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Galveston Tex Special The last
days of Pompeii were not as terrible
as the last days of Galveston Eon-
ftres are burning all over thevcity There
J are the funeral pyres of a thousand
corpses cast back on shore at tide yes-
i terday The cremation has been a ne
cessity to prevent epidemic The ne
grpes refuse -to work and the towns
people are paralysed with fright and
suffering or are making preparatibns
to leave the doomed island
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GALVESTON
DETAILS OF THE SITUATION
ARE TERRIBLE
THOOSAMDS PEBiSHE
Corpses Are Thrown Into the Sea
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or Cremated Without Any
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This morning the first train is an
nounced to carry refugees to Texas
City seven miles across the bay and
since daylight a thousand men women
and children have been crowding into
catboats lifeboats sloops schooners
and a single steamboat the Lawrence
all bent on escaping from the city
Nearly all of thorn have lost some
member of their family Not one of
them carries a valise The women
l wear no hats are unkempt and ill clad
They look as if haunted
NINETY NEGROESSHOT
Last night ninety negroes were shot
by the citizen soldiery while looting
and mutilating tile bodies of the dead
for plunder The ninety prpbably do
hot represent a tenth of those who were
encased in the ghoulish practice The
situation has got beyond the control of
the authorities The powers in control
have been quarreling Last night at
7- oclock every citizen soldier under
command of Major Fay ling was called
in disarmed and mustered out of the
service Chief of Police Ketchum then
took charge and the major was re
lieved of his command During an hour
and a half the city was unguarded and
the looters held high carnival As the
majoVs work was unusually brilliant
the citizens are furious Last night
the main thoroughfare was intensely
dark and deserted not a lamp in the
city being lighted
LIFE IS HELD CHEAP
Life is held cheap in Galveston The
awful presence of death of the great
and the small has made men callous
and a shooting or killing attracts little
No walks the
or no intention one
streets unarmed and no one is permit
ted to be about at all except on a pass
first obtained from the mayor This
morning the situation from the police
standpoint is improved A hundred ot
the state militia of the Houston light
guards are patrolling the west end of
the city General McKibben U S A
commander of the department of the
gulf and Adjutant General Scurry ot
and advising
Texas are on the ground are
vising with Mayor Jonest and Chief of
Police Ketchum
v In al lother respects the city is worse
off than on the morning after the trag
edy A terrible stench permeates the
at mosphere It comes from the bodies
- of a thousand unburied dead festering
in the debris that cannot be removed
for weeks dn account of the paucity ot
laborers
DEAD MAT NUMBER 8000
The loss of life this morning is esti
mated by conservative people at 8000
Besides the thousand or more bodies
yet pinneed beneath the wreckage hun
dreds of cadavers all putrid and bloat
ed 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 yesterday trenches were
dug and bodies thrown into them but
it soon became an impossibility to bury
al lthe dead and the health authorities
decided upon cremation as an expedi
ent Funeral fires were built and
torches applied
Houston Tex Special Summariz
ing the situation as it now appears
hmsiness edifice in - Galveston is
probably destroyed or damaged The
entire shipping in port is wrecked the
grain elevators demolished in part the
wharves almost totally destroyed food
supplies damaged by water fresh-water
supply cut off 20000 persons home
less 1000 to 4G00 persons killed Com-
munication is destroyed and
tion everywhere
STORY ToUL BY MR SPILLANE
Richard Spillant a well known news
paper man of Galveston reached
ton after a terrible experience and
gives the following account of the
aster at Galveston
One of the most awful tragedies of
modern times has visited Galveston
The city is in ruins and the dead will
number probably 5000 I am just from
the city having been commissioned by
the mayor and citizens committee to
get in touch with the outside world
and appeal for help Houston was the
nearest point at which working
- graph instruments could be found and
the wires as well as nearly all the
buildings between here and the Gulf of
Mexico being wrecked When I left
Galveston the people were organizing
for the prompt burial of the dead dis
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tribution of food and 11 necessary
work after a period of disaster
FURY OF THE TEMPEST
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The wreck of Galveston was brought
About by a tempest so terrible that no
words can adequately describe its in
tensity and by a flood which turned
bureau records show that the wind at
tained a velocity of eighty four milea
an hour when the measuring instru
ment was blown away so It is Impossi
ble to tell what was the maximum
The storm began at 2 oclock Satur
day morning Previous to that a great
storm had been raging in the gulf and
the tide was very high The wind at
first came from the north and vas in
direct opposition to the force from the
gulf While the storm In gulf piled the
water upon the beach side of the city
the north wind piled the water from
the bay on to the bay part of the city
About noon it became evident that
the city was going to be visited with
disaster Hundreds of residences along
the beach front were hurriedly aban
doned the families fleeing to dwellings
in higher -portions of the city Every
home was opened to the refugees white
or black The winds were rising con
stantly and it rained in torrents The
wind was so fierce- that the rain cut
like a knife
ENTIRE CITY IS SUBMERGE
Ey 3 oclock the waters of the gulf
and bay met and by dark the entire
city was submerged The flooding of
the electric light plant and the gas
plants left the city in darkness To go
into the streets was to court deathThe
wind was then at cyclonic velocity
roofs cisterns portions of buildings
telegraph poles and walls were falling
and the noise of the winds and the
crashing of the buildings was terrifying
in the extreme The wind and waters
rose steadily from dark until 2 oclock
Sunday morning During all this time
the people of Galveston were like rats
in traps The highest portion of the
city was four to five feet under water
while in the great riiajority of cases the
streets were submerged to- a depth of
ten feet To leave a house was to
drown To remain was to court death
iti the wreckage N
WORK 43F THE WINDS
Such a night of agony has seldom
been equaled- Without apparent reason
the waters sudednly began to subside
at 2 a m Within twenty minutes they
had gone down two feet stnd before
daylight the streets were practically
freed of the flood waters In the mean
time the wind had veered to the south
east Very few if any buildings es
caped injury There is hardly a habit
able dry house in the city When the
people who had escaped death went out
at daylight to view the work of the
tempest and floods they saw the most
horrible sights imaginable- In the
three blocks from avenue N to avenue
P in Trenmont street I saw eight
bodies Four corpses were in one yard
The whole of the business front for
blocks in from the gulf was stripped
of every vestige of habitation the
dwellings the great bathing establish
ments the Olympia and every structure
having been either carried out to sea
or its ruins piled in a pyramid far into
the town according to the vagaries of
the tempest
LARGEST BUILDINGS WRECKED
The first fhurried glance Over the
city showed that the largest structures
suppose dto be the most substantially
built suffered the greatest The Or
phans home Twenty first street and
avenue M fell like a house of cards
How many dead children and refugees
are in the ruins could not be ascer
tained Of the sick in St Marys in
firmary together with the attendants
only eight are understood to have been
saved
The Old Womans home in Rosen
berg avenue collapsed the Rosenberg
school house is a mass of wreckage
The Ball high school is but an empty
Bfcfell crushed and broken Evfery
church in the city with possibly one
or two exceptions is in ruins
SOLDIERS REPORTED DEAD
At the forts nearly all the soldiers
are reported dead they having been in
temporary quarters which gave them
no protection against the tempest or
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No report has been received from
the Catholic orphan asylum down the
island but it seems impossible that it
could have withstood the hurricane If
it fell all the inmates were no doubt
lost for there was no aid within a
mile
The bay from end to end is in ruins
Nothing but piling and the wreck of
great warehouses remain The eleva
tors lost all their superworks and their
stocks are damaged by water
The life saving station at Fort point
was carried away the crewjDeing swept
across the bay fourteen miles to Texas
City I saw Captain Haines yester
day and he told me that his wife and
one of his crew were drowned
WRECKAGE AT TEXAS CITY
The shore at Texas City contains
enough wreckage to rebuild a city
Eight persons who were swept across
the bay during the storm were picked
up there alive Five corpses were also
picked up There were three fatalities
in Texas City In addition to the liv
ing and the dead which the storm cast
up at Texas City caskets and coffins
from one of the cemeteries at Galves
ton were being fished out of the water
thsre yesterdayi
DANGER OF PESTILENCE
The cotton mills the bagging fac
tory the gas works the electric light
works and nearly all the industrial es
tablishments of the city are either
wrecked or crippled The flood left a
slime about one inch deep over the
whole city and unless fast progress is
made in burying corpses and carcasses
of animals there is danger of pestilence
MANY MIRACULOUS ESCAPES
Some of the stories of the escapes
are miraculous William Nisbett a
cotton man was buried in the ruins of
the Cotton Exchange saloon and whet
dug out in the morning had no furthei
injury than a few bruised fingers
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when his house collapsed but was re
vived by the water and was carried
ten blocks by the -hurricane
A woman who had just given birth
to a child was carried from her home
to a house a block distant the men who
were carrying her having to holdhei
high above their heads as the watei
was five feet deep when she was moved
Many stories were current of houses
falling and inmates escaping Clarence
N Ousley editor of the Evening Trib
une his family and the families
of two neighbors in his house when
the lower half crumbled and the upper
part slipped down into the water Not
one in the house vas hurt
The Mistrot house in the west end
was turned into a hospital All of the
regular hospitals of the city were un
available Of the nev Southern Pacific
wnrlra little rpmnins hut thenilinST Half
a million feet of lumber was carried
away and Engineer Eoschke says as
far as the company is concerned it
might as well star over again
Eight ocean steamers were torn
from their moorings and stranded in
the bay The Kendall Castle was car-
ried over the flats from the Thirty-
third street wharf to Texas City and
lies in the wreckage of the Inman
pier The Norwegian steamer Gyller is
stranded between Texas City and Vir
ginia Point An ocean liner was swirl
ed around through the West bay
crashed through the bay bridges and
is now lying in a -few feet of wajer near
the wreckage of the railroad bridges
The steamship Tauntonwas carried
across Pelican point and is stranded
about ten miles up to East bay The
Mallory steamer Alamo was torn from
her Avharf and dashed upon Pelican
flats and the bow- of the British steam
er Red Cross which had previously
been hurled there The stern of the
Alamo is stove in and the bow of the
Red Cross is crushed -
Down the channel to the jetties two
other ocean steamships- lie grounded
Some schooners barges and smaller
craft are strewn bottom side up along
th slips of the piers The tug Louise
of the Houston Direct Navigation com
pauy is also a wreck
It will take a week to tabulate the
dead and the missing and to get any
thing near an approximate idea of the
monetary loss It is safe to assume
that one half of the property of the
city is wiped out and that one half of
the residents have to face absolute pov
erty
RUIN AT TEXAS CITY
At Texas City three of the residents
were drowned Onp man stepped into
a well by a mischance and his corpse
was found there Two other men ven
tured -along the bay front during the
height of the storm and were killed
There are but six buildings at Texas
City that do not tell the story of the
storm The hotel is a complete ruin
The office of the Texas City company
has some of the walls standing with all
the upper walls stripped off Nothing
remains of the piers except the piling
The wreckage from Galveston litters
the shore for miles and is a hundred
yards or more wide
For ten miles inland from the shore
it is a common sight to see small craft
sur h as steam launches schooners and
oyster sloops The life boat of the life-
saving station was carried half a mile
inland while a vessel that was an
chored in Moses bayou lies highland dry
five miles up from Lamarque
COUPLE OF PROCLAMATIONS
Americans and the Filipinos Both
Make Declaration
Washington D C Special The
postmaster general has received from
F W Vaille director general of posts
in the Philippines copies of two un
dated proclamations one by the Amer
ican peace commissioners and the other
by the insurgents issued presumably
just before the last mail left the isl
ands for the United States
The American proclamation was of a
pacfiq character but warned the na
tives that they had nothing to expect
from continued opposition to the Amer
ican occupation It promised free trans
portation home to all insurgents who
surrendered their arms and directed
the confiscation of all money and hemp
belonging to the insurgent government
The natives were notified that the
American soldiers were expected to pay
for everything they obtained from th
Filipinos in the way of food and sup
plies and requested the natives to re
port any case of looting or extortion
to the nearest military commander
The Filipino proclamation issued in
reply to this announced that for a per
iod of ten days amnesty would be ex
tended to all Filipino spies in the em
ploy of the American forces If they
presented themselves to the insurgent
Lmilitary or civil authorities A single
exception was made in the case of one
Marcello Ablnsay who was denounced
ps an outlaw beyond the pale and a
reward was offered for his apprehen
sion dead or alive while the death
penalty was pronounced against any
one found in his company at the time
of his capture The proclamation fur
ther declared that all the threats of the
Americans of pursuing the insurgents
to the hills were idle as the Americans
were short of food and ammunition
and had received ntf reinforcements for
many months
FLOUR MILL TRUST IN COURT
Milwaukee Wis Special The Cen
tral Trust company of New York this
afternoon instituted foreclosure pro
ceedings against all the property of the
United States Flour Milling company
known as the flour trust The bill
asks that all property be sold the
company having failed to make the firs
navment of interest under a morteagt
cf the ated 2 199 issue to cover t
Dr S O Toung secretary -May
the city into a raging sea The weather cotton exchange was knocked 1 bond issue of lo000000
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THE SULU AGREEMENT
Following is the agreement entered
into between John C Bates and the
sultan of Sulu and approved by Mr
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KEEP THIS IN MIND
First this agreement provides that
thexsovereignty at the United States is
extended over the Sulu islands
Then it is provided that the United
States flag shall be the official em
blem
Then it is provided that any slave
shall have the right to purchase his
freedom
The thirteenth amendment to the
constitution provides that neither
slavery nor Involuntary servitude
shall exist within the United States or
any place subject to their jurisdiction
Notice now that William McKinley
approved an agreement whereby the
Sulu islands were made subject to
United States jurisdiction and at the
same time purchase was designated as
the method whereby slaves were to ob
tain their freedom
Here is the Sulu agreement in full
Article I The sovereignty of the
United States over the whole archipela
go of Sulu and its dependencies Is de-
clared and acknowledged
Article II The Uuited Stales flag
will be used in the archipelago of Sulu
and its dependencies on land and sea
Article III The rightsand dignities
of his higness the sultan and his
flatos shall be fully respected and Mo
ros shall not be interfered with on ac
count of their religion all their relig
ious customs shall be respected and no
one shall be persecuted on account of
his religion
Article IV While the United States
may occupy and control such points in
the archipelago of Sulu as public inter
est seem to demard encroachment will
not be made upon the lands Immediate
ly about the residence of his highness
the sultan unless military necessity re
quires such occupation in case of war
with a foreign power and where the
property of Individuals is taken due
sompensation will be made in each case
Any person can purchase land in the
archipelago of Sulu and hold the same
by obtaining the consent of the sultan
and coming to a satisfactory agree
ment with the owner of the land and
such purchase shall be Immediately reg
istered in thie proper office of the
United States government
Article V All trade In the domestic
products of the- archipelago of Sulu
when carrie don by the sultan and his
people with any part of the Philippine
Islands and when conducted under the
American flag shall be free unlimited
and undutiable
Article VI The sultan of Sulu shall
be allowed to communicate direct with
the governor general of the Philippine
Islands in making complaint against the
commanding officer of Sulu or against
any naval commander
Article VII The introduction of fire
arms and war materials is forbidden
except under specific authority of the
governor general of the Philippines
Article VIII Piracy must be sup
pressed and the sultan and his datos
agree to heartily co operate with the
United States authorities to that end
and to make every possible effort to ar
rest and bring to justice all persons en
gaged In piracy
Article IX Where crimes are com
mitted by Moros against Moros the
government of the sultan will bring to
trial and punishment the criminals and
offenders who will be delivered to the
government of the sultan by the United
States authorities if in their possession
In all other cases persons pharged with
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the United States authorities for trial
and punishment
Article X Any slave in the archipel
ago of Sulu shall have the right to
purchase freedom by paying to the
master the usual market value
Article XI At present Americans or
foreigners wishing to go intothe coun
try should state their wishes to the
Moro authorities and ask for an escort
but it is hoped this will become unnec
essary as we know each other better
Article XII The United States will
give full protection to the sultan and
his subjects in case any foreign nation
should attempt to impose upon them
Article XIII The United States will
not sell the island of Sulu or any other
Island of the Sulu archipelago to any
foreign nation without the consent of
the sultan of Sulu
Article XIV The United States gov
ernment will pay the following monthly
salaries
To the sultan 250
To Dato Rajah Muda 75
To Dato Attik 60
To Dato Calbe 75
To Dato Joakanian 75
To Dato Puyo - 60
To Dato Amir Haissln 60
To Hadji Buter 60
To Hablb Mura 40
To Serif Saguin f v 15
Signed in triplicate in English and
Sulu at Jolo this 20th day of August
A O 1899 13th Arakull 1397
THE SULTAN SULU
DATO RAJAH
DATO ATTIK
DATO CALEE
DATO JOAKANIAN
Signed J C BATES Brigadier eGn
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Approved by the president
WILLIAM MKINLEY
UNCLE SAMS SLAVES AND
WHERE THEY COME FROM
On June 24 1900 a number of repub
lican newspapers throughout the coun
try printed an interesting letter from
Frank G Carperiter the well known
correspondent This article was enti
tled Uncle Sams Slaves and Where
They Come From
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crimes or offense will be delivered to
knees The girl was half naked her
only garment being a wide strip of dir
ty cotton cloth wrapped about her
waist and fastened there in a knot I
had a photograph made with myself
standing beside her and she reached tc
my shoulder As I stood thus the slave
owner evidently thought I wanted the
girl and said Mucho bueno or very
good and told me that If I bought her
only she would have to charge me more
In proportion than she asked for the
job lot She said the little girl should
be worth at least 15 and seemed sur
prised when I did not jump at the bar
gain
I asked her where the slaves came
from She replied that they had been
brought in from the mountains having
been captured by one of the savage
tribes in a recent war with its neigh
bors
Then Mr Carpenter shows the wide
latitude which slave owners have with
Uncle Sams slaves of 1900 He says
Had I bought them I am told I
would have had according to the cus
tom which prevails in the country about
here power of life and death over
them and that I could have killed them
without risk- of a criminal Investiga
tion
To show the extent of slavery under
the stars and stripes in the Sulus Mr
Carpenter says
Slavery is common among the people
of Mindanao and the Sulu archipelago
and I am led to believe that there is a
form of debt slavery in some of the
islands further north Here in Min
danao there are not only debt slaves
but slaves by birth and by conquest I
have been told at every place I have
stopped that slavery Is common and
that women especially are bought and
sold All of the Moro datos have nu
merous1 slaves and the richer of their
subjects have as many as they can sup
port x
The Visayans of this island at least
have slaves although it Is nominally
against the Spanish law Still human
beings are bought and sold and even
the officials have been accustomed to
own them I met this afternoon the
ex president of the town of Davao He
is a rich Visayan who has a large farm
not far from here He owns a number
of farms not far from here He owns a
number of slaves and keeps several in
his family for servants I have been
told that the Christians seldom sell
Does not this have an odd sound to slaves although they buy them and
people who have been told that slavery
could not exist under the stars and
stripes
Mr Carpenter writes t from the Sulu
islands and says he was offered four
slaves for fifty gold dollars This is
considerably cheaper than the market
price as fixed by Mr McKinley at
which the slaves may purchase their
freedom
Mr Carpenter says According to
our treaty as I understand it any
slave in the island ruled by the sultan
of Sulu can be freed upon payment ot
20 by him to his master
According to the rates fixed by Mr
McKinley these four slaves would have
been required to pay 80 for their free
dom but Mr Carpenter could purchase
them with a 530 discount
Concerning his opportunity Mr Car
penter says
They were owned by a woman who
claims she is a Christian and not by
Lone of the Mohammedan Moros I went
into the woman sjrhouse and chatter
with her for some time about the
human fleh on sale and later on per
suaded her to bring the slaves out in
the yard that I might make a photo
graph of them Three of them were
boys ranging in age from 16 to G The
other was a girl of 12 the age at which
girls are sometimes married down herf
on the edge of the equator The small
est boy had nothing on but a shirt
that it is common for a man to pur
chase children to bring them up for
work about the house
Mr Carpenter also deals with an
other vice He says
The question of polygamy is a more
serious noe This is connected withthe
Mohammedan religion and of the Unit
ed States attempts to abolish it we
shall have a war on our hands which
will probably last uritil the Moro pop
ulation is wiped out
Republican party leaders frequently
boast that the McKinley administration
is a business administration Is it
business for the American people to
hoist their flag and assert their sov
ereignty where slavery must be toler
ated among Christians as well as
among Mohammedans t nd where polyg
amy must not be disturbed for fear of
war The American people will not
forget that it was William McKinley
who signed an agreement wherein pur
chase was made the method of eman
cipation and wherein JS20 per head was
fixed as the price of human freedom
The situation described by Carpenter
will bring the blush of shame to many
American citizens
Holders of confederate bonds in Eng
land have held a meeting and expressed
reat faith in the early redemption of
the bonds based on the well known
honesty of the American people Very
nattering indeed but the great
the other twt wore only coarse an people are not in the -habit of re
loons extending frdiri the waist to the imbursing purchasers of gold bricks
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