Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-14

servatfvely Estimated at Ten Mil
lions Bodies Arc Buried Where
Found-The Effects of the Storm
Inland.
NEW ORLEANS, September ia
special to the Picayune from Galveston
says:
The relief measures organized here
are running more smoothly than be
fore; the destitute are receiving sup
plies from the various depots; the sick
are receiving the best of care and
physicians are giving their service
gratis.
Reports continue to be received from
nearby coast and mainland towns,
telling of destruction and loss of life.
The coast for miles inland is said TO
be covered with bodies. One gentle
man aided in burying 100 few miles
north of Virginia Point, and parties
are out in every. direction, engaged in
the same duty.
Chas. Patterson, connected with the
Gulf & Interstate Railway, came in
from Bolivar Point and reported that
they had buried between 800 and 400
of Galveston's dead and that on Boil
var Peninsula, from the point of East
Highlands for II miles south, every
thing was washed away and IS people
were drowned Rolling stock was
either completely destroyed or damaged
and q miles of road bed was washed
away.
Col Polk. general manager of the
Santa Fe, has received reports that
every station house. freight depot and
water tank on the line between Virginia
Point and Rosenberg Junction, 66
miles north, was either
Blown Away or Wrecked
and miles of track washed away. All
the towns between these two points
were severely damaged by the cyclone
and all had the death list OF from five
to twenty-five people, with many more
or less injured.
Secretary Bailey, of the Galveston
Wharf Company, estimates the loss to
that company at 100000, while prom
inent ship broker places the loss TO for
eign shipping in the port at 100000 to
100000
1t is conservativeiy estimated that the
loss in property goods, merchandise,
ETC., will not fall below, but will prob
ably exceed, $10,000000
Decomposition being so rapid the
further removal of bodies from the de-
vastated portion of the city has been
inhibited and the interment ordered
where found.
After accurate description of the body
and memorandum of the effects found
thereon have been taken for future
Identification, the body is buried.
Houston has sent eleven tow barges
loaded
With Relief Supplies
and more will follow. Port Arthur has
sent several loads and kilograms are re-
ceived from numerous points that stores
and supplies are on the way for the
sick.
The piling and portions of the floor
at the wharf is all that is left of Gal
vestons miles of water front. Part Of
the south wall of the jetties is gone
and rocks as large as rooms are piled
into the channel, making it exceed
ingly hazardous for ships to come in.
There are thirty craft of all sizes piled
high and dry on the beach. Numbers
of tramp steamers are aground at Pei
lean island, Texas City, Virginia Point
and Bolivar Point The water aver
aged a depth of five feet over the en-
tire island The older residents of the
island profited by former experience
and bored and chopped holes in the
floors of their homes, and, as a rule,
they escaped. The strip of water at
the point Of fremont street could be
crossed by stepping on the dead bodies
of human beings and animals On
Tuesday an ordinance was passed au-
thorizing rescuing and burying parties
to set fire to wrecked buildings and
Dur0 Inein. OH tHeSS Iuneldt pylco
hundreds of corpses were cremated.
Fifty Thieves. Mostly Negroes.
were shot Tuesday and Wednesday.
Gangs of laborers are busy cutting
passage ways for vehicles through the
clogged streets. The debris is cast TO
one side to be removed and burned as
soon as possible. SO many domestic
animals were killed or crippled, and
floats, drays and vehicles damaged that
the thorough cleaning of the city Will
take months to perform.