Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-09-11
DETAILS 0 DISASTER.
Starvation and Disease Add Their
Ierrors to the Suffering at
Galveston.
Csrpses Washed Ashore Hourly and
Many Dead in the Wrecked
Houses.
Whole Families in Many Instances
Wiped Out Dire Need
of Aid.

Houston, Tex, Sept. 11.-Gaiveston,
with 1000 or 1900 of its residents killed
y by the hurricane and the flood, IS suf-
fering from the added terrors Of i'm
pending starvation and disease.
The Texas mainland, altho all its
towns within radius of fifty miles
from Galveston are half wrecked and
have hundred dead Of their swl,, is
striving in every way to send relief 10
the island city.
And still Galveston, only fifty miles
from here, can hardly be reached short
of days perilous journey. Only one
relief party ha succeeded in getting to
it by boat from here With such supplies
and means of AID as could hastily be
got together.
From its members came by signal
across the bay late yesterday alter
noon this message, which flashes the
story Of horror:
Sixty bodies in one block. Six hun
Z lred corpses recovered and 700 more re-
ported. People dying from injuries and
sickness and for want of fresh water.
Survivors threatened with starvation
and disease. Doctors, nurses and fresh
water needed AT once
In one box car on the mainland at.
Virginia Point, just across from Gals
Weston, seventy victims of the noad are
lying, most of them women and child
rem whose bodies We're washed from the
& Island by the water. AT least Three
fourths Of them will have TO be buried
without Identification In some cases,
no doubt, whole families are dead to-
gether
Along the shore as far as Texas City,
fourteen miles from Galveston, other
corpses are lying exposed or partly
covereti by debris. They will be gath
cred together and buried by the resi-
dents in the neighbpring towns as soon.
as they have cared for their oan dead.
The awful scenes on the mainland
shore are as nothing. however. com
pared with those which are reported by
the handful of n,An who have made
their way from Galveston. No one who
s has gone 10 Galveston since the Hood
has returned yet. and the latesi news
from the city is that given by men who
left there sunday night and who have
80 +
come to Houston as the nearest point
from which Geographic communication
With the outside World can be made.
With their water works destroyed
and With their cisterns ehoked up, tbs,
Inhabitants of Galveston Who are still
alive must be in great suffering. The
electric lighting system is wi..sads out, a
great part Of the supplies OF groceries
is ruined, the hospitals are all wrecked
beyond use and private houses and
hotels are the only resting places for
the sick and injured.
The city is practically without fire
protection, for the alarm Wires are
down and most of the engines q re- Gflila-
aged, bur even if this Was not taesease
the Stiremen could not make ths!r va
thru the streets.
To cali the attention Of the people Of
the United States to their needs a meet
ing of citizens was held at the fremont
hotel aud a snlesssn ger sent to tn main
land 10 forward an appeal TO Pres dent
\ Nick inley Medical attention IS most
urgently wanted. Supplies of food, sur
h gical supplies and undertakers goods
are nSeGs q,
Tue report. show tina, the city has
had a. girdle of ruin placed around y
by the storm. On both the bay ids ard
the gulf side practically every building
for three blocks inland has been des5-
troyed. INSIDE of the giidle3 housands
, OF other buildings are ruined
Th. largest and most substa ntial
buildings are said TO have suffered the
most. some estimates are that % pc,
cent of all the buildings in the city are
y more CIR less DANA sd.
When the storm swept upon the cit J
It brought winds from the north along
with the tidal wave from the south, and
so both sides of the city We're as.aaiied
by the elements.
The water. which rose as high as
twelve feet thus flooding every inch OF
the city, the highest elevation of when
isnot over ten feet above sea levtel--s'ab b
sided yesterday, and except along tbs
bay, where some water is probably still
.,tl~fsiHr astet Yet, the streets are. COM
paratively dry.
.ii9 hurricane made short work of this
wharyes and piers of Galveston. des.
troying some Of them and running
others. is certain noW also that al
of the three bridges across the hay e
the mainland We're sent to the bottom
E of the water.
9iNSll1Iee WNaTVES{ WGTG "
pieces the vessels that had been along
side them orsnear byin the bay We're II
the greatest peril. Some of them wert
washed up onto the land, others We're
driven blindly many miles across tht
water and stranded. A few vessels wers
sunk and a few had members of ths
crew drowned, but the majority were
very fortunate considering the fierce.
Y ness of the hurricane.
q The experiences of the people in Gal.
weston Saturday evening and night
when the storm was at its height. Were
I nerve-racking in the extreme. Hu6dlee
by the hundred in hotels and schoo
+ houses and public buildings, with water
sometimes over their heads on the lowel
story, with no means of escape excep
\ on driftwood, with a possibility that thu
refuge would be destroyed any moment
the sufferings of the victims are de.
+ scribed as fearful.
Eye witnesses tell Of women wadins
thru the water up to their necks. clasp
4 Ing the bodies of dead babies to theil
"A bosoms, only few moments later to BIZ
rs themselves swept to death. They tell O
hospitals and orphan asylums crashing
y into ruins, with but a handful Of the in
mat ess to escape. They tell Of the arm,
Il barracks on. the shore swept away, with