published.
The water works system is being grad
ually restored and the mains are now sup
plying the various hospitals. Miss Clara
Barton of the Red Cross Society, has been
| rendered the use Of the Sealey building
| formerly used for the general offices of
the Sante Fe Railway and has opened a
depot for supplies. She has sent orders
for medicine and surgical dressings, food
for the sick and clothing and shoes.
otherwise she has recommended that
money be sent her as the merchants can
supply great many things needed.
A bureau has been established to take
a complete census of the city.
General Scurry has ordered that all fam
lilies living within a block of the debris
back of a district entirely swept away
shall move out as a sanitary precaution.
Congressman Hawley advocates the
building of a breakwater, beginning at the
south ietty and extending westward of
about seven miles. With a base OF %
feet and crown of eight feet capped with
heavy granite blocks, he believes this
would break the force of a tidal wave and
adequately protect Galveston.
In answer to an inquiry sent him as
to the intentions of the Southern Pacific
toward Galveston, Charles H. Tweed,
Chairman of the Board. has telegraphed
the Galveston cotton exchange as follows:
Work on our Improvements at Calves
ton has already been resumed and is be-
ing pressed forward as rapidly as pos
sible."
SYMPATHY OF THE NATIONS.
Washington, Sept. 1S.-Formal manifes
tations of sympathy with the people of
Galveston in thpip oraat afHiptinn cO0-