The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-17
SABBATH IS DREARY
Galveston Spends Her Time In
Clearing Away the Debris.
MORE BODIES BURNED
RAIL COMMUNICATION Is Ex-
PECTED BY WEDNESDAY.

Galveston, Tex. Sept 1e.-This was
a dreary Sabbath in Galveston. Serv-
ices We're held in the two churches
made nit for use since the great storm.
All day men and boys were at work
clearing away the debris Only few
dead were found during the day and
they were quickly burned, no attempt
having been made to identify them
The military authorities and the civil
authorities are now cooperating har-
mOniously and consequently there is
less lOoting and deSecrating of corpSes-
Sheriff Thomas is in charge of the iso-
lated district and is directing inter-
ment and the recovery of property
there United States Marshal Grant
has been given full authority by Ad-
jutant General Curry and is directing
affairs on the mainland aided by
troop of rangers, who are ordered to
make short work of lOOters and to
arrest all suspicious characters. The
rangers and the militia and civil guards
Stationed at Texas City and Virginia.
Point are under the direction of Mar
shall Grant. These are the two points
of ingress into the city. He also has
control over all the railways running
into this city and all craft plying be-
tween Virginia Point and Texas City,
and no one can embark or diSembark
at these places without his permission.
The destitute wishing to go to friends
IN the country are given free trans
portation and are being sent out of
the city as rapidly as the limited trans
portation facilities at the disposal Of
the committee on Transportation will
permit. The owner of any water craft
or railway found guilty of charging
more than the regulation fee will be
arrested and severely dealt with.
Sanitary Conditions Improved.
The cleaning UP and disinfecting Of
streets, stores and buildings is being
diligently carried on, and the sanitary
condition of the downtown portion of
Mayor Jones stated today that there
would be no abatement in the work
until the entire city is cleaned and dis
infected
Dry goods stores and clothing houses
resemble great laundrias, every avail
able space being occupied with goods
hung uD to dry. Fortunately the
weather is clear, hot and dry for this
purpose
Rail Communication Soon.
Since all the railways terminating
here have united upon one bridge and
are pushing the work night and day
with a, large force recOnStructing it.
while the tracks are. being restored on
the island and mainland by large
forces, it is confidently asserted that
Galveston will have rail communication
by Wednesday next. If this is done it
will relieve the existing situation won
derfuliy, as ali supplies are now being
brought in by boat
The injured and sick, under the thor
ough system established by the board
Of health and local physicians, are re-
ceiving every care and attention and
doing as well as could be expected I'M
der the circumstances, which are being
improved daily.
Catholic Census to Be Taken.
Tomorrow a census of the Catholic
population will begin to ascertain. the
number of widows and orphans caused
by the storm, and the exact number OF
Catholics that persisted.
The grand lodge committees of the
I. o. o. F. were here today and organ
lied local relief committees to look
after and care for the sick and desti-
tute of that order. for whom an appeal
has been sent to the lodges of the
union for relief.
The keeper of the life saving station,
at the western extremity of the island,
got in today. He reports the station
gone and that a frightful scene of des-
olatiOn exists there. He says that $50
bodies were buried there; that the
prairie and marshes are strewn with
the carcasses Of animals and reptiles.
and that the stencil is terrible.