Mesa free press., 1900-09-28
THE NEEDS Of GALVESTON
Money, Disinfectants and Forage the
Principal Ones.
A LONG LIST OF KNOWN DEAD
A Sad Wedding Exodus Of People From
the Stricken City Army of RecIamat-
ion at Work rk-Communicatio Restored.

ion at Work-Communication Restored.
Houston, Tex.-What Galveston
needs now Is money and disinfectants
Next to these two things she needs
forage. There are now, as nearly as
can be estimated, 300 cars of provi-
sions on the way, and it is thought
this will suffice for time. No doctors
are needed.
Gaveston has begun to emerge from
the valley of the shadow Oh death, into
which it has been plunged for nearly
week, and today for the first time
actual progress was made toward
clearing up the city. The bodies of
those killed in the storm have for the
most part been disposed of. A large
number may be found when the debris
is removed from some of the buildings,
but at present there are none to be
seen save those occasionally cast up
by the sea. AS far as sight, at least,
is concerned, the city is cleared of it's
dead. They have been burned, thrown
into the water, buried, anything to get
them quickly out of sight.
DECOMPOSING CARCAssES.
The chief danger of future pesti-
lence is due almost entirely to the
| large number of dead cattle lying on
the island, whose decomposing car
casses pollute the air to an almost
unbearable extent. This, however, is
not in the city proper, but is a condi-
tion prevailing on the outskirts of
Galveston. One great trouble hereto
fore has been the inability to organize
the gangs of laborers for the purpose
of clearing the streets. 1t has been
absolutely necessary that all men
should so far as possible work in re-
lieving the city of corpses in the
streets, and the authorities have here
tofore been unable to pay much atten-
tion to the debris encumbering thor
oughfares, and which doubtless con-
ceal many bodies Of those killed in
the storm.
Adj.-Gen. Scurry yesterday succeeded
in getting gangs of laboring men or
ganized. The progress made was re-
markable, and today it will be much
greater. Large piles of refuse were
gathered and burned for the first time,
the work of cleaning up proceeding in
systematic manner.
NAMES OF ALMOST THREE THOU
SAND.
Houston, Textile Post prints a
list of 2701 names Of the Galveston
dead, compiled from various sources,
but believed to be authentic. There
were hundreds of bodies burned and
buried in the sea and in the sand,
where no identification was possible.
Other hundreds were buried on the
beach of the mainland, few of whom
were identified. Some bodies are still
in the ruins and scattered along the
beach of the mainland and in the
marshes where they were thrown by
the water. Some of these bodies have
been sent twenty miles inland along
small water courses by the rush of
high water. Taking all things into
consideration, there seems no longer
any doubt that the number of dead
will reach beyond the estimate of 5000
which has been made by Mayor Jones
and other reliable citizens of Calves
ton.
SAD WEDDING.
New Orleans.-A special from Gal
weston says that last evening at the
fremont Hotel occurred a wedding
that was not attended with music and
flowers and a gathering Of merry
making friends and relatives-it was
peculiarly sad. Mrs. Brice Roberts was
married to Ernest May. The storm
which desolated SO many homes de-
prived her of almost everything on
earth, father, mother, sister and
brother She was left destitute. Her
sweetheart, too. was sufferer. He
lost much of his possessions in Dick
inson, but he stepped forward and
took his sweetheart to his home.
PEOPLE LEAVING.
The exodus of people from the city
was heavy today and hundreds were
eager to go, but unable to secure
TRANSPORTATION. Along the bay front
there were scores of families with de-
jected faces; pleading to be taken from
the stricken city, where, in spite OF
every effort to restore confidence, there
is universal feeling of depression.
GALVESTON AWAKE.
Galveston.-The first real attempt to
clear away the great mass of DEBRIS
piled along the beach front for a dis
tance of several miles has Degun. Ad-
vertisements were printed in the News
which appeared this morning asking
for hundreds of men and boys to do
the work. A multitude responded.
They were formed into squads and
promptly put to work with police aud
deputy sheriffs in charge.
1t is hoped that vigorous prosecu-
ton of this work will lead to the early
recovery of bodies still in the debris.
That there are many Of them there is
no shadow of doubt. 1t is difficult in
deed to imagine how half the people
that did escape got free of this fearful
flotsam and jetsam.
SICKENING STENCIL.