The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 13, 1900, Page 1

Tall, This Paper not to be taken from the Library.**** RANCISCO, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1900. PRICE FIVE CENTS TEN THOUSAND SAID TO HAVE PERISHED IN THE ERRIBLE TEXAS DISAS All Attempts to Bury the Dead | Abandoned and Safety of the Living Now the Par- amount Question. pt. 1 via Houston, midnight.— been utterl) ng disposed of in the m., he dead have s est 1 e Scores of them were buried to-day, A syt to sea and thrown overboard. The sa s now the mount question, and nothing that r revent k of pestilence is being neg- t g it was found t arge numbers of bodies L reviously thrown into the bay washed back ation was thus rendered worse than in the barges and thrown into the L their | never be es in this awful will now t of Galveston Y00 and oth hich as 10,600. as inks that the dead will rs whose opportunities for judging ire lecss than those of the Mayor place the number known how many have lost catastrophe. Mayor Jones amount to 00 mbers n arge the people of Galveston the) themselves e of the relief expeditions have of the f sent from Beaumont, 51 ¢ ) consume 10 per cent uted t as POS- and The Provisic they have been, unable to g the attention of effort it is feared that a number afford them the aid 1 Galveston who is relief with all despite their utmost increase of the miser- Water can be obtained Dr. elief work, sz culty Shaw of id to-night 's Infirmary without water and using that *TWO CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATES PLACE LOSS OF LIFE AT 2000 e s Sept. 12.—Governor Sayers to-day made the following state Associated Press correspondent on the G on flood sftua- Galvestor estim fons ments here } tugs from C ght with the p would cause to n consisting of abs to all points north “GALVESTON. Tex., Sept. 12 xty-five men and o tive estimate made of deaths ts which would indicate for several hundred miles, and don fering will be largely augmented. Down’ the coast from ( son was laid waste and five people killed. The town of A and Brookshire are wrecked and hundreds are dest demolished that it will require weeks to clear the town. i Stafford, just opposite, were t these places have no hom ¥, is reported wrecked, report has been made to that effect. 8 land, El Campo st ers cannot proximated at ¥ 4 »ooe - companies have suffered an im: pplies w Galveston to-day directed me to take reventing thieving. Work of c ernor Sayers to-day began receiving reports from various poi Selleville, Wharton, Fairview, Missour! City, are also reported heavy sufferers, both in point of property destroyed is 1 and the mainland, however be less difficult Adj a8 to the number of d. 1d also from other States are expected that within ple of Galveston will have begun in good Of course the destruction of property has but it is hoped and believed that even rough the energy and self-rellance of the have fairly deluged the Governor, more Among the large contributors are to be noted $10,000, the St. Lo Commercial Club for erests for $5000. ers received the following officlal report from ]—frrm_v‘fi'a! and Great Northern Railway. He relief corps at ( eston. s containing the tents and ra ng and forwarded to Galveston 1ght to be handied by passengers by our line t This is the arrangemen at ¢ he he freight or the passenger servien fo assengers to Texas City the trapsfer from 0 much delay to the passenger service. We 300 Galveston people to-day and will get women and children, which will make The passenger and freight all free for sufferers and we are is - of Houston to all sufferers not able to pay fons were arrange- ges hauled by o Texas City and by best £ report was also received from Adjutant General Scurry: Mayor of Houston ordered . Houston milit officers came; thirty more come command. Streets patrolled for the Ting the city progressing well. Most 2000.” nts along y damage Galveston fatallties and suf- ialveston the town of Ivin, Alta Loma, ftute. Richmond Misso entirely demolished and the few people ru. es to cover their heads. Bay City, 1 P Y » In o with much loss of life, though rio f.mrfx:l Patton, Rollover, Bolivar Point, Quintana, Sartartla, Arcola and that there has been great prope: that the list of i the fact that telegraph service is still badly crippled, Governor Say. iscertain the exact number of dead at the polnts named, but it is ape ports reaching the Governor show that the railroads, telegraph and tele- mense loss by the storm. The Goyernor was ffiformed to-day that quite a number of tugs from New Orleans and other flable points had either arrived or the transportation problem would sland to the mainiand was concerned. Hundreds applied again to-day to veston, but he refused all, saying that and in case of emergency the local managers of the relief corps were better to act on their discretion than if dictated to by him. were en route to Galveston, and by Satyr. be solved so far as getting people from the Governor Sayers for permits to B0 to Gal- there were already too many people thers, able [§ == TMMARY WITH BODI WAY OF LOOTERS DEALING OF DEAD RS e e e e e e g CAPTAIN CLARKE SAYS DEAD WILL NUMBER 10,000 OUSTON, Sept. 12.—As indicated in dispatches from here, the magni- tude of the calamity grows. In their effort to guard against R T wn .000000’0‘V‘000004?000000090‘00000000’090’0000 extravagance or exaggera- tion, the newspaper men havk fallen below the facts in plac- ing the death list at about one thousand. A boatowner of Galveston, Captain Charles Clarke, has been quoted by a reliable man as saying that 10,000 would be reached be- fors the mortuary list of Gal- vestor ty would be close! He has been about in boats in the waters around Galveston day and night since the storm and bases his state- ment on what he thus has seen. and v G444+ 4444444224420 04 4444444444444 4 4444944449490 R e S s TRICKEN CITY ‘ PATROLLED BY TWOQ k | | ; THOUSAND MEN l A LVESTON ot. 12, 2 m., via | y and Houston, p. m € s announced that | General Scurry would | e of the ation with itz Tie lvh; and J m H itary Haw- force ial deputics mand of t rty and stecting the in ring the urt Sfataciet ] i ssued to the soldiers an v person caught in the act | negro vands iscovered and had paid the penalty of their res with thefr lives. They were | shot ¢ and their bedies were carted | away 1 dead vietims of the storms | No liquor s permitted to be . under | any circumstances unless ordered by the chairman of one of the committees or by a physician, who must state it is to be used for medical purposes. All persons not having business on the streets after dark must be identified. Unless identification iz forthcoming they are arrested. No person is allowed to work in or ‘about any build- | ing unless he has a written permit from the police. No person is permitted to car- | ry furniture or other property through tha | streets unless he has a written permit from the proper anthorities. The Police Department has issued strict orders, which will be enforced to the let- ter, to clear the city of all the outside sporting element. No gambling is permit- ((l”).m'inz the storm Saturday night young men of the Boddicker family the aid of a skiff, rescued over fort ple and tock them to the u ing, where they found wind and wav People tell of getting out of their houses just in the nick of time. They tell of see- ing people struck by flying timbers and crushed to death before their eyes. One man was cut off from his family just as he thought he had them rescued, and suw | them sink beneath the water on the other side of & barrler. He turned in and helped to rescue others who were in peril, One woman carried her five months old babe in her arms from her house, only to see a beam strike the child on the head, Kkilling it instantly. She herself suffered a broken leg and bruised body. Eighteen people were caught in the Grothger grocery store and it is presumed all were lost, as many have been reported dead who were known to have been in the bullding, which was swept away entirely. The firemen buried eight people south of Avenue O to-day. The graves were marked with pieces of garments worn by the persons. Will Love, a printer on the Houston Post, who formerly hived in Houston, swam the bay Monfay to reach his family, whom he found to be | | | the with ¥ peo- sity bulld- shelter from the | sought | load ke carried in | erazed with fright, wa | I e 2 Hundreds of Names Added to the Roll of Unfortunates Who Lost Their Lives in the Galveston Horror. ALVESTON, Tex., Sept. 11 (via MRS, NATHAN MOOR Houston, Sept. 12).—The following{ MRS. SAM ANDERSC names are added to the death list: MRS. MARY SCULL. MRS, SWIGEL and two daughters. MRS, WILLIAMS MRS. CHAFFEE and child, MRS. THURMAN. MARY P! SON. J. R. BROOKS, ALICE PIERSON. | VIRGIE LEMMON N SON. MRS. BLAND FRANK PIERSON MRS. FLORENCE and MRS. NELSON and daughter. MRS, JOHNSON. FRIEDMAN, wife and sor. and MRS. DEMPSEY. MARIS LEWIS, eolored. MATTIE ANDERSON. MRS MRS. ANDERSON. READER famil HOFFMAN famil; MR. and MRS. GEORGE FALKENHAGEN. MRS. H. CLEM KUHN and two children WILLIE DAY. MRS JAMES HOLLAND. MR. and MRS. H. LOCKMAN. SAM WILLIAMS, colored MRS. NATHAN MOORE. DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD AT GALVESTON. to pler on the railroad bridge and at each he rested [ In the Bolivar Lighthouse, which stands 130 feet high on Bolivar Point, across the | 1y from Galveston. about 150 peopl refuge from the storm Saturdas vere unfortun: )t by the of Iv shore in frautic ef- ton and therr fam- ful night nigh 0on exhat {o secure in buck: evening. homes and had come forts o r ilies. The the lie es w hurrie; n who pended at the the® light experiment was a success in a way, but | it demonstrated a remarkable incident of the force of the wind. The bucket soon filled with water. but it and could not be used. The @ spray was shot skyward over 120 feet and | mingled he raln water that fell i | the buckets. From the top of the If tower several of the more venturesome storm sufferers viewed the d tive work of the wind c na Twelve dead bodfes were overed near t lighthous Mr. Mutii. lo: afte »f uncommon herof Whe up the city he hitet and started out Cartload after afety to a fire company oceasions the cartload of | some half dead, others | carried for blocks | on rescue hi neighb house. ( human ) three br by the raging currents, but he landed all of them -ven to his last iead, when he met th. As he attempted to | into the building on his last trip the rehouse succumbed to the wind and col lapsed. of the wreckage str Mutti ar as mortally Injured. The official of the United States | Weather Buré fve some valuable in- formation about the storm. Unfortunately the recording fnstruments were destroyed | or crippled beyond operation about 5:10 a'clack € evening. The wind gauge recorded a two-minute blow at the rate of 100 miles an hour and was then demdl- ished by the hurricane, which continued to increase in violerce, While the exact veleeity of the wina was not recorded after the destruction of the Instruments, the Weather Bureau re- ports estimaté the maximum velocity at between 110 and 12) miles an hour. It diq not maintain this terrific rate for any | length of time—perhaps for half a min- ute—but it was sufficient to wreck an thing that met the full force of the storm. | A journal of the local office of the | ‘Weather Bureau contains a report of an apparent tidal wave of four feet which swept in from the gulf between the hours of 7 and § p. m. At that time the wind veered to the. southeast.and there was a tide of fiva feet and a terrible swell in the gulf during the storm, and before the tidal wave of four feet rose this wall of | 3 : | offenders. | elght !'a large appropriation water increased the force sea that washed over the city Mayor Jones said this after: mated the loss of life in a veston-at 5000. around Gal- NEGRO GHOULS ARE SHOT WHILE ROBBING BODIES orgie over The majo negroes, of these m but whites took part the desecration of the dead. them were natives and some h lowed to go over from thie mairn in the guise of “relief” worke Not oniy did they rob the dead. but they mutilated bodies in order to secure their ghoulish ty. A party of ten negroes were re- turning from a looting expedition. They had strivped corpses Jf all valuables and pockets of some of the looters wera ging out with fingers of the dead the fairly bul, which had been cut off because they wera <o swollen the rings could not be moved. Incepsed at this desecration and mutila- tion of the dead the looters v down, and it has been dete found robbing the dead shall be summar- ily dealt with. In robbing the dead ear were also stripped from the head in order to get the jewelry. A few Government troops who survived and private citizers | have been patrolling the' city and have endeavored to prevent the robbing of the dead and on several occasions have killed It is said that at one time were killed and at another time four. Altogether the total of those thus executed exceeds fifty. Twelve negroes were shot by order o a court-martial. Their pockets were found to be full of human fingers and jewelry .of which the dead were stripped. DALLAS, Tex., Sept. 12—W. H. Me- Grath, manager of the Dallas Electric Company. reacted Dallas to-day direct from Galveston last night. He sai (Vandalism at Galveston has been hor- rible. The most rigid enforcement of martial law has not been able to suppress it entirely Adjutant General Scurry's men have arrested a hundred or - more & Forty-three of thes. found | groes. 3 with effects taken from dead bodies, were ordered tried by court-martial. They were convicted and ordered shot. One negro had twenty-three fingers with rings on them in his pocket. WOULD CALL LEGISLATURE. Specfa! Disnatch to The Call GALVESTON, Tex.. Judge W. H. Stewart has telegraphed Governor Sayers, asking him to convene the Legislature in specia] session to make for the relief of Sept. 12.—D'strict | FEITHER. SHART, J. JOHNSTON and two children. JOHN HOL and MRS. CHARLES LAWSON and HENRY ZEIDENSTRICKER MR. and MRS. WILLIAM ROEHM and six ch CHARLE CHARLES C. O'DEC MRS. H. DUNNING and three childrcn AL D LUDWIG, mother and sister-in-iaw. RICHARD DUNN MRS, HI SCHULTE. SR nd wite. SR. S father and mother. two daughters. 1 family. JACK ARDSON and nine children. HOLMES. colored, school teacher. RY DIREK 4 family. 'f F1 L family ADALAIDE ULRIGE, colored. JOR TR ANT. M ) . WILLIAMS, PROFESSOR W E IXALIS W. R. JONES and child. JULIA LABATT. ed JOSEPH LABATT. H Y J. LABATT. ™M LUCY GRE A SCHOFIELD. MARIA L MRS, WAS GRANDMA Wright Cuney. AGNES LEW GTON CUNEY, mother of the late GEORGE ALPIN and wife. FRED DAY. ANNIE SCOTT. BEN FORD. PROFESSOR GIBSON and family MRS. ELLA PINER. EFFIE HARRIS EDITH RANDOLPH. MRS. KI CELIA WARR MR. and MRS. GABE LEWIS. ALEXANDER BELL, wife, one daughter. MR, and MRS. WEBBER. grandmother and sister. POWERS and child. S. AUGUST FRANK and daughter. ANK SHAW. two sons and WILLIAM LYL MRS, and two daughters. BERGER. M YEAGER. CHARLES SCHULZ. FRED SCHULZ and wife. MR. and MRS. AUGUST JEFFER BROOK GEORGE AGIN. Galveston. | MRS, SMITH and baby. B e e e e e e e e ) MONEY NEEDED TO FEED AND CLOTHE 25,000 PEOPLE % | mittee. ALVESTON, Sept. 12—To the Assoclated Press: “We are recelving numerous telegrams of condolences and offers of assistance. ' As the telegraph wires are burdened, we beg the A Nearby citles are supplying and will supply sufficient food, clothin away can serve us best by sending money. Checks should be made payable to John Sealey, chairman of the finance committee. All supplies should come to W. A. MeVittie, ple to clothe and feed for many weeks and to furnish with household goods others will require. money to make their wrecked houses habitable. money we need. This committee will from time to time report our needs with more particularity. We refer to dis- patches of this date of R. G. Lowe, which the committee fully indorse. All communicants will please accept this in lieu of direct response, and be assured of the heartfelt gratitude of the entire population. W. C. JONES (Mayor), M. LASKER, J. D. SKINNER, C. H. McMASTER, R. G. LOWE, CLARENCE OWSLEY, Com- clated Press to communicate thi€ response to 8, etc., for immediate needs. Citles further chairman of the relief committee. We have 25,000 peo- Most of these are From this the world may understand how much homeless and ~the alive in Galveston. He swam from pier | @-ieidfeieboobob dobbffofodod ottt fofefodefofodfufodedeteoioitoio @i tofofufuiomlfofe dofeimfrefeiofos oo e seven children HEN DAVIS SR FLO! E HOME! | Mms ar MRS, olore | MRS TRosTMAN IDA 4@ CORA PAT C. CUNEY. MRS. W. T K MRS, J. SCHUT HERMAN TIX DORFFE and two daughters CARTER and family HERMAN MARTIN and part HARRY FREITAG MRS. KUHNEL and two | FRITZ WEISEMANN. TOM TORR MR. and MRS. TORY ADAMS | MRS. ALEXANDER ALLEN | {Phegp s | Te¥ cLARk, | MRS. THOMAS CALHOUN | aren MRS. WARI PERRY JASTE ROBERT McPHEF GEORGE A E SR. GEORGE ASHE JR. MRS. ANNIE DUNTON. | W. DAMMELL and wife, colored, school prin | cipal. ED M. DADE. colored MRS. GOTTLIEB and family. faughters ~alorad and five chil and thres chil JOHN RC HERMA BEL, wife and five c VAN BUREN and three R. SCHUTTE. wife and two ch ASSISTAN CITY EL MRS. PETER HUMBERG and five chil PROFESSOR RUEHRMOND, wife and children. CHARLOTTE GENTRY, colored ADA and HATTIE ROWE, colored. GEORGE ROWE. colored REV. and MRS. THOMAS W. CAIN JOHN McGUIRE | MRS. CHARLES ROUKES. OTTO REUTER HENRY REUTER MRS. ANNIE CASEY. MR and MRS. TURNER. HENRY BELL. colored ARTHUR P. MORSE; wife and three ohil dren. Mr. Morse was a printer on the Tribune. | BUCK LLOYD, orinter, and wite. | ALBERT LUDWIG. orinter. WILL RICE, proofreader Galveston News, wife and child. § JOHN CHRISTIAN. —_— | ALVESTON, Tex., Sept. 12, 2 p. m (via Texas City and Houston § | committee held this morning re | ports were received from the various wards. The chajrman called for armed dead and clear the wreckage, and arrange | ments were made to supply t mand The situation in the eity to-day is that service, but an insufficiency of arms. | There have been two or three small riots, | but the officers have managed to quell sition of trying to pay for work, letting | the laborers secure their own ratio It | was decided to go ahead impressing men | for rations only to those who worke: were unable to work. All of the w | chatrmen reported the imperative need of | | *‘ INTO SERVICE | | | p. m.).—At a meeting of the relief | men to assist in geiting labor to bury the | there are plenty of volunteers for this them. The committee rejected the propo- | into service, if necessary, issuing orders disinfectants. A committee was appointed { to sequester all the disinfectants in the city. including lime which escaped wetting, and to secure more. Houston was called upon for a bargeload of lime. ‘The relief committee was greatly encour- | aged by the offer of the White Screwmen's Association tendering the services of its 500 members. They were placed at the | disposal of the various ward chalrmen and foremen appointed for each division. Mr. Van Vleck, manager of the South- | ern Pacific Railroad. authorized the com- | mittee to draw on the company for $5000, Mr. Van Vleck returned to Houston to send a bargeload of supplies. The Gal- | veston, Houston and Henderson Rallroad | is operating relief trains over its line to | Texas City Junction and thence over the | Texas City Terminal to or nearly to | Texas City. | SOLDIERS TO KEEP OUT | IDLERS FH_O_M GALVESTON | HOUSTON, Tex., Sept. 12.—Refugees continue to reach Texas City Junction from Virginia Point, all telling harrowing storles which vary only in detall. The | situation appears worse as time pro- | gresses. What Is most needed is means of transportation across the bay to bring out the homeless and destitute. With regard to resumption of direct rafl communication with the island no one can tell when it will take place. The Santa Fe, the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, the International and Great Northern and the Galveston, Houston and Henderson have decided to construct a temporary bridge for joint use, and the Southern PaciZo, may eventually join in the enterprise. Militia detachments have been _sta- tioned at Texas City and Virgina Point to prevent the passage of persons who have no business in Galveston. Eighty- three bodles had been buried at Texas City up to last night. All of these floated in from the island. Probably 200 bodies | have been recovered and buried at Vir- ginla Point. ——— FORTIFICATIONS ARE LOST BEYOND RECOVERY WASHINGTON., Sept. 12.—The Quarter- master’s Department has received the fol- lowing from Galveston: | Quartermaster General. Washington: Reter- | ring to my telegrams of Sth and 10th. T have, | Subject to approval, suspended Fort Crockett construction contracts and again urgently re- commend that the contractors be paid for la- bor and material in place and on ground, all Swept away and lost bevond recovery. Fortifi- cations at Crockett, Jacinto and Travis ail de- stroyed and cannot be rebdiit on present site. Recommend continuance & my office here only | long enough to recover Crockett office safes and morning gun, when located: also to close counts and ship my office and property where Airected. 1 fear Galveston is destroyed beyond its ability to recover. Loss of life and prop- apvallin ! % BAXTER, Quartermaster.