The evening times., 1900-10-13

tombstone. and-Heaven be praised-the
husband held his own dear wife IN his
arms again.
"A widow of considerable wealth lived
alone with two daughters. seventeen ana
and fifteen years OF age. Their house
went to pieces. and both girls, being
pinned under the walls. were drowned
The mother kept their bodies concealed
9or several days. lest they be cast into
the sea, or cremated on those ghasily
h5aps-as collins were unobtainabie and
separate funerals for thousands out of
the question friend. also widowed
had lost three small children. The lat
ter brought her precious dead over Sc
cretly, one by one; and together, in the
darkness of night, the two women dug
shallow graves for the five with their own
hands, and buried them in the dooryard
of the demolished home.
'One of the most astonishing freaks OF
the storm was its grewsome work CT rob-
bing graves. Vaults, built OF stone., con-
crete, and iron, were crushed like egg
shells and their contents scattered
abroad, costly monuments were shattered,
headstones carried hundreds Of feet, and
old graves washed open, disturbing the
peaceful rest of those long dead.
"A noticeable feature of Galveston in
these days is The scarcity of household
pets, such as cats, dogs, canarieS, ETC.
to say nothing of horses and COWS, most
of them having perished in the flood. A
parrot was found on top of a wrecked
home, drenched and shivering, but cack-
ling feebly: Polly is poor bird. Polly
feels like a darned fool!'
ITO this day, almost a month after the
storm, they are still taking putrid corpses
from under the debris-30 yesterday, %
the day before go on another recent day.
the latter number having been mostly
found near the ruins of a fashionable
apartment house. OF course, Identification
is no longer possible, and the remains are
shoveled into the flames as expeditiously
as possible. Something like streets have
been cleared through the section where the
wreckage is piled, in places higher than
the former residences We're, with here and
there part OF a house turned bottom side
up and balanced on the apex of its roof, or
lying forlornly on its side. The freaks OF
the wind are shown in walls blown com
pleteiy away, but the glass globes on chan
deliers inside left uniniured; in houses
twisted completely around on their founda-
tions, so that the back door is now in front,
and one house left unscathed while its
next netghbor. for no apparent reason,
was reduced to kindIing wood With very
careful driving, one may thread these
streets-if he can endure the horrible
odors and the clouds of flies which dis
tuTbed by the passing swarm noisily in
under these enormous heaps is certain, and
what Is 10 be done with both them and
the Wreckage, Heaven only knows. Scat
tered all along the way, and for miles
along the beaciI, arg mounds OF earth. in
dicating graves, in each of which several
bodies were placed to await future burial
II you care to get out and walk a bit
prudently holding your nose. you come
across relics of former homes at every
step l counted the remains of nineteen
sewing machines within the space of half
a black, several Pianos. childran's bobby
horses, desks, and trunks, now rihed of
their contents; shreds OF lace curtain. and
spiintered furniture
People hereaboutS are not eating any
fish in these days, unless brought from
distant waters-for obvious reasons Old
seamen say that never within the memory
OF man have sharks been seen so close to
shore Having feasted upon thousands of
human corpses, consigned to The waves
for burial, they have grown bold and
eager On the journey here We were
compelled to wait twenty-four hours III
Galveston Island. for transportation
across the bay. y training ship. an
chored in the harbor, hoated its flag at
half mast. Enquiring the reason, we were
told that q cadet, taking his customary
morning bath, had been snapped up by 4
shark. Looking closely. one might see
the shallow water everywhere disturbed
by great fms and the long. lean bodies of
these assassinS of the ocean, waiting for
the next barge load of corpses."