The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 16, 1900, Page 21

5 Ot++44+4440@ aqes? 030 ooo¢0¢0HQQQHOOMM Gttt + 4440 : z | Dottt 4444 @ e, a3 or= D 2 ) ; 3 ‘{Ul_l').']i LXXXVIII—=NO. 108. SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1900—FORTY PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. HEARTRENDING APPEALS FOR AID FROM MANY COUNTRY DISTRICTS OF THE DEVASTATED COAST In Inland Places Overshadowed by the Greater Disaster at Galveston the Distress Is Great, Especially at Plan- » tations That Were Recently Swept by Floods. Special Dispatch to The Call USTIN, Tex., Sept. 15.— appeals { coast section slow to reach these s calamity at Galveston 1 Governor, however, } the work and remote in counties of t rooke, Al a place at which the plantations e to be fed until they He crog section are in destitute condition s trom the fa om tl sed. Boats rted t 3 ere General its Fergu- ere sent States Gov- ws of the 1d. e ne worlc mmun- ntonio to S siness which attention. Before was solicited by the to return, and CXpCCtS ews which was printed morning in the shape of E nal telegram from Vice WEre receive within the next four or | . Many heartrending reports d from the count & as overshadowed all other distress. of organizing relief committees at the smaller Brazoria, Fort Bend and otl He to-day vin, start. Merdil lexas, arrived here to-day. be saved. and v districts of the devastated Help has beer here to-day. fiering people, owing to the fact that the The 1s the matter well in hand, and is directing towns sent a large amount of fed for the relief of the homeless and hungry Hitchcock, Richmond and Ros- dm cdlm‘v will be bought and these places destroyed. Many of the the Brazos River, floc vhich swept down months ago. This is them within less than two e. Many formerly wealthy plant- endent upon the charity of the peo- rd time all plantation build- try merchants have fared no The land remains, but it is 1 that no crop can be made until next year. usand negroes in the thickly settled “Black can be provided with 1, a well-known planter living He lost all of his s the cane crop is badly dam He reports that the negroes and badly in nee:!l of m are flocking into the towns with their fam- ion worse instead of improving it ic work should be given the negroes e plantations where they were c¢m- | portion of the city of slimy mud. nt Huntington of the] andon Galveston has 1se satisfaction and accelerated the Dr. Bl nted wing that apprehensions that ust exy He shows that in 1867} in | ist of the widespread cpl- c of yellow fever, a severe| storm occurred at Galveston the early days of October, result- ing in a deposit over a greater ill result from the over- | acific that that road | for the reconslruction‘ ant, State Health Offi-| a statement | ; -3} rerienced are unjus- | in| Not only but tl did no sickness result, 1e cyclonic disturbance cut short the y and but ellow fever epidemic, of fever oc- few cases curred thereafter. Several thousand men are at work clearing away the debris on the b A hundred and fifty bodies were recovered from the wreckage and burned yesterday. No attempt is now being made to identify recovered bodies. To-day most of them are found naked and mutilated beyond -} ach. recogni- tion, A New York relief train ar- rived last night with a number of hysicians and nurses and a large supply of provisions was distrib- uted to-day. Every effort is he~ ing made by the postal authori- ties to receive and distribute mail. No city delivery has yet been ar-| ranged letters ior, and all who expect ested to call at the are req postoffice. No mail is being col- lected from letter- In boxes. quarters of some the city | oefeegocfungontect - Whitaker of the Galveston. row up one of the streets. and brought them back to the ool el et would finally be made fast. to pull a boat against the fierce party was reluctantly compelle feloelrorfoelfode] the windows and skylights, th | i | to-day the water works company B e o o O o o e o e e 2 e e SAVED MANY LIVES DURING THE GALE was serving customers on the| second stories. This is taken as| indicating the rapid headway be- ing made in putting the plant again in operation. | The Bri sh Heroes on the Revenue Cutter Galveston Performed Noble Work of Rescue. Special Dispatch to The Call. ALL BUREAU, WELLINGTON HOTEL, WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.—Excellent work in saving lives during the hurricane was done by the officers and crew of the reve- nue cutter Galveston, which was stationed at that port. The first mail through from the stricken city reached Washington to-day and brought U 1 sheds on the wharves have been leveled to the ground, or nearly so. I think there is a house that has not been more or less damaged, or blown to the ground. While the wind was blowing over sixty miles an hour we sent out a boat with a rescuing party to The first trip they succeeded in saving thirteen women and children nder date of September g he says: vessel in safety. “It was useless to attempt to row the boat against the terrific wind, and as the water was at that time not over a man’s head in the street, a rope would be sent out to the nearest tele- graph pole and by that means a boat could be hauled along from pole to pole. This was ac- complished only by the most herculean efforts on the part of the men who led out the rope, but between swimming, walking and floundering along in the teeth of the gale the rope Then it was all that a crew of one officer and seven men could do By working all Saturday and evening and up to 1 o'clock Sunday morning the brave boys succeeded thirty-four men, women and children, whom they put in a place of safety and provided them with enough provisions for thei blasts of the hurricane. ir immediate wants. d to return to the vessel. “On board ship it was a period of intense anxiety for all hands. was only by superhuman efforts by officers and crew that we rode out the hurricane in safety. With the exception of the carrying away of the port forward rigging and the smashing of all e vessel sustained no serious injury. board was injured in any way.” EASTERN END OF GALVESTON, | THE PART OF THE CITY SHOWN IN THE ABOVE PICTURE, WHICH W [ THE SEALY HOSPITAL AND THE GALVESTON MEDICAL COLLEG AS TAKEN FROM THE HARBOR, CoTToN WHars | JAatveSTo BADLY DamMAGED ¢ ST MARYS INFIRMARY — IN THE PATH OF THE STORM. steamer Norma | .. 2 letter from Chief Engineer W. H. Finally on account of the creasing violence of the storm and the vast amount of wreckage in the streets, the rescuing o o] do not oot deelled At il oo afternoon in rescuing darkness, S R and the American steamer Alamo | have been floated. The British | steamer Roma is in a bad way on The British steam- Castle is hard aground | water at Texas Flt\' | Deer Island. | er Kendall ( in shallow is still a&hnre on thc east of Roll- {our grmt emergency to the + | —— |Loss of Life at Gal- veston Estimated | at 3000 to 8000, | but Will Never Be | Accurately Known. [ | |In the Latest Appeal for {| Aid the Statement Is | Made That Every | Home in the Stricken ‘ City Is Injured, While Thousands Have Been [ Destroyed. i BT | USTIN, Tex., Sep onuy EIGHT oF 1 TS ORE i Governor Sayers HUNDRED PATIERTS SAVED: the following offici | as to conditions in Galvestor | “Galveston, Tex., Sept. 14— 18 | | Hon. Joseph D Go \nor: After the fullest possible vestigation here we feel justified in saying to you and through you to the American people that no such disaster has ever. ove any community or sectio: | | history of our country. The I | | of life is appalling and can ne | | be accurately determined. It is ‘cstimaml at from 3000 to | | people. There is not a home | | Galveston that has not be jured, while thousands have been | | destroyed. The roperty loss — represents accumulations of years and more millions than can Under these ten and d be safely stated. conditions, with people homeless t | with the entire pflpt:‘flhw" under | stress and ”'rlm difficult to de- in the hour of Sym- var, but it is thought that she can | pathy and aid of mankind ) ease. H\e got off with coniparative | The British steamer Taun-| N ton is hard ashore at Cedar Point, but it is believed she, too, can be floated without -difficulty. The street car line company | suffered a loss of a quarter million, of and the entire system torn to pieces. 'PESTILENCE NOW THREATENS THE ALLAS, call for Those th guard duty cleaning sick from the ted au\.(h. STRICKEN CITY 15.—There is urgent esh troops at Galvesto e are worm out up the wreck or a Go is no concealment to be made fact *hat a pestilence is feared. Efforts. of the local and military authori- in- ties are directed e re T, | new da They are s & the wo- Press by R. W. King of Alvin men and children to the interior as fast 3 4 & All the able arrived in Alvin from Da i the able-bodied men must Dt srapds + re is work | gevastation on & = | work ", No one slept, and it 3 n of bodies | PET cent of the h & | continues to be one of the largest duties + | and besides this there are yet In the ¢ = | and on the island thou s of carcasse < | which need attention. The stagnant pools ibere gt | ScotnOaets s . 15 | exceedingly great suf Not a single person on I |and the decomposing bodies and carcas g Lo Toeh e it 3 * | are a threatening phase to life that n*akwA e ‘;“““J DeeG and muw : X |a man trem Thousands of barrels ot | ance. Need money to rebuild t - | lime can be used to good advantage. No|and buy stock and implemer g | exaggeration is made. A committee that | Reéd food, flour, bacon, cor WHERE THE STORM WROUGHT ITS WORST. WAS PRACTICALLY WIPED OUT. THE LARGE BUILDINGS ON THE LEFT ARE E, TWO OF THE MOST SUBSTANTIAL BUILDINGS IN THE PLACE, WHICH WERE ENTIRELY DESTROYED. LN An effort will be made to temporarily operate [Ilc | cars with lmr\e with ying the dead and A epm‘m\ (:‘Om Gal- WALTER JONES ayor. | R. B. HAWLEY, | Member of Congress Galve District. McKIBBEN, a | Commanding is | Texas. |@-ee will donate s here quickly w ton Dep -+ P00+ @Q Send an abundance nf Infectants A bulletin from Hitcheock says: “( try districts are The prairies aroun with the bodles of the d unburied, as the bodies a composed to handle and deep to permit of burial. feared from the decompc ter lying everywh rial is badly neede “The bodles of Ed | his children have be of the leading insu and well known throughout the United - DISTRESS AMONG THE PEOPLE OF SHALL TOWNS HOUSTON, n. re v They m able to do something for themsel soon. Clothing is badly needed. dreds of women and children are without a change and are already suffering. Some better idea may be had of the distress when it Is known that box cars are b improvised as houses and hay as bedd Only fourteen hpusks in the town of A vin are standing on their foundations and they are badly damaged. The nec e of the people must be met or great ing and starvation will follow. “It is believed that a generous put will qyickly respond when they dire distress among the people. the great sympathetic heart of this gra republic is responding so generou for the stricken city of Galveston be remembered also that the s towns—where the same condition of total wreck exists, though with smaller losses of life—need immediate help from a liberal people.’ TO EXAMINE FORTIFICATIONS. WASHINGTON, Sept. 15. to the restoration of th | | the harbor of Galve —~With a view fortifications in f such a thing | | 18 possible, Gener: son, chief of en- gineers, to-d: a board of en gineer offic: ert M. Hen Major Henry tationed at New Orleans; arles D. Riche, sta tionad at Galv Captain Edgar Jadwin, stationed at York, to meet at Galveston at the call of the senior officer about October 20. The board is instructed to make a careful and critical examination of the jettles and fortifica- tions of Galveston and to report to the chief of engineers what action i3 neces- sary for the repair and restoration of the < | tortifications and harbor works.