The Penn's Grove record., 1900-09-14
MARTIAL LAW DECLARED
Troops Sent to Galveston to Preserve
Order and Prevent Vandalism.
BODIES THROWN INTO THE GULF,
Armed Men Compel Idiers to Help Dis.
pose Of the Dead-Relief Committee
Describes the Awful Conditions in the
Stricken City-5OOO Families Destitute
-vandals Shot Down by Citiasns.
Houston, Tex. observation-disclosures
has been placed under martial law by

Sam Houston, was OfQereQ
b with a command of zoe
airy and artillery from
ere also ordered there by
bayers.
the storm and afterward
ng was done. Many stores
.losed, their owners leaving
er their families. The wind
the windows and left the
rey for the marauders.
stripped dead bodies of jew.
articles of value. Captain
commanding the United
oops in Galveston, was ap.
for help, and he sent in sew.
!, the remnant of the battery
Try, to do police duty. All
night and Tuesday the city
oiled by regular soldiers and
Oldiery. No one vas allowed
)treets without a pass.
Is and hoodlums who had been
he dead and robbing deserted
made this action necessary
groes caught robbing the dead
Ot on the spot by enraged citi.
Following statement, of cOndi.
nd appeal for aid was issued by
al Relief Committee:
Conservative estimate Of the loss
is that it will reach 5000. AT
t 5000 families are shelterless and
lily destitute. The entire remain
of the ~poulation is suffering in
ter or less degree. Not a single
CHI. school or charitable institu-
of which Galveston had so many,
1T intact. Not a building escaped
page, and half of the whole number
we're entirely obliterated.
There is immediate need for food,
clothing and household goods of all
kinds. If nearby cities will open asy-
lums for women and children the sit
uation will be greatly relieved. Coast
cities should send us water as well
as provisions, including kerosene oil,
gasoline and candles"
Some order has been brought out OF
chaos, and something like a systematic
attempt is being made to clear the
debris and emove the dead. Idlers
have been pressed into service at the
point of the 5ayonet and made to work
and a military Gordon has been drawn
tight about the place. Every horse and
mule that was left in the city in in
service.
It was almost impossible to get men
to help bury the dead. and finally the
more level-headed citizens formed IN
squads, and, armed with Winchester
rifles, by force of arms. made the I'M
willing ones form burial squads and
aid in the gruesome work. Three un.
dertaking establishments were not suf.
hc1ent to act as mOrgues, and an emp
ty store room was opened.
A man who has arrived from Gal
weston said that bodies were east into
the Gulf with weights attached as the
best method of disposing of them
while others were buried in the sane
where found.
Many of the bodies had decomposed
50 badly that it was impossible to send
them TO sea for burial. The water had
receded so far, however, that it was
possible to dig trenches, and bodies
We're buried where found. Debris GOV
ering the bodies was burned where il
could be done safely.
The work Of securing the names OF
the dead proceeds very slowly. Nc
list approaching completeness can be
had for weeks, and it is almost certain
that a complete list will never be made
up. AS time a away the names
OF different persons will be recalled BY
those who were neighbors, and they
Will be set down in the great death
roll that will be made up, but those
who do not know their neighbors
names are many, and the identity OF
the lost will be passed to eternity with
out remembrance.