The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-14
MAKING BRAVE START
CITIZENS OF GALVESTON BENDING
EVERY EFFORT TOWARD
CITY's RECOVERY
1EWSPlPFllRIIS Arb PaIITED
TRIBUNE AND NEWS SHOW THEIR
TRIBUNE AND NEWS SHOW THEIR
ENERGY AND FAITH IN
THE FUTURE
BUT THE TOWN IS A WRECK
Streets Uttered With Ruins, Light
ing Plants Helpless and the
Smell of Decomposing
Bodies SickeninE.

GALVESTON, Tex, Sept 13.-Galves-
ton is beginning to recover from the
stunning blow of last week, and though.
the city appears to be pitilessIy DESC
lated, the authorities and the CONNER
clal and Industrial interests are setting
| their forces to work, and a start has at
least oeen made toward the resumption
| OF business on moderate scale. The
presence Of the troops has had a bene-
hc1al effect upon the criminal classes,
ana the apprehension of brief but des-
perate reign Of anarchy now no longer
exists. The liquor 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 may be resun-
ed, the cutters flushed and the streets
lighted
The further the ruins are dug into the
greater becomes the increase in the list
OF those who perished, as their houses
tumbled about their heads On the low
er beach yesterday a searching party
found score of corpses within a small
area, going to show that the buIwark
Of the debris that lie straight across the
Island conceals many more bodies than
have been accounted for. Volunteer
gangs continue their work in hurried
burial of the corpses they find on the
shores of Galveston island at the MANY
neighboring points where fatalities at
tended the storm. 1t will probably be
many days yet, however, before all the
floating bodies have found nameless
graves.
FLOATING CORPsEs.
Along the beach they are constantly
being washed UP. Whether these are
those who 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 terrible pestilence there
Is no means of knowing. In any event,
the Associated Press correspondent in a
trip across the hay yesterday, counted
seven bodies tossing in the waves with
q score of horses and cattle, the stencil
from which was unbearable.
In various parts Of the city the smell
Of decomposed flesh is still apparent.
Wherever such instances are found the
authorities are freely disinfecting. Only
today babe iashed 70 a mattress was
picked up under residence in the very
heart of the city and was burned.
The city stiH presents the appearance
of widespread wreck and ruin. Little
has been done to clear the streets of the
terrible tangle of wires and the masses
of wreck, mortar, slate, stone and glass
that bestrew them. Many of the side
walks are impossible. Some of them
are Uttered with debris. Others are so
thickly covered with slime that walking
on them is out of the question AS
general rule substantial frame buildings
withstood better the blasts of the gale
than those of brick In other instances.
however, small wooden structures. els
terms and whole sides of houses have
been pumped down In streets or back
yards, squares away from where they
originally stood.
Here and there the men are working
TO repair the damage done, but, in the
main, the commercial interests seem to
be uncertain about following the lead of
those who apparently show faith in the
rapid rehabilitation of the island city
POWER OF THE PRESS.
The appearance Of the newspapers to-
day, after few days suspension. is
having a good effect, and both the News
and Tribune are urging prompt succoring
Of the suffering, and then equal prompt
ness N reconstruction. It is difficult to
say what the ultimate effect of the dis
aster is to be. Many people have left,
and some may never return. The expe-
rience of others still here were so fright
full that not all will remain If they can
conveniently find occupation in other
cities. The bulk of the population how
ever, is only temporarily panic-stricken,
and there are hosts of those who helped
to make Galveston great who look upon
! the catastrophe as only involving tenn
porary halt in the advancement of the
city. What is most bothering business
men at present is what attitude the rail
roads, and especially the Southern Pa
cific, are to assume with respect to re-
construction. The decision OF the trans
| portation lines will do more than any
thing else to restore confidence. Big
ships, new arrivals, rode at anchor to-
day in front Of the city. They had just
reached port and found the docks and
pier damage so widespread that 10 ac-
commodation could be given them They
found sheds torn away, freight cars over
turned and planlfng ripped off.
The steamships reported ashore IN
early reports are, save two, the Norwe-
gian steamer Gyller and the British
steamer Norma, still high and dry.
No examination is yet possible as to the
condition of those still on the sand, but
the big tug H. c. Wilmott has arrived
from New Orleans ard her assistance
is to be given to saving ,hose vessels
which can be got in deep vater again.
Apparently, however. Galveston has no
immediate need for ships. The destruc-
ton of the bridges of all the railroads
entering the city makes it well nigh i'm
possible to furnish outgoing clrgoes
BRIDGES DEsTRoyED
These bridges were each about tree
miles in length and the work Of re con-
| struction will be a stupendous undertake
ing.
One of the most serious results of the
storm has been the ripping of the cleo
trio light and street car plants The
c--y has been in absolute darkness for
several nights and only. a few concerns
who operate their own illumination serv-
ice 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 their homes
at nightfall, but the work of the patrol
system is made more difficult thereby