The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-09-14

minute, water and ice needed People
In frenzy from suffering from these
causes. Scores have died since last
night and a number Of sufferers have
gone insane"
HOMston, Tex, Sept. 12-Arthur
Williams, state representative OF the
Huston Post, has telegraphed his pa
per that 1890 dead bodies have been
carried out on barges and dumped in
the gulf. Scores of bodies are still
coming ashore at Virginia Point. This
information Is absolutely authentic.
Two hundred bodies have been buried
at Virginia City. fifty at Hitchcock
and eighty-three at Texas City.
Houston, Sept. 1.-THE citizens of
Galveston are straining every nerve
to clear the ground and secure from
beneath the debris the bodies Of hui
man beings and animals and to get rid
of them. 1t is task Of great magni-
tude and is attended with untold diff
culties. There is shortage Of horses
to haul the dead and mere is a short
age of willing hands to perform the
work.
Impossible to Bury the Dead.
1t soon became apparent that it
would be impossible to bury the dead,
even in the trenches, and arrange
ments were made to take them to sea.
Barges and tugs were quickly made
ready for the purpose, but it was diff
cult TO get men to do the work. At
nightfall three barge loads, contain
ing about 700 human bodies, had been
sent to sea, where they were sunk
with weights. Darkness compelled
suspension Of the work until morning
No effort was made after 9 o'clock
yesterday morning to place the bodies
In mOrgues for. Identification, for it
was imperative that the dead should
be gotten to sea as soon as possible
Many Of the bodies taken out are I'M
Identified. They are placed on the
barges as quickly as possible, and lists
are made while the barges are being
towed to sea. A large number Of dead
animals were hauled to the bay and
dumped In, to be carried to sea by the
tides.
One hundred and twenty-five men
worked all day yesterday and last
night in uncOvering the machinery Of
the water works from the debris. 1t
Is hoped that it will be possible to turn
on the water today, and it is planned
to set fire to the debris, under the
direction Of the chief of the fire de-
partment. and cremate the bodies bur-
led under II.
Estimate the Dead at 5000.
Picket lines have been established
around the large stores and guards
placed on duty. The soldiers and po-
lice are instructed to shoot any one
caught looting or attempting to loot.
The jails are full and summary meas
ures are necessary. AS the work of
collecting the bodies proceeds, and as
reports come in Of death. it becomes
apparent that the death list will run
much higher than was at first sup
posed. Conservative estimates place
the number of dead in the city at s.
600. Other points on the coast also
suffered, and reports are that the
mainland, Galveston island, and Boil
var peninsula are bestrewn with dead.
A relief train from Houston with
$50 men on board and two carloads of
provisions came down over the Gal
weston. Houston and Northern railroad
to a point about five miles from Vir-
ginia Point. 1t was impossible for
them to get the provisions or any con-
siderable number of the men to Gal
veston so they turned their attention
to burying the dead lying around the
mainland country.
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