The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-09-20
LEAVING TIE STRICKEN CITY
Steady Stream of Refugees from
Galveston Is Kept Up, Every De-
parting Tram Being Crowded.
HUNDREDS or BODIES LIE ROTTIkG.
Plenty Of work for Ten Times the Force
of Laborer- Now EmpIoE"d-No sem
bIance of Humanity Ia tue Grews"rn-
Bodies Uncovered by the Workers
Trouble ia DI-trtburing Provisions

Galveston Tex, sept I1.-Ihe
steady stream of refugees from Cal
weston is kept up. There il not de
PARTING train from across the bay
that is not packed TO it, platforms.
There will be refugees leaving for a
week 10 come. No sadder sight could
he imagined than the picture pre-
scented by boatload of refugees,
when the ropes were east OF and
the craft swung out into the bay and
away from the storm-swept city
There was not face that was not
turned toward the ruin. There was
not an eye that wasn't moistened by
tears. 50 great has been the rush
TO leave behind the scene of the storm
that the Lawrence. the boat which
connects with trains at Texas City,
has not failed 10 leave her wharf a
single day without denying passage
TO a portion of those who wanted to
get away.
There is plenty of work on hand
for ten times the force of Iaborers
al present employed. The area which
has as yet been untouched embraces
~. miles of frontage on the beach
which lie rotting beneath the tangled
timbers viii fall to pieces. Even now
there is no semblance of humanity
j. the grewSome things which are
uncovered by the workers.
There is a great deal of trouble
in properly distributing supplies, the
raah at the depots being as great
to-day as at any time since they
were opened In line before the re-
lief stations were women of evident
refinement. They were iammed in be-
tween negroes and the poorer classes
Of whites 1t must have been ter
rible struggle for them TO accept sue
cor in such guise. but there was
no alternative before them. 1t has
indeed been Il divine mercy that the
weather since the storm has been clear
and dry. Had it rained single dav
the suffering would have been terri |
bic, for there is scarcely whole roof !
in Galveston.
There are numerous cases of in |
sanity in Galveston as a result of the |
terrible bereavements sustained by |
the survivors. Not p people got into |
Galveston Sunday from the outside |
world. The lines are being drawn |
tight and pressing. indeed. must be |
the business which gives one safe |
passage. 1t is estimated that about |
5000 have departed from the city
since the storm, including women and |
children.
Grateful Message from GaIveston's Mayor.
Washington, Sept. 1.-THE follow
ing dispatch has been received at the
white house from Mayor Jones. of |
Galveston, addressed to the president:
The people of Galveston through me |
desire to return their sincere thanks for |
the great interest you and the United |
States government through you have
in their behalf in their hour
of trial; while their sufferings are in |
descrtbable yet they have ever in their |
minds the great government which never
fails tG respond to the distress of its cit
liens and they also know that at the
head of that government is an upright
Christian gentleman whose every effort |
is to relieve the distressed with all the
means and power at his command.