The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-09-15
DEATH LOSS INCREASED.
The Latest Dispatches Place the Number of
Lives Lost by the Recent Disaster at Gal
weston at Over 5,O0O-Galveston Under
Martial Law, Owing To The Lawlessness
of Ghouls-Reports From Other Places.

of Ghouls-Reports From Other Places.
On the first page will be found short ac-
count of The great tidal wave at Galveston,
Texas. The tidal wave that caused the de
siruciion extended from FIVE to seven miles
inland, forcing the wafer in several rivers
back more than double that distance, causing
n total loss of $50, 00O, 900, to say nothing OF
the great Inconvenience 10 business men, rail
roads and citizens. Several steamers were
carried in over two miles, and hundreds of
smaller craft are high and dry on the plania-
tons. Following are later particulars
Mayor Jones, of Galveston, late on Tuesday
night, issued statement estimating the loss
OF life there at 5000
The Galveston local Relief Committee sent
oui statement estimating that the loss of life
will reach 5000. At least 5000 families are
shelterless and wholly destitute. There is
immediate need for food, clothing and house
hold goods OF all kinds.
The Governor of Texas has placed Calves
ton city and island under martial law. The
troops are to compel the people to bury the
dead
Miss Helen Gould notified the army officials
in New York that she would send, at her ex-
pense, SO, 900 raiions TO distressed families in
Galveston and the hurricane-swept district.
Galveston was patrolled on Monday night
by regular troops and militia. The work of
clearing the streets of debris is under way.
Dead bodies were sent to sea in barges aud
thrown overheard, there being no other way
of disposing of them.
HORRORS BEYOND BELIEF.
On Tuesday horde of negroes and whites,
even white women, were in the ruins of the
city. They were robbing the dead and dying,
killing those who resisted, cutting off fingers
to obtain rings aud ears to obtain earrings.
Drunken men reeled about the streets intimi-
dating citizens.
Chief of Police Ketchum ordered the sale
Of liquor stopped, and began To swear IN hun
dreds of special policemen 10 rescue the
wounded, feed the living and convey the dead
to hundred different morgues. He worked
for SO hours without going home to inquire
about his family fate which was i'll doubt.
When told he should do SO, he replied,
Enthusiastically, God will be good TO me
and mine, for am going 10 be good to others. !"
THE STENCIL UNBEATABLE.
The stencil from the dead by Monday morn
ing was unbearable. Estimates by citizens of
Galveston this morning place the number of
dead at from 1000 to 5000.
The triumvirate ruling the city pressed citi-
zens into service to take the dead in barges
and bury them in the Gulf The soldiers i'm
pressed into service, at the point of the bayo-
net every wagon that came along and every
negro to assist in throwing the dead into the
sea. 1t was impossible to give other burial.
From the stencil which pervades the city at
this moment il is apparent that hundreds of
bodies yet lie under the ruins. The sun is
hotter than in July.
The regular soldiers, who had been working
for two days with bloody feet were utterly
exhausted by Monday evening, and were as
sembled by Captain Rafferty,, aud put in
hastily extemporized hospital, which was form
erly church. Their places were filled by
Major Fayling, with new recruits, whom he
drafted on the streets and supplied with arms
and equipment from the local armory.
NEGRO THIEVES SHOT DOWN.
Every part of the city was patrolled by 6
o clock in the evening. Among many other
incidents of last night was the besieging of the
squad guarding ST. Mary's Hospital. They
were surrounded by horde of armed negro
thieves. Several hundred shots were ex-
changed. Sergeant Camp killed four negroes
with his rifle, and about ten or twelve were
killed by the squad.
The soldiers have since been pickeiing the
city, doing fourteen hours duty without rest.
Every hour during the night fresh negro
shooting was reported at headquarters.
HORRIBLE CRIMES REPORTED
A negro assaulted a white woman i'll her
home early this morning, and killed her. A
soldier kicked in the door. caught him and
blew the top of his head off with pistol.
A dozen cases of assault on white women
have been reported al headquarters this morn
ing. The public has become unnerved by
the terrible state of things, and the reported
assaults have only family stirred them.
WORK OF CRIMINALS AND COMMERCIAL
PIRATES.
DALLAS, Texas, Sept. l1.-Galveston was
placed under martial law to-day q. W.
Ware, a teacher in Dallas educational in
stitulion, was in Galveston during the hurri-
cane. He reached Dallas tonight, and made
the following statement
sit was "a godsend, the placing Of the city
under martial law. The criminal element
began looting the dead, and the cold blooded
commercial element began looiing the living.
1.-The criminals were stealing anything they
could with safety lay hands on, and the mer
cenary commercial pirates began harvest of
extortion. The price of bacon was pushed
up to SO cents pound, bread 60 cents loaf,
and owners of small schooners and other sail
ing craft formed trust, and charged So a
passenger for transportation across the bay
from the island to the mainland.
'Mayor Jones and other men of conscience
were shocked at these proceedings, and the
Mayor DECIDED that the only protection for
the citizens would be TO declare martial law,
confscaie all foodstuffs and other necessities
for the common good, aud thus stop the loot
ings and holdups.,
1.-THE price Of bread was reduced to 10 cts.
a Loaf bacon was placed at 15 cents pound,
and the price of voyage across the bay set at
81, so passenger. A book account is being
kept of all sales of foodstuffs, and other trans
actions and settlements will be made at the
scheduled rates"
A RADICAL POLICY URGEp.
Mr.. Qninlan, General Manager of the
Houston and Texas Central Railroad, said
this evening"
1T is in such cases as this Galveston disas-
ter that the barbarily in some men is seen.
have seen enough in the last two days 10 con
vince me that large element Of civilized
man ind are veneered savages. My policy
would be to take nobody into Galveston ex
cent such persons as are absolutely needed to
administer to the distressed. Thousands of
residents of Galveston ought 10 be brought
out of there as fast as boats can bring them to
the mainland, and establish them in charity
or detention camps on high ground, where
they can get pure air and water and receive
attention which cannot be given TO them on
the island"
Similar reports from all the coast towns in
Texas are nearly equally as terrible. Sugar
and cotton plantations are ruined, and live
stock drowned.
THE CITY OF GALVESTON.
Galveston had a population of 35. 900, and
its business was greater than that of any city