The Washington weekly post., 1900-09-18
WORK OF RELIEF AT GALVESTON
Conditions Are Improving Daily, Thoush a
Applicants for Food shows No Failing on,
Many Persons OF Refinement Among
the Sumber-Trains Expected 10 Run
Into the City By Thursday Next.

SfeHnateo among them was q mother
with sucking babe tightly clasped TO
her breast. The body of Maj w. T.
Levy, United States emigrant inspector
or this district. was among the number.
he made struggle to save his wife and
three children. All were lost. The bodies
OF the wife and children have not been
recovered. and are still among the unIn-
TERED dead.
Tne number recovered and cremated to-
day will exceed 100. The task of recover
ing the bodies that are beneath or
Jammed into this immense rick of debris,
extending from the eastern to the west
ern limits Of the city, a distance of over
three miles, is a herculean one, and the
most expeditions way of removing the
whole. from a sanitary point of view, is
Dy hre. This, however, in the crippled
condition of the fire department and
Water-works, would endanger the remain
ing portion of the city. AS it now stands.
this immense mass of debris. strewn with
dead bodies, the carcasses Of decaying AMI
mails, &c, Is sore menace to the health
OF the city, and is the most difficult prob
lem the board Of health has to deal with.
Progress Toward Opening streets.
The work of opening UP the streets and
disinfecting them is being vigorously pros-
ecuted. The debris and garbage is being
removed, 250 vehicles of every description
carrying II out to a safe place, where it
is burned. In a few days all streets will
be opened for the passage of vehicles.
To-day is was decided at a meeting of
the central executive committee that all
the laborers now employed in burying the
dead, cleaning the buildings, and moving
the debris from the streets and sidewalks
shall receive $3.50 per day and rations.
Heretofore they have been working for
nothing, and if they refused, were i'm
pressed by the military.
The work of relief of the sick and in
jured is well in hand. and under the di
Tection of skilled physicians and nurses.
it is improved daily.
Eleven hundred tents were received to-
day by the board of health. All except
$50. retained for hospital purposes. will
be distributed by the chairmen of the
various ward subcommittee to shelter
the homeless in their respective wards.
There is a great deal Of trouble in
properly distributing supplies, the rush
at the depots being as great yesterday as
at any time since they were opened. In
line before the relief stations were wo-
EitA Vi Chlucnl ItllISncHI.
IL has indeed beer divine mercy that
the weather since the storm has been
clear and dry. Had it rained single
day the suffering would have been terri
bic, for ttSre is scarcely whole roof in
Galveston.
Four Hundred Soldiers Guarding City.
There are about 400 soldiers in Galveston
doing guard and police duty. The camp
on the wharf is being rapidly put into
shape and the soldiers will soon be COM
fortably housed.
Not twenty-five people got into Calves
ton Sunday from the outside world. The
lines are being drawn tight, and pressing.
indeed, must be the business which gives
one safe passage.
The steady stream of refugees from Gal
weston is kept up. There is not a depart
ing train from across the bay which is
not packed TO its platforms. There will
be refugees leaving for a week TO cone.
To-day the board of health began a
systematic effort to obtain the names or
the dead. so that information can be used
for legal purposes and for life insurance
settlements. Charles f. Doherty was sta
toned at the headquarters of the central
relief committee TO receive and file sworn
statements, in lieu Of eoroner's eertif-
are in possession OF information concernS
ing the dead were requested to send
sworn statements TO Mr. Doherty.
General Manager Polk. of the Santa Fe
Railroad, Stated to-day that the bridge
across the bay will be repaired sufficiently
to permit Of the passage of trains by
Wednesday or Thursday.
state Health Officer Blunt left here yes
terday Tor Austin. where he will make a
report 70 the governor concerning condl-
tons in Galveston IL Is said thar this
statement will estimate the Tnorta..ty al
eVO souls. Dr. Blunt was in Galveston
several days ana made a thorough inVes-
ugation OF the results of the storm.
Flee From Galveston.
Galveston, Tex, Sept. 15.-The exodus
from Galveston grows in numbers as the
facilities for getting away from the
stricken city are increased. Boats left
here to-day more frequently than any day
since the storm, some proceeding direct
10 Houston via Buffalo Bayou, and others
making connection at Texas City with the
Great Northern Railroad train. Among
those who departed to-day were Gen. Nc
kibbin and Lieuts. Ferguson and Perry,
who were sent hither by the United
States government when the news or the
horror was given 10 the world. Gen.
MekibDin Will communicate with the War
Department on his arrival in Houston.
and thence proceed 10 San Antonio 10
transact official business ghich Is requir-
ing his attention. Before leaving he was
solicited by the authorities to return, and
expects to DO so within the next four or
five days
The news which was printed here this
morning in the shape Of personal tele-
gram from Vice President Huntington, Of
the Southern Pacific. that that road Is
not TO abandon Galveston has created in
tense satisfaction. and has materially ac-
CELEBRATED the movement for the speedy re-
construction Of the city.
Mr. Huntington's telegram was 70 Mr.
A, H Belo, OF the Galveston and Dallas
News. and read. Il see Il reported that
we are 10 abandon our work at Galveston.
Nothing is further frOrs our thoughts
We expect 20 resume work there as soon
as we can You can assure the people 10
that effect.
sees No DANCER Of Epidemic.
DR.. ". II. Blount. State health officer.
to-day printed a statement showing that
no apprehenslons are Justified that sick-
ness viii result from the overflow just
experienced. lie shows that Ia 1851. IN
the midst OF the widespread epidemic Of
yellow fever, severe storm occurred at
Galveston in the early days OF October
resulting in a deposit over the greater
portion OF the city of shiny mud Rot
only did 10 sickness result but the cy-
elonIc disturbance cut short the yellow
fever epidemic. and but few cases OF
fever occurred thereafter. In 1915 and
iSss. when there we're severe storms ana
no overflow. no Increase IN sickness oc-
Cured
Several thousand men are AT work
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