Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-12
IN NEED Of FOOD
ONLY WATER SOAKED PROVIS-
IONS IN THE CITY.
OUTSIDE RELIEF IMPERATIVE,
Doctors Cannot Care For Half of the
Injured-Can Treat Only the
Worst Cases.

Worst Cases.
Galveston, Texas, Sept. 12.-Today sup
plies began to arrive, but so meagre are
the facilities that the amount could not
he i'anuled. There are thousands nun
sry here now, they la something to
eat. but the food gives no nourishment.
it is soaked with water. ana provisions
which have been treated to a bath are
no tvery pa.Irat!e. The provisions that
reached here today came from Houston
by steamer but there are so many to
feed that it did no tgo far. A crowd
quickly gathered and they were disitrib-
uted i'll a short time. Many hurried away
With what they got to their families;
Others got cooked food and ate it where
they We're.
The situation does not look so bad now
that relief has actually come and more
is on the way. but it is not meant to be
said that further relief is not needed.
This is not u question OF a lay, but of
many days 1t may be two weeks before
"a train gets in here. There is much
necessary TO be done, the first thing be-
ing the establishment Of a rigid system
of issuing upplies The nucleus has al
ready been formed, and the regular SOL
',iiers. who are still alive, and a number
OF citizens, have been sworn in as police
men and are attending to the issuing of
%lations ard directing the efforts of the
searchers for the dead and injured. AS
for clothing many lave the money to
buy and those who have not are being
given their ne~ceSSaries by the relief ON
mittee. but llore clothing is necessary,
especially for women and children, who
are the principal sufferers. The dead are
still being searched out and buried, some
of them in the sea and more of them
on the beach. and still others in the eem-
eteries. There are no collins left. Peo-
pie are knocking together pine boxes and
lumber from the ruins OF their homes in
which to bury their lead. They cannot
take them to the cemeteries so they bury
them within what was once their yards,
intending to inter them in cemeteries at
ter matters have assumed their noraml
aspect. The dead who nave no relatives
left are treated with scant courtesy.
there is no time for ceremony and they
are put into the SAND on the beach or into
the gulf.
CARE FOR ONLY WORST CASES.
The injured are being taken care of as
we'll as could b expected. Physicians
are on the go all the time. All who were
not badly hurt are being put aside tenn
pOrariiy for those who really nee! Inc
services of doctors and surgeons, and
those are so many that their number
cannot be counted with any accuracy.
OF the slightly hurt there are some thou
sands, as the majority of the people
found in the streets have wounds or
VI IN VI 1oiiiN NihlNi LIZ lo CJ- Z
no accurate estimate of the number of
dead: there is no way in which the num-
Der can be estimated. for many of the
bodies have foated away. The spirit of
eNaggeration is here and each man adds
Il few to the number of the last man
talked to Most men of standing in the
rommunity-men who have lived here all
their lives, say that the total probably
will reach 800. Few of them think that
it will go beyond :. 1000 at the outside, even
tIitt, n lihnt.nI ~ T~r Tho 49,
of bodies which hoated away.
The ruins of the st. Mary's infirnlary
and Rosenberg school. are to be searched
today. 1t is believed that nearly 100
bodies of patients and sisters will be
taken from the hospital. The number of
dead in the Rosenberg school is only
prohlenoatical. for it is thought hat most
of the people escaped before the building
collapsed. The buildings in the resi-
dent portion of the city are still being
searched for the dead.
In the business portion of the town
where the dead have been recovered,
they were not so numerous as in the out
skirts. People who ar now being dug
up We're not drowned: they were gener-
ally killed by falling houses. The num-
her of dead at the Orphanage was not
nearly so great as at first m
REPORTS NOT EXAGGERATED.
The ruins of the Terrace, a big rooming
DulullfS. iEiNe not produced 5V OeaO,
though it was said thar there were many
more there. The exact number cannot
be stated. People are arriving here from
HI outside and newspapers We're brought
in from Houston today. The reports of
the destruction have not been exagger-
ated: if anything they are too conserva-
tive. Wreckage extends in every direc-
ton. Pieces of houses, fences, furniture,
clothing, telegraph and telephone poles
blockade the streets: the water Washed
everything into a heap and it is through
this debris that a search is being made
for the dead. Few We're taken out yes
terday, though many We're gotten out on
Sunday some of whom have since died.
So far as describing the scene of the
wreck is concerned, it is out of the
question for adjectives are not express
siye enough to conve the true sight.
All residences and small stores are no
more. 1t looks like a lumberyard which
had been struck by a furniture storm.
In the Denver re-survey there are few
houses but these are badly twisted. In
the west end, where most Of the people
lived and where the houses were not sub
sta the damage amoun almost to
Il IEctality. There are undoubtedly a large
lumber of dead in this district. In the
central portion of the town. where the
wealthy people lived, there is probably
not one house out of five but is COM
p1etely ruined. All the houses that are
left standing are filled with the severely
injured, the rich and the poor occupy
ing the same rooms in many instances.
Along the bay shore the devastation
is complete and the full force of the