New-York tribune., 1900-09-15
GALVESTON'S DISTRESS.
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many difficulties
The local Board Of Health, through DR.. H. A
West. its secretary. has made a demand that
the work OF cleaning UP the dwelling houses be
turned over TO physicians. This work in com
mon with the other branches of cleaning the
city. has been under the direction of Adjutant-
General Scurry and he has proved himself so
capable that the relief committee declined TO
make any division OF responsibility, and the
doctors were told that they could not have the
work
THRoNGs SLEEP ON THE BEACH,
Notwithstanding the fact that the number OF
boats carrying passengers between Texas CITY
and Galveston has been largely increased II
was impossible yesterday to leave the CITY
after the early morning hours. and hundreds OF
men, women and children, all anxious TO depart
suffered great inconvenience and hardship ano
were after all compelled TO sleep upon the
beach at Texas City waiting for the morning
There is only one steamboat plying across
Galveston Bay which is able to carry passen-
gers in any number, and even this boat can
make the trip only with extreme caution on
account OF the shallowness of the bay fester-
day morning somebody did not exercise suf1-
cient caution. and the Lawrence after jam
ming Aas nose into the mud. remained aground
sIl day. der passengers were taken of IN smaIi
boats but all day long the Lawrence remained
hard and fast aground This compelled all
those who were unable 10 60 on the first trip
OF the Lawrence to trust themselves to SAIL
boats. and by noon dozen Of them, heaVhE
loaded started from Galveston for Texas CITY
where the fleet was scattered over Galveston
Bay at distance Of anywhere between ore
mile and three miles
REFUGEES SUFFER TERRIBLY.
The wind died away completely. There was
not puff Of air. The boats could neither go on
tn Texas City nor return TO Galveston. ana all
through the afternoon they lay motionless on
the water. None of them had more than
rneagre supply Of water. and there was no food
as the trip ordinarily does not require more
than an hour. The supply of water was soon
exhausted. the sun beat down with merciless
severitv and in short time babies and young
children became I'll. and in many instances their
mothers were also prostrated. There was abso-
lutely no relief 20 be had as the tugs Of Calves
ton Bay which might have towed the sloops are
eli made for deep sea work and draw too much
water 10 allow Of their crossing the shallo"
channel Hour after hour the people on the
boats all Of which densely packed. were
compelled TO broil in the torturing, binding sun
without the slightest current OF air to render
their situation more bearable All the after
noon they were becalred. but a slight breeze
arose in the evening and at O'Clock the sailing
craft which had left Galveston at noon began
to land their passengers on the beach at Texas
City.
ALL NIGHT WITHOUT FOOD.
This place is now among the things that once
were There ara no houses. tents, no accom-
rnodations Of any kind. except few passenger
coaches standing on the railroad track These
were speedily filed, and for the remainder OF the
night women and children. all hungry and the
latter crying for food, were compelled to remain
on the beach. An urgent message was sent TO
the railway people at Houston, saying that
women and children were suffering and asking
them to hurry train to Texas City for the
purpose of conveying the refugees 20 Houston
No reply was received and when train, whose
crew knew nothing of the conditions at Texas
City finally arrived, the announcement was
made that ii would not go before morning. The
crowd already at Texas City was more than
enough to fill the train to the limit, but II was
determined 10 allow the Lawrence to tempt once
more the peris of the mud, and await announcer
consignment of refugees.
II was fully twenty hours after the start from
Galveston that the people who left there yes
terdav noon were able to move out from Texas
City. which is only eight miles away, and by the
time the train had started for Houston every
woman in the throng I'll through lack Of
food. exposure and insufficient sleep.
WORK FOR BENEVOLENT ORDERS.
officials connected with the leading fraternal or
Esnizatons we're seen yesterday, and it appears
that while the organizations they represent are
National IN their scope and have members scattered
all over the Union the number Of people in Gal
weston who have Just claims their aid is
small. The reason given for this was in most
cases that the societies which assume much re-
sponsbility in the way of insurance and indemnity
toward their members unwilling to take many
risks in districts where yellow fever is Of frequent
occurrence. In every instance. however. the Of
eials interrogated declared that their respective
societies would take care Of any of their members
who were in Galveston and needed aid.
Edward NJ. L. Ehlers Grand Secretary OF the
order of Free and Accepted Masons said that his
order had two lodges at Galveston-Harmony Lodge
No s with 295 members. and Tucker Lodge No. 297
with a membership Of l3l. J. W. Anderson, secre-
rary OF the local lodge Of the Benevolent and Pro-
one lodge in Galveston. with membership Of
about a hundred. The Knights and Ladies OF
Honor according 10 Jacob Fowler, Grand Secretary
Of the District Of the State OF New-Yorks nave a
mem bership in Texas Of three thousand, but ne
thought there single lodge in Galveston.
The Ancient order Of United Workmen has In
sTexas fortv-dve hundred members. The Improved
order Of Red Men, A 2. Corbn, Great Junior
Sycamore the State OF New Y 0rl5, has two Tegu-
Legion according to the State Treasurer. John D.
Kelley has no branch in Texas
NEWARK NUNS ALL SAVED.
The Rev J. F Mccarthy, assistant pastor of st.
Patrick's Cathedral. Newark, yesterday received a
special dispatch from Galveston, by way Of Hous-
ton Tex saying that all the twenty-four Newark
nuns at the Catholic Convent Of the Sacred Heart
at that place had been saved from the general de-
struction Of life and property by the terrible tor
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