The Republican journal., 1900-10-25

OtlltIS lOSt dill, Uuu lOulU mere dIlll
there among the debris broken table,
a chair, and other needed articles, which
they have patched up and are using in
their temporary abodes. While the hot
weather lasted, this strange settlement
! was perhaps the most healthful portion
of Galveston, despite the corpses putre-
flying under that near by ridge of wreck
| age and the CHASTITY cremations tn at
were going on all along the beach.
Driving through the ''White City last
| Sunday we saw perhaps twenty fires
burning and passing close to one of
| them got out to see what it contained
The man in charge told us that the heap
had been kept blazing continuously fol
three weeks and during that time had
consumed more than sixty human bod
les, to say nothing of dogs, cats and
larger carcasseS. Boards, water-soaked
laid on top. so that nothing else was
distinguishable. What is burning
now" | enquired. ''Wall, ma am''-
replied the custodian, punching a vent
hole into the heap. from which fright
full Odor camel reckon there are a
dozen or two skeletons near the bottom.
1t takes several days you know to burn
a body entirely up. Yesterday we laid
i 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 a mile distant, where we found a
| lot of bodies-eleven under one house.
SO far we have only put two here to-
| day Found 'em Just now in that pud-
, die. 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 onto
plank somehow. OF in sack if they
fall to pieces, an tote 'em to the nearest
/ fire. tell you its no agreeable job.
One of these ere last ones was a big
black man could tell by his woody
hair; they are all pretty black now. He
had on nothing but one shoe. The other
must have been young woman
Tenny rate she was slim and had long
brown hair. She had on Il black silk
underskirt. blue turquoise ring and a
new rope tied around her waist"
Poor poor creatures. Since this
hunt III the debris began upward of
,, 400 bodies have been found, and every
| day still adds it CHASTITY quota of from
II to 30. And mountains of Wreckage
are yet untouched. We find it hard
enough to lay away our dead in con-
secrated ground, with all the care and
tenderness that love can suggest, where
we can water the sacred spot with our
tears and lay upon it the flowers they
loved i'll life, but never to know whether
their poor bodies were fed to the fishes
/ of the Gulf. OF left above ground to
become an abomination i'll the nostrils
of the living, or their ashes scattered
! to the winds after cremation. must be
well nigh unbearable.
Nearly 100000 in cash has already
been received for the relief of Calves
ton not by the Red Cross, but by Gov
Savers, Mayor Jones and others in au-
thority. OF this fund, so 900 has been
set aside for repairing partially wrecked
houses, and 800, 600 for rebuilding those
entirely destroyed. TO the building
tan nf ~
the Mayor, Judge Taliaferro OF Houston
and several of Galveston's wealthiest
men, Miss Barton has submitted a plan
for four room cottages to accommodate
twelve persons each. and has made a
complete list of lumber and all other
materials needed to erect enough of
these houses for 5000 people. The
value of these materials will approx
mate 5000 600 and the cost of labor
about 100000 more. Miss Barton be-
lleves she can secure, by direct contri-
buttons, the greater part of the materi-
ais, and with this end in view has issued
detailed appeal therefor. Her appeal,
of which five thousand copies have been
printed and scattered broadcast, sets
forth the fact that this unfortunate sea
port lost at least l., 900 persons out of its
population of 10000 in one night of
storm. lot one house in the area of the
storm escaped unchanged, while fully
four thousand dwellings and all their
contents were absolutely washed away,
or lie in the pile of wreckage worse than
worthless mass, a menace to the safety
of the remaining portion of the city. A
larger proportion of the families who
occupied them are entirely without
homes, or even shelter, save such as
persons as destitute as themselves, can
offer temporarily, to their own great
cost and inconvenience This homeless
class numbers upwards of eight thous-
and. While the bountiful outpouring
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 reinstating
the impoverished survivors in homes