The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-12
MAYOR OF STRICKEN CITY OF GAL
WESTON SAYS 5000
ARE DEAD
GOVERNORS ACTION is PROMPT
FEDERAL AND STATE TROOPS TO
COOPERATE IN THE WORK
OF RELIEF
THOUSANDS ARE DESTITUTE
A Third of the City Completely De-
strOyed and Inhabitants With
out Homes or Sub
sistence.

HOUSTON. Tex, Sept. II, 1O:45 p. M
The Post correspondent was instructed
to forward the following address to the
people of the United States.''
"GaIvesfOn, Tex, Sept. 11.-It is
my personal opinion, based on per-
sonaI Information, that 5000 peO-
pie have lost their lives here. Ap-
prOximateIy One-third of the resi-
dence portion of the city has been
I swept away. There are several
thousand people who are homeless
and destitute. How many, there is
no way of finding out. Arrange
ments are now being made to have
the women and children sent to
Houston and other places, but the
means. of transportation are limited.
Thousands are still to be cared for
here. We appeal to you for i'm
mediate aid. Walter Jones'"
Mr.. Jones is the mayor of Galveston.
AUSTIN, Tex, Sept I1-Of1cial re-
ports to Gov. Sayers today are to the
effect that 400 bodies have been idenri-
fed; 200 more are in improvised morgues
awaiting identification, and many more
are thought to have been washed out to
sea and their identity will not be known
for weeks.
A telegram from Adjt Gen. scurry,
who is at Galveston, to the governor, is
as follows:
"Have just returned to Texas City,
where several Galveston citizens assure
me that the situation is beyond descrip-
tion. Accounts have not been exas-
gerated. One thousand lost is conserva-
tive. While a portion of the provisions
have been destroyed by water, sufficient
on hand to relieve immediate necessities
The citizens seem to have the situation
well in hand. United States troops and
Company c, volunteer guard, with citi-
zens patrol the streets to prevent loot
ing. 1 requested w. B. Wortham to go
to Galveston from Texas City for the
purpose OF advising me of the city's
most urgent necessities and 1 returned
here to report and ask for further in
structions. 1 respectfully suggest that
the distress is more than the citizens of
Galveston, even with the assistance of
Houston, are able to stand, and there
fore an appeal should be made for help.
Ten thousand destitute is q, conservative
estimate.
FEDERAL TROOPS WILL AID.
Letters and kilograms have been got
out of Galveston by boat and other
means to Houston to parties in various
parts of the country notifying them of
the safety of friends and relatives So
great has been the strain on the teIe-
graph companies that assistance has
been dispatched to Houston to help ut
From Information received by the gov
-ernor 1T was deemed necessary to place
the whole coast facing the island, as
well as the island itself, under martial
law. The governor has been informed
that the commander of the Texas troops
has been ordered to Galveston by the
federal authorities, and the governor
will lend him every assistance possible
with state militia to keep vandalism
down. There is only one road operating
to the coast from Houston, and that will
be placed under military supervision
temporarily.
Gov. Sayers was today In receipt of a
telegram from Miss Barton of the Red
} Gross society, offering the assistance of
the association If needed, and he replied
that he would call on the society If he
found its help needed.
According to reports to the governor
the work of the relief corps is un-
abated, and while some of the bodies are
so mutflated as to be hardly recognize
able they are being held as long as pos
sible to learn their names. Quite num-
Der of children are noted among the
names of the dead.
HELP FROM MANY SOURCES.
= Gov. Sayers received upward of I,O0C
telegrams during the day from parties
in the East and West Offering assistance
to the flood sufferers at Galveston, and
from various portions of the state re-
porting the. collection of money and sup
plies During the day Gov. Sayers esti-
mated that the receipts in money from
collections III this state would amount
to $4,000, though from reports great
deal of money had been sent direct to
Galveston instead of coming through the
governor, and the amount may be much
larger than that stated. Gov. Sayers
will not make known the total amount
until tomorrow.
Quite a number of Eastern newspapers
have wired the governor offering to es-
tablish themselves as bureaus for the
collection of relief supplies if desired
and asking what they could do to afford
relief.
A telegram from New York informed
the governor that two relief trains had
left New York for Galveston. The Gin
cinnati Southern wired the governor that
it would send any relief desired that it
can give.
STORM STRUCK sT. JOE.