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Hasty Disposition of the Dead Found Neces-
sary to Avert Outbreak of Pestilence.
Many of the Bodies Buried in the Sea and Others In
tered on the Beach-Soldiers Drowned = -Ghouls
at Work-Revised List of Casualties.

uation, and has both the support OF the
State and regular troops, 1T is assured
that the city will be more thoroughly po-
Iced and further desecration of the dead
promptly stopped.
The most exhaustive efforts have been
made to obtain complete list of the VIC
tins of the disaster. That seems an i'm
possible task now, and perhaps only
through new census of the living will the
full number or the identity of those who
lost their lives be made known. All esti-
mates with respect orpoperty loss are ap-
parently only guess work.
The relief work now under full sway here
is along two lines-to succor those who
cannot leave Galveston and TO bring out
Of the city all those who can and are will
ing to leave. Mayor Jones. the citizens
committee of the committee of the Island
City, are urging that only those shall be
permitted to enter whose presence is i'm
perative, and the transportation lines are
straining every nerve in order that they
may accord the privilege to those who are
pleading to get away from the scenes of
horror and desolation around them.
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CLEARING THE STREETS.
Effort to Remove the Debris and Re-
cover and Bury Bodies.

GALVESTON, Tex. Sept. IL. noon, via
tug to Houston.-The white cotton screw
mems organization held a meeting last
night and rendered their services, that of
500 able-bodied men, to the public commit
tee TO clear the streets of debris. Big
forces were at work last night. and the
situation is much improved so far as the
passage OF vessels is concerned. The city
was patrolled last night by regular soldiers
and citizen soldiery. No one was allowed
on the streets without a pass. Several
dered. 1t is reported that three CT the
citizen soldiers were shot by negroes.
The steamer Lawrence arrived here early
this morning from Houston with water
and provisions. A committee of one hum
dred citizens were aboard, among them be-
ing doctors and cooks. w. G. Van Week.
general manager of the Southern Pacific
Railroad, arrived here this morning. He
thought II would be possible to establish
mail service from Houston to Texas City
tonight, with transfer boats to Galveston.
Dead bodies have decomposed so badly
it is impossible to send them to sea for
burial. The water has receded so far,
however that it is possible to dig trenches,
and bodies are being buried where found.
Debris covering bodies is being burned
where it can be done safely.
Work on the water works is being
rushed. and it is hoped to be able to turn
a supply on this afternoon.
The relief committee met at o o'clock
this morning. The city needs feed for
horses. 1t is also badly in need of dis
infectants. A large load Of lime at this
time would be blessing.
Brazoria county has offered armed men
to protect the city.
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secretary Wilson Talks.

Secretary w. B. Wilson. of the United
Mine Workers. who returned yesterday,
said last night that negotiations were still
cite field is yet unchanged The strike
order is in the hands OF the secretary and
president and will be issued as soon as ne
gotiations end. providing they do not
terminate in accordance with the miners
demands. 1t was given out that nothing
had been received from the affected re-
gion where the entire board OF organizers
is now at work preparing to carry out the
strike order. If issued. or make peace IL a
settlement is reached,
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REPORTS RECEIVED BY SAVERS.
Fully 1000 Dead and 10000 People
Destitute at Galveston.

Fully 1000 Dead and 10000 People
Destitute at Galveston.
AUSTIN, Tex, Sept. n.-Official reports
from Galveston to Governor Sayers to-day
are that 400 bodies have been identified, 200
more are in an improvised morgue await
ing identification, and many more are
thought to have drifted out to sea, and
their identity will not be known for weeks.
A telegram from Adjutant General Scurry.
who is at Galveston, to the Governor fol-
lows
'Have just returned from Texas City
with several people whose homes are in
Galveston. They assure me that conditions
there beggar description. Accounts have
not been exaggerated. One thousand lost
Is too conservative. While portion of the
provisions have been destroyed by water,
there is sufficient on hand TO relieve imme-
date necessities. The citizens seem TO have
the situation well in hand. United States
troops and Company c, Volunteer Guard,
with citizens. patrol the streets 10 prevent
looting. requested w. B. Wortham to go
to Galveston from Texas City for the pur-
pose OF advising me of the city's most ur-
gent needs, and returned here to report
and ask for further instructions. / re-
spectfully suggest that the distress is TOO
great for the people of Galveston, even
with the assistance of Houston. stand.
and that general appeal for help would
be welcome. The estimate of 10000 desti-
tute does not seem TO be excessive
IL Is estimated by the telegraph CON-
panies at this point that upward of 10000
private messages have been handled out of
Galveston by boat 10 Houston. thence on
the wire, from people in Galveston to rela-
tives and friends in the interior and In
other States, notifying them of their safety
anu so great has been the strain of busi-
ness that all telegraph companies have
been using their full forces all the twenty
four hours without relieving tie rush.
Hundreds of messages pouring in here to-
day bring relief TO some and sad news to
others. recording the safety or death OF
relatives at Galveston.
From reports reaching the Governor this
morning Il will be necessary 10 cooperate
with the federal troops to place all the
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mainland opposite Galveston. as well
as the island, under martial law. If
reports reaching here are true. thieves
have begun TO enter the city for the pur-
pose OF pilfering the bodies of the dead.
The Governor has been informed that the
commander of the Texas troops has been
ordered to Galveston by the federal au-
thorities 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 Hous-
ton and that will be placed under military
supervision temporarily.
Governor Sayers was to-day in receipt of
a telegram from Miss Barton, Of the Red
Cross Society offering the assistance of
that association, if necessary, and he re-
piled that he would call on the society IL
he found that its help was needed.
According TO reports to the Governor to-
night the work of recovering corpses con-
tinues unabated, and while a number of
them are so mutilated that they cannot be
recognized they are being held as long as
possible in the hope of securing the names.
Quite a number OF children noted
among the list. A large number of state
militia tents were shipped from here to
Galveston to-day for temporary use on the
island
Governor Sayers received upward of one
thousand kilograms during the day from
persons in the East and West offering as
sistance to the flood sufferers at Galveston
and from various portions of the State re-
porting the collection of money and supplies.
During the day Governor Sayers estimated
that the receipts in money from collections
made in this State would amount to SIS, 900.
though from reports great deal Of money
has been sent direct to Galveston. instead
of coming through the Governor, and the
amount may be much larger than that
stated. Governor Sayers will not make
known the total amount until tomorrow.
Quite a number of Eastern newspapers
are wiring the Governor. offering to estab-
lish themselves as bureaus for relief funds
if desired and asking what they can do to
relieve the situation. A telegram from New
York informed the Governor that two re-
lief trains of supplies had left New York
for Galveston. The Cincinnati Chamber OF
Commerce wires that ii will send any re-
lief desired that 1t can give. Chicago, Phila-
delphia. st. Louis and several other points
did likewise.
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Unless He Hears from Anthracite Coal
Operators by Thursday Morning
He VIII Call Out Diggers.
PROSPECT NOT ENCOURAGING
MIR. MITCHELL HAS LITTLE HOPE OF
AMICABLE SETTLEMENT.
He VIII Return to indianapolis To-
Morrow Morning-SOme Miners
May Refuse to Strike.

CHICAGO. Sept. lit will leave for In
dianapolis tomorrow night and If upon
arrival there Thursday morning L fail to
hear anything from the operators in New
York indicative of their willingness to
meet us in conference I shall Immediately
order strike
These were the words of John Mitchell.
president of the United Mine Workers of
America, tonight.
1T is with the greatest reluctance that
"but nothing else remains for us to do.
1t is possible that the operators will at the
last moment agree to arbitrate our difficult
ties, but must say the prospect is not en-
couraging."
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MAY REFUSE TO STRIKE.
Miners In the Wyoming Valley Seem
to BE Content.

wILKESBARRE. Pa, Sept. 1.-THE ex-
citement over the threatened strike of min
ers in the Wyoming valley has entirely
died out The only murmur of discomfort
comes from Plymouth. where the United
Mine Workers organization is very strong.
The miners there say the executive board
at Indianapolis played into the hands of
the operators unwittingly. but nevertheless
very effectively. If the strike had been
declared on Saturday night, expected.
95 per cent. of the men employed in the
mines in Plymouth and vicinity would have
laid down their tools at once AT Plains,
Parsons. Sugar Notch and other towns in
the valley the miners appear to be perfectly
satisfied with the turn in affairs, and ii
would be a somewhat difficult matter to
arouse their enthusiasm TO the striking
point again In the meantime the opera
tors are doing nothing but mining coal
Every colliery Is being worked to Its full
est capacity. and more coal is being mined
than at any time in the history of the VAL
I~x.
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GROWS MORE APPALLING.
Latest News from Galveston Increases
Extent of the Disaster.

HOUSTON. Tex. Sept. 1.-THE appalling
nature of the great tragedy at Galveston
grows steadily as communication is slow
Iy restored and refugees reach haven OF
safety here. bringing with them stories of
a calamity unparalleled in American his
tory. When early reports of the disaster
reached the outside world. giving an esti-
mate OF 1900 souls swept suddenly into
eternity. the news was received
with universal incredulity. Tonight
Mayor Jones issues the astound-
ing statement that a conservative
estimate of the dead is not less than 5000
souls. The news to-day from the stricken
city is as sensational as 1t is shocking. So
dangerous a menace 10 the safety OF the
survivors has the exixtence OF the rapidly
decomposing corpses become that every
able bodied man who can lend a hand is
engaged In the work of cremating those
bodies that remain In the debris. and of
consigning 10 the sea or common trenches
those that are picked up on the street or
along the storm-swept beach. Already 900
have thus been disposed of in the interest
Of human life and the preservation of pub
lie sanitation
Though hardly credible. the news seems
amply confirmed that fiends In human form
have flocked 10 Galveston to rob the dead.
Intense indignation has been aroused here
over these terrible disclosures and the re-
port OF the killing OF more than a score
of the ghouls by soldiers and citizens.
nnds the strongest commentator In pub
lie sentiment Now. however. that Mayor
Jones has taken nrm stand on the sit
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TO sea or buried in trenches. Other hun
These bodies are now all badly decom-
posed. and they are being buried in
trenches where they are found. Others
are being buried in the debris where this
can be done safely. There is little attempt
at Identification. and it is safe 10 say that
there will never be a complete list of the
dead.
Chief of Police Ketchum is in charge of
the work of burying the dead. There are
large bodies of men engaged in this work,
tearing up the ruins and getting out the
corpses. Some of those whose bodies are
being taken out were probably only in
jured when they were first struck down,
but there was no getting relief TO them and
they perished miserably-
The remnant of the force of regular SOL
diers who were stationed here-and 1t is
very small remnant-have joined the police
In patrolling the city. Several persons have
already been shot. 1t is reported. A soldier
of Captain Raffertys battery, while patrol
to desist from looting. The fellow drew a
weapon and the soldier shot him dead.
The soldier was attacked by four other
men and he killed all of them. He had FIVE
cartridges in his rifle and each of them
found a victim. Other men have also been
shot. but the details are not known. nor
can the exact number be ascertained. but
ii is probable that twenty-five were killed
Some of these were shot for falling to halt
when ordered to do Others were shot
for vandalism.
The ruins of the heavier brick buildings
have not yet been searched for the dead.
and there is a large number in them. In
the mass of rubbish which marks the site
of the Lucas Tarrace boarding house forty
or fifty people were killed outright and
their bodies are still in the ruins. The
Orphan Home on the beach is totally de-
molished. Ninety-two children and eleven
nuns were killed there. 1t is rumored
that one sister escaped. but if she did no
trace can be found of her.
OF the regular soldiers few remain.
Twenty-three were drowned at the bar
racks at Camp Hawley and seven at Boil
ivar. One man drifted about in the bay
until Monday morning and was taken out
alive.
The correspondent stood at the foot OF
fremont street and counted nine floating
bodies without moving. and it is only an
instance. 1t is not known whether these
were water front victims or dead being
cast I'D by the sea. A lot of rubbish was
being loaded on barges. and this stuff had
many bodies in 1t.
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First reports of the loss of life
In the storm-swept district of Tex
as seem to have been accurate.
Latest reliable estimates place the
total casualties at from 5000 to
5000. About 10000 people are
homeless.
The State militia has been or
dered to Galveston to protect prop
srty and repress the ghouls who
have been robbing the dead.
United States troops are tempor-
arily preserving order. Owing to
the fear of pestiience and the
moist condition of the soil bodies
of the dead are being taken out to
sea on barges and dropped into the
water.
Estimates of the property loss
range from ten to twenty million
dollars. All bridges to the island
have been washed away. The rail-
ways suffered severely in loss of
tracks, bridges, stations and
wharves.
Relief measures are under way,
and parties from Houston and
otl points are assisting the citi-
zens OF Galveston. Relief is also
being extended to the people in
the smaller towns.
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of a speech Of twenty minutes length pre-

OF a speech OF twenty minutes length pre-
sented the former Governor of Ohio
After thanking the audience for dem
onstration which lasted several minutes
Senator Foraker said he had feared that
Maryland Republicans might feel discour-
aged over the outcome OF the election In
view of certain recent events. but he felt
convinced from the size and enthusiasm
of the assemblage that there remained
some loyal Republicans within her borders
who would do their best to cast Maryland
electoral vote on the Mckinley side. After
discussing the prosperity Of recent years
he reviewed the events of the Mckinley
administration. Coming 10 the annexation
of Hawaii he asked: us there any charge
of imperialism which is the Democratic
battle cry this year. in the management
of that government? If they had not had
the Philippines TO talk about they would
have said the same thing about Hawaii, :"
he said.
Reviewing the event OF the war with
Spain the senator said: "The President
was about the slowest man in the country
TO get into the war, but after he did begin
he was sure footed throughout its progress,
and event after event followed each other
so quickly that L do not wonder it made
the Democrats heads swim. When she
sued for peace Spain had nothing TO give
us an indemnity, except a little real
estate In addition TO ceding to the
United States Porto Rico, the Philippines
and the Island of Guam she agreed to with
draw her sovereignty over Cuba. These
conditions We're contained i'm the Paris
treaty of peace. Mr.. William Jennings
Bryan, the Democratic nominee for the
presidency, was much interested in the
ratification of that treaty, and came all
the way to Washington to urge his friends
to vote for it. AS result Of his efforts.
seventeen Democrats voted with the Re
publicans and the treaty thereby received
the necessary two-thirds vote"
Senator Foraker referred TO the commits
sion sent to investigate local conditions
in the Philippines and to establish civil
governments among the eighty-three tribes
| and peoples of the islands, only one of
| which-the Tagals-to which tribe Aguin-
aldo belongs. is opposing the policy for the
present United States government. 1t is
a difficult problem, and one which is caus-
| ing the executive much concern. do you
| honestly think that man who does not
know enough TO know what the l6-to-1 is
| sue is dead is fit for the job Of straighten-
| ing out affairs in the Philippines?" he
asked.
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Mayor Jones Raises His Figures.

HOUSTON. Tex. Sept. II. 10:45 y. m.-
The Post correspondent at Galveston was
instructed TO forward the following ad-
dress to the people of.the United States:
Galveston, Tex. Sept. 11.--It is my opin-
ion, based on personal information, that
5000 people have lost their lives here. Ap-
proximately one-third of the residence por-
ton OF the city has been swept away
There are severai thousand people who
are homeless and destitute. How many
there is 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-
tion are limited. Thousands are still 10
be cared for here. We appeal to you for
immediate aid.
WALTER c. JONES'
Mr.. Jones is the mayor of Galveston
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Names of People Who Lost Their Lives
I'm and Near Galveston.

GALVESTON. Tex, Sept. u.-Some order
is being brought out of chaos, and something
like systematic attempt Is being made
to clear the debris and remove the dead.
Idlers are being pressed into service at
the point of the bayonet and made to work,
and military Gordon is being
drawn tighter and tighter about
the place. Every horse and mule
that was left in the city is in service.
Supplies are coming in from Houston and
the first line of communication with the
outside world was opened to-day, via
Texas City. Large forces are working on
CONTINUED ON SECOND PAGE.)
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APPEAL FROM GALVESTON.
Five Thousand Families Are Destitute
About 1900 Persons Dead.

=
About 5000 Persons Dead.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Sept. 11.-Authentio
information from the storm-swept city of
Galveston reached the Memphis Office of
the Associated Press shortly after o'clock
tonight. The intelligence came in the
shape of a telegram addressed to the AS
ISOLATED Press from Mayor Jones and five
Of the most prominent citizens of Gal
weston The telegram bears date of Sept
II and states that a conservative estimate
of the loss of life in Galveston is that it
is not over 5000. Five thousand families
are reported destitute and the destruction
to property is great. Following is the
telegram in full:
"a conservative estimate of the loss of
life is that it will reach 5000: at least 5. 900
families are shelterless and wholly desti-
tute. The entire remainder of the popula-
ton is suffering in greater or less degree.
Not single church, school or charitable
institution, of which Galveston had so
many, is left intact. Not a building
escaped damage. and half the whole num-
Der were entirely obliterated. There is
immediate need for food. clothing and
household goods of all kinds. If near by
cities will open asylums for women and
children the situation will be greatly re-
lieved. Coast cities should send us water
as we'll as provisions. including kerosene
oil. gasoline and candles"
The foregoing statement was signed by
Messrs. w. c. Jones. mayor: NJ Lasker,
president Island City Savings Bank; j. d.
Skinner. president Cotton Exchange; C. III.
McMaster. for Chamber of Commerce: r.
G. Love. manager Galveston News; Clar-
ence Owsley. manager Galveston Tribune