The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-10-20

blazing continuously for three weeks
and during that time had consumed
more than sixty human bodies, to say
nothing of dogs, cats and larger car
cases. Boards, water-sOaked mat
trasses, ragged blankets, etc, were laid
on top, so that nothing else was distin-
guishable. What is burning now?'
inquired "Wall, ma am replied the
custodian, punching a venthole into the
heap, from which a frightful odor
came-"I reckon there are dozen
OF two skeletons near the bottom. 1t
takes several days, you know to burn a
body entirely up. Yesterday we laid
seven corpses on this particular heap,
and they are only partially baked by
now. To-day we have been busy over
there (pointing to other fires quarter
of mile Distant, where we found lot
of bodies-eleven under one house. So
far we have only put two here to-day.
Found EN- just now in that puddle,
They are right under that top layer Of
boards
Gould you tell who they were?" /
asked. Lord, no" was the reply.
1--WE have to get 'em on to a plank
somehow, or on a sack if they fall to
pieces, and tote 'em to the nearest fire.
tell you it's no agreeable job. One of
these ere last ones was big black
man-could tell by his woolly hair;
they are all pretty black now. He had
on nothing but one shoe. The other
must have been a young woman. Ten
ny rate she was slim and had long
brown hair She had on black silk
underskirt, blue turquoise ring and a
new rope tied around her waist
Poor, poor creatures! Since this hunt
in the debris began, upwards Of twenty
four hundred bodies have been found,
and every day still adds it's CHASTITY
quota of from fifteen to thirty. And
mountains of wreckage are yet I'M
touched. We find 1t hard enough to
lay away our dead in consecrated
ground, with all the care and tender
ness that love can suggest, where we
can water the sacred spot with cur
tears and lay upon it the flowers they
loved in life, but never to know wheth-
er their poor bodies were fed to the
fishes of the gulf, or left above ground
to become an abomination in the nos
trils of the living, or their ashes scat
tered to the inds after cremation, must
NC well ulSI ullpedidDle.
Nearly nine hundred thousand dollars
in cash has already been received for
the relief of Galveston-not by the
Red Cross, but by Governor Sayers
Mayor Jones and others in authority
OF this fund, fifty thousand dollars has
been set aside for repairing the partial
ly wrecked houses and one hundred
thousand dollars for rebuilding those
entirely destroyed. To the building
committee composed of the governor,
the mayor, Judge Taliaferro Of Hous-
ton, and several of Galveston's
wealthiest men, Miss Barton has sub
mitted plan for four room cottages. to
accommodate twelve persons each,
and has made complete list of lum-
Der and all other materials needed to
erect enough of these houses for eight
thousand people. The value Of these
materials will approximate two hun
dred thousand dollars, and the cost of
labor about fifty thousand dollars more.
Miss Barton believes she can secure by
direct contributions the greater part of
the materials, and with this end in view
has issued a detailed appeal therefor
Her appeal. of which five thousand
NoPiSS iiuNV bCEil pllllttd Gnu 6teiltCIcu
broadcast sets forth the fact that this
unfortunate seaport lost at least
twelve thousand persons out of it's pop |
ulation of forty thousand in one night |
of storm. Not one house in the area of |
the storm escaped unchanged, while |
fully four thousand dwellings and all |
their contents We're absolutely washed |
away, or lie in the pile of wreckage-a
worse than worthless mass, menace to |
the safety of the remaining portion of |
the city. A large proportion of the |
families who occupied them are entire
ly without homes, or even shelter save |
such as persons nearly as destitute as
themselves can offer temporarily, to
their own great cost and inconvenience. |
This homeless class numbers upwards
of eight thousand. While the bountiful
of the peoples generosity
has enabled the Red Cross to feed the
hungry, cloth the naked and render the
streets Of Galveston partially passable,
nothing has yet been done toward rein
stating the impoverished survivors in
homes where they can escape disease
and enjoy measure of the comforts of
which the storm deprived them The
larger in loss of life and property than
at Johnstown by it's flood, but donations
In money for this place have thus far
aggregated a third less than was given
to Johnstown. Winter is less than two
months away. Although the climate of
southern Texas is mild, ''northers" pre-
vail, and snow and ice are known.
Tents would not protect for any length
Of time. The sea-sand and the quick
sand would not hold them down; the
first gale of wind would leave their oc-
cupants as unsheltered as before, and
hardships, colds, consumption and
pneumonia would finish what the storm
has left. Some substantial shelter
must be had at once for these people.
TO secure this in the quickest possible
way, the National Red Cross has, with
The cooperation of the general COM
nittee of Galveston, obtained estimates
If the best known architects in the vi
Unity regarding the material needed
,or constructing houses enough for the
suffering thousands The
estimate includes rough lumber, floor
ng tongued and grOoved window
rames and sash, door frames and
loors hinges, screws, hooks, staples,
oricl5 for chimneys. squares Of three
)ly felt roofing, fifty kicks of eight-pen-
ly nails, seventeen kegs of twenty-pen-
ly nails and tools for a hundred car