Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-09-11


on nalty OF Galveston Is looking
-. I'm the face Of the latest facts
brought out. 80, .,
M. men who reported here tell OF
many dead bodies being found IN a
g,,. house or yard or one block that
a. conclusion Is almost Irresistible
.s.,a greater number than a thousand
".s have been lost They tell that
,-,oty of forty or more were lost by
W.. .,,arss OF a single large house, the
,IeIms having gathered there for
.ey but they are unable to say any
t.rg about hundreds Of small houses
mai Vsr. swept away, some vacant.
sg- many occupied, but without mark
o,s.en of a memory to call the lost.
INST OF DEAD NOT AVAILABLE.
rs. ap Of Galveston and her peo-
Of, arc .ndustriously deyoting them
49,. 90 relieving the distressed peo-
p. uu business men are losing not
TrG b14is and two teams containing
....ii.s and disnfectants have gone
s5-lelrI nom Houston Last night
.',. WAGONS j0stled along The streets
.T h.,eg of prepared food tp load
,l.m a9 boats or cars The mayor has
,'r. nrf cans to the larger cities of the
s,4tg .1r immediate help.
900 BODIES FOUND,
Mr. w. ID Ansloy, "a well known cot
AMMAN u. this city received iniorma-
tI6r nom Galveston today saying
Wit Is estimated tnat from 400 20 600
,.sorIs have been drowned OF killed by
,t.storm. Nearly 900 bodies have been
,ge1i ON the beach. All English cotton
Myars ore ,Dfr.
VII Is awful not complete house
en- te dty HELM urgently needed.
rtmards are homeless. Food is be-
,r- distributed 10 the destitute but lots
rUg W.l Doe .lyd.
newspaper writer who got through
Nrr Galveston today made the follow
In. statement
sTfa condition at Galveston Is heart
,.rF.rg In the extreme. The list OF
f.s8 MIN not he fully known for weeks.
M. Usf of missing win swell rapidly
q. soon as the people have begun 10 re-
non. the.r losses 10 the authorities and
gradually this list OF missing Will
change into the list Of dead as the bod
Nd qrg recovered from the ruins In this
dty or are picked No on the beach
Of The mainland where many Of them
. De- % IS believed.
RELIEF OF THE NEEDY
o., meeting was held at the fremont
4 house and at this meeting measures
. v.rs considered for the relief of the
. stricken. The conclusion was quickly
reached that the citizens are not equal
. 10 DE task. do what they may.
Five miles OF Laportc track. just
4 north OF Texas city Junction We're sub
4 merged during the storm. All the draw
bridges between Virginia Point ana
4 Galveston are gone, The county bridge.
A which cost SgG5.O0O and which was the
longest wagon structure in the world,
/ collapsed before the storm got under
good hadWay An ocean steamship
/ p0Red us way through the piling In
two other bridges. As far as IL is
known he bridges tenders are dead. ~
FIRST NEWS FROM THE SCENE.
The frs, vessel 20 leave Galveston
after thg storm contained the party
delegated Co inform the outside world
4 Of .he catastrophe and TO ask for help.
. i consisted 0f Lieut. j. j. Delaney OF
Che Southern Pacific; T.. @. Cox of the
firm NJ Thomas Taylor q Co.. T.. l..
Porch of Wuloh q Porch South CAL
weston sD0uiont uf the Houston
Post and Richard Srillane Of the
Galveston Tribune Their boat was
he steam Yacht pherabe. owned by
i Co. w. l. Moody. end the crew was
made un of volunteers. Lawrence V.
Elder superintendent Of the Galveston
cotton mills acting as engineer and
4 al hands being st0kars
The "Trip across the bay was o. Of
lhe most 'empestuous imaginable Many
Squalls struck the bay just as the
Ihlabe got out Of the. channel from
Ne Galveston wharyes 90 Texas city.
Id' boat was one time pointed toward
lae Sky and the next moment down
Na,l The engineer declined 10 take
I. ihe boat any further than Texas City,
a..ar.ne that she could not live in
such O. sea-