The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-10-25
pED CROSS WORK IN TEXAS.
.r,m a Member of Miss Clara Bar.
leu tons Staff.

ral ross party left Washington,
month ago, in response to the
s.at distress from Galveston, it
attention to write you at once
u.ut happenings in the track of
+.m. fastening to the field we
conditions so infinitely worse than
as.u described, and so much work to
.ae way of sorely-needed imme-
s,..srrf that letter-writing was alto
....aur of the question. My promis-
..-, hpWever. can hardly have been
.,l While hundreds of professional
.etherers. presumably "on the
we're looding the country with
.-u and misinformatiOn con-
-le great calamity. AS to the
+Ynation. it came about as nat
lring the Cuban war, when
army of war correspondents
tit, bled and died. on the
4aoy fields of Tampa and Kew
Ills When things We're at their worst
-a island of the Mexican Gulf
td citizens lay by thousands
wreck of their homes. and
unped by barge loads into the
coating back to menace the
r0G long-buried collins, washed
.... ..--taVeS of Galveston's six GEM
. were scattered i'll the streets:
g maniacS searched the debris
. -+,toues whom they will never find
.t-t 1rSurrection morning. and the
Is We're mTid with crematiOns of
..-4 uGes piled like cord wood. black
..N together, irrespective of age,
.-,7l aleHious conditions: when ghouls
f.. .uIi1 shape prowled amid the chaos,
..,-.- Dt+ ears and fingers for the Jew
rs em, though martial law pre-
ell such hysterical severity that
...ur.-, were common for offences
aking of a photograph: when
e.eg4, and bridges were obliterated for
r. round, steamers aground on new
Sal thrown up by the storm, tele-
H1 a0ps down, postal facilities non
a.. 10 reach this little island from
lltHt5 outside was to run the gaunt-
~ soldiers bayonets, "our special
.-n'ulrut" may perhaps be eXcus-
81 >,eminating his hearsay news
-r various vantage grounds Oh the
l.0.ud of Texas. Now that the worst
3}d the -gathererS gone
t..eays III search of fresh sensations,
---ll I've added by one who has been
-N--Hr to know whereof she speaks.
g. tN.t tut half has not been told of
-tt-8rtuI storm since Noah day,
IL" sill be. The blood -curdling
... Is ui Tire yelloWest journals have
-\aggtFations. but on the con
- r- .dlen far short of the truth
gaUSe it is beyond the power
poitray the full horror OF it.
aan figures and statistics till
a0 without being able to form an
g real situation in Galveston.
.-- 1T you can, the most thickly
Feed section OF a beautiful city
i't-up streets Of handsome
-"trt clean as a parlor floor,
---l-e Of thousand homes re-
moment, to be heaped in dis
kindling wood and scat
He Every house that stands
|eston is a house of mourn
uember of many families is
ung the dead; and sadder
oses where one OF two are
mcrous households. Fancy
-IitWg at home as usual some
9lrnlng to equinoXial wind
hen suddenly it is discover
Gulf of Mexico is stealing
'f door-yard. At the same
r ael You do not know it. the
lde bay is creeping up i'll the
Title tom. Higher and higher rise
treat bodies of water, till, in
H'A s short time, they meet and
tt centre of the doomed city,
Weep back again, carrying all be-
Atn ~alt waters rush in at your
"' "--r, for prey. You retreat to the
story. "a find acyclone raging, the
'"N1 away, the house tottering to
f.'4 some OF your family are buried
e't 'te itbris. the rest rush out into
"" lgAt of total darkness, (the
and electric light plant were
Hs che inst to be demolished. rag
waters Of unknown depth in place
familiar streets, the icy current
''-Ii-g eth astonishing velocity, car
Tees roofs, timbers, dead bodies,
"I's ram that lacerateS the flesh
@' pfmtents scourge, shrieks, groans,
'D Iia}rrS for help, rising above the
The gale. One by one your low
'Ae1 are torn from your side. Seiz-
I'A any boating object, perhaps
tt carried far out into the measure
'aI Vi Mexico, to be dashed back
-'t turning tide, if you can man
vs. 90 N@er 50 long atIoat. | have talk
@''' scores of people who suffered a
experience, some of them chill
'd delicate girls. The marvel is
4i| survived. All are bruised and