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New-York tribune., 1900-05-08
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York. NOTICE hereby xv-n all having
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the vouchers thereof
place OF a
or William p. Williams No. l4l Broadway.
Borough OF Manhattan City OF New York. before
the 10Th day OF Dated New
day Of November 1899 WILLIAM J. DUANE. Admin
William P. Williams. Attorney FOR A1ninstra-
14l Broadway. Manhattan New York City.
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c. Thomas. a Surrogate % the County OF Nev-Y1rk.
notice is hereby given 70 all persons having claims
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deceased present with vouchers thereof
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Dated New-Yorb thc cath day of February. 1900.
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New-York tribune., 1900-05-08

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Hareo with ne same DAY last week and last year
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NOTICE Is all having claims
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present thereof
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CENTRAL R. R. OF new JERSEY.
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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-09-20
STORIES OF THE STORM {
NOO~N~N~N~N0V


Seventy-fve outside towns were wiped
out.
Several negroes were shot while loot
ing houses.
Helen Gould sent $4,000 army rations
to Galveston.
terly destitute.
Ghouls stripped dead bodies of jewelry
and articles of value.
Cities in all parts of the country have
volunteered to aid the storm sufferers.
Prof. De Voc, Chattanooga, Tenn,
nae.
The Governors of various States offer
ed aid and sympathy to the Texas suffer
ers.
The War Department ordered a special
train from st. Louis to carry supplies
to Galveston.
Martial law was declared at Galveston
owing to the rifling of dead bodies and
robbery of stores.
Idlers were pressed into service at the
point Of the bayonet and made to help
clear up the debris.
Chicago sent a relief train to Calves
ton. The Rock Island road offered to
transport provisions and furnishings
free.
When the water had receded so far
that it was possible to dig trenches bodies
were buried where found. Debris cover
ing bodies was burned where it could be
done safely
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-09-20
ONE OF THE GREAT STRUCTURES WRECKED BY STORM.
Longest Bridge the World. Spanning Galveston Bay.

swept by the storm, and in most of these
places loss of lives is reported. It is re-
liably estimated that the loss Of life, ex-
elusive of the death list of Galveston,
will aggregate 800. Several towns were
swept completely out Of existence.
Through the devastated district the
scenes of desolation were terrible to wit
ness The storm was over 200 miles
wide and extended 200 miles inland from
the gulf.
In Brazoria and other counties of that
section there is hardly plantation build
ing left standing. All fences are also
gone and the devastation is complete
Many large and expensive sugar refner
les are wrecked. The negro cabins were
blown down and many negroes were kill
ed. On one plantation short distance
from the Inflated town of Angleton three
families of negroes were killed, the death
list of that place alone amounting to ff-
teen people. All relief is being centered
at Galveston for the present, but succor
will reach the smaller places and the
country people just as soon as the relief
work can be systematized.
/ Gov. Sayers received upward of 1000
kilograms Tuesday from parties in the
East and West offering assistance to the
food sufferers at Galveston, and from
various portions of the State reporting
the collection of money and supplies.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-09-20
CITY HALL, In WHICH 700
ToON REFUGE.

It does not lessen the horror of this
disaster that Galveston seemingly invites
such a fate. Practically, it is upon
level with the waters of the gulf and
hurricanes are no strangers in that re
gion. Starting in the West Indies some
times they sweep northeast along the
Florida and up the Atlantic coast, but
they are just as likely to take the oppo-
site direction and visit their fury upon
the Texas coast. In such case, when one
of these hurricanes reaches it's maximum
velocity, Galveston is absolutely unPro-
tected. Even in an ordinary storm the
water rises in its streets. The despair Of
the situation is that human skill can de-
wise no means to protect it. Great sea
walls cannot be built as no foundations
can be had for them in the shifting sand
and the whole island is a long, narrow
sand spit, so low that an extraordinarily
high tide will cover it. The only protec-
ton Galveston has lies in the fact that
hurricanes Of this magnitude do not often
occur, probably only three or four in a
century, and after one has visited them
its people live in the hope that they may
not be exposed to another for many years
to come.
1t probably will be so in this instance.
The dead will be buried, the damage will
be repaired, the destroyed structures re-
built, and the hurricane of 1900 will soon
be only memory. The living will go on
their way as unconcerned as those who
live in an earthquake region or in the vi
cinty of volcano.
Added to the destruction accomplished
by the wind of the hurricane was that Of
the succeeding flood, and houses which
had resisted the pressure of the gale fell
when the water came. The people had
the choice Of being killed in their homes
or drowned in the streets, and the indi-
cations are that the majority of the vic
Tins preferred death in the water. Like
rats in a trap the sufferers simply wait
ed to ascertain what was to be their
doom.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-09-20

Probably 5000 lives lost, property de-
stroyed to the value Of many mllnohs'
seventy five towns more or less damaged
and some of them virtually wiped out,
Galveston nearly in ruins, it's great wharf
frontage destroyed, ocean-golng steamers
and small coasting vessels sunk or stranu-
ed in every direction, are some OF the
mournfuI details of the havoc wrought
by wind and wave on the Texas coast
and in the interior of the State. The
fury of the hurricane was spent ere many
hours but its period was long enough to
cause almost unprecedented destruction
From the best reports it is evident that
the storm began between and ~ O'Clock
on Saturday forenoon Driven by the
tnry of the gale the waves of the gulf
inundated the long low sandy island up
on which Galveston is built and when at
It's highest point is not over five feet
above the gulf level, and before dark the
whole city was under water from three
to six feet Thence the water gradually
encroached farther inland and beyond
cyclonic fury, demoishing towns and vii
lagos along its course to point eighty
miles north of Houston. Mountain re-
pion and table land suffered alike, the
gale razing houses, tearing up trees, ruin
ing farms and leaving behind it wide
wake of desolation Southwest it Swers
along the coast as far as Corpus Christi
and northeast across the Louisiana boun-
dairy. 1t may be possible in the future
to make something like an accurate esti-
mate of material losses, in which the
damage to the cotton and fruit crops will
be a large item 1t is not likely that the
entire number of persons killed will ever
be known, but conservative estimate
places the number in the vicinity of
$500.
Full Story Can Never Be Written.
1t is hardly possible that the true story
of the frightful catastrophe will or can
ever be written The terror, despair and
desperation of the population when at
last they realized, Saturday evening, that
they were face to face with death cannot
be pictured by those not there. Such an
experience has fallen to the lot of few
since the world began. for no one was
optimistic enough to harbor the hope
that the entire city was not soon to be
swept out of existence. No aid was near;
escape was impossible: it was as though
the 40, 900 people of Galveston were on
vessel which was sinking at sea, the
captain having informed them that the
ship could survive but few moments
longer.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-09-20

ing an orgie over the dead The ma
jority of these men were negroes, but
there were also whites, who took part in
the dissertation of the dead Some of
them were natives and some had been
allowed to go over from the mainland
under the guise of ''relief" work. Not
only did they rob the dead, but they mu-
tilated bodies in order to secure their
ghoulish booty.
A party of ten negroes were returning
from looting expedition. They had
stripped corpses of all valuables, and
the pockets Of some of the looters were
fairly bullying out with fingers Of the
dead, which had been cut off because
they were so swollen the rings could not
be removed. Incensed at this desecra-
ton and mutilation of the dead the loot
ers were shot down. During the robbine
OF the dead not only were fingers cut off
but ears were stripped from the head II
order to secure jewels of value. A few
government troops who survived assist
ed in patroling the city. Private citi
zens also endeavored to prevent the rob
bling of the dead and on several occa,
sions killed the offenders.
1t IS said that at one time eight were
killed and at another time four. SinoIx
and in twos and threes the offenders
were thus shot down until the total q
those thus executed exceeds fully fifty.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-09-20
Don't Mention the Losses.

You never see Monte Cristo refer
to in any Of the newspapers of t
south of France except when son
body has won large sum of mon
at the tables. These papers are brib
to insert reports Of big gains by d
players and to keep out news Of b
losses. The suicides are also not
ported for the same reason. When
English paper contains a disparagi1
reference to the place it is forbidde
for the time, to be sold in Monaco aD
Is removed from the public readln
rooms.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-09-20

President Mckinley ordered $4,000 ar
my rations and tents for 5000 persons
placed at Gov. Sayers' disposal. Reve-
nue. cutters were sent to nearby ports.
Gov. Savers of Texas has been asked
to call special session of the Legisla-
ture in order to take steps to relieve the
suffering. The State has approximately
a surplus of $4,000, 900.
Not single church, school or charita-
bic Institution, of which Galveston had
so many, is left intact Not BUILDING
escaped damage and half the whole num-
Der were entirely obliterated.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-09-20
SAYS FIVE THOUSAND ARE DEAD.

1t is my opinion, based on personal infor-
nation, that 5000 people have lost their
lives here. Approximately one-third Of the
residence portion of the city has been 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 Transports
ton are limited. Thousands are still to be
cared for here We appeal to you for i'm
mediate aid. WALTER J. JONES.
Mayor of Galveston.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-09-20

For nearly thirty-Six hours the situa-
ton was appalling and the inhabitants of
the town were compelled TO face condi-
tons the like OF which have rarely been
known. The hurricane, before it reached
the city, had dashed the waves of the bay
into the utmost fury. The water steadily
advanced toward The island upon which
Galveston is located, and as it was
thrown upon the beach by the storm the
residents there fed from their homes to
the higher places.
Against such elimination OF the eIe-
ments no torethought could provide
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-09-20
DISASTER NOT MAGNIFIED.
Total of Deaths in Stormswept District
May Reach 10000.

May Reach 1O,OOO.
AS indicated by dispatches from Gal
weston the magnitude Of the calamity
grows. The newspaper statements seem
to have been too conservative IN their
efforts to guard against extravaganza or
exaggeration, and the loss of life in Cal
weston is greater than has been gener-
ally reported
! A boat owner of Galveston, Captain
Charles Clarke. is quoted as saying that
10000 would be reached before the NOR
tuary list of Galveston and vicinity
would be closed He has been about on
boats in the, waters around Galveston
day and night since the storm and bases
his statement on what he has seen.
J. D. Dillon, commercial agent of the
Santa Fe, has returned from a trip over
the line of his road from Hitchcock TO
Virginia Point on foot and he gives a
graphic account of his journey. which
was made under many difficulties.
''Twelve miles of track and bridges are
gone south of Hitchcock" said he. Il
walked, waded and swan from Hitch
cock to Virginia Point, and nothing could
be seen in all of that country but death
and desolation. The prairies are covered
with water, and [ do not think [ eXagger-
ate when | say that not less than 5000
horses and cattle are to be seen along
the line of the tracks south of Hitch
cock The little towns along the rail-
way are all swept away. When | reach
ed point about two miles north of Vir-
ginia Point I saw some bodies floating
on the prairie, and from that point I'M
til Virginia Point was reached many bod
les could be seen from the railroad track
At Virginia Point nothing remains
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-09-20
RAILROADS HEAVY LOSERS.

Great Property Loss Suffered by the
Lines in Texas.
The railroads will suffer the loss of
millions of dollars in actual damage. to
say nothing of the loss from stoppage of
business. At Galveston their wharyes.
warehouses, depots and tracks are ruin.
ed. The costly bridges which connect
the island are in ruins and must be en-
tirely rebuilt The international and
Great Northern and Santa Fe have con
siderable track washed out
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-09-20

weston, S2UU,UUU.
Damage to telegraph and telephone
wires outside of Galveston, $4,000.
Damage to cotton crop, estimated on
average crop of counties affected, $4,000
bales, at $50 bale, S3000,00O.
Total number of lives lost, OLA.
Total property loss, $15,275, 600.
Losses to live stock cannot be estimat-
ed, but thousands of head of horses and
cattle have been killed all over the storm
district.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-09-20
Bodies Are Rurned.

1t became evident Tuesday that burv-
ing the dead would have to be abandoned
The heat was SO intense that bodies a.
composed before they could be taKpn
from the debris. Torches instead Of show
els became the order, and wherever
bodies could be seen in ruins, the rims
were lighted and the flames licked m ~
dead. -
relief parties report thousands home-
less IN the towns and country about Gal
weston and in great need Of immediaie
assistance. =
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-09-20
DEAD IN MANY CITIES.

Great Storm Claimed 500 Victims Out.
side of Galveston.
The extent and character of the calam-
ity which has befallen the people of Gal
weston is so great and overwhelming that
losses of life and property at other small
towns in the track of the hurricane have
been lost sight of. There are probably
seventy-fve villages and towns that were
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-09-20
The Viewnoint.

First Rabbit That town boy d
been around here nearly a week a.
never once tried to kill us.
Second RabbitYes; he seems to
devoid of all human attributes. Il
dianapelis Press.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-09-20
TEXAS CIqY'S WOE.
Frightful Devastation Wrought
by the Great Storm.
MAY BE 5000 DEAD.
Ghouls and Vandals Are Shot Down
in the Streets by Troops.

History Affords No Parallel to the
Awful Visitation and the Succeeding
Condition of Affairs-F1ood Is Fol-
lowed by Famine-Pestilence Threat
ems the Victims Are Cremated,
Thrown Into the Sea, Or Buried IN
Soggy Trenches.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-09-20
MANY GHOULs ARE SHOT.

Summary Punishment Dealt Out by
Soldiers AMI Citizens.
A reporter telegraphed from Laporte
the story of the robbery and mutilation
of the dead in Galveston and the death
of the offenders. The grouls were hold
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-09-20
ESTIMATE OF STORM LOSSES.

Based on reports believed to pc accu'
rate. the following statement is proba-
bly as near correct as can be arrived at
regarding the losses in the Texas storm;
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-09-20
Big Steamers.

Big Steamers.
Canada is to build TWO steamers
$4,000 tons each.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-09-20

In 1915 the first asylum for deaf ~
dumb children was founded in Lono0'
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-21
MADE RICH BY "A SOM

"A man who made a big fortune out Of
a single song, and lost It again, has just
died in London, H. J. Leslie. Mr.. Leslie
was many thing at various times-a city
accountant, a theatrical SPECTATOR, a
theatrcal builder, a theatrical manager,
a struggling journalist, an exile in Amer
lea, a wealthy man and a principal in a
famous cause celebr The light opera
Dorothy was first produced at the
Gaiety theater and it did not meet with
success. Mr.. Leslie bought it for avery
small sum and transferred it to the
Prince of Wales theater. But here, too.
1t failed to make an impression until n
happy nightHayden Coffin a n Queen
Of My Heart n the piece bounded into
immediate success. 1t had t1e longest
musical run on record and made a large
fortune for Mr.. Leslie-so much that he
was enabled to build the Lyric theater
N spread out in various other theatre
cal ventures. But when Dorothy"
stopped his luck went with it, Uni he
lost his entire fortune, never to recover
1t. On the very day he died he vas ga
zetted bankrupt at the suit of the same
man, Hayden Coffin, who once sang him
into fortune.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-21
TWAIN WELCOMES IRVING.

Mark Twain's speech at the welcoming
banquet to Sir Henry Irving in London
kept the table in a roar. Among other
things he said:
Il find my task a very easy one, as I
have been a dramatist for 80 years. I
have had am ambition all that time to
overdo the work of the Spaniard who
said he left behind him 400 dramas when
he died. I have behind me AIS and l am
not yet dead. The greatest of all arts
is to write dramas. 1t is a most difficult
thing. 1t requires the highest talent
possible and the rarest riffs. No, there
is another talent hat ank it, for amy
body can write ramas I had 400 of
them but to get n accepted requires
real ability, and I have never had that
felicity yet. But human nature is SO
constructed, we are SO persistent, that
when we know We are born to a thing
we do NOT care what the world thinks
about 1T, we go on exploiting that talent
year after year as l have done.
Il " done a world of good in a 81
lent private way. and have furnished
Sir Henry Irving with plays and plays
and plays. And what has he achieved
Through that influence? See where he
stand nOW-on the summit of his art i'm
two worlds. His position is unchal-
lenged, and it was l who put him there
that partly put him there. I am to be
followed by Mr.. Pinero. I conceive that
we stand at the head of the profession.
He has NOT written as many plays as I
have, but he has had that G~od-given tall
ent, which I lack, Of working them off
ON mana gers
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-21
ELLEN TERRY.

Says Ellen Terry: II would advise all
actors to learn fencing, dancing and
walking a chalk line with a dipper of wa
ter on the head, with chest out and head
back. Study gesture everywhere. That
is, go to mature for it. Practice pronun-
citation and enunciation. Don't be afraid
to move the lips when o speak, n
pen your mouth, and don't keep your
teeth locked or your tongue in pawn.
Learn how to stand and sit, doing moth
ing admirably. Don't say aord' for
God. Don't overwork the broad a. High
bred English people never do. Go to the
theater whenever you are not in the cast.
You can learn something-what to avoid
from the poorest company. Never rid
icule a poor actor or actress. as he and
h are always doing their best. Never
leave anything to chance. The true art
ist is rarely, if ever. inspired in his &C
ton. He calculates everthin to a nice
ty. If he makes you think he got such
and such am effect through i..e.iration,
his is the art which conceals art. Some
are born with repose; If you are not,
cultivate it,"
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-21
nically at war with Prussia, no treaty

nically at war with Prussia, no treaty
of peace having yet been made.
Another well-nigh forgotten state was
Monaco until about IS g it
gambling house of Europe. Its govern
ment, like that OF Nevada q few years
ago, was glad to legalize sport" which
other sovereignties had outlawed.
For instance, when the gaming resorts
of Germany were suppressed efforts
were made to induce the miniature re-
public of Andorra in the Pyrenees, to
Open it's doors to the refugees, out the
simple mo~untaineers were not tempted
by the apple of Sodom so mvitingly
offered them by h gambling princes.
As the result the state remained uncor-
rupted and it is, perhaps, fortunate that
1t did little to interfere with the senti-
ment of Europe oward 1t, for 1t is en-
timent alone that appears to have pre-
served it's existence, until now 1t is prob
ably h oldest European sovereignty,
Charlemagne having founded it in graft
MoorS
THEY GROW WEAK.
It's nearest parallel in situation is San
Marine, among tie Apennines, a repub-
lie of which the origin and history are SO
uncertain that, as has been said, like
Topsy, it lust growed." The various
church, by which San Marine was sur
rounded, have found IT independent n
have left it so. Today it would not be
difficult to conquer San Marine, INK the
time may come when it will be absorbed,
but there was a day when it was well
able to hold it's own against an attack
ing enemy.
The fact that sentiment is of little
value in preserving a sovereignty from
hostile upan is shown in the history
of the states of the church. TIL holy
apostolic see, as it is designated in the
diplomatic world and in the Almanac de
Gotha. The pope is still a sovereign n
continues to maintain the lame of he
state in complete temporal independence.
THIS has been lone at the cost of refus-
ing an annual subsidy of about a million
dollars, this amour having been kept
intact by the Italian government for
more than Is years.
Another sovereignty that has no ex-
istence outside of diplomatic circles is
the Order of St. John of Jerusalem,
which also appears as sovereign in the
Almanac de Gotha. More h a cen
fury ago this order was expelled from Its
last possessions in Malta, but sentiment
has decreed that it shall not entirely
cease to exist, and 1t still retains a min
lister pl~eipotentiary ait the court of vi
emma.
AT the present time 1t looks very much
as if two more independent states would
cease to exist as such before the close OF
the year. The battles of the two South
African republics against Great Brit
ain have been most disappointing to the
citizens of those countries and 1t now
looks very much as if President Kruger
and President Steyn would vet see their
states absorbed by the power against
i which the have been sc warmly con-
tending.