The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-09-19

all the money possible. Our needs
worse than were sufferers in the st.
Louis cyclone"
AT the request Of Mayor Hart Messrs.
Lee, Higginson q Co. will receive sub
scriptlons for relief Of Galveston.
AUSTIN, Tex, S pit. 13.-Governor
Seyers said last evening: "Conditions
in Galveston are fully as bad a. report
ed. Communication however has been
re-ettatlished between the island aud
the mainland and hereafter transporta-
ton of supplies will be less difficult.
The work of clearing the city is pro-
crossing fairly well and Adjutant Gen.
eral Scurry under orders of the mayor,
Is patrolling the city for the purpose of
preventing depredations. The most
conservative estimate as to the number
OF dead places it at 1000. Contribu-
tons from citizens of this State and
also from other States are coming rap
idly and literally and it is confidently
expected that within the next ten days
the work of restoration by the people
OF Galveston will have begun in good
earnest and with energy and success.
Or course the destruction of property
has been very great-not less than ten
millions of dollars-but it is hoped and
believed that even this great loss will
be overcome through the energy and
self-reliance of the people. During
the day contributions of more than
100000 have been received"
Reports have reached Governor Say
ers that the railroads, telegraph and
telephone companies have suffered an
immense loss. The governor was in
formed today that quite number of
tugs from New Orleans and other
available points had either arrived or
we're en- route to Galveston and that by
Saturday the transportation problem
would be solved 80 far as getting from
the island to the mainland was con-
cerned
GALVESTON, Sept 13.-All saloons
have been closed by order of the chief
Of police. AT meeting of the general
committee with the city officials today
the policing of the city was discussed.
Mayor Jones announcing that Adult
ant General Scurry would take charge
of the situation with the soldiers and
the citizen soldiery. The city is pa.
trolled by about 1000 police officers,
special Ulcers, soldiers aud deputy
sheriffs
Orders were issued to the soldiers
and police to kill any person caught in
the act of robbing the dead. Up to
Tuesray morning seven negro vandals
had b en- discovered and had paid the
penai y of their crime with their lives.
They we're shot dead and their bodies
were carted away with dead victims of
the storm. No liquor is permitted to
be sold under any circumstances unless
ordered by the chairman of one Of the
committees or by physician who
must state that it is to be used for med
icinal purposes.
Volunteers to clear away the wreck
age and bury the dead are plenty, but
there is great scarcity of arms. There
has been two or three small riots, but
the officers have managed to quell
them. The committee has rejected
the proposition of trying to pay for
work, letting the laborers secure their
own rations. 1t has been decided to go
ahead impressing men into service it
necessary, issuing orders for rations
only to those who worked or were una
BILE to work. All of the ward chairmen
report the imperative need of disinfec-
tants. A committee was appointed to
sequester all the disinfectants in the
city, including the lime which escaped
wetting and to obtain more.
GALVESTON, Sept. 14.-As the work
of digging into the ruins continues, the
greater becomes the increase in the
list of those who persisted as their
houses tumbled about their heads. On
the lower beach yesterday searching
party found score of corpses within a
small area going to show that the bull
wark of debris that lies straight across
the island conceals many more bodies
than have been accounted for.
Volunteer gangs continue their work
of hurried burial of the corpses they
find on the shores of Galveston Island
at the many neighboring 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 wash
ed up. Whether these are those which
were swept out into the gulf and
drowned or are simply the return
ashore of some of those cast into the
sea to guard against the terrible pesti-
lence, there is no means of knowing.
The presence of the troops has had a
beneficial effect upon the criminal
classes and the apprehension of brief
but desperate reign of anarchy now no
longer exists. The saloons have at
least temporarily gone out of business
and every strong limbed man who has
not his own humble abode to look after
is being pressed into service, so that
first of all the water service will be re-
sumed, the cutters flushed and the
streets lighted.
The city still presents the appear
ance of widespread wreck and ruin.
Little has been done to clear the
streets of the terrible tangle of wires
and the masses of wreck, morter, slate,
stone and glass that bestrew them.
Many of the sidewalks are impossible.
Some of them are uttered with debris
are go thickly covered with slime that