New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-11
STORMS HORRORS GROW.
SITUATION IN GALVESTON TERRIBLE
BEYOND DESCRIPTION
GBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.

IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNEI
Dallas, Tex, Sept. 1O.-So far as could be
learned up to 10 o'clock tonight. approximately
eight hundred bodies have been picked up in
what can he .-...,-4 - G-.rvvstOn storm belt
Seven hundred of these bodies have been gath
cred up by railroad relief forces operating along
the coast for a distance Of about twenty miles
above and below Virginia Point. The bodies are
reported divided between Alvin. Texas City
Seabrook. Dickinson. Virginia Point Hitchcock
and on up toward Houston.
Bulletins received in Dallas railroad head
quarters tonight state that advance workers of
relief parties penetrated across the Bay to Gal
weston Island this afternoon and sent courers
back to the mainland this evening. These cour-
iers reported that sixty bodies were found in
one block in Tremont-st.. and that six hundred
corpses were at one place in the city and four
hundred in another. They said that the situa-
tion in Galveston so far as they had been able
to go was terrible beyond description. The
town appeared to be vast pile of wreCkage,
except in isolated spots where morgues or hos
pitfalls were improvised. Many of the persons
who were injured in the hurricane dying
for lack of care and want of fresh water Fresh
water and medicines needed at once. or
the survivors of the storm would perish. The
statement was also made that there is little food
fit TO eat that everything is soaked with salt
sea water and that starvation threatens the
storm victims who were fortunate enough to
escape alive. There is also danger of looting
and Adjutaut- General Scurry, who arrived on
the island by boat this afternoon from Hous-
ton has called on the militia companies of the
State for men to do patrol duty IL is under
stood that the island is to he placed
under martial law temporarily until order he
brought out of chaos. The estimates Of loss of
life by the hurricane run all the way from three
thousand to ten thousand. These include the
dead at Galveston and elsewhere along the
coast.
Rockport. Corpus Christi Sabine Pass, Port
Arthur. Beaumont and Orange are reported
saved but in all these localities many lives were
lost. mostly in the country districts.
The estimates of property losses in Texas as
a result of the storm vary all the way from
S4OOOOOOO to $5O,OOOOO0. Twelve and half
million dollars of his sum is charged up against
the destruction of the cotton crop. estimated at
100000 bales: $l5.OOO.OOO is property destroyed
at Galveston and Houston. and the rest of the
State comes in for the remainder. Relief move
ments were started in many Texas cities to-day
in accordance with the proclamation of Gov
ernor Sayers. Dallas raised this afternoon ap-
proximately $4,000 and started relief train
for Galveston tonight. carrying medicines.
nurses physicians and clergymen.
Several days will have to elapse before direct
wire communication can be had with Gal
weston, as both the telegraph and telephone
companies have practically to rebuild their sys-
TENS from Houston to Galveston. fifty miles.
through a country almost completely devas-
tated.
Only the most fragmentary news reports can
be had from Galveston and the coast country
because Of the crippled condition OF wire service
One Of the fears entertained is that terrible
epidemic may follow the receding Of the waters
at Galveston Whenever the islands surface
has been reached a sickening scum an inch thick
has already formed When the hot sun begins
TO bake the earth. sickness and death are al
most sure TO follow a sequel 10 the other
horrors of the hurricane.