The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-17
EXODUS FROM
STRICKEN CITY.
Rush Away From Galveston
Continues Unabated.
1t is Estimated That 5000
People Have Departed.
MUCH WORK YET TO DO
Four and a Half Miles OF Water
Front is Untouched.
Many Bodies Still Remain Under
the Debris.

Galveston, Sept. 1.-THE steady
stream of refugees from Galveston is
kept up. There is not a departing train
across the bay which is not packed to
its platform. There will be refugees
leaving for a week to come. No sadder
sight could be imagined than the pic
ture presented by a boat load OF refu
gees, when the ropes were cast off and
the craft swung out into the bay and
away from the storm-swept city There
was not a face that was not turned tow
ard the ruin. There was not an eye
that was not moistened by tears. So
great has been the rush to leave behind
the scenes of the storm that the Law
renee, the boat which connects with
trains at Texas City has not failed to
leave her wharf single day without
denying passage to a portion of those
who wanted to get away.
At Texas City a Philadelphia news
paper has established relief depot
which is doing splendid work.
This journal has sent down train
load of supplies, a staff of special cor
respondents, a corps of physicians and
band of trained nurses
Instead of waiting until Galveston
was reached to begin work, immediate
steps were taken to care for refugees at
the bay terminal OIL the Galveston,
Houston and Henderson and during the
night and yesterday, hundreds of hum
cry refugees were fed while numbers of
sick and wounded were cared for.
There is plenty of work on hand for
ten times the force of labOrers at pres
ent employed. The area which has as
yet been untouched embraces four and
a half miles of frontage on the beach
and bay and before it is cleared the
bodies which lie rotting beneath the
tangled timbers will fall to pieces
Even now there is no semblance OF hu-
manity in the gruesome things which
are uncovered Adjutant General Scurry,
who is in supreme control now, is un-
able to pay the laborerS for their ser
vices He ardently desires to do so and
today impressed upon the committee the
need of money. There is a great deal OF
trouble in properly distributing supplies,
the rush at the depots being as great
today as at any time since they were
opened.
In line before the relief stations were
women of evident refinement. They
were jammed in between negroes and
the poorer classes of whites. 1t must
have been a terrible struggle for them
to accept succor in such guise, but
there was no alternative before them.
1t has indeed been a divine mercy that
the weather since the storm has been
clear and dry Had it rained a single
day the suffering would have been ter
rible for there is scarcely whole roof
in Galveston.
There are now about 200 soldiers in
Galveston doing guard duty and police
duty The camp on the wharf is pelng
rapidly put into shape and the soldiers
will soon be comfortably housed.
There are now in Galveston hVe COM
mands-the Dallas Rough Riders, capt
Ormonde Paget, with As men; the Hous-
ton Light Guards, Captain Mccormick,
with As men; the Galveston SharpShoot-
ers, Captain A. Bunschell, with 80 men
and battery D, of Houston, Captain
~, md A
ton cavalry commanded by Lieutenant
BreedOge with 20 men.
Captain Mccormick of the Light
Guards is acting major commanding the
battalion. He said today that he ex-
pected the men would be needed in Gal
weston for several weeks yet. They had
been doing splendid work and he was
more than satisfied with them.
There are numerous cases of insanity
in Galveston as a result of the terrible
bereavementS sustained by the surVl-
vors. Not 25 people got into Galveston
Sunday from the outside world. Ihe
lines are being drawn tight and press
ing indeed must be the business which
gives one safe passage
The trains running to Texas City go
down light. Nurses, physicians and
soldiers of course, come and go at will
The bars which are raised against 9TH
ers, however, are high. Most of the men
who survived the storm and who have
determined to leave have already got
ten away. 1t is estimated that about s.
900 have departed from the city since
the storm, including women and child
rem.
ADDITIONAL LIST OF DEAD.
Galveston, Texas, Sept. 1.-THE fol-
lowing additional list of dead from the
storm has been gathered. 1t includes
few corrections to former lists:
Allen, Mrs. Kate
Allen, Mrs Alex and five children.
Anderson, Mrs. Dora
Anderson, Mrs. Sam (colored).
Anderson Nick and two sons.
Andrews, Mrs. and three children.
Anlonivch, Eddie
Baker, Florence (colored).
Baker. Mrs. and three children (col-
ored).
Bostor, Mrs. Clara
Bostford, Edwin and wife.
Bostford, Kate
Brady, - and wife
Brandus, Fritz and wife and four chill
dren.
Barns, Mrs.
Bushom. Hisom
Boyd, Andy, and family.
Brophy, NJ. and mother of Peter.
Calvert, George, wife and daughter.
Campbell, Mrs. Edna
Caroline, Mrs. Alice and three child
rem.
Cheles, VIM. and wife
Chester, Paul and wife.
Christian, John
Grain, Anna NJ. III
Grain, Charles 95
Grain, Maggie McCree
Grain, Mrs. G. ..
Carter A. j.
Carter Mrs. Celeste
Davis. E.
Debner. William. wife and three chill