The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-09-21
Bodies Found I'm Wreckage Promptly
with Oil and Applying the Torch.
FULLY 1000 MEN AT WORK
TRYING TO CLEAN THE CITY OF
GREAT MASSES OF DEBRIS.
Martial Law to Cease TO-Day-Corre.
spondent Expelled for Telling
the Truth AbOut the City.

GALVESTON, Tex, Sept. 20s-This even
ing Mayor Jones proclaimed that mar
tial law would cease st noon tomorrow and
the civil authorities would assume direction
of municipal affairs. This was done at
the suggestion of General Scurry, who ex-
pressed the belief that conditions had
reached such stage that the civil authori-
ties were able to cope with the situation.
The military forces will, however. continue
to be used as check on robberies. and will.
in all probability, remain here for the next
twenty days. The shooting of negroes by
military men for looting has had a most
salutary effect and has In a measure ter
rcrized these offenders; still there are cases
OF robbery reported daily which are being
dealt with severely.
Labor in Galveston is at a premium.
There is not an idle man in the city. Re-
gardless of station or position. man must
work. The merchant and his clerk are
working side by side along with the man
who has known nothing but hard work
since the time of his childhood. 1t is a
cosmopolitan force now at work on the city
avenues; white men and black working in
such gangs under one head is daily scene.
1t is all done for the good of the city. The
health of the living must be preserved at
any cost. The city must be cleaned and
the dead burned that the survivors may
continue to live. 1t is imperative that the
wreckage about the city be cleaned i'm
mediately. The stencil arising from the
bodies beneath the ruins is becoming un-
bearable. To-day orders were issued to i'm
press every able-boded man for street.
cleaning service. Over five hundred men
were secured under this order and to-day
there are fully two thousand men engaged
in the work Still this force is not suf-
ficient and more men must be secured. Men
for this service are to be Imported from
the interior of the State.
The work of removing the dead from the
debris still continues. The prevailing
method of disposition is cremation, and as
each corpse is taken out it is thoroughly
saturated with coal oil and thrown into a
blazing fire. This plan of incineration has
been entirely successful and the bodies are
quickly destroyed. Funeral pyres are blaz-
ing throughout the city and in this way
Galveston is ridding herself of dead.
The sloop Commodore which arrived here
this afternoon from coast points, picked up
at sea the firing box from the Galveston
torpedo station, which was destroyed by
the storm.
list OF those who perished in the great
storm. This list has been carefully COM
piled from various sources, and places the
number of known dead at Asa
The railroads have large forces of men
at work, and outside communication is now
a matter of only very short while.
Last night a negro, while attempting to
break into warehouse containing commits
sary stores, was shot and killed by guards
No attempt was made at Identification and
the body has been burned.
Captain Page, of the Dallas Rough
Riders, has made careful survey Of the
town and estimates that there are one
thousand bodies yet to be taken out OF the
ruins which surround the city.
Miss Clara Barton has charge OF all the
nurses in Galveston. In quiet and unos-
tentatious way she is doing untold good
for the sick. MANNED and suffering. Rabbi
Henry Cohen. one of Galveston's most
heroic and self-sacrificing churchmen. saws
Miss Barton is an angel OF mercy, averse
to publicity. but doing the noblest and bes;
of work.
s. e Barton. a nephew OF Clara Barton
Of the Red Cross Society, has arrived here
from New York. In an interview he sug-
gested the raising OF fund of from FIVE tc
fifteen million dollars to aid the people in
building their homes. An appeal of this
(ture viii be made to the people of the
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