The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-17

SEND DESTITUTE TO FRIENDS
TRANSPORTATION FOR THOSE WHO
HAVE RELATIVES AND WANT
TO GO TO THEM
FEW DIVINE SERVICES HELD
Odd Fellows Begin to Look After
Wants of Sick and Destitute
of the Order-AdditionaI
List of Dead.

GALVESTON. Sept. 16.-The military
authorities and the civil authorities are
now cooperating harmoniously in Gal
weston, and consequently there is less
looting and desecration of corpses. Sher-
iff Thomas is in charge of the Isolated
district, and is directing interment and
the recovery of property there. United
States Marshal Grant has been given full
authority by Gen. Scurry, and is direct
ing affairs on the mainland, aided by 4
troop of rangers, who are ordered to
make short work of looters and arrest
all suspicious characters. The rangers
and the militia guards stationed at Texas
City and Virginia Point are under the
direction of Marshal Grant. These are
the two points of irgress into the city.
tIe also has control over the railways
running into the city and all craft plying
between Virginia Point and Texas City,
and no one can embark or disembark at
these places without his permission, un-
less having authority SO to do from his
superior officers. The destitute, wishing
to go to friends in the country, are given
free transportation and being sent out
of the city as rapidly as the limited trans
portation facilities at the disposal of the
committee on transportation will permit.
The owner of any water craft or railway
found guilty Of charging more than the
regulation fare viii be arrested and Sc
verely dealt with.
CLEANING THE CITY.
The cleaning up and disinfecting of
streets, stores and buildings is being dill
gently carried on, ard the sanitary con-
dition of the downtown portion of the
city has been greatly Improved. Mayor
Jones stated today there would be no
abatement in the work until the entire
city is cleansed and disinfected.
Dry goods and clothing houses resemble
great laundries, ard every available
space is occupied with COOS hung up to
dry. Fortunately the weather is clear,
hot and dry for this purpose, Those
merchants whose stocks were but slight
ly damaged have done rushing business,
ard so have the restaurants, but their
stocks are very limited. and fresh meat
difficult to obtain
Since all the railways terminating here
have united upon one bridge, and are
pushing the work night and day, with a
large force. reconstructing it, while tracks
are being restored On the island and main
land by large forces, it is confidently as
serted that Galveston will have coInmuni-
cation directly by Wednesday next If
this is done it viii relieve the existing
situation wonderfully, as all supplies are
now brought in by boat.
The injured and sick under the thor
ough system inauguIated by the board
of health and local physicians, aided by
volunteers from the outside, are receiv-
ing every care and attention, and are
doing as well as could be expected under
the circumstances, which are improving
daily.
NO CHURCHES FOR USE.
All churches in the city either being
wrecked or uined, with one or two ex-
ceptionse divine services We're in most
cases suspended. Mass was celeb ated
in ST Mary's cathedral this morning,
and was largely attended. Father Kirwin
preached an eloquent and feeling sermon,
in which he spoke OF the awful Gala nifty
that has befallen the people After ex-
pressing sympathy with the afl .cted and
distressed, he advised all to go to work
DUTY The next was 10 bring the names
of the widows and orphans to the church,
and they could rest assured Of the un-
fortunates being cared for
Tomorrow a census cf the Catholic pop
ulation will begin to ascertain TIE numb r
of widows and orphans caused by the
storm, and the exact number of Catho-
lies that perished.
The grand lodge committee. T. o. o. F.,
We're here today and organized local re-
lief committees to look after and care for
the sick and the destitute of that order,
for whom an appeal has been sent to the
lodges of the Union for relief
The keeper of the Hfe-saving station at
the western extremity of the island got
in today. He reports the station gone,
and that frightful scene of desoIa ton
exists there. He reports that 1870 bodi s
were buried there, that the prairie and
marshes are strewn with the carcasses
of animafs ana reptiles, and that the
stencil is terrible.