Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-09-14
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
Conditions at Galveston.

Galveston, Tex, Sept. 14.-Six days
after the hurricane finds the people Of
this stricken place shade more hope.
full for the fnture. The substantial and
responsible men Of the city are getting
together to formulate plans for reju-
venation of business and schemes TO
prevent repetition of the terrible loss
10 life and property. 1t Is already
planned to raise the whole surface OF
the city from eight to ten feet, and
a more substantial construction OF
buildings is insisted upon so that they
may weather storms prevailing 10
semi-tropicsl climate. A month will
elapse before business can be resumed.
Relief measures have assumed such he
roic proportions that no one will suffer.
Suppression OF the criminal classes has
been most effective and ghouls no more
ply their their netsrious occupation.
Squads now collect bodies in punches
OF ten or twenty, throw them upon d
mass of wreckage, petroleum is poured
on and ignited, and everything is de-
troyed as cleanly as in 10 crematory
Four hundred bodice. mostly women
and children, were given to the flames
yesterday. They were absolutely I'M
recognizable. and horror to the eye
aud nostrlls. Lime and other disin-
fectants 10 large quantities, oil for cook
ing and Illuminating, candles, small
gasoline stoves, feed for horses, potatoes,
beans, rice, grits, canned milk, crackers,
10, Inn
urgently needed. The government
tents and ratiOns have arrived and will
be taken to the beach west of the city,
where those who do not care to leave
the city, may find shelter and food
Vessels from foreign ports are ARRIVING
out cannot fiud piers or docks and are
obliged to remain out at sea until they
get orders where to land.
Galveston, Tex, Sept. lahore
than 1000 bodies have been identified,
and the estimate of Mayor Jones that
5000 souls persisted in Saturdays great
hurricane does not appear to be mag
nified.
10 describing how the work OF ghouls
was stopped, a sergeant of the First Ar.
tillery said: 81 received orders Mon
day night from Captain Rafferty, to
shoot any person caught 10 the act OF
despoiling the dead. | was given six
men and stationed man in every
block where the houses stood and gave
them the orders | received from my
captain. Monday morning a woman
told me that a negro had entered her
mouse and forced her TO give up her
rings, and then forced her to open
trunks. She poin'ed out the direction
in which he had gone. l found my
man and when he refused to stop, /
fred two shots from my revolver and
KILLED him. Some citizens found the
womsn's jewelry on him and carried it
back to her.
"Mondsy afternoon, l found negro
on the beach pulling corpses out OF the
water cutting the fingers of and taking
possession of rngs. | shot him with
revolver. He had ten rings and S73
which I.turned over to the citizens, COM
mittee. Before daylight, Tuesday morn
ing, one of my MEG discovered negro
leaving an abandoned house; he was
snot dead. Ia his pockets were foe
diamond brooch aud three rings and
nearly 800 10 cash. From my CONVEX
sation with soldiers. aud militia. l be-
eve that between 80 and 80 were kill
ed in SIS hours for robbing the dead"
Dallas, Tex, Sept. IA special
from Galveston says G. W. Boscheke,
assistant engineer of the Southern Pa
ci6c Railway has received orders from
New York to nresent plans at once for
a double track steel bridge across Gal
weston Bay, ten feet higher than the
old wooden bridges and to proceed
with all the force it is possible to oh
tain with the construction of the COM
pany's wharyes.
The telegraph lines are now open TO Galvee-
ton.