The latest news from fioodsv/ept
_ Galveston increases the horror of the
picture left by the terrible tidal wave.
At least ten thousand persons were
swept into eternity by the wind and
! wave that set in at 2 o'clock Saturday
morning , and continued for twenty-
four hours. The following report is
from a correspondent at the scene of
the dreadful calamity.
The exodus of the people of Galves-
ion , fleeing from hunger and pestilence
and thousand-fold suffering , has begun
in earnest.
At least 1,000 men and women had
taken advantage of the transporta
tion facilities furnished by pressing
1 into service all available small boats
and siled to Texas City and Virginia
Point. Other thousands are ready to
leave as soon as they can secure pas
sage.
Must ( Jot Them A\vny.
Mayor Jones says that there are at
least 1,000 women and children and in
jured men whom it is imperative to
take away at once to avoid great mor
tality among them.
Their going is a blessing to them ,
and it will be an equal blessing to
those who remain behind. The citi
zens' committee is using every effort
to encourage the departure of all who
will go , and especially of the women
and children. It is furnishing free
transportation to many , and in this it
is assisted by the railroad companies.
Survivors Taken Xortli.
Word was received from General
Manager Trice of the International &
Great Northern Railroad that suffer
ers would be carried free to Houston
from Texas City , where most of the
boats land , and that transportation to
points still further north would be
furnished to people unable to pay their
way. The Galveston , Houston & Hen
derson road will also operate relief
trains and carry refugees from Texas
City to Houston.
The establishment of this passenger
service out of the city and of a relief
freight service from Clinton to Gal
veston to bring in supplies , which is
promised , will greatly relieve the sit
uation at Galveston , but it is still bad
enough.
May Convene legislature.
There is much talk of asking Gov.
Sayers to call a special session of the
legislature to come to the relief of
Galveston and appropriate a large sum
for it. District Judge William H.
Stewart has telegraphed the request to
him.
him.All
All of the terrors of the previous
though unavoidable neglect , killed
most of them. That hundreds of
others will die in the same way is
probable , even if no pestilence breaks
out. Several persons have already
gone insane from their sufferings.
But in immediate horror these
things are trifles compared to the sav
agery of vandalism and the almost
equal savagery of the punishment that
must be meted out to offenders. Many
roughs and criminals succeeded in
reaching Galveston before the authori
ties awoke to the need of keeping them
- - LOOKING TOWARD VIRGINIA POINT , SHOWING THE SOUTHERN PA-
CIFIC'S NEW TERMINALS.
( Taken from Roof of Santa Fe Station. )
yond the control of the authorities.
The powers in control had been quar
reling. Tuesday night at 7 o'clock
every citizen soldier under command
of Maj. Fayling was called in , dis
armed and mustered out of service.
Chief of Police Ketchum then took
charge and the major was relieved of
his command. During an hour and a
half the city was unguarded and the
looters held high carnival. As the
major's work was unusually brilliant
of volunteers , Lawrence V. Elder , su
perintendent of the Galveston cotton
mills , acting as engineer and all hands
being stokers.
Many squalls struck the bay just as
the Pherabo got out of the channel
from the Galveston wharves to Texas
City. The boat was at one time point
ed toward the sky and the next mo
ment downward. The engineer , de
clined to take the boat any further
the citizens were furious. Tuesday
night the main thoroughfare was in
tensely dark and deserted , no a lamp
in the city being lighted.
Xilfe Is Held Cheap.
Life is held cheap in Galveston. The
awful presence of death of the great
and small has made men callous , and
a shooting or killing attracts little erne
no attention. No one walks the streets
unarmed and no one is permitted to be
about at all except on a pass first ob
tained from the mayor.
Gen. McKibben , U. S. A. , commander
of the department of the gulf , and Ad
jutant-General Scurry of Texas , are on
the ground , and are advising with
Mayor Jones and with Chief of Police
Ketchum.
In all other respects the city is
worse off than on the morning after
the tragedy. A terrible stench perme
ates the atmosphere. It comes from
the bodies of a thousand unburied dead
festering in the debris that cannot be
removed for weeks on account of the
paucity of laborers.
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The loss of life Thursday morning " *
was estimated by conservative people
at 8,000. Besides the thousand or
more bodies yet pinned beneath the
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wreckage hundreds of cadavers , all
putrid and bloated , float beneath
smashed-up piers. Hundreds of bodies
are floating in full view in the bay.
Every tide brings scores back to the
shore. During the early part of Wed
nesday trenches were dug and bodies
thrown into them , but it soon become
an impossibility to bury all the dead ,
and the health authorities decided
upon cremation as an expedient. ,
Funeral fires were built and torches :
applied.
In one pile eighty-three bodies were
incinerated. Thursday morning the
charred remains of 1,000 victims lay
smoking on the shore.
Food Famine Is On.
A food famine is now on , as well as *
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that of water. The best hotel in town '
served Thursday for breakfast to its
400 patrons a small cup of black coffee
and one slice of bread. But one res
taurant is open ; unseasoned coffee is i
all that can be obtained here. Horses r
and cattle stray through the streets "
untethered. The water is so contami
nated with filth that even these dumb
beasts refuse to drink it. The commit
tee on public safety has commandeered
the food owned by merchants in the
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HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL COLLEGE , GALVESTON.
Perilous and exciting in the extreme
was the voyage of the first messengers
sent out of Galveston to tell the world
of the city's great calamity. It consist
ed of Lieutenant J. J. TJelaney of the
Southern Pacific , E. G. Cox of the firm
of Thomas Taylor & Co. , E. L. Porch ,
of Welch & Porch , and two newspaper
Their boat was the steam yacht
XaDo , owned by Colonel W. L.
Moody , and the crew was made up
than Texas City , declaring that she
could not live in such a sea.
Lieutenant Delaney , who was an officer -
ficer in the Japanese navy , and who
commanded one of the war ships in
the battle of the Yalu river , and who
was later a lieutenant in the United
States navy , said :
"The trip across the bay was a far
more desperate struggle for life than v
that during the hurricane of the night h
city. None can nanbo cold to any
body -without consent of a cpeclal com
mittee. The need of the city la dlro ,
the destitution Is airful. Not a busi
ness house la open. Warehouses arc
all wrecked T7ith rare exceptions'
Nearly all buslnea la suspended. People
ple arc yet "too busy mourning for ihd
dead. The city treasurer when asked
to estimate the loss to business properf
ty and real estate , said : "The assess
ed valuation and property was ? 2,000-
000. The loss will exceed two-thirds
of that. "
It was learned upon unquestionable
authority that the military under Ad
jutant-General Scurry had slain not
less than seventy-five men , mostly ne
groes , guilty of robbing the dead. Two-
thirds of this number \vcre shot down
in their acts of atrocity.
Giro Tliocanmlti for Calvestoii.
Liberal contributions are being made
by the banks at St. Louis , in addition
to the $10,000 secured by the Interstate
Merchants' assodiaticn.
Milwaukee residents are determined
to raise ? 50,000 inside of forty-eight
hours for the Galveston sufferers. The
Schlitz Brewing company wired $2,000
to the mayor of Galveston ; the Pabst
TREMONT STREET , GALVESTON , AS THE WATER RECEDED AFTER THE GREAT TIDAL WAVE.
out , and they , added to great numbers
of the lowest negroes and most dis
reputable whites in the city , have been
roaming at will , cutting off the fingers
and ears of corpses for the jewelry
upon them , assaulting women , robbing
persons and houses and causing terror
everywhere.
Xinoty Negroes Shot.
Tuesday night ninety negroes were
shot by the citizen soldiery while loot
ing and mutilating the bodies of the
dead for plunder. The ninety probab
ly do not represent a tenth of those
who were engaged in the ghoulish
practice. The situation had got be-
days are still with the sufferers. The
lack of ice and medical supplies adds
to the tortures of the sick and injured.
| " The stench from the many bodies unburied -
buried up to Wednesday was almost
unendurable. The lack of disinfectants
makes the peril of disease each day
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greater.
Danger of Epidemic.
The danger of pestilence at Galves
ton now is frightful. All attempts to
bury the dead in an ordinary way
* have been abandoned. Hundreds of
corpses have been taken out to sea
and thrown overboard. Some of them
have been washed back upon the shore
in a frightful condition.
The safety of the living is a para
mount consideration , and the work of
r disposing of the corpses of men and
the carcasses of animals must be done.
The work is almost too horrible to
endure. Strong men faint after half
an hour of it. Faces so discolored that
5 -whites cannot be told from black and
swollen and distorted bodies are seen
c * everywhere.
Die from Neglect.
Many injured persons , perhaps fifty
in all , though there is no way of keep
ing count , have died in the temporary
hospitals since Sunday. Neglect ,
Brewing company 51,000 ; First Na-
; ional bank , Edward P. Allis company
md Filer & Stowell Manufacturing
: ompany , § 500 each. Many smaller of-
'erings swelled tne total to more than
J. C. Root , sovereign commander of
; he Woodmen of the World at Omaha ,
las Issued a call to all camps in the
Jnited States for immediate aid for
rexas sufferers.
California is responding generously
; o Galveston's cry for aid. Already
53,268 have been contributed , includ-
ng a check for $1,000 sent by the San
Francisco Theatrical Managers' as
sociation. The Santa Fe railroad will
: onvey provisions free.
Missouri's Governor Calls for Alt ! .
Gov. Stephens has issued a proc-
amation calling upon the mayors of
ill Missouri towns and cities , the ex-
: hanges , commercial clubs , churches
md citizens generally to contribute
iberally to the storm sufferers of
Fexas.
Thee hamber of commerce at Knox-
'ille , Tenn. , started a Galveston relief
und with $300 and appointed a com-
nittee to solicit funds.
The chamber of commerce at Knox-
mis , Tenn. , more than § 3,000 was sub-
icribed for the immediate relief of
rexas' destitute.
Dallas , Texas , has subscribed nearly
> 15,000 in cash and six car loads of
slothing for the south Texas flood suf-
'erers.
Indiana liberal in Its Glfls.
The people of Indiana are respond-
ng liberally to Gov. Mount's procla-
nation asking aid for Texas storm
victims.
A carload of provisions and clothing
or the storm-stricken people of Gal-
reston left New York city over the
? ew York Central. The car was sent
> y the New York World. The special
elief train sent by the New York
rournal and Advertiser left the same
tight. In the sleepers were twenty-
ight doctors and nurses. In the ex-
ress car were barrels and boxes of
nedicines and luxuries. Public sub-
criptions to the city's relief fund now
mount to $20,000.
Mayor Weaver of Louisville , ex-
iressed to the mayor of Galveston a
raft for $10,000 , the donation o *
ouisville to the sufferers.
The people of Nashville , Tenn. , have
o far contributed $1,465 to the fund
or the relief of the sufferers in Texas.
Chicago , not forgetful of its own
reat disaster in 1871 , has subscribed
noney high in the thousands and sent
whole train load of provisions direct
o Galveston.
icfore. In all my experience at sea
never knew of a craft surviving
hrough such a strain. To get into
rexas City we had to break a way
hrough a lot of wreckage and then
lad to make our way for fifty or sev-
nty-five feet walking on wreckage he-
ore we could get to shore. "
Richmond and Hitchcock each re-
iort sixteen lives lost. Alta Loma ,
Arcadia , Seabrooke , Velasco , Belle-
ille , Arcola and many other towns
lave from one to eight dead
Every mother possesses information of vital value to her
young daughter. That daughter is a precious legacy , and
the responsibility for her future is largely in the hands of the
mother. The mysterious change that develops the thought
less girl into the thoughtful woman should find the mother
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When the young girl's thoughts become sluggish , when
she experiences headaches , dizziness , faintness , find exhibits
an abnormal disposition to sleep , pains in the back and lower
limbs , eyes dim , desire for solitude , and a dislike for the
society of other girls , when she is a mystery to herself and
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The following letters from Miss Good are practical proof
of Mrs. Pinkham's efficient advice to young women.
Miss Good asks Mrs. Pinkham for Help.
. . _ , June 12th , 1899.
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February 10th , 1900.
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