Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-09-14
HUNGRY CHILDREN.
Eagerly Sieze Cast Off Food at
Galveston.
PR0BED RUINS REVEAL HORRORS.
More Bouies Found-Churehes Suf-
fered Greatly Hosts of Citizens Con-
slider Catastrophe but Temporary Check
to City's Growth.

Galveston, Tex. Sept. 14.-Galveston
is beginning slowly to recover from
the stunning blow of last week. and
though the city appears to be pitiless-
" deSoIated, the authorities and the
commercial and Industrial interests
are setting their forces to work aud
start has at least been made, toward
the resumption OF business on mod
crate scale
The presence of the troops has had
a beneficial effect upon the criminal
classes aud the apprehension of a
brief but desperate reign of anarchy
now no longer exists. The LIQUOR sa-
looms have at least temporarily gone
out of business and every strong
limbed man who has not his own hum
bic abode to look after is being pressed
inte service, so that first Of I'LL. tile
water service may be resumed, the
cutters flushed and the streets lighted
The further the ruins are dug into,
the greater becomes the increase i'm
the list of those who persisted as their
houses tumbled about their heads. On
the lower beach searching party
found score of corpses within a
small area. going to show that the
bulwark of debris that lies straight
across the island conceals many more
bodies than have been accounted for.
Volunteer gangs continued their
work of hurried burial of the corpses
they found on the shores of Galveston
island, at the many neighborng points
where fatalities attended the storm.
1t will probably be many days yet,
however, before all the floating bodies
have found nameless graves.
Along the beach they are constantly
being washed up Whether these are
those who We're swept out into the
gulf and drowned, or are simply the
return ashore of some of those east
into the sea to guard against terrible
pest1lenee, there Is no means of know
ing. In any event this correspondent.
IN trip across the bay counted seven
bodies tossing in the waves with a
score of horses and cattle. the stencil
from which was unbearabIe. In va
rious parts of the city the smell of
deeomposed flesh is still apparent.
Wherever such instances are found.
the authorities are freely disinfecting.
A babe dashed to a mattress was pick
ed up under residence in the very
heart Of the city and was burned.
The city still presents the appear
anee Of widespread wreck and ruin.
The appearance of newspapers after
a suspension Of several days is having
good effect and both the News and
Tribune are urging prompt succoring
of the suffering and then equal prompt
ness in reconstruction 1t is difficult
to say yet what the ultimate effect of
the disaster is to be on the city. Many
people have left and some may never
return. The experience of others still
here was so frightful that not all will
remain, IL they can conveniently find
occupation in other cities
The bulk of the population, however.
is only temporarily panic-stricken and
there are hosts of those who helped to
make Galveston great, who look upon
the catastrophe as involving only a
temporary halt in the advancement of
the city.
What is most botherng business men
at present is what attitude the rail
roads. and especially the Southern Pa
ellie, are to assume with respect to
reconstruction. Big ships. new arri-
city. No accommodation could be
given to them
The destruction of the bridges of all
the railroads entering the city. make
it we'll nigh impossible to furnish out
going cargoes. These bridges were
each about three miles in length. and
the work of reconstruction will be
stupendous undertaking.
t1np of the most SpriOuc rpcl1ltS of t1o
storm has been the ripping of the cleo
trio light and street car plants The
great destruction of live stock has
eliminated the carriages and cabs as
a means of transportation, and the
need of the trolley promises to become
more pressing one when rebuilding
begins.
Among the worst sufferers by the
disaster were the churches Nearly
every one of them felt the effect of the
storm. Some of them are entire
wrecks. absolutely beyond repair
The work of relief continues ener-
getically. Mayor Jones and his asso-
ciates are bending every nerve to open
direct line of transportation with
Houston, by which he may be enabled
promptly to receive the great quantity
of provisions. which are now on the
way to the city
The relief committee is striving to
systematic its work and there is UNI
doubleday distress here, which ought
promptly to be relieved Weazen- faced,
bare-footed children were engaged on
the streets in eagerly approprating
spoiled and cast off stocks of food
The committee has instructed the local
drug stores to provide the poor and
needy with medicine, at the expense of
the relief fund.
Relief For Galveston.