The St. Louis Republic., 1900-09-15

YARD CITY.
trust themselves to sailboats. and by noon
dozen Of them. heavily loaded, started
from Galveston for Texas City, where thu
fleet was scattered over Galveston Bay by
a distance of anywhere between one mile
and three miles. The wind died away ut
terly. There was not puff of air. The
boats could neither so on TO Texas City nor
return to Galveston, and all through the
afternoon they lay motionless upon the
CLASSY waters.
None of them had more than a meager
supply of water and no food. as the trip
ordinarily does not require above an hour.
The supply of water was soon exhausted,
| the sun beat down with a merciless severity,
and in a short time babies. and children
who were but little else than babies. became
i'll, and in many instances their mothers
were also prostrated.
There was absolutely no relief TO be had,
| as the tugs of Galveston Bay, which might
| have given the sloops tow. are all made for
deep-sea work and draw too much water
| TO allow of their crossing the shallow chan
mel. Hour after hour the people on the
| boats. all of whicn were densely hacked.
| We're compelled to broi in the torturing,
binding sun, without the slightest current
of air to render their situation more beara-
BILE.
BECALNED FOR
THE ENTIRE AFTERNOON.
All afternoon they were becalmed. but. a
slight breeze arising in the evening, at 8
O'Clock. at night the sailing craft which had
left Galveston at noon began to dump pas
sengers upon the beach at Texas City
In this place there are no houses. no tents,
no accommodations of any kind, save a few
passenger coaches standing upon the rail-
road track. These Were speedily filed, and
for the balance of the night women and
children. all hungry and the latter crying
for food. were compelled to remain on the
beach.
An urgent message was sent to the rail-
way authorities at Houston, saying that
women and children were suffering, and
asking them TO hurry a train to Texas City
for the purpose of conveying the refugees
to Houston. No reply was received, and
when a train, whose crew knew nothing Of
the existing conditions at Texas City, finally
appeared, the announcement was made that
it would not go back before morning. The
crowd already at Texas City was more
than enough to fill the train to the limit,
but, notwithstanding this, 1t was deter
mined to allow the Lawrence TO attempt
once more the peril of the mud, and await
another consignment Of refugees.
IL was fully twenty hours after their
start from Galveston that the people who
left there yesterday We're able to move out
OF Texas City. which is only eight miles
away, and by the time the train had made
start for Houston every woman in the
crowd was I'll through lack of food. ex-
posure and insufficient sleep.
NO MORE LOOTING
OF GALVESTONS DEAD.
Since Adjutant General Scurry has as
sumed police direction of affairs looting and
plundering nave ceased. No one has been
shot and order prevails throughout the CITY
The lawless know that they will be shot
down on the spot when caught in depreda-
tions, and this fact has had a very whole
some effect.
The large force of men employed in bury
ing and cremating the exposed dead scat
tered throughout the city have completed
that portion OF their work and are now en-
gagged In searching for the bodies of unfor-
tunateS lying crushed and bruised beneath
the immense mass of debris and wrecked
buildings scattered throughout the city.
Where the debris lies in detached masses IL
is fired and the bodies therein are consumed
q When adjacent properly is endangered by
fire the mass OF debris is removed, the
bodies taken out and removed to n safe dis
tance. ana around them is piled the removed
debris, the whole saturated with coal oil
and fired. Identification Is impossible the
bodies being in all stages of putrefaction.
II is horrible, sad and grewsome task.
fh.a ,-l,
are unknowingly aiding in destroying all
that was mortal of some loved one of his
home. The grewsome pile may contain the
petted child-he knows it not, but in his
heart there IS an unspeakabie sorrow for
els lost loved one that is only intensified
One squad of men discovered in a
wrecked building five bodies, among which
one OF the burial squad recognized q
stage of decomposition; they were all re-
moved. A funeral pile was made at which
hsart the ynf e5oseF s9s with wrench IN mis-
ness STOOD py and saw his brothers body
reduced To ashes.
ATTENTION TURNED TO
BODIES on THE MAINLAND.
The appalling loss of life by the cata-
clysm OF saturday night has benumbed and
stupciied the people and virtually dried up
.he 13untain OF grief, Neighbor meets
you
Often the reply is. II am sorry to say
l am the only one left"
These are not unusual occurrences You
hear them on the street, in the stores
around soda fountains where crowds col.
lect TO quench their thirst since water is
scarce and the saloons are closed indefi-
nitely.
Burial parties are organized at Virginia
Point, Texas City, Port Bolivar and down
the island, and the bodies there are being
inferred as rapidly as possible Since order
has come out of chaos, a stop was put to
the looting and deSecration of bodies at
Virginia Point by the bands of ghouls that
had terrorized that point, and they have
been dispersed. Where the remains are be-
yGnd identification and effects or jewelry
are found. these are removed, and a careful
memorandum is made for a future possible
Identification by relative or friend.
. Supplies for the relief of Galyeston's s,,f-
ferers are coming in from every quarter as
rapidly as the limited means OF TRANSPORTED
ton here will admit. There is one General
Relief Committee. with subcommitteemen
in each ward. To these ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
sufferers must apply for relief and be cate
gorically questioned as to the extent of
their distress, and. IL satisfactory, an or
der is issued for supplies.
IF the applicant is an ahle-bodied man