Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-09-14
(By Telegraph to vireinian.pIlo,,

the stunning blow of last week, and
though the city appears tonight to be
z pitilessly desolated, the authorities and
the commercial and Industrial inter
est5 are setting their forces to work.
and a start has at least been made to-
ward the resumption of business on a
moderate scale.
ANARCHY is OVER.
The presence OF the troops had a
beneficial effect upon the criminal
Z classes, and the apprehension of a
8 prief but desperate reign of anarchy
now no longer exists. The liquor sa-
looms have at least temporarily gone
out of business, and every strong limb
ca man who has not his own humble
abode to look after is being pressed in
I 10 service, SO that first of all the water
service may be resumed, the cutters
flushed. and the streets lighted
The further the ruins are dug into
the greater becomes the increase in the
iist or those who persisted as their
houses tumbled about their heads On
the lower beach yesterday n searching
party found score OF corpses with
IN small area. going to show that the
puiwark of debris that lies straight
across the island conceals many more
podles than have been accounted for
IN ABSOLUTE DARKNESS.
One of the most serious results OF the
storm has been the ripping of the cleo
trio light and street car plants. The
city mas been in absolute darkness for
several nights and only u few concerns
who operate their own illuminating
service are enabled to do business.
Nearly every residence has gone back
TO the primitive candle. The absence
OF street lights drives all who have no
imperative business on the streets to
ut s.-t.l =
OF the patrol system Is made more diff
cult thereby and the opportunity for
looting greater.
Houston, Texas, Sept 13.-John 7
MOODY, q member of the committee
sent from Houston to take charge of
the reilet station at Texas City, reports
as follows:
ITO the Mayor: Sir,-On arriving at
La Marque this morning L was inform
4 ed that the largest number of bodies
were along the coast of Texas City.
Flfty-six were buried yesterday and
to-day within less than two miles ex-
tending opposite this place and to-
ward Virginia City
1t is yet six miles further to Vir
glnia City, and the bodies are thicker
where we are now than where thew
have been buried.
"B. Il. Cameron, a. lumber dealer oe
Stowell, Chambers county, says that
the relief party which went from
otowell to Bolivar reported to him that
there were over 1000 dead bodies on
the beach at Bolivar, in East Bay. and
IN sight or the salt marshes. which line
the pay. The party succeeded in bury
Ing only forty of these corpses The
others are lying In the water and on
land, decomposing in the heat and Civ
Ing forth stencil which Is horrible.
The carcasses OF animals are mixed in
with them.
ii "kyanv of tJ,aco bo5;e- x,,o,,o ....5..-.,-
swept across the bay from Galveston;
others are of people who lived at Boil
war. 1t will be necessary to collect
ana burn the remains to prevent the
outbreak of an epidemic, which may
extend far into the interior"
Charles Patterson, connected Will,
the Gulf and Interstate Railway.
came in from Bolivar Point and re-
ported that they had buried between
300 and 400 of Galveston's dead. and
that on Bolivar Peninsula. from the
point of east highlands for twenty-one
miles south, everything was washed
away and as people were drowned.
Rolling stock was either completely de-
stroyed or frightfully damaged and
twenty-one miles of road-bed were
washed away.
EVERY DEPOT WAS DESTROYED.
Col. Polk, general manager of the
Santa Fe. has received reports that
SFSAS otdtiOh iOuSCi lISlBnI depot and
water tank on the line between Vir-
ginia Point and Rosenberg Junction.
eixty-six miles north. was either blown
away or wrecked, and miles of track
washed away.
All the towns between these two
points were severely damaged by the
cyclone. and all have death-list of
from one to fifteen persons, with many
more or less injured.
Secretary Bailey. of the Galveston
Wharf Company, estimates the loss to
that company at 100000, while a prin.
cipal ship broker estimates the loss
to foreign shipping In the port at $780,
900 to 100000.
ACTS OF VANDALISM.
Every ten feet along the wrecl1-lined
3 coast tells of acts of vandalism; not a
trunk, yalise or tool-chest has escaped
rifiing a woman was buried this
of mutilation from having rings re-
moved by the robbers.
NOT A RELATIVE LEFT.
La Junta. Cola, Sept &c. j. Sea-
ly, young man OF Galveston, Texas,
who Is in this city, has received tele-
gram from the mayor of Galveston in,
forming him OF the death of twenty
one OF his relatives, among whom were
his mother, two sisters and three
brothers.
The young man said to-day that he
did not believe he had q relative left
on earth.
EIGHTY FIVE DROWNED.
New Orleans. Sept. 1a.-The States