The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1900-09-21
People Of the Country Vie With
Each OtleT In Extending Help.
CASH AND PROVISIONS POUR IN
Condition Of City Is Still Appalling
and Unearthing Of Dead Bodies
Continue--Anarchy Ended.

From all parts Of the United States
and many portions Of England many
thousands Of dollars are pouring into
Houston for tho relief Of Texas desti-
tute storm sufferers. Train loads Of
provisions and clothing are also hurry
ing towards Galveston, and those Of
the refugees who have arrived in
Houston are being made as comfort
able as possible. Estimates of the
number Of dead still vary.
Mayor Jones, Of Galveston, main
tains his opinion, given earlier, that
the number viii be no less than five
thousand. Property losses are mount
ing higher as further details arrive
and some estimate for the city of Gal
weston reach as high as twenty million
dollars. There are %, 900 homeless
people in the city to be taken care of,
and it is a question whether Galveston
can or will rebuilt. There seems to
be disposition on the part of the
leading citizens, however, to start res
olutely where the storm left off and
raise new city from the ruins Of the
old.
The military is patrolling the streets
and looting has been given q setback.
Several additional cases have been re-
ported where vandals have been shot
down while robbing the dead, but
troops are rapidly gaining control of
the lawless element.
Though the city appears to be pitt
lessly desolated, the authorities and
the commercial and industrial interests
are setting their forces to work and
start has at least been made toward
the resumption of business on a mod
crate scale. The liquor saloons have
at least temporarily gone out of the
business, aud every strong-limbed man
who has not his own humble abode to
look after is being pressed into service
SO that, first of all, the water service
may be resumed, the cutters flushed
ana Ln6 sfe6bS lgnteQ.
The further the reapers dig in the
ruins the greater becomes the increase
in the list Of those who persisted as
their homes tumbled about their heads.
On the lower beach Thursday a search
ing party found score of corpses
within slight area, going to show
that the bulwark of debris that lies
straight across the island conceals many
more bodies than have already been
accounted for.
Volunteer gangs continue their work
Of hurried burial of the corpses they
lind on the shores of Galveston at the
many neighboring points where fatal
tiles attended the storm. It will
probably be some days yet, however,
before all the floating bodies have
found nameless graves. Along the
beach they are constantly being wash
ed up. Whether these are those who
were swept out into the gulf and
drowned, or are simply the return
ashore of some Of those cast into the
sea to guard against terrible pesti-
lence, there is no means of knowing.
The city still presents the appear
ance of widespread wreck and ruin.
Little has been done to clear the
streets Of the terrible tangle of wires
and the masses of wreck, mortar, slate,
stone and glass that bestrew them.
In various parts of the city the smell
of decomposed flesh is still apparent.
Wherever such instances are found
the authorities are freely disinfecting.