The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-14

IS. II. BRASHEAR, Mayor"
IS Fl. Rrashear, Mayor, Houston: we
ship you from here one car hay today
and clear the market of potatoes; also
ship one car potatoes from St Louis
tonight Can put price ON nothing for
Galveston. w. r. DULEY-"
CALIFORNIA; CONTRIBUTION
San Francisco, Sept. 14.-The total
amount subscribed in this city to the
Galveston relief fund is now about $11,-
500. Los Angeles has raised over $4, ,O00
and other cities and towns are con-
tributing literally. One car load of pro-
visions and clothing has already been
dispatched and four others will be added
to the train before it leaves the state.
CONDOLENCE FROM PERU.
Lima, Peru, Sept 1.-THE house of
representatives has adopted a. motion to
send cablegram to the president of the
United States expressing the coincidence
of the people of Peru over the cataS-
trophe at Galveston.
FORTY HOURS AT THE KEY ..
ST. Louis, Mo-, Sept 14.-Since Sunday
every telegraph wire entering or leaving
St. Louis and every operator has been
hours a day sending and receiving tele-
grams to and from the stricken district
in Texas.
At the Postal company's main office,
Chief Operator Hancock said that one
of his men worked for SO hours at a.
stretch. At the Western Union office the
longest record was more than forty
hours. None of the men has had more
than six hours away from the key since
Sunday. The women operators have not
been called upon to work so long, As a
rule they have been on duty only about
twelve hours a day.
Neither Manager c. Daugherty of the
Postal nor Assistant Superintendent
F7rankel Of the Western Union attempts
to make estimate of the number of
messages that have been handled. Both,
however, say that all records in st.
Louis have ben broken
FUND STARTED IN BERLIN.
Berlin, Sept. IA meeting will be
held in the United States embassy for
the purpose of raising fund for the
aid OF the Texas sufferers.
BUT ONE HOUSE LEFT.
Seabrook, Tex, Sept. 14.-There are
but few people left here, and they are
three out of thirty-four houses have
floated away, and twenty-one persons
were drowned in this little place. The
distress is appalling, 6signed)
VELASCO PEOPLE HOMELESS.
Houston, Tex. Sept. he. D. Dor
chester, manager of the Velasco Ter
minal railroad, has reached this city
He says three-fourths of the Velasco
people lost their homes and four per-
sons were drowned. Eight bodies were
washed ashore at Surfside, supposed to
be from Galveston AT Quintana rs per
lives were lost there, though a number
of persons were injured
LITTLE DAMAGE TO ELEVATORS.
Galveston, Tex, Sept. Al c. Stew
art, the grain elevator builder, has ar
rived here, responding to telegram
from General Manager M E. Bailey OF
the Galveston Wharf company After
inspecting the grain elevators and their
contents he said that not per cent OF
the grain elevators had been damaged
ho vessels
lust as rapidly as they came to take It.
Ships are needed here at once. Mr..
Bailey has put a large force of men to
work clearing UP each of the wharves,
and the company will be ready for new
business all along the line within the
next eight days. The Wharves nave
been damaged very little outside of the
Wreckage of the sheds. With the wreck
age cleared away, Galveston will be IN
as good shape for business as she was
a few years before there were any wharf
sheds-even in better shape, because
there are more piers and better ones
Supt Warren of the Houston Direct
Navigation company stated that the
company was not ready Tor any pusi-
ness at present, as the remnant OF !ls
fleet is wholly engaged in the relleI
work Twelve of the eighteen barges OF
the company are lost or missing
TO REBUILD ON BETTER LINES
Dallas, Tex, Sept. IA special from
Galveston says:
AyOugTGSSflldIl u.
in Washington at the time of the storm
arrived in this city yesterday When
seen at the fremont hotel. he .Salu-
Work of a vast importance is to be
undertaken here, ON different lines from
those that have been our habit hereto
fore. There are storms elsewhere Storms
Of more frequency and Of greater infen-
sity. They visit the coast of England
They blow throughout the Great Lakes
and along the shores of the Atlantic on
the New England coast.
IF they build as we build they would
be down and out nearly every year; but
they build structures to stay, and we
must rebuild our city on different lines
and in a different manner that will re-
sist the gales as they do.
"'As we have to continue business
through this port, we must in our con-
struction do it on the same lines en-
ployed by Boston, New York, Buffalo
and Chicago, the stability of which was
plainly illustrated in some structures re-
Gently erected in our community The
port is all right. The fullest depth of
water remains. The jetties with slight
repair are intact, and because of these
conditions, which exist nowhere else for
the territory and people it serves, the
restoration will be more rapid than may
be thought. and the flow of commerce
will be as great and for the courage and
fortitude to look beyond the unhappy
events of today, as prosperous and Sc
cure as any part Of our prosperous coun-
try
TO BUILD a UNION BRIDGE
New Orleans, Sept IA special from
Galveston. Tex, says:
J. w. Maywell, general superinten-
dent. and j. W. Allen, general freight
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