The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-11-18
Ophans Or GaIgastoa,s Flood.

Before the flood Galveston's various
asylums were fun. and Of these all the
children saved were Immediately con
veyed TO Dallas. The largest orphanags
was ST. Mary's tJesuit). down or the
beach, a mile or two from town. o. Its
g children only three escaped OF me
beautiful buildings which had sheltered
generations Of little ones. nothing re-
NAMED after thar awful night of sep
TENDER S but an empty waste OF wet
sand. win here and there strips 1f
black robes and blue working aprons
fiuttering from the trees. Eighty-two
small babies we're found scattered alcng
the beach, and three living boys were
Dercned in a tree the weakest having
been tied TO a branch By his companions,
writes Fannie IS. ward, who IS in the
Red Cross OrphanaEs, temporarily main-
tanned az Galveston.
OF the ten good sisters AMI several
servants. seven we're found scatlerea
miles apart. and buried where they lay
One sister had nine az the baby orphans
tied 10 her body with her cineture. and
Others had ore or two clasped III their
arms Sister Elizabeth was at market
when the storm began. and might easily
have saved herself: but she insisted on
returning to her post Of duty-and. as
Il proved, TO her death. The water was
then rising so rapidly that she had &c s.
home on horseback. and for the last N he
or more the horse was forced 70 swim
/ The heroisn displayed hv these pfous
( women IS a fair sample ~ hundreds Of
similar eases The friends Of St Mary's
/ find consolation In tie fact that the day
/ Of the storm was the feast Of Our Lady
+ Nativity. ard an the sisters had that
I morning received Holy Communion. The
Z Jrsuiine convent Jared almost as badly.
\ Two hundred and twentv-six bodies have
! since been discovered in its grounds. and
I DOUBTLESS there are many more in The de-
/ bris piled around it-in some places high
er than the seCond-story windows
! Weeks after the catastrophe. the corpses
/ of two well-dressed women. decomposed
( beyond recognition, We're drawn from the
/ convent cistern, and burned.
The first child 10 come under Red
( Cross protection in Galveston was Louis
/ Tanbusch. q sturdy little man about two
and q half years old. out-Dutch.nE the
/ Dutch In appearance. but ia6hering q
I queer mixture Of French Italian German
and English. He was brought 10 the
/ orphanage by an indian who Is known
along The wharf as "Bigga Mustachia -
the child's dead father was French
I man and his German mother lies in the
I hospital waiting q surgical operation
/ Having been left to do his own train
ing so far in life Louis was at frs-
/ ike a wild young animal Happily. he
at once took 10 Mr.. Lewis. who IS
/ blessed with abundance OF tact and pa
I tience; but to this day the little lad
! VIII have nbthinc 10 do with women and
resents their smallest attentions with all
the power of lungs and fists All day
long he trots about after ar. Lewis.
calling him papa" in four languages,
/ 81. Ia
| in every work his benefactOr Is en-
gagged in and regarding him with looks
! of love and confidence beautiful 70 be-
hold
Our smallest child rejoices under a IT,
/ tie. which uD TO date is considerably
! Ionger than herself-no less than Mabel
Maud Elaine Spcadlin Ciara Barton.
/ Queen Of the Orphanage. She was born
/ late last June of unwedded parents
about whom the least said the better.
and was brought 10 as by baby
/ farmer who lived near the outskirts of
Galveston. until the food washed her lair
away The puny, pitfui-looHng little
I creature half nourished and never cared
for. was one mass of distressing sores,
/ from the crown Of its head % the soles
[ of IFS skeleton feet-a dreadful eXample
of the Scrtptural warning concerning the
sins Of the parents. She had literally
been through the flood. floating IN the
Gulf end rescued as by miracle-let
us hope for some good purpose IN heav-
Then there IS little Mabel Martin.
/ whose start IN life was almost as dis
[ couraring Born few months after her
fathers death. az the home Of her grand
parents. on BeruardinO Prairie some
where ID I'm this big state ~ Texas
her mother came to Galveston. soon as
able. In search of work bringing the
baby along and leaving f. by day IN the
care Of an old woman. The storm came
the mother persisted in trying 20 get 90
her child and her poor body may set
be rotting under some Of these heaps ~
yvreckaee. Tne faithful old woman saved
The baby. though IN water up 10 the
shoulders. protecting the little face hy
hiding it under her chin. and at last
carving the child on her head Tho
marvel is that it did not die of cold
and exposure for the woman had not
dry rag. nor anything 20 feed IL, and
nowhere TO 20 but the open camp or
the beach. There che Red Cross people
found 10 two DAYS later, still wet and al!
most dead from cold and hunger.
Time viii not permit me 70 toll yot
/ ~ the q other cases equally interestine
but we must not quite omit Tommy
C-obb the Oldest boy Gu the 0rphanage
re IS nearing his 18th Birthday hand
some Ia8. with bright brown eyes Thai
exactly match bis curling hair q ieR
short weeks ago he was an impoftan
factor in q happy home near the west
e~r end OF the CITY, where his fafne'
ovnes p dairy and a small truck farm
Being intelligent and wel.-to-co th'
family. Including Tommy two sisters
were AZ least midway on The social lad
der IN the midst ~ the storm thet
were all clirging 20 door iamh a1l
when the house fel che women
probably pinned under 2 and swept iat
the Gulf their Bodies having never
found Tommy ard bis fafaer swan
ont alone ard ~ once became Henarafe
En- the general confuei7n Tire frarh'
father searched tbe place Hat fe1
minutes before had been hone-hut AZ
ware zone Drifting with the current
81 finally caught hold ~ floating free
aud there was Tommy. scared ratf q
death 81 hxga u17ccaain snake tha'
had nre-cnrted the other frd - the cg
THE snake was equallv scared and el-
Gfscafcae5 and - Tommy came % n'
untE his fgther can get Freiehiene
8ut and GO info h1a'uess again
Speaking ~ snakes. one ~ ne Dor
ror ~ the storm was tie n1m r
Them frat were enert int1 fre Htr
s-1rv with human beings. au ferrr
frr fheir lives There afre mans m1c
cazirs ard rstu-rs uoec1ia 1r
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lard kmo~e ru-Ere3 TraeFr,e ef0.
rfer +ofa ~ encounters Hf1 rEnu n
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vhfeh krew to y ~ p
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~ ia fete awaiting her