The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-09-21
.STORM AND TIDAL WAVE Destroys
THE CITY OF GALVESTON. TEXAS

1t fell all the inmates were without
doubt loss, for there was no aid within
a mile.
-'The bay front from end to end Is
in ruins. Nothing but piling and the
wreck of great warehouses remain. The
elevators lost all their upper works aud
their stocks are damaged by water.
The life saving station at Fort Point
wac carried away, the crew being swept
across the bay fourteen miles to Texas
City.
DALLAS CTex.), Sept. ia horrible
story is told by Dallas citizens who re-
turned tonight from Galveston. They
declare that negroes and many white
persons are hourly committing the most
atrocious acts of vandalism. j. N. Girls
void, division freight agent of the
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad,
who was in that city during the storm
and had 4 narrow escape from death,
said:
"Ears and fingers bearing diamonds
were hacked off with pocketknives and
the members placed in the pockets uf
the vandals The bodies of women who
wore fine clothes were stripped Of their
last thread and left to tester in the
sun.
1.-THE desidences left standing have
been broken into and jewelry and sil
yer plate stolen. / saw negro woman
carrying q large basket of silverware
that was not hers.
eat Texas City I saw an old man
considerably under the influence of liz
uor. From his pocket protruded a roll
of bills rs big as my arm, which he
claimed to have found. Upon ell hands
this horrible work is going on. The
offenders are generally negroes, al
though there are some white men who
had demonstrated that they are sutIi-
GENTLY devoid of honesty and manhood
to participate in these ghoulish deeds.
"As soon as the storm subsided the
negroes srole all the liquor they could
get and, beastly drunk, proceeded with
their campaign of vandalism. Troops
are needed at once. If they are not sent
without delay, God help the survivors
in Galveston"
This is confirmed by a dozen men Of
the highest standing here.
HOUSTON, (Tex), September IA
The Post today prints a list of 270l
names of the Galveston dead complied
from various sources, but believer to
to authentic. There were hundreds of
bodies buried in the sea and in the sand
where no Identification was possible.
Other hundreds were buried on the
beach of the mainland, few of whom
have been identified. Some bodies are
still in the ruins of Gavelston and scat
tered along the beach of the mainland
and in the marshes where they were
thrown by the water. Some of these
bodies have been sent twenty miles in
land along small water courses by the
rush of high water. Taking all things
into consideration, there seems no
longer any doubt that the number of
dead will reach beyond the estimate OF
500 which has been made by Mayor
Jones and other reliable citizens of
Gavelston.
GALVESTON, September 12.-An-
other trainload of provisions and cloth
in ird Xxith ha a Of
twenty-four hours, arrived in Gavelston
tonight. The steamer Charlotte Allen
arrived at noon from Houston with TO-
900 loaves of bread and other provisions.
The amount of food which has been
sent so far has been large, but there are
still in the neighborhood of 10000 to be
cared for upon the island.
Very little stealing was reported to-
day and there were no killings. The
number of men shot yesterday for rob-
bing the dead proved a salutory lesson
and it not expected that there will be
any more occurrences of this sort. The
soldiers of the regular Army and of the
National Guard are guarding the pro-
perty and it is impossible for thieves to
escape detection.
1t will now never be known how many
have lost their lives in this awful ca
tastrophe. Mayor Jones of Galveston
thinks that the dead will amount to
judging are less than that of the Mayor
place 1t as high as 10000.
AUSTIN, CTeX)., September 4.-Dur-
ing the day the Governor received a
large number of subscriptions. and 1t
is estimated that the total subscrip-
tion lists to date, here and at Calves
ton, will reach 81 300, 900.
A committee from Velasco reported
that 1000 people are in destitute cir
cumstances, without food, clothing or
homes. Crops have been totally de-
stroyed. all farming implements were
washed away and the people have moth
ing at hand with which to work in the
fields.
A relief committee from the Columbia
precinct reported 2500 destitute. Other
sections sent in committees during the
day, and, as a result of all these, Cover
nor Sayers ordered post-haste ship
ments of supplies
Observation-Disclosures