The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-09-19
DESTRO Yl' [. HE
BODIES By FIRE
Nearly Two Thousand eorpses Taken
From Wreckaget
REHABILl1A1ING The CITY.
Trains Running Into the City ana
Business is Being Donc-Hc,p
for the sutferers-Hospi-
tails Are Provided.
REHABILlTATING The CITY.
(Rv Associated Press.)

GALVESTON, TEXAS, September 49,
The work of clearing the streets OF debris
is progressing rapidly. over two thousand
men are engaged on the work Ninety
eight bodies are reported as having been
found in the wTeckaSaa and removed to-
day, making a total ota1.S SCI victims so far
recovered. This list is far snort of the
accurate number of dead found. because
no official records are kept Bodies found
are buried or crematea. ana no systematic
record has been kept. The storm wrecked
almost every vault in the SIX cemeteries.
and many OF the dead were washed to sea
in metal cases. So far Only one casket has
been found. It had been carried three
miles from the vault. The total number
of dead is still estimated at from 1900 10
C0oO
The work under the direction of the
Health Department. was pushed with yigor
and rapidly to-day. As fast as dlsintec-
tarts arrive they are being distributed
over the city.
The sick and wounded are receiving the
best of trea tment and the facihtieS are
such that any one needing medical attend-
ance can have it on application. BESIDES
the other hospitals and medical relief sta
tons already in service, the Marine Hos
pital and refugee camp was openeG this
morning and will accommodate a large
number Of patients Persons abe 70
nave USSit tilhSii Il pii iiS i-pSpiNS''.'
and sent in the revenue cutters and by
other means of transportation to Houston
and other relief stations on the main
line.
TRAINS SOON TO RUN.
The outlook from a health standpoint
is very encouraging. Three p!edrivers
are al work closing UP the breach IN the
Galveston Bay bridge, made by the steam
er Romea Repairs on the bridges are
progressing rapidly.
A message from Superintendent Nick
son, of the Santa F'e road, to General
Manager Polk, says that trains will be
able t. cross on Thursday.
The one bridge Will be heavily taxed to
accommodate all the trains. The tracks
on Galveston Island will be completed to
the bridge by tomorrow. noon. Engines
are again running into the Union Depot
and switching in the wharf yards and
bringing freight to the ships in port.
A prominent exporter from New York
said that serious misrepresentation of the
gran stored here in port have been pub
lished.
The water works system is gradually
being restored and the mains are now sup
plying the various hospitals. Miss Clara
Barton. of the Red Cross Society, has
been rendered the use Of the Old seeley
building, formerly used by the general
officers of the Santa Fe Railroad, and
has opened a depot for supplies. She has
sent orders for medicine and surgical in
struments, and has recommended that
money be sent here. as the merchants can
supply a great many OF the things neeceo'
CENSUS OF THE CITY.
A bureau has been established to take
n compete census Of theacily. Adjutant-
General Scurry has ordered ihat all fami-
lies living within a pile Of debris back from
the streets entirely swept away. shan
move out as a sanitary precaution.
CONGRESSMAN Hawley1 advocates the
building of a breakWater. beginning at the
south ietty and extending westward, para
ie1,i,e tha shore of Galveston island for
a distance of about seven miles. With
hasa OF .. ard crown Of S feet. capped with
baavv granite blocks. he believes that TINS
would break the force Of a tidal wave ana
adequately protect Galveston
In answer to an inquiry sent MN. as 20
+he intentions Of the Southern racine 70
ward Galveston, Charles H. Tweed. chasr-
49,, or the BOARD, has telegraphed to the
Galveston Cotton Exchange as loiio"s.
..worl, on our improvements at etat-
weston has already been resumed, ana IS
! being pressed forward as rapidly as poss--
| be'
"There are only ten houses III iiio l'I ~
| condition south Of High Island says II
| enans-,as General manager of the Gulf
! and Interstate Railroad Company, VINO
| returned to-day from a tour OF Inspection
| If the property OF his company
..Thera were thousands OF bodies OF dead
| animals and about $50 bodies OF human
beings found there. The latter nave peerl
| nartiallv buried, but the hands ana leel
I are nrotrudng from the earth in many
! ,oae o,a there are not enough Deonle
1af. =, that section to bury their dead"
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