{"1": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u00a2liliiiililininiiiffiii;\\nni\u00c2\u00ab", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "CI^\\nClass i^_\\nBook lGk\u00c2\u00b1a1^\\nGopyiight W!_ _\\nCCE^tRIGHT OEPOSm", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "Tlie Complete Story\\nOF THE\\nGalveston Horror\\nWritten by the Survivors.\\nIncidents of the awful Tornado, Flood and Cyclone Disaster; Personal\\nExperiences of Survivors; Horrible Looting of Dead Bodies and\\ntlie Robbing of Empty Homes; Pestilence from so many Decaying\\nBodies Unbnried; Barge Captains Compelled by Armed Men to\\nTow Dead Bodies to Sea; Millions of Dollars raised to aid the\\nSuffering Survivors; President McKinley Orders Army Rations and\\nArmy Tents issued to Survivors and orders U. S. Troops to pro-\\ntect the People and Property; Tales of the Su^ vivors from Gal-\\nveston; Adrift all Night on Rafts; Acts of Valor; United States\\nSoldiers Drowned; Great Heroism; Great Vandalism; Great Hor-\\nror; A Second Johnstown Flood, but worse; Hundreds of Men,\\nWomen and Cliildrea Drowned; No way of Escape, only\\nDeath! Beatli! Everywhere!\\nEdited by\\nJohn Coulter,\\nFormerly of the N. Y. Herald.\\nFully Illustrated with Photographs.\\nUNITED PUBLISHERS OF AMERICA.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "CCT 11 1900\\nCcipyncht Aotry\\nH.S^. KbMr\\nsav N! COPY.\\nOlffOtH D Vil ION,\\nOCT 15 1 900\\nCopyright, 1900, by E. E. Sprague.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "PREFACE.\\nIN presenting to the people of this country and the world\\na chronicle of the frightful visitation of hurricane and\\nflood upon the beautiful and enterprising City of Galves-\\nton, which unparalleled calamity occurred on September\\n8, 1900, the Publishers wish, to say that the utmost care\\nhas been taken to make the record of the catastrophe\\ncomplete in every particular.\\nNo expense has been spared to obtain the facts; the\\nillustrations contained in the work are from photographs\\ntaken by artists on the spot; the experiences of survivors\\nwere obtained from the victims themselves, their lan-\\nguage being faithfully reported, while what they wrote\\nis reproduced without a single change being made.\\nThe situation in the stricken City of Galveston is por-\\ntrayed day by day exactly as it existed, and is not the\\nproduct of imaginings of writers who put down what the\\nconditions should have been; the storm has been followed\\nfrom its inception, just south of the island of San Do-\\nmingo, to Galveston, through Texas and then along its\\ncourse until it disappeared in the broad Atlantic off the\\nEastern coast; the horrors of the gale, the cruel killing\\nof thousands by the winds and waters, the wrecking of\\nthousands of buildings and the drowning of helpless men,\\nwomen and children, are all given in graphic and pictur-\\nesque language.\\nThe fearful mutilation of the dead by the ghouls and\\nvandals who afterward despoiled the corpses of their\\nvaluables and the swift vengeance which followed these\\nunutterable crimes when the troops shot the vampires\\nand harpies by the score, are told in the most vivid way;", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "PREFACE.\\nthe disposal of the dead by casting their bodies into the\\nsea, burying them hastily in the sands along the beach or\\ncremating them by burning upon vast funeral pyres\\nerected in the principal streets of the city are painted in\\nthe ghastly colors of truth; the wave of insanity which\\nswept over the city and claimed hundreds who had es-\\ncaped the perils of the deluge and the hurricane is set\\nforth most graphically.\\nWhat caused the mighty elemental disturbance, the\\npossibilities of its recurrence and the danger which con-\\nstantly hangs over other seacoast cities are given in de-\\ntail the pestilential conditions set up in Galveston by the\\ncatastrophe, the panic-stricken people flying from the\\nscene of death and desolation, the horrible spectacle of\\nhundreds of dead bodies floating in Galveston bay and the\\nGulf of Mexico, the generous response of the people of\\nthe United States to the appeal for help these are pic-\\ntured with minuteness.\\nNothing is wanting to make this work reliable and\\ncorrect; it contains a full list of the identified dead, which\\nis a feature no other publication has been able to do; in\\nshort, it is the story, well and accurately told, of a dis-\\naster which has not its like since the world began.\\nThe Publishers are confident this volume will meet the\\napproval of the country.\\nTHE PUBLISHERS.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "TABLE OF CONTENTS.\\nPreface 4\\nCHAPTER I.\\nWest Indian Hurricane Descends Upon Galveston, Causing\\nImmense Losses of Life and Property Catastrophe Unpar-\\nalleled in the History of the World A Night of Horrors and\\nSuffering 33\\nCHAPTER II.\\nSad Scenes in All Parts of the Ruined City Corpses Everywhere\\nA Sombre, Solemn Sunday People Apathetic, Dejected and\\nHeartbroken 51\\nCHAPTER III.\\nCrowds of Refugees at Houston Fed and Housed in Tents Regu-\\nlar Soldiers Drowned Government Property Lost Fears for\\nGalveston s Future 64\\nCHAPTER rV.\\nThrilling Experiences of People During the Great Storm Eighty-\\nfive Persons Perish by Being Blown from a Train Adventures\\nof Survivors at Galveston 89\\nCHAPTER V.\\nRelief Sent from All Parts of the World as Soon as the True Situa-\\ntion of Affairs Was Made Kuown Millions of Dollars Sub-\\nscribed and Thousands of Carloads of Supplies Forwarded to\\nthe Desolated City 117\\nCHAPTER VL\\nCremating Bodies by the Hundreds in the Streets of Galveston\\nNegroes Faint While Handling the Decayed Corpses How\\nSome of Those Rescued Escaped with Their Lives 133\\nCHAPTER VII.\\nLives Lost and Property Damage Sustained Outside of Galveston\\nOne Thousand Victims and Millions of Value in Crops Swept\\nAway Estimates Made 149\\nCHAPTER VIII.\\nBusiness Resumed at Galveston In a Small Way on the Sixth Day\\nAfter the Catastrophe Galveston Shall Rise Again How the\\nCity Looked on Saturday, One Week After the Flood 159\\nCHAPTER IX.\\nGalveston Nine Days After Great Changes Apparent Life in a\\nBusiness Exhibited Systematic Efforts to Obtain Names.\\nof the Dead 172\\nCHAPTER X.\\nMagnitude of the Relief Necessary Twenty Thousand Persons to\\nBe Clothed and Fed\u00e2\u0080\u0094 System of Relief Organization How the\\nStorm Effected Trade 180", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "TABLE OF CONTENTS.\\nCHAPTER XI.\\nInsanity Follows Frightful Sufferings of the Poor Victims Five\\nHundred Demented Ones Indifferent to the Loss of Relatives.. 188\\nCHAPTER XII.\\nSerious Danger from Fire Scarcity of Boats to Carry People to the\\nMain Land Laborers Imported into Galveston Untold Suffer-\\nings on Bolivar Island Experience of a Chicago Man 196\\nCHAPTER XIIL\\nTwo Women Tell How They Were Affected at Galveston One Ar-\\nrived After the Catastrophe, While the Other Was in the Storm\\nfrom Beginning to End 206\\nCHAPTER XIV.\\nTwenty Thousand People Fed Every Day at a Cost of $40,000\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Inci-\\ndents at the Relief Stations Applicants and Their Peculiarities\\nGreat Mortality Among the Negroes 216\\nCHAPTER XV.\\nTotal Dead and Missing at Galveston and Vicinity 8,661 Five\\nMillion Dollars in Relief Necessary to Carry the Survivors\\nThrough the Fall and Winter to Spring 246\\nCHAPTER XVI.\\nGalveston s Inhabitants Refuse to Heed the Lessons Taught by\\nTheir Experiences Carelessness in Failing to Provide Against\\nthe Recurrence of Catastrophes 261\\nCHAPTER XVII.\\nGalveston s Storm Flies Over the United States and Does Great\\nDamage Many Lives Lost It Finally Disappears in the At-\\nlantic Ocean 267\\nCHAPTER XVIII.\\nThe World Not So Heartless as Supposed People Give Generously\\nto Aid the Suffering A Social Phenomenon Value of the\\nUnited States Weather Bureau 271\\nCHAPTER XIX.\\nGalveston Island Directly in the Path of Storms, With No Way of\\nEscape What is the City s Future? All Coast Cities in Dan-\\nger New York Will Be Flooded Hurricane Foretold Galves-\\nton s Settlement\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Storm Will Recur 281\\nCHAPTER XX.\\nComparisons Between the Galveston and Johnstown Disasters\\nThe Latter Not So Horrible in Its Features Frightful Plight\\nof the Texas Victims 294\\nCHAPTER XXI.\\nGreat Calamities Caused by Flood and Gale During Past Century\\nMillions of Lives Lost Through the Fury of the Elements 299\\nCHAPTER XXH.\\nOverwhelming of Johnston, Pa., by the Waters from Conemaugh\\nLake One of the Most Peculiar Happenings in History Actual\\nNumber of Deaths Will Never Be Known About Twenty-five\\nHundred Bodies Found 321\\nCHAPTER XXIII.\\nNot More Than Half the Bodies of Victims Identified Hundreds of\\nCorpses of the Unknown and Nameless Cast Into the Sea\\nOthers Buried in the Sand and Cremated List of Identi-\\nfications 361", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "z\\no\\nh\\n00\\nW\\nO\\nh\\nw\\nP\\nX\\nh\\nU", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "VANDALS ROBBING THE DEAD", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "GATHERING THE KILLED AND INJURED AFTER THE STORM", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "DROWNING OF GALVESTON SUFFERERS BY THE TIDAL WAVE", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "FURY OF THE STORM AND DESPERATE PREDICAMENT OF\\nRESIDENTS", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "o\\nH\\nV)\\nZ\\no\\nh\\nCO\\nO\\nM\\no\\nO\\nQ\\nCO\\nQ", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "SURVIVORS, NEARLY STARVED, RANSACKING A GROCERY STORE\\nFOR FOOD", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "THE GALVESTON HORROR.\\nCHAPTER I.\\nWest Indian Htirricanc Descends Upon Galveston, Causing Immense\\nLosses of Life and Pro2)erty Catastrophe Unparalleled in the\\nHistory of the World A Night of Horrors and Suffering.\\nTHE frightful West Indian hurricane which descended\\nupon the beautiful, prosperous and progressive, but ill-\\nfated, city of Galveston, on Saturday, September 8, 1900,\\ncausing the loss of many thousands of lives and the\\ndestruction of millions of dollars worth of property, and\\nthen ravaged Central and Western Texas, killing several\\nhundred people and inflicting damage which cost mil-\\nlions to repair, has had no parallel in history.\\nWhen the gale approached the island upon which Gal-\\nveston it situated, it lashed the waves of the Gulf of Mex-\\nico into a tremendous fury, causing them to rise to all but\\nmountain height, and then it was that, combining their\\nforces, the wind and water pounced upon their prey.\\nIn the short space of four hours the entire site of the\\ncity was covered by angry waters, while the gale blew at\\nthe rate of one hundred miles an hour; business houses,\\npublic buildings, churches, residences, charitable institu-\\ntions, and all other structures gave way before the\\npressure of the wind and the fierce onslaught of the\\nraging flood, and those which did not crumble altogether\\nwere so injured, in the majority of cases, that they w^ere\\ntorn down.\\nSuch a night of horror as the unfortunate inhabitants\\nwere compelled to pass has fallen to the lot of few since\\nthe records of histoi^y were first opened. In the early\\nevening, when the water first began to invade Galveston\\nIsland, the people residing along the beach and near it\\n33", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "34 THE WEST INDIAN HURRICANE.\\nfled in fear from their homes and sought the highest\\npoints in the city as places of refuge, taking noth-\\ning but the smaller articles in their houses with them.\\nOn and on crawled the flood, until darkness had set in,\\nand then, as though possessed of a fiendish vindictive-\\nness, hastened its speed and poured over the surface of\\nthe town, completely submerging it covering the most\\nelevated ground to a dei)th of five feet and the lower por-\\ntions ten and twelve feet.\\nThe hurricane was equally malignant, if not more\\nfiendish and cruel, and tore great buildings and beautiful\\nhomes to pieces with evident delight, scattering the\\ndebris far and wide; telegraph and telephone lines were\\nthrown down, railvv^ay tracks and bridges the latter\\nconnecting the island and city with the mainland torn\\nup, and the mighty, tangled mass of Avires, bricks, sec-\\ntions of roofs, sidewalks, fences and other things hurled\\ninto the main thoroughfares and cross streets, rendering\\nit impossible for pedestrians to make their way along\\nfor many days after the waters and gale had subsided.\\nForty thousand people men, women and children\\ncowered in terror for eight long hours, the intense black-\\nness of the night, the swishing and lapping of the waves,\\nthe demoniac howling and shrieking of the wind and the\\nindescribable and awfvil crashing, tearing and rending\\nas the houses, hundreds at a time, were wrecked and shat-\\ntered, ever sounding in their ears. Often, too, the friendly\\nshelter where families had taken refuge would be swept\\naway, plunging scores and scores of helpless ones into\\nthe mad current which flowed through ever^^ street of\\nthe town, and fathers and mothers were compelled to\\nundergo the agony of seeing their children drown, with\\nno possibilitj of rescue; husbands lost their wives and\\nwives their husbands, and the elements were only", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "THE WEST INDIAN HURRICANE. 35\\nmerciful when they destroyed an entire family at once.\\nAll during that fearful night of Saturday until the gray\\nand gloomy dawn of Sunday broke upon the sorrow-\\nstricken city, the entire population of Galveston stood\\nface to face with grim death in its most horrible shapes;\\nthey could not hope for anything more than the venge-\\nance of the hurricane, and as they realized that with\\nevery passing moment souls were being hurried into eter-\\nnity, is it at all wonderful that, after the strain was over\\nand all danger gone, reason should finally be unseated\\nand men and women break into the unmeaning gayety of\\nthe maniac?\\nNot one inhabitant of Galveston old enough to realize\\nthe situation had any idea other than that death was to\\nbe the fate of all before another day appeared, and when\\nthis long and weary suspense, to which was added the\\nchill of the night and the growing pangs of hunger, was\\nat last broken by the first gleams of the light of the Sab-\\nbath morn, the latter was not entirely welcome, for the\\nface of the sun was hidden by morose and ugly clouds,\\nfrom which dripped, at dreary intervals, cold and gusty\\nshowers.\\nThousands were swallowed up during the darkness and\\ntheir bodies either mangled- and mutilated by the wreck-\\nage which had been tossed everywhere, left to decompose\\nin the slimy ooze deposited by the flood or forced to fol-\\nlow the waves in their sullen retirement to the waters of\\nthe gulf.\\nDejection and despondency succeeded fright; the\\nmajority of the business men of the city had suffered\\nsuch losses that thej were overcome by apathy; nearly\\nall the homes of the people were in ruins; the streets\\nwere impassable, and the dead lay thickly on every side;\\nall telegraph and telephone wires were down, and as", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "36 THE WEST INDIAN HURRICANE.\\nmiles and miles of railroad track had disappeared and the\\nbridges carried away, there was absolutely no means\\nof communication with the outer world, except by boat.\\nThe strange spectacle was then presented of the richest\\ncity of its size in the richest country in the w^orld Ijing\\nprostrate, helpless and hopeless, a prey to ghouls, vul-\\ntures, harpies, thieves, thugs and outlaws of every sort;\\nits people starving, and the putrid bodies of its dead\\nbreeding pestilence.\\nSKETCH OF THE CITY OF GALVESTON.\\nThe City of Galveston is situated on the extreme east\\nend of the Island of Galveston. It is six square miles in\\narea, its present limits being the limits of the original\\ncorporation and the boundaries of the land purchased\\nfrom the Republic of Texas by Colonel Menard in 1838\\nfor the sum of |50,000. Colonel Menard associated with\\nhimself several others, who formed a town site company\\nwith a capital of |1,000,000. The City of Galveston was\\nplatted on April 20, 1838, and seven days later the lots\\nwere put on the market. The streets of Galveston are\\nnumbered from one to fl.fty-seven across the island from\\nnorth to south, and the avenues are known by the letters\\nof the alj^habet, extending east and w^est lenglhwise of\\nthe island.\\nThe founders of the city donated to the public every\\ntenth block through the center of the city from east to\\nwest for public parks. They also gave three sites for pub-\\nlic markets and set aside one entire block for a college,\\nthree blocks for a girls seminary, and gave to every Chris-\\ntian denomination a valuable site for a church.\\nThe growth of the city in population was slow until\\nafter the war of the rebellion. It is a remarkable fact\\nthat for the population Galveston does double the amount", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "THE WEST INDIAN HURRICANE. 37.\\nof business of any city in America. The population in\\n1890 was 30,000, showing an increase of over 400 per cent\\nin thirty years. At the time of the disaster the popula-\\ntion was estimated at 40,000.\\nGalveston has. over two miles of completed wharfs\\nalong the bay front and others under construction, all of\\nwhich are equipped w^ith modern appliances. The Gal-\\nveston Wharf Company, which owns practically all the\\nw^harfage, has expended millions during the last five years\\nfor improvements in the way of elevators and facilities\\nfor handling grain and cotton. During the cotton season,\\nSept. 1 to March 31 inclusive, large ocean-going craft line\\nthe wharves, often thirty or more steamers and as many\\nlarge sailing vessels being accommodated at one time,\\nbesides the numerous smaller vessels and sailing craft\\ndoing a coastwise trade.\\nManufacturing is one of the chief supports of the city.\\nIn this branch of industry Galveston leads any city in the\\nState of Texas by 50 per cent in number and more than\\n100 per cent in capital employed and product turned out.\\nOf factories the city has 306, employing a capital aggre-\\ngating 110,886,900, with an output of |12,000,000 a year.\\nThe jetty construction forms one of the chief features\\nof its commercial advantages. The construction began\\nin 1885, progressing slowly for five years, when the desire\\nof the citizens for a first-class harbor led to the formation\\nof a permanent committee, which succeeded in getting a\\nbill through Congress authorizing an expenditure of |6,-\\n200,000 on the harbor. The bill provided that there should\\nbe two parallel stone jetties extending nearly six miles\\nout into the gulf, one from the east point of Galveston\\nIsland, the other from the west point of Bolivar Penin-\\nsula. The jetties are fifty feet wide at the botton and slope\\ngradually to five feet above mean low tide, and are thirty-", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "38 THE IVEST INDIAN HURRICANE.\\nfive feet wide at the top, with a railroad track running\\ntheir entire length, which railroad is the property of the\\nFederal Government. The immediate effect of early con-\\nstruction of the jetties was to remove the inner bar, which\\nformerly had thirteen feet of water over it, and which\\nnow has over twenty-one feet of water.\\nThe principal business street of Galveston is the\\nStrand, which is of made land 150 feet from the water\\nof the bay, in the extreme northern end of the city. Be-\\nsides being the principal port of Texas, Galveston is the\\nfinancial center of the State, and some of the largest busi-\\nness houses in Texas have their offices in the Strand.\\nAmong the business houses on this street are the fol-\\nlowing:\\nSealy, Hutchins Co., bankers; most modern banking\\nbuilding in Texas; four-story structure, in which is also\\nlocated the office of the Mallory steamship line, and also\\nthe offices of Congressman E. B. Hawley, one of the Re-\\npublican leaders in the State.\\nH. Kempner, cotton broker; four-story brick building.\\nFirst National Bank, J. Runge, President. Mr. Runge\\nis also President of the Cotton Exchange, President of\\nthe Galveston Cotton mills, and President of the City\\nRailway Company.\\nW. L. Moody Co., bankers and cotton factors; four-\\nstory brick. Mr. Moody is an intimate friend of W. J.\\nBryan and periodically entertains him at Lake Surprise,\\na duck hunting ground fifteen miles inland from Galves-\\nton; a famous hunting ground.\\nGeneral offices Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway\\nand the Galveston, Henderson and Houston Railway,\\nwhich is the gulf terminus of the International and Great\\nNorthern Railway.\\nAdoue Lobit, bankers; four-story brick.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "THE WEST INDIAN HURRICANE. 39\\nIsland City Savings Bank and Gulf City Trust Com-\\npany, M. Lasker, President; four-story brick.\\nTexas Loan and Trust Company and Flint Rogers,\\ncotton factors; four-story brick building.\\nMensing Bros., wholesale grocers; four-story brick.\\nWestern Union Telegraph Company and Mexican Cable\\nCompany; four-story brick building.\\nGalveston Dry Goods Company; four-story brick.\\nHullman, Owen Co., wholesale grocers; four-story\\nbrick building.\\nWallace, Landis Co., wholesale grocers; five-story\\nbrick.\\nL. W. Levy Co., wholesale liquor dealers; four-story\\nbrick.\\nSchneider Bros., wholesale liquor dealers; four-story\\nbrick.\\nBeers, Kennison Co., general insurance agents in\\nTexas for several large companies; four-story brick.\\nConcisely put and with no waste of words, the follow-\\ning facts comprise the history of the unfortunate city:\\n1. It is the richest city of its size in the United States.\\n2. Is the largest and most extensively commercial city\\nof Texas.\\n3. Is the gateway of an enormous trade, situated as it\\nis between the great West granaries and Europe.\\n4. Lies two miles from the northeast corner of the\\nIsland of Galveston.\\n5. Is a port of entry and the principal seaport of the\\nState.\\n6. Its harbor is the best, not only on the coast line of\\nTexas, but also on the entire gulf coast from the mouth\\nof the Mississippi to the Rio Grande.\\n7. Is the nearest and most accessible first-class seaport\\nfor the States of Texas, Kansas, New Mexico and Colo-", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "40 THE WEST INDIAN HURRICANE.\\nrado, the Indian Territory and the Territory of Arizona\\nand parts of the States and Territories adjoining those\\njust mentioned.\\n8. Is to-day the gulf terminus of most of the great rail-\\nway systems entering Texas.\\n9. Ranks third among the cotton ports of the United\\nStates.\\n10. Its port charges are as low os or lower than any\\nother port in the United States.\\n11. Is the only seaport on the gulf coast west of the\\nMississippi into which a. vessel drawing more than 10 feet\\nof water can enter.\\n12. Has steamship lines to Liverpool, New York, New\\nOrleans and the ports of Texas as far as the Mexican\\nboundary.\\n13. Has harbor area of 24 feet depth and over 1,300\\nacres; of 30 feet depth and over 463 acres (the next largest\\nharbor on the Texas coast has only 100 acres of 24 feet\\ndepth of water).\\n14. Has the lowest maximum temperature of any city\\nin Texas.\\n15. Has the finest beach in America and is a famous\\nsummer and winter resort.\\n16. Has public free school system unexcelled in the\\nUnited States.\\n17. Has never been visited by any epidemic disease\\nsince the yellow fever scourge of 1867.\\n18. Has forty miles of street railways in operation.\\n19. Has electric lights throughout the city (plant\\nowned by city).\\n20. It has millions invested in docks, warehouses, grain\\nelevators, flouring mills, marine ways, manufactories and\\nmercantile houses.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "THE WEST INDIAN HURRICANE. 41\\nTHE MOST PEOMISING TOWN IN THE SOUTH.\\nGalveston was the most promising town in the South,\\nso far as shipping is concerned, said Thomas B. Bryan,\\nthe founder of North Galveston, the day after the\\ndisaster occurred. There has been persistent op-\\nposition to it on the part of a railroad that\\nwished the transportation of cotton and other produce\\nfarther east, but finally the geographical position of Gal-\\nveston triumphed. Even Collis P. Huntington, the rail-\\nroad magnate, succumbed, and later he inaugurated im-\\nprovements in Galveston on the most colossal scale, in-\\nvolving an expenditure of many millions of dollars. One\\nof the last announcements Mr. Huntington made before\\nhis death was that Galveston would become the greatest\\nshipping port in America if money could accomplish it.\\nAt the time I was in Galveston, a few weeks ago, there\\nwas an army of workmen employed by the Southern Pa-\\ncific Railroad constructing gTeat docks and wharves,\\nwhich were to eclipse any on the globe.\\nSome conception of Galveston can be formed by sup-\\nposing the business district of Chicago say from Lake\\nto Twenty-second street ^w^ere to extend out into the lake\\non a pier for a distance of three miles and at a height\\nabove the water varying from three to seven, and possi-\\nbly, in some places, nine feet. My own observation of\\nGalveston induced my taking hold of the nearest eligible\\nelevated locality for residences, which is North Galves-\\nton^ sixteen miles from the city proper. It has an eleva-\\ntion above the water of fifteen to twenty feet more than\\nGalveston, and is free from inundation. No news has\\nreached me from North Galveston, and, though damage\\nmay have been done by wind, I am confident none can\\nbe done by water or waves.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "42 THE WEST INDIAN HURRICANE.\\nHOW THE HUKKICANE ORIGINATED.\\nStorms which move with the velocity of that which\\nswept Galveston and which are common to the southern\\nand southeastern coasts of the United States invariably\\noriginate, according to Weather Forecaster H. J. Cox,\\nof the United States Weather Bureau at Chicago, in the\\ndoldrums, or that region in the ocean w^here calms\\nabound. In this particular instance the place was south\\nof the West Indies and north of the equator. The re-\\ngion of the doldrums varies in breadth from sixty to sev-\\neral hundred miles, and at different seasons shifts its ex-\\ntreme limits between 5 degrees south and 15 degrees\\nnorth. It is always overhung by a belt of clouds which\\nis gathered by opposing currents of the trade winds.\\nThe storm which swept Galveston and the surround-\\ning country, I should say, originated at a considerable\\ndistance south of the West Indies, in this belt of calms,\\nsaid Forecaster Cox the Monday night following the ca-\\ntastrophe.\\nIt was caused by two strong currents meeting at an\\nangle, and this caused the whirling motion which finally\\nspent its force on the coast of Texas. It is seldom that\\na storm originating in the doldrums moves so far inland\\nas did this one, but it is not, however, unprecedented.\\nThe reason this storm reached so far as Galveston was\\nthat the northwesterly wind moved about twice as fast\\nas it usually does before reaching land. Usually the force\\nof these winds are spent on the coast of Florida and\\nsometimes they reach as far north as North Carolina.\\nWhen they strike the land at these points they are given\\na northeasterly direction.\\nThis storm missed the eastern coast of the United\\nStates, and consequently was deflected to the west. Thun-", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "THE WEST INDIAN HURRICANE. 43\\nderstorms are prevailing in Kansas and all of the district\\njust north of the course of the storm, which is the natural\\nresult after such commotion of the elements. The con-\\nditions of the land are such about Galveston that when\\nthe storm reached that far it had no possible means of\\nescape, and hence the dire results. If there had been a\\nchance for the wind to move further west along the coast\\nit would in all probability have passed Galveston, giving\\nthe place no more than a severe shaking up. In this event\\nthe worst effect would in all probability have been felt on\\nthe eastern coast of Mexico.\\nIt was an absolute impossibility for anyone to form\\nan idea of the extent and magnitude of the disaster within\\na week of its occurrence. The morning of Sunday, when\\nthe wind and the waves had subsided, the streets of the\\ncity were found clogged with debris of all sorts. The\\npeople of Galveston could not realize for several days\\nwhat had happened. Four thousand houses had been\\nentirely demolished and hardly a building in the city\\nwas fit for habitation.\\nThe people were apathetic; they wandered around the\\nstreets in an aimless sort of way, unable to do anything\\nor make preparations to repair the great damage done.\\nThe Monday following the catastrophe, Galveston was\\npractically in the hands of thieves, thugs, ghouls, vam-\\npires, and bandits, some of them women, w^ho robbed the\\ndead, mutilated the corpses which were lying every-\\nwhere, ransacked business houses and residences and\\ncreated a reign of terror, which lasted until the officers in\\ncommand of the force of regulars stationed at the beach\\nbarracks sent a company of men to patrol the streets.\\nThe governor of the state ordered out all the regiments\\nof the National Guard and various associations of busi-", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "44 THE WEST INDIAN HURRICANE.\\nness men also supplied men, who assisted the soldiers\\nin doing patrol duty in the city and suburbs.\\nThe depredations of the lawless element were of an\\ninconceivably brutal character. Unprotected women,\\nwhether found upon the streets or in their houses, were\\nsubjected to outrage or assault and robbed of their cloth-\\ning and jewelry. Pedestrians were held up on the public\\nthoroughfare in broad daylight and compelled to give up\\nall valuables in their possession. The bodies of the dead\\nwere despoiled of everything and in their haste to secure\\nvaluables the ghouls would mutilate the corpses, cutting\\noff fingers to obtain the rings thereon and amputating\\nthe ears of the women to get the earrings worn therein.\\nThe majority of the thieves and vampires belonged in\\nthe city of Galveston and were reinforced by desperadoes\\nfrom outside towns, like Houston, Austin, and New Or-\\nleans, who took advantage of the rush to the city imme-\\ndiately after the disaster, obtaining free transportation\\non the railroad and steamers upon a pretense that they\\nwere going to Galveston for the purpose of working with\\nrelief parties and the gangs assigned for burial of the\\ndead. Their outrages became so flagrant and the people\\nof the city became so terrified in consequence of their\\ndepredations that the city authorities unable to cope\\nwith them, most of the officers of the police department\\nhaving been victims of the flood, that an appeal was made\\nto the governor to send state troops and procure the\\npreservation of order. Captain Rafferty, commanding\\nBattery O of the First Regiment of Artillery, U. S. A.,\\nwas also implored to lend his aid in putting down the\\nlawless bands, and he accordingly sent all the men in\\nhis command who had not met death in the gale.\\nThere was some delay in getting the state troops to\\nGalveston because so many miles of railroad had been", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "THE WEST INDIAN HURRICANE. 45\\nwashed away, the Adjutant General being compelled to\\nnotify some companies of militia by courier, but Captain\\nRafferty ordered his men on duty at once, with instruc-\\ntions to promptly shoot all persons found despoiling the\\ndead. Most of the vampires were negroes, some of them,\\nhowever, being white women, the latter being as savage\\nand merciless in their treatment of the dead as the most\\nabandoned of their male companions.\\nThe regulars were put on duty on Tuesday night and\\nbefore morning had shot several of the thugs, who were\\nexecuted on the spot when found in the act of robbery.\\nIn every instance the pockets of the harpies slain by the\\nUnited States troops were found filled with jewelry and\\nother valuables, and in some cases, notably that of one\\nnegro, fingers were found in their possession which had\\nbeen cut from the hands of the dead, the vampires being\\nin such a hurry that they could not wait to tear the rings\\noff. On Wednesday evening the government troops came\\nacross a gang of fifty desperadoes, who were despoiling\\nthe bodies of the dead found enmeshed in the debris of a\\nlarge apartment house. With commendable promptness\\nthe regulars put the ghouls under arrest and finding the\\nproceeds of their robberies in their possession lined them\\nup against a brick wall and without ceremony shot every\\none of them. In cases where the villains were not killed\\nat the first fire, the sergeant administered coup de grace.\\nMany of the thugs begged piteously for mercy, but no\\nattention was paid to their feelings and they suffered\\nthe same stern fate as the rest.\\nWhen the state troops arrived in the city they took\\nthe same severe measures and the result was that within\\nforty-eight hours the city was as safe as it had ever been.\\nThe police arrested every suspicious character and the\\njail and cells at the police station were filled to overflow-", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "46 THE WEST INDIAN HURRICANE.\\ning. These people were deported as soon as possible and\\nnotified that if they returned they would be shot without\\nwarning. The temper of the citizens of Galveston was\\nsuch that they would not temporize in any case with\\nthose who Avere neither criminals or inclined to work.\\nEvery able-bodied man in town was impressed for duty in\\nrelief and burial parties and whenever an individual re-\\nfused to do the work required he was promptly shot.\\nBy Thursday morning all the men required had been ob-\\ntained and relief and burial parties were filled to the\\nquota, deemed necessary and the work of disposing of\\nthe bodies of the dead, administering to the wants of the\\nwounded and the clearing of the streets of the debris\\nwas proceeding satisfactorily.\\nThe dead lay in the streets and vacant places in hun-\\ndreds and the heat of the sun began to have its natural\\neffect. Decomposition set in and the stench became un-\\nbearable. At first an effort was made to identify the\\ncorpses, but it was soon found that work could not be\\nproceeded with, as any delay imperilled the living. Fears\\nentertained in regard to pestilence were speedily veri-\\nfied and the people of the city were taken ill by scores.\\nIt was difficult to obtain men to perform the duty of\\nburying the bloated corpses of the victims of the catas-\\ntrophe and consequently the city authorities ordered that\\nthe dead be loaded on barges, taken a few miles out to\\nsea, weighted and throv/n into the water. The ground\\nhad become so watersoaked that it was impossible to\\ndig graves or trenches for the reception of the bodies,\\nalthough in many instances people buried relatives and\\nfriends in their yards and the ground surrounding their\\nresidence. Along the beach hundreds of corpses were\\nburied in the sand, but the majority of the burials\\nwere at sea. By Wednesday night 2,500 bodies had been", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "THE WEST INDIAN HURRICANE. 47\\ncast into the water, while about 500 had been interred\\nAvithin the city limits. Precautions were taken, however,\\nto mark the graves and when the ground had dried suffi-\\nciently the bodies were disinterred and taken to the vari-\\nous cemeteries where, after burial, suitable memorials\\nwere erected to mark their last resting place. No at-\\ntempts were made at identification after Wednesday,\\nlists being simply made of the number of victims. The\\ngraves of those buried in the sand were marked by head-\\nboards with the inscriptions, White man, aged forty;\\nWhite woman, aged twenty-five, and male or fe-\\nnlale child, as the case might be.\\nSo accustomed did the burial parties become to the\\nhandling of the dead that they treated the bodies as\\nthough they were merely carcasses of animals and not\\nbodies of human beings and they were dumped into the\\ntrenches prepared for their reception without ceremony\\nof any kind. The excavations were then filled up as\\nhurriedly as possible, the sand being packed down tight-\\nly. This might have seemed inhuman, unfeeling, and\\nbrutal, but the exigencies of the situation demanded that\\nthe corpses be put out of the way as speedily as possible.\\nGreat difficulty was experienced in securing men to\\ntransport bodies to the wharves where the barges lay,\\nand it was practically an impossibility to get anyone to\\ntouch the bodies of the negro victims, decomposition hav-\\ning set in earlier than in the cases of the whites, and\\nhad it not been that the members of the fire department\\nvolunteered their services the remains of the negToes\\nwould have remained unburied for a longer time than\\nthey were. Finally, however, patience ceased to be a\\nvirtue and orders were given the guards to shoot any\\nman vrho refused to do his duty under the circumstances.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "48 THE WEST INDIAN HURRICANE.\\nThe result of this was that the beginning of Wednesday\\nthere was less delay in the matter of disposing of the dead.\\nHowever, in spite of the activity of the burial parties,\\nthe work of clearing the streets of corpses was a most\\ntedious one.\\nFORECAST OFFICIAL S REPORT ON THE STORM.\\nThe forecast official of the United States Weather Bu-\\nreau at Galveston made the following report, September\\n14, on the storm:\\nThe local office of the United States weather bureau\\nreceived the first message in regard to this storm at 4\\np. m., September 4. It was then moving northward over\\nCuba. Each day thereafter until the West India hur-\\nricane struck Galveston bulletins were posted by the\\nUnited States weather bureau officials giving the pro-\\ngressive movements of the disturbance.\\nSeptember 6 the tropical storm had moved up over\\nsouthern Florida, thence it changed its course and moved\\nwestward in the gulf and was central off the Louisiana\\ncoast the morning of the 7th, when northwest storm\\nwarnings were ordered up for Galveston. The morning\\nof the 8th the storm had increased in energy and was\\nstill moving westward, and at 10:10 a. m. the northwest\\nstorm warnings were changed to northeast. Then was\\nwhen the entire island was in apparent danger. The\\ntelephone at the United States weather bureau office was\\nbusy until the wires went down; many could not get\\nthe use of the telephone on account of the line being busy.\\nPeople came to the office in droves inquiring about the\\nweather. About the same time the following informa-\\ntion Avas given to all alike:\\nThe tropical storm is now in the gulf, south or south-", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "THE WEST INDIAN HURRICANE. 49\\nwest of ns; the winds will shift to the northeast-east\\nand probably to the southeast by morning, increasing in\\nenergy. If you reside in low parts of the city, move to\\nhigher grounds.\\nPrepare for the worst, which is yet to come, were\\nthe only consoling words of the weather bureau officials\\nat Galveston from morning until night of the 8th, when\\nno information further could be given out.\\nThe local forecast official and one observer stayed at\\nthe office throughout the entire storm, although the\\nbuilding was wrecked. The forecast official and one\\nobserver were out taking tide observations about 4 a. m.,\\nSeptember 9. Another observer left after he had sent\\nthe last telegram which could be gotten off, it being filed\\nat Houston over the telephone wires about 4 p. m. of the\\n8th. Over half the city was covered with tide water by\\n3 p. m. One of the observers left for home at about 4\\np. m., after he had done all he could, as telephone wires\\nwere then going down. The entire city was then covered\\nwith water from one to five feet deep. On his way home\\nhe saw hundreds of people and he informed all he could\\nthat the worst was still to come, and people who could\\nnot hear his voice on account of the distance he motioned\\nthem to go downtown.\\nThe lowest barometer by observation was 28.53 inches\\nat 8:10 p. m., September 8, but the barometer went slight-\\nly lower than this, according to the barograph. The tide\\nat about 8 p. m. stood from six to fifteen feet deep through-\\nout the city, with the wind blowing slightly over a hun-\\ndred miles an hour. The highest wind velocity by the\\nanemometer was ninety-six miles from the northeast at\\n5:15 p. m., and the extreme velocity was a hundred miles\\nan hour at about that time. The anemometer blew down\\nat this time and the wind was still higher later, when it", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "50 THE WEST INDIAN HURRICANE.\\nshifted to the east and southeast, when the observer esti-\\nmated that it blew a gale of between 110 and 120 miles.\\nThere was an apparent tidal wave of from four to six\\nfeet about 8 p. m., when the wind shifted to the east and\\nsoutheast, that carried off many houses which had stood\\nthe tide up to that time.\\nThe observer believed from the records he managed\\nto save that the hurricane moved inland near Galveston,\\ngoing up the Brazos Valley.\\nThe warnings of the United States Weather Bureau\\nwere the means of thousands of lives being saved through\\nthe hurricane. It was so severe, however, that it was\\nimpossible to prepare for such destruction. The observer\\nof the United States Weather Bureau at Galveston, to\\nrelieve apprehension, stated on September 14 that the\\nbarometer had gone up to about the normal, and there\\nwere no indications of another storm following.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER II.\\nSad Scenes in All Parts of the Eiiiued City\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Corpses Everywhere A\\nSombre, Solemn Suutiay People Apathetic, Dejected and Heart-\\nbroken.\\nTHE surviving people of Galveston did not awaken from\\nsleep on Sunday morning, for they had not slept the\\nnight before. For many weary hours they had stood\\nface to face with death, and knew that thousands had\\nyielded up their lives and that millions of dollars worth\\nof property had been destroyed.\\nThere was not a building in Galveston which was not\\neither entirely destroyed or damaged, and the people of\\nthe city lived in the valley of the shadow of death, help-\\nless and hopeless, deprived of all hope and ambition\\nmerely waiting for the appearance of the ofiicial death\\nroll.\\nConfusion and chaos reigned everywhere; death and\\ndesolation were on all sides; wreck and ruin were the\\nonly things visible wherever the eye might rest; and\\nwith business entirely suspended and no other occupa-\\ntion than the search for and burial of the dead it was\\nstrange that the thoroughfares and residence streets\\nwere not filled with insane victims of the hurricane s\\nfrightful visit.\\nFor days the people of Galveston knew there was dan-\\nger ahead they were w^arned repeatedly, but they\\nlaughed at all fears, business went on as usual, and when\\nthe blow came it found the city unprepared and without\\nsafeguards.\\nOwing to the stupefaction following the awful catas-\\ntrophe, the people were in no condition, either physical or\\n51", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "52 SAD SCENES IN THE RUINED CITY.\\nmental, to provide for themselves, and therefore\\ndepended upon the outside world for food and clothing.\\nThe inhabitants of Galveston needed immediate relief,\\nbut how they were to get it was a mystery, for Galveston\\nwas not yet in touch with the outside world by rail .or\\nsea. The city was sorely stricken, and appealed to the\\ncountry at large to send food, clothing and water. The\\nwaterworks were in ruins and the cisterns all blown\\naway, so that the lack of water was one of the most seri-\\nous of the troubles.\\nNever did a storm work more cruelly. All the electric\\nlight and telegraph i^oles were prostrated and the streets\\nwere littered with timbers, slate, glass and every con-\\nceivable character of debris. There was hardly a hab-\\nitable house in the entire city, and nearly every business\\nhouse was either wrecked entirely or badly damaged.\\nOn Monday there were deaths from hunger and\\nexposure, and the list swelled rapidly. People were liv-\\ning as best they could in the ruins of their homes, in\\nhotels, in schoolhouses, in railway stations, in churches,\\nin the streets by the side of their beloved dead.\\nSo great was the desolation one could not imagine a\\nmore sorrowful place. Street cars were not running;\\nno trains could reach the town; only sad-eyed men and\\nwomen walked about the streets; the dead and wounded\\nmonopolized the attention of those capable of doing any-\\nthing whatever, and the city was at the mercy of thieves\\nand ruffians.\\nAll the fine churches were in ruins.\\nFrom Tremont to P street, thence to the beach, not a\\nvestige of a residence was to be seen.\\nIn the business section of the city the water was from\\nthree to ten feet deep in stores, and stocks of all kinds,\\nincluding foodstuffs, were total losses. It was a com-", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "SAD SCENES IN THE RUINED CITY. 53\\nmon sight to see womeu and children emerging from once\\ncomfortable and happy homes, dazed and bleeding from\\nwounds, the women wading neck deep in water with\\nbabies in their arms.\\nScenes in the streets of the practically ruined city on\\nSunday and Monday were pitiable and pathetic. Shriek-\\ning and screaming women, many of them bruised and\\nbleeding, bearing the lifeless forms of children in their\\narms; men, broken-hearted and sobbing, bewailing the\\nloss of their wives and children; and submerged streets\\nfilled with floating debris and bodies of the victims of the\\nstorm, constituted part of the spectacle. Nothing but\\ndeath, desolation and destruction were apparent.\\nThe first loss of life reported was at Rietter s saloon, in\\nthe Strand, where three of the most prominent citizens of\\nthe town Stanley G. Spencer, Charles Kellner and Rich-\\nard Lord lost their lives and many others were maimed\\nand imprisoned. These three were sitting at a table on\\nthe first floor Saturday night, making light of the dan-\\nger, when the roof suddenly caved in and came down with\\na crash, killing them. Those in the lower part of the\\nbuilding escaped with their lives in a miraculous manner,\\nas the falling roof and flooring caught on the bar,\\nenabling the people standing near it to crawl under the\\ndebris. It required several hours of hard work to get\\nthem out. The negro waiter who was sent for a doctor\\nwas drowned at Strand and Twenty-first streets, his body\\nbeing found a short time afterward.\\nFully 700 people were congregated at the city hall,\\nmost of them more or less injured in various ways. One\\nman from Lucas Terrace reported the loss of fifty lives\\nin the building from which he escaped. He himself was\\nseverely injured about the head.\\nPassing along Tremont street, out as far as Avenue", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "54 SAD SCENES IN THE RUINED CITY.\\nP, climbing over the piles of lumber which had once been\\nresidences, four bodies were observed in one yard and\\nseven in one room in another place, w^hile as many as\\nsixty corpses were seen lying singly and in groups in the\\nspace of one block. A majority of the drowned, however,\\nwere under the ruined houses. The body of Miss Sarah\\nSummers was found near her home, corner of Tremont\\nstreet and Avenue F, her lips smiling, but her features set\\nin death, her hands grasping her diamonds tightly. The\\nremains of her sister, Mrs. Claude Fordtran, were never\\nfound.\\nThe report from St. Mary s Infirmary showed that only\\neight persons escaped from that hospital. The number\\nof patients and nurses w^as one hundred. Rosenberg\\nSchoolhouse, chosen as a place of refuge by the people\\nof that locality, collapsed. Few of those w^ho had taken\\nrefuge there escaped how many cannot be told.\\nSunday morning, as soon as the wind had subsided\\nsufficiently to permit people to go out of doors, the streets\\nwere lined with half-clad men and women, crippled in\\nevery conceivable manner, hobbling as best they could to\\nplaces where they could receive medical and surgical\\nattention for themselves or summon aid for friends and\\nrelatives who could not move.\\nAt the Union Depot Baggagemaster Harding picked up\\nthe lifeless form of a baby girl within a few feet of the\\nstation. Its parents w^ere among the lost. The station\\nbuilding was selected as a place of refuge by hundreds of\\npeople, and although all the windows and a portion of\\nthe south wall at the top were blown in, and the occu-\\npants expected every moment to be their last, escape w^as\\nimpossible, for about the building the water was fully\\ntwelve feet deep. A couple of small shanties were float-", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "SAD SCENES IN THE RUINED CITY. 55\\ning about, but there was no means of making a raft or\\ngetting a boat.\\nEvery available building in the city was used as a hos-\\npital. As for the dead, they were being put away any-\\nwhere. In one large grocery store on Tremont street all\\nthe space that could be cleared was occupied by the\\nwounded, while farther down the street a restaurant,\\nwhich had been submerged by water, was serving out\\nsoggy crackers and cheese to the hungry crowd, while\\ncots containing injured men lay on the floor.\\nIt was hard to determine what section of the city suf-\\nfered the greatest damage and loss of life. Information\\nfrom both the extreme eastern and western portions of\\nthe city was diflflcult to obtain. In fact, it was nearly\\nimpossible, but that which was received indicated that\\nthose two sections had suffered the same fate as the rest\\nof the city.\\nIn the business portion of the town the damage could\\nnot be even approximately estimated. The wholesale\\nhouses along the Strand had about seven feet of water on\\ntheir ground floors, and all window panes and glass pro-\\ntectors of all kinds were demolished.\\nOn Mechanic street the water was almost as deep as on\\nthe Strand. All provisions in the wholesale groceries\\nand goods on the lower floors were saturated and ren-\\ndered valueless.\\nIn clearing away the ruins of the Catholic Orphans\\nHome heartrending evidence of the heroism and love of\\nthe Sisters was discovered.\\nBodies of the little folks were found which indicated\\nby their position that heroic measures were taken to keep\\nthem together so that all might be saved.\\nThe Sisters had tied them together in bunches of eight\\nand then tied the cords around their own waists. In this", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "56 SAD SCENES IN THE RUINED CITY.\\nway they probably hoped to quiet the children s fears\\nand lead them to safety.\\nThe storm struck the Home with such terrific force\\nthat the structure fell, carrying the inmates with it and\\nburying them under tons of debris.\\nTwo crowds of children, tied and attached to Sisters,\\nhave been found. In one heap the children were piled on\\nthe Sisters, and the arms of one little girl were clasped\\naround a Sister s neck.\\nIn the wreck of the Home over ninety children and Sis-\\nters were killed. It was first believed that they had been\\nwashed out to sea, but the discovery of the little groups\\nin the ruins indicates that all were killed and buried\\nunder the wreckage.\\nSunday and Monday were days of the greatest suffer-\\ning, although the population had hardly sufficiently\\nrecovered from the shock of the mighty calamity to real-\\nize that they were hungry and cold.\\nOn Monday all relief trains sent from other cities\\ntoward Galveston were forced to turn back, the tracks\\nbeing washed away.\\nOn Tuesday Mayor Jones of Galveston sent out the fol-\\nlowing appeal to the country:\\nIt is my opinion, based on personal information, that\\n5,000 people have lost their lives here. Approximately\\none-third of the residence portion of the city has been\\nswept away. There are several thousand people who are\\nhomeless and destitute how many there is no way of\\nfinding out. Arrangements are now being made to have\\nthe women and children sent to Houston and other\\nplaces, but the means of transportation are limited.\\nThousands are still to be cared for here. We appeal to\\nyou for immediate aid. WALTER J. JONES,\\nMayor of Galveston.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "SAD SCENES IN THE RUINED CITY. 57\\nSome relief had been sent in, the railroad to Texas City,\\nsix miles away, having been repaired, boats taking the\\nsupplies from that point into Galveston.\\nFood and women s clothing were the things most needed\\njust then. While the men could get along withtheclothes\\nthey had on and what they had secured since Sunday, the\\nwomen suffered considerably, and there was much sick-\\nness among them in consequence. It was noticeable,\\nhowever, that the women of the city had, by their exam-\\nple, been instrumental in reviving the drooping spirits\\nof the men. There was a better feeling prevalent Tues-\\nday among the inhabitants, as news had been received\\nthat within a few days the acute distress would be over,\\nexcept in the matter of shelter. Every house standing\\nwas damp and unhealthy, and some of the wounded were\\nnot getting along as well as hoped. Many of the injured\\nhad been sent out of town to Texas City, Houston and\\nother places, but hundreds still remained. It would\\nhave endangered their lives to move them.\\nTuesday night ninety negro looters were shot in their\\ntracks by citizen guards. One of them was searched and\\n|700 found, together with four diamond rings and two\\nwater-soaked gold watches. The finger of a white\\nwoman with a gold band around it was clutched in his\\nhands.\\nIn the afternoon, at the suggestion of Colonel Hawley,\\na mounted squad of nineteen men, under Adjutant Brok-\\nridge, was detailed by Major Faylings to search a house\\nwhere negro looters were known to have secreted\\nplunder.\\nShoot them in their tracks, boys! We want no pris-\\noners, said the Major. The plunderers changed their\\nlocation before the arrival of the detachment, however,\\nand the raiders came back empty-handed. Twenty cases", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "58 SAD SCENES IN THE RUINED CirY.\\nof looting were reported between 3 and 6 in the evening.\\nAt 6 o clock a report reached Major Faylings that\\ntwenty negroes were robbing a house at Nineteenth and\\nBeach streets.\\nPlant them, commanded the young Major, as a half\\ndozen citizen soldiers, led by a corj)oral, mustered before\\nhim for orders.\\nI want every one of those twenty negroes, dead or\\nalive, said the Major.\\nThe squad left on the double quick. Half an hour\\nlater they reported ten of the plunderers killed.\\nThe following order was posted on the streets at noon\\nof Tuesday:\\nTo the Public: The city of Galveston being under\\nmartial law, and all good citizens being now enrolled in\\nsome branch of the public service, it becomes necessary,\\nto preserve the peace, that all arms in this city be placed\\nin the hands of the military. All good citizens are forbid-\\nden to carry arms, except by written permission from the\\nMayor or Chief of Police or the Major commanding. All\\ngood citizens are hereby commanded to deliver all arms\\nand ammunition to the city and take Major Faylings\\nreceipt. WALTER C. JONES, Mayor.\\nWHAT A RELIEF PARTY SAW SUNDAY MORNING.\\nStarting as soon as the water began to recede Sunday\\nmorning, a relief part}^ began the work of rescuing the\\nwounded and dying from the ruins of their homes. The\\nscenes presented were almost beyond description.\\nScreaming women, bruised and bleeding, some of them\\nbearing the lifeless forms of children in their arms; men,\\nbroken-hearted and sobbing, bewailing the loss of their\\nwives and children: streets filled with floating rubbisli,", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "SAD SCENES IN THE RUINED CITY. 59\\namong which there were many bodies of the victims of\\nthe storm, constituted part of the awful picture. In\\nevery direction, as far as the eye could reach, the scene of\\ndesolation and destruction continued.\\nThe first loss, of life reported was that at Rietter s\\nsaloon, on the Strand, where three of the most prominent\\ncitizens of the town lost their lives, and where many\\nothers were maimed and imprisoned. The dead were\\nStanley G. Spencer, Charles Kellner and Richard Lord.\\nThe three were sitting at a table on the first floor, making\\nlight of the danger, jocularly telling each other that they\\nwould stay in the city. Suddenly the roof caved in and\\ncame down with a crash into the saloon, killing all of\\nthem.\\nThose in the lower part of the building escaped with\\ntheir lives in a remarkable manner. The falling roof and\\nflooring were caught on the bar, the people standing near\\nit dodging and resting under the debris. It required sev-\\neral hours of hard work to get them out. The negro\\nwaiter who was sent for the doctor was drowned at the\\ncorner of the Strand and Twenty-first street, and his body\\nwas found a short time after.\\nThe next place visited was the City Hall. Here were\\ncongregated fully 700 persons, who were more or less\\ninjured in various ways. One man, named Lucas Terrace,\\nreported the loss of fifty lives in the building from which\\nhe escaped. He himself was severely injured about the\\nhead.\\nThe body of Miss Sarah Summers was found near her\\nhome, on the corner of Tremont street and Avenue F, her\\nlips smiling, but her features set in death, her hands\\ntightly grasping her diamonds. The remains of her\\nsister, Mrs. Claude Fordtran, have not been recovered.\\nThe report from St. Mary s Infirmary showed that only", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "60 SAD SCENES IN THE RUINED CITY.\\neight persons escaped from that hospital. The number\\nof patients and nurses was about one hundred and five.\\nRosenberg Schoolhouse, which was chosen as a place of\\nrefuge by the people of that locality, collapsed. Some of\\nthose who had taken refuge there escaped how many\\ncould not be told.\\nAs Sunday morning dawned the streets were lined with\\npeople, half-clad, crippled in every conceivable manner,\\nhobbling as best they could to where they could receive\\nattention of physicians for themselves and summon aid\\nfor friends and relatives who could not move. Police\\nOfficer John Bowie, who had recently been awarded a\\nprize as the most popular officer in the city, was in a piti-\\nable condition; the toes on both of his feet were broken,\\ntwo ribs caved in, and his head badly bruised, but his own\\ncondition, he said, was nothing.\\nMy house, with wife and children, is in the gulf. I\\nhave not a thing on earth for which to live.\\nThe houses of all prominent citizens which escaped\\ndestruction were turned into hospitals, as were also the\\nleading hotels. There was scarcely one of the houses\\nleft standing which did not contain one or more of the\\ndead as well as many injured.\\nThe rain began to pour down in torrents and the party\\nwent back down Tremont street toward the city. The\\nmisery of the poor people, all mangled and hurt, pressing\\nto the city for medical attention, was greatly augmented\\nby this rain. Stopping at a small grocery store to avoid\\nthe rain, the party found it packed with injured. The\\nprovisions in the store had been ruined and there was\\nnothing for the numerous customers who came hungry\\nand tired. The place was a hospital, no longer a store.\\nFurther down the street a restaurant, which had been\\nsubmerged by water, was serving out soggy crackers and", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "SAD SCENES IN THE RUINED CITY. 61\\ncheese to the hungry crowd. That was all that was left.\\nThe food was soaked full of water, and the peoi)le who\\nwere fortunate enough to get those sandwiches were hun-\\ngry and made no complaint.\\nIt was hard to determine what section of the city suf-\\nfered the greatest damage and loss of life. Information\\nfrom both the extreme eastern and extreme western por-\\ntions of the city was difficult to obtain at that time. In\\nfact, it was nearly impossible, but the reports received\\nindicated that those two sections had suffered the same\\nfate as the rest of the city and to a greater degree.\\nAt the Union Depot scenes similar to those met with in\\nother portions of the city were to be found. Baggage-\\nmaster Harding picked up the lifeless form of a baby girl\\nwithin a few feet of the station. Its parents could not be\\nlocated.\\nThe station building had been selected as a place of\\nrefuge by a large number of people. All windows in the\\nbuilding and a portion of the wall at the top were blown\\nin and the occupants expected every moment to be their\\nlast. But escape was impossible, for about the building\\nthe water must have been fully twelve feet deep. A\\ncouple of small shanties were floating about, but there\\nwas no means of making a raft or getting a boat.\\nGALVESTON PEOPLE REFUSED TO HEED THE\\nWARNING\u00e2\u0080\u0094 DISASTER WAS PREDICTED.\\nAs marked out on the charts of the LTnited States\\nWeather Bureau at Washington the storm which struck\\nGalveston had a peculiar course. It was first definitely\\nlocated south by east of San Domingo, and the last day\\nof August the center of the disturbance was approxi-\\nmately at a point fixed at 14 degrees north latitude and", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "G2 SAD SCENES IN THE RUINED CITY.\\n68 degrees west longitude. From there it made a course\\nalmost due northeast, passing through Kingston, Ja-\\nmaica, and if it had continued on this same line it would\\nhave struck Galveston just the same, but somewhat ear-\\nlier than it did. The storm apparently was headed for\\nGalveston all the time, but on Tuesday of last week, when\\nalmost due south of Cienfuegos, Cuba, it changed its\\ncourse so as to go almost due north, across the Island of\\nCuba, through the toe of the Florida peninsula, and up\\nthe coast to the vicinity of Tampa. Here the storm made\\nanother sharp turn to the westward and headed again\\nalmost straight for Galveston.\\nIt was this sharp turn to the westward which could not\\nbe anticipated, so the Weather Bureau sent out its hurri-\\ncane signals both for the Atlantic and the gulf coast, well\\nunderstanding that the prediction as to one of these\\ncoasts would certainly fail. As soon as the storm turned\\nwestward from below Tampa the Weather Bureau knew\\nthe Atlantic coast was safe, and turned its attention to-\\nward the gulf.\\nThe people of Galveston had abundant warning of the\\ncoming of the hurricane, but, of course, could not antici-\\npate the destructive energy it would gain on the way\\nacross the Gulf of Mexico.\\nThe Weather Bureau was informed that the first sign\\nof the disturbance was noticed on Aug. 30 near the Wind-\\nward Islands. On Aug. 31 it still was in the same neigh-\\nborhood. The storm did not develop any hurricane fea-\\ntures during its slow passage through the Caribbean Sea\\nand across Cuba, but was accompanied by tremendous\\nrains. During the first twelve hours of Sept. 3, in Santia-\\ngo, Cuba, 10.50 inches rain fell and 2,80 inches fell in the\\nnext twelve. On Sept. 4 the rainfall during twelve hours\\nin Santiago was 4.44 inches, or a total fall in thirty-six", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "SAD SCENES IN THE RUINED CITY. 63\\nhours of 17,20 inches. There were some high winds in\\nCuba the night of Sept. 4.\\nB3 the morning of the Gth the storm center was a short\\ndistance northwest of Key West, Fhi., and the high winds\\nhad commenced over Southern Florida, forty-eight miles\\nan hour from the east being reported from Jupiter and\\nforty miles from the northeast from Key West. During\\nthe Gth barometric conditions over the eastern portion of\\nthe United States so far changed as to prevent the move-\\nment of the storm along the Atlantic coast, and it, there-\\nfore, continued northwest over the Gulf of Mexico.\\nOn the morning of the Tth it apparently was central\\nsouth of the Louisiana coast, about longitude 89, latitude\\n28. At this time storm signals were ordered up on the\\nNorth Texas coast, and during the day were extended\\nalong the entire coast. On the morning of the 8tli the\\nstorm was nearing the Texas coast and was. apparently\\ncentral at about latitude 2S, longitude 94.\\nGalveston s disastrous storm was predicted with start-\\nling accuracy by the weather prophet, Prof. Andrew\\nJackson DeVoe, In the Ladies Birthday Almanac,\\nissued from Chattanooga, Tenn., in January, 1900, Prof.\\nDeVoe forecasts the weather for the following month of\\nSeptember as follows:\\nThis will be a hot dry month over the Northern States,\\nbut plenty of rain over the Atlantic coast States. First\\nand second daj S hot and sultry. Third and fourth heavy\\nstorms over the extreme Northwestern States, causing\\nthunderstorms over the Missouri Valley and showery,\\nrainy weather over the whole country from 5th to 8th.\\nOn the 9th a great cyclone will form over the Gulf\\nof Mexico and move up the Atlantic coast, causing very\\nheavy rains from Florida to Maine from 10th to 12th.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER III.\\nCrowds of Refugees at Houston Fed and Housed in Tents E\u00c2\u00abgular\\nSoldiers. Droiyned Goyerument Property Lost Fears for tlalvestou s\\nFuture.\\nHOUSTON was the great rendezvous for supplies sent to\\nGalveston, and they poured in there by the carload,\\nbeginning with Tuesday. The response to the appeal for\\naid by the people of Galveston, on the part of the United\\nStates, and, in fact, every country in the world, was\\n]3rompt and generous.\\nThat relief was an absolute necessity was made appar-\\nent from the appearance of the refugees who began to\\nflock into Houston as soon as the boats began to run to\\nGalveston after the catastrophe. In addition to these,\\nthousands of strangers arrived also, and the Houston\\nauthorities were at a loss as to what to do with them.\\nSome of these visitors were from points far distant, who\\nhad relatives in the storm-stricken district, and had come\\nto learn the worst regarding them; others there were who\\nhad come to volunteer their services in the relief work,\\nbut the greatest number consisted of curious sight-seers,\\nalmost frantic in their efforts to get to the stricken city\\nand feed their eyes on the sickening, repulsive and dis-\\nease-breeding scenes. In addition there were hundreds\\nof the sufferers themselves, who had been brought out\\nof their misery to be cared for here.\\nThe question of caring for these crowds came up at a\\nmass meeting of the Houston general relief committee\\nheld Monday. Every incoming train brought scores\\nmore of people, and immediate action was necessary. It\\nwas decided finally to pitch tents in Emancipation Park,\\n64", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "THE REFUGEES AT HOUSTON. 65\\nand there as many of the strangers as possible were cared\\nfor. The hotels could not accommodate one-tenth of\\nthem.\\nFirst attention, naturally, was given the survivors of\\nthe storm. Mayor Brashear sent word to Mayor Jones\\nof Galveston that all persons, no matter who they were,\\nrich or poor, ill or well, should be sent to Houston as soon\\nas possible. They wo\\\\ild be well provided for, he said.\\nThe urgency of his message for the depopulation of Gal-\\nveston, he explained, was that until sanitation could be\\nrestored in the wrecked city everybody possible should be\\nsent away.\\nIt was estimated that nearly 1,000 of the unfortunate\\nsurvivors were sent to Houston on Tuesday from Galves-\\nton in response to Mayor Brashear s request. Every\\nbuilding in Houston at all habitable was opened to them,\\nand all the seriously ill comfortably housed. The others\\nwere made as comfortable as possible, but it was\\nnot only food and clothing that was wanted; the only\\nrelief some of them sought could not be furnished. They\\nwere grieving for lost ones left behind fathers, mothers,\\nsisters, wives and children. Nearly everybody had some\\nrelative missing, but few of them were certain whether\\nthey were dead or alive. All, however, were satisfied\\nthat they were dead.\\nMen, bareheaded and barefooted, with sunken cheeks\\nand hollow eyes; women and children with tattered cloth-\\ning and bruised arms and faces, and mere infants with\\nbare feet bruised and swollen, were among the crowds\\nseen on the streets of Houston. Women of wealth and\\nrefinement, with hatless heads and gowns of rich material\\ntorn into shreds, were among the refugees. At times a\\nman and his wife, and sometimes with one or two chil-\\ndren, could be seen together, but such sights were infre-", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "G() THE REFUGEES AT HOUSTON.\\nquent, for nearly all who went to Houston had suffered\\nthe loss of one or more of their loved ones.\\nBut with all this suffering there was a marvelous\\namount of heroism shown. A week before most of these\\npeople had happy homes and their families were around\\nthem. The Tuesday following the disaster they were\\nhomeless, penniless and with nothing to look forward to.\\nYet there was scarcely any whimpering or complaining.\\nThey walked about the streets as if in a trance; thej\\naccepted the assistance offered them with heartfelt\\nthanks, and apparently were greatly relieved at being\\naway from the scenes of sorrow and woe at home. They\\nwere all made to feel at home in Houston, that they were\\nwelcome and that everything in the power of the people\\nof Houston would be done for their comfort and welfare,\\nand yet they seemed not to understand half that was said\\nto them.\\nJohn J. Moody, a member of the committee sent from\\nHouston to take charge of the relief station at Texas City,\\nreported to the Mayor of Houston on Tuesday as follows:\\nTo the Mayor Sir: On arriving at Lamarque this\\nmorning I was informed that the largest number of\\nbodies was along the coast of Texas City. Fifty-six were\\nburied j^esterday and to-day within less than two miles,\\nextending opposite this place and toward Virginia City.\\nIt is yet six miles farther to Virginia City, and the bodies\\nare thicker where we are now than where they have been\\nburied. A citizen inspecting in the opposite direction\\nreports dead bodies thick for twenty miles.\\nThe residents of this place have lost all not a hab-\\nitable building left, and they have been too busy dispos-\\ning of the dead to look after personal affairs. Those who\\nhave anything left are giving it to the others, and yet", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "THE REFUGEES AT HOUSTON. 67\\nthere is real suffering. I have given away nearly all the\\nbread I brought for our own use to hungry children.\\nA number of helpless women and beggared children\\nwere landed here from Galveston this afternoon and no\\nplace to go and not a bite to eat. To-morrow others are\\nexpected from the same place. Every ten feet along the\\nwreck-lined coast tells of acts of vandalism; not a trunk,\\nvalise or tool chest but what has been rifled. We buried\\na woman this afternoon whose finger bore the mark of a\\nrecently removed ring.\\nThe United States government furnished several thou-\\nsand tents for the Houston camp, which was unde^r the\\nsupervision of the United States Marine Hospital author-\\nities.\\nTWENTY-EIGHT REGULARS DROWNED.\\nGeneral McKibbin, who was sent to Galveston by the\\nWar Department to investigate the conditions prevail-\\ning there, made the following official report on Wednes-\\nday, September 12:\\nHouston, Texas, September 12, 1900. Adjutant-Gen-\\neral, Washing-ton. Arrived at Galveston at 6 p. m.,\\nhaving been ferried across bay in a yawl boat. It is\\nimpossible to adequately describe the condition existing.\\nThe storm began about 9 a. m. Saturday and continued\\nwith constantly increasing violence until after midnight.\\nThe island was inundated; the height of the tide was from\\neleven to thirteen feet. The wind was a cyclone. With\\nfew exceptions, every building in the city is injured.\\nHundreds are entirely destroyed.\\nAll the fortifications except the rapid-fire battery at\\nSan Jacinto are practically destroyed. At San Jacinto\\nevery building except the quarantine station has been", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "68 THE REFUGEES AT HOUSTON.\\nswept away. Battery O, First Artillery, United States\\nArmy, lost twenty-eight men. The officers and their\\nfamilies were all saved. Three members of the hospital\\ncorps lost. Names will be sent as soon as possible. Loss\\nof life on the island is possibly more than 1,000. All\\nbridges are gone, waterworks destroyed and all telegraph\\nlines are down.\\nColonel Roberts was in the city and made every effort\\nto get telegrams through. City under control of com-\\nmittee of citizens and perfectly quiet.\\nEvery article of equipment or property pertaining to\\nBattery O was lost. Not a record of any kind is left. The\\nmen saved had nothing but the clothing on their per-\\nsons. Nearly all are without shoes or clothing other\\nthan their shirts and trousers. Clothing necessary has\\nbeen purchased and temporary arrangements made for\\nfood and shelter. There are probably 5,000 citizens home-\\nless and absolutely destitute, who must be clothed, shel-\\ntered and fed. Have ordered 20,000 rations and tents for\\n1,000 people from Sam Houston. Have wired Commis-\\nsary-General to ship 30,000 rations by express. Lieuten-\\nant Perry w ill make his way back to Houston and send\\nthis telegram. McKIBBIN.\\nCONDITION OF THE GOVERNMENT WORKS.\\nCaptain Charles S. Riche, U. S. A., corps of engineers,\\nwhen seen after he had completed a tour of inspection of\\nthe government works around Galveston, made the fol-\\nlowing statement:\\nThe jetties are sunk nearly to mean low tide level, but\\nnot seriously breached. The channel is as good as before,\\nperhaps better, twenty-five feet certainly.\\nFort Crockett, fifteen-pounder implacements, concrete", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "THE REFUGEES AT HOUSTON. 69\\nall right, standing on filling; water underneath. Battery\\nfor eight mortars about like preceding, and mortars and\\ncarriages on hand unmounted and in good shape. Shore\\nline at Fort Crockett has moved back about 600 feet. At\\nFort San Jacinto the battery for eight twelve-inch mor-\\ntars is badly wrecked, and magazines reported fallen in.\\nThe mortars are reported safe. No piling was under this\\nbattery. Some of the sand parapet is left. The battery\\nfor two ten-inch guns badly wrecked. Both gun plat-\\nforms are down and guns leaning. The battery for two\\n4.T-inch rapid-fire guns, concrete standing upon piling,\\nboth guns apparently all right. The battery for two\\nfifteen-pounder guns, concrete apparently all right,\\nstanding on piling.\\nFort Travis, Bolivar Point Battery for three fifteen-\\npounder guns, concrete intact, standing on piling. East\\ngun down. Western gun probably all right. The shore\\nline has moved back about 1,000 feet on the line of the\\nrear of these batteries.\\nUnder the engineers corps are the fortifications, built\\nat a considerable expense; also the harbor improvements,\\nupon which more than |8,000,000 had been expended.\\nFEARED THE CITY WAS BEYOND REPAIR.\\nI fear Galveston is destroyed beyond its ability to\\nrecover, is the manner in which Quartermaster Baxter\\nconcluded his report, made September 12, to the War\\nDepartment at Washington. He recommended the con-\\ntinuance of his office only long enough to recover the\\noffice safes and close up accoiints, and declared all gov-\\nernment works were wrecked so restoration was impos-\\nsible.\\nThis gloomy prophecy for the city s future was reflected", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "70 THE REFUGEES AT HOUSTON.\\nin an official report to Governor Sayers, of Texas, by\\nex-State Treasurer Wortham, who spent a day at Galves-\\nton, investigating the situation. His statement claimed\\nthat 75 per cent of the city was demolished and gives lit-\\ntle hope for rebuilding.\\nMr. Wortham, who acted as aid to Adjutant-General\\nScurry, Texas National Guard, during the inquiry, said\\nin his report:\\nThe situation at Galveston beggars description. I am\\nconvinced that the city is practically wrecked for all time\\nto come.\\nFully 75 per cert of the business of the town is irrep-\\narably wrecked, and the same per cent of damage is to\\nbe found in the residence district. Along the wharf front\\ngreat ocean steamers have bodily bumped themselves on\\nthe big piers and lie there, great masses of iron and wood,\\nthat even fire cannot totally destroy. The great ware-\\nhouses along the water front are smashed in on one side,\\nunroofed and gutted throughout their lengih, their con-\\ntents either piled in heaps on the wharves or along the\\nstreets. Small tugs and sailboats have jammed them-\\nselves half into tlie buildings, where they were landed\\nby the incoming waves, and left by the receding waters.\\nHouses are packed and jammed in great confusing\\nmasses in all of the streets.\\nGreat piles of human bodies, dead animals, rotting\\nvegetation, household furniture, and fragments of the\\nhouses themselves are piled in confused heaps right in\\nthe main streets of the city. Along the gulf front human\\nbodies are floating around like cordwood. Intermingled\\nwith them are to be found the carcasses of horses,\\nchickens, dogs, and rotting vegetable matter. Above all\\narises the foulest stench that ever emanated from any cess-", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "THE REFUGEES AT HOUSTON. 71\\npool, absolutely sickening in its intensity and most dan-\\ngerous to health in its effects.\\nAlong the Strand adjacent to the gulf front, where\\nare located all the big wholesale warehouses and stores,\\nthe situation is even worse. Great stores of fresh vege-\\ntation have been invaded by the incoming waters, and\\nare now turned into garbage piles of most befouling\\nodors. The gulf waters while on the land played at will\\nwith everything, smashing in doors of stores, depositing\\nbodies of humans where they pleased, and then receded,\\nleaving the wreckage to tell its own tale of how the work\\nhad been done. As a result, the great warehouses are\\ntombs, wherein are to be found the dead bodies of human\\nbeings and carcasses, almost defying the efforts of relief\\nparties.\\nIn the pile of debris along the street, in the water, and\\nscattered throughout the residence portion of the city, are\\nto be found masses of wreckage, and in these great piles\\nare to be found more human bodies and household furni-\\nture of every description.\\nHandsome pictures are seen lying alongside of the ice-\\ncream freezers and resting beside the nude figure of some\\nman or woman. These great masses of debris are not\\nconfined to any one particular section of the city.\\nThe waters of the gulf and the winds spared no one\\nwho was exposed. Whirling houses around in its grasp,\\nthe wind piled their shattered frames high in confusing\\nmasses and dumped their contents on top.\\nMen and women were thrown around like so many\\nlogs of wood and left to rot in the withering sun.\\nI believe that with the best exertions of the men it\\nwill require weeks to secure some semblance of physical\\norder in the city, and it is doubtful even then if all the\\ndebris will be disposed of.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "72 THE REFUGEES AT HOUSTON.\\nI never saw such a wreck in my life. From the gulf\\nfront to the center of the island, from the ocean back,\\nthe storm wave left death and destruction in its wake.\\nThere is hardly a family on the island whose house-\\nhold is not short a member or more, and in some instances\\nentire families have been washed away or killed. Hun-\\ndreds who escaped from the waves did so only to become\\nvictims of a worse death by being crushed by falling\\nbuildings.\\nDown in the business portion of the city the founda-\\ntions of great buildings have given way, carrying tower-\\ning structures to their ruin. These ruins, falling across\\nthe streets, formed barricades on which gathered all the\\nfloating debris and many human bodies. Many of these\\nbodies were stripped of their clothing by the force of the\\nwater and the wind, and there was nothing to protect\\nthem from the scorching sun, the millions of flies, and the\\nrapid invasion of decomposition that set in.\\nMany of the bodies have decayed so rapidly that they\\ncould not be handled for burial.\\nSome of the most conservative men on the island place\\nthe loss of human beings at not less than 7,500 and possi-\\nbly 10,000, while others say it will not exceed 5,000.\\nCOAST CITIES NOT PROPERLY CONSTRUCTED.\\nChief Willis L. Moore, of the United States Weather\\nBureau at Washington, being asked his opinion of the\\nidea of rebuilding Galveston on some other site, replied\\nas follows:\\nWeather Bureau, U. S., Washington, D. C, September\\n13, 1900.\\nI should not advise the abandonment of the city of\\nGalveston. It is true that tropical hurricanes sometimes", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "THE REFUGEES AT HOUSTON. 73\\nmove westward across the gulf and strike the Texas\\ncoast, but such movement is infrequent. Within the last\\nthirty years no storm of like severity has touched any\\npart of the coast of the United States. There are many\\npoints on both the Atlantic and gulf coasts, some of them\\noccupied by cities the size of Galveston, that are equally\\nexposed to the force of both wind and water, should a\\nhurricane move in from the ocean or gulf and obtain the\\nproper position relative to them. It would not be advis-\\nable to abandon these towns and cities merely because\\nthere is a remote probability that at some future time a\\nhurricane may be the cause of great loss of life and prop-\\nerty.\\nWe have just passed through a summer that for sus-\\ntained high temperature has no parallel within the last\\nthirty years. Records of low temperature, torrential\\nrains, and other meteorological phenomena that have\\nstood for twenty and thirty years are not infrequently\\nbroken. There does not appear to be, so far as we know,\\nany law governing the occurrence or recurrence of storms.\\nThe vortex of a hurricane is comparatively narrow, at\\nmost not more than twenty or thirty miles in width. It\\nis only within the vortex that such a great calamity as\\nhas befallen Galveston can occur.\\nIt would seem that, rather than abandon the city,\\nmeans should be adopted at Galveston and other simi-\\nlarly exposed cities on the Atlantic and gulf coasts to\\nerect buildings only on heavy stone foundations that\\nshould have solid interiors of masonry to a height of ten\\nfeet above mean sea level. Rigid building regulations\\nshould allow no other structures erected for habitations\\nin the future in any city located at sea level and that is\\nexposed to the direct sweep of the sea.\\nBut Galveston should take heart, as the chances are", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "74 THE REFUGEES AT HOUSTON.\\nthat not once in a thousand years would she be so ter-\\nribly stricken, and high, solid foundations would doubt-\\nless make her impregnable to loss of life by all future\\nstorms. WILLIS L. MOORE,\\nChief U. S. Weather Bureau.\\nCOURAGE OF GALVESTON S BUSINESS MEN.\\nThe courage of Galveston s business men under the\\ndistressing conditions was shown by the utterances of\\nMr. Eustace Taylor, one of the best-known residents of\\nthat city, a cotton buyer known to the trade in all parts\\nof the country. Mr. Taylor was asked on Thursday suc-\\nceeding the flood for an opinion as to the future of Gal-\\nveston.\\nI think, he said, that what we have done here for the\\nfour days which have passed since the storm has been\\nwonderful. It will take us two weeks before we can\\nascertain the actual commercial loss. But we are going\\nto straighten out everything. We are going to stay here\\nand work it out. We will have a temporary wharf within\\nthirty days, and with that we can resume business and\\nhandle the traffic through Galveston.\\nI think that within thirty or forty days business will\\nbe carried on in no less volume than before. I am going\\nto stand right up to Galveston.\\nIf it costs me the last cent, I will stand up for Gal-\\nveston. With our temporary wharf we shall put from\\n1,000 to 2,000 men at work loading vessels while we are\\nwaiting for the railroads to restore bridges and terminals\\non the island. W^e shall bring business by barges from\\nVirginia Point and load in midstream. In this way we\\nshall not only resume our commercial relations, but we\\nshall be able to put the labor of the city at work.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "THE REFUGEES AT HOUSTON. 75\\nThis port holds the advantage over every other port\\nof this country for accommodating 10,000,000 producers,\\nand will accommodate millions of tons, and in inviting\\nthese millions, as we have, to continue their business\\nthrough this port we must in our construction do it on\\nthe same lines employed by the communities of Boston,\\nNew York, Buffalo and Chicago, the stability of which\\nwas plainly illustrated in some structures recently\\nerected in our community.\\nThe port is all right. The ever-alert engineers in\\ncharge of the harbor here have already taken their sound-\\nings. The fullest depth of water remains. The jetties,\\nwith slight repair, are intact, and because of these con-\\nditions, which exist nowhere else for the territory and\\npeople it serves, the restoration will be more rapid\\nthan may be thought, and the flow of commerce will be\\nas great, and for the courage and fortitude and foresight\\nto look beyond the unhappy events of to-day, as prosper-\\nous and secure as in any part of our prosperous country.\\nELEVATORS AND GRAIN NOT BADLY DAMAGED.\\nJ. C. Stewart, a well-known grain elevator builder,\\narrived at Galveston on Thursday, in response to a tele-\\ngram from General Manager M. E. Bailey, of the Galves-\\nton Wharf Company. He at once made an inspection of\\nthe grain elevators and their contents, and then said not\\n2 per cent of the elevators had been damaged. The\\nspouts were intact, and elevator A would be ready to\\ndeliver grain to ships the following Sunday.\\nThe wheat in elevator A was loaded into vessels just\\nas rapidly as they arrived at the elevator to take it. As\\nsoon as the elevator was emptied of its grain the wheat\\nfrom elevator Q was transferred to it and loaded into", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "76 THE REFUGEES AT HOUSTON.\\nships. Very little of the wheat in elevator B had been\\ninjured, but the conveyors were swept away, and it was\\nnecessary to transfer the grain to elevator A in order\\nto get it to the ships. Mr. Bailey put a large force of\\nmen to work clearing up each of the wharves, and the\\ncompany was ready for new business all along the line\\nwithin eight days.\\nBURNING BODIES BY THE HUNDREDS.\\nPestilence could only be avoided here by cremation.\\nThat was the order of the day. Human corpses, dead\\nanimals and all debris were therefore to be submitted to\\nthe flames. On Thursday upwards of 400 bodies, mostly\\nwomen and children, were cremated, and the work went\\nrapidly on. They were gathered in heaps of twenty and\\nforty bodies, saturated w^ith kerosene and the torch\\napplied.\\nCONFLICT OF AUTHORITY BREEDS TROUBLE.\\nA conflict of authority, due to a misunderstanding,\\nprecipitated a temporary disorganization of the policing\\nof the city of Galveston on Thursday. When General\\nScurry, Adjutant-General of the Texas National Guard,\\narrived at Galveston on Tuesday night, with about 200\\nmilitia, from Houston, he at once conferred with the\\nChief of Police as to the plans for guarding property, pro-\\ntecting the lives of citizens and preserving law and order.\\nAn order was then issued by the Chief of Police to the\\neffect that the soldiers sliould arrest all persons found\\ncarrying arms, unless they showed a written order,\\nsigned by the Chief of Police or Mayor of the city, giving\\nthem permission to go armed.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "THE REFUGEES AT HOUSTON. 77\\nSheriff Thomas had, meantime, appointed and sworn\\nin 150 special deputy sheriffs. These deputies were sup-\\nplied with a ribboned badge of authority, but were not\\ngiven any written or printed commission. Acting under\\nthe order issued by the Chief of Police, Major Hunt\\nMcCaleb, of Galveston, who was appointed as aide to\\nGeneral Scurry, issued an order to the militia to arrest\\nall persons carrying arms without the proper authority.\\nThe result was that about fifty citizens wearing deputy\\nsheriff badges were taken into custody by the soldiers\\nand taken to police headquarters.\\nThe soldiers had no wa^- of knowing by what authority\\nthe men were acting with these badges, and would listen\\nto no excuses.\\nGeneral Scurry and Sheriff Thomas, hearing of the\\nwholesale arrests, called at police headquarters and con-\\nsulted with Acting Chief Amundsen. The latter referred\\nGeneral Scurry to Mayor Jones. Then General Scurry\\nand Sheriff Thomas held a conference at the City Hall.\\nThese two officers soon arrived at an understanding, and\\nan agreement was decided upon to the effect that all per-\\nsons deputized as deputy sheriffs and all persons\\nappointed as special officers should be permitted to carry\\narms and pass in and out of the guard lines. General\\nScurry suggested that the deputy sheriffs and special\\npolice and the regular police, for that matter guard\\nthe city during the daytime and that the militia take\\ncharge of the city at night.\\nGeneral Scurry was acting for and by authority\\ngranted by Mayor Jones, and promptly said he was there\\nto work in harmony with the city and county authorities,\\nand that there would be no conflict. When General\\nScurry and Sheriff Thomas called upon the Mayor, the\\nMayor said that he knew that if the Adjutant-General,", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "78 THE REFUGEES AT HOUSTON.\\nthe Chief of Police and the Sheriff would get together\\nthey could take care of the police work.\\nIt was known that people were coming to Galveston by\\nthe score; that many of them had no business there, and\\nthat the city had enough to do to watch the lawless ele-\\nment of Galveston, without being burdened with the care\\nof outsiders.\\nAll deputy sheriffs wearing the badge issued by the\\nSheriff carried arms thereafter and made arrests, and\\nwere not interfered with in any way by the military\\nguards.\\nINADEQUATE TRANSPORTATION PREVENTS\\nSUPPLIES FROM REACHING THE FAMINE-\\nSTRICKEN PEOPLE.\\nOn Thursday, September 13, train load after train load\\nof provisions, clothing, disinfectants and medicines were\\nlined up at Texas City, six miles from Galveston, all sent\\nto the suffering survivors of the storm-swept city. Across\\nthe bay were thousands of people, friends of the dead\\nand living, waiting for news of the missing ones and an\\nopportunity to help, but only a meager amount of relief\\nhad at that time reached the stricken town. Two tele-\\ngraph wires had been put up and partial communication\\nrestored to let the outside world know that conditions\\nthere were far more horrible than was at first supposed.\\nThat was about all. It was not that which was needed;\\nit was a more practicable connection with the mainland.\\nTrue, more boats had been pressed into service to carry\\nsuccor to the suffering and the suffering to succor, but\\nthey were few and small, and although working dili-\\ngently night and day the service was inadequate in the\\nextreme. And the people were still suffering the sick", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "THE REFUGEES AT HOUSTON. 79\\ndying for want of medicine and care; tlie well growing\\ndesperate and in many cases gradually losing their rea-\\nson.\\nWhile there were many who could not be provided\\nfor because the necessary articles for them could not be\\ncarried in, there were hundreds who were being bene-\\nfited. Those supplies which had arrived had been\\nof great assistance, but they were far from ample to\\nprovide for even a small percentage of the sufferers, esti-\\nmated at 30,000. Even the rich were hungry. An effort\\nwas being made on the part of the authorities to provide\\nfor those in the greatest need, but this was found to be\\ndifficult work, so many were there in sad condition. A\\nrigid system of issuing supplies was established, and the\\nregular soldiers and a number of citizens were sworn\\nin as policemen. These attended to the issuing of rations\\nas soon as the boats arrived.\\nEvery effort was put forth to reach the dying first, but\\nall sorts of obstacles were encountered, because many\\nof them were so badly maimed and wounded that they\\nwere unable to apply to the relief committees, and the\\nlatter were so burdened by the great number of direct\\napplications that they were unable to send out messen-\\ngers.\\nThe situation grew worse every minute; everything\\nwas needed for man and beast disinfectants, prepared\\nfoods, hay, gi*ain, and especially water and ice. Scores\\nmore of people died that day as a result of inattention\\nand many more were on the verge of dissolution, for at\\nbest it was to be many days before a train could be run\\ninto the city, and the only hope was the arrival of more\\nboats to transport the goods*\\nThe relief committee held a meeting and decided that\\narmed men were needed to assist in burying the dead", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "80 THE REFUGEES AT HOUSTON.\\nand clear the wreckage, and arrangements were made to\\nfill this demand. There were plenty of volunteers for\\nthis work but an insufficiency of arms. The proposition\\nof trying to pay for work was rejected by the committee,\\nand it was decided to go ahead impressing men into ser-\\nvice, issuing orders for rations only to those who worked\\nor were unable to work.\\nWord was received that refugees would be carried\\nfrom the city to Houston free of charge. An effort was\\nmade to induce all who are able to leave to go, because\\nthe danger of pestilence was frightfully apparent.\\nThere was any number willing to depart, and each out-\\ngoing boat, after having unloaded its provisions, was\\nfilled with people. The safety of the living was a para-\\nmount consideration, and the action of the railroads in\\noffering to carry refugees free of charge greatly relieved\\nthe situation. The workers had their hands full in any\\nevent, and the nurses and physicians also, for neglect,\\nalthough unavoidable, often resulted in the death of\\nmany.\\nIt was estimated |2,500,000 would be needed for the\\nrelief work. The banks of Galveston subscribed $10,000,\\nbut personal losses of the citizens of Galveston had been\\nso large that very few were able to subscribe anything.\\nThe confiscation of all foodstuffs held by wholesale gro-\\ncers and others was decided upon early in the day by the\\nrelief committee. Starvation would inevitably ensue un-\\nless the supply was dealt out with great care. All kero-\\nsene oil was gone, and the gas works and electric lights\\nwere destroyed. The committee asked for a shipload of\\nkerosene oil, a shipload of drinking water and tons of\\ndisinfectants, such as lime and formaldehyde, for imme-\\ndiate use, and money and food next. Not a tallow candle", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "THE REFUGEES AT HOUSTON. 81\\ncould be bought for gold. No baker was making bread,\\nand milk was remembered as a past luxury only.\\nThe following statement was sent out to the country:\\nWe are receiving numerous telegrams of condolence\\nand offers of assistance. As the telegraph wires are\\nburdened, we beg the Associated Press to communicate\\nthis response to all. Near-by cities are supplying and will\\nsupply sufficient food, clothing, etc., for immediate needs.\\nCities farther away can serve us best by sending money.\\nChecks should be made payable to John Sealy, chair-\\nman of the finance committee. All supplies should come\\nto W. A. McVitie, chairman relief committee.\\nWe have 25,000 people to clothe and feed for many\\nweeks and to furnish with household goods. Most of\\nthese are homeless, and the others will require money to\\nmake their wrecked residences habitable. From this\\nthe world may understand how much money we will\\nneed. This committee will from time to time report our\\nneeds with more particularity. We refer to dispatch of\\nthis date of Major R. G. Lowe, which the committee\\nfully indorses. All communicants will please accept\\nthis answer in lieu of direct response and be assured of\\nthe heartfelt gratitude of the entire population.\\nW. C. JONES, Mayor,\\nM. LASKER,\\nJ. D. SKINNER,\\nC. H. M MASTER,\\nR. G. LOWE,\\nCLARENCE OWSLEY.\\nThe dispatch of Major Lowe referred to was as follows:\\nGalveston, Texas, Sept. 12.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Charles S. Diehl,\\nGeneral Manager the Associated Press, Chicago: A", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "82 THE REFUGEES AT HOUSTON.\\nsummary of the conditions prevailing at Galveston is\\nmore than human intellect can master. Briefly stated,\\nthe damage to property is anywhere between |15,000,000\\nand 120,000,000. The loss of life cannot be computed.\\nNo lists could be kept and all is simply guesswork. Those\\nthrown out to sea and buried on the ground wherever\\nfound will reach the horrible total of at least 3,000 souls.\\nMy estimate of the loss on the island of the City of\\nGalveston and the immediate surrounding district\\nis between 4,000 and 5,000 deaths. I do not make\\nthis statement in fright or excitement. The whole\\nstory will never be told, be\u00e2\u0082\u00acause it cannot be told. The\\nnecessities of those living are total. Not a single indi-\\nvidual escaped property loss. The property on the island\\nis wrecked; fully one-half totally swept out of existence.\\nWhat our needs are can be computed by the world at\\nlarge by the statement herewith submitted much better\\nthan I could possibly summarize them. The help must\\nbe immediate. R. G. LOWE,\\nManager Galveston News.\\nThursday evening at the Tremont Hotel, in Galveston,\\noccurred a wedding that was not attended with music\\nand flowers and a gathering of merrymaking friends\\nand relatives. On the contrary, it was peculiarly sad.\\nMrs. Brice Roberts expected some day to marry Earnest\\nMayo; the storm which desolated so many homes de-\\nprived her of almost everything on earth father, mother,\\nsister and brother. She was left destitute. Her sweet-\\nheart, too, was a sufferer. He lost much of his posses-\\nsions in Dickinson, but he stepped bravely forward and\\ntook his sweetheart to his home.\\nGalveston began, September 14, to emerge from the\\nvalley of the shadow of death into which she had been", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "THE REFUGEES AT HOUSTON. 83\\nplunged for nearly a week, and on that day, for the first\\ntime, actual progress was made toward clearing up the\\ncitj The bodies of those killed and drowned in the storm\\nhad for the most part been disposed of. A large number\\nwas found when the debris was removed from wrecked\\nbuildings, but on that date there were no corpses to be\\nseen save those occasionally cast up by the sea. As far\\nas sight, at least, was concerned, the city was cleared of\\nits dead.\\nThey had been burned, thrown into the water, buried\\nanything to get them quickly out of sight. The chief\\ndanger of pestilence was due almost entirely to the large\\nnumber of unburied cattle lying upon the island, whose\\ndecomposing carcasses polluted the air to an almost un-\\nbearable extent. This, however, was not in the city\\nproper, but was a condition prevailing on the outskirts\\nof Galveston. One great trouble heretofore liad been\\nthe inability to organize gangs of laborers for the pur-\\npose of clearing the streets.\\nTHE SAD SITUATION FOUR DAYS AFTER THE\\nCATASTROPHE.\\nThe situation in the stricken city on Wednesday, Sep-\\ntember 12, was horrible indeed. Men, women and chil-\\ndren were dying for want of food and scores went insane\\nfrom the terrible strain to which they had been sub-\\njected.\\nIn his appeal to the country for aid, issued on Tuesday,\\nSeptember 11, Mayor Walter J. Jones said fully 5,000\\npeople had lost their lives during the huiTicane, this esti-\\nmate being based upon personal information. Captain\\nCharles Clarke, a vessel-owner of Galveston, and a relia-\\nble man, said the death list would be even gTeater than", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "84 THE REFUGEES AT HOUSTON.\\nthat, aud he was backed in his opinion by several other\\nconservative men who had no desire to exaggerate the\\nlosses, but felt that they are justified in letting the coun-\\ntry know the full extent of the disaster in order that the\\nnecessary relief might be supplied.\\nUp to Tuesday night 2,300 bodies of storm victims had\\nbeen disposed of, most of them having been buried at sea,\\nwhile hundreds were yet under the ruins of wrecked\\nbusiness buildings and residences.\\nMayor Jones appeal to the country was as follows:\\nIt is my opinion, based on personal information, that\\n5,000 people have lost their lives here. Approximately\\none-third of the residence portion of the city has been\\nswept away. There are several thousand people who are\\nhomeless and destitute how many, there is no way of\\nfinding out. Arrangements are now being made to have\\nthe women and children sent to Houston and other places,\\nbut the means of transportation are limited. Thousands\\nare still to be cared for here. We appeal to you for imme-\\ndiate aid. WALTER J. JONES,\\nMayor of Galveston.\\nFood and women s clothing were the things most\\nneeded. While the men got along with the clothes they had\\non and what they had secured since Sunday, the women\\nsuffered considerably, and there was much sickness\\namong them in consequence. It was noticeable, how-\\never, that the women of the city never lost their courage\\nand by their example were instrumental in reviving the\\ndrooping spirits of the men.\\nEvery house then standing was damp and unhealthy,\\nand some of the wounded did not get along as well as\\nhoped. Many of the injured were sent 6ut of town to", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "THE REFUGEES AT HOUSTON. 85\\nTexas City, Houston and other places, but hundreds\\nremained. It would have endangered their lives to move\\nthem.\\nA regular fleet of steamers and barges was plying\\nbetween Galveston and Texas City, only six miles dis-\\ntant, and which had railway communication with all\\nparts of the United States. As the railroad line to Texas\\nCity had been repaired, trains were sent in there as close\\ntogether as possible, but this did not prevent many hun-\\ndreds in Galveston from dying of starvation and lack of\\nmedical attendance.\\nGalveston suffered in every conceivable way since the\\ncatastrophe of Saturday. Hurricane and flood came\\nfirst; then famine, and then vandalism. Scores of reck-\\nless criminals flocked to the city by the first boats that\\nlanded there, and were unchecked in their work of rob-\\nbery of the helpless dead Monday and Tuesday. Wednes-\\nday, however. Captain Rafferty, commanding the regulars\\nat the beach barracks, sent seventy men of an artillery\\ncompany there to do guard duty in the streets, and, being\\nordered to promptly shoot all those found looting, carried\\nout their instructions to the letter. Over 100 ghouls were\\nshot Wednesday afternoon and evening, and no mercy\\nwas shown vandals. If they were not killed at the first\\nvolley the troops regulars of the United States army\\nand those of the Texas National Guard saw that the\\ncoup de grace was administered. INIost of the robbers\\nwere negroes, and when executed were found loaded with\\nspoil jewelry wrenched from the bodies of women,\\nmoney and watches and silverware and other articles\\ntaken from residences and business houses.\\nNot only had these fiends robbed the dead, but they\\nmutilated the bodies as well, in many instances fingers\\nand ears of dead women being amputated in order to", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "86 THE REFUGEES AT HOUSTON.\\nsecure the jewelry. Some of the business organizations\\nof the city also furnished guards to assist in patroling\\nthe streets, and fully 1,000 men are now on duty.\\nWednesday evening the regulars shot forty-nine ghouls\\nafter they had been tried by court-martial, having found\\nthem in possession of large quantities of plunder. The\\nvandals begged for mercy, but none was shown them\\nand they were speedily put out of the way. The bandits,\\nas a rule, obtained transportation to the city by represent-\\ning themselves as having been engaged to do relief work\\nand to aid in burying the dead. Shortly after the first\\nbunch of thieves was executed another party of twenty\\nwas shot. The outlaws were afterward put out of the\\nway by twos and threes, it being their habit to travel in\\ngangs and never alone. In every instance the pockets of\\nthese bandits were found filled with plunder.\\nMore than 2,000 bodies had been thrown into the sea\\nup to Wednesday night, this having been decided upon\\nby the authorities as the only way of preventing a visita-\\ntion of pestilence, which, they felt, should not be added to\\nthe horrors the city had already experienced. Tuesday\\nevening, shortly before darkness set in, three barges, con-\\ntaining 700 bodies, were sent out to sea, the corpses being\\nthrown into the water after being heavily weighted to\\nprevent the possibility of their afterwards coming to the\\nsurface. As there were few volunteers for this\\nghastly work, troops and police officers Avere sent out to\\nimpress men for the service, but while these unwilling\\nlaborers, after being filled with liquor, agreed to handle\\nthe bodies of white men, women and children, nothing\\ncould induce them to touch the negro dead. Finally\\ncity firemen came forward and attended to the disposal\\nof the corpses of the colored victims. These were badly", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "THE REFUGEES AT HOUSTON. 87\\ndecomposed, and it was absolutely necessary to get them\\nout of the way to prevent infection.\\nNo attempt had been made so far to gather up the dead\\nat night because the gas and electric light plants Avere\\nso badly damaged that they could furnish no illumination\\nwhatever. By Thursday night, liowever, some of the arc\\nlights were ready for use. Since Wednesday morning no\\nefforts at identification were made by the searchers after\\nthe dead, it being imperative that the bodies be disposed\\nof as soon as possible. While the barges containing the\\nbodies were on their way out to sea lists were made, but\\nthat was the only care taken in regard to the victims,\\nmany of whom were among the most prominent people\\nof the city. Of the hundreds buried at Virginia Point\\nand other places along the coast not 10 per cent were\\nidentified, the stakes at the heads of the hastily dug\\ngraves simply being marked, White woman, aged 30,\\nWhite man, aged 45, or Male or Female child.\\nNinety-six bodies were buried at Texas City, all but\\neight of which floated to that place from Galveston.\\nSome were identified, but the great majority were not.\\nState troops were stationed at Texas City and Virginia\\nPoint to prevent those who could not give a satisfactory\\naccount of themselves from boarding boats bound for\\nGalveston. In burying the dead along the shore of the\\ngulf no coffins were used, the supply being exhausted.\\nThere was no time to knock even an ordinary pine box\\ntogether. Cases were known where people have buried\\ntheir dead in their yards.\\nAs soon as possible the work of cremating the bodies\\nof the dead began. Vast funeral pyres were erected and\\nthe corpses placed thereon, the incineration being under\\nthe supervision of the fire department. Matters had\\ncome to such a pass that even the casting of bodies into", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "88 THE REFUGEES AT HOUSTON.\\nthe sea was not only dangerous to those who handled\\nthem, but there was the utmost danger in carrying the\\ndecomposed, putrefying masses of human flesh through\\nthe streets to the barges on the beach. The cemeteries\\nwere not fit for burial purposes, and no attempt whatever\\nwas made to reach them until the ground was thoroughly\\ndried out. Then the bodies of those buried in private\\ngrounds, yards and in the sands along the beach, not only\\non Galveston Island, but at Virginia Point and Texas\\nCity, were removed to the public places of interment,\\nwhere suitable memorials were set up to mark their last\\nresting places. It might have been deemed unfeeling and\\neven brutal, but the fact was that the bodies of the uni-\\ndentified victims received small consideration, being han-\\ndled roughly by the workmen, and thrown into the tempo-\\nrary graves along the beach as though they were animals\\nand not the remains of human beings. No prayers were\\nuttered save in isolated instances, and the poor mangled\\nbodies were consigned to the trench as hurriedly as possi-\\nble. The burying parties had no time for sentiment, and\\nso accustomed had the workers in the dead gangs, as\\nthey were named, become to their grewsome task that\\nthey even laughed and joked when laying away the\\ncorpses.\\nSpecial attention was given the wounded. Physicians\\nwere on duty all the time, some of them not having been\\nto bed since Friday night longer than an hour at a time.\\nVictims not badly hurt were put aside for those suffering\\nand actually requiring the services of surgeons. There\\ns\\\\^ere thousands of them. There were few in Galveston\\nwho did not bear the marks of wounds of some sort.\\n^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00c2\u00bbu4", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER IV.\\nThrilling Experiences of People During the Great Storm\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Elghty-flye\\nPersons Perish by Being Blown from a Train Adventures of Sur-\\nvivors at Galveston.\\nTHE experiences and adventures of those who were in\\nthe great and disastrous storm and escaped only after\\nundergoing frightful anxiety, make interesting reading.\\nThose who emerged in safety from the fearful vortex were\\nunusually fortunate, when it is considered that possibly\\n8,000 persons in Galveston lost their lives and hundreds\\nfell victims to the fury of the hurricane in the territory\\nadjacent to the ill-fated city.\\nHon. John H. Poe, member of the Louisiana State\\nBoard of Education, and residing at Lake Charles, La.,\\nwas present when eighty-five passengers on the Gulf\\nInterstate train which left Beaumont early Saturday\\nmorning from Bolivar Point lost their lives. Mr. Poe\\nwas one of the passengers on this train and fortunately,\\ntogether with a few others, sought safety in the light-\\nhouse at Bolivar Point and was saved. The train reached\\nBolivar about noon and all preparations were made to\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2run the train on the ferryboat preparatory to crossing\\nthe bay. But the wind blew so swiftly that the ferry\\ncould not make a landing and the conductor of the train,\\nafter allowing it to stand on the tracks for a few min-\\nutes, started to back it back toward Beaumont. The\\nwind increased so rapidly, coming in from the open sea,\\nthat soon the water had reached a level with the bottom\\nof the seats within the cars. It. was then that some of\\nthe passengers sought safety in the nearby lighthouse,\\nbut in spite of all efforts eighty-five passengers were\\nblown away or drowned. The train was entirely wrecked.\\n89", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "90 THRILLING EXPERIENCES.\\nSome of the killed were from New Orleans, as the train\\nmade direct connections with the Southern Pacific train\\nwhich left New Orleans Friday night.\\nThose who were saved had to spend over fifty hours in\\nthe dismal lighthouse on almost no rations. The experi-\\nence was one they will remember as one of the most ter-\\nrible of their whole lives.\\nCOMMERCIAL TRAVELEll S EXPERIENCE IN GAL-\\nVESTON.\\nA graphic description of one man s experience was\\ngiven by a commercial traveler William Van Eaton.\\nHe reached Galveston Saturday morning. His narrative\\nis especially interesting, because it shows with w^iat\\nsuddenness the storm assumed a dangerous character.\\nThere was high wind and rain, said he, but so little\\nwas thought of it, however, that myself and some acquaint-\\nances started down to the beach. The water came up so\\nrapidly that we turned and hurried toward the Tremont\\nHotel. Before we reached it we had to wade in water\\nwaist deep.\\nWithin a few minutes, he went on to say, women\\nand children began to flock to the hotel for refuge. All\\nwere panic-stricken. I saw tw^o women, one with a child,\\ntrying to get to the hotel. They were drowned not 300\\nyards from us.\\nMr. Van Eaton was one of the first to cross from Gal-\\nveston to the mainland after the storm subsided. He\\npaid |15 to a boatman to make the crossing. When he\\nreached the point he found an engine and a caboose\\nchained together, with the water several feet deep around\\nthem. While he waited in the caboose for the water to\\ngo down the bodies of two men and a boy floated against", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "THRILLING EXPERIENCES. 91\\nit, and the trainmen tied them to one end of the car. Mr.\\nVan Eaton counted fourteen bodies that had drifted in\\nfrom the bay, all showing that they had been dashed\\naaainst wreckage.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ti\\nONLY ONE OUT OF FIFTY PEOPLE SAVED.\\nPatrick Joyce, a railroad man, who passed through the\\nstorm at Galveston in 1872, suffered such hardships in\\nthat city Saturday morning that he was convinced that\\nthe storm at that time was only a mild little blow in\\ncomparison. He was one of the refugees picked up at\\nLamarque.\\nIt began raining in Galveston early Saturday morn-\\ning, he said. About 9 o clock work was discontinued\\nby the company, and I left for home. I got there about\\n11 o clock and found about three feet of water in the\\nyard. It began to get worse and worse, the water getting\\nhigher and the wind stronger, until it was almost as bad\\nas the gulf itself with its raging torrents. Finally the\\nhouse was taken off its foundation and demolished.\\nThere were nine families in the house, which was a\\nlarge two-story frame, and of the fifty people residing\\nthere myself and niece were the only ones who could get\\naway. I managed to find a raft of driftwood or wreck-\\nage and got on it, going with the tide. I had not got\\nfar before I was struck with some wreckage and my niece\\nknocked out of my arms. I could not save her, and had\\nto see her drown.\\nI was carried on and on with the tide, sometimes on a\\nraft, and again I was thrown from it by coming in con-\\ntact with some pieces of timber, parts of houses, logs,\\ncisterns and other things which were floating around in\\nthe gulf and bay. Many and many a knock I got on my", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "92 THRILLING EXPERIENCES.\\nhead and body, until I was black and bluo all over. The\\nwind was blowing at a terrific rate of speed and the\\nwaves were away up.\\nI drifted and swam all night, not knowing where I\\nwas going or in what direction. About 3 o clock in the\\nmorning I began to feel the hard ground, and then I\\nknew I was on the mainland. I wandered around until I\\ncame to a house, and there a person gave me some clothes.\\nI had lost most of mine soon after I started, and only\\nwore a coat.\\nI was in the water about seven hours, and this sensa-\\ntion, together with the feeling of all these bruises I have\\non my head and body, is not a pleasant one. I managed\\nto save my own life through the hardest kind of a strug-\\ngle, but I thought more than once I was done for, and I\\nlost all I had in this world relatives who were dear to\\nme, home and all.\\nHEROISM OF A HOTEL-KEEPER IN SAVING\\nLIVES.\\nJamesi Black, a well-known merchant at Morgan s\\nPoint, saved nine lives during the storm. The story of\\nhis heroism was told by W. S. Wall of Houston, Tex.,\\nwho has a summer home at Morgan s Point.\\nMy wife was taking f^jupper at the Black Hotel, said\\nMr. Wall, when Mr. Black rushed into the dining-room\\nand called upon all to fly for their lives. The tidal wave\\nwas on them in an instant, and almost before they could\\nleave the hotel to go to a higher point where the Vincent\\nresidence stood, some five or six blocks away, the rushing\\nwaters were all about them more than three feet deep.\\n]Mr. Black, struggling against the elements, bore my\\nwife in safety to the Vincent home, miraculously escaping", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "THRILLING EXPERIENCES. 93\\nbeing crushed by a heavy log which the rushing waters\\ncarried along the pathway of escape. Returning imme-\\ndiately to the hotel, Mr. Black in like manner brought\\nsafely to the Vincent home his aged father and mother,\\nMr. and Mrs. James Black, Sr. His next act of heroism\\nwas to rescue Mrs. Rushmore, her two daughters, two\\ngrandchildren and another woman whose name I cannot\\nrecall. The Vincent home withstood the storm, but the\\nBlack Hotel was wrecked.\\nLouis Braquet, manager of the Black Hotel, was\\nengulfed in the waves and gave up his life in the success-\\nful rescue of his wife and a colored servant girl.\\nSPENT A MOST THRILLING NIGHT.\\nF. T. Woodward, who was a passenger on the first\\ntrain to arrive at Dallas, Tex., from Houston, the Mon-\\nday night succeeding the catastrophe, spent a thrilling\\nSaturday night in the Grand Central station in the latter\\ncity. One hundred and fifty other persons shared his\\nmemorable experiences.\\nThe depot, standing as it does isolated and alone,\\nsaid Mr. Woodward, was exposed to the full force of\\nthe hurricane, and the first strong gust at 8 o clock was\\nfollowed by a sound of shattering glass. Several of the\\nwindows of the general oftices overhead had given away\\nunder the almost irresistible pressure. This was the\\nbeginning of seven hours of mortal dread.\\nThe storm continued to rage with unabated fury and\\nthe roar of the wind was accompanied by the sound of\\ncrashing glass, as one after another of the many windows\\nwas torn from its fastenings and shattered against the\\nbrick walls of the building or upon the sidewalk below.\\nWomen clasped their children in their arms, as though", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "94 THRILLING EXPERIENCES.\\nthey expected to be torn asunder the next moment. Men\\nbegan to scan the pillars and partition walls supporting\\nthe floor above and to take up such positions as seemed\\nto be most conducive to safety in the event the huge\\nbuilding: was razed by the storm.\\nThe crashing of glass was soon followed by a sound of\\nripping and tearing. Section after section of the tin roof\\nvras rolled up like sheets of parchment and hurled hun-\\ndreds of feet away. To add to the terror and confusion,\\nthe electric lights suddenly went out and the building\\nwas left in darkness, except where the trainmen with\\ntheir lanterns stood.\\nThen many moved toward the main entrance of the\\nbuilding, with the evident intention of seeking other\\nquarters, but they were checked at the door by the blind-\\ning sheet of water which was being driven by the wind\\nMith mighty force, and which lay between them and any\\nplace of refuge. They appeared to hesitate between a\\nchoice of being drenched by water and possibly struck\\nby a flying section of roof and of remaining in the depot\\nuntil the end.\\nThe question was soon settled. Even as they looked\\nthe roof of the Grand Central Hotel was torn off, many of\\nits inmates rushing into the street. Almost simultane-\\nously a wail went up from the people in the Lawlor Hotel\\nas the big skylight on top was torn loose and fell crash-\\ning down the shaft, causing pandemonium. This seemed\\nto satisfy those in the depot that no haven of safety could\\nbe found, and they determined to make the best of the\\nsituation.\\nJust then, above the roar of the wind, the crashing of\\nglass and the flapj)ing and pounding and tearing of tin, a\\nnew sound was heard. It was that of falling brick.\\nEvery one stood crouched, prepared to leap to either side", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "THRILLING EXPERIENCES. 95\\nas the occasion might require. Every one realized the\\ngravity of the situation, but, there was no shrieking, no\\nfainting. Every woman stood the ordeal with such forti-\\ntude as to lend courage to even the faintest-hearted man.\\nEven the babies were mute and clung to their mothers\\nnecks in breathless despair.\\nNearer and nearer came that awful rumbling. A\\nshower of brick and mortar fell in the rear of the women s\\nwaiting-room. Nothing remained of the tin-covered awn-\\ning. Few if any doubted that the end had come and that\\nin another moment all would be buried beneath the ruins.\\nSuddenly the sound ceased. The brick had fallen\\nand the lower story of the building remained intact. It\\nwas soon learned that the entire wall stood unbroken and\\nthat the fall of brick and mortar was but the collapse of\\nseveral large chimneys surmounting the top of the build-\\ning.\\nAs soon as this became known the effect upon the awe-\\nstricken mass was electrical. Men lighted cigars, women\\ncheered and laughed, and, though more chimneys fell,\\nmore glass was shivered and the loosened tin on the roof\\ncontinued to pound furiously until nearly 3 o clock in the\\nmorning, there was no more panic, and all felt that the\\nbuilding would withstand the fury of the storm. And\\nit did.\\nHOW HE GOT INTO AND OUT OF GALVESTON.\\nA. V. Kellogg, civil engineer in the employ of the Hous-\\nton and Texas Central Railroad, with headquarters at\\nHouston, told an interesting story of how he got into and\\nout of Galveston during and after the great storm, and of\\nhis observations in the stricken citj. He went to Galves-\\nton Saturday morning, over the Galveston, Houston and\\nHenderson Road, arriving a few hours after the storm\\nbegan.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "96 THRILLING EXPERIENCES.\\nWhen we crossed the bridge over Galveston Bay,\\ngoing into Galveston, said Mr. Kellogg, the water had\\nreached an elevation equal to the bottom caps of the pile\\nbents, or two feet below the level of the track. After\\ncrossing the bridge and reaching a point some two miles\\nbeyond, we were stopped by reason of a washout of the\\ntrack ahead, and were compelled to wait one hour for a\\nrelief train to come over the Galveston, Houston and\\nHenderson track. During this period of one hour the\\nwater rose a foot and a half, running over the rails of the\\ntrack.\\nThe relief train signaled us to return half a mile to\\nhigher ground, where the passengers were transferred,\\nthe train crew leaving with the passengers and going on\\nthe relief train. The water had reached an elevation of\\neight or ten inches above the Galveston, Houston and\\nHenderson track, and was flowing in a westward direc-\\ntion at a terrific speed. The train crew was compelled to\\nwade ahead of the engine and dislodge driftwood from\\nthe track.\\nAt 1:15 we arrived at the Santa Fe Union Depot. At\\nthat period of the day the wind was increasing and had\\nthen reached a velocity of about thirty-five miles an hour.\\nAfter arriving at Galveston I immediately went to\\nthe Tremont Hotel, where I remained the balance of the\\nday and during the night. At 5:30 the water had begun\\nto creep into the rotunda of the hotel, and by 8 o clock\\nit was twenty-six inches above the floor of the hotel, or\\nabout six and one-half feet above the street level.\\nThe front windows of the hotel were blown out, the\\nroof was torn off and the skylights over the rotunda fell\\ncrashing on the floor below. The refugees began to come\\ninto the hotel between 5:30 and 8 o clock, until at least\\n800 or 1,000 persons had sought safety there. The floors\\nwere strewn with people all during the night.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "THRILLING EXPERIENCES. 9T\\nManager George Korst did everything in his power to\\nhelp the sufferers from the effects of the storm and to\\ngive them shelter. When the wind was blowing from the\\nnortheast it was at a velocity of about forty-five miles an\\nhour, but at 8 o clock it had reached the climax, the speed\\nthen being fully 100 miles. The vibration of the\\nhotel was not unlike that of a box car in motion. I tried\\nto sleep that night, but there was so much noise and con-\\nfusion from the crashing of buildings that I could not get\\nany rest.\\nI arose early Sunday morning. The sights in the\\nstreets were simply appalling. The water on Tremont\\nstreet had lowered some eight feet from the high-water\\nmark, leaving the pavement clear for two blocks north\\nand seven blocks south of the Tremont Hotel. The\\nstreets were full of debris, the wires were all down and\\nthe buildings were in a very much damaged condition.\\nEvery building in the business district was damaged to\\nsome extent, with but one or two exceptions, noticeably\\nthe Levy Building and Union Depot, both of which\\nremain intact and went through the storm without a\\nscratch.\\nThe refugees came pouring into the heart of the city,\\nmany of them having but little clothing, and scores were\\nalmost naked. They were homeless and without food or\\ndrink, and many had lost their all and were really in des-\\ntitute circumstances.\\nMayor Jones issued a call for a mass meeting, which\\nwas held Sunday morning at 9 o clock, and was attended\\nby a large number of prominent citizens. Steps were\\ntaken to furnish provisions and relieve the suffering of the\\nrefugees and bury the dead.\\nA conservative estimate of the number of people killed\\n\u00c2\u00a9r drowned is from 1,500 to 3,000.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "98 THRILLING EXPERIENCES.\\nEarly in the morning it was learned that the water\\nsupply had been cut off from some unknown reason. I\\npresume that it was caused by the English ship which\\nwas blown up against the bridges, cutting the pipes. At\\nall events the city was without water, and something\\nhad to be done by the citizens of Houston to relieve the\\nsituation. People who had depended on cisterns, of\\ncourse, had their resources swept away, and there were\\nbut few large reservoirs to be found in the business dis-\\ntrict.\\nThe scene on the docks was a terrible one. The small\\nworking fleet and the larger schooners were washed up\\nover the docks and railroad tracks in frightful confusion.\\nThe Mallory docks were demolished. The elevators were\\ntorn in shreds. Three ocean liners were anchored off\\nthe docks and seemed to be in good condition. The dam-\\nage to the shipping interests is something immense, the\\nHuntington improvements being entirely swept away.\\nI tried to get out of the town as quick as I could, and\\nsucceeded in securing passage on the first sloop which\\nsailed, the Annie K., Captain Willoughby. We sailed\\nfrom the Twenty-second slip at 11 o clock, with seven\\npeople aboard. When we got outside of the harbor\\nwe found a terrible gale blowing and the sea running\\nvery high. Under three reefs and the peak down, we\\nset our course for North Galveston.\\nAs we passed Pelican Flats we could see the English\\nsteamer anchored off over toward where the railroad\\nbridge should be, and came to the conclusion that she\\nhad evidently broken the water mains and cut the supply\\noff from the city. Another ocean liner could be seen off*\\nthe shore of Texas City, in what would seem to have been\\nabout two feet of water in a normal tide.\\nWe passed within a few hundred yards of where the", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "THRILLING EXPERIENCES. 99\\nHalf-Moon Lighthouse once stood, but could see no evi-\\ndence of the lighthouse, it being completely washed\\naway.\\nThe waters of the bay were strewn with hundreds of\\ncarcasses of dead animals. We had a A ^ery hazardous\\npassage, running against a five-mile tide, but managed to\\nreach North Galveston at 1:35 o clock.\\nAt North Galveston we found that a tidal wave had\\ncrossed the peninsula, carrying destruction in its path.\\nThe factory building and the opera-house were completely\\nblown down and other buildings destroyed. While there\\nwere no deaths reported at North Galveston, there were\\nmany hardships endured during the battle with the ele-\\nments.\\nNEWSPAPER MAN S GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF\\nTHE FLOOD.\\nIt was one of the most awful tragedies of modem times\\nwhich has visited Galveston. The city is in ruins and the\\ndead will number probably 1,000.\\nSo says Richard Spillane, a well-known Galveston\\nnewspaper man, the first of his profession to come from\\nthe stricken city after the hurricane, and who arrived at\\nHouston, after a perilous trip. He continued:\\nI am just from the city, having been commissioned\\nby the Mayor and Citizens Committee to get in touch\\nwith the outside world and appeal for help. Houston\\nwas the nearest point at which working telegraph instru-\\nments could be found, the wires, as well as nearly all the\\nbuildings, between here and the Gulf of Mexico being-\\nwrecked.\\nWhen I left Galveston, shortly before noon yesterday,\\nthe people were organizing for the prompt burial of the\\nLffC.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "lot) THRILLING EXPERIENCES.\\ndead, the distribution of food and all necessary work\\nafter a period of disaster.\\nThe wreck of Galveston was brought about by a tem-\\npest so terrible that no words can adequately describe\\nits intensity, and by a. flood which turned the city into a\\nraging sea. The Weather Bureau records show that the\\nwind attained a velocity of eighty-four miles an hour,\\nwhen the measuring instruments blew away, so it is\\nimpossible to tell what was the maximum.\\nThe storm began at 2 o clock Saturday morning. Pre-\\nvious to that a great storm had been raging in the gulf,\\nand the tide was very high. The wind at first came from\\nthe north and was in direct opposition to the force from\\nthe gulf. While the storm in the gulf piled the water\\nupon the beach side of the city, the north wind piled the\\nwater from the bay onto the bay part of the city.\\nAbout noon it became evident that the city was going\\nto be visited with disaster. Hundreds of residences\\nalong the beach front were hurriedly abandoned, the fam-\\nilies fleeing to dwellings in higher portions of the city.\\nEvery home was opened to the refugees, black or white.\\nThe winds were rising constantly, and it rained in tor-\\nrents. The wind was so fierce that the rain cut like a\\nknife.\\nBy 5 o clock the waters of the gulf and bay met, and\\nby dark the entire city was submerged. The flooding of\\nthe electric light plant and the gas plants left the city in\\ndarkness. To go upon the streets was to court death.\\nThe wind was then at cyclonic velocity. Koofs, cisterns,\\nportions of buildings, telegi^aph poles and walls were fall-\\ning, and the noise of the wind and the crashing of the\\nbuildings were terrifying in the extreme.\\nThe wind and waters rose steadily from dark until\\n1:45 o clock Sunday morning. During all this time the", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "THRILLING EXPERIENCES. 101\\npeople of Galveston were like rats in traps. The highest\\nportion of the city Vv^as four to five feet under water,\\nwhile in the great majority of cases the streets were sub-\\nmerged to a depth of ten feet. To leave a house was to\\ndrown. To remain was to court death in the wreckage.\\nSuch a night of agony has seldom been equaled.\\nWithout apparent reason, the waters suddenly began\\nto subside at 1:45 a. m. Within twenty minutes they\\nhad gone down two feet, and before daylight the streets\\nwere practically freed of the flood waters. In the mean-\\ntime the wind had veered to the southeast.\\nVery few if any buildings escaped injury. There is\\nhardly a habitable dry house in the city. When the peo-\\nple who had escaped death went out at daylight to view\\nthe work of the tempest and the floods they saw the most\\nhorrible sights imaginable.\\nIn the three blocks from Avenue N to Avenue P, in\\nTremont street, I saw eight bodies. Four corpses were\\nin one yard. The whole of the business front for three\\nblocks in from the gulf was stripped of every vestige of\\nhabitation, the dwellings, the great bathing establish-\\nnients, the Olympia and every structure having been\\neither carried out to sea or its ruins piled in a pyramid\\nfar into the town, according to the vagaries of the tem-\\npest.\\nThe first hurried glance over the city showed that the\\nlargest structures, supposed to be the most substantially\\nbuilt, suffered the greatest. The Orphans Home,\\nTwenty-first street and Avenue M, fell like a house of\\ncards. How many dead children and refugees are in the\\nruins could not be ascertained.\\nOf the sick in St. Mary s Infirmary, together with the\\nattendants, only eight ?.re understood to have been\\nsaved.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "102 THRILLING EXPERIENCES.\\nThe Old Woman s Home, on Eosenberg avenue, col-\\nlapsed, and the Kosenberg Schoolhouse is a mass of\\nwreckage. The Ball High School is but an empty shell,\\ncrushed and broken. Every church in the city, with pos-\\nsibly one or two exceptions, is in ruins.\\nAt the forts nearly all the soldiers are reported dead,\\nthey having been in temporary quarters, which gave them\\nno protection against the tempest or the flood.\\nThe bay front from end to end is in ruins. Nothing\\nbut piling and the wreck of great vv^arehouses remains.\\nThe elevators lost all their superworks and their stocks\\nare damaged by water.\\nThe life-saving station at Fort Point was carried\\naway, the crew being swept across the bay fourteen miles\\nto Texas City. I saw Captain Haines yesterday and he\\ntold me that his wife and one of his crew were drowned.\\nThe shore at Texas City contains enough wreckage to\\nrebuild a city. Eight persons who were swept across the\\nbay during the storm were picked up there alive. Five\\ncorpses v/ere also picked up. In addition to the living\\nand the dead which the storm cast up at Texas City,\\ncaskets and coffins from one of the cemeteries at Galves-\\nton were fished out of the water there.\\nThe cotton mills, the bagging factory, the gas works,\\nthe electric light works and nearly all the industrial es-\\ntablishments of the city are either wrecked or crippled.\\nThe flood left a slime about one inch deep over the whole\\ncity, and unless fast progress is made in burying corpses\\nand carcasses of animals there is danger of pestilence.\\nSome of the stories of the escapes are miraculous.\\nWilliam Nisbett, a cotton man, was buried in the ruins of\\nthe Cotton Exchange saloon, and when dug out in the\\nmorning had no further injury than a few bruised fingers.\\nDr. S. O. Young, secretary of the Cotton Exchange,", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "THRILLING EXPERIENCES. 103\\nwas knocked senseless when his house collapsed, but was\\nrevived by the water and carried ten blocks by the hurri-\\ncane.\\nA woman who had just given birth to a child was car-\\nried from her home to a house a block distant, the men\\nwho were carrying her having to hold her high above\\ntheir heads, as the water was five feet deep when she was\\nmoved,\\nMany stories were current of houses falling and in-\\nmates escaping. Clarence N. Ousley, editor of the Galves-\\nton Evening Tribune, had his family and the families of\\ntwo neighbors in his house when the lower half crumbled\\nand the upper part slipped down into the water. Not one\\nin the house was hurt.\\nOf the Lavine family, six out of seven are reported\\ndead. Of the Burnett family only one is known to have\\nbeen saved. The family of Stanley G. Spencer, who met\\ndeath in the Cotton Exchange saloon, is reported to be\\ndead.\\nThe Mistrot House, in the west end, was turned into a\\nhospital. All of the regular hospitals of the city were\\nunavailable.\\nOf the new Southern Pacific works little remains but\\nthe piling. Half a million feet of lumber was carried\\naway, and Engineer Boschke says, as far as the company\\nis concerned, it might as well start over again.\\nEight ocean steamers were torn from their moor-\\nings and stranded in the bay. The Kendall Castle was\\ncarried over the flats from the Thirty-third street wharf\\nto Texas City and lies in the wreckage of the Inman pier.\\nThe Norwegian steamer Gyller is stranded between Texas\\nCity and Virginia Point. An ocean liner was swirled\\naround through the West Bay, crashed through the bay\\nbridges and is now lying in a few feet of water near the", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "104 THR ILLING EXPERIENCES.\\nwreckage of the railroad bridges. The steamship Taun-\\nton was carried across Pelican Point and is stranded\\nabout ten miles up toward East Bay. The Mallory\\nsteamer Alamo was torn from her wharf and dashed upon\\nPelican flats and the bow of the British steamer Red\\nCross, which had previously been hurled there. The stern\\nof the Alamo is stove in and the bow of the Red Cross\\nis crushed.\\nDown the channel to the jetties two other ocean\\nsteamships lie grounded. Some schooners, barges and\\nsmaller craft are strewn bottom side up along the slips\\nof the piers. The tug Louise of the Houston Direct Navi-\\ngation Company is also a wreck.\\nIt will take a week to tabulate the dead and the miss-\\ning and to get anything near an approximate idea of the\\nmonetary loss. It is safe to assume that one-half of the\\nproperty of the city is wiped out and that one-half of the\\nresidents have to face absolute poverty.\\nAt Texas City three of the residents were drowned.\\nOne man stepped into a well by a mischance and his\\ncorpse v/as found there. Two other men ventured along\\nthe bay front during the height of the storm and were\\nkilled. There are but few buildings at Texas City that\\ndo not tell the story of the storm. The hotel is a com-\\nplete ruin.\\nFor ten miles inland from the shore it is a common\\nsight to see small craft, such as steam launches, schooners\\nand oyster sloops. The life boat of the life-saving station\\nwas carried half a mile inland, while a vessel that was an-\\nchored in Moses Bayou lies high and dry five miles up\\nfrom Lamarque.\\nWENT THROUGH THE STORM OF 1875.\\nThe great storm which has just devastated Galveston\\nreminds me of the terrible equinoctial storm that swept", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "THRILLING EXPERIENCES. 105\\nover that city in September, 1875, said Dr. Henry Stan-\\nhope Bunting of room 500, 57 Washington street, Chicago.\\nAt that time I was a resident of Galveston, and my\\nexperience was similar to that of many others who es-\\ncaped. The loss of life and property was great.\\nThe situation of Galveston exposes the city to the\\nwaves whenever there is a severe windstorm. The island\\nis thirty miles long and quite narrow. It is really only a\\ngreat sand bar, rising four to five feet above the surface\\nof the gulf. At their highest point the sand banks are not\\nmore than ten feet above the normal surface of the water.\\nThe city is built at the northern end of the island at\\nthe entrance to Galveston Bay. The opening to the bay\\nbetween the end of the island and the mainland gives\\nthe water a free sweep over the jetties when a heavy wind\\nis blowing. In this way waves running several feet high\\npour immense volumes of w^ater into the bay, causing its\\nwaters to rise many feet and flood the lowlands. In the\\nrush of the waters back toward the gulf the narrow chan-\\nnel entrance to the bay is not a sufficient outlet and the\\nflood sweeps into the city.\\nIt is seldom that the equinoctial storms are so severe\\nthat the back flow of the water inundates the island. In\\nvery heavy storms, however, as in the latest hurricane,\\nthe great waves might sweep across the island from the\\ngulf and add to the work of destruction in rushing back\\nto the gulf from the bay.\\nThe houses have no cellars. They are built on pillars\\nof brick several feet above the ground. When the water\\nis high it v^ashes up to the first floor and sometimes drives\\nthe occupants of the building to the second story.\\nWhen the storm struck in 1875 we were at a house\\nnear the water s edge five miles down the island from\\nGalveston. The waves lifted the house off its brick pil-", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "106 THRILLING EXPERIENCES.\\nlars and dropped it iu the water and sand tilted at an\\nangle of 45 degrees. Vv ith other families we took refuge\\nat a house on much higher ground, but even there we were\\ndriven to the second story.\\nAWFUL EXPERIENCES DUEING THE FLOOD.\\nFIFTY-TWO FAMILIES MEET DEATH IN ONE\\nHUGE BUILDING\u00e2\u0080\u0094 RESCUERS LOVED\\nONES PERISH.\\nJohn Davis, having apartments in a huge flat building,\\nwhose wife was killed, and for whose body he vv^as search-\\ning in the debris of the structure, said there were fifty-\\ntwo families there when the house collapsed, and he was\\nthe only survivor.\\nPoliceman Joseph Bird and John Rowan rescued about\\n100 people Saturday from the fury of the storm. They\\nreturned to the police station only when the high water\\nfloated the patrol wagon and threatened to drovv n their\\nteam. They had no idea that the waters of the gulf had in-\\nvaded the western portion of the city where they lived un-\\ntil they returned to the police station. They started im-\\nmediately for their homes, but their families had been\\nswept away. Policeman Bird lost his wife and five chil-\\ndren and Rowan his wife and three children.\\nMany refugees were picked up at Hitchcock and taken\\nto the Jacquard Hotel, where they were given every pos-\\nsible attention. Many of these refugees were suffering\\nfrom injuries and had been in the water for some time.\\nMost of these persons had floated in on drift and rafts,\\nand one of the party came ashore on a piano.\\nOne hundred ammunition boxes from Camp Hawley\\nwere found near Hitchcock, and a pile-driver from Hunt-\\nington wharf was driven inland to within a few hundred\\nyards of the town. The prairie was covered with drift of", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "THRILLING EXPERIENCES. 107\\nall kinds, dead cattle, water craft of all sizes, buggies,\\nwagons and such like. Searching parties found dozens\\nof bodies in Hall s Bayou and buried them.\\nSEES FAMILY SWEPT AWAY.\\nOne of the refugees w^ho arrived at Houston on the\\nfirst relief train from Texas Citj, just out of Galveston,\\nand who had a sad experience in the hurricane, was S.\\nW. Clinton, an engineer at the fertilizing plant at the\\nGalveston stock yards. Mr. Clinton s family consisted of\\nhis wife and six children. When his house was washed\\naway he managed to get two of his little boys safely to a\\nraft, and with them he drifted helplessly about. His raft\\ncollided with wreckage of every description and was split\\nin two and he was forced to witness the drovv^niug of his\\nsons, being unable to help them in any way. Mr. Clinton\\nsays parts of the city are seething masses of v/ater.\\nESCAPED, BUT LOST HIS WIFE.\\nMr. Jennings, a slater, who resided at Thirty-eighth\\nstreet and Avenue M Galveston, got to the mainland\\nin about the same manner as Clinton. After losing his\\nwife, he set out, and by swimming and drifting around\\nreached the mainland.\\nWilliam Smith, a boy about 18 years old, whose home\\nis in West Texas, had a narrow escape. Young Smith\\nwas blown off the docks and came ashore in the drift-\\nwood. Despite the difficulty he experienced in keeping\\nafloat he held out to the end and reached the shore safe\\nand sound.\\nA. L. Forbes, a United States postal clerk, w^hose car\\nwas attached to a train which passed through the terri-\\ntory not far from Galveston on Sunday, said that at", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "108 THRILLING EXPERIENCES.\\nOyster Creek the train crew and passengers heard cries\\ncoming out of a mass of debris. Several persons answered\\nthe cries and found a negro woman fastened under a roof.\\nThey pulled her out and she informed her rescuers there\\nwere others under the roof. A further search resulted in\\nthe finding- of nine dead bodies, all colored persons.\\nWhen the train arrived at Angleton, the jail, all the\\nchurches and a number of houses had been blown down.\\nA GENUINE HELL UPON EARTH.\\nJoseph Johnson, a prominent citizen of Austin, Tex.,\\nwho was among the list of missing, arrived at home\\nWednesday evening, direct from Galveston, and was\\nreceived with joy by his family. Mr. Johnson went to\\nGalveston on Friday, the day before the disaster, and\\nwas there during all the terrible storm and until Tues-\\nday night, where he aided in the work of rescue and saw\\nsome sorrowing sights. He said many of the survivors\\ngot through the flood almost by miracle. He saw young\\nmen who were black-haired on Saturday come out of the\\nordeal with hair turned completely white on Sunday.\\nIt would take 5,000 men one year, he says, to clear\\nthe streets and town of Galveston, so complete is the\\nruin. The biggest liar in America could not do justice to\\nthe existing condition of affairs there. I was in the Tre-\\nmont Hotel during the storm. The building was\\nthronged with refugees; women were praying throughout\\nthe night, and above the roar of the wind could be heard\\ncrash of buildings and splash of the waves against the\\nbuilding. W^e expected the hotel to go down any min-\\nute. At daylight Sunday morning I and four others\\nstarted out to view the ruins. W^e passed eight bodies\\nwithin a block, and when we reached the beach, where", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "THRILLING EXPERIENCES. 109\\nthe waters were still running high, we stayed some time,\\nand while there about one body per minute passed us,\\nfloating with the tide. Homes that were formerly ele-\\ngant are a mass of wreckage.\\nWhen I left the city the stench from decaying human\\nbodies was simply terrible and almost unbearable. It\\nis with difficulty that they can be handled at all, and the\\nonly ones who can now do the work are negroes. The\\nsight is sickening. It is impossible to make any effort\\nat identification, except to keep a record of the jewels\\nand valuables taken from them. All pretense at holding-\\ninquests was abandoned yesterday. The bodies are piled\\non drays and hauled to the wharf, where they are lowered\\ninto the water. They are piled one on the other like so\\nmany animals, it being impossible to give them any atten-\\ntion. The bodies of poor and rich alike are treated in\\nthis manner. Hundreds of men and women who are\\nseeking friends or relatives who are among the missing\\nsurround the places where the bodies are handled, and\\ntheir cries of distress are almost unbearable.\\nThere was not a living animal on the island so far as I\\ncould see. Thousands of head of cattle and horses were\\ndrowned and killed. No cats or dogs survived the storm\\nand not a bird is to be seen. No one can make anything\\nlike a reliable estimate of the number of deaths. I had\\nto walk for twelve miles from the place where I landed\\non the mainland before I got out of the wreckage. The\\nwater swept the coast for a distance of twenty miles\\ninland, and dead bodies are to be seen all over this terri-\\ntory. I passed a large number on my walk to get a train.\\nThe stench in this storm-swept part of the mainland is\\nawful. It is estimated that over 5,000 head of cattle\\nwere drowned by the gulf waters in that section.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "110 THRILLING EXPERIENCES.\\nSTKANGE DEATH OF A WEALTHY ENGLISHMAN.\\nOne of the most pathetic stories of suffering in Galves-\\nton was brought to light Friday morning when the South-\\nern Pacific train arrived at New Orleans from Houston.\\nAmong the passengers were Mrs. Mary Quayle of Liver-\\npool, England, and Mr. Jonathan Hale of Gloversville,\\nN. Y. Mrs. Quayle came from New York to Galveston,\\narriving there on the Thursday before the storm, accom-\\npanied by her husband, Edward Quayle, a tabulater on\\nthe Liverpool Cotton Exchange. Mrs. Quale and her hus-\\nband took apartments in the Lucas Terrace, a fashion-\\nable place in the eastern end of Galveston Island.\\nAll day Saturday, the day of the storm, her husband\\nwas not feeling well and remained in his room most of\\nthe time, lying down on a couch. When the storm be-\\ncame very bad after 8 o clock he arose and went to the\\nwindow to look out in the darkness, hoping to see, by\\nan occasional flash of lightning, whether or not there\\nwas danger of destruction, as was greatly feared.\\nSuddenly there came an unusually violent fit of wind\\nand the window out of which Mr. Quayle was peering\\nwas literally sucked out as if by a mighty air-pump, and\\nhe was taken along with it. Mrs. Quayle, so far as she\\nwas able to explain, instead of being drawn along in the\\ndirection of the storm, was thrown in the opposite di-\\nrection against the door of her room.\\nWhen she came to her senses she found she was not\\nseverely hurt, and began to call for her husband.\\nThere was no reply, and in her fright she fairly shrieked\\nout his name. Mr. Hale, who occupied the adjoining\\nroom, came to her assistance and cared for her until dawn\\nof Sunday morning. Then they went out together and\\nsearched the adjacent portion of the city for her missing\\nhusband. But not a trace of him was to be found. The", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "THRILLING EXPERIENCES. Ill\\nsearch was kept up until Monday night, by which time\\nall the wounded had been cared for in the best possible\\nway and all the unburied dead had become putrid. Then\\nMr. Hale brought Mrs. Quayle via Houston to New Or-\\nleans and they immediately took the through Louisville\\nNashville train for New York.\\nMr. Quayle had on his person some very valuable jew-\\nelry and quite a large sum of money at the time he dis-\\nappeared. Luckily, however, Mrs. Quayle had enough\\nmoney on her to pay her way back to England. She\\nwas completely overcome by fright and although having\\nnot yet reached the middle age, had all the appearance\\nof being a frail, decrepit old woman, so terrible had been\\nher recent and trying ordeal. She was compelled to re-\\nmain in her berth while traveling.\\nUNNERVED BY WHAT HE SAW.\\nMichael B. Hancock, 3452 Dearborn street, Chicago,\\nunnerved by the scenes of horror he witnessed among\\nthe ruins of Galveston on Tuesday, hastened to leave the\\nstricken city, and arrived in Chicago Thursday after-\\nnoon. Sights of the dead bodies constantly before him,\\nand, according to his statements, he had been practically\\nwithout sleep since he first set foot on the island.\\nHancock, w4io is a Pullman car porter, had a run from\\nChicago to Austin, Tex., but when he reached the end of\\nhis trip Monday he heard of the disaster at Galveston\\nand decided to go with a relief party leaving Austin that\\nnight. The relief train was able to proceed only as far\\nas Houston, and from there the goods were transported\\nto the coast and put aboard a small excursion steamer.\\nHancock was accompanied by his conductor, Frank\\nAlphons. Although they were with the relief party, they\\nwere stopped several times by the pickets at the steamer", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "112 THRILLING EXPERIENCES.\\nlandings. After much difficulty tliey gained a view of\\nthe city and the dead.\\nWhile in the midst of their sightseeing they were ac-\\ncosted by United States soldiers and commanded to assist\\nin the recovery and burning of the dead bodies. Feign-\\ning to acquiesce, they managed to draw away from the\\nsoldiers, and then made a run for the beach. A small\\nboat carried them to the mainland, and they made a\\nforced march of twelve miles before they were able to\\nobtain a vehicle to take them to Houston. Reaching\\nHouston late at night, they started at once for Austin and\\nthe north. Alphons stopped at St. Louis and Hancock\\ncame straight through.\\nWhen seen at his residence Thursday night Hancock\\nsaid:\\nThe sights in the wrecked city of Galveston were the\\nmost horrible that I have ever witnessed. Dead bodies\\nwere everywhere. Part of the city had been blotted out.\\nFor a distance of two miles along the bay houses had\\nbeen washed away and only the foundations left. The\\nwater had not yet entirely receded, and where business\\nblocks and fine residences had once stood were simply\\nholes marking the foundations. These were filled with\\nfloating debris and bodies of the drowned.\\nThe sight was ghastly in the extreme, as the working\\nparties would arrive at one of these holes and start to\\ndrag the bodies of the dead from the pools of dirty water.\\nEvery one was expected to work at recovering the dead,\\nand the soldiers corralled Alphons and me and told us\\nthat we would have to assist in the work. At that time\\nwe were standing watching a party of five men working\\nunder a guard. They were lassoing the bodies and pull-\\ning them out on the higher places, and then piling them\\non boards preparatory to burning them.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "THRILLING EXPERIENCES. 113\\nJust as some of the regulars were guarding us a ter-\\nrible outcry arose from the men engaged in the rescue\\nwork. Running quickly to the scene of trouble, we saw\\none of the workers was in the grasp of one of the soldiers.\\nAnother soldier was covering him with his rifle. The\\nman, a Mexican, dressed in shabby clothes and wearing\\na drooping sombrero, was standing sullenly eying the\\ncrowd, with one hand in his pocket. His captor grasped\\nhis arm suddenly and dragged his hand from the pocket,\\nand five mutilated fingers which he had hacked from\\ncorpses dropped to the ground. Each had one or more\\nrings on it.\\nWith the sight of these evidences of crime before them\\nthe workers seemed to go mad, and with cries of Lynch\\nhim! Burn him! made for the unfortunate wretch. Be-\\nfore that he had been standing stolid and unmoved, but\\nthe approaching danger shook his courage, and he sunk\\nto the ground pleading for mercy. But there was no\\nmercy for the monster, and the men were only prevented\\nfrom killing him then and there bv the interference of the\\nsoldiers.\\nLeave him to us, said the corporal in charge of the\\nparty as he ranged his men around the prisoner. We will\\nattend to his case, and with that he had the jMexican\\nmarched over and placed against a post not more than\\nfifteen feet from the bodies he had mutilated. Selecting\\nfour soldiers as a firing party, he lined them up ten feet\\nfrom the doomed man, and with the word Fire! four\\nbullets pierced the ghoul s body and he fell dead. Such\\nwas a measure of the speedy justice which is being meted\\nout to vandals in Galveston. Besides this case, I heard\\nof several more where the guilty men were given the\\nbenefit of a short court-martial, then sentenced to death\\nand shot.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "114 THRILLING EXPERIENCES.\\nI told Alphons that I did not want any of that kind\\nof work, and that I never could stand the notion of\\nhandling the bodies, and suggested that we escape. He\\nagreed with me, and we gradually edged away from the\\nsoldiers and finally made a run and reached the beach.\\nHere we hired a small boy to row us to the mainland, and\\nfrom there we had to walk twelve miles before we could\\nget a rig to take us back to Houston.\\nIt will be a long time before I will want to return to\\nGalveston, or before I can forget the terrible scenes I\\nwitnessed there. Since I left there I have been seeing\\nthe dead bodies all day, lying stark and stiff, with looks\\nof terror on their faces, as though they had realized that\\na sure death was before them, and at night I have\\ndreamed of having to help handle them. I tell you such\\nthings wear on a man, and I will bless the time when I\\ncan forget that I was ever in Galveston.\\n*^The ruins show that the tidal wave must have struck\\nthe city broadside, as the buildings are washed away in\\nalmost a straight line back from the shore. The wave\\nswept away buildings as far as twelve blocks inland for\\na space of nearly two miles. This ruined part comprised\\nall the best part of the city. All the city buildings and\\nthe entire business portion of the city were swept away,\\nand nothing remains to mark the spots where business\\nblocks stood except half-submerged foundations filled\\nwith boards and dead bodies.\\nThe inhabitants who were rendered homeless and\\nwere not able to leave the city are now living in tents\\nfurnished by the United States government. Several dis-\\ntributing stations had been established and forces of men\\nwere busy issuing food and clothing to the unfortunate\\npeople. There appeared to be no lack of provisions, but\\nwater is scarce and there is no ice. While we were there", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "THRILLING EXPERIENCES. 115\\nthe heat was almost unendurable, and the stench from\\nthe bodies made the task of the relief party anything\\nbut pleasant. Water has to be hauled for several miles.\\nThe electric-light plant was destroyed and the city is\\nwithout light, but the moon has shone brightly, and the\\nwork of finding the bodies has been carried on day and\\nnight.\\nConservative estimates of the number drowned made\\nby persons familiar with the city place the loss of life at\\n5,000. No one knows just how many were killed, and it\\nwill be difficult for an accurate statement to be ever\\nmade, as the authorities are making no attempt at identi-\\nfying the dead, but are bending all their efforts toward\\ngetting the city cleaned up in order to prevent a pesti-\\nlence. At first relatives of those killed were allowed to\\naccompany the searching parties, but this was found to\\nbe too slow a method, and now the pickets are instructed\\nto prevent any one not connected with relief parties from\\nentering the city.\\nFor the first two days the bodies were carried out to\\nsea in steamers and dumped overboard, but now the of-\\nficials are piling up the slain in heaps with boards and\\npieces of timber among them, and, after saturating the\\npile with oil, set fire to them.\\nIt hardly seems probable that they will rebuild Gal-\\nveston, at least not on its present location. The city\\nstood but little above the sea level, and the soil is sandy,\\nwhich accounts for the complete destruction of most of\\nthe buildings even to the foundations.\\nMany refugees came north with us, and all seemed to\\nbe in a hurry to leave the scene of desolation. They\\nacted as though dazed, and many were unable to talk\\nintelligently regarding their escape. All along the line\\nwe were besieged with questions regarding the safety of", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "116 THRILLING EXPERIENCES.\\ndifferent people, but of course were unable to give our\\nquestioners any reliable information.\\nSmaller towns through Texas that were struck by the\\nhurricane had buildings blown down and a few casualties\\nresulting. However, Galveston was the only city to suffer\\nfrom the tidal wave, and that accounts for the large loss\\nof life. Most of the dead in Galveston were drowned,\\nand but few were killed by falling timbers. In Houston\\nseveral buildings were blown down and about ten persons\\nkilled.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER V,\\nBelief Sent from All Parts of the World as Soon as the True Situatioa of\\nAflTairs was Made Known\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Millions of Dollars Subscribed aud Thou-\\nsands of Carloads of Supplies Forwarded to the Desolated City.\\nMAYOR JONES, of Galveston, issued his appeal to the\\nUnited States for help on the 11th inst., and the response\\nwas prompt aud liberal.\\nHis call for help was as follows:\\nTO THE PUBLIC:\\nIt is my opinion, based on personal information, that\\n5,000 people have lost their lives here. Approximately\\none-third of the residence portion of the city has been\\nswept away. There are several thousand people who are\\nhomeless and destitute how many there is no way of\\nfinding out. Arrangements are now being made to have\\nthe women and children sent to Houston and other places,\\nbut the means of transportation are limited. Thousands\\nare still to be cared for here. We appeal to you for im-\\nmediate aid.\\nWALTER J. JONES,\\nMayor of Galveston.\\nThe same day the General Relief Committee of Galves-\\nton issued the following:\\nGalveston, Tex., Sept. 11. To the Public of America:\\nA conservative estimate of the loss of life is that it will\\nreach 3,000; at least 5,000 families are shelterless and\\nwholly destitute. The entire remainder of the population\\nis suffering in greater or less degree.\\n117", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "118 RELIEF FOR THE STRICKEN.\\nNot a single church, school or charitable institution,\\nof which Galveston had so many, is left intact. Not a\\nbuilding escaped damage and half the whole number were\\nentirely obliterated.\\nThere is immediate need for food, clothing and house-\\nhold goods of all kinds. If near by cities will open asy-\\nlums for women and children the situation will be greatly\\nrelieved.\\nCoast cities should send us water as well as provisions,\\nincluding kerosene oil, gasoline and candles,\\nW. C. JONES,\\nMayor.\\nM. LASKER,\\nPresident Island City Savings Bank.\\nJ. D. SKINNER,\\nPresident Cotton Exchange.\\nC. H. McMASTER,\\nFor Chamber of Commerce.\\nR. G. LOWE,\\nManager Galveston News.\\nCLARENCE OWSLEY,\\nManager Galveston Tribune.\\nMembers of the Galveston Local Relief Committee.\\nThe Secretary of the Treasury at Washington received\\na joint telegram from Postmaster Griffen and Special\\nDeputy Collector Rosenthal, at Galveston. This described\\nthe destruction caused by the storm and said:\\nThousands homeless and destitute. Five hundred\\nsheltered in custom house, which is practically roofless.\\nOld custom house roofless and windows blown out. Need\\ntents and 30,000 rations. Citizens relief committee doing\\nall in their power, but stock of undamaged provisions ex-\\nhausted. With all the people housed, need extra force", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "RELIEF FOR THE STRICKEN. 119\\nsix men to keep building in sanitary condition. Relief\\nurgently requested.\\nThe Secretary sent the government revenue cutter\\nOnondaga from Norfolk to Mobile, Ala,, to carry supplies\\nto Galveston.\\nThe day the appeal was made Acting Secretary of\\nWar Meiklejohn at Washington authorized the charter-\\ning of a si)ecial train from St. Louis to carry Quartermas-\\nters and commissary supplies to the relief of the destitute\\nat Galveston.\\nOrders were also issued by the War Department for the\\nimmediate shipment to Galveston of 855 tents and 50,000\\nrations. These stores and supplies were divided between\\nSt. Louis and San Antonio.\\nSeptember 12 Governor Sayers issued the following\\nstatement\\nAustin, Tex., Sept. 12. Conditions at Galveston are\\nfully as bad as reported. Communication, however, has\\nbeen re-established between the island and the mainland,\\nand hereafter transportation of supplies will be less diffi-\\ncult.\\nThe work of clearing the city is progressing fairly\\nwell, and Adjutant-General Scurry, under direction of the\\nmayor, is patrolling the city for the purpose of preventing\\ndepredations\\nThe most conservative estimate as to the number of\\ndeaths places them at 2,000.\\nContributions from citizens of this state, and also from\\nother states, are coming in rapidly and liberally, and it is\\nconfidently expected that within the next ten days the\\nwork of restoration by the people of Galveston will have\\nbegun in good earnest and with energy and success.\\nOf course, the destruction of property has been very\\ngreat, not less than |10,000,000, but it is hoped and be-", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "120 RELIEF FOR THE STRICKEN.\\nUeved that even this great loss will be overcome through\\nthe energy and self-reliance of the people.\\nJOSEPH D. SAYERS, Governor.\\nOn the same day the Galveston General Relief Commit-\\ntee sent out this statement of the condition of affairs:\\nWe are receiving numerous telegrams of condolence\\nand offers of assistance. Near-by cities are supplying\\nand will supply sufficient food, clothing, etc., for immedi-\\nate needs. Cities farther away can serve us best by send-\\ning money. Checks should be made payable to John\\nSealy, Chairman of the Finance Committee. All supplies\\nshould come to W. A. McVitie, Chairman Relief Com-\\nmittee.\\nWe have 25,000 people to clothe and feed for many\\nweeks and to furnish with household goods. Most of these\\nare homeless, and the others will require money to make\\ntheir wrecked residences habitable. From this the world\\nmay understand how much money we will need. This\\ncommittee will from time to time report our needs with\\nmore particularity. We refer to dispatch of this date of\\nMajor R. G. Lowe, which the committee fully endorses.\\nAll communicants will please accept this answer in lieu\\nof direct response and be assured of the heartfelt grati-\\ntude of the entire population.\\nW. C. JONES, Mayor.\\nM. LASKER,\\nJ. D. SKINNER,\\nC. H. McMASTER,\\nR. G. LOWE,\\nCLARENCE OWSLEY.\\nColonel Amos S. Kimball, Assistant Quartermaster\\nGeneral, stationed at New York, was informed by army", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "RELIEF FOR THE STRICKEN. 121\\ncontractors on Tuesday, the day the appeal was sent out,\\nthat Miss Helen Gould had purchased 50,000 army rations\\nfor the Galveston sufferers. The rations were started\\nfrom the Pennsylvania railroad station in Jersey City\\nat 3 p. m. the same day. Miss Gould went directly to the\\ncontractors who supply the army with provisions and or-\\ndered rations identical with those furnished for soldiers,\\nconsisting of bacon, canned meats, beans, hard bread, and\\ncoffee.\\nChicago sent |25,000 to the Governor of Texas; Andrew\\nCarnegie gave |20,000 in cash; Sir Thomas Lipton cabled\\nfrom London to his manager at New York to send |1,000\\nat once, which was done; Davenport, la., sent |1,600 im-\\nmediately; Philadelphia wired Governor Sayers |5,000\\nwithout delay; the American Steel Hoop Company, Amer-\\nican Tin Plate Company and American Sheet Steel Com-\\npany gave 110,000 each, and the Southern Pacific Railway\\nCompany, |5,000; Chicago started a trainload of supplies\\nsouthward, as also did the State of California; the rail-\\nroads hauling the cars free of charge; several newspapers\\nin Chicago, New York and Kansas City either gave money\\nor started relief trains with doctors, nurses and medical\\nsupplies, with orders to beat the best record time to Gal-\\nveston; Cincinnati began with |1,000 and subscribed that\\namount daily for many days; Cleveland, O., telegraphed\\n$2,500, and then made it |15,000; 30,000 rations and 900\\nUnited States army tents were sent from St. Louis from\\nthe office of the United States Quartermaster; the mayor\\nof Colorado Springs, Colo., was told by the citizens to\\nsend |2,000 at once and he did so; nearly all the theatres\\nof the United States gave benefits; the State of Kansas,\\nhaving |500 left in its Indian Famine Relief Fund, sent\\nthat; people of the Btate of Texas sent |15,000 to the\\nGovernor at Austin; Houston, Tex., raised |2,000 in cash;", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "122 RELIEF FOR THE STRICKEN.\\nthe Governors of nearly all the States issued proclama-\\ntions calling upon their people to subscribe to the relief\\nfund, the mayors of most of the cities doing the same ^the\\nconsequence being that Governor Sayers had about |250,-\\n000 in hand in cash that very (Tuesday) night, with several\\nhundreds of thousands more in sight and within call.\\nBy Thursday he had |900,000 in hand and on Saturday\\nhad 11,500,000, in addition to which were several thousand\\ncars loaded with supplies of all sorts provisions, medi-\\ncines, disinfectants, fruits, clothing, wines for the sick,\\ntents, bandages, stoves, oil everything that could pos-\\nsibly be needed.\\nIt was estimated that fully |2,500,000 would be neces-\\nsary to carry the sufferers through the fall and winter\\nand into the following spring, for thousands of them were\\nill and unable to provide in any way for themselves. There\\nwere fully 50,000 men, women and children in Galveston\\nand Central and Southern Texas who were dependent\\nupon charity.\\nOn Friday night Governor Sayers decided upon two\\nimportant plans of action. The first was that he would\\nallow all food and clothing shipped from the east and\\nwest to be concentrated in Galveston for the use of that\\ncity and that he would also grant that city the use of\\n30,000 laborers for a period of thirty days, the same to\\nbe paid |1.50 per man per day for that time out of the\\nrelief fund. In addition thereto all requests for money\\nfrom the Galveston Relief Committee were to be granted.\\nHis second decision was that he personally would look\\nafter the needs of the 30,000 destitute along the gulf coast\\non the mainland, provide them with flour and bacon and\\nkeep them going until they get on their feet again. Chair-\\nman Sealy of the Galveston committee was to keep track", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "RELIEF FOR THE STRICKEN. 123\\nof the Galveston situation while the Governor looked out\\nfor the outside points.\\nThat night a local committee from Galveston vs^as sent\\nto Houston and Virginia Point to take charge of the\\nreceiving and distribution of supplies that arrived there\\nfor the Galveston people. A serious matter confronting\\nthe authorities not only at the coast points, but in the\\ncities near Galveston, was the rapid gathering of toughs,\\ngamblers and rough characters generally, which after\\nthe flood were forced to leave Galveston island as they\\nwould not work. Others drifted into the mainland oppo-\\nsite Galveston and on to the neighboring towns by the\\nhundreds in the hope of pickpocketing and the like among\\nthe crowds.\\nAll this gathering of disorderly characters made the\\npeace officers rather uneasy as to the future. The police\\nand troops in Galveston and the special officers on the\\nmainland were constantly on the alert to keep down trou-\\nble and prevent all possible thieving and they did not\\nget the upper hand of this element until they had shot a\\nscore or more. These fellows would steal the provisions\\nand supplies sent by the generous people from the outside,\\nand whenever caught were shot without delay.\\nThe following was sent out from Galveston on Satur-\\nday, Sept. 15, which showed how serious the situation\\nwas:\\nGalveston, Texas, Sept. 14. Hon. Joseph D. Sayers,\\nGovernor: After the fullest possible investigation here\\nwe feel justified in saying to you and through you to the\\nAmerican people that no such disaster has ever overtaken\\nany community or section in the history of our country.\\nThe loss of life is appalling and can never be accurately\\ndetermined. It is estimated at 5,000 to 8,000 people.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "124 RELIEF FOR THE STRICKEN.\\nThere is cot a home in Galveston that has not been\\ninjured, while thousands have been destroyed. The prop-\\nerty loss represents accumulations of sixty years and more\\nmillions than can be safely stated. Under these condi-\\ntions, with ten thousand people homeless and destitute,\\nwith the entire population under a stress and strain diffi-\\ncult to realize, we appeal directly in the hour of our great\\nemergency to the sympathy and aid of mankind.\\nWALTER JONES,\\nMayor.\\nR. B. HAWLEY,\\nCongressman.\\nMcKIBBIN,\\nCommander Department of Texas.\\nGeneral McKibbin, when he looked over the city three\\ndays before, had wired the War Department at Wash-\\nington that perhaps 1,000 people had perished. He was a\\nconservative man, as army officers usually are, and when\\nhe signed a statement saying probably 8,000 persons had\\nlost their lives his signature carried weight with it.\\nNot only did the people of the United States sympathize\\ndeeply with the Texas sufferers, but those of other nations\\nas well. President Loubet, of France, sent the following\\nkind message to President McKinley at Washington\\nRambouillet Presidence, Sept. 12. To His Excellency,\\nthe President of the United States of America:\\nThe news of the disaster which has just devastated\\nthe State of Texas has deeply moved me. The sentiments\\nof traditional friendship which unite the two republics\\ncan leave no doubt in your mind concerning the very sin-\\ncere share that the President, the government of the re-\\npublic, and the whole nation take in the calamity that", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "RELIEF FOR THE STRICKEN. 125\\nhas proved such a cruel ordeal for so many families in the\\nUnited States.\\nIt is natural that France should participate in the\\nsadness, as well as in the joy, of the American people.\\nI take it to heart to tender to your excellency our most\\nheartfelt condolences, and to send to the families of the\\nvictims the expression of our afflicted sympathy.\\nEMILE LOUBET.\\nPresident McKinley sent this answer the next day:\\nExecutive Mansion, Washington, D. C, Sept. 13. His\\nExcellency, Emile Loubet, President of the French Re-\\npublic, Rambouillet, France:\\nI hasten to express, in the name of the thousands who\\nhave suffered by the disaster in Texas, as well as in be-\\nhalf of the whole American people, heartfelt thanks for\\nyour touching message of sympathy and condolence.\\nWILLIAM McKINLEY.\\nSCHOOL CHILDREN GAVE THEIR PENNIES.\\nEven the school children of the country helped the suf-\\nferers with their pennies. Miss Ethel Donelson, a pupil\\nat the Grant School, Chicago, wrote a letter to a Chicago\\ndaily paper suggesting that the school children give some\\nof their pennies to the victims of the great hurricane. The\\nidea was carried out and several thousand dollars was\\nraised in this way in Chicago. The plan was adopted\\nalso in several other cities.\\nWhen the suggestion w^as first made United States\\nPostoffice Inspector Walter S. Mayor wrote as follows:\\nI was reared in Galveston; lived there from my in-", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "126 RELIEF FOR THE STRICKEN.\\nfancy until appointed to the government service nineteen\\nyears ago, and my mother and brother still live there.\\nWhen Chicago had its great fire in 1871 the people of\\nGalveston sent a generous subscription, and with it was\\none made up by the boys of the school I attended. Our\\nteacher, E. E. Crawford, gave us a holiday for the purpose,\\nand the fifty-odd boys organized themselves into a num-\\nber of soliciting committees. I was on the committee\\nwith Charles Fowler, now one of Galveston s leading busi-\\nness men, and we two succeeded in collecting |8. In all,\\nfor our day s work we got together |200, which was turned\\ninto the general fund raised by the Citizens Committee.\\nIn the .twenty-nine years that have followed since then\\nChicago has pulled itself out of the ashes and risen to a\\nhigh place among the world cities. Many forces have\\nbeen brought to bear to accomplish this great end, but\\npossibly the most potent one was the helping hand of the\\nneighbor when help was needed. Among those who helped\\nwith their little mite may the school children of Galveston\\nnow be remembered.\\nI most heartily second Miss Donelson s suggestion that\\nthe school children of Chicago be given an opportunity to\\naid their little brothers and sisters in Galveston, many of\\nwhom are naked and orphaned by the terrible disaster\\nthat has come to them.\\nWALTER S. MAYEK,\\nPostoffice Inspector.\\nOn Thursday, Sept. 13, American residents and visitors\\nin Paris, France, together with Frenchmen whose sym-\\npathies were aroused by the storm disaster in Texas, con-\\ntributed 50,000 francs in twenty minutes for the relief\\nof the sufferers. The Americans held a meeting in the\\nChamber of Commerce, which was largely attended.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "RELIEF FOR THE STRICKEN. 127\\nUnited States Ambassador Porter was a leader among\\nthose who proposed to organize for the work of aiding in\\nthe relief. The Americans perfected an organization and\\nelected General Porter President, George Munroe, the\\nbanker, Treasurer, and Francis Kimball Secretary. The\\nsubscription list was then opened and the 50,000 francs\\nraised. The Mayor of Galveston was informed by cable\\nof the result.\\nThe same day P. P. W. Houston, Member of Parliament\\nfor the West Toxteth division of Liverpool, England, and\\nhead of the Houston line of steamers, cabled \u00c2\u00a31,000 to\\nGalveston for the relief of the sufferers.\\nMembers of the American colony in Berlin, Germany,\\nheld a meeting Sunday, September 16, at the United\\nStates Embassy and raised |5,000.\\nAmericans in London subscribed |10,000 and many\\nLondon theatres gave benefits.\\nThe Marquis of Salisbury, Premier of England, the Em-\\nperor William of Germany, the Emperor of Austria, the\\nKing of Italy, the Czar of Russia in fact, nearly all\\nthe heads of state in the world cabled condolences, and\\nthe legislative bodies of foreign nations then in session\\npassed resolutions of sympathy.\\nBy Saturday New York had raised |174,000; Chicago,\\n191,000, together with many carloads of supplies which\\nwere sent as special trains, and the following cities had\\ncontributed the amounts named\\nSt. Louis 161,300\\nBoston 32,140\\nPhiladelphia 29,358\\nNew Orleans 26,000\\nCincinnati 7,314\\nCleveland 9,358", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "128 RELIEF FOR THE STRICKEN.\\nColorado Springs I 7,100\\nMinneapolis 13,430\\nDenver 12,180\\nPittsburg 26,123\\nKansas City 15,321\\nPortland, Oregon 1,000\\nPeoria, 111 1,800\\nMemphis 8,426\\nSan Francisco 16,000\\nLouisville 12,585\\nBaltimore 12,138\\nMilwaukee 13,431\\nSpringfield, 111 2,314\\nSt. Paul 6,904\\nTopeka, Kan 5,110\\nCharleston, S. C 6,008\\nLos Angeles 5,400\\nDetroit 4,936\\nIndianapolis 3,800\\nHelena, Mont 3,400\\nJohnstown, Pa 3,000\\nAs stated before, the total for the four and a half days\\nensuing from the time the appeal was issued 11, 500,000\\nwas contributed, while an additional |1,000,000 was not\\nlong in following. Both Chicago and New York increased\\ntheir subscriptions largely.\\nIn no case did the railroads charge for carrying the\\ncars over their lines.\\nTHEIR PENALTIES WERE REMITTED.\\nNavigation and other laws were set at naught by the\\nUnited States authorities in order to help the Galveston", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "RELIEF FOR THE STRICKEN. 129\\nand other flood sufferers. On Friday, September 14, the\\nfollowing telegram was referred to General Spaulding\\nby President McKinley:\\nGalveston, Tex., Sept. 12, 1900.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 To President of the\\nUnited States: In consequence of calamity and fear of\\nsickness numerous people wish to leave the city. All our\\nrail communication is cut off. The revenue cutter of\\nthis district is disabled and no American steamer immedi-\\nately available. We therefore respectfully request you\\nto instruct the proper authorities to allow British steam-\\ners Caledonia and Whitehall and any other foreign ves-\\nsels now here, but compelled to proceed to New Orleans\\nfor cargo, to carry passengers from Galveston to New\\nOrleans.\\nW. C. JONES, Mayor,\\nCLARENCE OUSLEY,\\nJ. D. SKINNER,\\nC. H. McMASTER,\\nR. G. LOWE,\\nCommittee.\\nGeneral Spaulding at once sent the following telegram;\\nW. 0. Jones, Mayor, Galveston, Tex.: Replying to\\nyour telegram of the 12th inst. addressed to President:\\nIf British steamships Caledonia, Whitehall, or other for-\\neign vessels now in your port carry passengers in distress\\nfrom Galveston to New Orleans or other American ports\\nduring present conditions this department will con-\\nsider favorably applications for remission of penalties\\nwhich may be incurred under the law. Advise masters.\\nO. L. SPAULDING, Acting Secretary.\\nOn Friday night Governor Sayers stated that the work\\nof relieving the flood sufferers was making excellent pro-\\ngress. He said:", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "130 RELIEF FOR THE STRICKEN.\\nMost generous contributions are coming in from all\\nparts of the country sufficiently large to relieve the im-\\nmediate wants as to food and clothing, and in the mean-\\ntime the people of Galveston are recovering themselves,\\nand I have no hesitancy in expressing the firm conviction\\nthat a strong reaction from an almost mortal blow to the\\ncity has already set in, and that in a short while the city\\nwill be in a condition to resume its normal and progres-\\nsive position in commercial life. After a full conference\\nto-day with an authorized committee from Galveston, I\\nam more than convinced that the people there will be able,\\nwith the assistance already given, to handle the situation\\nsuccessfully.\\nHOW GALVESTON S BUSINESS MEN WERE\\nHELPED ALONG.\\nAs a rule there is no sentiment in business, but the\\nretail merchants of Galveston whose business and for-\\ntunes were swept away were not forgotten in the hour\\nof need by the wholesale houses of Chicago, which an-\\nnounced just after the disaster that stocks of goods would\\nbe shipped promptly and willingly, any time and terms\\nbeing accorded to the business of the gulf city. The regu-\\nlar way of determining credits was ignored, as was the\\ncredit man also. His cold judgment was not asked for,\\nbut instead sympathy and compassion for the unfortunate\\nposition of the merchants of the stricken city determined\\nlargely the stand the wholesalers announced they would\\ntake.\\nIn doing this the houses of Chicago had the precedent\\nestablished by the outside world in its treatment of them\\nin the days following the great Chicago fire. Chicago men\\nsaid they will do as they were done by, and the Galveston", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "RELIEF FOR THE STRICKEN. 131\\nmerchant had but to ask for the help he needed. Many\\nChicago houses wrote their Galveston customers at once\\nadvising them that they could have credit, time, and terms\\nto suit themselves. This favor was also given to all busi-\\nness men who had lost all but names and prestige,\\nwhether they had been customers or not.\\nFirms that never had had any business with Galveston\\nor Texas firms stated that they stood ready to ship goods\\non the same terms. No business man in the damaged\\ndistrict, they said, whose misfortunes were due to the\\ncatastrophe could come to Chicago for supplies and go\\naway without them even if he had not a dollar s worth\\nof assets in the world, as long as he could show a former\\ngood business standing and repute.\\nWe will take any and all risks, said one after another\\nof the representatives of Chicago wholesale houses. In\\nthe present emergency credits cannot be measured by\\nthe regular business standards. Humanity must dictate\\nthe terms on v/hich the merchants of Galveston who have\\nbought from us, or who may want to buy from us, are\\nto have goods and supplies.\\nFirm after firm of the wholesale district, whether or\\nnot they now have trade in the afflicted territory, made\\nthe same statement.\\nWe already have written to 200 former customers who\\nare scattered along the coast, asking them how they came\\nout of the disaster and offering them any terms of settle-\\nment their losses may warrant, said the credit man of\\none of the largest houses in the West, on the Friday fol-\\nlowing the flood. We will view the facts in their cases\\nnot from a business but from a sympathetic standpoint.\\nWe are making our former customers time, terms and\\ncredits of their own asking, said the Vice-President of\\na great wholesale dry goods house. We will make the", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "132 RELIEF FOR THE STRICKEN.\\nsame terms to new customers who have been good busi-\\nness men.\\nWe have advised former customers that their orders\\nwill be filled promptly for complete stocks, said the man-\\nager of a music and musical instrument house. We have\\ntold them to make their own time and terms. We charge\\nno interest.\\nWe are looking at the men of Galveston and not at\\ntheir present assets, said the managing partner of a\\nwholesale clothing house having a large Texas trade.\\nWe have sent word to fifty of our customers in Gal-\\nveston to draw on us for new stocks without asking them\\nif they have saved a penny from the catastrophe, said\\nthe President of one of the largest cigar and tobacco con-\\ncerns in the city.\\nThe conditions are so distressing as to shame a Chi-\\ncagoan asking what any Galveston business man has to-\\nday, said the manager of a grocery house. We have\\nnever reached into Texas after trade, but shall do so im-\\nmediately. Any business man wanting our goods can\\nhave them on his own terms.\\nOur customers in Galveston can send in their orders\\nfor new stocks and have them filled as quickly as if they\\nforwarded double prices, said a furnishing goods whole-\\nsaler. We are not asking them what their assets are.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VI.\\nCremating Bodies by the Hundred in the Streets of Galveston Negroes\\nFaint While Handling the Decomposed Corpses How Some of Those\\nRescued Escaped with Their Lives.\\nFULLY 1,500 bodies were cremated at Galveston after\\nit became apparent that the time necessary to bury them\\nor cast them into the sea could not be taken, owing to\\ntheir advanced state of decomposition.\\nMany of the negroes who handled the bodies fell from\\nfright and nausea. White volunteers took their places\\nand the work went on. The volunteers bandaged their\\nmouths and noses with cotton cloths saturated with dis-\\ninfectants and were relieved by other volunteers every\\nhour.\\nFires could not be started every place where bodies\\nwere found. The usual plan was to collect all bodies\\nwithin two blocks in one spot and then build the funeral\\npyre. On the remains of many women were valuable\\nrings and jewelry, but the men did not attempt to remove\\nthe jewelry. It was burned with the owners.\\nOfficers Mass and Woodward reported that their two\\ngangs burned 100 bodies, the majority women and chil-\\ndren. The percentage of deaths among children was\\nfrightful. Sheriff Thomas and his negroes burned forty\\nbodies on the beach near Tremont street.\\nCatholic priests in charge of gangs reported 120 bodies\\nburned. The sanitary experts pushed the work of burn-\\ning the dead. No other disposition was considered. Peo-\\nple who had lost relatives and friends made no objection\\nand looked on the plan with favor.\\nDisinfectants were used as never before in the world.\\nThe smell of the charnel house was driven away and the\\n133", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "134 DISPOSAL OF THE DEAD.\\nwhole city was filled with the fumes of carbolic acid and\\nlime in solution.\\nThis is general order No. 9, issued by Brigadier Gen-\\neral Thomas Scurry, commanding the city forces:\\nGuards, foreman of gangs, and working parties or\\nothers acting under the authorities of this department\\nwill use diligence toward preventing any hardships on\\nprivate individuals or impressing men for service. The\\nconditions, however, are so critical, and it is so necessary\\nthat sanitary precautions be taken to preserve the lives\\nand health of the people of this stricken city, that individ-\\nual interests must give way to the general good of all.\\nIf it is found feasible to secure volunteers, general im-\\npressment will be avoided, but, the medical fraternity\\nbeing a unit in the opinion that further delay or procrasti-\\nnation will bring pestilence to finish the dire work\\nof the hurricane, the interests of no individual,\\nfirm, or corporation will for one instant be spared to se-\\ncure volunteers for work, but, failing this, every able-\\nbodied man is to be put to work to clear the wreckage,\\nburn the hundreds of bodies under it, and save, if possible,\\nthe lives of those who yet remain. I trust this position\\nmay be thoroughly appreciated and understood, so that\\nall people will govern themselves accordingly.\\nBOY FLOATS MILES ON A TRUNK.\\nThe miracles of Galveston were many. Some of them\\nwill not be received with full credit by readers. In the\\ninfirmary at Houston was a boy whose name is Rutter.\\nHe was found on Monday morning lying behind a trunk\\non the land near the town of Hitchcock, which is twenty\\nmiles to the northward of Galv^eston. The boy was only\\n12 years old. His story was that his father, mother, and", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "DISPOSAL OF THE DEAD. 135\\ntwo children remained in the house. There was a crash.\\nThe house went to pieces. The boy said he caught hold\\nof a trunk when he found himself in the water and floated\\noff with it. He was sure the others were drowned. He\\nhad no idea of where it took him, but when daylight came\\nhe was across the bay and out upon the still partially\\nsubmerged mainland.\\nESCAPED IN BATHING SUITS.\\nThe wife of Manager Bergman of the Houston Opera\\nHouse saw more of the storm than fell to the lot of most\\nwomen who live to tell of it. She had been spending the\\nheated term at a Rosenberg avenue cottage only a short\\ndistance from the beach.\\nOn Saturday morning the water had risen there three\\nfeet. Putting on a bathing suit, Mrs. Bergman went to\\nthe Olympia to talk over the long distance telephone with\\nher husband in Houston. This was about 10 a. m. At\\nthe Olympia she had to wade waist deep in the water. At\\n2 o clock Mrs. Bergman became alarmed, and with her\\nsister she left the summer cottage and started toward the\\nmore thickly settled part of the city. Neighbors laughed\\nat the fear of the women. Out of a family of fifteen in\\nthe next house only three were saved.\\nMrs. Bergman and her sisted waded and swam alter-\\nnately several blocks until they reached the higher streets.\\nThen they hired a negro with a dray and told him to take\\nthem to the telephone exchange. Within two blocks from\\nwhere the start was made in this way the mule got into\\ndeep water and w^as drowned. The women reached the\\ntelephone building, but when the firemen began to bring\\nin the dead bodies they left and went to Balton s livery\\nstable. This was only 600 yards away, but Mrs. Bergman\\nsays it was the hardest part of the trip, with the air full", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "136 DISPOSAL OF THE DEAD.\\nof flying- bits of glass, slate, and wood. In the stable they\\nremained until morning.\\nWhen the sun had risen the water had so far receded\\nthat they went out to the site of their cottage. A hitch-\\ning post was all that served to locate the place. No houses\\nwere left standing for many blocks around. A dead baby\\nlay in the yard. The two women returned down-town.\\nPassing a store with plate glass windows and doors\\nblown out, they went in and helped themselves to the\\nblack cloth from which they made the gowns they still\\nwore when they reached Houston three days later. Dur-\\ning the storm they wore their bathing suits.\\nSTRANGE INCIDENTS OF THE FLOOD.\\nMany instances of devotion of husband to wife, of wife\\nto husband, of child to parent and parent to child could\\nbe mentioned. One poor woman with her child and her\\nfather was cast out into the raging waters. They were\\nseparated. Both were in drift and both believed they\\nwent out in the gulf and returned. The mother was\\nfinally cast upon the drift and there she was pounded by\\nthe waves and debris until she was pulled into a house\\nagainst which the drift had lodged, and during all that\\nfrightful ride she held to her eight months old boy and\\nwhen she was on the drift pile she lay upon the infant\\nand covered it with her body that it might escape the\\nblows of the planks. She came out of the ordeal cut and\\nmaimed, but the infant had not a scratch.\\nSTATUES ON ALTAR NOT HARMED.\\nSt. Joseph s Catholic Church presents a strange con-\\ntrast, with the roof and rear wall back of the altar being\\ncarried away. The wall collapsed, but the altar was not", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "DISPOSAL OF THE DEAD. 137\\ndamaged and the frail lifesize statues of St. Joseph and\\nthe Virgin on the altar were not harmed or moved.\\nWhen their home went to pieces the members of the\\nStubbs family husband, wife, and two children\\nclimbed upon the roof of a house floating by. They felt\\ntolerably secure. Without warning the roof parted in\\ntwo pieces. Mr. and Mrs. Stubbs were separated. Each\\nhad a child. The parts of the raft went different ways in\\nthe darkness. One of the children fell off and disappeared.\\nNot until some time Sunday was the family reunited.\\nEven the child was saved, having caught a table and\\nclung to it until it reached a place of safety.\\nAnother man took his wife from one house to another\\nby swimming until he had occupied three. Each fell in its\\nturn and then he took to the waves and they were sep-\\narated and each, as the persons above mentioned, believed\\nthey were carried to sea. After three hours in the water\\nhe heard her call and finally rescued her.\\nTHREW $10,000 W^ORTH OF DIAMONDS INTO THE\\nWATER.\\nEdward Zeigler, Thomas Farley and Alexander Mc-\\nCarthy arrived at Mobile, Ala., Thursday evening from\\nGalveston. They left Galveston that morning on the tug\\nRobinson with 130 other refugees and were taken to\\nHouston. Until they arrived at New Orleans they were\\nclad in undergarments and were coatless.\\nThey escaped at 10:30 on Sunday morning from a house\\non the exposed beach by clinging to a log and floating\\nto high ground. Zeigler was struck by floating wreckage,\\nbut was assisted by his companions to safety. An old\\nnegress, who gave the sleeping men warning, was\\ndrowned.\\nZeigler was naked and the other men were in their", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "138 DISPOSAL OF THE DEAD.\\nnight garments when they reached the crowd gathered\\nnear the Tremont house, but their appearance was similar\\nto that of hundreds, many women being rescued for whom\\nclothing had to be at once obtained. At noon Sunday\\nthey had sufficient space to move around with comfort,\\nalthough filled with anxiety and penned in on all sides\\nby the rapidly rising water. Four hours later the few\\nthoroughfares above water were congested with crowds\\nof hysterical women, crying children and frantic men.\\nThe separation of families produced pathetic scenes\\nwhen mothers mourned their offspring and men lamented\\nthe loss of all dear to them. There was no confusion, only\\na clinging closer together without discrimination of class\\nor sex as the waters advanced foot by foot.\\nAt dark the misery deepened and the women occupied\\nthe hotel and approaches, the highest point in the city,\\nand the water continuing to advance, buildings and stores\\nwere thrown wide open to provide refuge in the upper\\nstories. The men gave the better positions to the women.\\nAs midnight approached conditions became worse;\\nseveral women became demented and one woman, a mem-\\nber of the demi-monde, threw |10,000 worth of diamonds\\ninto the flood.\\nIn the hotel the women kissed each other and said good-\\nby. They prayed and sang hymns in turn. With each\\nannouncement that the waters were rising many men\\nand women gave up to the terrible mental strain and\\nfainted.\\nThe survivors paid a high tribute to the bravery in the\\nface of death of the women of Galveston, and stated that,\\nalthough abject melancholy had fallen over all, that the\\nspirit of fortitude displayed by the women nerved the\\nmen. The horrors of that night were equaled on the suc-\\nceeding days as the water receded.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "DISPOSAL OF THE DEAD. 139\\nDARED EVERYTHING FOR WIFE AND SON.\\nOf all the heroism and dogged tenacity of purpose\\nnoted in connection with the Galveston storm none was\\ngreater than that of W. L. Love of Houston. Mr. Love\\nwas a compositor on the Houston Post, and his wife and\\nlittle son were visiting Mrs. Love s mother in Galveston\\nwhen the storm struck the city.\\nEarly Sunday morning when the first news of the Gal-\\nveston disaster began to drift in, Mr. Love announced to\\nthe foreman of the composing-room, under whom he was\\nworking, that he intended starting immediately for Gal-\\nveston.\\nHe went to one of the depots and fortunately found a\\ntrain leaving toward Galveston. He boarded it, but the\\ntrain was forced to stop eight miles before it reached\\nGalveston Bay. He Avalked eight miles, arriving at the\\nbay in about two hours. There was no boat in sight, not\\neven a skiff or canoe.\\nHe found a large cypress railroad-tie near the water s\\nedge and, procuring a coal hook from a locomotive that\\nhad blown from the track, he got astride the tie after\\nhaving placed it in the water, and set out on a difficult\\nand perilous journey across the three miles of salt water.\\nThus he labored for six trying hours, the sun beating\\ndown on him and with his body half submerged in the\\nbrine of the bay.\\nAt last the goal was reached and he pulled himself\\nout of the v/ater and stepped on the once fair island.\\nAfter having passed on his w^ay more than a hundred\\ndecaying bodies of the storm victims, the heroic 3 Oung\\nman set about finding his wife and little boy. This he did", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "140 DISPOSAL OF THE DEAD.\\nafter a lengthy search. His wife had lost her mother,\\nfather, brothers and sisters, numbering eight in all.\\nThe little boy had been utterly stripped of his clothing\\nby the wind and both he and his mother had an experi-\\nence that rarely comes to a mother and son.\\nPITIFUL TALES OF SOME OF THE SURVIVORS.\\nThe story of Thomas Klee was indeed most pitiful.\\nKlee lived near Eleventh and N streets. When the storm\\nburst he was alone in his home with his two infant chil-\\ndren. He seized one under each arm and rushed from\\nthe frail structure in time to cheat death among the fall-\\ning timbers of his home.\\nOnce in the open, with his babies under his arms, he\\nwas swept into the bay among hundreds of others. He\\nheld to his precious burden and by skillful maneuvering\\nmanaged to get close to a tree which was sweeping along\\nwith the tide. He saw a haven in the branches of the\\ntree and raised his two-year-old daughter to place her in\\nthe branches. As he did so the little one was torn from\\nhis arm and carried away to her death.\\nThe awful blow stunned but did not render him sense-\\nless. Klee retained his hold on the other child, aged four\\nyears, and was whirled along among the dying and dead\\nvictims of the storm s fury, hoping to effect a landing\\nsomewhere.\\nAn hour in the water brought the desired end. He was\\nthrown ashore, with wreckage and corpses, and,\\nstumbling to a footing, lifted his son to a level with his\\nface. The boy was dead.\\nKlee remembered nothing until Thursday night, when\\nhe was put ashore in Texas City. He had a slight recol-\\nlection of helping to bury dead, clear away debris and", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "DISPOSAL OF THE DEAD. 141\\nobey the command of soldiers. His braiu, however, did\\nnot execute its functions until Friday morning.\\nGeorge Boyer s experience was a sad one. He was\\nthrown into the rushing waters, and while being carried\\nwith frightful velocity down the bay saw the dead face\\nof his wife in the branches of a tree. The woman had\\nbeen wedged firmly between two branches.\\nMargaret Lees life was saved at the expense of her\\nbrother s. The woman was in her Twelfth street home\\nwhen the hurricane struck. Her brother seized her and\\nguided her to St. Mary s Universitj^ a short distance\\naway. He returned to search for his son, and was killed\\nby a falling house.\\nHORRIBLE CONDITION OF THE CITY AFTER THE\\nFLOOD.\\nI. J. Jones, sent to Galveston by Governor Sayers, of\\nTexas, the day after the storm to investigate the con-\\ndition of the Texas State quarantine there, reported to\\nthe Governor at Austin on September 14, said, among\\nother things, in his report:\\nThe sanitary condition of the city is very bad. Large\\nquantities of lime have been ordered to the place, but I\\ndoubt if any one will be found to unload it from the ves-\\nsels and attend its systematic distribution when it arrives.\\nThe stench is almost unbearable. It arises from piles of\\ndebris containing the carcasses of human beings and ani-\\nmals. These carcasses are being burned whenever it can\\nbe done with safety, but little of the wreckage can be\\ndestroyed. There is no water protection, and should a\\nfire break out the destruction of the city would soon be\\ncomplete. When searching parties come across a human\\nbody it is taken into an open space and wreckage piled", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "142 DISPOSAL OF THE DEAD.\\nover it. This is set on fire and tlie body slowly consumed.\\nThe odor of the burning bodies is horrible.\\nThe chairman of the finance relief committee at Gal-\\nveston wanted me to make the announcement that the\\ncity wants all the skilled mechanics and contractors with\\ntheir tools that can be brought to Galveston. There is\\nsome repair work now going on, but it is impossible to\\nfind men who will work at that kind of business. Those\\nnow in Galveston not engaged in the relief work have\\ntheir own private business to look after and mechanics\\nare not to be had. All mechanics will be paid regular\\nwages and will be given employment by private parties\\nwho desire to get their wrecked homes in a habitable con-\\ndition as rapidly as possible. There are many houses\\nwhich have only the roof gone. These residences are\\nfinely furnished, and it is desired that the necessary re-\\npairs be made quickly.\\nThe relief work is fairly well organized. Nothing has\\nbeen accomplished except the distribution of food among\\nthe needy. About one-half of the city is totally wrecked\\nand many people are living in houses that are badly\\nwrecked. The destitute are being removed from the city\\nas rapidly as possible. It will take three or four days yet\\nbefore all who want to go have been removed from the\\nisland and city. A remarkably large number of horses\\nsurvived the storm, but there is no feed for them and\\nmany of them will soon die of starvation.\\nI am thoroughly satisfied after spending two days in\\nGalveston that the estimate of 5,000 dead is too conserva-\\ntive. It will exceed that number. Nobody can ever esti-\\nmate or will ever know within 1,000 of how many lives\\nwere lost. In the city the dead bodies are being got rid of\\nin whatever manner possible. They are burying the dead\\nfound on mainland. At one place 250 were found and", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "DISPOSAL OF THE DEAD. 143\\nburied on Wednesday. There must be hundreds of dead\\nbodies back on the prairies that have not been found. It\\nis impracticable to make a search. Bodies have been\\nfound as far back as seven miles from the mainland shore.\\nIt would take an army to search that territory on the\\nmainland.\\nThe waters of the gulf and bay are still full of dead\\nbodies and they are being constantly cast upon the beach.\\nOn my trip to and from the quarantine I passed a proces-\\nsion of bodies going seaward. I counted fourteen of them\\non my trip in from the station, and this procession is kept\\nup day and night. The captain of a ship who had just\\nreached quarantine informed me that he began to meet\\nfloating bodies fifty miles from port.\\nAs an illustration of how high the water got in the\\ngulf, a vessel which was in port tried to get into the open\\nsea when the storm came on. It got out some distance\\nand had to put back. It was dark and all the landmarks\\nhad been obliterated. Tl^e course of the vessel could not\\nbe determined and she V as being furiously driven in to-\\nward the island by the md. Before her course could be\\nestablished she had ac/ ally run over the top of the north\\njetty. As the vessel draws twenty-five feet of water, some\\nidea can be obtained as to the height of the water in the\\ngulf.\\nTHRILLING EXPERIENCE OP A DALLAS GIRL.\\nOne of the most thrilling descriptions of personal ex-\\nperience with the fearful flood ever written was that of\\nMiss Maud Hall, of Dallas, Tex,, who was spending her\\nschool vacation with friends at Galveston. She wrote an\\naccount of her adventures to her parents, Mr. and Mrs.\\nEmory Hall:", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "144 DISPOSAL OF THE DEAD.\\nDear Papa and Mamma: I suppose before this you\\nwill have received my telegram and know I am safe. This\\nhas been a terrible experience. I hope I will be spared\\nany more such. I am just a nervous wreck fever blisters\\nover my mouth, eyes with hollows under them, and shak-\\ning all over. When I close my eyes I can t see anything\\nbut piles of naked dead and wild-eyed men and women.\\nI suppose I had better begin at the beginning, but I don t\\nknow if I can write with any sense. Saturday at about\\nII o clock it began raining, and the wind rose a little.\\nSidney Spann and two young lady boarders could not\\nget home to dinner. After the dinner the men left and\\nwe sat around in dressing sacks watching the storm. All\\nat once Birdie Duff (Mrs. Spann s married daughter) said:\\nLook at the water in the street; it must be the gulf.\\nThere was water from curb to curb. It rose rapidly as\\nwe watched it, and Mrs. Spann sent us all to dress. It\\nrose to the sidewalk, and the men began to come home.\\nThe wind and rain rose to a furious whirlwind and all the\\ntime the water crept higher and higher. We all crowded\\ninto the hall of the house a big, two-story one and it\\nrocked like a cradle. About 6 o clock the roof was gone,\\nall the blinds torn off, and all the windows blown in.\\nGlass was flying in all directions and the water had risen\\nto a level with the gallery.\\nThen the men told us we would have to leave and go\\nto a house across the street at the end of the block, a big\\none. Mrs. Spann was wild about her daughter Sidney,\\nwho had not been home, and the telephone wires were\\ndown. The men told us we m.ust not wear heavy skirts,\\nand could only take a few things in a little bundle. I took\\nmy watch and ticket and what money I had and pinned\\nthem in my corset; took off everything from my waist\\ndown but an underskirt and my linen skirt; no shoes and", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "DISPOSAL OF THE DEAD. 145\\nstockings. I put what clothes I could find in my trunk\\nand locked it. Tell mamma the last thing I put in was\\nher gray skirt, for I thought it might be injured.\\nIt took two men to each woman to get hex across the\\nstreet and down to the end of the block. Trees thicker\\nthan any in our yard were whirled down the street pine\\nlogs, boxes and driftwood of all sorts swept past, and the\\nwater looked like a whirlpool. Birdie and I went across\\non the second trip. The wind and rain cut like a knife\\nand the water was icy cold. It was like going down into\\nthe grave, and I was never so near death, unless it was\\nonce before, since I have been here. I came near drown-\\ning with another girl. It was dark by this time, and the\\nmen put their arms around us and down into the water\\nwe went. Birdie was crying about her baby that she had\\nto leave behind until the next trip, and I was begging\\nMr. Mitchell and the other man not to turn me loose.\\nMrs. Spann came last. The water was over her chin.\\nIt was up to my shoulders when I went over. One man\\nbrought a bundle of clothing, such as he could find for\\nus to put on, wrapped up in his mackintosh. He had to\\nswim over. I spent the night, such a horrible one, wet\\nfrom shoulder to my waist and from my knees down, and\\nbarefoot. Nobody had any shoes and stockings. Mrs.\\nSpann did not have anything but a thin lawn dress and\\nblanket wrapped around her from her waist down. Nellie\\nhad a lawn wrapper and blanket, and Fannie had a skirt\\nand winter jacket. Mr. Mitchell had a pair of trousers\\nand a light shirt and was barefooted. The house was\\npacked with people just like us.\\nThe house had a basement and was of stone. The win-\\ndows were blown out, and it rocked from top to bottom,\\nand the water came into the first floor. Of course no one\\nslept. About 3 o clock in the morning the wind had", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "146 DISPOSAL OF THE DEAD.\\nchanged and blew the water back to the gulf, and as we\\nstood at the windows watching it fall we saw two men\\nand two girls wading the street and heard Sidney calling\\nfor her mother. She and the young lady with her spent\\nthe night crowded into an office with nine men in total\\ndarkness, sitting on boxes, with their feet up off the floor.\\nIt was an immense brick building four stories high. They\\nwere on the second floor. The roof and one story was\\nblown away and the water came up to the second floor.\\nIt was down toward the wharf.\\nAs soon as we could we waded home. Such a home!\\nThe water had risen three feet in the house and the roof\\nbeing gone the rain poured in. I had not a dry rag but\\na dirty skirt which was hanging in the wardrobe and an\\nunderskirt with it. My trunk had floated and everything\\nin it was stained except the gray skirt. We had not had\\nanything to eat since noon the day before, and we lived on\\nwhisky. Every time the men would see us they would\\npoke a bottle of whisky at us, and make us drink some.\\nAll we had all day Sunday was crackers at 50 cents a\\nsmall box and whisky.\\nWe were all so weak we knew we could not get any\\nmore, so Miss Decker and I went down about 10 o clock.\\nIt was awful. Dead animals everywhere, and the streets\\nfilled with fallen telegraph poles and brick stores blown\\nover. Hundreds of women and children and men sitting\\non steps crying for lost ones, and half of them, nearly,\\ninjured. Wild-eyed, ghastly-looking men hurried by and\\ntold of whole families killed.\\nI could not stand any more and made them bring nje\\nhome, and fell on the bed with hysterics. They poured\\nwhisky down me, but the only effect it had was to make\\nmy head ache worse. I had about got straightened out\\nwhen a girl and a woman came to the house relatives", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "DISPOSAL OF THE DEAD. 147\\nof Mrs. Spann who had lost their mother and friends\\nand house, and all they had. They had hysterics, and\\neverybody cried, and I had another spell. All day wagon\\nafter wagon passed filled with dead most of them with-\\nout a thing on them and men with stretchers with dead\\nbodies with just a sheet thrown over them, some of them\\nlittle children.\\nWe waited, every minute expecting to have the two\\nbodies brought here. But they had not been found up\\nto now, and all hope is lost. There is a little boy in the\\nhouse that spent the night in the water clinging to a log,\\nand his father and mother and four sisters were drowned.\\nHe is all alone. Last night Mr. Mitchell took Miss Decker\\nand I to another boarding house to find a dry bed. We\\nslept on a folding bed, with nothing under us but a rug\\nand sheet, and I had to borrow something dry to sleep in.\\nThe husband of the lady who lost her mother has just\\ncome from Houston. He walked and swam all the way.\\nHe is nearly wild, and she is just screaming. I cannot\\nwrite any more. Am coming home soon as I can.\\nSAVED AS BY A MIRACLE.\\nThe Stubbs family, consisting of father, mother and\\ntwo children, was in its home when it collapsed. They\\nfound refuge on a floating roof. This parted and father\\nand one child were swept in one direction, while the\\nmother and the other child drifted in another. One of the\\nchildren was washed off, but Sunday evening all four were\\nreunited.\\nMrs. P. Watkins became a raving maniac as the resu^\\nof her experiences. With her two children and j\\nmother she was drifting on a roof, when her mother and\\none child were swept away. Mrs. Watkins mistakes at-", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "148 DISPOSAL OF THE DEAD.\\ntendants in the hospital for her lost relatives and clutches\\nwildly for them.\\nHarry Steele, a cotton man, and his wife sought safety\\nin three successive houses which were demolished. They\\neventually climbed on a floating door and w^ere saved.\\nW. R. Jones, with fifteen other men, finding the build-\\ning they were in about to fall, made their way to the\\nwater tower and, clasping hands, encircled the standpipe\\nto keep from being washed or blown away.\\nMrs. Chapman Bailey, wife of the southern manager of\\nthe Galveston Wharf Company, and Miss Blanche Ken-\\nnedy floated in the waters ten to twenty feet deep all\\nnight and day by catching wreckage. Finally they got\\ninto a wooden bath tub and were driven into the gulf\\novernight. The incoming tide drove them back to Gal-\\nveston and they were rescued the next day. They were\\nfearfully bruised. All their relatives were drowned.\\nA pathetic incident in the search for the dead occurred\\nFriday. A squad of men discovered in a wrecked build-\\ning five bodies. Among these bodies was one which a\\nmember of the burial party recognized as his own brother.\\nThe bodies were all in an advanced state of decomposi-\\ntion. They were removed and a funeral pyre was built,\\nat which the brother assisted and, with Spartan-like firm-\\nness, stood by and saw the bodies of the dead reduced to\\nashes.\\nOn Monday a brakeman of the Galveston, Houston and\\nNorthern left Virginia Point and started to walk toward\\nTexas City. He found a little child, which he picked up\\nand carried for miles. On his way he discovered the bodies\\nof nine women. These he covered with grass to protect\\nthem from the vultures until some arrangements could\\nbf made for their interment.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VIi;\\nLives Lost and Property Damage Sustained Outside of Galyeston-One\\nThousand Victims and Millions of Yalue in Crops Swept Away\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Esti-\\nmates Made.\\nGALVESTON S property loss by the hurricane was hard-\\nly less than |20,000,000; outside of that city, in Houston\\nand other points in Central and Southern Texas, together\\nwith the agricultural and stock-raising districts, the prop-\\nerty damage was nearly half that amount, or in the neigh-\\nborhood of 110,000,000.\\nProbably seventy-five villages and towns were swept by\\nthe storm, and in most of these places there was loss of\\nlife.\\nIt was reliably estimated from reports received at Aus-\\ntin, the capital city of Texas, from these places that the\\nloss of life, exclusive of the death list of Galveston Island\\nand City of Galveston, would aggregate 1,000 people. In\\nmany towns the percentage of killed or drowned exceeded\\nthat in the City of Galveston. Several towns were swept\\ncompletely ou+ of existence.\\nThe scene of desolation in the devastated district was\\nterrible to witness. The storm was over 200 miles wide\\nand extended as far inland as Temple, a distance of over\\n200 miles from the gulf. The cotton crop in the lower\\ncounties was completely ruined. The same was true of\\nthe rice crop. The distress was keenly felt by the planters\\nand small farmers throughout the storm-swept region.\\nIn Houston the damage was not figured at over $400,-\\n,00; at Alvin, $200,000, the town being virtually de-\\nstroyed and 6,000 people in that section deprived not only\\nof shelter and food for the time being but all prospect\\nfor crops in the year to come.\\n149", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "150 DAMAGE OUTSIDE OF GALVESTON.\\nOn the 15th of September, R. W. King sent out the\\nfollowing statement and appeal from Houston after a\\nthorough investigation of the situation in and around\\nAlvin:\\nI arrived in Alvin from Dallas and was astonished and\\nbewildered by the sight of devastation on every side.\\nNinety-five per cent of the houses in this vicinity are in\\nruins, leaving G,000 people without adequate shelter and\\ndestitute of the necessaries of life, and with no means\\nwhatever to procure them. Everything in the way of\\ncrops is destroyed, and unless there is speedy relief there\\nwill be exceedingly great suffering.\\nThe people need and must have assistance. Need\\nmoney to rebuild their homes and buy stock and imple-\\nments. They need food flour, bacon, corn. They must\\nhave seeds for their gardens so as to be able to do some-\\nthing for themselves very soon. Clothing is badly needed.\\nHundreds of women and children are without a change\\nand are already suffering. Some better idea may be had\\nof the distress when it is known that box cars are being\\nimprovised as houses and hay as bedding. Only fourteen\\nhouses in the Town of Alvin are standing, and they are\\nbadly damaged.\\nThe damage at Hitchcock was not less than $100,000,\\nbut the new^s from there was disheartening. A bulletin\\nfrom a reliable source, dated September 15, said:\\nCountry districts are strewn with corpses. The prai-\\nries around Hitchcock are dotted with the bodies of the\\ndead. Scores are unburied, as the bodies are too badly\\ndecomposed to handle and the water too deep to admit\\nof burial.\\nA pestilence is feared from the decomposing animal\\nmatter lying everywhere. The stench is something aw-\\nful. Disinfecting material is badly needed.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "DAMAGE OUTSIDE OF GALVESTON. 151\\nOther outside losses were:\\nProperty. Property.\\nRichmond 75,000 Belleville 5,000\\nFort Bend County. 300,000 Hempstead 25,000\\nWharton 30,000 Brookshire 35,000\\nWharton County.. 100,000 Waller County... 100,000\\nColorado County 250,000 Areola 5,000\\nAngleton 75,000 Sartartia 50,000\\nVelasco 50,000 Dickinson 30,000\\nOther points. Bra- Texas City 150,000\\nzoria County. 80,000 Columbia 10,000\\nSabine 50,000 Sandy Point 10,000\\nPaton 10,000 Near Brazoria (con-\\nRollover 10,000 victs killed) 35,000\\nWinnie 10,000 Other points 100,000\\nDamage to railroads outside of Galveston, |500,000.\\nDamage to telegraph and telephone wires outside of\\nGalveston, |50,000.\\nDamage to cotton crop, estimated on average crop of\\ncounties affected, 50,000 bales, at |60 a bale, $3,000,000.\\nDamage to stock was great, thousands of horses and\\ncattle having perished during the storm.\\nIn Brazoria, and other counties of that section there was\\nhardly a plantation building left standing. All fences\\nwere also gone and the devastation was complete. Many\\nlarge and expensive sugar refineries were wrecked. The\\nnegro cabins were blown down and many negroes killed.\\nOn one plantation, a short distance from the ill-fated\\nTown of Angleton, three families of negroes were killed.\\nThe villages of Needville and Basley in Fort Bend\\ncounty were completely destroyed over twenty people\\nwere killed, most of the bodies having been recovered.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "152 DAMAGE OUTSIDE OF GALVESTON.\\nEvery house in that part of the country was destroyed and\\nthere was great suffering among the homeless people\\nThere was much destitution among the people of Rich-\\nmond in the same county. Richmond was one of the most\\nprosperous towns in south Texas. It was wholly de-\\nstroyed and the homeless ones were without shelter.\\nTheir food supplies were provided by their more fortu-\\nnate neighbors until other assistance could be had.\\nThe State authorities heard from the Sartaria planta-\\ntion, where several hundred State convicts were em-\\nployed. Every building on the plantation was blown\\ndown and the loss to property aggregated |35,000. Fif-\\nteen convicts were caught under the timbers of a falling\\nbuilding and all killed. Over a score of others were in-\\njured. In addition to the loss on buildings the entire cane\\ncrop was destroyed on this as well as other plantations\\nin that section.\\nSeven people were killed in the Town of Angleton,\\nwhich was almost completely destroyed. In the neigh-\\nborhood of Angleton five more persons were killed and\\ntheir bodies have been recovered. The loss of life in that\\nimmediate section far exceeded the estimates given in\\nthe earlier reports.\\nThe search for victims of the flood at Seabrook resulted\\nin fifty bodies being recovered. Seabrook was a favorite\\nsummer resort with many Texas people, and its hotels\\nwere filled with guests. Many were out on pleasure\\njaunts when the storm came upon them. There were\\nmany guests in the private houses which were swept\\naway.\\nThe casualties at Texas City were five.\\nVelasco, situated near the mouth of the Brazos river,\\nasked for help. Over one-half of the town was destroyed", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "DAMAGE OUTSIDE OF GALVESTON. 153\\nand eleven people lost their lives. Reports from the ad-\\njacent country showed that many negroes were killed.\\nEleven negro convicts employed on a plantation in\\nMatagorda county were killed by the collapse of a build-\\ning in which they had sought refuge from the storm.\\nThe Town of Matagorda, situated on the coast, was in\\nthe brunt of the storm. Several people were killed in the\\nTowns of Caney and Elliott, in the same county. The\\nnew buildings on the Clemmons convict farm, owned and\\noperated by the State, were destroyed and several con-\\nvicts injured. The crops were also ruined.\\nOver fifty negroes were killed in Wharton county, ten\\nbeing killed on one plantation near the Town of Wharton.\\nBay City suffered a loss of nearly all of its buildings\\nand three were killed there. There were many homeless\\npeople in Missouri City, every house in the town but two\\nbeing destroyed. The destitute people were living out\\nof doors and camping on the wet ground.\\nOutside of the cities of Galveston and Houston, the\\ngreatest suffering was between Houston and East Lake,\\ninland, and on the coast to the Brazos river. There was\\nno damage at Corpus Christi, Rockport, or in that im-\\nmediate section of the coast.\\nPeople in immediate need of relief were those of the\\nColorado and Brazos river bottoms. The planters in that\\nsection had everything swept away last year, and the\\nflood this year devastated their crops, leaving the ten-\\nants in a state bordering on starvation. An enormous\\nacreage was planted in rice and the crop was ready for\\nharvesting when the furious winds laid everything low.\\nAt Wharton, Sugarland, Quintana, Waller, Prairie\\nView and many other smaller places barely a house was\\nleft standing. Many of the farm hands had been brought\\ninto that section to assist at cotton picking and other", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "154 DAMAGE OUTSIDE OF GALVESTON.\\nfarming. The people were huddled in small cabins when\\nthe first signs of a. storm began brewing. But few es-\\ncaped. Their clothing and everything was gone. They\\nwere absolutely devoid of even the necessities with which\\nto sustain life.\\nTo begin over again the owners of plantations had to\\nrebuild houses, purchase new machinery and new draft\\nanimals. The loss of horses and mules in the stricken\\ndistrict was a severe blow. Live stock interests were also\\ngreatly harmed.\\nIn the opinion of railway men several years must\\nelapse before the farming districts can be restored to\\ntheir former conditions. The advanced prices of build-\\ning; material was a hard blow for the smaller farmers,\\nwho in most instances were owners of farms.\\nAppeals for relief were received from everywhere in the\\nstorm center. The season had given promise of produc-\\ning the best harvest in the previous fifteen years.\\nFive Houston people were drowned at Morgan s Point\\nMrs. C. H. Lucy and her two children, Haven Mcll-\\nhenny and the five-year-old son of David Eice. Mr.\\nMichael Mcllhenny was rescued alive, exhausted and in\\na state of terrible nervousness.\\nMcllhenny said the water came up so rapidly that he\\nand his family sought safety upon the roof. He had\\nHaven in his arms and the other children were strapped\\ntogether. A heavy piece of timber struck Haven, killing\\nhim. Mcllhenny then took up young Rice, and while he\\nhad him in his arms he was twice washed off the roof and\\nin this way young Eice was drowned.\\nMrs. Lucy s oldest child was next killed by a piece of\\ntimber and the younger one was drowned, and next Mrs.\\nLucy was washed off and drowned, thus leaving Mr. cind\\nMrs. Mcllhenny the only occupants on the roof. Finally", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "DAMAGE OUTSIDE OF GALVESTON. 155\\nthe roof blew off the house and as it fell into the water it\\nwas broken in twain, Mrs. Mellhenny remaining on one\\nhalf and Mellhenny on the other. The portion of the roofj\\nto which Mrs. Mellhenny clung turned over and this was\\nthe last seen of her. Mellhenny held to his side of the\\nroof so distracted in mind as to care little where or how\\nit drifted. He finally landed about 2 p. m. Sunday.\\nAt Surfside, a summer resort opposite Quintana, there\\nwere seventy-five persons in the hotel. The water was\\nabout it, and the danger was from the heavy logs float-\\ning from above. Only a few men worked in the village,\\nso a number of women went into the water to their waists\\nand assisted in keeping the logs away from the hotel, and\\nno one was lost.\\nAt Belleville every house in the place was damaged,\\nand several were demolished, including two churches.\\nOne girl was killed near there. Not a house was left at\\nPatterson in a habitable condition.\\nTwo boarding cars were blown out on the main line\\nand whirled along by the wind sixteen miles to Sandy\\nPoint, where they collided with a number of other board-\\ning cars, killing two and injuring thirteen occupants.\\nA dead child, the destruction of all houses except one\\nand the destitution of some fifty families is the record of\\nthe work of the hurricane at Arcadia. From fifty other\\ntowns came reports that buildings were wrecked or de-\\nmolished. Most of them reported several dead and in-\\njured.\\nJ. D. Dillon, commercial agent of the Santa Fe Railway\\nCompany, made a trip over the line of his road from\\nHitchcock to Virginia Point on foot, September 13, and\\ngave a graphic account of his journey, which was made\\nunder many difficulties.\\nTwelve miles of track and bridges are gone south of", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "156 DAMAGE OUTSIDE OF GALVESTON.\\nHitchcock, said he. I walked, waded and swam from\\nHitchcock to Virginia Point, and nothing could be seen\\nin all of that country but death and desolation. The\\nprairies are covered with water, and I do not think I\\nexaggerate when I say that not less than 5,000 horses and\\ncattle are to be seen along the line of the tracks south of\\nHitchcock.\\nThe little towns along the railway are all swept away,\\nand the sight is the most terrible that I have ever wit-\\nnessed. Ys^hen I reached a point about two miles north\\nof Virginia Point I saw some bodies floating on the prai-\\nrie, and from that point until Virginia Point was reached\\ndead bodies could be seen from the railroad track, floating\\nabout the iDrairie.\\nAt Virginia Point nothing is left. About 100 cars of\\nloaded merchandise that reached Virginia Point on the\\nInternational and Great Northern and the Missouri, Kan-\\nsas and Texas on the night of the storm are scattered over\\nthe prairie, and their contents will no doubt prove a total\\nloss.\\nOn Friday, September 14, from early morning until far\\ninto the afternoon Governor Sayers was in conference\\nwith relief committees from various points along the\\nstorm-swept coast. Among the first committees to arrive\\nwas one from Galveston. These men consulted at length\\nwith the Governor, and as a result of this conference it\\nwas decided that the State Adjutant General, General\\nScurry, should be left in command of the city, which was\\nto be considered under military rule, and that he was to\\nhave the exclusive control not only of the patrolling of\\nthe city, but of the sanitary forces engaged in cleaning\\nthe city.\\nIt was decided also that instead of looking to the labor-\\ning people of Galveston for work in the emergency an", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "DAMAGE OUTSIDE OF GALVESTON. 157\\nimportation of outside laborers to the number of 2,000\\nshould be made to conduct the sanitary work while the\\npeople of Galveston were given an opportunity of looking\\nafter their own losses and rebuilding their own property\\nwithout giving any time to the city at large.\\nIt was believed that with the work of these 2,000 out-\\nside laborers it would require about four weeks to clean\\nthe city of debris, and in the meantime the citizens could\\nbe working on their own property and repairing damage\\nthere.\\nAnother relief committee from Velasco reported that\\n2,000 persons were in destitute circumstances, without\\nfood, clothing, or homes. Crops had been totally de-\\nstroyed, all farming implements were washed away, and\\nthe people had nothing at hand with which to work the\\nfields.\\nA relief committee from the Columbia precinct reported\\n2,500 destitute. Other sections sent in committees during\\nthe day, and as a result of all Governor Sayers ordered\\nposthaste shipments of supplies.\\nThe text of the message of sympathy received by Presi-\\ndent McKinley from the Emperor of Germany was as fol-\\nlows:\\nStettin, Sept. 13, 1900.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 President of the United\\nStates of America, Washington: I wish to convey to\\nyour excellency the expression of my deep-felt sympathy\\nwith the misfortune that has befallen the town and har-\\nbor of Galveston and many other ports of the coast, and\\nI mourn with you and the people of the United States\\nover the terrible loss of life and property caused by the\\nhurricane, but the magnitude of the disaster is equaled\\nby the indomitable spirit of the citizens of the new world,\\nwho, in their long and continued struggle with the ad-", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "158 DAMAGE OUTSIDE OF GALVESTON.\\nverse forces of nature, have proved themselves to be vic-\\ntorious.\\nI sincerely hope that Galveston will rise again to\\nnew prosperity.\\nWILLIAM, I. R.\\nThe President replied\\nExecutive Mansion, September 14, 1900. His Im-\\nperial and Royal Majesty Wilhelm II., Stettin, Germany:\\nYour majesty s, message of condolence and sympathy is\\nvery grateful to the American government and people,\\nand in their name, as well as on behalf of the many thous-\\nands who have suffered bereavement and irreparable loss\\nin the Galveston disaster, I thank you most earnestly.\\nWILLIAM McKINLEY.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VIII.\\nBusiness Resumed at Galveston in a Small Way on the Sixth Day after\\nthe Catastrophe\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Gfalveston Shall Rise Again How the City Looked\\nOn Saturday, One Week after the Flood.\\nBY the time Friday practically the sixth day after the\\nflood, although the waters did not subside nor the wind\\ngo down until about 2 o clock on Sunday morning had\\narrived many of the business men of the stricken city had\\nrecovered their courage and two or three banks and a few\\nbusiness houses were opened, although most of the streets\\nwere still choked with debris and practically impassable.\\nOn every corner was this sign\\nCLEAN UP.\\nSome women even ventured out shopping, picking their\\nway over great masses of wreckage. Tremont street was\\nby that time opened from the bay to the beach, and Me-\\nchanic street, the Strand and Winnie and Church streets\\nwere being rapidly cleared. However, the stench from\\nthe putrefying bodies of the victims of the calamity still\\nin the ruins of scores and hundreds of buildings was all\\nbut unbearable.\\nGALVESTON SHALL RISE AGAIN.\\nGalveston must rise again, said the Galveston News\\nin an editorial on Thursday.\\nAt the first meeting of Galveston citizens Sunday aft-\\nernoon after the great hurricane, for the purpose of bring-\\n159", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "160 BUSINESS RESUMED AT GALVESTON.\\ning order out of chaos, the only sentiment expressed, the\\neditorial says, was that Galveston had received an avi^ful\\nblow. The loss of life and property is appalling so great\\nthat it required several days to form anything like a cor-\\nrect estimate. With sad and aching hearts, but v/ith\\nresolute faces, the sentiment of the meeting was that out\\nof the awful chaos of wrecked homes and wrecked busi-\\nness, Galveston must rise again.\\nThe sentiment was not that of bury the dead and give\\nup the ship; but, rather, bury the dead, succor the needy,\\nappeal for aid from a charitable world, and then start\\nresolutely to Avork to mend the broken chains. In many\\ncases the work of upbuilding must begin over. In other\\ncases the destruction is only partial.\\nThe sentiment was, Galveston will, Galveston must,\\nsurvive, and fulfill her glorious destiny. Galveston shall\\nrise again.\\nIf we have lost all else, we still have life and the fu-\\nture, and it is toward the future that we must devote the\\nenergies of our lives. We can never forget what we have\\nsuffered; we cannot forget the thousands of our friends\\nand loved ones who found in the angry billows that de-\\nstroyed them a final resting place. But tears and grief\\nmust not make us forget our present duties. The blight\\nand ruin which have destroyed Galveston are not beyond\\nrepair; we must not for a moment think Galveston is to\\nbe abandoned because of one disaster, however horrible\\nthat disaster has been.\\nIt is a time for courage of the highest order. It is a\\ntime when men and women show the stuff that is in them,\\nand we can make no loftier acknowledgment of the mate-\\nrial sympathy which the world is extending to us than\\nto answer back that after we shall have buried our dead,\\nrelieved the sufferings of the sick and destitute, we will", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "BUSINESS RESUMED AT GALVESTON. 161\\nbravely undertake the vast work of restoration and re-\\ncuperation which lies before us in a manner which shall\\nconvince the world that we have spirit to overcome mis-\\nfortune and rebuild our homes. In this way we shall\\nprove ourselves worthy of the boundless tenderness\\nwhich is being showered upon us in the hour of desolation\\nand sorrow.\\nThis sentiment voiced the feeling of the people of the\\nprostrate city pretty accurately, for they had begun to\\nlook around them and make plans for rebuilding, al-\\nthough it was many days after that before the streets\\nwere cleaned and the ground was dry enough to begin\\nwork.\\nTHE SITUATION A WEEK AFTERWARDS.\\nA newspaper correspondent who had unusual facilities\\nfor getting at the true state of affairs summed up the situ-\\nation on Saturday, September 15, just a week after the\\nawful visitation, as follows:\\nThe first week of Galveston s suffering has passed\\naway, and the extent of the disaster which wind and flood\\nbrought to the city seems greater than it did even when\\nthe blow had just been struck.\\nThat 5,000 or more of the 40,000 men, women and chil-\\ndren who made up the population of the city seven days\\nago are dead is almost certain. And the money value of\\nthe damage to the property of the citizens is so great that\\nno one can attempt to estimate it within |5,000,000 of the\\nreal amount.\\nIn one thing the effects of the flood are irreparable.\\nWater now covers 5,300,000 square feet of ground that\\nwas formerly a part of the city, but which now can never\\nbe reclaimed from the gulf.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "162 BUSINESS RESUMED AT GALVESTON.\\nA strip of land three miles long and from 350 to 400\\nfeet wide along tbe south side of the city, where the finest\\nresidences stood, is now covered by the waves even at \\\\o^M\\ntide. The Beach Hotel now has its foundations in the\\ngulf, although before the hurricane it had a fine beach\\n400 feet wide in front of it. This land is gone forever.\\nLike men stunned and dazed, the survivors of the flood\\nhave worked and struggled to bury their dead and to\\nmake the city habitable for the living, but it may be\\ndoubted whether they even yet realize to the full extent\\nwhat they have lost, or guess the suffering that is in store\\nfor them when their moments of leisure come and they\\nbegin to miss their friends and loved ones who are dead.\\nIt is certain now that, however much Galveston has\\nsuffered, the city will be rebuilt and be the scene of as\\ngreat a business as before. But few of the men of the\\ncity can pay any attention yet to the work that is nec-\\nessary for this restoration. To-day they are busy with\\nthe roughest work of cleaning the city, of clearing away\\nthe debris, of burying the bodies which still are being dis-\\ncovered under ruins each day and of providing for their\\nsimplest necessities.\\nThe woman who a few days ago was the mistress of a\\nsplendid mansion, with every want provided for, maj\\nnow be seen half-clad making her way through the streets\\nin search of a little food, and esteeming herself fortunate\\nif her family is still intact to gather in the wreckage of\\nthe former home. The man who a few days ago was the\\nowner of a great business and the master of many ser-\\nvants may to-day be seen working in the trying tasks of\\nremoving wreckage and hauling away to burial the de-\\ncayed and unrecognizable bodies of the dead, under the\\ndirection of armed soldiers and deputy sheriffs, who are\\nthere to see that the work is not slighted.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "BUSINESS RESUMED AT GALVESTON. 163\\nAnd around every one is ruin. The broken and shat-\\ntered houses, the scattered articles of furniture, above all\\nthe burning funeral pyres on which the bodies of many of\\nthe dead are being consumed, make the city a place of\\nhorror even to those whose personal wants are best pro-\\nvided for.\\nThe peril from the wind and waves was followed for\\nthose who survived by a peril of hunger and a peril of\\ndisease. There came also a peril to life and property\\nfrom the great horde of robbers and inhuman outlaws\\nwho were attracted by the helpless condition of the city\\nto seek their prey.\\nThe splendid response of the country to Galveston s\\nappeal for help has removed all danger of further suffer-\\ning from hunger, and the prompt action of Governor\\nSayers, through Adjutant General Scurry, and of Mayor\\nJones and the citizens relief committee have re-estab-\\nlished order and made the horrible scenes of the stripping\\nof corpses and the assaults on persons no longer possible.\\nThe city is still under martial law, and it will remain so,\\nnominally at least, until normal conditions otherwise\\nhave been restored.\\nThe danger of pestilence is still great, however, and\\nindeed the fear that other thousands may fall victims to\\na scourge of disease is gaining in strength and leading to\\nan exodus of all the women and children and of many\\nof the men of the city, who are crowding the boats to get\\naway to the mainland.\\nAdded to the danger from the thousands of decora-\\nposing bodies both of men and of beasts, which still lie\\nunder ruined houses and along the gulf shore, is the dan-\\nger from the unflushed sewers and closets in the city.\\nUntil yesterday it was practically impossible to flush the\\nsewers in any part of the city on account of the lack of", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "164 BUSINESS RESUMED AT GALVESTON.\\nwater, and although the condition is now much better\\nthere is much of evil still.\\nFevers and other diseases which may be bred under\\nthese conditions will not show themselves for ten days\\nor longer, at the earliest. Some of the physicians in the\\ncity have issued statements to-day calculated to calm the\\napprehensions of the citizens in this matter. Among\\nthem is Dr. W. H. Blount, state health officer, who says\\nthat there is no great danger. He refers to the cyclone of\\n1867, which covered the city with slimy mud, and instead\\nof breeding disease served practically to put an end to\\nthe yellow fever then prevalent.\\nThe work of clearing away the debiis in the streets\\nhas been carried on with a fair degree of vigor, and it is\\nexpected that it will be pushed much faster from now on.\\nThe 2,000 laborers whom it has been decided to bring in\\nfrom outside the city for the work will be able to take\\nup the task without having to worry about the safety of\\nthe remnants of their own property which they may have\\nleft unprotected.\\nThe most important need is, hov/ever, for money to\\npay the men. Adjutant General Scurry said to-day: *I\\nhave not a dollar to pay the men who are working in the\\nstreets all day long. I am not able to say to a single one\\nof these men, You shall be paid for your work. I have\\nnot the money to make good the promise and I hope and\\nbelieve that the country will relieve the situation.\\nWe must have this city cleaned up at any cost, and\\nwith the greatest speed possible. If it is not done with\\nall haste, and at the same time done well, there may be\\na pestilence, and if it once breaks out here it will not be\\nGalveston alone that will suffer. Such things spread,\\nand it is not only for the sake of this city, but for others", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "BUSINESS RESUMED AT GALVESTON. 1G5\\noutside of this place that I urge that above all things we\\nwant money.\\nThe nation has been most kind in its response to the\\nappeal of Galveston, and from what I hear, food and dis-\\ninfectants sufficient for temporary purposes at least, are\\nhere or on the way. The country does not understand, it\\ncannot understand, unless it visit Galveston, the awful\\ndestitution prevailing here. Of all the poor i)eople here,\\nnot one has anything. A majority of them could not fur-\\nnish a single room in which to commence housekeeping\\neven though they had the money to rebuild the room.\\nThese people have absolutely nothing except what is\\ngiven them by the relief committee. They are in a condi-\\ntion of absolute want, they lack everything, and save for\\nthe splendid generosity of the nation they would be ut-\\nterly without hope.\\nThe gangs of men in the streets are still finding every\\nnow and then badly decomposed bodies. Few of these\\nrelics of human life can be recognized, and many of them\\nare naked and without anything about them which would\\nlead to identification. They are disposed of as rapidly as\\npossible, but the work is very offensive and the men en-\\ngaged in it cannot endure it steadily for any great length\\nof time.\\nPull them out of the water as soon as seen and\\nthrow them into the flames as soon as taken from the\\nwater, is the order, and it is effectually carried out.\\nThe best work in this direction was done along the\\nshore line of the gulf on the south side of the city. Dur-\\ning the day bodies were found at frequent intervals, and\\njust at sunset seven were found in the ruins of one house.\\nIt is expected that more will be found to-morrow, as the\\nwork gang that to-day found seven bodies will clear up", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "166 BUSINESS RESUMED AT GALVESTON.\\nthe debris where it is known that fifteen people were\\nkilled.\\nThe soldiers from Dallas and Houston who have been\\nhere providing for order and helping in the work of clean-\\ning up the city have become exhausted and it has been\\nnecessary to relieve them. The Craddock Light Infantry\\nof Terrell arrived to-day to take up the work.\\nThe exodus to Houston and other neighboring cities\\nis still going on. The sailboats across the bay are\\ncrowded to their fullest capacity, and they make as many\\nround trips each day as they can.\\nNOTHING LIKE IT IN THE HISTORY OF THE\\nUNITED STATES.\\nNo calamity in the history of the United States ap-\\nproaches the horror of Galveston. Such was the dec-\\nlaration of Col. Walter Hudnall of the United States\\ntreasury department, Saturday, after filing a secret re-\\nport to the government in which he outlined the damage\\nsustained by the government and made confidential sug-\\ngestions concerning the advisability of continuing the\\nexpenditures that have been made there annually.\\nGalveston needs no more physicians or nurses, he\\ncontinued. Those who would rush to the aid of the\\nstricken island should send quicklime, chloride of lime,\\ncarbolic acid and other disinfectants and stay away them-\\nselves. To-day Galveston is a gigantic funeral pyre.\\nFrom the wreckage ascend numerous pillars of smoke\\nand the air is filled with the sickening odor of burning\\nhuman flesh. But above all, making one forget even the\\npresence of the uncounted dead, is the stench of decaying\\ncoffee, rice and other vegetable products that lie swelling", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "BUSINESS RESUMED AT GALVESTON. 167\\nwith the heat and putrefjing. Powerful chemicals and\\ndisinfectants are required to prevent what this is sure to\\nproduce disease.\\nIn the face of these .conditions Galveston is burying\\nher dead, burning her wreckage, attempting to restore\\norder and bring about a resumption of business.\\nNo words of complaint are heard. The woe which has\\ncome upon the island city is too great for tears and the\\nafflictions of individuals in the loss of dear ones is en-\\ntirely forgotten in the heroic fight that is being made for\\nself-preservation for the community. Women of wealth\\nsteal through the streets without clothing, save for a bit\\nof torn and grimy cloth wrapped about them. Men of\\nmeans are in the same sorry plight and go about their\\ngrewsome task of cleaning up in so stolid a manner that\\nit is obvious that Galveston has not awakened to the full\\nhorror of the situation. There has not been time to\\nthink.\\nIt is not uncommon to hear worn and haggard men\\nrefer to the loss of their families and their all with so\\nlittle evidence of concern that it would attract wonder\\nwere not the senses of the visitor numbed by the terror of\\nthe situation. It is the reaction that is feared most by\\nthose who are leading the effort to make the city habit-\\nable. When this work is completed and there is time to\\nthink a heartrending wail of woe will go up from the\\ntwenty-odd thousand mourning survivors and gloomy\\ndesperation is expected to succeed the energy that is now\\nmanifested.\\nThe spirit of the people is aptly illustrated by Capt.\\nJohn Delaney, chief customs inspector of the port. De-\\nlaney, 60 years of age, lost his entire family, wife, son\\nand daughters. The bodies of the son and daughters were\\nrecovered, but no trace of Mrs. Delaney has been found.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "168 BUSINESS RESUMED AT GALVESTON.\\nWhether her body was cast into the sea from one of the\\ndread funeral barges or buried may never be known.\\nTerrible as was the blow, Delaney was at his post the day\\nfollowing the disaster, attired in a pair of overalls, all\\nthat he managed to save. Yesterday a butcher, fortunate\\nin saving a portion of two suits, loaned Delaney a pair of\\ntrousers. Clad in them he boarded a big German tramp\\nsteamer that arrived in port, inspected her and sent her\\nback to New Orleans, as she was unable to discharge her\\ncargo at Galveston.\\nIn his report to Washington Col. Hudnall placed the\\nloss of life at from 6,500 to 8,000 and ridiculed the idea\\nthat any person could estimate the property loss at that\\ntime. He predicted that it would be impossible to esti-\\nmate within 110,000,000 of the correct figures. His es-\\ntimate was based upon what was said to be better\\ninformation than that of any other visitor in Galveston,\\nas he had made a thorough canvass of the city on horse-\\nback, visiting every locality where it was possible to\\ntravel, instructions from the treasury department being\\nto thoroughly investigate in every detail. No one else\\nhad made such a canvass.\\nVice-President and General Manager Trice of the Inter-\\nnational and Great Northern railroad, after looking over\\nthe situation in Galveston, said the railroad losses would\\naggregate $5,000,000 or |6,000,000 in that city alone.\\nAt Galveston their wharves, warehouses, depots and\\ntracks were ruined. The costly bridges which connected\\nthe island with the mainland were in ruins and must be\\nentirely rebuilt.\\nThe International and Great Northern and Santa Fe\\nhad considerable track washed out, while the Galveston,\\nHouston and Northern suffered heavily.\\nAll track between Seabrooke and Virginia Point, with", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "BUSINESS RESUMED AT GALVESTON. 169\\nall of the bridges, was washed away, and Section Pore-\\nman Scanlan and all his crew at Nadeau had been lost.\\nHOW THE INSURANCE COMPANIES FARED.\\nNaturally the question of insurance carried on the lives\\nand property of people of Galveston was one much dis-\\ncussed after the first feeling of horror occasioned by the\\ncatastrophe had worn away, and the fact was developed\\nthat while the life insurance companies were somewhat\\nbadly hit although in not so great a degree as would\\nnaturally be supposed when the heavy death list was\\ntaken into consideration very little property insurance\\nwas carried by the business men and property owners of\\nthe desolated city.\\nAlthough the loss of life was over 5,000, a large pro-\\nportion of the victims was composed of women and chil-\\ndren, a class which rarely if ever carries insurance;\\nagain, the majority of the men drowned and crushed were\\nresidents of the poorer districts of the town, the wealthier\\nmen having abandoned their homes at the first alarm and\\nfled to the elevated places. These victims were caught in\\ntheir houses, together with their families, and husbands,\\nwives and children died together.\\nAs a matter of fact, the men who work for a living at\\ntrades and in the various branches of employment where\\nskilled labor is not demanded, do not caiTy life insur-\\nance as a general thing, except in benevolent or fraternal\\nsocieties of which they may be members, and this is the\\nmain reason why the straight life insurance companies,\\nas they are called, did not suffer more than they did.\\nOne of the most prominent insurance managers in the\\nUnited States said three days after the catastrophe:\\nLife insurance companies will feel the blow of the Gal-", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "170 BUSINESS RESUMED AT G ALVESTON.\\nveston storm. How much insurance was carried by the\\nvictims of the storm is not known, bat it must have been\\ngreat in the aggregate. The large proportion of women\\nand children among the dead will lighten the burden,\\nas they do not often carry insurance.\\nThe rule requiring the body of the insured to be iden-\\ntified will have to be waived, because of the number of\\nbodies buried at sea and otherwise without identifica-\\ntion. Unless the rigor of this rule is relaxed by the in-\\nsurers litigation will be boundless.\\nPractically no property insurance was carried at Gal-\\nveston.\\nGalveston and Houston representatives of the largest\\neastern insurance companies when seen concurred in the\\nopinion that the insurance policies against storm losses\\ncarried by Galvestonians would not aggregate |10,000.\\nThey said there was absolutely no demand for such in-\\nsurance at Galveston.\\nThe head of one of the leading insurance firms in Gal-\\nveston which represented many large eastern companies\\nsaid: We did not carry a dollar of storm insurance at\\nGalveston, and while my information on that point is\\nlimited, I feel sure the storm insurance was vers^ small.\\nWe never had a request for storm insurance policies. If\\nthere had been any demand at Galveston for insurance\\nof this kind we would have heard of it.\\nWe held |50,000 storm insurance on two big oil mills\\nat Houston and our loss will probably be |40,000 to\\n$50,000 on these two structures. We held |25,000 storm\\ninsurance at Port Arthur and about |1,200 at Alvin.\\nThe insurance situation at Galveston is very quiet. There\\nwas no loss by fire, and I think the insurance against\\nstorms was trivial.\\nMore than 4,000 houses were destroyed; millions of do)-", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "BUSINESS RESUMED AT GALVESTON. 171\\nlars worth of property in dry goods, grocery and other\\nbusiness houses wholesale and retail was ruined;\\nthere was hardly a house in the city which did not suffer\\ndamage, the total property losses aggregating about\\n120,000,000; and yet, living in a section where storms\\nwere liable to occur at any time, little or no insurance\\nwas carried.\\nThe first message by wire was sent out of Galveston\\nThursday at 4:16 p. m. over the wire of the Western\\nUnion Company. The company laid a cable across the\\nchannel, and through it they transmitted the message.\\nThe cable was brought from Chicago on a i)assenger\\ntrain. The Postal Telegraph Company had several wires\\nin good working order by Saturday night, as also had the\\nWestern Union Company.\\nThe Mexican Cable Company secured both ends of its\\ncable and established communication from Galveston\\nwith the outside world via the City of Mexico Friday\\neveninsr.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER IX.\\nGalveston Nine Days After Great Changes Apparent Life in a Business\\nExliibited Systematic Efforts to Obtain Names of the Dead.\\nMONDAY, September 17, Galveston presented a far dif-\\nferent appearance than the Monday previous. Street cars\\nwere in operation in the business part of the city and the\\nelectric line and water service had been partly resumed.\\nThe progress made under the circumstances was little\\nshort of remarkable.\\nIt must not be understood by any means that the re-\\nmaining portion of the city had been put in anything like\\nits normal condition, but so very great a change had been\\nwrought, so much order and system prevailed where for-\\nmerly chaos reigned, that Galveston and the people who\\nhad been giving her such noble assistance had good rea-\\nson to be satisfied with what had been accomplished in\\nthe face of such fearful odds. According to statements\\nmade by General Scurry, Mayor Jones, Alderman Perry\\nand others, there was equally good reason to believe that\\nthe progress of the work from that time on would be\\neven more satisfactory.\\nOn that morning the board of health began a systematic\\neffort to obtain the names of the dead, so that the infor-\\nmation could be used for legal purposes and for life insur-\\nance settlements. An agent was stationed at the head-\\nquarters of the Central Kelief Committee to receive and\\nfile sworn statements in lieu of coroner s certificates. Per-\\nsons who had left the city but were in possession of in-\\nformation concerning the dead were notified to send\\nsworn statements to Mr. Doherty.\\nThe steady stream of refugees from Galveston was kept\\n172", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "GREAT CHANGES APPARENT. 173\\nup. There was not a departing train from across the bay\\nwhich was not packed to its platforms. Refugees contin-\\nued to leave for many days thereafter.\\nNo sadder sight could be imagined than the picture pre-\\nsented by a boat load of refugees, when the ropes were\\ncast off and the craft swung out into the bay and away\\nfrom the desolate city. There was not a face that was\\nnot turned toward the ruin. There was not an eye that\\nwas not moistened by tears. So great had been the rush\\nto leave behind the scene of the storm that the Lawrence,\\nthe boat which connected with trains at Texas City, had\\nnot left her wharf a single day without denying passage\\nto a portion of those who wanted to get away.\\nThe partings at the waterside were pitiful. Husbands\\ncame to the gangplank and kissed their weeping wives\\ngood-by, turning back to the hard work of reconstruction\\nwhich confronted them, with breaking hearts. Scores of\\nwomen, overcome at the last moment, were cared for by\\nstrange hands, while those who loved them, bound to Gal-\\nveston by necessity, could do no more than watch from\\nafar and pray.\\nInstead of waiting until Galveston was reached to be-\\ngin work, steps were taken to care for refugees at the bay\\nterminal of the Galveston, Houston and Henderson Road,\\nand during Saturday night and Sunday hundreds of hun-\\ngry refugees werefed, while number-s of sick and wounded\\nwere cared for.\\nThere was plenty of work on hand for ten times the\\nforce of laborers employed. The area which had not yet\\nbeen touched embraced four and a half miles of frontage\\non the beach and bay.\\nThere were enough provisions on hand ahead to feed\\neverybody in Galveston for a week. There was a great\\ndeal of trouble in properly distributing supplies, the rush", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "174 GREAT CHANGES APPARENT.\\nat the depots being as great as at any time since they\\nwere opened.\\nIt was indeed a mercy that the weather since the storm\\nhad been clear and dry. Had it rained a single day the\\nsuffering would have been terrible, for there was not a\\nwhole roof in Galveston.\\nThere were about 200 soldiers in Galveston doing guard\\nand police duty. The camp on the wharf, between the\\nGalveston Eed Snapper Company and the foot of Tl-emont\\nstreet had been put into shape and the soldiers comfort-\\nably housed. There were five militia commands the\\nDallas rough riders. Captain Ormonde Paget, with forty-\\nfive men; the Houston Light Guards, Captain George Mc-\\nCormick, with forty-five men; the Galveston Sharpshoot-\\ners, Captain A. Bunschell, with thirty-five men; Battery\\nD of Houston, Captain G. A. Adams, with fifteen men, and\\nTroop A. Houston Cavalry, commanded by Lieutenant\\nBreedlove, with twenty men.\\nThe fact that no money was available to pay the men\\nwho were engaged in cleaning the streets was a great\\ndetriment to preparing the way not only for rebuilding\\nthe city but in the efforts to prevent the spread of plague\\nand pestilence.\\nGeneral Scurry, general in charge of the operations at\\nGalveston, made the following statement on Sunday, Sep-\\ntember 16:\\nI have not a dollar to pay the men who are working\\nin the streets all day long. I am not able to say to a single\\none of them You ll be paid for your work. I have not\\nthe money to make good the promise. I hope and believe\\nthat the countrj^ will understand the situation. We must\\nhave this city cleaned up at any cost and with the great-\\nest speed possible. If it is not done with all haste, and at", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "GREAT CHANGES APPARENT. 175\\nthe same time done well, there may be a pestilence, and if\\nit breaks out here it will not be Galveston alone that will\\nsuffer.\\nSuch things spread, and it is not only for the sake of\\nthis city, but for others outside that I urge that above all\\nthings we want money. The nation has been most kind in\\nits response to appeals from Galveston. From what I\\nhear food and disinfectants sufficient for temporary pur-\\nposes at least are here or on the way. The country does\\nnot understand. It cannot understand unless it could\\nvisit Galveston, the situation prevailing here.\\nSCURRY,\\nAdjutant-General State of Texas.\\nAs to the probability of a pestilence, General Cham-\\nbers McKibbin, U. S. A., commanding the Military De-\\npartment of Texas, said:\\nI am personally in favor of burning as much rubbish\\nas possible, and of burning it as quickly as permissible.\\nI do not predict a pestilence, but I think the things are\\ncoming to that point where a pestilence may be possible\\nunless prompt measures are taken, and there is nothing so\\neffective as fire. Burn everything and burn it at once.\\nAll the churches in Galveston either being wrecked or\\nruined, with but one or two exceptions, divine services\\non Sunday, September 16, were in most cases suspended.\\nMass was celebrated at St. Mary s cathedral in the morn-\\ning and was largely attended.\\nFather Kirwin preached an eloquent and feeling ser-\\nmon, in which he spoke of the awful calamity that had\\nbefallen the people. After expressing sympathy with the\\nafflicted and distressed he advised all to go to work in", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "17 Q GREAT CHANGES APPARENT.\\nburying the dead. The next day a census of the Catholic\\npopulation was begun to ascertain the number of widows\\nand orphans caused by the storm and the exact number\\nof Catholics who perished.\\nBishop Gallagher, who had been active in his efforts\\nto mitigate suffering at Galveston, received a telegram\\nfrom Archbishop Corrigan of New York, stating the dio-\\ncese of that city would see that all Catholic orphan chil-\\ndren sent to his care were kindly provided for.\\nHouston was the center of relief distribution, and also\\nthe key to Galveston. It was practically the only way in\\nor out for weeks. Hundreds of refugees passed through\\nevery day. Houston was well filled with them, but the\\nlarger number went right through to points farther north.\\nFree transportation was furnished to any point in Texas,\\nprovided they had relatives who would take care of them.\\nMany of the refugees arrived at Houston scantily clothed\\nand in a pitiful condition.\\nVast as the work is, all are being provided for, said\\nEdward Watkins, Chairman of the transportation di-\\nvision of the Relief Committee. We have not let any-\\nbody go through uncared for.\\nMere curiosity was at a discount here. People who had\\nurgent business in Galveston found it hard to get permits\\nto go there, and those who were simply curious could not\\nget there at all. Camera fiends were absolutely barred.\\nOne man was shot for taking a picture of a nude woman\\non the beach, and three newspaper men who were taking\\nviews of the ruins were rounded up, their cameras\\nsmashed and themselves forced to go to work gathering\\nup decomposed corpses.\\nEven Houston was in a similar state of martial law.\\nGuards surrounded the depot of the International Great\\nNorthern, the only road running south, and would not", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "GREAT CHANGES APPARENT. 177\\neven allow curious crowds to gather to see the refugees\\ncome in. This was in enforcement of a proclamation is-\\nsued by Mayor Brashear, copies of which, printed on large\\nred cards, were posted conspicuously all over the Qitj.\\nThe catastrophe all but paralyzed shipping business\\nin the storm-visited section. At Fort Worth all purchas-\\ning stopped. Cotton was just beginning to move, but it\\nhad to go by way of New Orleans, the additional freights\\neating up I le apparent profit of the 1 cent a pound ad-\\nvance in pri;:e. Had the storm struck a few weeks later\\nthe loss would have been greatly increased, as the cotton\\nwould then have been upon the wharves.\\nHeavy financial losers were the fraternal societies. One\\nknown as the United Moderns, with headquarters at Den-\\nver, lost 100 out of a lodge of 500. Policies ranged from\\n11,000 to 12,000.\\nINSURANCE MATTERS CREATE A BIG BOTHER.\\nOne hundred and fifty odd million dollars represented\\nthe value of the life insurance policies carried by the old-\\nline companies in the state of Texas at the time of the\\nflood. It was estimated that |4,000,000 represented the\\nlife risks carried in Galveston by the regular companies,\\nand that over |2,000,000 was carried by assessment and\\nfraternal organizations.\\nInsurance men said it was probable that of the persons\\nkilled in the recent disaster 900 were men, and that, ac-\\ncording to statistics, half of them had life policies of an\\naverage value of |2,000. On this basis |900,000 approxi-\\nmated the losses to be met in Galveston by the life insur-\\nance companies. Eighteen old-line companies and a great\\nmany assessment and fraternal companies divided the", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "178 GREAT CHANGES APPARENT.\\nlosses, and no reputable organization was crippled\\nthereby.\\nAccurate figures of the losses were not made, but the\\nabove figures represented the calculations hastily made\\nby George T. Dexter, superintendent of the domestic\\nagencies of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New\\nYork. In regard to this Mr. Dexter said:\\nThe most striking feature of the insurance situation\\nat Galveston is the difficulty that will arise when the ad-\\njustment of claims is taken up. Hundreds of bodies have\\nbeen buried without identification, hundreds more have\\nbeen taken out into the gulf and many have been cre-\\nmated. Whole families have been destroyed in many\\ninstances, and insurance papers have suffered in the gen-\\neral destruction of property. This state of affairs will\\nmake it difficult for the beneficiaries to establish their\\nclaims and will enable the organizations so disposed to\\nescape payment. I have no doubt the level premium com-\\npanies will adjust claims, in a large measure, on circum-\\nstantial evidence.\\nOur agency property at San Antonio was destroyed,\\nand we have no accurate reports of our Texas losses, so\\nit is impossible to give other than general estimates of\\nwhat they may be. The class of people insuring in the\\nregular companies are in general surrounded by condi-\\ntions that render them better risks in the event of such\\na calamity as this, but if my information is correct the\\nbetter portion of the residence district suffered most, and\\nwe may hear of heavy losses. I think we carried between\\n$300,000 and |400,000 insurance in Galveston. The in-\\nsurance business in that part of the south has been excep-\\ntionally good of late because of the cotton values.\\nH. H. Knowles, southern manager of the Equitable Life\\nof New York, said:", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "GREAT CHANGES APPARENT. 179\\nWe have two |100,000 risks in Galveston, and we are\\nhoping that they are not among the lost. Our reports from\\nTexas are not in, but I should think that our company\\nwill be fortunate if it gets off with less than a loss of\\n|100,000. I believe that the assessment and fraternal in-\\nsurance concerns will have the most losses because of the\\nfact that in such a disaster the loss of life is greater among\\nthe poorer classes.\\nThe accident insurance companies had heavy losses to\\nmeet.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER X.\\nMagnitude of the Relief Necessary Twenty Thousand Persons to be\\nClothed and Fed System of Relief Organization\u00e2\u0080\u0094 How the Storm\\nAffected Trade.\\nTHE situation at Galveston on Saturday niglit, just a\\nweek after the calamity, wa s tiius described by a compe-\\ntent authority who arrived in the city the day after the\\nflood:\\nIt must be possible by this time to give some idea of\\nthe magnitude which relief must assume. There were\\n38,000 persons in the city when the census was taken a\\nfew weeks ago. After the storm 32,000 remained. This\\nlatter statement is made after careful inquiry from the\\nbest sources of information. About 3,000 have left the\\nisland, most of them women and children, to go to\\nfriends temporarily.\\nOf the 29,000 remaining how many must be helped\\nand how long?\\nThe question is a hard one. The men who knew most\\nof the situation, who have labored day and night since\\nSunday, hesitate to answer.\\nMr. McVittie, the executive head of the relief work,\\nsaid it was possible there were 3,500 persons in the city\\nwho did not require any assistance whatever. Mr. Lowe\\nof the Galveston News, a most careful and conservative\\nman, said he believed fully two-thirds of the surviving\\nand remaining population were dependent to-day. Oth-\\ners familiar with the situation were asked for their opin-\\nions, and they estimated variously the number that must\\nbe helped temporarily at from two-thirds to three-\\nfourths.\\n180", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "RELIEF ORGANIZATION. 181\\nThe conclusion is forced that there are to-day in Gal-\\nveston 20,000 persons who must be fed and clothed. The\\nproportion of those who were in fair circumstances and\\nlost all is astonishing. Relief cannot be limited to those\\nwho formed the poor class before the storm.\\nAn intelligent man left Galveston to-day, taking his\\nwife and children to relatives. He said: A week ago I\\nhad a good home and a business which paid me between\\n|400 and |500 a month. To-day I have nothing. My\\nhouse was swept aAvay and my business is gone. I see no\\nway of re- establishing it in the near future.\\nThici man had a real estate and house-renting agency.\\nAt the military headquarters, one of the principal of-\\nficials doing temporary service for the city, said: Before\\nthe storm I had a good home and good income. I felt\\nrich. My house is gone and my business. The fact is I\\ndon t even own the clothes I stand before you in. I bor-\\nrowed them.\\nNow these are not exceptional cases. They are fairly\\ntypical. Men who worked for salaries, who rented or\\nowned good houses and considered themselves fairlj^ well\\nprovided for, as the world goes, are to-day, by thousands,\\nnot only penniless, but without food, without clothes, and\\nwithout employment.\\nThere must be fed and clothed these 20,000 until they\\ncan work out their temporal salvation. And then some-\\nthing ought to be done to help the worthy get on their\\nfeet and make a fresh start. Some people will leave Gal-\\nveston. It is plain, however, that nothing like the num-\\nber expected will go. Galveston is still home to the great\\nmajority. It was a city of fine local pride. It w^as one of\\nthe most beautiful of American cities, and with its sur-\\nrounding of gulf and bay was a i^leasant place to live in,", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "182 RELIEF ORGANIZATION.\\neven in summer. Those who can stay and live here will\\ndo so.\\nIf the country responds to the needs in anything like\\nthe measure given to Johnstown, Chicago, Charleston and\\nother stricken cities and sections, Galveston as a com-\\nmunity will not only be restored but will enter upon a\\ngreater future than was expected before the storm.\\nThis seems rather an extraordinary thing to say. It\\nhas been the experience, wherefore it is expected here.\\nSince Tuesday there has been no doubt of Galveston s res-\\ntoration. If in the future this city celebrates a flood an-\\nniversary the day upon which the community s courage\\nwas reborn ought to be remembered.\\nFrom a central organization the relief work has been\\ndivided by wards. A depot and a subcommittee were\\nestablished in each ward of the city. They who will\\nnot w^ork should not eat was the principle adopted when\\nthe organization was i)erfected. Few idle mouths are\\nnow being fed in Galveston. There are fatherless, and\\nthere are widows, and there are sick who must have\\ncharity.\\nBut the able-bodied are working in parties under the\\ndirection of bosses. They are paid in food and clothing.\\nIn this way the relief committee is, within the first week,\\nmeeting the needs of the survivors and at the same time\\ngradually clearing the streets and burning the ruins and\\nrefuse.\\nA single report made by a ward committeeman to Mr.\\nMcA^ittie will serve to show on what scale this plan is\\nbeing carried out. In my ward, said the committeeman,\\nI have 600 men employed and I am feeding 3,700 per-\\nsons.\\nThe system of the Galveston relief organization is ad-\\nmirable. Perhaps never before was economy practiced so", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "RELIEF ORGANIZATION. 183\\nrigidly in tlie distribution of the nation s largess. Our\\naim, Mr. McVittie said, is to distribute no money at this\\ntime, but to employ Avitli relief funds all of the labor in\\nthe clearing of the city and the cremation of the dead\\nuntil we have removed to that extent the ravages of the\\nstorm.\\nWe employ all who can work and we give food and\\nclothing as remuneration. We scrutinize most carefully\\napplications for charity and grant none if the applicant\\nis able to render service. We adopted this plan in the\\nbeginning and we are going to continue it. Most of our\\npeople responded to the rule and went to work. To those\\nwho were unwilling to work we applied the authority of\\nmartial law.\\nAll Galveston is now at work and the contributions\\nwhich we are receiving from the sympathizing nation are\\ngoing to pay for the most urgent work the storm imposed\\non us.\\nSix days have wrought surprising changes in condi-\\ntions at Galveston. Each day has been a chapter in it-\\nself. Sunday was paralysis. On Monday came the be-\\nginning of realization. Tuesday might be called the\\ncrisis period. And the crisis was passed safely. What\\nhas been accomplished since the turning point on Tues-\\nday is amazing. It is almost as incredible as some of the\\neffects of this visitation are without precedent.\\nOn Sunday the people did little but go about dazed\\nand bewildered, gathering a few hundred of the bodies\\nwhich were in their way. On Monday the born leaders\\nwho are usually not discovered in a. community until\\nsome great emergency arises began to forge in front.\\nThey were not men from one rank in point of wealth or\\nintelligence. They came from all classes. For example\\nthere was Hughes, the longshoreman.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "184 RELIEF ORGANIZATION.\\nBodies whicli lay exposed in tlie streets and which\\nwere necessary to remove somewhere lest they be stepped\\non were carried into a temporary morgue until 500 lay in\\nrows on the floor. Then a problem in mortality, such as\\nno other American community ever faced, was presented.\\nPestilence, which stalked forth by Monday, seemed about\\nto take possession of what the storm had left. Imme-\\ndiate disposition of those bodies was absolutely necessary\\nto save the living. Then it was that Lowe and McVittie\\nand Sealy and the others, who by common impulse had\\ncome together to deal with the problem, found Hughes.\\nThe longshoreman took up the most grewsome task\\never seen away from a battlefield. He had to have help-\\ners. Some volunteered, others were pressed into the ser-\\nvice at the point of the bayonet. Whisky by the\\nbucketful was carried to these men and they were\\ndrenched with it. The stimulant was kept at hand and\\napplied continuously. Only in this way was it possible\\nfor the stoutest-hearted to work in such surroundings.\\nUnder the direction of Hughes these hundreds of bodies\\nalready collected and others brought from the central\\npart of the city those which were quickest found were\\nloaded on to an ocean barge and taken far off into the\\ngulf to be cast into the sea.\\nHOW THE STORM AFFECTED TRADE.\\nThe following trade statement, issued from New York\\non Saturday, September 15, showed the effect of the great\\nstorm in commercial circles:\\nThe tropical storm that devastated the gulf coast, al-\\nmost wiping out the city of Galveston and doing damage\\nin other parts of the country, caused reduction in the vol-\\nume of business at the South, and railroads In the gulf", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "RELIEF ORGANIZATION. 185\\nregion have probably not shown their maximum losses\\nof earnings as yet, but even after such a catastrophe a. re-\\ncuperative power is shown.\\nFrom many quarters of the West and Southeast a\\nbetter distribution of merchandise is reported in jobbing\\nand retail circles. The weather has continued favorable\\nfor the maturing corn crop, with cutting progressing and\\nthe crop generally be^ ond danger, but damage to cotton\\nby the storm is still an unknown quantity. Prices of sta-\\nple commodities are higher for the week, hoisted by the\\nsharp rise in cotton, but in manufactured products there\\nis little change, though steady increases of business at\\nthe current level is satisfactory.\\nCotton closed last week at the highest price in ten\\nyears, and a large short interest was awaiting reaction.\\nInstead, there came news of the disaster in Texas and\\nsensational reports that 1,000,000 bales had been de-\\nstroyed. At the New York Exchange trading was far in\\nexcess of all previous records, and prices rose by bounds.\\nSubsequently there were less exaggerated reports from\\nthe South, but the market failed to respond and middling\\nuplands advanced 11 cents.\\nThe rise in the raw material caused sharp advances in\\ncotton goods. In one week standard brown sheetings\\nrose from 5.67 to 6 cents, wide bleached sheetings from 20\\nto 21 cents, standard brown drills from 5.G7 to 5.87, and\\nstaple ginghams from 5 to 5.50 cents. Buyers who have\\nbeen delaying for weeks are anxious to secure liberal sup-\\nplies, both instant and distant.\\nTWO APPEALS WHICH BROUGHT MUCH MONEY.\\nTwo appeals for aid which brought in much money\\nwere the following, the first one being by the G. A. R. and\\nWomen s Relief Corps, Department of Texas:", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "186 RELIEF ORGANIZATION.\\nThe appalling calamity that has befallen Galveston\\nand the coast country has smitten hundreds of our com-\\nrades in the city, villages and on farms. In many in-\\nstances, portions of whole families are lost; in a hundred\\nothers, houses are wrecked, live stock killed and crops\\ndestroyed.\\nGeorge B. McClellan Post of this city is doing what it\\ncan, but its efforts are all inadequate. Systematic organ-\\nized assistance alone can avert distress, and we therefore\\nappeal to the members of this department in behalf of\\nthese comrades. They had made their last stand and ef-\\nfort to secure for themselves and families homes on the\\ncoast country of Texas. Their all is involved. Far along\\nin the evening of their life they cannot recuperate.\\nI f there was time to make another crop they have\\nnothing with which to make it. Unless we help them\\nthey must abandon their homes, their all. If the princi-\\nples of our order fraternity, charity and loyalty are of\\nany avail, it is time to show it. Fraternity means organi-\\nzation charity means everything and is the greatest of\\nall. Loyalty means standing by our comrades as well as\\nthe flag. They were our brothers in arms, they are our\\nkindred in adversity.\\nWe confidently expect every post, every member of\\nevery corps to contribute something. Remittances and\\nsupplies from the G. A. R. should be made to Colonel E.\\nG. Rust, assistant quartermaster general, and from the\\nWomen s Relief Corps to Mrs. Mina Metcalf, both of\\nHouston, Texas.\\nCHARLES B. PECK,\\nDepartment Commander.\\nANNETTE VAN HORN,\\nDepartment Commander.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "RELIEF ORGANIZATION. 187\\nThe other was by President Michaux of the Travelers\\nProtective Association, addressed to the members of the\\norganization throughout the United States:\\nWhereas, A great calamity has befallen the city of\\nGalveston, thousands of dead, dying and wounded to be\\ncared for by our united and benevolent people; and\\nWhereas, Numbers of traveling men are reported se-\\nriously wounded; therefore, to care for immediate wants,\\nI deem it necessary to call on the traveling men to con-\\ntribute as much as in their power to help, aid and assist\\nour stricken companions.\\nOur association is able and will take care of all its un-\\nfortunate members, and I appeal to you in the name of\\ncharity and love to assist us in caring for them not so\\nfortunate. Remit what you can afford by postofflce, ex-\\npress money order to James E. Ludlow, San Antonio,\\nTexas. Secretaries of all local T. P. A. posts will receive\\nand remit your subscriptions. I trust that this appeal\\nto the traveling men will be met by a quick response.\\nSincerely and fraternally,\\nD. W. MICHAUX, President.\\nTexas T. P. A. of America, Houston, Texas.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XI.\\nInsanity Follows Frightful Suffering s of the Poor Tictlms\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Five Hundred\\nDemented Ones Indifferent to the Loss of Relatives.\\nHUNDREDS of people became insane during the week\\nsucceeding the flood. They had bravelj^ borne the loss of\\nrelatives, the hunger and fatigue, had apparently been\\nunmindful of the horrors of the catastrophe, and had, as\\na rule, given no indications of mental aberration while the\\ndisaster was on, but when the danger was passed and re-\\nlief from the great strain came, the overburdened mind\\ngave way.\\nJ. A. Fernandez, a prominent citizen of Galveston, who\\nwas connected with the relief work, told of many cases\\nwhich came under his observation.\\nThe second Sunday following the storm, September 16,\\nhe said, in recounting his experiences:\\nThere are at least 500 persons there whose minds have\\nbecome unbalanced, and some have lost every vestige of\\ntheir mental faculties, there being some raving maniacs\\namong them, one of whom came under my personal obser-\\nvation. His name is Charles Thompson, a gardener. He\\noccupied a room above me at the hotel, and during the\\nnight he kept raving and pacing the floor and kept call-\\ning on God to witness his action, continually invoking the\\nmercy of the Deity. He has lost his family and home, and\\nby a miracle saved himself.\\nAs soon as he was out of personal danger on that aw-\\nful night he commenced rescuing women and children\\nand saved seventy people, according to a gentleman who\\nknew the circumstances. He then lost his mind. He\\ncreated so much excitement at the hotel that two police-\\n188", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "INSANITY FOLLOWS SUFFERING. 189\\nmen were detailed to capture him. He heard them ap-\\nproaching and leaped out of a three-story window to an\\nadjoining building. His fall was somewhat broken, but\\nhis body struck a bay window in my room. He was badly\\ninjured, but continued his mad flight. He baffled his pur-\\nsuers and escaped. This occurred at 5 o clock this morn-\\ning. This is only one illustration of the conditions that\\nprevail there.\\nA man whose wife was drowned in the flood had been\\nsearching in vain for her remains for several days, and\\nyesterday located the bod^^ in the water near Thirty-third\\nstreet and Avenue G. Soldiers had also seen the body,\\nand they took it in charge. He protested and rushed to\\ntake possession of the body. The soldiers were stern and\\nhad to discharge their duty, and the husband, practically\\ndemented, was bound while the body was thrown in the\\nflames and soon burned to a crisp. The man made frantic\\nefforts to get away from the soldiers, but to no avail.\\nIn the course of my rounds I saw a family of six half-\\nnaked, and they appeared crazy, and would look into the\\nface of every stranger with a vacant stare that was piti-\\nable in the extreme. They w^ere hurrying in the direction\\nof the places where provisions were being distributed.\\nThey had lost their homes, and had only the clothing on\\ntheir backs. There were thousands in a similar condi-\\ntion.\\nI. Thompson, a. young man who was very active in sav-\\ning life during the night of the storm, became insane be-\\ncause of the awful scenes he witnessed. Thompson s\\nfriends first noticed his condition when he told them that\\none of the persons he rescued had deposited |10,000 in\\none of the Galveston banks to his credit and that he was\\ngoing to live in luxury the rest of his life.\\nThompson retired to his room on the third floor of the", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "190 INSANITY FOLLOWS SUFFERING.\\nWashington hotel Saturday night seemingly sane. Soon\\nafterward he became violent. The person engaged to\\nwatch him was compelled to leave the room for a short\\ntime, and when he returned found Thompson had\\nwrenched the shutters off his window and leaped out upon\\nan awning and thence to the street. He was seen run-\\nning toward the bay, and in all probability threw him-\\nself in and was drowned.\\nAnother case was that of a young woman who was\\ncaught in the storm, and with two other women and about\\nfifty men and boys found refuge in an office. As the storm\\ngradually subsided the young woman started for her home\\nquite reassured. She found a wild waste of waters sweep-\\ning over the site of her home. Among the first victims\\ncarried into the temporary morgue were the young wo-\\nman s mother, brother and two children. These were\\nquickly followed by her brother s wife and her two sis-\\nters. The shock overthrew the girl s reason, and she be-\\ncame a nervous wreck, without a relative in the world.\\nSTOEM KEFUGEES PRECIPITATE A PANIC IN A\\nCONVENT.\\nThe Ursuline convent and academy, in charge of the\\nSisters of St. Angelo, proved a haven of refuge for nearly\\n1,000 homeless and storm-driven unfortunates. No one\\nwas refused admittance to the sheltering institution. Ne-\\ngroes and whites were taken in without question and the\\nasylum was thrown open to all who sought its protecting\\nwings.\\nIn the midst of the storm the hundreds or more negroes\\ngrew wild and shouted and sang in true camp-meeting\\nstyle until the nerves of the other refugees were shat-\\ntered and a panic seemed imminent. It was then that", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "INSANITY FOLLOWS SUFFERING. 191\\nMother Superioress Joseph rang the chancel bell and\\ncaused a hush of the pandemonium. When quiet had\\nbeen restored the mother addressed the negroes and told\\nthem that it was no time nor place for such scenes; that\\nif they wanted to praj they should do so from their hearts,\\nand the Creator of all things would hear their offerings\\nabove the roar of the hurricane, which raged with in-\\ncreased fury as she spoke to the awe-stricken assemblage.\\nThe negroes listened attentively and v^^hen the mother\\ntold them that all those who wished to be baptized and\\nresign themselves to God could do so nearly every one\\nasked that the sacrament be administered. The panic\\nhad been precipitated by the falling of the north wall of\\nthat section of the building in which the negroes had\\nsought refuge. Order and silent prayer were brought\\nabout by the nun s determination and presence of mind.\\nFamilies that had been separated by the conflict of ele-\\nments were united by the waters of the gulf tossing them\\ninto this haven of refuge. Heart-moving scenes were pre-\\nsented by these unions as the half-dead, mangled and\\nbruised unfortunates were rescued and dragged from the\\nwaters by the more fortunate members of their families.\\nThe academy was to have opened for the fall session\\non Tuesday and forty-two boarding scholars from all\\nparts of the State had arrived at the convent, preparatory\\nto resuming their studies on that date. The community\\nof nuns comprised forty sisters, and they, too, were there\\nadministering cheer and mercy to the sufferers, many of\\nwhom were more dead than alive when brought into the\\nshelter. Within this religious home and in the cells of the\\nnuns four babies came into this world during that dark\\nnight.\\nMother Joseph, in speaking of the incidents of the night\\nwithin the convent walls, said that she believed it was the", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "192 INSANITY FOLLOWS SUFFERING.\\nfirst time in the history of the world that a baby had\\nbeen born in the nuns cell of a convent. They were\\nchristened, for no one expected to live to see the light of\\nday, and it was voted that these babes should not leave\\nthe world they had just entered without baptism, and,\\nregardless of the religious belief of the parents, the little\\nones were baptized.\\nWASHED UP IN A TRUNK.\\nMrs. William Henry Haldeman was one of the mothers\\nand whose new-born babe was christened William Henry.\\nThe experiences of this mother were horrible. Only a\\nchapter was learned by a reporter, as told by Mother\\nJoseph. Mrs. Haldeman was thrown on the mercies of\\nthe storm when her home went down and was swept away.\\nThe family had separated when they started to abandon\\ntheir home to the greed of the storm. When Mrs. Halde-\\nman was carried away on the roof of the wrecked cottage\\nshe lost all trace of the other members of the family, but\\nnever lost faith and courage. The roof struck some ob-\\nstruction and the next instant Mrs. Haldeman was hurled\\nfrom her improvised raft and landed in a trunk which\\nwas rocked on the waves.\\nCramped up in the trunk, the poor vv-oman, suffering\\nagonies, was protected to a limited extent and was af-\\nforded some warmth. On went the trunk, tossed high on\\nthe sea, bumping against driftwood until the crude bark\\nwas hurled against the Ursuline convent walls and was\\npulled into the building. The little babe was born a few\\nhours later, and while the good sisters and some of the\\nwomen in the building were attending to the mother and\\nchild another chapter in this family s history was being\\nenacted just without the convent walls. In a tree in the", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "INSANITY FOLLOWS SUFFERING. 193\\nconvent yard a young man, a brother of Mrs. Haldeman,\\nbattled with the wind and waters while clinging fast to\\nthe limb of the tree which swayed and bowed to the wind.\\nHe knew not where he was. He could but merely dis-\\ncern the outlines of the academy building. While not\\nknowing his chance of life or death he heard the plaintive\\ncry of a child near by. Reaching out with one hand he\\ncaught the dress of a little tot, who, child-like, cried out,\\nMe swimming. The child had run the mill race buoyed\\nby the force of the storm and had not had time to realize\\nher peril. The young man in the tree was Mrs. Halde-\\nman s brother, and the child which had come to him on\\nthe waves was Mrs. Haldeman s little girl. A few min-\\nutes afterward a rescuing party was sent out from the\\nconvent in response to cries for help and found the young\\nman and his niece and brought him to the sheltering in-\\nstitution. The reunion of at least a part of the family\\nfollowed a few minutes later.\\nDr. Truhart, chairman of the organization of physicians\\nfor the relief of the wounded and sick, states that there\\nis absolutely no further necessity for trained nurses and\\nphysicians.\\nSAVED AS BY A MIRACLE.\\nDestitute save for a few personal effects carried in a\\nsmall valise, and with nerves shattered by a week of hor-\\nror, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Prutsman, with their two daugh-\\nters, 12 and 6 years old, reached Chicago Sunday morning,\\nSeptember 16, from the flood-swept district of Texas.\\nYes, we were fortunate, said Mrs. Prutsman, as she\\nleaned wearily back in a rocking chair and tenderly con-\\ntemplated the two children at her side. It seems to me\\njust like an awful dream, and when I think of the hun-", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "194 INSANITY FOLLOWS SUFFERING.\\ndreds and hundreds of children who were killed right be-\\nfore our very eyes, I feel as though I always ought to be\\nsatisfied no matter what comes.\\nMr. Prutsman said:\\nThe reports from Galveston are not half as appalling as\\nthe situation really is. We left the fated city Wednesday\\nafternoon, going by boat to Texas City, and by rail to\\nHouston. The condition of Galveston at that time, while\\nshowing an improvement, was awful, and never shall I\\nforget the terrible scenes that met our eyes as the boat\\non which we left steamed out of the harbor. There were\\nbodies on all sides of us. In some places they were piled\\nsix and seven deep, and the stench was horrible.\\nI resided with my family at 718 Nineteenth street.\\nThis is fourteen blocks away from the beach, yet my house\\nwas swept away at 5 p. m. Saturday, and with it went\\neverything we had in the world. Fifteen minutes before\\nI took my wife and children to the courthouse and we\\nwere saved, along with about 1,000 others who sought\\nrefuge there. When we went through the streets the\\nwater was up to our arms and we carried the children on\\nour heads.\\nI assisted for several days in the work of rescue. In\\none pile of debris we found a woman who seemed to have\\nescaped the flood, but who was injured and pinned down\\nso she could not escape. A guard came along, and, after\\nfailing to rescue her, deliberately shot her to end her\\nmisery.\\nThe streets present a grewsome appearance. Every\\navailable wagon and vehicle in the city is being used to\\ntransport the dead, and it is no uncommon thing to see\\na load of bodies ten deep. The stench in the city is nau-\\nseating. Since the flood the only water that could be\\nused for drinking purposes was in cisterns, and it has", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "INSANITY FOLLOWS SUFFERING. 195\\nbecome tainted with the slime and filth that covers the\\ncity until it is little better than no water at all.\\nSince the city was placed under martial law conditions\\nhave been much better and there is little lawlessness.\\nThe soldiers have shown no quarter and have orders to\\nshoot on sight. This has had a wonderful effect on the\\ndisreputable characters who have flocked into the city.\\nEverybody who remains in Galveston is made to work,\\nand the punishment for a refusal is about the same as that\\nmeted out to ghouls. I saw four colored men shot in one\\nday. There were confined in the hold of a steamer in the\\nharbor six colored men who were found by the soldiers\\nwith a flour sack almost filled with fingers and ears on\\nwhich were jewels. These men probably have been pub-\\nlicly executed before this time.\\nIn the work of rescue we found whole families tied\\ntogether with ropes, and in several instances mothers had\\ntheir babes clasped in their arms.\\nScores of unfortunates straggle into Houston every\\nday and their condition is pitiable. Several have lost\\ntheir reason. The citizens of Houston are doing all in\\ntheir power to meet the demands of the sufferers, and\\nevery available building in the city has been converted\\ninto a hospital. When we arrived in Houston we scarcely\\nhad clothes enough to cover us and the citizens fitted us\\nout and started us north. The fear of fever or some awful\\nplague drove us from Galveston.\\nAlready speculators are flocking into the city, and\\nthere is some activity among them over tax-title real es-\\ntate. In several instances whole families were wiped out\\nof existence, and the opportunities in this line seem to\\nbe great.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XII.\\nSerious Danger from Fire Scarcity of Boats to Carry People to the Main-\\nlaud Laborers Imported into Galvoston Untold Sufferings on Boliyar\\nIsland Experience of a Chicago Man.\\nONE of the serious dangers which Galveston faced for\\nmany days was fire. Not a drop of rain had fallen during\\nthe two weeks succeeding the hurricane, and the hot\\nwinds and blistering suns made the wrecked houses and\\nbuildings so much tinder, piled mountain high in every\\ndirection. In nearly all parts of the city the fire hydrants\\nwere buried fifty feet, in some places a hundred feet deep\\nunder the wreckage, and as yet the w^ater supply at best\\nwas only of the most meager kind.\\nGalveston s fire department was small and badly crip-\\npled and would have been utterly powerless to stay the\\nflames should they once staii:. There was no relief nearer\\nthan Houston, and that was hours away.\\nIn view of all the then existing conditions it was no\\nwonder that the cry was: Get the women and children\\nto the mainland; anywhere off the island, nor was it a\\nwonder that with one small boat carrying only 300 pas-\\nsengers and making only two trips a day people fairly\\nfought to be taken aboard.\\nAll during Sunday, September 16, fears were enter-\\ntained by the authorities that even this service would be\\ncut off and Galveston left without any means of getting\\nto the mainland owing to the trouble with the owner of\\nthe boat.\\nThe sanitary conditions did not improve to any great\\nextent. Dr. Trueheart, chairman of the committee in\\ncharge of caring for the sick and injured, was proceeding\\n190", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "DANGER AND WANT EVERYWHERE. 197\\nwith dispatch. More ph^^sicians were needed, and he re-\\nquested that about thirty outside physicians come to Gal-\\nveston and work for at least a month, and, if needed,\\nlonger.\\nThe city s electric light service was completely de-\\nstroyed and the city electrician said it would be sixty\\ndays before the business portion of the city could be\\nlighted.\\nA glorious and modern Galveston to be rebuilt in place\\nof the old one, was the cry raised by the citizens, but it\\nseemed a task beyond human power to ever remove the\\nwreckage of the old city.\\nThe total number of people fed in the ten wards Satur-\\nday was 16,144. Sunday the number increased slightly.\\nNo accurate statement of the amount of supplies could be\\nobtained as they were put in the general stock as soon as\\nreceived.\\nGALVESTON SCARED BY A FIRE.\\nGalveston received another scare Sunday night, the\\n16th, when it became rumored that Houston, where all\\nthe relief trains were side-tracked, was burning with its\\nprecious supplies of food and clothing.\\nThe scare grev/ out of a |400,000 fire in Houston, which\\ndestroyed the Merchants and Planters oil mill, the larg-\\nest in the world. The fire broke out at noon, but was not\\nobservable until nightfall, when the glow in the sky\\ncould be seen for a great distance.\\nGalveston was reassured by telegraph that a second\\nsouthern Texas calamity was out of the question and that\\nthe relief supplies were safe.\\nOne feature of the efforts to relieve the people of Gal-\\nveston was the delay in getting supplies to the island", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "198 DANGER AND WANT EVERYWHERE.\\ncitj. Trainload after trainload was in Houston, which\\nwould have assisted materially in the work of relief, but\\non account of the limited transportation facilities they\\ncould not be hurried there. There was but one track and\\nit was of light rails and was used only for terminal busi-\\nness. Even if the supplier were at Texas City they could\\nnot be moved fast, as there were not enough boats of\\nlight draft at Galveston. Buffalo bayou could be used\\nfrom Houston, but it was impossible to get the boats for\\nthe purpose.\\nLABORERS IMPORTED INTO GALVESTON.\\nThe general committee of public safety at Galveston\\ndecided, on Sej)tember 17, to import laborers. This ac-\\ntion was taken with the consent of the local unions.\\nSkilled mechanics had been busy burying the dead with-\\nout pay, but were relieved of this work and replaced by\\nimported unskilled labor.\\nAccording to Dr. William W. Meloy of Chicago, who\\nhas investigated the health situation, there was no fever\\nin Galveston September 17.\\nThe water supply has been adequate, he said, and\\nis not liable to contamination. Nervous prostration,\\nhysteria and mild dementia occur among the wealthy\\nclass, due to shock, exhaustion and grief. Among the\\npoorer classes the use of spoiled food during the earlier\\npart of the week has led to intestinal troubles. Several\\ncases of heat prostration have occurred among the work-\\nmen. The danger from the unburied dead is mostly to\\nthe people who handle them.\\nMajor Frank M. Spencer arrived at Galveston on Sep-\\ntember 16 with $50,000 cash from Governor Savers, to be\\nexpended in hastening the disposal of the debris and the", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "DANGER AND WANT EVERYWHERE. 199\\nburial of bodies. Major Spencer arrived too late to bank\\nthe money and for twenty-four hours it rested in the safe\\nof the Tremont House, guarded by soldiers.\\nGalveston passed the first Sunday following the dis-\\naster burying the dead and clearing away debris. Gen-\\neral Scurry s order that all men able to work should labor\\nto the limit of their strength was carried out to the letter.\\nWe re thankful, said Mayor Jones on Monday, when\\ntold of the arrival of the Chicago relief train at Houston.\\nYou can t make that statement too strong to the people\\nof Chicago. We are thankful and thankful again. Chi-\\ncago people are among the staunchest friends in the world\\nin times like these. Yes, we ll build Galveston up again,\\nand, like Chicago, we ll make it a better city than it was.\\nWe shall never forget the kindness of the people of Chi-\\ncago in coming so generously to our relief, and we all\\nthank them from the bottom of our hearts.\\nA HELP IN GETTING BELIEF SUPPLIES TO THE\\nNEEDY.\\n^Lrrangements were completed by the Santa Fe road\\nSeptember 17 whereby it established a barge line to Gal-\\nveston from Virginia Point. This helped somewhat in\\ngetting relief supplies from the mainland.\\nClara Barton, head of the Bed Cross league, arrived at\\nGalveston that day.\\nCaptain W. A. Hutchins, superintendent of the Gal-\\nveston life-saving station, returned from a trip along the\\nisland and reported that he saw a great many bodies.\\nHe said the life-saving crew at San Luis had taken from\\nthe beach 181 bodies and buried them at different points\\nalong the island.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "200 DANGER AND WANT EVERYWHERE.\\nUNTOLD SUFFERINGS OF A FAMILY ON BOLIVAR\\nISLAND.\\nAfter suffering untold privations for over a week on\\nBolivar peninsula, an isolated neck of land extending into\\nGalveston bay a few miles from tlie east end of Galveston\\nIsland, the Rev. L. P. Davis, wife and five young children\\nreached Houston September 17 famished, penniless and\\nnearly naked, but overcome with amazenient and joy at\\ntheir miraculous delivery from what seemed to them cer-\\ntain death. Wind and water wrecked their home, an-\\nnihilated their neighbors and destroyed every particle of\\nfood for miles around, yet they passed through the ter-\\nrible days and nights raising their voices above the shriek\\nof the wind in singing hymns and in prayer. And through\\nit all not one member of the family was injured to the ex-\\ntent of even a scratch.\\nWhen the hurricane struck the Rev. Mr. Davis home\\nat Patton beach the water rose so fast that it was pouring\\ninto the windows before the members of the family rea-\\nlized their danger. Rushing out Mr, Davis hitched his\\nteam and placing his wife and children into a wagon\\nstarted for a place of safety. Before they had left his\\nyard another family of refugees drove up to ask assist-\\nance, only to be upset by the waves before his very eyes.\\nWith diflflculty the party was saved from drowning, and\\nwhen safe in the Davis wagon were half floated, half\\ndrawn by the team to a grove.\\nWith clotheslines Mr. Davis lashed his 12 and 14 year\\nold boys in a tree. One younger child he secured with the\\nchain of his wagon, and lifting his wife into another tree\\nhe climbed beside her.\\nWhile the hurricane raged above and a sea of water", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "DANGER AND WANT EVERYWHERE. 201\\ndashed wildly below, Mrs. Davis clung to her 6-month-old\\nbabe with one arm, while with the other she held fast to\\nher precarious haven of refuge. The minister held a baby\\nof 18 months in the same manner, and while the little one\\ncried for food he prayed. In other trees the family he\\nhad rescued from drowning found a precarious footing.\\nWhen the night had passed and the water receded,\\nwreckage, dead animals and the corpses of parishioners\\nsurrounded the devoted party. There was nothing to eat,\\nand, nearly dead with exhaustion, the preacher and his\\nlittle flock set out on foot to seek assistance. They were\\ntoo weak to continue far and sank down on the plain,\\nwhile Mr. Davis pushed on alone. Five miles away a\\nfarmhouse was found, partially intact, and securing a\\nteam Davis returned for his half-dead party.\\nFor two days they remained at the home of the hos-\\npitable farmer and then set out afoot to find a hamlet or\\nmake their way over the desert-like peninsula to Bolivar\\nPoint. In the heat of the burning sun they plodded on\\nalong the water front, subsisting upon a steer which they\\nkilled and devoured raw, until finally they came upon an\\nabandoned and overturned sailboat high on the beach.\\nWith a united effort they succeeded in launching the\\nboat and with improvised distress signals displayed man-\\naged to sail to Galveston. There, because of red tape,\\nthey were unable to secure clothing, although they were\\ngiven a little food and transportation to Houston. Clad\\nin an old pair of trousers, a tattered shirt and torn shoes,\\nwith his family in even worse plight, the circuit rider of\\nthe Patton Beach, Johnston s Bethel, Bolivar Point and\\nHigh Island Methodist churches rode into Houston, dirty,\\nweak and half-starved. Here the family were sent to a\\nhospital and cared for.\\nThey were sent to Dickinson, Tex., where they had rel-", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "202 DANGER AND WANT EVERYWHERE.\\natives, who aided them until the Methodist church came\\nto their relief.\\nBolivar reported that up to September 16 220 bodies\\nhad been found and buried and many were still lying on\\nthe sands. Assistance was needed. It was a fact gen-\\nerall/ commented upon and merely emphasized by the\\nclergyman s experience, that while succor was being\\nrushed to Galveston other sufferers were neglected. The\\nrelief trains en route from Houston to Galveston tra-\\nversed a storm-swept section where famishing and nearly\\nnaked survivors sat on the wrecks of their homes and\\nhungrily watched tons of provisions whirling past them\\nwhile there was little prospect of aid reaching them.\\nMAN HAD HIS BROKEN NECK SET.\\nOne of the most difficult operations known to medical\\nhistory, and a rarity, was performed by Drs. Johnson, Lu-\\ncas and Ryon Monday morning, September 17, at a hos-\\npital in Houston.\\nF. H. Wigzell, of Alvin, a suburban town not far from\\nGalveston, was blown half a mile in his house and suf-\\nfered dislocation of the cervical vertebrae. His head fell\\nforward on his chest and he had no power to raise it. It\\nwas a plain case of broken neck and the physicians oper-\\nated successfully. They placed the neck in a plaster cast\\nand the man will live for years to come.\\nMOST TERRIBLE WEEK OF HIS LIFE.\\nL. F. Menage of Chicago, who returned from Galveston\\nthe Friday night succeeding the disaster, reached the\\nTremont Hotel, Galveston, the Friday evening before the\\nterrible storm began. He said it had been the most ter-", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "DANGER AND WANT EVERYWHERE. 203\\nrible week in his experience; the most awful two days a\\nman could imagine were the Sunday and Monday suc-\\nceeding the hurricane.\\nOne man would ask another how his family had come\\nout, said Mr. Menage, and the answer would be indiffer-\\nent and hard almost offish; Oh, all gone. All gone\\nwas the phrase on all sides.\\nThe night before the disaster, when I reached the ho-\\ntel, it was blowing rather hard, and the clerk said we\\nwere in for a storm, and I asked him if his roof was firmly\\nfixed, and he said, Well, it won t be quite as bad as that,\\nbut by the next night at the same time there was three\\nfeet of water in the rotunda and the skylight had fallen in\\nand the servants annex had been blown to pieces, and the\\nplace was crowded with refugees who arrived from all\\npoints of the city in boats. Saturday night there was\\nlittle sleep, yet no one realized the extent of the disaster.\\nOn Sunday morning one could walk on the higher\\nstreets, so quickly had the water gone down. I took a\\nwalk along the beach, and the place was one great litter\\nof overturned houses, debris of all kinds and corpses. I\\nmet one woman who burst into tears at sight of a small\\nrocker, her i^roperty mixed in among the wreckage. She\\nhad lost all her family in the flood.\\nPeople were for the most part bereft of their senses\\nfrom the horror, and a single funeral would have seemed\\nmore terrible more solemn\u00e2\u0080\u0094 than a pile of cremated\\nbodies.\\nThe tales of looting are only too true, and as I passed\\nnorthward in a sailboat on Tuesday I heard the shots\\nring out which told some ghoul was paying the penalty.\\nGalveston will rise again on the old site, and without as\\nmuch difficulty as is at present anticipated. Most of the", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "204 DANGER AND WANT EVERYWHERE.\\npeople will, however, try and live on the mainland. At\\nleast 5,000 persons perished.\\nTHE FLOOD HORRORS DROVE THEM CRAZY.\\nThree-fourths of the people who applied for relief were\\nmentally dull. The physicians said with proper care\\nmost of them might be cured.\\nA young girl was brought into the general relief sta-\\ntion in Galveston on Friday night. The relief corps\\nfound her huddled up in an empty freight car, laughing\\nand singing to amuse herself. The doctors said food and\\ncare were all she needed to restore her to reason.\\nIt was over a week after the flood before those from the\\noutside really began to find out what the awful calamity\\nwas to the people in the desolated city.\\nThe first shock w^as wearing off, the long lists of dead\\nand missing were getting to be an old story, and the sick\\nand suffering were crawling into places of refuge. Some\\nof them had been sleeping on the open prairies ever since\\nthe storm, most of them, in fact, men with broken arms\\nand legs, sick women and ailing children.\\nThey would crawl out of the wreck of their homes and\\nlie down on the bare ground to die.\\nRelief parties found such as these every day and\\nbrought them into the hospitals as. fast as possible. One\\nrelief party found 5,000 people in the vicinity of Galves-\\nton homeless, helpless, hopeless and tearless.\\nIt was a sight to cause a stone statue to weep.\\nMonday, September 17, a man rode up to a hospital\\nat Houston, and told the doctors he had just come from\\nthe Brazos bottoms.\\nSaid he: The folks there are starving. There is not a\\npound of flour left and the children are crying for milk.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0200.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "DANGER AND WANT EVERYWHERE. 205\\nThere are so many sick people there that we don t know\\nwhat to do. Can you send some one down?\\nThe physician in charge said he would go at once.\\nThe man on horseback leaned over his saddle and tried\\nto speak. Something in his face frightened me. I called\\nto two doctors. They ran out and caught him. He was\\nin a dead faint. When we had brought him to he laughed\\nsheepishly.\\nI don t know what s the matter with me, he said.\\nAin t never been taken this way before.\\nThe doctors looked at each other and smiled, but the\\nnurses eyes were full of tears. The man had not tasted\\nfood for thirty-six hours, and he had ridden fifty miles in\\nthe broiling Texas sun.\\nMore troops were called for on September 17 by Gov-\\nernor Sayers of Texas to relieve those on duty at Gal-\\nveston who were worn out by their hard work. The re-\\nsponse was prompt and hearty.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0201.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XIII.\\nTwo Women Tell Hoiv They Were Affected at Galveston\u00e2\u0080\u0094 One Arrived After\\nthe Catastrophe, While the Other Was in the Storm from Befjinning\\nto End.\\nA WOMAN a newspaper correspondent, and the first of\\nthe fair sex from the outside to gain admittance to the\\nSealed City of Galveston wrote a description of what\\nshe saw and heard there. She arrived in Galveston on\\nFriday, and although she was on a relief train carryinp;\\ndoctors, nurses and medical supplies, she had hard work\\nto get past the file of soldiers at the wharf, but she at last\\nsucceeded.\\nSaid she:\\nThe engineer who brought our train down from Hous-\\nton spent the night before groping around in the wrecks\\non the beach looking for his wife and three children. He\\nfound them, dug a rude grave in the sand and set up a\\nlittle board marked with his name.\\nThe man in front of me on the car had floated all\\nMonday night with his wife and mother on a part of the\\nroof of his little home. He told me that he kissed his\\nwife good-by at midnight and told her that he could not\\nhold on any longer; but he did hold on, dazed and half-\\nconscious, until the day broke and showed him that he\\nwas alone on his piece of driftwood. He did not even\\nknow when the woman that he loved had died.\\nEvery man on the train there were no women there\\nhad lost some one that he loved in the terrible disaster,\\nand was going across the bay to try and find some trace\\nof his family.\\nAs the train neared Texas City, near Galveston, a great\\n206", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0202.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "EXPERIENCES OF TWO WOMEN. 207\\nflame leaped up, and she said to one of four men near her,\\nWhat a terrible fire! Some of the large buildings must\\nbe burning.\\nShe then went on to say:\\nA man who was passing on the deck behind my chair\\nheard me. He stopped, put his hand on the bulwark and\\nturned down and looked into my face, his face like the\\nface of a dead man; but he laughed.\\nBuildings! he said. Don t you know what is burning\\nover there? It is my wife and children such little chil-\\ndren! Why, the tallest was not as high as this he laid\\nhis hand on the bulwark and the little one was just\\nlearning to talk.\\nShe called my name the other day, and now they are\\nburning over there they and the mother who bore them.\\nShe was such a little, tender, delicate thing, always so\\neasily frightened, and now she s out there all alone with\\nthe two babies, and they re burning.\\nThe man laughed again and began again to walk up\\nand down the deck.\\nThat s right, said the Marshal of the State of Texas,\\ntaking off his broad hat and letting the starlight shine\\non his strong face. That s right. We had to do it. We ve\\nburned over 1,000 people to-day, and to-morrow we shall\\nburn as many more,\\nYesterday we stopped burying the bodies at sea; we\\nhad to give the men on the barges whisky to give them\\ncourage to do the work. They carried out hundreds of the\\ndead at one time, men and women, negroes and white peo-\\nple, all piled up as high as the barge could stand it, and\\nthe men did not go out far enough to sea, and the bodies\\nhave begun drifting back again.\\nLook! said the man who was walking the deck, touch-\\ning my shoulder with his shaking hand. Look there!", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0203.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "208 EXPERIENCES OF TWO WOMEN.\\nBefore I had time to think I had to look, and saw\\nfloating in the water fhe body of an old woman, whose\\nhair was shining in the starlight. A little farther on we\\nsaw a group of strange driftwood.\\nWe looked closer and found it to be a mass of wooden\\nslabs, with names and dates cut upon them, and floating\\non top of them were marble stones, two of them.\\nThe graveyard, which has held the sleeping citizens\\nof Galveston for many, many years, was giving up its\\ndead. We pulled up at a little wharf in the hush of the\\nstarlight; there were no lights anywhere in the city except\\na few scattered lamps shining from a few desolate, half-\\ndestroyed houses. We picked our way up the street. The\\nground was slimy with the debris of the sea.\\nWe climbed over wreckage and picked our way\\nthrough heaps of rubbish. The terrible, sickening odor\\nalmost overcame us, and it was all that I could do to shut\\nmy teeth and get through the streets somehow. The sol-\\ndiers were camping on the wharf front, lying stretched\\nout on the wet sand, the hideous, hideous sand,\\nstained and streaked in the starlight with dark\\nand cruel blotches. They challenged us, but the\\nmarshal took us through under his protection. At\\nevery street corner there was a guard, and every guard\\nwore a six-shooter strapped around his waist.\\nI went toward the heart of the city. I do not know\\nwhat the names of the streets were or where I was going.\\nI simply picked my way through masses of slime and\\nrubbish which scar the beautiful wide streets of the once\\nbeautiful city.\\nThey won t bear looking at, those piles of rubbish.\\nThere are things there that gripe the heart to see a\\nbaby s shoe, for instance, a little red shoe, with a jaunty\\ntasseled lace a bit of a woman s dress and letters.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0204.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "EXPERIENCES OP TWO WOMEN. 209\\nThe stencil from these piles of rubbish is almost over-\\npowering. Down in the very heart of the city most of\\nthe dead bodies have been removed, but it will not do to\\nwalk far out. To-day I came upon a group of people in\\na bj-street, a man and two women, colored. The man\\nwas big and muscular, one of the women was old and one\\nwas young.\\nThey were dipping in a heap of rubbish and when\\nthey heard my footsteps the man turned an evil, glower-\\ning face upon me and the young woman hid something in\\nthe folds of her dress. Human ghouls, these, prowling\\nin search of prey.\\nA moment later there was noise and excitement in the\\nlittle narrow street, and I looked back and saw the negro\\nrunning, with a crowd at his heels. The crowd caught\\nhim and would have killed him, but a policeman came\\nup.\\nThey tied his hands and took him through the streets\\nwith a whooping rabble at his heels. It goes hard with\\na man in Galveston caught looting the dead in these days.\\nA young man well known in the city shot and killed\\na negro who was cutting the ears from a living woman s\\nhead to get her ear rings out. The negro lay in the streets\\nlike a dead dog, and not even the members of his own\\nrace would give him the tribute of a kindly look.\\nThe abomination of desolation reigns on every side.\\nThe big houses are dismantled, their roofs gone, win-\\ndows broken, and the high water mark showing incon-\\nceivably high on the paint. The little houses are gone\\neither completely gone as if they were made of cards and\\na giant hand which was tired of playing with them Lad\\nswept them all off the board and put them away, or they\\nare lying in heaps of kindling wood covering no one knows\\nwhat horrors beneath.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0205.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "200 DANGER AND WANT EVERYWHERE.\\nUNTOLD SUFFERINGS OF A FAMILY ON BOLIVAR\\nISLAND.\\nAfter suffering untold privations for over a week on\\nBolivar peninsula, an isolated neck of land extending into\\nGalveston bay a few miles from the east end of Galveston\\nisland, the Rev. L. P. Davis, wife and five young children\\nreached Houston September 17 famished, penniless and\\nnearly naked, but overcome with amazement and joy at\\ntheir miraculous delivery from what seemed to them cer-\\ntain death. Wind and water wrecked their home, an-\\nnihilated their neighbors and destroyed every particle of\\nfood for miles around, yet they passed through the ter-\\nrible days and nights raising their voices above the shriek\\nof the wind in singing hymns and in prayer. And through\\nit all not one member of the family was injured to the ex-\\ntent of even a scratch.\\nWhen the hurricane struck the Rev. Mr. Davis home\\nat Patton beach the water rose so fast that it was pouring\\ninto the windows before the members of the family rea-\\nlized their danger. Rushing out ]^r. Davis hitched his\\nteam and placing his wife and children into a wagon\\nstarted for a place of safety. Before they had left his\\nyard another family of refugees drove up to ask assist-\\nance, only to be upset by the waves before his very eyes.\\nWith difficulty the party was saved from drowning, and\\nwhen safe in the Davis wagon were half floated, half\\ndrawn by the team to a grove.\\nWith clotheslines Mr. Davis lashed his 12 and 14 year\\nold boys in a tree. One younger child he secured with the\\nchain of his wagon, and lifting his wife into another tree\\nhe climbed beside her.\\nWhile the hurricane raged above and a sea of water", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0206.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "DANGER AND WANT EVERYWHERE. 197\\nwith dispatch. More physicians were needed, and he re-\\nquested that about thirty outside physicians come to Gal-\\nveston and work for at least a month, and, if needed,\\nlonger.\\nThe city s electric light service was completely de-\\nstroyed and the city electrician said it would be sixty\\ndays before the business portion of the city could be\\nlighted.\\nA glorious and modern Galveston to be rebuilt in place\\nof the old one, was the cry raised by the citizens, but it\\nseemed a task beyond human power to ever remove the\\nwreckage of the old city.\\nThe total number of people fed in the ten wards Satur-\\nday was 16,144. Sunday the number increased slightly.\\nNo accurate statement of the amount of supplies could be\\nobtained as they were put in the general stock as soon as\\nreceived.\\nGALVESTON SOARED BY A FIRE.\\nGalveston received another scare Sunday night, the\\n16th, when it became rumored that Houston, where all\\nthe relief trains were side-tracked, was burning with its\\nprecious supplies of fopd and clothing.\\nThe scare grew out of a |400,000 fire in Houston, which\\ndestroyed the Merchants and Planters oil mill, the larg-\\nest in the world. The fire broke out at noon, but was not\\nobservable until nightfall, when the glow in the sky\\ncould be seen for a great distance.\\nGalveston was reassured by telegraph that a second\\nsouthern Texas calamity was out of the question and that\\nthe relief supplies were safe.\\nOne feature of the efforts to relieve the people of Gal-\\nveston was the delay in getting supplies to the island", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0207.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "212 EXPERIENCES OF TWO WOMEN.\\ngone down as mere egg shells before that death-dealing\\nwind.\\nAbout 1:30 o clock I told Miss George that we must\\nmake ourway to another building about half a block away.\\nThe water had risen over five feet in two hours, and as I\\nhurried to the front door the wind tore down my hair and\\nI was blinded for a time.\\nI turned my eyes to the west and for three long miles\\nthere was not a building standing, everything had been\\nswept away. How we ever reached the two-story build-\\ning a hundred yards away I do not know. We waded\\nthrough the water and every few minutes we were carried\\noff our feet and dashed against the floating debris.\\nThe building we were trying to reach was a store and\\nthe foundation kept out the w^ater. We hurried to the\\ncellar and stayed there for several hours. At last the\\nwind-sv/ept waves found an opening and broke through\\nthe foundation and we had a mad run to escape the rush-\\ning, swirling waters.\\nWe reached the first floor and I shrank into a. corner,\\nexpecting every second to be carried out to my death. How\\nit happened I can never tell, but this and one other build-\\ning were the only ones left for blocks around.\\nAs it was several people were killed in the building\\nwe occupied and the other house that was left standing.\\nAfter a time I felt faint from hunger and, while too\\nweak from fright to seek food, I told Miss George that\\nI would go into another room. I staggered along the floor\\nuntil I reached a window, and fell, half fainting, through\\nit. As I leaned there I witnessed sights that I pray God\\nwill never make another see.\\nWhirling by me, bodies, more than I could dare count,\\nwere crushed and mangled between a jumble of timbers\\nand debris. Men, women and children went by, sinking,", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0208.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "EXPERIENCES OF TWO WOMEN. 213\\nfloating, dashing on I know not where. I wanted to close\\nmy eyes, but I could not. I cried aloud and made an at-\\ntempt to go to my friends, but I was exhausted and all I\\ncould do was to watch the terrible scenes.\\nBabies, oh, such pretty little ones, too, were carricvd on\\nand on, gowned in dainty clothing, their eyes open, star-\\ning in mute terror above. Thank Providence they were\\ndead.\\nI was partly blinded by tears, but I could still see\\nthrough the mist. Little arms seemed to stretch toward\\nme asking assistance and there I lay, half i)rostrated, too\\nweak to lend assistance.\\nHow it all ended I know not. I must have fainted for\\nI awakened with We are saved, Alice, ringing in my\\nears.\\nWhen I found we could get out of the city I declared\\nI would go at all costs. I thought of home and my par-\\nents and I wanted to telegraph, just like thousands of\\nothers, that I was safe.\\nIt was days before we could get away, however, and\\nthen it was in a most terrible confusion. Eighty-eight\\npersons crowded on a small boat and started for Houston.\\nThe day we left the militia was out in all its force. I\\ncould hear the sharj) report of a rifle and the wail of some\\nsoul as he paid the penalty for his thieving operations.\\nLater I saw the soldiers with their glistening rifles\\nleveled at scores of men and saw them topple forward\\ndead. Oh, they had to shoot those terrible beasts, for\\nthey w^ere robbing the dead. They groveled in blood, it\\nseemed.\\nI saw with my own eyes the fingers of women cut off\\nby regular demons in the search for jewels. The soldiers\\ncame and killed them and it was well.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0209.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XII.\\nSerious Danger from Fire Scarcity of Boats to Carry People to the Main-\\nland\u00e2\u0080\u0094Laborers Imported into Galveston Untold Sufferings on Bolivar\\nIsland Experience of a Chicago Man.\\nONE of the serious dangers whicli Galveston faced for\\nmany days was fire. Not a drop of rain had fallen during\\nthe two weeks succeeding the hurricane, and the hot\\nwinds and blistering suns made the wrecked houses and\\nbuildings so much tinder, piled mountain high in every\\ndirection. In nearly all parts of the city the fire hydrants\\nwere buried fifty feet, in some places a hundred feet deep\\nunder the wreckage, and as yet the water supply at best\\nwas only of the most meager kind.\\nGalveston s fire department was small and badly crip-\\npled and would have been utterly powerless to stay the\\nflames should they once start. There was no relief nearer\\nthan Houston, and that was hours away.\\nIn view of all the then existing conditions it was no\\nwonder that the cry was: Get the women and children\\nto the mainland; anywhere off the island, nor was it a\\nwonder that with one small boat carrying only 300 pas-\\nsengers and making only two trips a day people fairly\\nfought to be taken aboard.\\nAll during Sunday, September 16, fears were enter-\\ntained by the authorities that even this service would be\\ncut off and Galveston left without any means of getting\\nto the mainland owing to the trouble with the owner of\\nthe boat.\\nThe sanitary conditions did not improve to any great\\nextent. Dr. Trueheart, chairman of the committee in\\ncharge of caring for the sick and injured, was proceeding\\n196", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0210.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "INSANITY FOLLOWS SUFFERING. 193\\nconvent yard a young man, a brother of Mrs. Hakleman,\\nbattled with the wind and waters while clinging fast to\\nthe limb of the tree which swayed and bowed to the wind.\\nHe knew not where he was. He could but merely dis-\\ncern the outlines of the academy building. While not\\nknowing his chance of life or death he heard the plaintive\\ncry of a child near by. Reaching out with one hand he\\ncaught the dress of a little tot, who, child-like, cried out,\\nMe swimming. The child had run the mill race buoyed\\nby the force of the storm and had not had time to realize\\nher peril. The young man in the tree was Mrs. Halde-\\nman s brother, and the child which had come to him on\\nthe waves was Mrs. Haldeman s little girl. A few min-\\nutes afterward a rescuing party was sent out from the\\nconvent in response to cries for help and found the young\\nman and his niece and brought him to the sheltering in-\\nstitution. The reunion of at least a part of the family\\nfollowed a few minutes later.\\nDr. Truhart, chairman of the organization of physicians\\nfor the relief of the wounded and sick, states that there\\nis absolutely no further necessity for trained nurses and\\nphysicians.\\nSAVED AS BY A MIRACLE.\\nDestitute save for a few personal effects carried in a\\nsmall valise, and with nerves shattered by a week of hor-\\nror, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Prutsman, with their two daugh-\\nters, 12 and 6 years old, reached Chicago Sunday morning,\\nSeptember 16, from the flood-swept district of Texas.\\nYes, we were fortunate, said Mrs. Prutsman, as she\\nleaned wearily back in a rocking chair and tenderly con-\\ntemplated the two children at her side. It seems to me\\njust like an awful dream, and when I think of the hun-", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0211.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XIV.\\nTwenty Thousand People Fed Every Day at a Cost of $40,000 Incidents\\nat the Relief Stations Applicants and Their Peculiarities Great\\nMortality Among the Negroes.\\nTWENTY tliousand people were fed and cared for daily\\nin Galveston for many days with the supplies which\\npoured in from all parts of the country. This number\\nwas cut at least one-half about October 1.\\nThe estimated cost of the aid extended after the first\\nweek of suffering was |40,000 a day. The great bulk of\\nthe aid went to the 4,000 men at work cleaning up the\\nwreckage, digging for bodies and cleaning the streets.\\nThrough them it went to their families. No able-bodied\\nlaboring man was allowed to escape the work, whether he\\nneeded aid or not, though most of them did. The business\\nmen in position to resume were allowed to attend to their\\nstores, and their clerical forces were not interfered with.\\nOn Tuesday, September 18, the debris-hunting and\\nstreet-cleaning work was put upon a cash basis, the wages\\nbeing |1.50. Time had been kept from the beginning,\\nthough the records were not complete. All were paid for\\nthe full time they worked. This applied to those who\\nhad to be made to work at the point of a bayonet as well\\nas those who volunteered their services.\\nThis aid was given in the form of orders for tools for\\nmechanics, lumber for those who had homes they wished\\nto repair, etc. Heretofore practically every able-bodied\\nman had been made to work, and unless he worked he\\ngot no supplies. The first few days wages consisted en-\\ntirely of rations, which were given according to the num-\\nber and needs of the laborer s family, regardless of the\\n216", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0212.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "THRILLING INCIDENTS OF THE FLOOD. 217\\namount of work he accomplished. Since other supplies\\nbegan coming in they had been added.\\nThe work of distribution was conducted systematically\\nand with an apparent minimum of imposition and fraud.\\nThere was a. central committee, of which W. A. McVitie,\\na prominent business man, w^as chairman. Then there\\nwas a committee for each one of the twelve wards. As\\nfast as goods or provisions arrived from the mainland\\nthey were placed in the central warehouse, from which\\nthe different ward chairmen requisitioned them, and they\\nwere taken to supply depots in the different wards. All\\nday long there was a motley crowd around every one of\\nthese depots, negroes predominating at least two to one.\\nEvery applicant passed in review before the ward chair-\\nman.\\nAh want a dress fob ma sistah, said a big negress.\\nYou re Manda Jones, and you haven t any sister liv-\\ning here, replied the chairman.\\nFob de Lord, ah has; ah ain t Mandy Jones at all; we\\ndone live on Avenue N before de storm, and we los every-\\nthing.\\nGo out with this woman and find out if she has a sister\\nwho needs a dress, ordered the chairman to a commit-\\nteeman. In this way check was kept on all the applicants\\nfor aid.\\nAt the Fifth ward distributing station clothing was\\ngiven away the evening of the ITth. A negro woman,\\nwho had been refused a supply, went outside and by way\\nof revenge pointed out different ones of her friends and\\nneighbors whom she alleged were similarly unentitled.\\nDat woman done los nuthin at all, she shrieked. Ah\\ndid not los nuthin mahself and doan wan nuthin\\nWhat s the trouble? asked a bystander.\\nAn old negress who was lined up waiting her turn re-", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0213.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "208 EXPERIENCES OF TWO WOMEN.\\nBefore I had time to think I had to look, and saw\\nfloating in the water the body of an old woman, whose\\nhair was shining in the starlight. A little farther on we\\nsaw a group of strange driftwood.\\nWe looked closer and found it to be a mass of wooden\\nslabs, with names and dates cut upon them, and floating\\non top of them were marble stones, two of them.\\nThe graveyard, which has held the sleeping citizens\\nof Galveston for many, many years, was giving up its\\ndead. We pulled up at a little wharf in the hush of the\\nstarlight; there were no lights anywhere in the city except\\na few scattered lamps shining from a few desolate, half-\\ndestroyed houses. We picked our way up the street. The\\nground was slimy with the debris of the sea.\\nWe climbed over wreckage and picked our way\\nthrough heaps of rubbish. The terrible, sickening odor\\nalmost overcame us, and it was all that I could do to shut\\nmy teeth and get through the streets somehow. The sol-\\ndiers were camping on the wharf front, lying stretched\\nout on the wet sand, the hideous, hideous sand,\\nstained and streaked in the starlight with dark\\nand cruel blotches. They challenged us, but the\\nmarshal took us through under his protection. At\\nevery street corner there was a guard, and every guard\\nwore a six-shooter strapped around his waist.\\nI went toward the heart of the city. I do not know\\nAvhat the names of the streets were or where I was going.\\nI simply picked my way through masses of slime and\\nrubbish which scar the beautiful wide streets of the once\\nbeautiful city.\\nThey won t bear looking at, those piles of rubbish.\\nThere are things there that gripe the heart to see a\\nbaby s shoe, for instance, a little red shoe, with a jaunty\\ntasseled lace a bit of a woman s dress and letters.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0214.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "DANGER AND WANT EVERYWHERE. 205\\nThere are so many sick people there that we don t know\\nwhat to do. Can you send some one down?\\nThe physician in charge said he would go at once.\\nThe man on horseback leaned over his saddle and tried\\nto speak. Something in his face frightened me. I called\\nto two doctors. They ran out and caught him. He was\\nin a dead faint. When we had brought him to he laughed\\nsheepishly.\\nI don t know what s the matter with me, he said.\\nAin t never been taken this way before.\\nThe doctors looked at each other and smiled, but the\\nnurses eyes were full of tears. The man had not tasted\\nfood for thirty-six hours, and he had ridden fifty miles in\\nthe broiling Texas sun.\\nMore troops were called for on September 17 by Gov-\\nernor Sayers of Texas to relieve those on duty at Gal-\\nveston who were worn out by their hard work. The re-\\nsponse was prompt and hearty.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0215.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "220 THRILLING INCIDENTS OF THE FLOOD.\\nthe odor was very similar to that which afflicts Chicago\\nat night when refuse is being burned at the stock yards,\\nand no worse. Soon even the odor of the slime was gone.\\nEvery dumpcart in the city was at work.\\nEvery Galveston business man talked confidently of the\\nfuture of the city, though many of the clerks announced\\ntheir intention of going away as soon as they can accumu-\\nlate money enough.\\nI am not afraid of another storm, said a clerk in one\\nof the principal stores. But I m sick and tired of the\\nwhole business.\\nThe Southwestern Telephone and Telegraph Company,\\nwhich is a branch of the Erie system, early began to re-\\nbuild its telephone system there.\\nThis will take us three months, and in the meantime\\nwe will give no service save long-distance, said D. Mc-\\nReynolds, superintendent of construction. We will in-\\nstall a central emergency system the same as that in Chi-\\ncago and put all wires under ground. We will employ\\n500 men if necessary to do the work in ninety days. The\\ncompany s losses in Texas are |300,000\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1200,000 here,\\n160,000 at Houston and the rest at other points.\\nEesidents were greatly pleased at this announcement,\\nas it showed the confidence of a foreign company in the\\nfuture of Galveston.\\nFIFTEEN HUNDRED NEGROES PERISHED AT\\nGALVESTON.\\nWilliam Guest, a Pullman car porter, returned to Chi-\\ncago from the storm-stricken district Monday, Septem-\\nber 17. He said:\\nI left Harrisburg night before last, and things then in\\nthe neighborhood were in a dreadful state. Galveston is\\nabout twenty miles distant, and the refugees were pour-", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0216.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "THRILLING INCIDENTS OF THE FLOOD. 221\\ning in the direction of Houston in great numbers. Many\\nwell-to-do colored people have lost all they had. The Rev.\\nW. H. Cain, a colored Episcopal minister, and his entire\\nfamily were killed, and it was reported to me that Mrs.\\nCuney, the widow of Wright Cuney, was also lost, as well\\nas a number of colored teachers employed in the public\\nschools. At Houston relief committees have been organ-\\nized.\\nThe Rev. Mr. Cain was well known in Chicago, having\\npreached several times from the pulpit of the St. Thomas\\nEpiscopal church on Dearborn near Thirtieth street.\\nCyrus Field Adams, publisher of the Appeal, Chicago,\\nreceived a letter from Galveston from W. H. Noble, Jr.,\\nsaying that about 1,500 Afro-Americans lost their lives\\nin the storm, and that fully 10,000 were homeless.\\nCooped up in a house that collapsed after being car-\\nried along by a deluge of water, John Elford, brother of\\nA. B. Elford, No. 269 South Lincoln street, Chicago, his\\nwife and little grandson, met death in the flood during the\\nGalveston storm. Milton, son of John Elford, was in the\\nbuilding with the family at the time, and was the only\\none of the many occupants including fifteen women known\\nto have escaped.\\nA. B. Elford, bookkeeper for A. M. Foster Co., No.\\n120 Lake street, was dumfounded when he received the\\nfirst information of the disaster, for he had no idea of his\\nbrother being in Texas. John Elford was a retired farmer\\nand merchant of Langdon, N. D. He had taken his family\\non a trip to old and New Mexico.\\nOn September 17 Mr. Elford received the following let-\\nter from Langdon, N. D.\\nWe have just received a letter from Milton. Father,\\nmother, Dwight and Milton went to Galveston from Min-\\neral Springs, Tex., where they had previously been stop-", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0217.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "204 DANGER AND WANT EVERYWHERE.\\npeople will, however, try and live on the mainland. At\\nleast 5,000 persons perished.\\nTHE FLOOD HORRORS DROVE THEM CRAZY.\\nThree-fourths of the people who applied for relief were\\nmentally dull. The physicians said with proper care\\nmost of them might be cured.\\nA young girl was brought into the general relief sta-\\ntion in Galveston on Friday night. The relief corps\\nfound her huddled up in an empty freight car, laughing\\nand singing to amuse herself. The doctors said food and\\ncare were all she needed to restore her to reason.\\nIt was over a week after the flood before those from the\\noutside really began to find out what the awful calamity\\nwas to the people in the desolated city.\\nThe first shock was wearing off, the long lists of dead\\nand missing were getting to be an old story, and the sick\\nand suffering were crawling into places of refuge. Some\\nof them had been sleeping on the open prairies ever since\\nthe storm, most of them, in fact, men with broken arms\\nand legs, sick women and ailing children.\\nThey would crawl out of the wreck of their homes and\\nlie down on the bare ground to die.\\nRelief parties found such as these every day and\\nbrought them into the hospitals as fast as possible. One\\nrelief party found 5,000 people in the vicinity of Galves-\\nton homeless, helpless, hopeless and tearless.\\nIt was a sight to cause a stone statue to weep.\\nMonday, September 17, a man rode up to a hospital\\nat Houston, and told the doctors he had just come from\\nthe Brazos bottoms.\\nSaid he: The folks there are starving. There is not a\\npound of flour left and the children are crying for milk.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0218.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "DANGER AND WANT EVERYWHERE. 201\\ndashed wildly below, Mrs. Davis clung to her 6-moiith-old\\nbabe with one arm, while with the other she held fast to\\nher precarious haven of refuge. The minister held a baby\\nof 18 months in the same manner, and while the little one\\ncried for food he prayed. In other trees the family he\\nhad rescued from drowning found a precarious footing.\\nWhen the night had passed and the water receded,\\nwreckage, dead animals and the corpses of parishioners\\nsurrounded the devoted party. There was nothing to eat,\\nand, nearly dead with exhaustion, the preacher and his\\nlittle flock set out on foot to seek assistance. They were\\ntoo weak to continue far and sank down on the plain,\\nwhile Mr. Davis pushed on alone. Five miles away a\\nfarmhouse was found, partially intact, and securing a\\nteam Davis returned for his half-dead party.\\nFor two days they remained at the home of the hos-\\npitable farmer and then set out afoot to find a hamlet or\\nmake their way over the desert-like peninsula to Bolivar\\nPoint. In the heat of the burning sun they plodded on\\nalong the water front, subsisting upon a steer which they\\nkilled and devoured raw, until finally they came upon an\\nabandoned and overturned sailboat high on the beach.\\nWith a united effort they succeeded in launching the\\nboat and with improvised distress signals displayed man-\\naged to sail to Galveston. There, because of red tape,\\nthey were unable to secure clothing, although they were\\ngiven a little food and transportation to Houston. Clad\\nin an old pair of trousers, a tattered shirt and torn shoes,\\nwith his family in even worse plight, the circuit rider of\\nthe Patton Beach, Johnston s Bethel, Bolivar Point and\\nHigh Island Methodist churches rode into Houston, dirty,\\nweak and half-starved. Here the family were sent to a\\nhospital and cared for.\\nThey were sent to Dickinson, Tex., where they had rel-", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0219.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "224 THRILLING INCIDENTS OF THE FLOOD.\\ning, their ship having foundered from buffeting in the\\nstorm Wednesday, Thusday and Friday. The men drifted\\nabout on the sinking hulk, without food, water or shelter,\\nand only by incessant pumping kept her afloat.\\nThe seas were constantly sweeping the decks and the\\nentire crew were lashed about the rigging or bulwarks.\\nThey w^ere ultimately rescued by the schooner Talisman\\nof Gloucester, which landed them. One man perished\\nfrom the exposure. The crew say the storm must have\\ndone awful damage on the banks. It seems certain many\\nvessels could not escape the disaster when theirs, the fin-\\nest of the fleet, succumbed.\\nCLARA BARTON S VIEW OF THE SITUATION.\\nMiss Clara Barton, head of the Red Cross Society, wrote\\nof the situation at Galveston on September 18:\\nIt would be diflicult to exaggerate the awful scene\\nthat meets the visitors everywhere. The situation could\\nnot be exaggerated. Probably the loss of life will exceed\\nany estimate that has been made.\\nIn those parts of the city where destruction was the\\ngreatest there still must be hundreds of bodies under the\\ndebris. At the end of the island first struck by the storm,\\nand which was swept clean of every vestige of the splen-\\ndid residences that covered it, the ruin is inclosed by a\\ntowering wall of debris, under which many bodies are\\nburied. The removal of this has scarcely even begun.\\nThe story that will be told when this mountain of\\nruins is removed may multiply the horrors of the fearful\\nsituation. As usual in great calamities, the people are\\ndazed and speak of their Losses with an unnatural calm-\\nness that would astonish those who do not understand it.\\nI do believe there is danger of an epidemic. But the", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0220.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "DESTRUCTION OF HOMES BY THE GALVESTON STORM", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0221.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "GALVESTON SUFFERERS AFLOAT ALL NIGHT", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0222.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0223.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "A DESPERATE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE IN THE GALVESTON STORM", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0224.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "A HERO SAVING HIS WIFE AND MOTHER IN THE STORM", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0225.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0226.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "D\\nPQ\\nW\\nGO\\nD\\nO\\nH\\n8\\nZ\\nZ\\no\\nO", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0227.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "7:\\no\\no\\nH\\nCO\\nCO\\nO\\nE\\nc/\\nI\\nH\\nO\\nI\\nS", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0228.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0229.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0230.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0231.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "h\\nCO\\n3\\nW\\nh\\nh\\nz\\no\\nH\\nw\\n00\\n3\\no\\nQ\\nW\\nn:\\nH\\no\\no\\nZ\\nh\\nO\\no", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0232.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "z\\no\\nh\\nW\\no\\nCO\\nD\\nQ", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0233.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "A SURVIVOR S Dk\u00c2\u00a3./\\\\M Of- THE AWFUL GALVESTON NIGHT", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0234.jp2"}, "235": {"fulltext": "HEROIC MEN TRYING TO SAVE WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN THE\\nGALVESTON STORM", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0235.jp2"}, "236": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0236.jp2"}, "237": {"fulltext": "THRILLING INCIDENTS OF THE FLOOD. 241\\nnervous strain upon the people, as they come to realize\\ntheir condition, may be nearly as fatal. They talk of\\nfriends that are gone with tearless eyes, making no allu-\\nsion to the loss of property.\\nA professional gentleman who called upon me this\\nafternoon, a gentleman of splendid human sympathies\\nand refinement, wore a soiled black flannel shirt, without\\na coat, and in apologizing for his appearance said in the\\nmost casual, light-hearted way: Excuse my appearance;\\nI have just come in from burying the dead.\\nBut these people will break down under this strain,\\nand the Red Cross is glad of the force of strong, compe-\\ntent workers which it has brought to their relief.\\nPortions of the business part of the city escaped the\\ngreatest severity of the storm and are left partially intact.\\nThus it is possible to purchase here nearly all the supplies\\nthat may be wanting. Still, the Galveston merchants\\nshould be given the benefit of home demands.\\nMayor Jones has ofi ered to the Red Cross as headquar-\\nters the best building at his disposal.\\nRelief is coming as rapidly as the crippled transpor-\\ntation facilities will admit. No one need fear, after seeing\\nthe brave and manly way in which these people are help-\\ning themselves, that too much outside aid will be given.\\nIn reply to the question, What is most needed? I\\nwould say: The most immediate needs are surgical dress-\\nings, the ordinary medical remedies, and delicacies for\\nthe sick.\\nTHEY READ THEIR OWN OBITUARIES.\\nReported dead several times, their obituaries printed\\nin Galveston and Houston papers, Peter Boss, wife and\\nson, formerly of Chicago, were found on the afternoon", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0237.jp2"}, "238": {"fulltext": "242 THRILLING INCIDENTS OF THE FLOOD.\\nof September 18, after having passed through a most\\nthrilling experience.\\nMr. and Mrs. Boss were the persons in search of whom\\nMrs. M. C. McDonald, No. 4501 Drexel boulevard, Chicago,\\nwent to Houston.\\nMrs. Boss story of her experience in the disaster was\\na thrilling one. With her husband and son she was seated\\nat supper in her home on. Twelfth street when the storm\\nbroke. She seized a handkerchief containing |2,000 from\\na bureau, and, placing it in her bosom, went with her hus-\\nband and son to the second story.\\nThere they remained until the water reached them and\\nthey leaped into the darkness and the storm. They\\nalighted on a. wooden cistern upon which they rode the\\nentire night, clinging with one hand to the top of the\\ncistern. Several times Mrs. Boss lost her hold, and fell\\nbackward into the water only to be drawn up again by\\nher son. Timbers crashed against their queer boat, peo-\\nple on all sides of them were crushed to death or drawn\\ninto the whirling waters, but with grim perseverance the\\nBoss family held on and rode the night out.\\nMrs. Boss was pushed off the cistern several times by\\nher excited husband, but young Boss presence of mind\\nalways saved her. With her feet crushed and bleeding,\\nher clothing torn from her body and nearly exhausted,\\nthe woman was finally taken from her perilous position\\nseveral hours after the hurricane started.\\nHer companions were without clothing and were de-\\nlirious. They were the only persons saved in the entire\\nblock in which they lived. They were taken to emergency\\nhospitals, where they all tossed in delirium until Sunday.\\nMrs. Boss lost her money, and the family, wealthy a week\\nbefore, was penniless. They had to appeal to the city\\nauthorities for aid, and got but little.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0238.jp2"}, "239": {"fulltext": "THRILLING INCIDENTS OF THE FLOOD, 243\\nTERRIBLE SCENES WITNESSED AT HOUSTON.\\nThe terrible scenes and happenings in Houston, Tex.,\\nthe great amount of damage done and the intense suf-\\nfering of the people there as a. result of the recent storm\\nwere vividly portrayed in a letter from Walter Scott of\\nthat city to his sister in Chicago, received September 15.\\nMuch has been written about the damage done to Gal-\\nveston, Mr. Scott wrote, and I suppose things there are\\nso terrible that little thought is given to other places.\\nBut right here in this city the damage is so great that\\none would not believe even time could repair it. Fur-\\nthermore, the suffering here is indeed the greatest I ever\\nheard of. Thousands of refugees are here from Galveston\\nand other places and the city is being taxed to the limit\\nto find places for all of them.\\nWednesday morning the first contingent arrived.\\nThere were about eight hundred, and a more forlorn, de-\\njected and suffering lot of people never were brought to-\\ngether. The sick were cared for in hospitals and private\\nhomes, and the greater number of the others were as-\\nsigned to places. But they apparently could not quiet\\nthemselves unless so fatigued and weak from loss of sleep\\nand want of food that they practically fell down ex-\\nhausted.\\nThey roamed the streets with scarcely any clothing\\non them, men, women and children; all were hollow-eyed\\nand sunken-cheeked and on the verge of despair. It isi\\nterrible to realize how many families have been bro-\\nken up.\\nI have listened to harrowing tales until I am actually\\nsick. The newspaper reports have not been exaggerated\\none iota. There is really nothing one can say which will\\nexpress the situation. When I arrived at home from New", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0239.jp2"}, "240": {"fulltext": "244 THRILLING INCIDENTS OF THE FLOOD.\\nOrleans at 10:30 o clock Sunday night there wasn t a light\\nin the city. Everything was in total darkness. It had\\nbeen reported on the train that 7,000 lives had been lost\\nat Galveston, but this we believed to be a. gross exaggera\\ntion.\\nBut I have changed my mind. I think now it is a con-\\nservative figure. I groped my way through the darkness,\\nstumbling over piles of debris, to my boarding place, and\\nafter no little difficulty succeeded in reaching my room.\\nUpon lighting a match I found the place denuded of every-\\nthing; the paper was stripped from the ceiling and was\\nhanging in shreds from the walls. It was damp and cold.\\nMy landlady, hearing me, soon came in, and standing\\nthere in the darkness she gave me a harrowing account\\nof what they passed through, the details of which the\\nnewspapers already have described. All the other people\\nin the house had gone elsewhere, and she, her husband\\nand myself were alone in the house.\\nThat night I slept in a fairly dry bed in a tolerably\\ndry room, but all the windows in the house had been\\nblown out, and the building was so damp and cold that\\nwe were almost afraid to sleep there. Some of the rooms\\nin the lower part of the building were still flooded. There\\nwasn t a room in the entire house that had not been dam-\\naged, and the servants house in the yard was almost\\ncompletely wrecked. The ruins were toppled over and\\nleaning against our next-door neighbor s house.\\nThere is scarcely a structure in Houston which es-\\ncaped the fury of the storm. With the exception of the\\nFirst Presbyterian, every church lost its steeple, and all\\nwere damaged to some extent. The streets for two or\\nthree days and even longer afterward were filled with\\ndebris telephone and telegraph poles and wires, huge", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0240.jp2"}, "241": {"fulltext": "THRILLING INCIDENTS OF THE FLOOD. 245\\npiles of bricks and timber, tin roofs and all kinds of mis-\\ncellaneous things, such as furniture, trees, etc.\\nAt Seabrook, a little seaside resort near here, only two\\nhomes were left standing.\\nWalter S. Keenan, general passenger agent of the Gulf,\\nColorado and Santa Fe Railroad, arrived in Chicago Sep-\\ntember 17 from Galveston. He was in the general office,\\nwhich is connected with the Union station at Galveston,\\nduring the great storm and escaped without injuiy. He\\nsaid the accounts of the Galveston disaster were in no\\nway exaggerated. The debris, in some of the streets, he\\ndeclared, was thirty feet high. He went to his office in\\nthe station Saturday morning and was compelled to re-\\nmain there until Sunday afternoon without a bite to eat.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0241.jp2"}, "242": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XV.\\nTotal Dead and Missing at Galveston and Yicinity, 8,661 ^Five Million\\nDollars in Relief Necessary to Carry the Survivors Tlirougli the\\nFall and Winter to Spring.\\nIT was given out from Galveston on Tuesday, September\\n20, that so far as could be ascertained on that date, the\\nloss of life in the great catastrophe was as follows\\nIdentified 4,754\\nUnidentified (recovered) 300\\nMissing 2,000\\nTotal 7,054\\nDead in Central and Southern Texas 1,044\\nHigh Island 563\\nTotal 1,607\\nThis makes the grand total of dead 8,661.\\nThe horrifying news reached Dallas late on the after-\\nnoon of September 18 that High Island, a seaside resort\\nthirty miles northeast of Galveston, near the gulf shore\\nand in the southwestern corner of Jefferson county, Tex.,\\nwas entirely destroyed by the hurricane of the 8th inst.\\nThe place had about 1,000 residents, many of them vis-\\nitors.\\nNot a house was left standing and more than 400 dead\\nbodies were found by relief and exploring parties.\\nGeneral Manager Spangler, of the Gulf and Interstate\\nRailway, also received information on that date that more\\nthan thirty miles of that road had been entirely destroyed\\nbetween Bolivar Point and High Island.\\n246", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0242.jp2"}, "243": {"fulltext": "ESTIMATES OF THE LOSS. 247\\nAfter looking over the situation carefully, the decision\\nwas arrived at, ten days succeeding the tragedy, that to\\nput Galveston on her feet would require |5,000,000. Such\\nwas the opinion of Congressman Hawley, one of the city s\\nrepresentative business men. This did not mean that the\\nsum mentioned would come anywhere near restoring the\\ncity to the condition before the storm. Far from it.\\nMr. Hawley did not so intend to be understood. He\\nwas asked\\nWhat measure of relief will burn your dead, clean and\\npurify your streets and public places, feed and clothe the\\nliving, and place your people where they can be self-sus-\\ntaining and on the way to regain what has been lost?\\nHis reply was: It will take |5,000,000 to relieve Gal-\\nveston from the distress of the storm. At least that sum\\nwill be needed to dispose of the dead, to remove the ruins,\\nand to do what is right for the living. I think that we\\nshould not only feed and clothe, but that we ought to have\\nsome means to help people who have lost everything to\\nmake a start toward the restoration of their homes. To\\ndo this will require every dollar of |5,000,000.\\nThere were then on the scene more nurses and physi-\\ncians than required. The injured were recovering\\nrapidly from their hurts, which were largely superficial.\\nMany men and women were suffering from severe nervous\\nshock and found it impossible to sleep. Food was coming\\nin by boatload and carload faster than it could be han-\\ndled, in such generous quantities that no further doubts\\nwere entertained about supplies.\\nEstimates of the number dependent upon the relief com-\\nmittees varied. Mayor Jones made it about 8,000, while\\nother authorities put the number as high as 15,000. In the\\nbusiness center the streets had been cleaned and opened.\\nAll buildings still showed marks of wind and water, but", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0243.jp2"}, "244": {"fulltext": "248 ESTIMATES OF THE LOSS.\\ngoods were displayed and business was being transacted.\\nThe city was gradually assuming the bustling ante-\\nflood appearance. The principal streets were electrically\\nlighted. Stenches no longer assailed the nostrils, except\\nin the outside circle of destruction, where much debris\\nstill remained untouched. Cremation of the dead was\\nbeing pushed, but it was many days before the working\\nparties got out the last of the bodies.\\nThe whole twenty-two miles length of the island was\\nsubmerged.\\nThe horrors of the western portion beyond the city lim-\\nits were just being learned at San Luis. One hundred\\nand eighty-one bodies were buried on September 17. Be-\\ntween twenty and thirty bodies were counted among the\\npiles of the railroad bridge between the island and Vir-\\nginia Point. In Kinkead s addition about 100 were lost,\\neighteen in one house.\\nThe farther the men worked in the Denver reservoir\\nsection the more numerous were the dead. Fires w^ere\\nburning every 300 feet on the beach and along many of\\nthe streets.\\nMayor Walter C. Jones made a statement on that day\\nof conditions and needs of Galveston people, basing his\\nconclusions on the most reliable information which has\\ncome to him.\\nMayor Jones statement was as follows:\\nIt is almost impossible to speak definitely as yet of\\nthe needs of our people. We are broke, the majority of us.\\nGalveston must have suffered, in my estimation, based\\nupon all of the reports I have, |20,000,000. We now need\\nmoney more than anything.\\nFrom the advices I have received I believe the ship-\\nments of disinfectants and food supplies now on the way\\nwill be sufficient to meet the immediate wants. By the", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0244.jp2"}, "245": {"fulltext": "ESTIMATES OF THE LOSS. 249\\ntime these are used we shall have regained our traus-\\nportation facilities and stocks of everything, so that we\\ncan use money more advantageously.\\nIt is impossible to state just how much money has\\nreached us. We have received from the Governor, at\\nAustin, 1100,000 in cash. That is from the general fund.\\nSpecial contributions have come through the Chamber\\nof Commerce, the Cotton Exchange and several other\\nchannels. We have between 1,500 and 3,000 men at work\\nsearching for bodies, clearing the streets and burning\\ndebris. Of this work, which ought to be done as fast as\\npossible in the interest of the living, there is enough to\\nkeep 3,000 employed for forty days, although I believe\\nwe shall have the principal streets clear in ten days or\\ntwo weeks.\\nI hesitate to say how much it will take to put Galves-\\nton where her people can care for themselves. Certainly\\n15,000,000 will be a moderate estimate. There is not a\\nbuilding but is damaged, not a house of those left stand-\\ning but will have to be re-roofed, and few that will not\\nneed to be straightened on their foundations. If Gal-\\nveston could get 110,000,000 it would be used judiciously\\nto enable the people to become self-sustaining,\\nIt is true Galveston is represented as being one of the\\nwealthiest cities of the country. But our rich people had\\neverything here and are crippled. The people of moderate\\nmeans, who had homes and worked on salaries are, with\\nscarcely an exception, ruined. The class dependent upon\\nlabor must be furnished something to do for wages or\\nmust suffer.\\nDr. Lord and others, who have been among the people\\nmore than I have, say there are 8,000 helpless who must\\nbe fed and clothed and carried along for some time to", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0245.jp2"}, "246": {"fulltext": "250 ESTIMATES OF THE LOSS.\\ncome even after what might be called immediate needs\\nhave been met.\\nThere is no contagious disease and we do not antici-\\npate any. But many are suffering from shock and ex-\\nposure and from injuries received among the ruins. The\\nCity of Galveston, I am convinced, lost fully 5,000 per-\\nsons. Down the island, outside of the city limits, were\\nscattered between 2,000 and 3,000 persons. From the\\nreports slowiy coming in it appears that most of these\\npeople lost their lives. The island in the sparsely settled\\nparts seems to have been swept clean of habitations.\\nThe most motley crowd of United States regulars ever\\nseen at attention lined up before Captain Rafferty the\\nsecond Monday after the calamity. Battery O, First\\nUnited States Artillery, the organization, was battered\\nBattery O. No two men were dressed alike. Parts of uni-\\nforms and clothes which bore no semblance to any uni-\\nform were barely sufficient to cover nakedness, and in\\nsome cases there were bad rents, which showed the bare\\nanatomy on dress parade.\\nBattery O came out of the storm with a loss of 28 out of\\n190 men, a loss seldom sustained in battle. One of these\\nregulars floated fifty-two miles on a door, another was\\ncarried on an outhouse across the island and then across\\nGalveston Bay. The survivors had been barracked in a\\nshattered church since the Sunday after the storm. They\\nwere sent to San Antonio to be outfitted and armed.\\nThe officers and men lost everything and had to get\\nclothes to cover them.\\nJames Stewart, of St. Louis, had undertaken to see that\\nCaptain Benton Kennedy s boys did not suffer. It was\\nbelieved the grain men of St. Louis would take a personal\\ninterest in this case. Captain Kennedy came to Galves-\\nton from St. Louis, Mo., where he was well known. He", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0246.jp2"}, "247": {"fulltext": "ESTIMATES OF THE LOSS. 251\\nwas superintendent of Elevator A. His family consisted\\nof his wife, tliree boys and two girls. In August Captain\\nKennedy bought a nice home and moved into it. When\\nthe storm made the house no longer safe he placed Henry\\nand Edwin, little fellows of 15 and 9, on a raft at the door\\nand went back for the others. The raft was carried half\\na mile and the boys were rescued. Captain Kennedy and\\nMrs. Kennedy and the sisters and one brother were lost.\\nAdjutant-General Thomas Scurry said Monday even-\\ning, September 17:\\nIn my opinion the situation is rapidly growing bet-\\nter; the people found themselves dazed and shattered as\\na result of the storm. While there was an abundance of\\nenergy remaining, as might have been naturally expected,\\na vast amount of it was not concentrated. It has been\\nthe policy of this office to concentrate energies. These\\nefforts have been most gratifying. We have a large num-\\nber of men, possibly 2,000, at work.\\nWhat is most needed for Galveston now is money.\\nThousands of persons who owned their little homes have\\nhad them destroyed. They are now dependent upon the\\ngenerosity of the outside world and upon the Relief Com-\\nmittee to prepare for the rigors of winter and to refurnish\\ntheir homes with necessities. No man who has not been\\nan eye-witness to the desolation which has swept over\\nthis city can have the faintest conception of what it\\nmeans.\\nGalveston lies on an island about a mile wide from\\nnorth to south, the city covering about six miles of this\\neast and west. Along the southern side for a distance of\\ntwo to five blocks every house has been absolutely demol-\\nished. Such of these unfortunates as were not drowned\\nare now penniless.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0247.jp2"}, "248": {"fulltext": "252 ESTIMATES OF THE LOSS.\\nAN EYE-WITNESS TELLS OF THE STORM.\\nA graphic description of the storm was that given by\\nR. L. Johnson, a prominent citizen of Galveston. He\\nsaid:\\nI reached home after wading in water to my neclv and\\nmade immediate preparations to take my wife and three\\nchildren where I felt their safety would be assured. The\\nwater began to rise so rapidly that in fifteen minutes we\\nwere driven to the second floor, and it was then impossible\\nto leave the house. At this time Neighbor KelPs house,\\nadjoining mine, went down with husband, wife and chil-\\ndren. Then down Avenue S came two small cottages,\\nwhich struck a telegraph pole and stopped directlj in\\nfront of my house. I heard children crying and women\\nscreaming. The words, *0 God, save me, I can still hear\\nringing in my ears.\\nAnother cottage came sweeping by and carried away\\nthe gallery of my house. The Artigan, Henman and Pen-\\nnings houses, carrying eighteen persons, floated by and I\\ncould see the struggling forms in the water.\\nI was expecting it was our turn next. I kissed my\\nwife and children good-by, and as I did so my eldest boy,\\na lad of 15, said: Father, it is not our time to die, Then\\ncame the piercing scream of a woman, followed by a\\ncrash, and another house turned over on its side and was\\ndriven past by the wind and flood.\\nThe current was running like a mill race. The water\\nwas already on our second floor, and the waves kept\\nknocking us about until we were completely exhausted.\\nThen the wind went, and the water began to fall. I looked\\nabout and could not see a house for two blocks; there\\nwas nothing but a flood of water in every direction. In", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0248.jp2"}, "249": {"fulltext": "ESTIMATES OF THE LOSS. 253\\nthe morning we found our house had been moved about\\nten feet and deposited upon the sand.\\nGALVESTON AGAIN MADE A PORT.\\nIssue bills of lading to Galveston and through Galves-\\nton to other points.\\nOn September 17, up and down the International and\\nGreat Northern, the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, the\\nSanta Fe and their connections the wires were carrying\\nthe official information that Galveston would be a ter-\\nminal, a sure enough port, as soon as the traffic could\\nreach there. The Vice-Presidents and General Managers\\nand General Agents had mastered the railroad wreck,\\nthey had set the time for the running of the first train\\ninto Galveston, and that time was Friday, September 21.\\nBy that date, according to the engineers, the temporary\\nbridge would be ready for use. It was ready to the\\nminute.\\nThe news that the roads had declared readiness to\\naccept freight for Galveston and through Galveston was\\nreceived by business men as tidings of great joy. It add-\\ned greatly to the improvement of spirit. For several days\\nafter the storm the prediction was that no trains would\\nenter Galveston under thirty days and that the time\\nmight be sixty days.\\nEqually exhilarating with the action of the railroad\\nmen was the action taken by Secretary Bailey, of the\\nWharf Company, that exportation of wheat would be re-\\nsumed to-morrow morning. The machinery of Elevator\\nA was started up and was successful. Monday afternoon\\nthe wharf was cleared. A steamship was brought under\\nthe spout and loaded. James Stewart, Mr. Orthwein and\\nother St. Louis grain men said almost the entire stock of\\nwheat would be saved.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0249.jp2"}, "250": {"fulltext": "254 ESTIMATES OF THE LOSS.\\nThe number of persons who left Galveston up to Sep-\\ntember 17, it was stated at relief headquarters, was over\\n8,000, of whom about 5,000 were then in Houston being\\ncared for. Others had gone on into the interior of the\\nState or to other States. The number coming up on the\\ntrains showed no falling off.\\nNew arrangements made at Galveston enabled people\\nto get out without so much red tape and they took ad-\\nvantage of the opportunity to do so. Governor Sayers\\nhad now taken charge of the relief work here at all points,\\nand money was being given out where needed, more than\\nprovisions and clothing.\\nSWELLING THE RELIEF FUND.\\nOn September 18 Chicago had raised over |100,000 for\\nthe Galveston sufferers; New York nearly |300,000; St.\\nLouis nearly |70,000, and other cities the following\\namounts:\\nBoston 132,700\\nPhiladelphia 28,320\\nPittsburg 27,108\\nNew Orleans 26,100\\nSan Francisco 18,000\\nKansas City 17,000\\nLouisville 14,000\\nMilwaukee 14,046\\nBaltimore 15,000\\nDenver 13,000\\nMinneapolis 12,000\\nNewark, N. J 12,000\\nCleveland 9,345\\nMemphis 9,123\\nCincinnati 9,000\\nColorado Spr uf, 7,200", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0250.jp2"}, "251": {"fulltext": "ESTIMATES OF THE LOSS. 255\\nSt. Paul 17,000\\nTopeka, Kan 5,438\\nCharleston, S. 6,000\\nOmaha, Neb 6,212\\nLos Angeles 5,184\\nDetroit, Mich 5,190\\nIndianapolis 4,000\\nHelena, Mont 4,108\\nJohnstown, Pa 3,000\\nColumbus, Ohio 3,100\\nSouth Bend, Ind 1,985\\nSpringfield, 111 2,000\\nPortland^ Ore 2,100\\nLexington, Ky 2,098\\nThe LTnited States embassy at Berlin, Germany, cabled\\n$500 to Governor Sayers on September 17.\\nGeneral J. B. Vinet, president of the Red Cross Society,\\nState of Louisiana, New Orleans, received on Tuesday\\nmorning, September 18, a telegram from Miss Clara Bar-\\nton, who was at Galveston, as follows:\\nFind greatest immediate needs here are surgical\\ndressings, usual medicines and delicacies for the sick. No\\nepidemic, but many people are worn out with suffering-\\nand exertion who need tender care and proper food.\\nCLARA BARTON.\\nBuilding material was needed at Galveston but its de-\\nlivery was necessarily slow, owing to the lack of rail com-\\nmunication with the mainland.\\nThere were still many pitiable cases of destitution.\\nMany half-demented persons positively refused to leave\\ntheir wrecked homes and as persistently refused to ac-\\ncept offers of relief extended them. In several instances\\npareutvS who had lost children still occupied ruins of their", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0251.jp2"}, "252": {"fulltext": "256 ESTIMATES OF THE LOSS.\\nformer home and the surroundings had brought them to\\na state of mental and physical collapse.\\nThe number who had gone insane as a result of their\\nexperiences will probably never be known. In every lot\\nof refugees sent out of the stricken city there were many\\ninsane men and women. The victims first made light of\\ntheir losses, and laughed immoderately when telling of\\nthe death of relatives in the flood. It was a very short\\nstep from this to uncontrollable madness.\\nThe state militia companies did splendid work in pa-\\ntrolling the city after the storm, and many of the men\\nwere of the belief that they should be allowed to return to\\ntheir homes and troops sent from other parts of the state\\nto fill their places.\\nThe fears of an epidemic were allayed by the presence\\nand the distribution of medicines and disinfectants and\\ntherefore a feature which would undoubtedly have had\\nthe effect of causing many to seek succor elsewhere, was\\neliminated from the situation.\\nGOVERNOR SAYERS SENDS HIS THANKS.\\nGovernor Sayers, of Texas, sent out the following ex-\\npression of thanks on behalf of the sufferers in Galveston\\nand as the representative of the people of his state:\\nIn behalf of the people of Texas I desire to express my\\nacknowledgment to the people of the United States for\\nthe ready and generous response they have made in com-\\ning to the aid of our afflicted people. The number of\\ndeaths, the amount of destitution, and the loss of prop-\\nerty is far greater than had been anticipated.\\nThe Secretary of the Navy has placed the revenue cut-\\nter Galveston at m^^ disposal, and I have in turn placed it\\nat the disposal of the mayor of Galveston. The addition\\nof this cutter to the boats already loaned by the Federal", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0254.jp2"}, "253": {"fulltext": "ESTIMATES OF THE LOSS. 257\\ngovernment will give us five boats at Galveston to handle\\nsupplies and passengers to and from the mainland, and I\\nanticipate that their presence there will relieve the situa-\\ntion materially.\\nThe city authorities at Galveston are in full control,\\nand every effort is being made to bury the dead, to remove\\nthe debris, and to sanitate the city. Contributions of the\\nmost liberal character are reaching me, and I shall see\\nthat the money is used to the best advantage for the suf-\\nferers and that there shall be no waste of the magnificent\\ncontributions coming from the free hands and generous\\nhearts of a sympathetic people.\\nNo idea could possibly be formed as to the frightful\\ncrush of railroad trains bearing relief supplies in and\\naround Houston and Texas City, the latter being but six\\nmiles from Galveston, but separated from it by a stretch\\nof water. Owing to the small number of vessels plying\\nbetween Texas City and Galveston the shipment of sup-\\nplies to the latter was necessarily aggravatingly slow.\\nGREWSOME SCENES AND HARROWING INCI-\\nDENTS.\\nGrewsome scenes and soul-harrowing incidents of the\\ntime immediately following the great gale in Galveston\\nwere graphically portrayed in a letter from a young wom-\\nan caught on the island in the awful storm. It was writ-\\nten by Miss Nellie Cary to her parents, who live at 5408\\nLake avenue, Chicago. Miss Cary had been home on a\\nvacation for several weeks and left Chicago for Galves-\\nton the Tuesday evening before the hurricane, reaching\\nthe doomed city just in time to participate in the terrible\\nexperience. Her letter follows:\\nGalveston, Wednesday, September 12. Dearest Pa-", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0255.jp2"}, "254": {"fulltext": "258 ESTIMATES OF THE LOSS.\\nrents: Have not had a minute to write and cannot collect\\nmy thoughts to tell you of the horrible disaster down\\nhere. Thousands of dead in the streets the gulf and bay\\nstrewn with dead bodies. The whole island demolished.\\nNot a drop of water food scarce. If help does not reach\\nus soon there will be great starvation for everybody.\\nThe dead are not being identified at all they throw\\nthem on drays and take them to barges, where they are\\nloaded like cordwood, and taken out to sea to be cast into\\nthe waves, now peaceful, which were so hungry for them\\nin their anger.\\nI was at the wharf this morning for a short time and\\nsaw three barges loaded with their grewsome freight.\\nThe bodies are frightful, every one nearly nude. God\\nalone knows who they are.\\nThe bay is full of dead cattle and horses, together with\\nhuman corpses, blistering in the hot sun. It will be im-\\npossible to remove the dead from the debris for weeks\\nthe whole island is frightful. I saw thirty-eight bodies\\ntaken from one house. Every one is striving to get the\\nbodies buried for fear of the plague.\\nI never expected to get out alive, but thank God, not\\none of us was killed. We were driven back to the stairs,\\nand up, stair by stair, by the great waves. The wind was\\nblowing over a hundred miles an hour, and the rain fell\\nin torrents. Never shall I forget the sight as darkness\\nsettled upon us. I thought of you, papa and mamma, and\\nprayed that you might be comforted. Our roof is now\\ngone, the walls have fallen around us, but we still have a\\nfloor and I can t tell you, it is too horrible.\\nI was nearly drowned getting home from the office at\\n4 o clock Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Whitman is almost\\ncrazy and is in a dangerous condition. I have lost every-", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0256.jp2"}, "255": {"fulltext": "ESTIMATES OF THE LOSS. 259\\nthing; am now wearing clothes borrowed from those who\\nwere more fortunate. The stench is terrible.\\nThousands of horses and cattle without owners are in\\nthe most pitiable condition imaginable; not a drop of\\nwater for them to drink since Saturday morning. And the\\npeople I wonder that everybody is not mad at the hor-\\nrors. No account can exaggerate it. It is absolutely nec-\\nessary that everybody in the United States do what they\\ncan.\\nNearly all our help at Clark Courts are drowned\\nMr. Hansinger, his whole family, our other bookkeeper\\nand a number of the girls. The town is under martial law\\nto protect it from the mob. Last night a negro was ar-\\nrested with ten fingers in his pockets, with valuable rings\\non them. Mr. Fayling, at our house, is in command of\\nthe protective force. They have had to shoot many to\\nkeep the horrible ghouls in control. Eddie Rogers is next\\nin command, and is doing noble work. I have done what\\nI could to help the dying and wounded.\\nCOMPLETE RUIN FOR MILES.\\nWe were on the highest point of ground in Galveston.\\nThat is all that saved us. For blocks and blocks, reach-\\ning into miles, not a house remains; not a building but is\\ncompletely demolished houses just torn board from\\nboard and piled up. I have climbed over wreckage forty\\nfeet high in the streets to get to places. I think w^e were\\nmore fortunate than any one else in town. I think not\\none was killed, though our escape was narrow. With the\\nexception of Mrs. Whitman all were calm, though I\\nreckon everybody quaked inside I know I did.\\nThursday. Am well. Had something to eat this\\nmorning, and a little rainwater. Coffee is plenty, but", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0257.jp2"}, "256": {"fulltext": "260 ESTIMATES OF THE LOSS.\\nwater scarce. To-day the flesli slips oft the bodies as they\\ntake hold to drag them from the ruins. They are piling\\nthem in great heaps now and burning them. The horrors\\nmultiply. I have seen men shot down in the streets by\\nthe soldiers. The stench is untold. Last night the awful\\nsmell kept us awake although we were utterly exhausted.\\nIt fills your throat and mouth, and makes your head\\nache so.\\nCOMPARATIVELY FEW CHILDREN LEFT.\\nThe horrible experience* it will take years to tell and\\nmore than a lifetime to forget. If you could be here you\\nwould feel that your anxiety was nothing. It is so pitia-\\nble to see husbands, with a look of despair in their eyes,\\nsearching for their wives and children; wives for their\\nloved ones; and, most pitiable of all, the comparatively\\nfew children although they are enough, God knows, to\\nbe left orphans and homeless looking into every one s\\nface with frightened, appealing eyes. It is heartrending.\\nNow I am much better off. I am safe, so please don t\\nworry. I hope to hear from you soon.\\nBest love and kisses to both from\\nNELLIE.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0258.jp2"}, "257": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XVr.\\nGalveston s Inhabitants Refuse to Heed the Lessons Taught by Si^eir\\nExperiences Carelessness in Failing to Provide Against the Recur-\\nrence of Catastrophes.\\nALTHOUGH Galveston had been struck three times\\nwith floods and hurricanes even this experience was not\\nenough to convince the residents that it might happen\\nagain. Only a few of the more cautious had any idea\\nafter the last disaster of taking steps to prevent its repe-\\ntition. Asked if anything would be done to make future\\nfloods impossible they might probably quote the old saw\\nLightning never strikes in the same place twice, and\\nseem to think that settled it. In the next sentence they\\nwould compare the damage done in the floods of 1875 and\\n886 with this latest disaster.\\nNo, said E. M. Hartrick, assistant United States en-\\ngineer, the people of Galveston will go on living in fan-\\ncied security just as they did before. The plan to put a\\ndike around the city is perfectly feasible and so is a series\\nof jetties. I think the good old Holland plan is the best.\\nThe city doesn t need to be raised. I was six years city\\nengineer of Galveston, and following the storm of 1886\\ndrew plans for a dike ten feet high and extending all\\naround the island except on the north side. There the\\nwharves were to be raised and form the dike.\\nGalveston gave this plan consideration, and there is\\na map of the city in existence which shows it with a dike\\nsurrounding it. The legislature gave authority to bond\\nthe city, but it was some months after the flood wlien this\\nhad been secured, and the people said, Oh, we ll never get\\nanother one, and they didn t build.\\nThe construction by the government of two jetties, one\\n31", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0259.jp2"}, "258": {"fulltext": "262\\nLESSONS TAUGHT BY THE FLOOD.\\neight miles long extending out southeast for the purpose\\nof making a narrower and deeper channel for boats com-\\nino- into Galveston harbor, made the necessity of remedial\\nwork more apparent, but nothing was done. In the last\\nstorm, the southwesterly one of the jetties pocketed the\\nwater and carried it up over the southeastern end of the\\nisland.\\nThis was the place where whole blocks of buildings\\nwere literally washed away, leaving hardly enough of the\\nfoundations to indicate that buildings ever stood there.\\nIn that part of the city the water rose to a depth of fifteen\\nfeet in the streets. Had the houses demolished by waves\\nand swept away by wind not formed into a great jam sim-\\nilar to a log jam, but extending along the south shore of\\nthe island for seven miles, this enormous body of water\\nwould have swept over the entire island and the number\\nof dead would have been quadrupled.\\nIt formed a dike, said Engineer Hartrick, in calling-\\nattention to this feature of the flood, and had it not been\\nfor that dike we might not any of us be here now.\\nAccording to Mr. Hartrick, Galveston had the wrong\\nstyle of architecture for a gulf town. Its newer buildings\\nwere built on the northern plan with balloon frames, and\\npoorly adapted to stand a blow.\\nThis storm was a hurricane, he said, just such as\\nthey have in the West Indies every summer, but which\\nwe have here perhaps once in a hundred years. Still we\\nnever know when one may come again, and we should\\nbuild our houses accordingly.\\nColonel Davidson, a member of the relief committee,\\nhad given some time in the past to consideration of\\nprojects to prevent inundations. He favored the jetty\\nsystem, but, like Engineer Hartrick, said nothing would\\never be done.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0260.jp2"}, "259": {"fulltext": "LESSONS TAUGHT BY THE FLOOD. 263\\nYou never heard of a man wanting an umbrella when\\nit wasn t raining, did you? he asked. What we want is\\nnot to keep all the water out. We want the waves to\\nbreak their force before they rise on to the island. It\\nwas the force of the great waves which wrecked the\\nhouses.\\nThe work of extracting bodies from the mass of wreck-\\nage continued. Tuesday, September 18, over 400 bodies\\nwere taken out of the debris which lined the beach front.\\nWith all that had been done to recover bodies buried be-\\nneath or pinned to the immense drift, the work had\\nscarcely started. There was no time to dig graves and\\nthe putrefying flesh, beaten and bruised beyond identifi-\\ncation, was consigned to the flames. Volunteers for this\\ngrewsome work came in fast. Men who had avoided the\\ndead under ordinary conditions were working with a\\nvigorous will and energy in putting them away.\\nUnder one pile of wreckage Tuesday afternoon twenty\\nbodies were taken out and cremated. In another pile a\\nman pulled out the remains of two children and for a\\nmoment gazed upon them, then mechanically cast them\\ninto the fire. They were his own flesh and blood. As\\nthey slowly burned he watched them until they were con-\\nsumed, then resumed his work assisting others in remov-\\ning other bodies.\\nA large force of men was still engaged in removing the\\ndead from Kurd s lane, located about four miles west of\\nthe city. At this point the water ran to a height of four-\\nteen feet, and hung up in trees and fences were the bodies\\nof men, women and children, which were being collected\\nand cremated as fast as possible.\\nOn the mainland the searching for and cremating of\\nbodies that either perished or found lodgment there was\\nbeing prosecuted vigorously.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0261.jp2"}, "260": {"fulltext": "264 LESSONS TAUGHT BY THE FLOOD.\\nThe situation throughout the country extending from\\nBolivar to High island was possibly worse than in any\\nother section of the mainland.\\nClara Barton, president of the Red Cross Society, is-\\nsued an appeal on September 18 to the American people\\nfor money and supplies for the sick and wounded. Her\\nidea was to spend some of the money with local mer-\\nchants wherever practicable.\\nChairman Davidson of the relief committee stated that\\nthe greatest sufferers from the storm were the people of\\nlimited means who owned homes near the beach. There\\nwere hundreds of these people who owned mortgaged\\nlots and had homes constructed by the loan companies\\nand though their property was swept away the loan com-\\npanies were protected by liens.\\nMr. Davidson advised that a fund be raised for people\\nwho had suffered in this way, that they might be able to\\nrestore what took them years to accumulate and was\\ntaken from them in a single night.\\nThe resources of the numerous sub-relief stations scat-\\ntered throughout the city were taxed to their utmost ca-\\npacity, and long lines of people awaited their turns for\\nprovisions and clothing.\\nAt Texas City a force of deputy United States marshals\\nunder Marshal Grant was guarding the entrance to Gal-\\nveston and keeping back all people who could show no\\ngood reason for desiring to go there. People were daily\\nleaving the city, a majority being women and children.\\nThe city was still under martial law, and remained so for\\nweeks. Idlers and sight-seers who eluded the guards on\\nthe mainland upon their arrival were pressed into the\\nstreet service. There was no place for a man who would\\nnot work. It was work or go to jail, and they generally\\nwent to jail.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0262.jp2"}, "261": {"fulltext": "LESSONS TAUGHT BY THE FLOOD. 265\\nGOVERNOR SAYERS IN A HOPEFUL MOOD.\\nI look for the rebuilding of Galveston to be well un-\\nder way by the latter part of this week, said Governor\\nSayers, of Texas, on September 18, at Austin, the state\\ncapital. The work of cleaning the city of unhealthful\\nrefuse and burying the dead will have been completed by\\nthat time, and all the available labor in the city can be\\napplied to its rebuilding.\\nIf the laboring people of Galveston will only get to\\nwork in earnest prosperity will soon again smile on the\\ncity. Arrangements have been made to pay all the labor-\\ners working under the direction of the military authori-\\nties |1.50 and rations for every day they have worked or\\nwill work. An account has been kept of all work done\\nand no laborer will lose one day s pay.\\nThe money and food contributions coming from a gen-\\nerous people have been a great help to the people of Gal-\\nveston, as it has relieved them of the necessity of\\nspending their money to support the needy, and it can\\nnow be applied to the improvement of their own property\\nand putting again on foot their business enterprises.\\nFive dollars a day is being offered to the mechanics\\nwho will come to Galveston, and, with the assurance from\\nreputable physicians that there is no extraordinary dan-\\nger of sickness, outside laborers will flock to Galveston\\nand before many days a new city will rise on the storm-\\nswept island.\\nThe telegraph and telephone companies and railroads\\nhave been exceedingly generous since the gTeat calamity.\\nThey have not only given money, but everything has been\\ntransported to that city free of charge, while those desir-\\ning to get away from the harrowing scenes of Galveston\\nhave been transported free. The people of Texas will", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0263.jp2"}, "262": {"fulltext": "266 LESSONS TAUGHT BY THE FLOOD.\\nlong remember with grateful hearts the kindness of\\nthese companies.\\nIt is now an assured fact that trains will be running\\ninto Galveston this week, and with uninterrupted com-\\nmunication with the outside world Galveston should\\nsoon assume her normal condition.\\nSAD SIGHTS AT VIRGINIA POINT.\\nWhen the relief train reached Virginia Point, which\\nis on the mainland, opposite Galveston, it was found that\\nof those who survived the flood and hurricane the ma-\\njority was severely injured. Most of them were bruised\\nand maimed, presenting a pitiful sight, their limbs lac-\\nerated and bleeding. All bemoaned the fate of those dear\\nto them.\\nMany of the dead and the beach was strewn with\\ncorpses had their faces and heads mutilated so that it\\nwas almost impossible to learn the names of those who\\nfound their last resting-place in the crude graves hur-\\nriedly dug. A headboard was placed on the grave in\\nevery instance, giving as nearly as possible age and ac-\\ncurate description.\\nIt was found necessary in many instances to bury three\\nand four in one grave.\\nThose who survived the wreck were homeless and had\\nhad nothing to eat since Saturday. As most of them\\nwere injured it was not possible for them to organize a\\nmovement on their part. Life sustenance was furnished\\nthese survivors in order that they might not swell the\\nlist of dead.\\nMost of the bodies found in and around the vicinity of\\nVirginia Point were supposed to have been washed in-\\nland from Galveston.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0264.jp2"}, "263": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XVII.\\nGalveston s Storm Flies Over the United States and Does Great\\nDamage Many Lives Lost It Finally Disappears in the Atlantic\\nOcean.\\nWHEN the hurricane was through with Galveston and\\ncentral and southern Texas it sped north through Mis-\\nsouri, Kansas and Nebraska its path being 300 miles in\\nwidth and then turning toward the east, or slightly\\nnortheast, crossed northern Iowa, southern Minnesota,\\nsouthern Wisconsin, southern Michigan, northern Illi-\\nnois, northern Indiana, northern Ohio, northern New\\nYork and southern Canada, finally disappearing in the\\nAtlantic ocean, creating wreck and havoc wherever it\\nwent. It caused great losses of life and property in New-\\nfoundland and destroyed many vessels off the eastern\\ncoast of the United States\\nThe following dispatches show how widespread was its\\nfury\\nBuffalo, September 12. Immense damage was done\\nhere and at other lake ports by the Texas storm\\nwhich traveled with great violence down Lake Erie last\\nnight. Reports from Crystal Beach, a summer resort on\\nthe Canadian side of Lake Erie, say that every dock has\\nbeen destroyed, and all the boats of the Buffalo Canoe\\nClub, together with several large seagoing yachts an-\\nchored there, were completely wrecked.\\nIn this city the wind attained a velocity of seventy-two\\nmiles an hour, and seemed to regain some of the power\\nwhich it exhibited in wrecking Southern cities. Reports\\nof property loss and fatalities have come in.\\nSt. Joseph, Mich., September 12. The steamer Law-\\n267", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0265.jp2"}, "264": {"fulltext": "268 THE PATH OF THE STORM.\\nrence arrived here at 1 o clock this afternoon from\\nMilwaukee. She left that place at 8 o clock yesterday\\nmorning, and the captain reports a fearful voyage. The\\ncaptain s wife was here from Milwaukee and was on the\\ndock waiting to meet her husband when the boat touched\\nthe dock. The meeting between the two was affecting.\\nAll this morning anxious watchers waited on the bluffs\\nat the mouth of the river for a glimpse of the missing\\nboat. Many people had friends among the passengers\\nand crew, and as the morning hours wore on their anxiety\\nbecame intense.\\nCleveland, September 12. As a result of the fu-\\nrious gale which swept over the lake region last night\\ntelegraph and telephone lines were prostrated in all di-\\nrections from this city to-day. During the height of the\\nstorm the wind reached a velocity of sixty mile,: an hour.\\nTo-day the storm is subsiding, the wind having dropped\\nto twenty-six miles an hour.\\nUp to noon to-day the big passenger steamers City of\\nErie and the Northwest, which left Buffalo last evening\\nfor this port, have not been heard from. They were due\\nhere at 6 o clock this morning. The passenger steamer\\nState of Ohio, due here about the same hour from Toledo,\\nhad not arrived at noon.\\nThe wind blew sixty miles an hour across Lake Erie,\\nbut the warnings had been so thorough that few vessels\\nwere caught unprepared. The steamer Cornell of the\\nPittsburg Steamship Company s fleet lost her smokestack\\noff Fairport. Her barge anchored, but both came into\\nport later. The Buffalo passenger boat has not yet ar-\\nrived, having been in shelter at Long Point during the\\nworst of the blow.\\nDetour, Mich., September 12. In the storm yester-\\nday the schooner Narragan tt, stranded near Cockburn", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0266.jp2"}, "265": {"fulltext": "THE PATH OF THE STORM. 21)9\\nisland, was washed off the rocks, and shipping suffered\\ngreatly.\\nSault Ste. Marie, Mich., September 12. The wind\\nreached a velocity of thirty miles an hour from the\\nnorthwest at midnight, the storm being accompanied by\\nconsiderable rain. Many vessels were lost.\\nAmhertsburg, Ont., September 12. The tail end of\\nthe Galveston storm struck this section with great\\nforce about 11 o clock last night and continued until early\\nthis morning. The loss to shipping is heavy.\\nKingston, Ont., September 12. The Canadian steam-\\ner Albacore was driven ashore at 7 o clock this\\nmorning, east of the life-saving station. The crew was\\nsaved. The wind is blowing a gale from the west, and\\nshipping on Lake Ontario suffered seriously, many sailors\\nbeing drowned.\\nSouth Haven, Mich., September 12. The storm did\\nmuch damage to the docks here last night. Several\\nvessels are reported lost.\\nPort Huron, Mich., September 12. The wind blew a\\ngale until 11:30 last night. Three small schooners\\nwhich left here bound for Sand Beach were wrecked.\\nThe gale passed over Chicago September 11 and at-\\ntained a velocity early in the afternoon of seventy-two\\nmiles an hour, destroyed many lives in the city and neigh-\\nborhood, did great damage to property on the land and\\nwrecked several vessels on the lakes.\\nThe wind was fitful and blew in gusts. Its advance was\\nmet with frequent lulls and interruptions. An embank-\\nment of dark, ominous clouds rose steadily in the west.\\nAt first it was broken by an occasional rift which revealed\\nthe blue sky. But as the cloud bank rose it darkened and\\nrolled over the plains toward Chicago with increasing\\nspeed. At 3 o clock all the blue patches of sky had dis-", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0267.jp2"}, "266": {"fulltext": "270 THE PATH OF THE STORM.\\nappeared, the heavens had assumed a forbidding look\\nand the lake rolled. The increased violence of the storm\\ncarried everything before it. No one disputed its rights\\nto the streets, and it blew down wires innumerable, badly\\ncrippling the telegraph and telephone service.\\nThe Western Union s fifty-two New York lines were all\\ndown.\\nFrom Chicago the storm continued its progress across\\nLake Huron, but was steadily diminishing in intensity.\\nThe storm s velocity diminished after leaving Texas,\\nbut increased with wonderful rapidity after reaching the\\nlake region. The wind reached the greatest velocity at\\nChicago it had attained since leaving Galveston.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0268.jp2"}, "267": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XVlll,\\nThe World Not So Heartless as Supposed People Hhe (ilenerously to\\nAid the Suflfering A Social Pheuomenou Value of United States\\nWeather Bureau.\\nPERHAPS the world is not so bad as it has been painted,\\nor so heartless and indifferent as some pessimists would\\nhave us believe. Ordinarily men and women have enough\\nto do in attending to their OAvn affairs, expecting others,\\nof course, to do the same, and consequently they pay\\nsmall attention to what is going on around them; but\\nwhen their hearts are really touched they drop everything\\nand rush to the rescue of the afflicted.\\nSo it was in the case of Galveston.\\nThe catastrophe at Galveston served to bring conspic-\\nuously into notice the best and worst sides of human na-\\nture, which is always the common result of all appalling\\ndisasters.\\nThe people of that afflicted city were suddenly over-\\nwhelmed by the almost unprecedented fury of the ele-\\nments. Thousands were killed and injured. Thousands\\nmore lost their homes and places of business. They were\\nsuffering with hunger and menaced with pestilence. All\\nwere brought to a common level by dangers of every de-\\nscription, death in its most awful forms, and an outlook\\nof terrible uncertainty.\\nAnd yet in the midst of all this ruin and suffering they\\nwere harassed by thugs and thieves and ghouls in human\\nshape, who looted property, assaulted citizens vv^ho re-\\nsisted them, and despoiled and disfigured the dead in a\\nshockingly savage manner to secure rings and other\\njewels. Devoid of any feeling of sympathy or pity, they\\n271", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0269.jp2"}, "268": {"fulltext": "272 GENEROSITY OF THE WORLD.\\nseized upon this awful disaster as an opportunity to en-\\nrich themselves. As soon, however, as the authorities\\ncould recover from the first shock of the disaster the city\\nwas placed under martial law, and the troops patrolling\\nthe island did not hesitate to kill every one of the vandals\\ncaught in the commission of his infamous work. Public\\nopinion sustained this prompt style of punishment. It\\nwas a species of Southern lynching to which no objection\\nwas ever raised.\\nThe disaster also brought into prominence the greed\\nand mercenary passion of human nature. A clique of\\nravenous wretches, taking advantage of the fact that the\\ncity of Galveston was cut off from bridge communication\\nwith the mainland, conspired to secure control of the\\ntransportation facilities by water, and charged extortion-\\nate prices even to those who were seeking to carry relief\\nto the suffering people.\\nNever was a more inhuman trust organized.\\nAgain, all the fresh provisions in the city were ruined,\\nleaving only a few canned and dried articles which were\\navailable for food. The owners of these, bent upon mak-\\ning personal profit out of the necessities of their fellow-\\ncitizens, pushed up the prices, raising bread to 60 cents a\\nloaf and bacon to 50 cents a. pound.\\nThe mayor of Galveston, however, proved himself equal\\nto the emergency, confiscated the food supply, reduced\\nthe prices to a reasonable rate, and compelled the owners\\nof schooners and small craft to put down their prices also.\\nThis was the dark side of human nature, but the picture\\nhad its bright side also. The news of the awful disaster\\nhad hardly appeared in the public prints before tens of\\nthousands of helping hands were busy collecting relief.\\nThe Chief Executive of the nation, the Governors of\\nStates, and the mayors of cities issued their appeals to", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0270.jp2"}, "269": {"fulltext": "GENEROSITY OF THE WORLD. 273\\nthe people, whose sympathies were already aroused and\\nwhose hearts aud hands were enlisted generously and en-\\nthusiastically in the work of relief.\\nFar-off countries sent their offerings; every city and\\ntown in the world where Americans live contributed;\\nand crowned heads hastened to cable sympathy, together\\nwith more substantial evidences of their kindly feeling.\\nWithout delay of any kind, instantly and sponta-\\nneously, the machinery of charity began its work. The\\npeople of the North might differ radically from the people\\nof the South in many ways, but in the presence of such a\\ndreadful visitation of nature, involving suffering and\\ndeath, the brotherhood of man asserted itself and all\\nthings else were forgotten. Only the higher and nobler\\nattributes of human nature assert themselves.\\nPrivate individuals, business houses, great corpora-\\ntions, municipal, state and national government vied with\\neach other, as they did w^hen fire swept over Chicago and\\nthe flood overwhelmed Johnstown, in expediting relief\\nto the storm-ruined people of Texas.\\nDay by day trains sped to Galveston from every part\\nof the country, loaded with supplies, and the telegraph\\nwires carried orders for money, testifying to the unanim-\\nity of the great work of relief, and to the higher and\\nnobler instincts of human nature when it is appealed to\\nby the claims of humanity.\\nThe ghouls of Galveston were comparatively few in\\nnumber. Its generous sympathizers were to be counted\\nby scores of millions.\\nThe convicts in the Texas state penitentiary at Rusk\\nwere moved by the sufferings of the Galveston victims\\nto contribute $iO to the relief fund.\\nAre men who go to prison totally bad?\\nThe scope and rapidity of the Galveston relief work", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0271.jp2"}, "270": {"fulltext": "274 GENEROSITY OF THE WORLD.\\nall over the country afforded a spectacle at once gratify-\\ning and noteworthy. Trains laden with food and com-\\nforts for the sufferers were rushed towards the stricken\\ncity from every quarter of the United States.\\nFrom Boston to San Francisco nearly every city, re-\\ngardless of size, contributed its quota to the generous\\ncause. Even from across the Atlantic the Liverpool and\\nParis funds came, being on the list for |10,000 each.\\nWithin a week after the disaster Galveston was in pos-\\nsession of a magnificent relief fund that went far toward\\nalleviating the physical sufferings of its homeless thous-\\nands.\\nHere is a social phenomenon that may well give pause\\nto all critics who are wont to inveigh against our com-\\nmercial and industrial age. These exhibitions of liber-\\nality are not rare in the United States. A long series of\\nthem might be compiled w^ithin the period between the\\nChicago fire and the Porto Rican hurricane.\\nSingly and in the aggregate they are a striking nega-\\ntive to the charge of sordid commercialism in our indi-\\nvidual and national life. The modern American is making\\nmore money than ever before, but he has a heart as well\\nas a business head, and he is giving larger sums to noble\\ncauses than were ever given before.\\nProbably the increased willingness of the people to help\\nstricken communities like Galveston is due more to the\\nrailroads and telegraph lines than to anything else. Mod-\\nern charity is the child of modern conditions. These indis-\\npensable adjuncts to commercial enterprise alone make\\nwidespread relief work possible.\\nIf the telegraph and the newspaper had not placed the\\nsad picture of Galveston s misfortunes at once before\\nthe eyes of Americans from ocean to ocean there could\\nhave been no such national impulse of generosity.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0272.jp2"}, "271": {"fulltext": "GENEROSITY OF THE WORLD. 275\\nAbout ninety years ago an earthquake in Southern\\nMissouri brought calamity to many settlers, but it was a\\nmouth before the news reached the East, and another\\nmonth would have had to elapse before relief could have\\nbeen carried to the sufferers. The impulse to give cannot\\nthrive under such circumstances.\\nThere have been tender hearts in all ages, but only\\nin our time have the means of quick communication made\\nhuman sympathy effective across continents. The rail-\\nroad, the telegraph and the newspaper have lengthened\\nthe arm of charitj^ quite as much as that of business.\\nThe Galveston incident is also a fine example of the\\nway in which these agencies bind all sections of the nation\\ntogether in increasing solidarity.\\nGEEAT VALUE OF THE UNITED STATES\\nWEATHER BUREAU.\\nThe great value of the United States Weather Bureau\\nand the remarkable correctness of its observations, all\\nthings considered, was demonstrated by the events pre-\\nceding and succeeding the West Indian hurricane. It\\ngave warning of the hurricane days before it manifested\\nitself on the Texas coast. It anticipated its course from\\nthe vicinity of San Domingo until it reached Cuban wa-\\nters, where it made a deflection no human skill could have\\nforeseen.\\nThe bureau was not caught napping, however. It sent\\nout its hurricane signals both for the Atlantic coast and\\nthe gulf coast, and when the storm turned from the north\\nof Cuba westward the bureau turned its attention to\\nTexas, and on the morning of September 7, nearly thirty-\\nsix hours before the disaster, warned the people of Gal-\\nveston of its coming, and during that day extended its", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0273.jp2"}, "272": {"fulltext": "276 GENEROSITY OF THE WORLD.\\nsiouais all along the Texas coast, thus preventing vessels\\nfrom leaving.\\nOf course the observers could not know what terrible\\nenergy it would gain crossing the Gulf of Mexico.\\nPerhaps still greater accuracy in forecasting was dis-\\nplayed by the bureau in the warnings given out to mari-\\nners on the Great Lakes on Tuesday morning, September\\n11. Though nearly all lines of communication in Texas\\nwere cut off, the bureau kept track of the storm as it\\nswept through Oklahoma into Kansas, and gave timely\\nwarning that it would turn northeast, moving across\\nnorthern Illinois and southern Wisconsin, and thence\\nacross Lake Michigan and the northern end of the south-\\nern peninsula of Michigan to Canada.\\nIt further predicted the furious winds which prevailed\\nthe next day, their maximum velocity, the change caused\\nby the northwest current from Lake Superior, and the\\nfall of temperature 3 esterday to the nicety of a degree.\\nEvery vessel captain on the lakes had ample warning\\ngiven him.\\nIn times gone by it was the habit to jeer at Old Prob-\\nabilities, and whenever a prediction failed of verification\\nto condemn the Weather Bureau as unreliable and not\\nworth the expense of its maintenance.\\nDuring the last few years, however, its operators have\\ngained in skill and its record now is of a character of\\nwhich its officials have every reason to be proud and\\nwhich amply justifies whatever expense it may entail by\\nits great saving of life and property.\\nWHY SHOULD NOT GALVESTON BE REBUILT?\\nThe appalling nature of the wreck to which Galveston\\nwas reduced naturally led to some talk of abandoning\\nthe old site altogether and rebuilding the city somewhere", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0274.jp2"}, "273": {"fulltext": "GENEROSITY OE THE WORLD. 277\\non the mainland. An army officer concluded his report\\nto Washington headquarters by expressing the opinion\\nthat Galveston was destroyed beyond the ability to re-\\ncover, and the Southern Pacific railway was said to be\\nin favor of leaving the flat island to the sport of the\\ntreacherous waves and heading a movement to rebuild\\nthe cit}^ at the mouth of the Brazos river.\\nIt is natural that non-residents of Galveston should\\nconsider the advisability of abandoning such a perilous\\nsite, especially as there can never be any complete secur-\\nity against a disaster like that of Saturday, September 8.\\nBut it is safe to say that Galveston will be rebuilt on\\nits sand island. Mankind is not wont to desert any spot\\nof the earth s surface because of a sudden and rare con--\\nvulsion of nature.\\nLisbon was not abandoned because of the disastrous\\nearthquake that killed 50,000 people in 1755.\\nSimilar earthquake disasters in Central and South\\nAmerica have not induced the survivors to abandon a\\nsingle city.\\nWhen 100,000 Chinamen were swallow^ed up at Peking\\nin the last century it did not change the site of the city,\\nnor have the still more disastrous floods along the Yellow\\nriver ever caused the survivors to change their habitat.\\nHistorj shows Europeans and Americans to be quite\\nas tenacious in this regard as any other races.\\nItalian peasants continue to cultivate the slopes of Ve-\\nsuvius in spite of all past disasters, and the inhabitants of\\nthe Sea Islands along the Carolina coast were not dis-\\nheartened when the elements committed fearful ravages.\\nThe leading business men of Galveston emphasized a\\npoint when they began to talk of rebuilding which had\\nescaped general attention until that time. They were\\nexceedingly anxious that commercial bodies, steamship", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0275.jp2"}, "274": {"fulltext": "278 GENEROSITY OF THE WORLD.\\nowners, brokers and those interested in the commerce of\\nGalveston shoukl be as considerate as possible in their\\ntreatment of the citj^, that is to say, there should be liber-\\nality in the commercial relations. These men urged that\\nthe extent of the calamity should be taken into account\\nwhen adjustment of contracts took place and in all busi-\\nness arrangements until the city could regain its footing.\\nCharters provide by special mention for Visitations of\\nProvidence, for the Acts of God.\\nThe Galveston business men hoped that their business\\nconnections would apply a like spirit to all commerce\\naffected by the storm.\\nThey w^ere not disappointed, as the result showed.\\nGalveston was just entering upon the busy season.\\nThere were from 200 to 300 ships under sailing contracts\\nwith that port for the months of September, November\\nand December. Some of these ships were, when the storm\\ncame, on the high seas. Even a temporary paralysis of\\nthirt}^ days meant much loss and the derangement of\\nmany contracts.\\nIt was a time which called for the generous policy, not\\nfor strict enforcements of the letter of agreements. Gal-\\nveston only asked what her business men thought was\\njust, that thereby the shock to commerce might be miti-\\ngated. When the time came Galveston found that she\\nImd not asked too much, as she received all the considera-\\ntion she could wish.\\nKeprosentatives of the railroad systems which con-\\nnected Galveston with the outside world before the occur-\\nrence of the disaster agreed in saying, in a meeting held at\\nNew York, that her residents would rebuild on the same\\nsand island in spite of the terrible experiences. They be-\\nlieved that Galveston, injured financially though her citi-", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0276.jp2"}, "275": {"fulltext": "GENEROSITY OE THE WORLD. 279\\nzeiis had beeu, would be rebuilt by her citizeus without\\nthe aid of outside capital.\\nA. F. Walker, Chairuiau of the Board of Directors of\\nthe Atchisou, Topeka and Santa Fe, said he felt certain\\nthat Galveston would be rebuilt.\\nThe new energy and courage displayed by the people\\nof Galveston is what was to be expected in a city\\nso full of American pluck. Though stunned and pros-\\ntrate under the most fatal disaster that had ever over-\\ntaken an American community, Galveston took only a\\nfew days to regain its breath. It has simply reasserted\\nthe same indomitable courage and will power by which\\nAmericans in times past built up a great nation where\\nthere was a wilderness a century ago.\\nThe terse motto stuck up on every street corner of the\\nwrecked city is Clean Up. Behind its grim humor there\\nlies a stern determination that is one of the proudest attri-\\nbutes of our race.\\nThere is no reason why a greater Galveston should not\\nspeedily rise on the site of the present ruins.\\nThe report of an army officer that the city was ruined\\nbeyond recovery and the suggestions of other persons\\nthat Galveston should be rebuilt on another site find no\\nsympathy among the citizens. Galveston will be rebuilt\\nupon its former site.\\nCarpenters, masons and artisans are being called for by\\nthousands, and, with the generous aid contributed by peo-\\nple all over the country, there will be a rapid transforma-\\ntion. The city has thrust its sorrow behind it and has its\\nface set toward the future.\\nSince the danger of flood cannot be removed so long\\nas the city stands at its present level, it is to be hoped\\nits builders will begin a new era of securit}^ by raising\\nthe grade of the streets.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0277.jp2"}, "276": {"fulltext": "280 GENEROSITY OF THE WORLD.\\nA few feet will materially decrease the danger from\\ntidal Avaves. It will also be wise to construct the founda-\\ntions of all permanent large buildings of stone to a height\\nabove the level reached by the recent inundation. In\\nresolving to defy an untoward fate Galveston should be-\\ngin by adopting all practical means for defying wind and\\nwaves.\\nEven though the expense and delay will be greater, it\\nwill pay to give the new buildings all possible safeguards\\nof solidity.\\nGalveston will be rebuilt, as it was after the disaster\\nof fourteen years previously. Its inhabitants will reason\\nthat the city had existed for two-thirds of a century in\\ncomparative safety, and that such a tidal wave is not\\nlikely to be repeated in a hundred years. The same com-\\nmercial advantages that first tempted settlers to the\\nisland, and that made Galveston one of the most thriving\\ncities on the gulf coast, are still present.\\nMen w^ho own real estate on the island will not aban-\\ndon it, even though the improvements thereon have been\\nreduced to a wreck. They know that even if they did\\nabandon it there would be plenty of others to take it\\nrisks and all and rebuild the city.\\nThe federal government may hesitate about rebuild-\\ning its structures on so precarious a site, but private\\ninterests are not likely to abandon a city even for so terri-\\nble a disaster as that at Galveston.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0278.jp2"}, "277": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XIX.\\nGalrestou Island Directly in the Path of Storms, ^itli No Way of\\nEscape What Is the City s Future! All Coast Cities in Danger\\nNew York Will Be Flooded Hurricane Foretold liialvestou s\\nSettlement Storm Will Kecur,\\nGALVESTON ISLAND, with a strett-h of thirty-five\\nmiles, rises onl} five feet above the level of high tide. To\\nthe south is an imbrokeu sweep of sea for 800 miles.\\nTwelve hundred miles away is the nesting place of storms\\nstorms that rise out of the dead calm of the doldrums\\nand sweep northward, sometimes with a fury that noth-\\ning can withstand. Most of these storms describe a para-\\nbola, with the westward arch touching the Atlantic coast,\\nafter which the track is northeastward, finally disappear-\\ning with the storm itself in the north Atlantic.\\nBut every little while one of these West Indian hurri-\\ncanes starts northwestward from its island nest, moving\\nsteadily on its course and entering the gulf itself.\\nSeptember and October are the months of these storms,\\nand of the two months September is worse. In the ten\\nyears between 1878 and 1887, inclusive, fifty-seven hurri-\\ncanes arose in the warm, moist conditions of the West\\nIndian doldrums. INIost of these passed out to sea and to\\nthe St. Lawrence River country, where they disappeared.\\nBut the hurricane of October 11, 1887, came ashore at\\nNew Orleans on October 17, and wrought havoc as it\\npassed up the Eastern States to New Brunswick. The\\nstorm of October 8, 1886, reached Louisiana on the 12th,\\ncurving again toward Galveston on the Texas coast. It\\nwas in this storm that Galveston was flooded with loss\\nof life and property while Indianola was destroyed beyond\\nrecovery.\\n281", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0279.jp2"}, "278": {"fulltext": "282 IVARNINGS TO SEABOARD CITIES.\\nWith these non-recurring storms two conditions favor\\ntheir passage into the gulf. A high barometric area lies\\nover the Atlantic coast States, while a trough of low\\npressure leads into the gulf and northward into the region\\nof the Dakotas. The hurricane takes the path of least\\nresistance always, and it must i)ass far northward before\\nit can work its natural way around the tardy high area\\nthat hangs over the central coast States. It was this con-\\ndition exactly which diverted the recent storm to Galves-\\nton and the Texas coast.\\nThe origin of a hurricane is not fully settled. Its ac-\\ncompanying phenomena, however, are signiticant to even\\nthe casual observer. A long swell on the ocean usually\\nprecedes it. This swell may be forced to great distances\\nin advance of the storm and be observed two or three\\ndays before the storm strikes. A faint rise in the barom-\\neter may be noticed before the sharp fall follows. Wisps\\nof thin, cirrus cloud float for 200 miles around the storm\\ncenter. The air is calm and sultry until a gentle breeze\\nsprings from the southeast. This breeze becomes a wind,\\na gale, and, finally, a tempest, with matted clouds over-\\nhead, precipitating rain and a churning sea below throw-\\ning clouds of spume into the air.\\nHere are all the terrible phenomena of the West Indian\\nhurricane the tremendous wind, the thrashing sea, the\\nlightning, the bellowing thunder, and the drowning rain\\nthat seems to be dashed from mighty tanks with the force\\nof Titans.\\nBat almost in an instant all these may cease. The wind\\ndies, the lightning goes out, the rain ceases, and the thun-\\nder bellows only in the distance. The core of the storm\\nis overhead. Only the waves of the sea are churning.\\nThere mnj be twenty miles of this central core, a diameter\\nof only one-thirtieth that of the storm. It passes quickly.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0280.jp2"}, "279": {"fulltext": "WARNINGS TO SEABOARD CITIES. 283\\nand with as little warning as preceded its stoppage the\\nstorm closes in again, but with the wind from the oppo-\\nsite direction, and the whole phenomena suggesting a\\nreversal of all that has gone before.\\nNo storm possible in the elements presents the terrors\\nthat accompany the hurricane. The twisting tornado is\\nconfined to a narrow track and it has no long-drawn-out\\nhorrors. Its climax is reached in a moment. The hurri-\\ncane, however, grows and grows, and when it has reached\\nto 100 or 120 miles an hour nothing can withstand it.\\nIt is this terrible besom of the Southern seas that so\\nnearly has taken Galveston off the map. The great storm\\nof 1875 frightened the city. The fate of Indianola in 1886\\nand the loss of ten lives and .f200,000 worth of property\\non Galveston Island has kept Galveston uneasy ever since.\\nTo-day, for it to suggest rebuilding, will meet with the\\ndisapprobation of many of the sympathizing Americans\\nwho are giving freely to the stricken people.\\nBut the abandonment of Galveston could not be with-\\nout a struggle. For fourteen years its old citizens had\\nbeen admitting that twice in their memory the sea had\\ncome in on the island, causing death and destruction, but\\nas sturdily as their conservatism prompted they had in-\\nsisted that it never could do so again. They gave no\\nconsistent reason for their belief. The island was no\\nhigher; the force of the sea was as boundless as before;\\nthe doldrums of the West Indies still hung over the\\narchipelago in storm-brooding calm. But their belief\\nspread and the island city grew and developed as the old\\nsettler never had hoped to see it grow when he squatted\\nthere in the sand more than sixty years ago.\\nThis settler stock of Galveston Island w^as of queer\\ncharacteristics. The island settlement was of a sort of\\nCaptain Streeter origin. The only variation was that the", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0281.jp2"}, "280": {"fulltext": "284 WARNINGS TO SEABOARD CITIES.\\nColouel Menard who founded it bought the island and\\nestablished a town-site company to attract immigration.\\nThe mainland, as flat and desolate almost as the island,\\nwas three miles away. But deep water was there and\\nto the north was an agricultural country that one day\\nwould have cotton to export. So the settlers waited.\\nThey held to their sand lots and traded with the mos-\\nquito fleet which sailed up and down the coast from\\nCorpus Christi to New Orleans. This mosquito fleet was\\nthe only means for bringing outside traders to the town.\\nAs it grew it developed that the cit^^ s export trade was all\\nit bad. It did a w^holesale business that was to its retail\\nbusiness in the proportion of 100 to 1!\\nIn this way Galveston developed in-growing propensi-\\nties. It scoffed at the mainland for years after the gulf\\nshore began to be peopled. It was satisfied with its rail-\\nroad bridges, which were mere trestlew^ork mounted on\\npiling driven into the shallow water of the bay. If the\\nmainland wished to reach the city let it row out or sail\\nout; the city would not go to the expense of a wagon\\nbridge.\\nAs a result, Galveston was tLe most somnolent cit} in\\nTexas, save on the w^harves where tramp and coastwise\\nships and steamers loaded. When the market house\\nclosed by law at 10 o clock in the morning, and w^hen Gal-\\nveston s own local population had laid in its supplies for\\na midday dinner and for supper and breakfast. Strand\\nstreet took a nap.\\nIn the 80s, however, a new element had been attracted,\\nwhich was dissatisfied with the mossback order of things.\\nIt was not satisfied to make change with a stranger and\\ngive or take bits of yellow pasteboard, representing street\\ncar rides, in lieu of nickels.\\nBut these young immigrants were frowned upon by", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0282.jp2"}, "281": {"fulltext": "WARNINGS TO SEABOARD CITIES. 285\\nGalvestou conservatism. They were a disturbing ele-\\nment. They kept the staid, mossback citizen awake in\\nthe afternoons and he did not like it. They were clamor-\\ning for sewers and artesian water in mains, whereas the\\nconservative was content to build his rain water cistern\\nabove ground out of doors and strain the baby mosquitoes\\nout of the water through a cloth.\\nWhen a new waterworks and standpipe had been com-\\npleted in 1889, and when some new mills had been estab-\\nlished under difficulties, affairs had come to a pass when\\nthe new Galvestonian and the old found a great gap be-\\ntween. The visiting stranger was the confidant of both\\nsides.\\nThis town isn t what it used to be, sighed the con-\\nservative.\\nAs a matter of fact, the young business man would\\nsay, Galveston needs to bury about 150 of its old citizens\\nbefore it can get awake.\\nThis was the situation when the government began to\\nexpend money upon the harbor.\\nThis was the situation, slightly altered by time, when\\nthe wagon bridge was built to the main land, when the\\ngovernment appropriated |G,200,000 for the deepening of\\nthe harbor, and when export trade from Galveston ap-\\nproached the mark of |100,000,000 annually. And this,\\nvirtually, was the Galveston now in ruins.\\nIn rebuilding Galveston, it has been suggested that the\\nbay be dredged of sand and the island raised to a uniform\\nlevel of fifteen feet above the tide. The plan is feasible\\nin every sense, and it is contended that the value of the\\ncity as a port would more than justify the cost.\\nHowever the island city may decide, it will have de-\\nparted from several notable instances of water-swept\\ncities in rebuilding. In addition to the abandonment of", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0283.jp2"}, "282": {"fulltext": "286 WARNINGS TO SEABOARD CITIES.\\nludianola, on the mainland of Texas, are the stories of\\nLast Island in the Gulf of Mexico and of Cobb s Island, a\\ngreat fishing resort in Chesapeake Bay.\\nLast Island was overwhelmed in 1856. Three hundred\\nlives were lost in the hurricane. Lafcadio Hearn has put\\nthe legend of L Isle Derniere into print and his descrip-\\ntion of the hurricane that swept in upon it is a descrip-\\ntion of the storm that has laid Galveston waste:\\nOne great noon, when the blue abyss of day seemed\\nto yawn over the world more deeply than ever before, a\\nsudden change touched the quicksilver smoothness of the\\nwaters the swaying shadow of a vast motion. First the\\nwhole sea circle appeared to rise up bodily at the sky;\\nthe horizon curve lifted to a straight line; the line dark-\\nened and approached a monstrous wrinkle, an immeas-\\nurable fold of green water moving swift as a cloud shadow\\npursued by sunlight. But it had looked formidable only\\nby startling contrast with the previous placidity of the\\nopen; it was scarcely two feet high; it curled slowly as it\\nneared the beach and combed itself out in sheets of woolly\\nfoam with a low, rich roll of thunder. Swift in pursuit\\nanother followed a third, a feebler fourth; then the sea\\nonly swayed a little and stilled again.\\nIrregularly the phenomenon continued to repeat itself,\\neach time with heavier billowings and briefer intervals\\nof quiet, until at last the whole sea grew restless and\\nshifted color and flickered green the swells became\\nshorter and changed form.\\nThe pleasure-seekers of Last Island knew there must\\nhave been a great blow somewhere that day. Still the\\nsea swelled, and a splendid surf made the evening bath\\ndelightful. Then just at sundown a beautiful cloud\\nbridge grew up and arched the sky with a single span\\nof cottony, pink vapor that changed and deepened color", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0284.jp2"}, "283": {"fulltext": "WARNINGS TO SEABOARD CITIES. 287\\nwith the (lying of the iridescent day. And the ch)ud\\nbridge approached, strained and swung round at last to\\nmake way for the coming of the gale even as the light\\nbridges that traverse the dreamy Teche swing open when\\nthe luggermen sound through their conch shells the long,\\nbellowing signal of approach.\\nThen the wind began to blow from the northeast, clear,\\ncool. Clouds came, flew as in a panic against\\nthe face of the sun, and passed. All that day, through\\nthe night, and into the morning again the breeze con-\\ntinued from the northeast, blowing like an equinoctial\\ngale.\\nCottages began to rock. Some slid away from the\\nsolid props upon which they rested. A chimney tumbled.\\nShutters were wrenched off; verandas demolished. Light\\nroofs lifted, dropped again, and flapped into ruin. Trees\\nbent their heads to earth. And still the storm grew louder\\nand blacker with every passing hour.\\nWORK OF THE STORM.\\nSo the hurricane passed, tearing off the heads of pro-\\ndigious waves to hurl them a hundred feet in air heap-\\ning up the ocean against the land upturning the woods.\\nBays and passes were swollen to abysses; rivers regorged;\\nthe sea marshes changed to roaring wastes of water. Be-\\nfore New Orleans the flood of the mile-broad Mississippi\\nrose six feet above highest water mark. One hundred\\nand ten miles away Donaldsonville trembled at the tow-\\nering tide of the Lafourche. Lakes strove to burst their\\nboundaries. Far-oiT river steamers tugged wiklly at their\\ncables shivering like tethered creatures that hear by\\nnight the approaching howl of destroyers.\\nAnd swift in the wake of gull and frigate bird the\\nwreckers come, the spoilers of the dead savage skimmers", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0285.jp2"}, "284": {"fulltext": "288 WARNINGS TO SEABOARD CITIES.\\nof the sea hurricane-riders wont to spread their canvas\\npinions in the face of storms. There is plunder\\nfoi- all birds and men. Her betrothal ring\\nwill not come off, Guiseppe; but the delicate bone snaps\\neasily; your oyster-knife can sever the tendon.\\nOver her heart you will find it, Yalentio the locket held\\nby that fine, Swiss chain of woven hair. Juan,\\nthe fastenings of those diamond eardrops are much too\\ncomplicated for your peon fingers; tear them out.\\nSuddenly a long, mighty silver trilling fills the ears\\nof all; there is a wild hurrying and scurrying; swiftly,\\none after another, the overburdened luggers spread wings\\nand flutter away. Thrice the great cry rings through the\\ngray air and over the green sea, and over the far-flooded\\nshell reefs where the huge white flashes are sheet light-\\nning of breakers and over the weird wash of corpses\\ncoming in.\\nIt is the steam-call of the relief boat, hastening to res-\\ncue the living, to gather in the dead.\\nThe tremendous tragedy is over.\\nGALVESTON BUILT UPON THE SAND.\\nGalveston is built upon the sand. According to Profes-\\nsor Willis L. Moore, Chief of the United States Weather\\nBureau at Washington, not only Galveston was insecurely\\nbuilt upon the flat sands of the island, but other cities\\non the gulf and Atlantic coasts, lying at tide, are subject\\nto the same dangers. The West Indian hurricane may\\nstrike almost anywhere from the southern line of North\\nCarolina, on down the coast, around the peninsula of Flor-\\nida, and anywhere within the great arc described by the\\nwestern shores of the Gulf of Mexico. These storms, per-\\nhaps GOO miles wide, have a vortex of twenty to thirty", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0286.jp2"}, "285": {"fulltext": "WARNINGS TO SEABOARD CITIES. 289\\nmiles in diameter. It is in this vortex that the land is\\nlaid waste.\\nIt is this fact that will lead more strongly than any\\nother to the rebuilding of Galveston. With an export\\nbusiness of |100,000,000 annually, the great West will\\nbring pressure to bear upon the maintenance of the port.\\nThere is an island type of man in its population that will\\nnot be driven from that little ridge of sand three miles\\nout in the gulf. There are 1,500 miles of gulf coast on\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0which the vortex of such a storm may waste itself without\\ntouching Galveston, and both conservatism and commer-\\ncialism w^ill take the risk that a score of other cities at\\nthe tide level are taking.\\nAt the same time there are those who see for Galves-\\nton only a commercial existence. It never can grow as it\\nhas grown; it never can be the home of peoj)le whose\\nfortunes are not tied up in the island.\\nFor fourteen years the city has had to contend with\\nthe fears of the incomer. The growth between 1890 and\\n1900 shows that these fears had been allayed in great\\nmeasure, following the destruction in 188G. But years\\nwill not wipe out the black record of the last week. Hun-\\ndreds will leave the island as a place of residence; thous-\\nands have been killed there and cremated in the sands\\nor buried in the treacherous sea. A death rate of 200 in\\na population of 1,000 drove Indianola from the map of\\nTexas. Five thousand or more deaths of the 35,000 popu-\\nlation of Galveston must have its influence upon the\\nliving.\\nFor with the assurances of the United States Weather\\nBureau, it is recognized that in natural phenomena there\\nare cycle periods in which extremes are repeated from\\nnature s great laboratory. Observation has put this period\\nof repetition at twenty years. According to this, in the", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0287.jp2"}, "286": {"fulltext": "290 WARNINGS TO SEABOARD CITIES.\\ncase of hurricanes, the range of maximum and minimum\\nwill be within such a period. Without question Galves-\\nton is in the track of a certain abnormal but not infre-\\nquent West Indian hurricane w^hich fails to be deflected\\nfrom the Georgia and Florida coasts. It keeps to its\\nnorthwestward course and strikes the Louisiana, Texas\\nor Mexico coasts, according to its impulse. In the Gal-\\nveston storm a new maximum seems to have been estab-\\nlished, yets its repetition may be looked for within the\\nnext twenty-year period. As a matter of fact, indeed,\\nthe average period between the recurrence of these maxi-\\nmum storms has been less than fifteen years.\\nLyman E. Cooley, one of the original engineers in mark-\\ning the route of the drainage canal, is an observer of\\nperiodic natural phenomena, and his theory holds in great\\nmeasure with the observations of the United States\\nweather service.\\nIt is a general proposition, said Mr. Cooley. It\\nmeans Just this much: Suppose that Chicago has a snow\\nstorm on June 15. Within a twenty-year period we may\\nexpect another phenomenon of the kind in the same cal-\\nendar month. It may not snow in Chicago itself; the\\nstorm may be ten, twenty or thirty miles away, on any\\nside of it. But in the same general territory, about the\\nsame time of the phenomenon, it will be repeated.\\nSuppose a terrible rain or wind storm develops, its\\nrepetition may be looked for in the same period. So with\\nextremes of temperature, influences on lake levels, and all\\nthe other phenomena of nature s forces. They have their\\ncycles, and the twenty-year period covers most of them.\\nBut in the case of Galveston, one of its great hurricanes\\nwas experienced in 1875, another in 188G, and the last\\nonly fourteen years later. These historic facts tend to\\nconfirm Mr. Cooley s observations.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0288.jp2"}, "287": {"fulltext": "WARNINGS TO SEABOARD CITIES. 291\\nGalveston s destruction and that of other towns sim-\\nilarly situated had been predicted. Writing in the Arena\\nin 1890, Professor Joseph Rodes Buchanan said:\\nEvery seaboard city south of New England that is\\nnot more than Mtj feet above the sea level of the Atlantic\\ncoast is destined to a destructive convulsion. Galveston,\\nNew Orleans, Mobile, St. Augustine, Savannah and\\nCharleston are doomed. Richmond, Baltimore, Washing-\\nton, Philadelphia, Newark, Jersey City and New York\\nwill suffer in various degrees in proportion as they ap-\\nproximate the sea level. Brooklyn will suffer less, but the\\ndestruction at New York and Jersey City will be the\\ngrandest horror.\\nThe convulsion will probably begin on the Pacific\\ncoast, and perhaps extend in the Pacific toward the Sand-\\nwich Islands. The shock will be terrible, with great loss\\nof life, extending from British Columbia down along the\\ncoast of Mexico, but the conformation of the Pacific coast\\nwill make its grand tidal wave far less destructive than\\non the Atlantic shore. Nevertheless, it will be calam-\\nitous. Lower California will suffer severely along the\\ncoast. San Diego and Coronado will suffer severely, es-\\npecially the latter.\\nIt may seem rash to anticipate the limits of the de-\\nstructive force of a foreseen earthquake, but there is no\\nharm in testing the prophetic power of science in the com-\\nplex relations of nature and man.\\nThe destruction of cities which I anticipate will be\\ntwenty-four years ahead it may be twenty-three. It will\\nbe sudden and brief all within an hour and not far from\\nnoon. Starting from the Pacific coast, as already de-\\nscribed, it will strike southward a mighty tidal wave\\nand earthquake shock that will develop in the Gulf of\\nMexico and Caribbean Sea. It will strike the western", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0289.jp2"}, "288": {"fulltext": "2 J2 WARNINGS TO SEABOARD CiriES.\\ncoast of Cuba and severely injure Havana. Our sister\\nrepublic, Venezuela, bound to us in destiny, by the law\\nof periodicity will be assailed by the encroaching waves\\nand terribly shaken by the earthquake. The destruction\\nof her chief citj, Caraccas, will be greater than in 1812,\\nwhen 12,000 were said to be destroyed. The coming shock\\nwill be near total destruction.\\nFrom South America back to the United States, all\\nCentral America and Mexico are severely shaken; Vera\\nCruz suffers with great severity, but the City of Mexico\\nrealizes only a severe shock. Tampico and Matamoras\\nsuffer severely; Galveston is overwhelmed; New Orleans\\nis in a dangerous condition the question arises between\\ntotal and partial destruction. I will only say it will be\\nan awful calamity. If the tidal wave runs southward\\nNew Orleans may have only its rebound. The shock and\\nflood pass up the Mississippi from 100 to 150 miles and\\nstrike Baton Rouge with destructive force.\\nAs it travels along the gulf shore Mobile will probably\\nsuffer most severely and be more than half destroyed;\\nPensacola somewhat less. Southern Florida is probably\\nentirely submerged and lost; St. Augustine severely in-\\njured; Charleston will probably be half submerged, and\\nNewbern suffer more severely; Port Royal will probably\\nbe wiped out; Norfolk will suffer about as much as Pen-\\nsacola; Petersburg and Richmond will suffer, but not dis-\\nastrously; Washington will suffer in its low grounds, Bal-\\ntimore and Annapolis much more severely on its water\\nfront, its spires will topj^le, and its large buildings be\\ninjured, but I do not think its grand city hall will be de-\\nstroyed. Probably the injury will not affect more than\\none-fourth. But along the New Jersey coast the damage\\nwill be great. Atlantic City and Cape May may be de-\\nstroyed, but Long Branch will be protected by its bluff", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0290.jp2"}, "289": {"fulltext": "WARNINGS TO SEABOARD CITIES. 293\\nfrom any severe calamity. The rising waters will affect\\nNewark, and Jersey City will be the most unfortunate of\\nlarge cities, everything below its heights being over-\\nwhelmed. New York below the postoffice and Trinity\\nChurch will be flooded and all its water margins will suf-\\nfer.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0291.jp2"}, "290": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XX.\\nComparisons Between tbe Galveston and Johnstown Disasters\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Latter\\nNot So Horrible in Its Features Frightful Plight of the Texas\\nyictims.\\nUNTIL the elements wreaked their vengeance upon the\\nfair City of Galveston and vented their wrath upon its\\nunoffending- population, the awful disaster at Johnstown,\\nPa., which occurred on the 31st of May, 1889, was the\\nmost frightful calamity known in the history of the United\\nStates. Johnstown was almost literally wiped from the\\nface of the earth, the suddenness of the flood which cre-\\nated the havoc precluding the escape of anyone unfor-\\ntunate enough to be in its path.\\nUnlike the Galveston catastrophe, the flood at Johns-\\ntown poured its waters upon the devoted inhabitants\\nwithout warning and the slaughter was over within the\\nspace of a comparatively few minutes. The victims, that\\nis to say, the majority of them, were drowned or dashed\\nto pieces before they had time to realize the horror of\\nit all.\\nAt Galveston the people knew for hours before the\\nangry waters submerged the island and the resistless gale\\ntore the business buildings and residences to pieces what\\ntheir fate was to be. They looked death squarely in the\\nface hour after hour, suffering all the terrors dire cer-\\ntainty could inflict, their knowledge that they were abso-\\nlutely powerless and beyond the reach of aid adding to\\ntheir agonies.\\nDeath was merciful to the people of Johnstown; he\\nwas cruel to his prey at Galveston, and delighted in the\\ntortures he was enabled to impose before he placed his\\nicy hand upon them and bade them come.\\n294", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0292.jp2"}, "291": {"fulltext": "GALVESTON AND JOHNSTOWN. 395\\nPerhaps the only paraUel in history to the Galveston\\nvisitation was the destruction, in 79 A. D., of Pompeii\\nand Herculaneum. The frightened pleasure-seekers of\\nthose doomed cities could see the red lava stream bearing\\ndown upon them as it was vomited up from the bowels\\nof Vesuvius and thrown out from the mighty maw of the\\ncrater, but even then they were mercifully stifled by the\\ntremendous, never-ending shower of ashes which soon en-\\nveloped them and completely covered their homes.\\nThey did not stand for hours, with the blackness of the\\nnight around them, listening to the roar of the volcano s\\neruption and hear their death knell sounded long before\\nthey were compelled to undergo the actual pain of an\\nawful death; they were caught as they sought safety in\\nflight and stricken down while endeavoring to get beyond\\nthe reach of the sickle of the grim reaper; they could move\\nand act in accordance with their impulses which prompted\\nthem to make a flight for life, and they succumbed only\\nafter a desperate struggle.\\nIt was different at Galveston. The men, women and\\nchildren were not permitted even the small but precious\\nboon of falling while battling with the grim destroyer;\\nthey were caught and imprisoned, even as those who were\\ndone to death during the time when the Inquisition\\nreigned, and, on the way to execution, were, it might be\\nsaid, compelled to bear the very cross upon which they\\nwere to be impaled.\\nThere is no record since time began of such a long-\\ndrawn-out agony as that which the devoted people of\\nGalveston endured during the period intervening between\\nthe advent of the hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico and\\nthe final imposition of the death penalty.\\nFathers saw their wives and babes crushed by the\\nwreckage flung aloft and around by the fury of the gale,", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0293.jp2"}, "292": {"fulltext": "2\\\\){j GALVESTON AND JOHNSTOWN.\\nor drowned in the swift running current; wives saw their\\nhusbands and children torn from them and swept from\\ntheir sight forever; children saw their parents disappear\\nin the murky, turbid waters of the flood.\\nMen saw the dead faces of their loved ones they would\\nhave deemed it a joy to save as they were borne along\\nupon the bosom of the waters. Men invited destruction in\\ntheir efforts at rescue, only to realize how weak and ut-\\nterly futile was their strength in comparison to the irre-\\nsistible power of the enraged elements. Men died\\ndesponding because they could not save those they had\\ncherished and heretofore protected, and went down in\\ndespair and gloom.\\nAt Johnstown the released waters tore their way\\nthrough the beautiful valley of the Conemagh with the\\nrush and speed of a giant avalanche and enfolded their\\nvictims in their merciless embrace; the inhabitants were,\\nin the twinkling of an eye, borne from the sunshine of\\nlife to the gloom of the valley of the shadow; they may\\nhave felt a momentary terror before they succumbed, but\\nit was all over in an instant.\\nAt Galveston, the condemned simply waited for tiie\\ninevitable; they clung to the brief remaining supports and\\ndied a thousand deaths before death claimed them; they\\nstood upon the brink of eternity and cried in vain for the\\nsuccor they well knew would not come; they prayed for\\nmercy, but there was none.\\nWhen the waters of the gulf leaped upon the island\\nwhere the beautiful city sat in all her glory the people\\nfled to the high places and saw the flood creep higher and\\nhigher until it overcame them. Although it was not until\\nthe darkness of the night had long since settled upon\\nthem they had known in the afternoon that Galveston\\nwas doomed. The hurricane would not permit them to", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0294.jp2"}, "293": {"fulltext": "GALVESTON AND JOHNSTOWN. 297\\nescape, but sundered all commuuieatiou with the main-\\nland and then laughed at their puny efforts at preserva-\\ntion.\\nThe death roster in and around Galveston was fully\\n8,000; at Johnstown the known number of victims was a\\nscore less than 2,300. Many died at Johnstown of whom\\nnothing was ever heard, and there were possibly 2,500\\npersons engulfed in the stream which all but destroyed\\nthe town, but at the same time the probabilities are that\\n10,000 people died at Galveston and in the immediate\\nvicinity. Bodies were washed up and thrown upon the\\nshore by hundreds for days after the disaster; how many\\nwere burned upon the many funeral pyres no accurate\\nrecord was kept.\\nIn one respect the two calamities were alike the de-\\nstruction of millions of dollars worth of property, but\\nthe losses were not so great at Johnstown during those\\nfearful two minutes as those occasioned by the beating\\nof the winds and waves which for hours had Galveston at\\ntheir mercy.\\nJohnstown was a city of 30,000, teeming with the indus-\\ntry of a manufacturing town. With not even a warning\\nshout to apprise the inhabitants the dam of a lake high\\nabove the town broke and the flood sweeping down the\\nConemagh Valley engulfed the city and its inhabitants\\nbefore they even knew of the danger. The whole place\\nwas a mass of debris and dead when the deluge subsided.\\nGalveston was a city of nearly 40,000 people, and had\\nwithin its gates hundreds of strangers, and the fact that\\ntelegrams of inquiry from all parts of the United States\\npoured into the mayor s office in a perfect stream for days\\nafter the flood indicated that scores were killed of whom\\nthe searchers knew nothing.\\nBut Johnstown Avas not alone in its misery. In the", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0295.jp2"}, "294": {"fulltext": "298 GALVESTON AND JOHNSTOWN.\\nsouthwest a tragedy was enacted a few years later which\\nclaimed hundreds of victims.\\nA tornado, immeasurable in its force and fur}^, blotted\\nout a section of St. Louis late in the afternoon of May 22,\\n1896. Nearly a thousand lives and tens of millions in\\nproperty were sacrificed.\\nUntil the disaster at Galveston the St. Louis catas-\\ntrophe was the second greatest disaster of its kind in the\\nhistory of the nation.\\nThe tornado destroyed dozens of the finest buildings in\\nthe city. It leveled massive structures to t|ie ground.\\nIt tossed railroad locomotives about and crushed the east-\\nern span of the Eads bridge, one of the strongest struc-\\ntures in the world.\\nIt made St. Louis a city of mourning for weeks and\\nimpoverished numberless families.\\nYet Galveston surpassed these cities in the frightful\\nnature of its calamity. Hundreds of insane people are\\nbeing cared for, their reason having been overthrown by\\ntheir great sufferings. This was one of the saddest feat-\\nures of the shocking visitation. These poor creatures, first\\nbereft of home, family and property, are now living lega-\\ncies of the most stupendous catastrophe this country has\\never known.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0296.jp2"}, "295": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XXI.\\nGreat Calamities Caused by Flood and (Jale During Past Centuries\\nMillious of Lives Lost Through tiie Fury of the Elements\\nSINCE the great flood which covered the earth, and of\\nwhich Noah and his family were the only survivors, the\\nworld has seen many calamities of this nature, and mil-\\nlions of lives have been lost through gales and rushing\\nwaters.\\nAt Dort, in Holland, seventy-two villages and over\\n100,000 people were destroyed on April 17, 1421.\\nAt a general inundation of nearly the whole of Holland\\nin 1530, upward of 400,000 people lost their lives.\\nIn Catalonia, in 1617, 50,000 persons perished by flood.\\nSix thousand perished by the floods in Silesia in 1813,\\nand 4,000 in Poland in the same year.\\nThe loss of life during the recent floods in Austria-Hun-\\ngary and in China have never been tullj reckoned, and\\nthough 100,000 persons are said to have perished in the\\nChinese inundations, the figures are not regarded as\\ntrustworthy. These are the only floods on record where\\nthe loss of human life has been estimated at over 5,000.\\nThe list of smaller similar disasters is almost an endless\\none.\\nHolland, the little lowland country redeemed from\\nthe seas, has suffered worst, from the nature of its situ-\\nation. Protected, as it is, by dikes, which separate the\\nland from the water by artificial means, a constant vigi-\\nlance has been required of its people to prevent the ocean\\nfrom claiming its own. In both the deluges of 1421 and\\n1530 the immediate cause was a breaking down of the\\ndikes. The records of both are meager, although the mere\\n299", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0297.jp2"}, "296": {"fulltext": "300 STORMS OF PAST YEARS.\\nlists of the drowned suffice to show how awful the havoc\\nmust have been. The inundation at Dort began at Dord-\\nrecht, where a heavy storm caused the dikes at that point\\nto give Avay. In that territory alone 10,000 people were\\noverwhelmed and perished, while over 100,000 were\\ndrowned in and around Dullart in Friesland and Zea-\\nland. The subsequent inundation of 1530 was the most\\nfrightful on record. It nearly annihilated the Xether-\\nlands, and only to the indomitable pluck and industry\\nwhich have ever characterized the inhabitants of that\\ncountry was its subsequent recovery due.\\nIn 1108 Flanders was inundated by the sea. The sub-\\nmerged districts comprised an enormous area, and the\\nharbor and town of Ostend were completely covered by\\nwater. The present city was built above a league from\\nthe channel, where the old one still lies beneath the\\nwaves.\\nAn awful inundation occurred at Dantzig on April 9,\\n1829, occasioned by the Vistula breaking through some of\\nits dikes. Numerous lives were lost, and, the records\\nstate, 4,000 houses and 10,000 head of cattle were de-\\nstroyed.\\nA large part of Zealand was overflowed in 1717, and\\n1,300 of the inhabitants were lost in the floods. Ham-\\nburg, while her citizens with but few exceptions were\\nsaved, sustained an almost incalculable loss to property.\\nThe same city was again half flooded on January 1, 1855,\\nand enormous damage suffered.\\nIn the Silesian flood spoken of above the ruin of the\\nFrench army under MacDonald, which was in that coun-\\ntry at the time, was materially accelerated by the forces\\nof nature.\\nOne of the worst floods Germany ever had occurred in", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0298.jp2"}, "297": {"fulltext": "STORMS OF PAST YEARS. 301\\nMarch, 1810; 119 villages were laid under water and a\\ngreat loss of life and property followed the inundation.\\nThe floods in China and that portion of the Eastern\\nHemisphere, from time immemorial peculiarly subject to\\nsuch calamities, have always entailed losses about which\\nlittle has been known. No definite statistics of loss of life\\nand damages have ever been obtainable. In recent years\\nthere have been floods there which are known to have been\\nvery disastrous, but that is practically all that can be\\nsaid. In October, 1833, occurred one of the worst floods\\nin the empire. Ten thousand houses were swept away\\nand 1,000 persons perished in Canton alone, while equal\\nor i^erhaps greater calamity was produced in other sec-\\ntions of the country.\\nAt Vienna the dwellings of 50,000 inhabitants were\\nlaid under water in February, 1830.\\nTwo thousand persons perished in Navarre in Septem-\\nber, 1787, from torrents from the mountains produced\\nby excessive rains.\\nThe beautiful Danube of poetry and song has, on\\nnumerous occasions, risen in its might, and brought dis-\\naster and distress to the inhabitants of the countries\\nthrough which it winds. Pesth, near Presburg, suffered\\nto an enormous extent from its overflow in April, 1811.\\nTwenty-four villages were swept away, and a large num-\\nber of their inhabitants perished.\\nOn the occasion of another overflow of this river, on\\nSeptember 14, 1813, a Ttirkish corps of 2,000 men, who\\nwere encamped on a small island near Widdin, were sur-\\nprised and met instant death to a man.\\nA catastrophe, which in some respects brings to mind\\nthat at Johnstown, occurred in Spain in 1802. Lorca, a\\ncity in Murcia, was overwhelmed by the bursting of a\\nreservoir, and upwards of 1,000 people were destroyed.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0299.jp2"}, "298": {"fulltext": "l)i)2 STORMS OF PAST YEARS.\\nFrance has on numerous occasions suffered severely\\nfrom floods. Its rivers have overflowed their banks at\\nintervals for centuries back, causing great loss of life and\\ndamage to property. The Loire flooded the center and\\nsouthwest of France by an unprecedented rise in October,\\n1840, and, while thebeople succeeded in escaping to a\\ngreat extent, damages aggregating over |20,000,000 were\\nsustained. Ten years later the south of France was again\\nsubjected to an inundation and an immense loss sus-\\ntained.\\nA large part of Toulouse was destroyed by a rising of\\nthe Garonne in June, 1875. So sudden and disastrous\\nwas the flood that the inhabitants were taken unawares\\nand over 1,000 lost their lives.\\nAwful inundations occurred in France from October 31\\nto November 4, 1840. The Saone poured its waters into\\nthe Rhone, broke through its banks and covered, 60,000\\nacres. Lyons was almost entirely submerged; in Avignon\\n100 houses were sw^ept away, 218 houses were carried\\naway at La Guillotiere and upward of 300 at Yoise, Mar-\\nseilles and Nismes. It was the greatest height the Saone\\nhad attained for 238 years.\\nAt Besseges, in the south of France, a waterspout in\\n1861 destroyed the machinery of the mines and sent a\\ntorrent over the edge of the pit like a cataract. The gas\\nexploded and hundreds of men and boys were buried be-\\nlow. Very few of the bodies of the dead were recovered.\\nA thousand lives were lost in Murcia, Spain, by inunda-\\ntions in 1879.\\nIndia has been the scene of numerous floods. In 186\\na deluge overwhelmed the fertile districts of Bengal, kill-\\ning hundreds and plunging the survivors into the direst\\n()verty. Famine and pestilence followed, carrying thou-\\nsands away like cattle.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0300.jp2"}, "299": {"fulltext": "STORMS OF PAST YEARS. 303\\nItaly has not been exempt from the devastation of the\\nwaters. On December 28 and 29, 1870, Rome suffered\\ngreat loss, and in October, 1872, the northern portions of\\nthe kingdom were visited b}^ great floods. There have\\nbeen innumerable smaller inundations.\\nGreat Britain has a long list of inundations. It is re-\\ncorded that in the year 245 the sea swept over Lincoln-\\nshire and submerged thousands of acres. In the year 353\\nover 3,000 persons were drowned in Cheshire from the\\nsame cause. Four hundred families were destroyed in\\nGlasgow in the year 738 by a great flood. The coast of\\nKent was similiarly afflicted in 1100, and the immense\\nbank still known as the Goodwin Sands was formed by\\nthe action of the sea.\\nWhile the record as given above is by no means com-\\nplete, it will serve for all purposes of comparison. It em-\\nbraces the most important disasters of the rushing waters\\non record, and shows what a destructive force the same\\nelement has proven which babbles in no mj brooks and\\nsings merrily as it courses down the mountain sides.\\nDEATH-DEALING STOKMS IN OTHER COUNTRIES\\nIN FORTY YEARS.\\n1864\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Calcutta, India; 45,000 lives and 100 ships lost.\\n1881\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Half ong, China; 300,000 lives lost.\\n1881 England; great destruction of life and property\\nand many lives lost.\\n1882\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Manila, Philippine Islands; 60,000 families ren-\\ndered homeless and 100 lives lost.\\n1886\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Madrid, Spain; 32 killed, 620 injured.\\n1887 Australian coast; 550 pearl fishers perished.\\n1888\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Cuba; 1,000 lives lost.\\n1889 Apia, Samoan Islands; German and American\\nwarships w^recked and many lives lost.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0301.jp2"}, "300": {"fulltext": "30-i STORMS OF PAST YEARS.\\nlg90_Mnscat, Arabia; 700 lives lost.\\n1891\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Martinique; 340 lives lost and |10,000,000 worth\\nof property destroj^ed.\\n1\u00c2\u00a792 Kavigo, Northern Italy; several hundred lives\\nlost.\\n1892 Tonnatay, Madagascar; several hundred lives\\nlost.\\n1893 Great storm on the northwest coast of Europe;\\n237 lives lost off English coast and 165 fishermen off Jut-\\nland.\\nHISTOEIC DEVASTATING STOEMS IN THE SOUTH-\\nEEN STATES.\\n1840 Adams County, Mississippi; 317 killed, 100 in-\\njured; loss 11,260,000.\\n1842 Adams County, Mississippi; 500 killed; great\\nproperty loss.\\n1880 Barry, Stone, Webster and Christian Counties,\\nMissouri; 100 killed, 600 injured; 200 buildings destroyed;\\nloss 11,000,000.\\n1880 Noxubee County, Mississippi; 22 killed, 72 in-\\njured; 55 buildings destroyed; loss |100,000.\\n1880\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Fannin County, Texas; 40 killed, 83 injured; 49\\nbuildings destroyed.\\n1882 Henry and Saline Counties, Missouri; 8 killed,\\n53 injured; 247 buildings destroyed; loss |300,000.\\n1883 Kemper, Copiah, Simpson, Newton and Lauder-\\ndale Counties, Mississippi; 51 killed, 200 injured; 100\\nbuildings destroyed; loss |300,000.\\n1883 Izard, Sharp and Clay Counties, Arkansas; 5\\nkilled, 102 injured; 60 buildings destroyed; loss |300,000.\\n1884 North and South Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia,\\nTennessee, Virginia, Kentucky and Illinois; 800 killed,\\n2,500 injured; 10,000 buildings destroyed.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0302.jp2"}, "301": {"fulltext": "s\\nQ\\nZ\\nD\\no", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0303.jp2"}, "302": {"fulltext": "Q\\nO\\nO\\ns\\nQ\\nW\\nCO\\nD\\nU\\nD\\n01", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0304.jp2"}, "303": {"fulltext": "Q\\nO\\nO\\nw\\nH\\nw\\nH\\nh\\nw\\nw\\nh\\n1/)", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0305.jp2"}, "304": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0306.jp2"}, "305": {"fulltext": "o\\nQ\\nW\\ns", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0307.jp2"}, "306": {"fulltext": "c/5\\nO\\nH\\nco\\nO\\nh\\nh\\nC/3", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0308.jp2"}, "307": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0309.jp2"}, "308": {"fulltext": "Q\\nO\\nO\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00baJ\\nm\\nX\\nH\\nPQ\\nQ\\nO\\nCO\\nM\\nCO\\nD\\nO", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0310.jp2"}, "309": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0311.jp2"}, "310": {"fulltext": "DC\\nh\\nO\\nZ\\no\\no\\nh\\nu\\nD\\nh\\nCO\\nw\\nQ", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0312.jp2"}, "311": {"fulltext": "a*\\nH", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0313.jp2"}, "312": {"fulltext": "h\\nQ\\nX\\nH\\nw\\nH\\nh\\nH\\n00", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0314.jp2"}, "313": {"fulltext": "h\\nX\\nw\\nZ\\nu\\nh\\no\\nh\\nv\\no\\no\\nCO\\nD\\nQ\\nO", "height": "3031", "width": "2023", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0315.jp2"}, "314": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0316.jp2"}, "315": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0317.jp2"}, "316": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0318.jp2"}, "317": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XXII.\\nOverwhelming of Johnstown, Pa., by the Waters from Conemaugh Lake\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094One of the Most reonliar Happenings in History\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Actual ninl)er of\\nDeaths Will Kever Be Known\u00e2\u0080\u0094 About Twenty-Five Hundred Bodies\\nFound.\\nON Friday, May 31, 1889, at 12:45 p. in., the stones in the\\ncenter of the dam which confined the waters of Cone-\\nmaugh Lake began to sink because of leaks in the\\nmasonry; at 1 o clock the dam broke and the flood rushed\\nfiercely down the beautiful Conemaugh Valley to Johns-\\ntown, two and a half miles directly to the southwest\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nbut thirteen miles by way of the winding yalley\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and\\nwithin a few minutes nearly 2,300 men, women and chil-\\ndren (this many, it is known, perished, although it is prob-\\nable the loss of life was much greater) were lying dead\\nin the wreckage of the city; millions of dollars worth of\\nproperty were destroyed and thousands of people beg-\\ngared\u00e2\u0080\u0094and all because the members of the fishing club\\nwhich controlled the lake were too penurious to have the\\nleaks in the dam repaired. The coroner s verdict was to\\nthe effect that the club was to blame for the disaster.\\nHundreds of business buildings and residences were\\ndestroyed, and less than a score of the structures com-\\nposing the town were uninjured; complete paralysis fol-\\nlowed, and many said, as in the case of Galveston, the city\\nwould not be rebuilt; hundreds were crazed by their suf-\\nferings and never regained their reason; thieves\\nswarmed to the place and looted the bodies of the dead\\nuntil the arrival of several thousand State troops put an\\nend to the carnival of crime; the impoverished survivors\\nwere cared for until they could get upon their feet again,\\nrelief pouring in from everywhere in the shape of hun-\\n321", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0319.jp2"}, "318": {"fulltext": "322 THE JOHNSTOWN DISASTER.\\ndreds of thousands of dollars in cash and thousands of\\ncarloads of supplies of all sorts; the business men plucked\\nup courage and went to work with a will when the apathy\\nsucceeding the calamity had w^orn off, and to-day Johns-\\ntown is greater than ever, and has added to both her\\nwealth and population.\\nConemaugh Lake is three and one-half miles in leng-th,\\none and one-quarter miles in width, and in some i)laces\\none hundred feet in depth, located on a mountain three\\nhundred feet above the level of Johnstown, its waters\\nbeing held within bounds by a huge earth dam nearly\\none thousand feet long, ninety feet thick and one hundred\\nand twenty feet in height, the top having a breadth of\\nover twenty feet. It was once a reservoir and a feeder\\nfor the Pennsylvania Canal. It had been widened and\\ndeepened and was the property of the South Fork Fishing\\nand Hunting Club, an organization of rich and influential\\ncitizens of Pittsburg. It was a constant menace to the\\nresidents of the Conemaugh Valley, but engineers of the\\nPennsylvania Eailroad regularly inspected it once a\\nmonth and pronounced it safe.\\nThe club leased the lake in 1881 from the Pennsylvania\\nEailroad Company. It paid no attention to the fears of\\nthe people of Johnstown, but merely quoted the opinions\\nof experts to the effect that nothing short of an extraordi-\\nnary convulsion of nature could affect the protecting dam.\\nJohnstown s geographical situation is one that renders\\nit peculiarly liable to terrible loss of life in the event of\\nsuch a casualty as that reported. It is a town built in\\na basin of the mountains and girt about by streams, all of\\nwhich finally find their way into the Allegheny River, and\\nthence into the Ohio. On one side of the town flows the\\nConemaugh River, a stream which during the dry periods\\nof the summer drought can be readily crossed in many", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0320.jp2"}, "319": {"fulltext": "THE JOHNSTOWN DISASTER. 323\\nplaces by stepping from stone to stone, but which speed-\\nily becomes a raging mountain torrent, when swollen\\nhj the spring freshets or heavy summer rains.\\nOn the other side of the town is the Stony Creek, which\\ngathers up its own share of the mountain rains and whirls\\nthem along toward Pittsburg. The awful flood caused\\nby the sudden outpouring of the contents of the reservoir,\\ntogether with the torrents of rain that had already swollen\\nthese streams to triple their usual violence, is supposed\\nto be the cause of the sudden submersion of Johnstown\\nand the drowning of so many of its citizens. The water,\\nunable to find its way rapidly enough through its usual\\nchannels, piled up in overwhelming masses, carrying\\nbefore it everything that obstructed its onward rush upon\\nthe town.\\nJohnstown, the center of the great disaster, is on the\\nmain line of the Pennsylvania Railroad, 276 miles from\\nPhiladelphia. It is the headquarters of the great Cam-\\nbria Iron Company, and its acres of ironworks fill the\\nnarrow basin in which the city is situated. The rolling\\nmill and Bessemer steel works employ 6,000 men. The\\nmountains rise quite abruptly almost on all sides, and\\nthe railroad track, which follows the turbulent course of\\nthe Conemaugh River, is above the level of the iron works.\\nThe summit of the Allegheny Mountains is reached at\\nGallatizin, about twenty-four miles east of Johnstown.\\nThe people of Johnstown had been warned of the\\nimpending flood as early as 1 o clock in the afternoon,\\nbut not a person living near the reservoir knew that the\\ndam had given way until the flood swept the houses off\\ntheir foundations and tore the timbers apart. Escape\\nfrom the torrent was impossible. The Pennsylvania Rail-\\nroad hastily made up trains to get as many people away\\nas possible, and thus saved many lives.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0321.jp2"}, "320": {"fulltext": "324 THE JOHNSTOWN DISASTER.\\nFour miles below the dam lay the town of South Fork,\\nwhere the South Fork itself empties into the Conemaugh\\nRiver. The town contained about 2,000 inhabitants. It\\nhas not been heard from, but it is said that four-fifths of\\nit has been swept away.\\nFour miles further down, on the Conemaugh River,\\nwhich runs parallel with the main line of the Pennsyl-\\nvania Railroad, was the town of Mineral Point. It had\\n800 inhabitants, 90 per cent of the houses being on a flat\\nand close to the river. Few of them escaped.\\nSix miles further down was the town of Conemaugh,\\nand here alone was there a topographical possibility of\\nthe spreading of the flood and the breaking of its force.\\nIt contained 2,500 inhabitants and was wholly devas-\\ntated.\\nWoodvale, with 2,000 people, lay a mile below Cone-\\nmaugh, in the flat, and one mile further down were\\nJohnstown and its cluster of sister towns, Cambria City,\\nConemaugh borough, with a total population of 30,000.\\nOn made ground, and stretching along right at the\\nriA er verge, were the immense iron works of the Cambria\\nIron and Steel Company, which had |5,000,000 invested\\nin the plant.\\nThe great damage to Johnstown was largely due to the\\nrebound of the flood after it swept across. The wave\\nspread against the stream of Stony Creek and passed over\\nKernsville to a depth of thirty feet in ^ome places. It\\nwas related that the lumber boom had broken on Stony\\nCreek, and the rush of tide down stream, coming in con-\\ntact with the spreading wave, increased the extent of the\\ndisaster in this section. In Kernsville, as well as in\\nIlornerstown, across the river, the opinion was expressed\\nthat so many lives would not have been lost had the peo-\\nple not believed from their experience with former floods", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0322.jp2"}, "321": {"fulltext": "THE JOHNSTOWN DISASTER. 325\\nthat there was positively no dauj^er beyond the lilling of\\ncellars or the overflow of the shores of the river. After\\nrushing down the mountains from the South Fork dam,\\nthe pressure of water was so great that it forced its way\\nagainst the natural channel not only over Kernsville and\\nHornerstown, but all the way up to Grubbtown, on Stony\\nCreek.\\nBy the terrible flood communication by rail and wire\\nwas nearly all cut off.\\nThe exact number of the victims of this dreadful dis-\\naster probably will never be known. Bodies were found\\nbeyond Pittsburg, which in all probability were carried\\nto that place from Johnstown and its suburbs. The ter-\\nrible holocaust at the barricade of wrecks at the bridge\\nof the Pennsylvania Railroad below Johnstown, wdiere\\nhundreds of men, w^omen and children who were saved\\nfrom the waves were burned to death, caused a terrible\\nloss of life. The loss of property w^as about $10,000,000.\\nKNEW THE DAM WAS WEAK.\\nOn the Monday after the catastrophe there came to\\nJohnstown a man w^ho had scarcely more than a dozen\\nrags to cover his nakedness. His name was Herbert\\nWebber, and he was employed by the South Fork Club as\\na sort of guard. He supported himself mostly by hunt-\\ning and fishing on the club s preserves. By almost super-\\nhuman efforts he succeeded in w^orking his way through\\nthe forest and across flood, in order to ascertain for him-\\nself the terrible results of the deluge which he saw start\\nfrom the Sportsman s Club s lake. Webber said that he\\nhad been employed in various capacities about the pre-\\nserve for a considerable time.\\nHe had repeatedly, he declared, called the attention of\\nthe members of the club to the various leakages at the", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0323.jp2"}, "322": {"fulltext": "326 THE JOHNSTOWN DISASTER.\\n(lam, but he received the stereotyped reply that the\\nmasonry was all right; that it had been built to stand\\nfor centuries, and that such a thing as its giving way\\nwas among the impossibilities. But Webber did not\\nhesitate to continue his warnings. Finally, according to\\nhis own statement, he was instructed to shut up or he\\nwould be bounced. He was given to understand that the\\nofficers of the club were tired of his croakings and that\\nthe less he said about the dam from thence on the better\\nit would be for him.\\nWebber then laid his complaint before the Mayor of\\nJohnstown, not more than a month before the catas-\\ntrophe. He told him that the spring freshets were due,\\nand that, if they should be very heavy, the dam would\\ncertainly give way. Webber says the Mayor promised\\nto send an expert to examine the dam then, and if neces-\\nsary to appeal to the State. Somehow the expert was\\nnot chosen, the appeal was not made at Harrisburg, and\\nthe calamity ensued.\\nFor three days previous to the final outburst, Webber\\nsaid, the water of the lake forced itself through the inter-\\nstices of the masonry so that the front of the dam re-\\nsembled a large watering pot. The force of the water was\\nso great that one of these jets squirted full thirty feet\\nhorizontally from the stone wall. All this time, too, the\\nfeeders of the lake, particularly three of them, more near-\\nly resembled torrents than mountain streams and were\\nsupplying the dammed up body of water with quite 3,000,-\\n000 gallons of water hourly.\\nAt 11 o clock Friday morning, May 31, Webber said he\\nwas attending to a camp about a mile back from the dam,\\nwhen he noticed that the surface of the lake seemed to\\nbe lowering. He doubted his eyes, and made a mark on\\nthe shore, and then found that his suspicions were un-", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0324.jp2"}, "323": {"fulltext": "THE JOHNSTOWN DISASTER. 327\\ncloiibtedly well founded. Lie ran across the country to\\nthe dam, and there he saw the water of the lake wellinj^\\nout from beneath the foundation stones of the dam. Ab-\\nsolutely helpless, he was compelled to stand there and\\nwatch the gradual development of what was to be the\\nmost disastrous flood of this continent.\\nAccording to his reckoning it was 12:45 when the stones\\nin the centre of the dam began to sink because of the un-\\ndermining, and within eight minutes a gap of twenty feet\\nwas made in the lower half of the wall face, through\\nwhich the water poured as though forced by machinery\\nof stupendous power. By 1 o clock the toppling masonry,\\nwhich before had partaken somewhat of the form of an\\narch, fell in, and then the remainder of the wall opened\\noutward like twin-gates, and the great storage lake was\\nfoaming and thundering down the yalley of the Cone-\\nma ugh.\\nVv^ebber became so awestruck at the catastrophe that\\nhe was unable to leave the spot until the lake had fallen\\nso low that it showed bottom nfty feet below him. How\\nlong a time elapsed he did not know before he recovered\\nsufficient power of observation to notice this, but he did\\nnot think more than five minutes passed. Webber said\\nthat had the dam been repaired after the spring freshet\\nof 1SS8 the disaster would not have occurred. Had it\\nbeen given ordinary attention in the spring of 1887 the\\nprobabilities are thousands of lives would not have been\\nlost. To have put the dam in excellent condition would\\nnot have cost |5,000.\\nEXPERT SAID THE DAM WAS NOT STRONG.\\nA. M. Wellington, one of the most noted engineering\\nexperts in the United States, said of the dam after the\\nflood", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0325.jp2"}, "324": {"fulltext": "328 THE JOHNSTOWN DISASTER.\\nNo engineer of known and good standing could pos-\\nsibly have been engaged in the reconstruction of the old\\ndam after it had been neglected in disuse for twenty odd\\nyears, and the old dam was a very inferior piece of .work,\\nand of a kind wholly unwarranted by good engineering\\npractices of its day, thirty years ago.\\nBoth the original dam and the reconstructed one were\\nbuilt of earth only, with no heart wall and rip-rapped\\nonly, on the slopes. True, the earth is of a sticky, clayey\\nquality; the best of earth for adhesiveness, and the old\\ndam was made in watered layers, well rammed down, as\\nis still shown in the wrecked dam. But the new end was\\nprobably not rammed down at all the earth was simply\\ndumped in like an ordinary railway filling. Much of the\\nold dam still stands, while the new work contiguous to it\\nwas carried away.\\nIt has been an acknowledged principle of dam build-\\ning for forty years, and the invariable practice to build a\\ncentral wall either of puddle or solid masonry, but there\\nwas neither in the old nor in the new dam. It is doubtful\\nif there is another dam of the height of fifty feet in the\\nUnited States which lacks this central wall.\\nIgnorance or carelessness is shown in the reconstruc-\\ntion, for the middle of the new dam was nearly two feet\\nk)wer in the middle than at the ends. It should have been\\ncrowned in the middle by all the rules and practice of\\nengineering.\\nHad the break begun at the ends, the cut of the water\\nwould have been gradual and little or no harm would\\nhave resulted. And had the dam been cut at once at the\\nends when the water began running over the center, the\\nsuddenness of the break might have been checked, the\\nwall crumbling away at least more slowly and gradually\\nand possibly prolonged so that little harm would have\\nbeen done.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0326.jp2"}, "325": {"fulltext": "THE JOHNSTOWN DISASTER. 329\\nThere was an overflow through the rocks in the oUl\\ndam, which provided that the water must rise seven feet\\nabove the ordinar^^ level before it would pass over the crest\\nof the dam. But, owing to the raising of the ends of the\\ndam in 1881, without raising the crest, only five and a half\\nfeet of water was necessary to run water over the middle\\nof the dam. And this spillwaj^, narrow at best, had been\\nfurther contracted by a close grating to prevent the fish\\nfrom escaping from the lake, while the original discharge\\npipe at the foot of the dam was permanently closed when\\nthe dam was constructed. Indeed, the maximum dis-\\ncharge was reduced in all directions. The safety valve to\\nthat dangerous dam was almost screwed down tight.\\nThere seems to have been no leakage through the dam,\\nits destruction resulting from its running over at the\\ntop. The estimates for the original dam call for half\\nearth and rock, but there is no indication of it in the\\nbroken dam. The riprap was merely a skin on each face,\\nwith loose spawls mixed with the earth. The dam was\\n72 feet high, 2 inches slope to a. foot inside, 1^ inches to a\\nfoot outside slope and 20 feet thick at the top. The fact\\nthat the dam was a reconstructed one, after twenty years\\ndisuse, made it especially hard on the old dam to with-\\nstand the pressure of the water.\\nEVERYTHING OVER IN A FEW MINUTES.\\nAll was over in a few^ moments time. The flood rushed\\ndown the valley when released from its prison, swept\\nearth, trees, houses and human beings before it, deposit-\\ning the vast debris in front of the railroad bridge, which\\nformed an impassable barrier to the passage of every-\\nthing except the vast agent of destruction the flood\\nwhich overflowed it and passed on to wreak fresh ven-\\ngeance below.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0327.jp2"}, "326": {"fulltext": "330 THE JOHNSTOWN DISASTER.\\nOne of the most terrible sights was the gorge at the\\nrailroad bridge. This gorge consisted of debris of all\\nkinds welded into an almost solid mass. Here were the\\ncharred timbers of houses and the charred and muti-\\nlated remains of human beings. The fire at this point,\\nwhich lasted until June 3 and had still some of its vitality\\nleft on the 5th, was one of the incidents of the Johnstown\\ndisaster that will become historic. The story has not\\nbeen and cannot be fully told. One could not look at it\\nwithout a shock to his sensibilities. So tangled and un-\\nyielding was the mass that even dynamite had little effect\\nupon it. One deplorable effect, however, was to dismem-\\nber the few parts of human bodies wedged in the mass\\nthat the ruthless flood left whole.\\nFrom the western end of the railroad bridge the view\\nwas but a prelude to the views that were to follow. Look-\\ning across the gorge the first object the eye caught in the\\nruined town is the Melville school, standing as a guardian\\nover the dead a solitary sentinel left on the field after\\nthe battle. Still further on and near the center of the\\ntown were the offices and stores of the Cambria Iron\\nCompany. Beyond and around both buildings were sand\\nflats, mud flats until the 29th of May, the almost nav-\\nigable water of the flood itself until the 2d of June, the\\nmost populous and busy part of the city until the 31st of\\nMay. Part of the ground was covered by a part of the\\nshops of the Cambria Company. Not a vestige of these\\nremained.\\nWhen the great storm of Friday came, the dam w\\\\as\\nagain a source of uneasiness, and early in the morning the\\npeople of Johnstow^n were warned that the dam was\\nweakening. Tliej^ had heard the same warning too often,\\nhowever, to be impressed, and many jeered at their in-\\nformants. Some of those that jeered were before night-", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0328.jp2"}, "327": {"fulltext": "THE JOHNSTOWN DISASTER. 331\\nfall scattered along the banks of the Conemaugh, cold in\\ndeath, or met their fate in tlie bhiziug pile of wrecked\\nhouses wedged together at the big stone bridge. Only\\na few heeded the warning, and these made their way to\\nthe hillside, Avhere they were safe.\\nEarly in the day the flood caused by the heavy rains\\nswept through the streets of Johnstown. Every little\\nmountain stream was swollen by the rains; rivulets be-\\ncame creeks and creeks were turned into rivers. The\\nConemaugh, with a bed too narrow to hold its greatly\\nincreased body of water, overflowed its banks, and the\\ndamage caused by this overflow alone would have been\\nlarge. But there was more to come, and the results were\\nso appalling that there lived not a human being who was\\nlikel}^ to anticipate them.\\nAt 1 o clock in the afternoon the resistless flood tore\\naway the huge lumber boom on Stony creek. This was\\nthe real beginning of the end. The enormous mass of logs\\nwas hurled down upon the doomed town. The lines of\\nthe two water courses were by this time obliterated, and\\nStony creek and the Conemaugh river were raging seas.\\nThe great logs levelled everything before them, crushing\\nframe houses like eggshells and going on unchecked until\\nthe big seven-arch stone bridge over the Conemaugh river\\njust below Johnstown was reached.\\nHad the logs passed this bridge Johnstown might have\\nbeen spared much of its horror. There were alread}^ dead\\nand dying, and homes had already been swept away, but\\nthe dead could only be counted by dozens and not yet by\\nthousands. Wedged fast at the bridge, the logs formed\\nan impenetrable barrier. People had moved to the sec-\\nond floor of their houses and hoped that the flood might\\nsubside. There was no longer a chance to get away, and\\nhad they known what was in store for them the con-", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0329.jp2"}, "328": {"fulltext": "332 THE JOHNSTOWN DISASTER.\\ntemplation of their fate would have been enough to make\\nthem stark mad. Only a few hours had elapsed from\\nthe time of the breaking of the lumber boom when the\\nwaters of Conemaugh lake rushed down upon them. The\\nscoffers realized their folly. The dam had given way, and\\nthe immense body of water which had rested in a basin\\nfive miles long, two miles wide and seventy feet deep was\\nlet loose to begin its work of destruction.\\nThe towering wall of water swooped down upon Johns-\\ntown with a force that carried everything before it. Had\\nit been able to pass through the big stone bridge a portion\\nof Johnstown might have been saved. The rampart of\\nlogs, however, checked the torrent and half the houses\\nof the town were lifted from their foundations and hurled\\nagainst it. This backed the water up into the town, and\\nas there had to be an outlet somewhere, the river made a\\nnew channel through the heart of the lower part of the\\ncity. Again and again did the flood hurl itself against\\nthe bridge, and each wave carried with it houses, furni-\\nture and human beings. The bridge stood firm, but the\\nrailway embankment gave way, and some fifty people\\nwere carried down to their deaths in the new break.\\nThough this new outlet the waters were diverted in the\\ndirection of the Cambria Iron Works, a mile below, and in\\na moment the gTeat buildings of a plant valued at |5,000,-\\n000 were engulfed and laid low. Here had gathered a\\nnumber of iron workers, who felt that they were out of\\nthe reach of the flood, and almost before they realized\\ntheir peril they were swept away into the seething tor-\\nrent.\\nIt was now night, and darkness added to the terror of\\nthe situation. Then came flames to make the calamity\\nall the more appalling. Hundreds of buildings had been\\npiled up against the stone bridge. The inmates of but", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0330.jp2"}, "329": {"fulltext": "THE JOHNSTOWN DISASTER. 333\\nfew of them had had time to escape. Just how many peo-\\nple were imprisoned in that mass of wreckage may never\\nbe known, but the number w^as estimated at between\\n1,000 and 2,000. The wreckage was piled to a height of\\nfifty feet, and suddenly flames began leaping up from the\\nsummit. A stove had set fire to that part of the wreck\\nabove the water, and the scene that was then witnessed is\\nbeyond description. Shrieks and prayers from the un-\\nhappy beings imprisoned in the wrecked houses pierced\\nthe air, but little could be done. Men, women and chil-\\ndren, held down by timbers, watched wath indescribable\\nagony the flames creep slowly toward them until the heat\\nscorched their faces, and then they were slowly roasted\\nto death.\\nThose who were held fast in the wreck by an arm or\\na leg begged piteously that the imprisoned limb be cut\\noff. Some succeeded in getting loose with mangled limbs,\\nand one man cut off his arm that he might get away.\\nThose who were able w^orked like demons to save the un-\\nfortunates from the flames, but hundreds were burned to\\ndeath.\\nMeanwhile Johnstown had been literally wdped from\\nthe face of the earth, Cambria City was swept away and\\nConemaugh borough was a thing of the past. The little\\nvillage of Millville, with a population of one thousand,\\nhad nothing left of it but the school-house and the stone\\nbuildings of the Cambria Iron Company. Woodvale was\\ngone and South Fork wrecked. Hundreds of people were\\ndrowned in their homes, hundreds were swept away in\\ntheir dwellings and met death in the debris that was\\nwhirled madly about on the surface of the flood; hun-\\ndreds, as has been said, we^ burned, and hundreds who\\nsought safety on floating driftwood were overwhelmed\\nby the flood or washed to death against obstructions. The", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0331.jp2"}, "330": {"fulltext": "034 THE JOHNSTOWN DISASTER.\\niustances of heroism and self-sacrifice were never ex-\\ncelled, perhaps not equalled, on a battle-field. Men rather\\nthan save themselves alone died nobly with their fam-\\nilies, and mothers willingly gave up their lives rather\\nthan abandon their children.\\nAt 3 o clock in the afternoon, said Electrician Ben-\\nder, of the Western Union at Pittsburg, the girl operator\\nat Johnstown was cheerfully ticking away; she soon had\\nto abandon the office on the first floor because the water\\nwas three feet deep there. She said she was wiring from\\nthe second story and the water was gaining steadily. She\\nwas frightened, and said that many houses around were\\nflooded. This was evidently before the dam broke, for our\\nman here said something encouraging to her, and she was\\ntalking back as only a cheerful girl operator can when\\nthe receiver s skilled ears caught a sound of the wire made\\nby no human hand. The wires had grounded or the\\nhouse had been swept away in the flood, no one knows\\nwhich now. At 3 o clock the girl was there and at 3 :07\\nwe might as well have asked the grave to answer us.\\nEdward Deck, a young railroad man of Lockport, saw\\nan old man floating down the riA er on a tree trunk, with\\nagouiz;ed face and streaming gTay hair. Deck plunged\\ninto the torrent and brought the old man safely ashore.\\nScarcely had he done so, when the upper story of a house\\nfloated by on which M.o. Auams, of Cambria, and her two\\nchildren were both seen. Deck plunged in again, and\\nwhile breaking through the tin roof of the house cut an\\nartery in liis left wrist, but though weakened with loss of\\nblood, lie succeeded in saving both mother and children.\\nJ. ^V. Esch, a brave railroad employe, saved sixteen\\nlives at Nineveh.\\nAt Bolivar a man, woman and child were seen floating\\ndown in a lot of drift. The mass of debris commenced to", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0332.jp2"}, "331": {"fulltext": "THE JOHNSTOWN DISASTER. 335\\npart, aud by desperate efforts the husband and father\\nsucceeded iu getting his wife aud little one on a floating\\ntree. Just then the tree washed under the bridge and a\\nrope was thrown out. It fell upon the man s shoulders.\\nHe saw at a glance that he could not save his dear ones,\\nso he threw the means of safety to one side aud gripped\\nin his arms those who were with him. A moment later\\nthe tree struck a floating house. It turned over, and in a\\nsecond the three persons were in the seething waters, be-\\ning carried to their death.\\nC. W. Hoppenstall, of Lincoln avenue, East End, Pitts-\\nburg, distinguished himself by his bravery. He w^as a\\nmessenger on the mail train w^hich had to turn back at\\nSang Hollow. As the train passed a point where the\\nw^ater was full of struggling persons, a w^oman and child\\nfloated in near shore. The train was stopped and Hop-\\npenstall undressed, jumped into the water, and in two\\ntrips saved both mother and child.\\nThe special train pulled in at Bolivar at 11.30 o clock\\nand trainmen were notified that further progress was\\nimpossible. The greatest excitement prevailed at this\\nplace, and parties of citizens were all the time endeavor-\\ning to save the poor unfortunates that were being hurled\\nto eternity on the rushing torrent.\\nThe tidal wave struck Bolivar just after dark and in\\nfive minutes the Conemaugh rose from six to forty feet\\nand the waters spread out over the whole country. Soon\\nhouses began floating down, and clinging to the debris\\nwere men, women and children, shrieking for aid. A\\nlarge number of citizens at once gathered on the county\\nbridge and they w^ere reinforced by a number from Gar-\\nfield, a town on the opposite side of the river. They\\nbrought a number of ropes and these were thrown into\\nthe boiling waters as persons drifted by in efforts to save", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0333.jp2"}, "332": {"fulltext": "-3C THE JOHNSTOWN DISASTER.\\nsome poor beings. For half an hour all efforts were fruit-\\nless until at last, when the rescuers were about giving\\nup all hope, a little boy astride a shingle roof managed\\nto catch hold of one of the ropes. He caught it under his\\nleft arm and was thrown violently against an abutment,\\nbut managed to keep hold and was successfully pulled on\\nto the bridge, amid the cheers of the onlookers. His name\\nwas Hessler and his rescuer was a train hand named\\nCarney. The lad was taken to the town of Garfield and\\ncared for in the home of J. P. Robinson. The boy was\\nabout 16 years old.\\nHis story of the frightful calamity is as follows With\\nmy father, I was spending the day at my grandfather s\\nhouse in Cambria City. In the house at the time were\\nTheodore, Edward and John Kintz, and John Kintz, Jr.,\\nMiss Mary Kintz, Mrs. Mary Kintz, wife of John Kintz,\\nJr., Miss Tracy Kintz, Miss Rachel Smith, John Hirsch,\\nfour children, my father and myself. Shortly after 5\\no clock there was a noise of roaring waters and screams\\nof people. We looked out the door and saw persons run-\\nning. My father told us not to mind, as the waters would\\nnot rise further. But soon we saw houses being swept\\naway and then we ran to the floor above. The house was\\nthree stories, and we were at last forced to the top one.\\nIn my fright I jumped on the bed. It was an old-fash-\\nioned one with heavy posts. The water kept rising and\\nmy bed was soon afloat. Gradually it was lifted up. The\\nair in the room grew close and the house was moving.\\nStill the bed kept rising and pressed the ceiling. At last\\nthe post pushed the plaster. It yielded and a section of\\nthe roof gave way. Then suddenly I found myself on the\\nI oof and was being carried down stream. After a little\\nthis roof commenced to part and I was afraid I was go-\\ning to be drowned, but just then another house with f", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0334.jp2"}, "333": {"fulltext": "THE JOHNSTOWN DISASTER. 337\\nsiu^le roof floated by and I managed to crawl on it and\\nfloated down nntil nearly dead with cold, when I was\\nsaved. After I Avas freed from the house I did not see\\nmy father. My grandfather was on a tree, but he must\\nhave been drowned, as the waters were rising fast. John\\nKintz, Jr., was also on a tree. Miss Mary Kintz and Mrs.\\nMary Kintz I saw drowned. Miss Smith was also\\ndrowned. John Ilirsch was in a tree, but the four chil-\\ndren were drowned. The scenes were terrible. Live bod-\\nies and corpses were floating down with me and away\\nfrom me. I would hear persons shriek and then they\\nwould disappear. All along the line were people who\\nwere trying to save us, but they could do nothing and only\\na few were caught.\\nThe boy s story is but one incident and shows what hap-\\npened to one family. God only knows what has happened\\nto the hundreds who were in the path of the rushing wa-\\nter. It is impossible to get anything in the way of news,\\nsave meagre details.\\nAn eye-witness at Bolivar Block Station tells a story of\\nunparalleled horror which occurred at the lower bridge\\nw^hich crosses the Conemaugh at this point. A young-\\nman and two women were seen coming down the river\\non a part of a floor. At the upper bridge a rope was\\nthrown them. This they all failed to catch. Between the\\ntwo bridges the man was noticed to point towards the\\nelder woman, who, it is supposed, was his mother. He\\nwas then seen to instruct the women how to catch the\\nrope which was being lowered from the other bridge.\\nDown came the raft with a rush. The brave man stood\\nwith his arms around the two women. As they swept\\nunder the bridge he reached up and seized the rope. He\\nwas jerked violently away from the two women, who\\nfailed to get a hold on the life line. Seeing that they", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0335.jp2"}, "334": {"fulltext": "338 THE JOHNSTOWN DISASTER.\\nwould not be rescued he dropped the rope and fell back\\non the raft, which floated on down. The current washed\\nthe frail craft in towards the bank. The young man was\\nenabled to seize hold of a branch of a tree. The young\\nman aided the two women to get up into the tree. He\\nheld on with his. hands and rested his feet on a pile of\\ndriftwood. A piece of floating debris struck the drift,\\nsweeping it away. The man hung with his body im-\\nmersed in the water. A pile of drift soon collected and\\nhe was enabled to get another secure footing. Up the\\nriver there was a sudden crash and a section of the bridge\\nwas swept away and floated down the stream, striking\\nthe tree and washing it away. All three were thrown\\ninto the water and were drowned before the eyes of the\\nhorrified spectators just opposite the town of Bolivar.\\nEarly in the evening a woman with her two children\\nwere seen to pass under the bridge at Bolivar, clinging to\\nthe roof of a coalhouse. A rope was lowered to her, but\\nshe shook her head and refused to desert the children.\\nIt was rumored that all three were saved at Cokeville, a\\nfew miles below Bolivar. A later report from Lockport\\nsays that the residents succeeded in rescuing five people\\nfrom the flood, two women and three men. One man suc-\\nceeded in getting out of the water unaided. They were\\nkindly taken care of by the people of the town.\\nA little girl passed under the bridge just before dark.\\nShe was kneeling on a part of a floor and had her hands\\nclasped as if in prayer. Every effort was made to save\\nher, but they all proved futile. A railroader who was\\nstanding by remarked that the piteous appearance of the\\nlittle waif brought tears to his eyes. All night long the\\ncrowd stood about the ruins of the bridge, which had been\\nswept away at Bolivar. The water rushed past with a\\nroar, carrying with it parts of houses, furniture and trees.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0336.jp2"}, "335": {"fulltext": "THE JOHNSTOWN DISASTER. 339\\nThe flood had evidently spent its force up the valley.\\nNo more living persons were being arried past. Watch-\\ners with lanterns remained along- the banks until day-\\nbreak, when the first view of the awful devastation of\\nthe flood was witnessed.\\nCRAZED BY THEIR SUFFERINGS.\\nWhen the great weaves of death swept through Johns-\\ntown, the people who had any chance of escape ran hither\\nand thither in every direction. They did not have any\\ndefinite idea where they were going, only that a crest\\nof foaming waters as high as the housetops was roaring\\ndown upon them through the Conemaugh, and that they\\nmust get out of the way of that. Some in their terror\\ndived into the cellars of their houses, though this was\\ncertain death. Others got up on the roofs of their houses\\nand clambered over the adjoining roofs to places of safety.\\nBut the majority made for the hills, v^ hich girt the town\\nlike giants. Of the people who went to the hills the water\\ncaught some in its whirl. The others clung to trees and\\nroots and pieces of debris which had temporarily lodged\\nnear the banks, and managed to save themselves. These\\npeople either stayed out on the hills wet and in many in-\\nstances naked, all night, or they managed to find farm\\nhoLses which sheltered them. There was a fear of going-\\nback to the vicinity of the town. Even the people whose\\nhouses the water did not reach abandoned their homes\\nand began to think of all of Johnstown as a city buried\\nbeneath the water.\\nWhen these people came back to JohnslSown on the\\nday after the wreck of the town they had to put up in\\nsheds, barns, and in houses which had been but partially\\nruined. They had to sleep without any covering in their", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0337.jp2"}, "336": {"fulltext": "^3-10 THE JOHNSTOWN DISASTER.\\nwet clothes, and it took the liveliest kind of skirmishing\\nto get anything to eat. Pretty soon a citizens committee\\nwas established, and nearly all the male survivors of the\\nHood were immediately sworn in as deputy sheriffs. They\\nadorned themselves with tin stars, which they cut out of\\npieces of sheet metal in the ruins, and sheets of tin with\\nstars cut out of them are turning up continually, to the\\nsurprise of the Pittsburg workmen who are endeavoring\\nto get the town in shape. The women and children were\\nhoused, as far as possible, in the few houses still stand-\\ning, and some idea of the extent of the wreck of the town\\nmay be gathered from the fact that of 300 prominent\\nbuildings only sixteen were uninjured.\\nFor the first day or so people were dazed by what had\\nhappened, and for that matter they are dazed still. They\\nwent about helpless, making vague inquiries for their\\nfriends and hardly feeling the desire to eat anything.\\nFinally the need of creature comforts overpowered them,\\nand they woke up to the fact that they were faint and\\nsick. This was to some extent changed by the arrival\\nof tents and by the systematic military care for the suffer-\\ning.\\nTHE BRIDGE WHERE HUNDREDS LOST THEIR\\nLIVES.\\nThe fatal bridge, as it is now called, and which\\nwreaked such awful destruction, is described by a Avriter\\nin this way:\\nThe bridge whose resistance of the torrent was the\\nmatter of so much talk, was a noble four-track structure,\\njust completed, fifty feet wide on top, 32 feet high above\\nthe water line, consisting of seven skew spans of fifty-\\neight feet each. It still remains wholly uninjured, except\\nthat it is badly spalled on the upper side by blows from", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0338.jp2"}, "337": {"fulltext": "THE JOHNSTOWN DISASTER. 341\\nthe wreckage, but that it so remains is due solely to the\\naccident of its position, and not to its strength, although\\nit was and is still the embodiment of solidity,\\nHad the torrent struck it, it v/ould have swept it away\\nas if it had been built of card-board, leaving no track\\nbehind; but fortunately (or unfortunately) its axis was\\nexactly parallel with the path of the flood, which hence\\nstruck the face of the mountain full, and compressed the\\nwhole of its spoils gathered in a fourteen-mile course into\\none inextricable mass, with the force of tens of thousands\\nof tons moving at nearly sixty miles per hour.\\nIts spoils consisted of (1) every tree the flood had\\ntouched in its whole course, with trifling exceptions, in-\\ncluding hundreds of large trees, all of which were stripped\\nof their bark and small limbs almost at once; (2) all the\\nhouses in a thickly settled town three miles long and one-\\nfourth to one-half mile wide; (3) half the human beings\\nand all the horses, cows, cats, dogs, and rats that were\\nin the houses; (4) many hundreds of miles of telegraph\\nwire that was on strong poles in use, and many times\\nmore than this that was xn stock in the mills; (5) perhaps\\n50 miles of track and track material, rails and all; (6)\\nlocomotives, i ig-iron, brick, stone, boilers, steam engines,\\nheavy machinerj^, and other spoil of a large manufactur-\\ning town.\\nAll this was accumulated in one inextricable mass,\\nwhich almost immediately caught fire from some stove\\nwhich the waters had not touched. Hundreds if not thou-\\nsands of human beings, dead and alive, were caught in it,\\nmany b}^ the lower part of the body onl} Eye-witnesses\\ndescribe the groans and cries which came from that vast\\nholocaust for nearly the whole night as something almost\\nunbearable to listen to, yet which could not be escaped.\\nHundreds, undoubtedly, suffered a slow death by fire; yet", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0339.jp2"}, "338": {"fulltext": "342 THE JOHNSTOWN DISASTER.\\nwe cannot doubt that the vast majoritj of the men, wo-\\nmen, and children in that fearful jam, which covered fully\\nthirty acres, and perhaps more, were already dead when\\nthe fire began.\\nJohnstown proper is in a large basin formed by the\\njunction of the Conemaugh and the almost equally large\\nStony creek, flowing into the Conemaugh from the south,\\njust above the bridge. The bridge being hermetically\\nsealed, it and the adjacent embankment formed a second\\ndam about thirty feet high, Johnstown serving as a bed\\nof a reservoir which w^e should judge to be nearly large\\nenough to hold the entire contents of the reservoir above,\\nexcept that it was already filled knee-deep or more by an\\nunusually heavy but annual spring flood.\\nOne offshoot of the main torrent was deflected south-\\nward by the Gautier Works, and went tearing through\\nthe heart of the more southerly portion of the town, and\\nstill another similar branch was split off from the main\\ntorrent further down; but in the main, the direct force\\nof the torrent did not strike this southerly portion of the\\ntown.\\nIt struck first against the jam, and thus lost most of its\\nfierce energy, flowing thence southward in a heavy stream,\\nv/hich tossed about houses in the most fantastic way, so\\nthat this part of the town looks much like a child s toy-\\nvillage poured out of a box hap-hazard; the houses are\\nnot torn to pieces generally.\\nAbout half the loss of life was in this district, for all\\nJohnstown became speedily a lake twenty or more feet\\ndeep, and stayed so all night; and it was here, and not\\nin the direct path of the flood, that all the rescuing of\\npeople from roofs and floating timbers occurred.\\nNothing of the kind was possible in the flood itself.\\nLikewise, after the break in the embankment had oc-", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0340.jp2"}, "339": {"fulltext": "THE JOHNSTOWN DISASTER. 343\\ncurred, and the flood began to recede from Johnstown, it\\nwas from this district chiefly that people were carried off\\ndown stream on floating wreckage. All that came within\\nthe direct path of the flood was fast within the jam.\\nThe existence of this temporary Johnstown reservoir\\nnaturally- broke the continuity of the flood discharge, and\\ntransformed it into something not greatly different from\\nan ordinary but \\\\qyj heavy freshet. Cambria City, just\\nbelow the bridge, was badly wrecked, with the loss of\\nhundreds of lives; but in the main, from Johnstown down,\\nthe flood ceased to be very destructive. It took out almost\\never}^ bridge it came to, for fifty miles, and washed away\\ntracks, and did other minor damage, but the Johnstown\\nreservoir saved hundreds of lives below it by equalizing\\nthe flow.\\nTHE DAY EXPRESS DISASTER.\\nJohn Barr, the conductor in charge of the Pullman\\nparlor car on the first section of the day express, which\\nwas caught in the flood at Conemaugh, told a thrilling\\nstory of his experience.\\nHis train, with two others, had been run onto a siding\\non high ground at Conemaugh Station, opposite the big\\nround-house. He saw the w^ater coming and describes\\nit as having the appearance of a mountain moving toward\\nhim.\\nHe immediately ran to his car and shouted to his pas-\\nsengers to run for their lives. John Davis, connected with\\na large rolling mill near Lancaster, was traveling from\\nColorado with his invalid wife and two children, aged\\n4 and 0. Mr. Davis was engaged in getting his wife\\noff the car, and Conductor Barr grabbed up the two\\nchildren, and, with one under each arm, started for the", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0341.jp2"}, "340": {"fulltext": "344 THE JOHNSTOWN DISASTER.\\nhills, with the water right at his heels. He ran a distance\\nof about 200 yards and barely managed to deposit his\\nprecious burden on safe ground before the flood swept\\npast him.\\nMr. Barr said it would never be known how many per-\\nsons lost their lives from the ill-fated train. The one\\npassenger coach which was carried away had some peo-\\nple in it how many nobody knows. At least twenty were\\ndrowned. A freight train was between the day express-\\nand the flood on an adjoining track, and this served to in\\na measure protect his train.\\nSome idea of the terrible force of the flood may be\\ngained from Mr. Barr s statement that the engines in the\\nround-house, thirty-seven in number, swept past him\\nstanding half way out of the water, their forty tons of\\nweight not being sufficient to take them beneath the sur-\\nface. The baggage car was lifted clear out of the water\\nand landed on the other side of the river.\\nA Miss Wayne, who was traveling from Pittsburg to\\nAltoona, had a wonderful escape. She was caught in\\nthe swirl and almost all of her clothing torn from her\\nperson, and she was providentially thrown by the angry\\nwaters clear of the rushing flood.\\nMiss Wayne said that while she lay more dead than\\nalive on the river bank, she saw the Hungarians rifle the\\nbodies of dead passengers and cut off their fingers for s\\nthe purpose of obtaining the rings on the hands of the\\ncorpses. Miss Wa3me was provided with a suit of men s\\nclothing and rode into Altoona thus arrayed.\\nMiss Maloney, of Woodbury, N. J., a passenger on the\\nparlor car, started to leave the car, and then, fearing to\\nventure out into the flood, returned to the inside of the\\ncar. When the water subsided the crew rushed to the\\ncar, expecting to find Miss Maloney dead, but the water", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0342.jp2"}, "341": {"fulltext": "THE JOHNSTOWN DISASTER. 345\\nhad not gone high enough to drown her and she was all\\nright, though greatly frightened.\\nShe displayed a rare amount of forethought in the face\\nof danger, having tied securely around her Avaist a piece\\nof her clothing on which her name w^as written in indel-\\nible ink. She fully expected that she would be drowned,\\nand did this in order that her bod}^, if found, might be\\nidentified.\\nWhen the water was still high Conductor Barr made an\\nattempt to get back to his car from the hill, but after\\nwading up to his arm-pits in the water he was forced to\\nreturn to safe ground.\\nTHE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD S LAST TRAIN.\\nThe last train to which the Susquehanna River per-\\nmitted the use of the tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad\\nbetween Harrisburg and Lancaster rolled into Broad\\nStreet Station, at Philadelphia, at 9.35 p. m. on Saturday,\\nJune 1. It was a nondescript train. The last car was a\\nvestibule Pullman which had never stopped at so many\\nway stations before in its aristocratic life, and which had\\nbeen cut off the stalled Chicago limited at Harrisburg to\\nbe taken back to New^ York. The rest of the train had\\nstarted from Harrisburg at 3:40 as the day express and\\nat Lancaster had been changed into the York and Co-\\nlumbia tub.\\nNo train s name ever fitted it better. The tub had\\nswam through seven miles of water on its way, water\\ndiffering in depth from three inches to three feet.\\nThe seven miles of water covered the track betvreen\\nHarrisburg and Ilighspire. When the new^spaper train\\ntouched with the morning dailies and to some extent with\\nthe men who make them, dashed drippingly into Harris-", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0343.jp2"}, "342": {"fulltext": ";j46 THE JOHNSTOWN DISASTER.\\nburg at half-past 7 in the moruing it had only encoun-\\ntered three-fourths of a mile of water.\\nNo reports of a great increase in the Susquehanna s\\noutput had reached beleaguered Harrisburg during the\\nday, and the express started out with two engines, 1095\\nand 1105, towing it and a fair chance of reaching Phila-\\ndelphia on time. The original three-quarters of a mile\\nof overflow caused by the back water of Paxton creek\\nwas passed without incident.\\nThe water was about up to the bottom steps of the car\\nplatforms and the pilot of the leading engine threw to\\neach side a fine billow of yellow water, sending a swell\\nlike that of a tramp steamer passing Gloucester, in among\\nthe floating outhouses and submerged slag heaps of the\\nsuburbs of Harrisburg and bringing cheers from thous-\\nands who watched the train s advance from their second-\\nstory windows and forgot the condition of their first-floor\\nfurniture in the excitement of w^atching the amphibious\\nprowess of the day express.\\nWe ve seen the worst of it, said the elderly, kindly\\nconductor to a couple of excited women passengers as\\nthe last of the three-fourths of a mile of billows was\\nthrown from the pilot of 1095. We ve seen the worst of\\nit, but the train will have to wait here a little while\\nthe fires are almost out.\\nSo 1095 and 1102 stood puffing and panting for a while\\non the high track while the afternoon sunlight dried their\\ndripping flanks and the baffled Susquehanna rolled its\\nburden of driftwood sulleuly southward on their right.\\nTlien the day express rolled on again. The dry ground\\nwas just about long enough to give the train an impetus\\nfor another header into the Susquehanna s overflow.\\nIt was into the Susquehanna itself that the header\\nseemed to be taken this time. It v/as no longer a question", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0344.jp2"}, "343": {"fulltext": "THE JOHNSTOWN DISASTER. 347\\nof an overflow creek iu a railroad cut. The billows from\\nthe prow of 1095 swept not in among overturned out-\\nhouses and submerged slag heaps, but out on the broad\\ncoffee-colored bosom of the river to be broken into a\\nthousand chop waves among the churning driftwood. The\\npeople in the second-story windows forgot to cheer. The\\npeople in the coaches forgot to joke on the men s part and\\nto fret on the women s. It was curious and it was ticklish.\\nThe train was running slowly, very slowly. The wheels\\nwere out of sight. The water was swirling among the\\ntrucks and lapping at the platforms. The only sign of\\nland locomotion about the day express was an audible\\none, a watery pounding and rumbling of the wheels on\\nthe hidden tracks.\\nThe day express looked like a long broad river serpent\\nwriggling on its belly down along the green river bank.\\nGradually there was a simultaneous though not concerted\\nmovement among the passengers. They began crowding\\ntoward the platforms and looking toward the land side.\\nSuddenly a brakeman broke the queer silence, in a voice\\nwhich had just the least crescendo of excitement in it.\\nIf you people don t keep quiet we can t do anything!\\nhe shouted.\\nThe demand was a little absurd, the direction of a land\\ncoxswain to trim ship. Still, it had its uses. It re-\\nlieved the tension v/hich everybody felt and nobody ac-\\nknowledged. The passengers retired from the platforms.\\nJoking began again among the men and fretting among\\nthe women. There hadn t been much fun iu looking to-\\nward the land side anyway. What had appeared to be a\\nrecession of the waters when looked at from above was\\nmereW a svv elling of the stream from the overflow of the\\ncanal which parallels the road for several miles at that\\npoint.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0345.jp2"}, "344": {"fulltext": "348 THE JOHNSTOWN DISASTER.\\nAll at once the train, wliieli had been moving more\\nslowly for each of a good ten minutes, stoi ped short. It\\nseemed as if 1095 s sharp nose had scented danger like a\\nsensitive horse, and, panting, refused to go further.\\nThen the engine crews were seen by the passengers to\\nleap from their cabs thigh deep in the water and begin\\nhauling at some sub-aqueau obstacle.\\nDriftwood, said the same brakeman who had com-\\nmanded quiet.\\nSo it was, A train stopped by driftwood! It was float-\\ning all about and threatened to impede the progress of\\nthe day express altogether. Fence rails from far up coun-\\ntry farms, planks from dismantled signal stations, plat-\\nforms along the line, railroad ties innumerable, branches\\nand even small trunks of trees floated against the wheels\\nwith disjected stacks of green wheat and other ruined\\ncrops upon the ever-rising flood of the river.\\nThere had been high dry land in sight just beyond\\nHighspire Station, but as sure as guns were iron and\\nfloods were floods the land was disappearing. The river s\\nrise was steady. The inhabitants of the drowned lands\\nwho appeared to take the drowning easily, though uo such\\na drowning had been known to them in a quarter of a\\ncentury, had been in large numbers keeping company\\nof the train for the last two miles in skiffs and punts.\\nThey rowed close to the cars and towed away the larger\\ndrift. They were not entirely on life-saving service. There\\nwas a bit of the wreckage in their composition. They\\ntowed the trunk and ties into tht^r front yards and\\nanchored them to their window-blinds.\\nFinally the straining backs of the engine-crews gave\\none mighty tug at the hidden obstacle. A huge platform\\nplank floated loose from 1095, and 1095 shrieked triumph.\\nThe wheels began to churn the brown water with yellow-", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0346.jp2"}, "345": {"fulltext": "THE JOHNSTOWN DISASTER. 3-19\\nish ^vhite and 1005 and 1102 ran up on the dry ground\\nlike the eagle in the sun, to whom the Irish poet compared\\nthe Irish troops at Fontenoy.\\nAs they did so the clatter of a light advancing train\\nwas heard from the east, and a sound of cheering. A\\nsingle engine drawing two crowded cars shot around the\\nbend, and ran with a light heart into the torrent out of\\nw^hich the day express had just emerged.\\nThey ll never get through, was the unanimous com-\\nment of the day express passengers, and their verdict\\nseemed to be confirmed officially by the brakeman who\\nhad been excited.\\nHe stood in the door of the car and shouted: This\\ntrain will stop at all stations between Lancaster and\\nBryn Mawr. There will be no more trains between Har-\\nrisburg and Lancaster to-night.\\nAfterwards he added As this is the last train it will\\nhave to take the place of the tub.\\nTHE FIRST RUSH OF THE DEATH WAVE.\\nA man who was above the danger line on the right bluff\\nabove the town, and who saw the first rush of the death\\nwave, says that it was preceded by a peculiar phenomena,\\nwhich he thinks was the explosion of the gas mains. He\\nsays that a few minutes before the wall of the water had\\nreached the city there was a tremendous explosion some-\\nwhere in the upper part of the place. He said that he\\nsaw the fragments of the buildings rise in the air, and\\nthe next moment saw two lines of flame down through\\nthe city in different directions, and frame buildings were\\napparentl}^ being torn to pieces and wrecked. The next\\nminute the water came, and he remembers nothing fur-\\nther. There really was an explosion of gas that wrecked", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0347.jp2"}, "346": {"fulltext": "350 THE JOHNSTOWN DISASTER.\\na clr.irch in the upper part of the city just at the time\\nof the flood. If there was also an explosion of the gas\\nmain, the cause of the fire at the bridge is explained.\\nLight frame buildings set on fire by the explosion were\\npicked up bodily and tossed on top of the water into the\\nwreck at the bridge without the fire being extinguished.\\nMrs. Fredericks, an aged woman, was rescued alive\\nfrom the attic in her house. The house had floated from\\nwhat was formerly Vine street to the foot of the moun-\\ntains. Mrs. Fredericks says her experience was terrible.\\nShe said she saw hundreds of men, women and children\\nfloating down the torrent to meet their death, some pray-\\ning, while others had actually become raving maniacs.\\nTHE REAL HORRORS! OF THE DISASTER.\\nNo one will ever know the real horrors of this accident\\nunless he saw the burning people and debris beside the\\nstone bridge, remarked the Rev. Father Trautwein.\\nThe horrible nature of the affair cannot be realized by\\nany person who did not witness the scene. As soon as\\npossible after the first great crash occurred I hastened\\nto the bridge.\\nA thousand persons were struggling in the ruins and\\niinploring for God s sake to release them. Frantic hus-\\nbands and fathers stood at the edge of the furnace that\\nwas slowly heating to a cherry heat and incinerating hu-\\nman victims. Every one was anxious to save his own\\nrelatives, and raved, cursed, and blasphemed until the air\\nappeared to tremble. No S3^stem, no organized effort to\\nrelease the pent-up persons was made by those related to\\nthem.\\nShrieking they would command: Go to that place,", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0348.jp2"}, "347": {"fulltext": "THE JOHNSTOWN DISASTER. 351\\ngo get lier out, for God s sake get her out, referring to\\nsome beloved one they -wanted saved.\\nUnder the circumstances it was necessary to secure\\norganization, and thinking I was trying to thwart their\\nefforts when I ordered another point to be attacked by\\nthe rescuers, they advanced upon me, threatened to shoot\\nme or dash me into the raging river.\\nOne man who was trying to steer a float uponwhicli his\\nv.ife sat on a mattress lost his hold, and in a moment the\\ncraft swept into a sea of flame and never again appeared.\\nThe agony of that man Avas simply heartrending. He\\nraised his arms to heaven and screamed in his mental\\nanguish and only ceased that to tear his hair and moan\\nlike one distracted. Every effort was made to save every\\nperson accessible, and we have the satisfaction of know-\\ning that fully 200 were saved from cremation. One\\nyoung woman was found under the dead body of a rela-\\ntive.\\nA force of men attempted to extricate her and suc-\\nceeded in releasing every limb but one leg. For three\\nhours they labored, and every moment the flames crept\\nnearer and nearer. I was on the point several times of\\nordering the men to chop her leg off. It would have been\\nmuch better to save her life even at that loss than have\\nher burn to death. Fortunately it was not necessary; but\\nthe young lady s escape from mutilation or death she will\\nnever realize.\\nThe flood and fire claimed among its victims not only\\nthe living, but the dead. A handsome coffin was found\\nhalf burned in some charred wreckage down near the\\npoint. Inside was found the body of a man shrouded for\\nburial, but so scorched about the head and face as to be\\nunrecognizable. The supposition is that the house in\\nwhich the dead man had lain had been crushed and the", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0349.jp2"}, "348": {"fulltext": ".r.-\\nTHE JOHNSTOWN DISASTER.\\ndebris partly consumed by fire. The body is still at the\\nFourth AYard school house, and unless reclaimed it will\\nbe buried in the unknown field.\\nTHE CLOCK STOPPED AT 5:20.\\nOne of the queerest sights in the center of the town\\nwas a three-story brick residence standing with one wall,\\nthe others having disappeared completely, leaving the\\nfloors supported by the partitions. In one of the upper\\nrooms could be seen a mantel with a lambrequin on it and\\na clock stopped at twenty minutes after five. In front of\\nthe clock was a lady s fan, though from the marks on\\nthe wall paper the water had been over all these things.\\nIn the upper part of the town, where the back water\\nfrom the flood went into the valley with diminished force,\\nthere were many strange scenes.\\nThere the houses were toppled over one after another\\nin a row, and left where they \\\\i\\\\j. One of them was turned\\ncompletely over and stood with its roof on the foundations\\nof another house and its base in the air. The owner\\ncame back, and getting into his house through the win-\\ndows, walked about on his ceiling.\\nOut of this house a woman and her two children es-\\ncaped safely and were but little hurt, although they were\\nstood on their heads in the whirl.\\nEvery house had its own story. From one a woman\\nsent up in her garret escaped by chopping a hole in the\\nroof. From another a Hungarian named Grevius leaped\\nto the shore as it went whirling past and fell twenty-five\\nfeet upon a pile of metal and escaped with a broken leg.\\nAnother is said to have come all the way from very\\nnear the start of the flood and to have circletl around with\\nthe back water and finally landed on the flats at the city\\nsite, where it is still pointed out.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0350.jp2"}, "349": {"fulltext": "THE JOHNSTOWN DISASTER. 353\\nTHE SITUATION NINE DAYS AFTER.\\nA corresivondent described the situation at Johnstown\\nnine days after the disaster in this way:\\nSo vast is the field of destruction that to get an ade-\\nquate idea from any point level with the town is simply\\nimpossible. It must be viewed from a height. From tlie\\ntop of Kernsville Mountain, just at the east of the town,\\nthe whole strange panorama can be seen.\\nLooking down from the height many things about the\\nflood that appear inexplicable from below are perfectly\\nplain. How so many houses happened to be so queerly\\ntwisted, for instance, as if the water had a twirling in-\\nstead of a straight motion, was made perfectly clear.\\nThe town was built in an almost equilateral triangle,\\nwith one angle pointed squarely up the Conemaugh Val-\\nley to the east, from which the flood came. At the north-\\nerly angle was the junction of the Conemaugh and Stony\\ncreeks. The southern angle pointed up the Stony Creek\\nValley. Now about one-half of the triangle, formerly\\ndensely covered with buildings, is swept as clear as a\\nplatter, except for three or four big brick buildings that\\nstand near the angle which points up the Conemaugh.\\nThe course of the flood, from the exact point where\\nit issued from the Conemaugh Valley to where it dis-\\nappeared below in a turn in the river and above by spread-\\ning itself over the flat district of five or six miles, is clearly\\ndefined. The whole body of water issued straight from\\nthe valley in a solid wave and tore across the village of\\nWoodvale and so on to the business part of Johnstown\\nat the lower part of the triangle. Here a cluster of solid\\nbrick blocks, aided by the conformation of the land evi-\\ndently divided the stream.\\nThe greater part turned to the north, swept up the", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0351.jp2"}, "350": {"fulltext": "354 THE JOHNSTOWN DISASTER.\\nbrick block and then mixed with the ruins of the villages\\nabove down to the stone arch bridge. The other stream\\nshot across the triangle, was turned southward by the\\nbluffs and went up the valley of Stony creek. The stone\\narch bridge in the meantime acted as a dam and turned\\npart of the current back toward the south, where it fin-\\nished the work of the triangle, turning again to the north-\\nward and back to the stone arch bridge.\\nThe stream that went up Stony creek was turned back\\nby the rising ground and then was reinforced by the back\\nwater from the bridge again and started south, where it\\nreached a mile and a half and spent its force on a little\\nsettlement called Grubbtown.\\nThe frequent turning of this stream, forced against\\nthe buildings and then the bluffs, gave it a regular whirl-\\ning motion from right to left, and made a tremendous\\neddy, whose centrifugal force twisted everything it\\ntouched. This accounts for the comparatively narrow\\npath of the flood through the southern part of the town,\\nwhere its course through the thickly clustered frame\\ndwelling houses is as plain as a highway.\\nThe force of the stream diminshed gradually as it went\\nsouth, for at the place where the currents separated every\\nbuilding is ground to pieces and carried away, and at\\nthe end the houses were only turned a little on their foun-\\ndations. In the middle of the course they are turned over\\non their sides or upside down. Further down they are not\\nsingle, but great heaps of ground lumber that look like\\nnothing so much as enormous pith balls.\\nTo the north the work of the waters is of a different\\nsort. It picked up everything except the big buildings\\nthat divided the current and piled the fragments down\\nupon the stone bridge or swept them over and so on down\\nthe river for miles.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0352.jp2"}, "351": {"fulltext": "THE JOHNSTOWN DISASTER. 355\\nThis left the great yellow, sandy and barren plain, so\\noften spoken of in the dispatches where stood the best\\nbuildings in Johnstown the opera house, the big hotel,\\nmany wholesale warehouses, shops and the finest resi-\\ndences.\\nIn this plain there are now only the Baltimore Ohio\\nRailroad train, a school house, the Morrell Company s\\nstore and an adjoining warehouse and the few buildings\\nof the triangle. One brick residence, badly shattered, is\\nalso standing.\\nThese structures do not relieve the shocking picture\\nof ruin spread out below the mountains, but by contrast\\nmaking it more striking. That part of the town to the\\nsouth where the flood tore the narrow path there used to\\nbe a separate village which was called Kernsville. It is\\nnow known as the South Side. Some of the queerest\\nsights of the wreck are there, though few persons have\\ngone to see them.\\nManj- of the houses that are left there scattered helter\\nskelter, thrown on their sides and standing on their roofs,\\nwere never in that neighborhood nor anywhere near it\\nbefore. They came down on the breast of the wave from\\nas far up as Franklin, were carried safely by the factories\\nand the bridges, by the big buildings at the dividing line,\\nup and down on the flood and finally settled in their new\\nresting places little injured.\\nA row of them, packed closely together and every one\\ntipped over at about the same angle, is only one of the\\nqueer freaks the water played.\\nI got into one of these houses in my walk through the\\ntown to-day. The lower story liad been filled with water\\nand everything in it had been torn out. The carpet had\\nbeen split into strips on the floor by the sheer force of the\\nrushing tide. Heaps of mud stood in the corners. There", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0353.jp2"}, "352": {"fulltext": ";]5G THE JOHNSTOWN DISASTER.\\n\\\\\\\\as no vestige of furniture. The walls dripped with\\nmoisture,\\nThe ceiling w^as gone, the windows were out and the\\ncold rain blew in and the only thing that was left intact\\nwas one of those worked worsted mottoes that you always\\nexpect to find in the homes of working people. It still\\nhung to the wall, and though much awry the glass and\\nframe were unbroken. The motto looked grimly and\\nsadly sarcastic. It was:\\nThere is no place like home.\\nA melancholy wreck of a home that motto looked down\\nupon.\\nI saw a wagon in the middle of a side street sticking\\ntongue and all straight up into the air, resting on its tail\\nboard, with the hind wheels almost completely buried in\\nthe mud. I saw a house standing exactly in the middle\\nof Napoleon street, the side stove in by crashing against\\nsome other house and in the hole the coffin of its owner\\nwas placed.\\nSome scholar s library had been, strewn over the street\\nin the last stage of the flood, for there was a trail of good\\nbooks left half sticking in the mud and reaching for over\\na block. One house had been lifted over two others in\\nsome mysterious way and then had settled down between\\nthem and there it stuck, high up in the air, so its former\\noccupants might have got into it again with ladders.\\nDown at the lower end of the course of the stream,\\nwhere its force was greater, there was a house lying on\\none corner and held there by being fastened in the deep\\nmud. Through its side the trunk of a tree had been driven\\nlike a lance, and there it stayed sticking out straight in\\nthe air.\\nIn the muck was the case and key board of a square", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0354.jp2"}, "353": {"fulltext": "THE JOHNSTOWN D/SASTliR. ;;5T\\npiano, and far down (be river, near the debris aboul tlic\\nstone bridge, were its legs. An npright piano, Aviih all\\nits inside apparatus cleanly taken out, stood straiglit up\\na little way off. What was once a set of costly furniture\\nwas strewn all about it, and the house that bad contained\\nit was nowhere.\\nThe remarkable stories that have been told about peo-\\nple floating a mile up the river and then back two or three\\ntimes are easily credible after seeing the evidences of\\nthe strange course the flood took in this part of the town.\\nPeople w^ho stood near the ruins of Poplar Bridge saw\\nfour women on a roof float up on the stream, turn a short\\ndistance above and come back and go past again and once\\nmore return. Then they were seen to go far down on the\\ncurrent to the low^er part of the town and were rescued\\nas they passed the second-story window of a school house.\\nA man who was imprisoned in the attic of his house put\\nhis wife and two cliildren on a roof that was eddying past\\nand stayed behind to die alone. They floated up the stream\\nand then came back and got upon the roof of the very\\nhouse they had left, and the whole family were saved.\\nAt (jrrubbtown there is a house which came all the\\nway from Woodvale. On it was a man who lived near\\nGrubbtow n, but was working at Woodvale when the flood\\ncame. He was carried right past his own home, and\\ncoolly told the people at the bridge to bid his wife good-\\nbye for him. The house passed the bridge three times,\\nthe man carrying on a conversation with the people on\\nthe shore and giving directions for his burial if his body\\nshould be found.\\nThe third time the house went up it grounded at\\nGrubbtown, and in an hour or two the man was safe at\\nhome. Three girls who went by on a roof craw^led into\\ntlie branches of a tree, and had to stay there all night", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0355.jp2"}, "354": {"fulltext": "358 THE JOHNSTOWN DISASTER.\\nbefore tlie}^ could make anyone understand where they\\nwere. At one time scores of floating houses were wedged\\nin together near the ruins of Poplar street bridge. Four\\nbrave men went out from the shore, and stepping from\\nhouse-roof to house-roof brought in twelve women and\\nchildren.\\nSome women crawled from roofs into the attics of\\nhouses. In their struggles with the flood most of their\\nclothes had been torn from them, and rather than appear\\non the streets they stayed where they were until hunger\\nforced them to shout out of the window for help. At this\\nstage of the flood more persons were lost by being crushed\\nto death than by drowning. As they floated by on roofs\\nor doors the toppling houses fell over upon them and\\nkilled them.\\nThe workers began on the wreck on Main street just\\nopposite the First National Bank, one of the busiest parts\\nof the city. A large number of people were lost here, the\\nhouses being crushed on one side of the street and being\\nalmost untouched on the other, a most remarkable thing\\nconsidering the terrific force of the, flood. Twenty-one\\nbodies were taken out in the early morning and taken to\\nthe morgue. They were not much injured, considering\\nthe weight of lumber above them.\\nIn many instances the}^ were wedged in crevices. They\\nwere all in a good state of preservation, and when they\\nwere embalmed they looked almost lifelike. In this cen-\\ntral part of the city examination is sure to result in the\\nunearthing of bodies in every corner. Cottages which are\\nstill standing are banked up with lumber and driftwood,\\nand it is like mining to make any kind of a clear space.\\nThirteen bodies were taken from the burning debris at\\nthe Stone Bridge at one time yesterday afternoon. None\\nof the bodies were recognizablCj and they were put in", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0356.jp2"}, "355": {"fulltext": "THE JOHNSTOWN DISASTER. 359\\ncoffins and buried immediately. They were so badly\\ndecomposed that it was impossible to keep them until\\nthey could be identified. During a blast at the bridge\\nyesterday afternoon two bodies were almost blown to\\npieces. The blasting has had the effect of opening the\\nchannel under the central portion of the bridge.\\nThe order that was issued that all unidentified dead\\nbe buried is being rapidly carried out. The Rev. Mr.\\nBeall, who has charge of the morgue at the Fourth Ward\\nschool house, which is the chief place, says that a large\\nforce of men has been put at work digging graves, and\\nat the close of the afternoon the remains will be laid\\naway as rapidly as it can be done.\\nWilliam Flynn has taken charge of the army of eleven\\nhundred laborers who are doing a wonderful amount of\\nwork. In an interview he told of the work that has to\\nbe done, and the contractors estimates show more than\\nanything the chaotic condition of this city. It will take\\nten thousand men thirty days to clear the ground so that\\nthe streets are passable and the work of rebuilding can\\nbe commenced, said he, and I am at a loss to know how\\nthe work is to be done. This enthusiasm will soon die out\\nand the volunteers will want to return home.\\nIt w^ould take all summer for my men alone to do\\nwhat work is necessary. Steps must be taken at once to\\nfurnish gangs of workmen, and I shall send a communi-\\ncation to the Pittsburg Chamber of Commerce asking the\\ndifferent manufacturers of the Ohio Valley to take turns\\nfor a month or so in furnishing reliefs of workmen.\\nI shall ask that each establishment stop work for a\\nweek at a time and send all hands in the charge of a\\nforeman and timekeeper. We will board and care for\\nthem here. These gangs should come for a week at a", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0357.jp2"}, "356": {"fulltext": "3 GO THE JOHNSTOWN DISASTER.\\ntime, as no orgauization can be affected if workmen arrive\\nand leave when the} please.\\nA meeting was lield here in the afternoon which re-\\nsulted in the appointment of James B. Scott, of Pittsburg,\\ngeneralissimo.\\nMr. Scott in an interview said that he proposed to\\nclear the town of all wreckage and debris of all descrip-\\ntions and turn the town site over to the citizens when he\\nhas completed his work clean and free from obstructions\\nof all kinds.\\nI was here when the gang came across one of the upper\\nstories of a house. It was merely a pile of boards appar-\\nentl3% but small pieces of a bureau and a bed spring from\\nVv hich the clothes had been burned showed the nature of\\nthe find. A faint odor of burned flesh prevailed exactly\\nat this spot.\\nDig here, said the physician to the men. There is\\none body at least quite close to the surface. The men\\nstarted in with a w^ill. A large pile of underclothes and\\nhousehold linen was brought up first. It was of fine\\nquality and evidently such as would be stored in the bed-\\nroom of a house occupied by people quite well to do.\\nPresently one of the men exposed a charred lump of\\nflesh and lifted it up on the end of a pitchfork. It was all\\nthat remained of some poor creature who had met an\\nawful death between water and fire.\\nThe trunk was put on a cloth, the ends were looped\\nup, making a bag^ of it, and the thing was taken to the\\nriver bank. It weighed probably thirty pounds. A stake\\nwas driven in the ground to which a tag was attached\\ngiving a description of the remains. This is done in many\\ncases to the burned bodies, and they lay covered with\\ncloths upon the bank until men came with coffins to re-\\nmove them.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0358.jp2"}, "357": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XXlll.\\nNot More Than Half the Bodies of Victims Identified\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Hundreds of\\nCorpses of the Uukuowu and Kameless Cast Into tlie Sea\u00e2\u0080\u0094Others\\nBuried in the Sand and Cremated\u00e2\u0080\u0094 List of Ideutilicatious.\\nTHE actual uumber of lives lost at Galveston will never\\nbe known, but over 4,500 bodies of victims of the frightful\\ncatastrophe were identified; and these, together with the\\nhundreds of identified and unidentified corpses which\\nwere buried at sea, in the sands along the beach, in the\\nyards and grounds of private residences; those bodies\\nwhich must have been carried out into the gulf when\\nthe waters receded from the island Sunday morning;\\nthose cremated; the hundreds found on the gulf coast, on\\nthe shores of Galveston Bay, and those taken from the\\nwater; and, finally, those discovered in all sorts of places\\ninland (the bodies found outside Galveston Island being\\nburied w^here picked up) all these served to swell the\\nGalveston death list to possibly 7,000, which w^as the\\nfigure named by Mayor Jones the fifth day after the flood.\\nHe had every opportunity for obtaining information on\\nthis point.\\nUntil the cremation of bodies began the foremen of the\\nvarious burial gangs made lists of the bodies disposed of\\nby their men, but w^hen it became necessary to burn the\\ncorpses, the danger of pestilence being so great that they\\nhad to be put out of the way at the earliest possible\\nmoment, the compilation of these lists was abandoned\\nand a mere general estimate made. The work of clear-\\ning the business and residence streets proceeded but\\nslowly, the men in the gangs assigned to this being ener-\\nvated by the Intense heat of the sun, sickened by the eflflu-\\n361", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0359.jp2"}, "358": {"fulltext": "362 LIST OF IDENTIFICATIONS.\\nvia from the decomposing bodies of dead human beings\\nand animals, and depressed by the gloomy character of\\ntheir surroundings. Most of the men thus employed,\\nwere citizens of (lalveston, many of whom were in com-\\nfortable circumstances before the storm swept aw.ay their\\nbelongings. In the majority of cases these workers had\\nlost not only their earthly possessions, but members of\\ntheir immediate families as well, and were heartsore and\\ncrushed in spirit. In the main, they engaged in this work\\nbecause they wanted to help the city out in its desperate\\nstraits, and for the further reason that if not busied in\\nmind and body they might possibly go mad.\\nThe first of the lists of the identified dead was made\\nout and made public on Tuesday following the disaster,\\nand the lists compiled the succeeding days were given\\nout as soon as completed.\\nThe lists printed below comprise the first and only\\ncomplete roster of the dead which has appeared any-\\nwhere:\\nFIRST LIST 0\u00c2\u00a5 IDENTIFIED VICTIMS\u00e2\u0080\u0094 TUESDAY,\\nSEPTEMBER 11.\\nAguilo, Joseph B., chairman of the Bell, Mrs. Dudley, wife of Galves-\\nDemocratic county executive ton News compositor, and child.\\ncommittee. Beveridge, Mrs., and two children.\\nAllen, Charlotta M., Seventeenth Betts, Walter, cotton broker, and\\nstreet and Avenue A. wife.\\nAllen, E., and wife. Bird, the family of police officer\\nAmundsen, mother of Deputy Bird.\\nChief of Police Amundsen. Broecker, John F., wife and two\\nBurrows, Mrs. M. children.\\nBross, Mrs. Kate, Twenty-second Bowe, Mrs. John, and three chil-\\nstreet, near beach. dren. Police officer John Bowe\\nBurnett, Mrs. George, and child, attempted to save his family on\\nTwenty-fourth street and Ave- a raft, but they were swept\\nnue P. away and drowned.\\nBarbon, Mrs. Burnett, Gary, and wife and Mrs.\\nBaxter. Mrs., and child, lost in Burnett.\\nMagia store. Caddom, Alex., and four children.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0360.jp2"}, "359": {"fulltext": "LIST OF IDENTinCATIONS.\\n3( 8\\nClark, Mrs. C. T., and infant.\\nCompton, A. J., and wife.\\nCorrell, Mrs. J. R., and family.\\nCollins, daughter of Mrs. Collins.\\nCline, Mrs., wife of Dr. L. M.\\nCline, local forecast official of\\nthe United States weather bu-\\nreau.\\nCoryell, Patti Rosa.\\nCoates, Mrs. William, wife of Wil-\\nliam A. Coates, of Galveston\\nNews.\\nCramer, Miss Bessie.\\nDaly, W. L., grain exporter and\\nsteamship agent for Charles F.\\nOrtwein Co.\\nDay, Alfred.\\nDavies, John R., and wife.\\nDelaney, Mrs. Jack, wife of United\\nStates bridge officer of the port,\\nwith two children.\\nDelyea, Paul, ex-sergeant police.\\nDavenport, W., wife and three\\nchildren.\\nDavis, Lessie.\\nDorin, Mrs.\\nDorrian, Mrs., and five children;\\nhad taken refuge with nine\\nother persons on the roof of a\\nhouse which was destroyed and\\nall lost. The Dorian house with-\\nstood the elements.\\nEllison, two children of Captain\\nEllison, one of them drowning\\nin its mother s arms.\\nEngelke, John, wife and child.\\nEvans, Mrs. Kate, and two daugh-\\nters.\\nEichter, Edward, Thirteenth\\nstreet and Avenue N.\\nEwing, Miss.\\nFordtran, Mrs. Claude J., 1919\\nTremont street.\\nFix, C. H.\\nFisher, W. F., wife and two chil-\\ndren.\\nFlash, William, and daughter,\\nTwenty-fifth street and P ave-\\nnue; Mrs. Flash was saved.\\nFoster, Harry, wife and three chil-\\ndren.\\nFrederickson, Violet.\\nFrederickson, Mrs., and baby.\\nGernand, Mrs. John F., and two\\nchildren.\\nGuest, Mamie.\\nGordon, Mrs. Abe, and five chil-\\ndren.\\nGernaud, John H., wife and two\\nchildren.\\nHansinger, H. A., daughter and\\nmother-in-law.\\nHarris, Mrs. (colored.)\\nHarris, Mrs. Rebecca.\\nHobeck, and boy.\\nHowe, police officer, and\\nfamily.\\nHowth, Mrs. Clarence.\\nHughes, Joe.\\nHawkins, Mattie Lea.\\nHesse, Mrs. Irene, Broadway and\\nSixth street.\\nHunn, F., street-car motorman.\\nHunter, Albert, and wife.\\nHamburg, Mrs. Peter, and four\\nchildren.\\nHarris, Mrs. J. H.\\nJones, Mr., and wife.\\nJohnson, Richard, struck by fly-\\ning timber and instantly killed.\\nJones, Mrs. W. R., and child.\\nKelly, Willie.\\nKeller, Charles A., prominent\\ncotton man.\\nKelly, Barney.\\nLackey, wife and two children of\\nLeon J. Lackey, telegraph oper-\\nator.\\nLongnecker, Mrs. A.\\nLord, Richard, traffic manager\\nGeorge H. McFaden Brothers,\\ncotton exporters.\\nLynch, John.\\nLassocco, Mrs., Twenty-first street\\nand Avenue P. Twenty-five per-\\nsons are reported to have been\\nlost in the store building of\\nMrs. Lassocco.\\nLisbony, W. H.\\nLabbat, Joe.\\nLafayette, Mrs., and two children.\\nMagia, Mr., two daughters and\\nson, grocery. Eleventh street\\nand Avenue A.\\nMasterson, B. T., and family.\\nMotter, Mrs., and two daughters.\\nMunn, Mrs. J. W., Sr.\\nMcKenna, five members of the P.\\nJ. and J. P, McKenna families-", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0361.jp2"}, "360": {"fulltext": "oiU\\nLIST OF IDENTIFICATIONS.\\nMonroe, Mrs., colored, and three\\nchildren.\\nMordon, Miss.\\nMcCauley, Miss Annie.\\nMorton, Mrs., and two babies.\\nNolly, Mrs. Sam and four children,\\nwith ten other women and chil-\\ndren, in the Nolly house on For-\\ntieth street and Avenue T. Mr.\\nNolly and another man were\\nsaved after a bitter struggle.\\nO Keefe, Mrs. Michael, and brother.\\nO Harrow, William.\\nO Dell, Miss Nellie, and brother,\\ndaughter and son of James\\nO Dell.\\nPeck, Captain R. H., city engineer,\\nwife and five children.\\nPeek, Captain; house was seen to\\noverturn while he was in it, and\\nhe has not been found.\\nPorette; thirteen persons killed\\nin a house at Eighth street and\\nBroadway. Dominick Porette is\\nthe only one of the party who\\nlives to tell the tale.\\nParker; an entire family living at\\nThirty-ninth and Q streets, con-\\nsisting of Angeline Parker and\\ngrandchild. Tommy Lesker; Si\\nSullivan Parker and wife and\\nthree children.\\nParker, Mrs. Frank, Avenue Q and\\nThirty-first street.\\nPorfree, Henry, a tailor.\\nPalmer, J. B., and baby.\\nPlitt, Harmon.\\nParker, Mrs. Mollie.\\nPtolmey, Paul.\\nQuester, Mrs. W., little son and\\ndaughter.\\nQuester, Bessie.\\nRice, proof reader on the Galves-\\nton News, and child.\\nRichards, police officer.\\nRoll, J. F., wife and four children.\\nRowan, police officer, and\\nfamily.\\nRust, Charles, knocked from a\\ndray while attempting to carry\\nhis family to a place of safety;\\ninstantly killed.\\nRose, Mrs., wife of Commissary\\nSergeant Franklin Rose of the\\nUnited States Army.\\nRipley, Henry, son of H. S. Ripley.\\nRhymes, Thomas, wife and two\\nchildren.\\nRegan, Mike, wife and mother-in-\\nlaw, lost at the Porette house.\\nRoudaux, Murray.\\nSailor, Spanish, of the steamship\\nTelesfora. which drifted against\\nthe Whitehall at pier 15.\\nSchofield, Miss Ida, lost in Magia\\nstore.\\nSchroeder, Mrs. George M., and\\nfour children.\\nSchuler, Mr., wife and five children.\\nSchwartzback, Joseph.\\nShaw, nephew of M. M. Shaw.\\nSomers, Miss Helen.\\nSpencer, Stanley G., local repre-\\nsentative of Demster Co. s\\nsteamship lines and the North\\nGerman Lloyd steamship lines.\\nStickloch, Miss Mabel, Mechanic\\nstreet.\\nSwain, Richard D.\\nSwell, George, mother and sister.\\nSchultz, Mr. and wife.\\nSharp, Miss Annie.\\nSummers, Sarah.\\nSharp, Mr. and wife.\\nSchaler, Mrs. Charles, and four\\nchildren.\\nSylvester, Mrs.\\nSmith, Mrs. Mamie.\\nSlierwood, Charles.\\nThompson, mother-in-law and sis-\\nter-in-law of William Thompson\\nof the fire department.\\nTovrea, police officer.\\nTreadwell, Mrs. J. B., and infant.\\nTaylor, Mrs., colored.\\nToothacker, wife and daughter of\\nJesse W. Toothacker, contractor\\nand builder.\\nTrebosius, Mrs. George, wife of\\nGeorge Trebosius of the Galves-\\nton News, and two sisters of Mr.\\nTrebosius, at their home, Forti-\\neth street and Avenue R.\\nUnidentified Two sisters-in-law\\nand a niece.\\nUnidentified White girls, 12 years\\nold, found in the yard of J. Paul\\nJones.\\nUnidentified Four white and\\nseven colored persons found in", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0362.jp2"}, "361": {"fulltext": "LIST OF IDENTIFICATIONS.\\n;i05\\nthe first story of W. J. Reit-\\nmeyer s residence. Reitmeyer\\nfamily, in the second story, es-\\ncaped.\\nUnidentified A lady and her\\ndaughter from St. Louis.\\nUnidentified Thirteen inmates\\nand three matrons at the Home\\nfor the Homeless.\\nWakelee, Mrs. Davis.\\nWebster, Edward, and two sisters.\\nWebster. Thomas, Sr., secretary of\\nthe grain inspector of the port,\\nwith family of four.\\nWensmor, several members of the\\nfamily residing in the east end;\\none of the family an old man,\\nwas saved.\\nWenman, Mrs. J. W., and two\\nchildren.\\nWolfe, Charles, police officer, and\\nfamily.\\nWood, Mrs., mother of United\\nStates Deputy Marshal Wood.\\nWilson, Mrs. Mary Ann and baby.\\nWallace, and four children.\\nWatkins, S. W., Avenue Q and\\nThirty-first street. Mr. Watkins\\nwas drowned and it was reported\\nthat about twenty other persons\\nin the same house met a similar\\nfate.\\nWren, James, wife and six chil-\\ndren; drowned at the Porette\\nHouse.\\nWootam,\\nWoodward, Miss Hattie.\\nWollam, C, drowned after saving\\nseveral women and while trying\\nto save others.\\nWalter, Mrs. Charles, and three\\nchildren.\\nTwenty-two persons Francois, a\\nwell-known waiter, reported the\\nloss of twenty-two persons who\\nhad taken refuge in his house.\\nAt Hitchcock, Tex., thirty lives\\nwere lost. Two Italian families of\\nthirteen people met death by\\ndrowning. The following were\\nkilled by falling timbers:\\nRobinson, William.\\nDominico, a child.\\nJohnson, Hiram, and wife.\\nPietze, Mrs., and three children.\\nThe family of C. W. Young, wife,\\ntwo sons and two daughters.\\nMontelona, Mary.\\nPalmero, -,wife and seven chil-\\ndren.\\nO Connor, T. W.\\nMembers of two families of Alvin,\\nwho were visiting the Young\\nfamily.\\nSeven unidentified found on\\nprairie, supposed to be from\\nGalveston.\\nFive Houston people perished at\\nSeabrook in the hurricane. They\\nwere:\\nLucy, Mrs. C. H., and two small\\nchildren.\\nM Uhenny, Haven, and the 5-year-\\nold son of David Rice.\\nAt Alvin the dead were:\\nJohnson, J. M.\\nJohnston, Mrs. J. S.\\nAppelle, Miss.\\nLewis, Mrs. 0. S.\\nGlaspy, John S.\\nRichardson, B.\\nCollins, Mrs. J. W., killed by fall-\\ning timbers.\\nCollins, Mrs.\\nHawley, W. P.\\nMebam, W. C, and wife.\\nAt Rosenburg the following\\ndeath list was reported:\\nWatson, Rev. A.\\nOntrall, Mrs. I. J.\\nHerman, B. S.\\nAt Oyster Creek the reported\\ndead were:\\nCarlton, H.\\nSmith, S.\\nJones, Tom.\\nArnold, A.\\nSmith, Connie.\\nMarshall, Lucy.\\nStephens, Tom, colored.\\nAt Areola:\\nWofford, Mrs. A., aged white\\nwoman.\\nAt Alto Loma:\\nTwenty-seven\u00e2\u0080\u0094 (no list given).\\nAt Richmond eighteen persons\\nwere killed.\\nAt Wharton, sixteen neg^roes\\nwere drowned.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0363.jp2"}, "362": {"fulltext": ";3G0\\nLIST OF IDENTIFICATIONS.\\nAt Morgan s Point:\\nVincent, Mrs., and two children.\\nTHE DEATH LIST FOR\\nWEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12.\\nAimers, Mrs. P.\\nAnderson, M., and family.\\nAndrew, Mr., and three children.\\nAnnudsen, Louis.\\nArmstrong, Mrs. Dora, and four\\nchildren.\\nBell, Mrs. A. C.\\nBell, Guy.\\nBerger, W. L., wife and child.\\nBodden, Mrs., and Mrs. J. P.\\nBrockelman, three children of J.\\nT. Brockelman.\\nBures, wife and sister.\\nBurge, William, wife and child.\\nBurnett, Mrs. Mary.\\nBurnett, Mrs. Gary, and two chil-\\ndren.\\nCarigan, Joseph.\\nChilds, K. T.\\nCleveland, George, and family.\\nCornett, Charles, and wife.\\nConnett, Mr. and Mrs. William,\\nand two children.\\nCraig, George.\\nDailey, K.\\nDilz, M., and two sons.\\nDorian, George, and wife.\\nDucos, two children.\\nDelcie, Mrs. Henry R., and child.\\nDarby, Charles.\\nDowell, Mrs. Sam.\\nEdmunsen, Mrs.\\nEdwards, Miss Eliza.\\nEggerett, William, and son\\nCharles.\\nEllis, Mrs., and family.\\nEnglish, John, wife and child.\\nEideman, H. E.\\nEverhart, J. H.,wife and daughter.\\nFabey, Sumptey.\\nFalke, Joseph, and three children.\\nFarmer, Mrs. I. P.\\nFaucett, Robert.\\nFaucett, Mrs. Belle.\\nFegue, Lillie, and Esther and\\nLaura May, children of Mrs.\\nLillie Fegue.\\nFox, Thomas.\\nFritz,\\nFloehr, Mrs.\\nGaulters, J.\\nGrathcar, Mrs. John, and child.\\nHarrah, Martin.\\nHarris, Mrs. John, and three chil-\\ndren.\\nHeck, Mrs., and son.\\nHerman, Martin, and two children.\\nHinke, August, Richard and Jo-\\nhanna.\\nHolbeck, Mrs. L. L.\\nHomburg, Peter.\\nHock, Mrs., and son.\\nHayman, Mrs. John A., and five\\nchildren.\\nJohnson, A. S., wife and three chil-\\ndren.\\nJones, Robert.\\nJunemann, Charles, wife and\\ndaughter.\\nJunter, William, and six children.\\nKampe, Charles.\\nKauffman, H., wife and children.\\nKelso, Munson, Jr.\\nKedso, Roy, baby boy of J. C.\\nKelso.\\nKirby, Mrs. J. H., and three chil-\\ndren.\\nKlein, Mrs. E. V.\\nKleincke, H., and wife.\\nKoepler, Mrs. Fred., and family.\\nKraus, Mr. and Mrs. J. J.\\nKrauss, Fred.\\nKrauss, Joseph J., wife and daugh-\\nters.\\nKrausse, I., wife and two daugh-\\nters.\\nLouis, Poland, carrier News.\\nLorance, Mrs. T. A.\\nLucas, Mrs. H., and two children\\nand white nurse.\\nMalrs, O. M., wife and child.\\nMaree, employed by James\\nFascher.\\nMalter, J.\\nMartin, Mrs.\\nMartin.\\nMasterson, B. T., and family.\\nMiles, Colson.\\nMiller, William, and family (part\\nnei- of Childs).\\nMitchell, Mrs. W. H., and child.\\nMongon, John.\\nMorro, Dotlo, wife and seven chil-\\ndren.\\nwife of Policeman", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0364.jp2"}, "363": {"fulltext": "LIST OF IDENTIFICATIONS.\\n;j(i7\\nMuttie, A.\\nM Manus, Mrs. William.\\nMiner, Lucia.\\nNeill, and family.\\nNolan, Mrs.\\nOlson, Mrs. Mattie, and two chil-\\ndren.\\nOpperman, Miss May, and Mar-\\nguerite and Gussie of Palestine.\\nOdelle, O.\\nOlsen, Mrs. Matilda, and two chil-\\ndren.\\nParler, Mrs. D., and two children.\\nPasker, Miss Ethel.\\nPauls. Nellie and Cecilia.\\nPix, C. H.\\nPalmer, J. B., and baby.\\nPlitt, Harmon.\\nPeters, Mrs.\\nPark, Mrs. M. L.\\nPark, Miss Alice.\\nPark, Miss Lucy.\\nRoberts, watchman G. H. and\\nN. R. R.\\nRattizan, Mrs. Leon, and four chil-\\ndren.\\nRatissa, Mrs. W. L., and three\\nchildren.\\nRaymond, Mr. and Mrs., and two\\nchildren.\\nReagan, J. N.\\nRhaes, T. F., wife and two chil-\\ndren.\\nRoan, Mrs., and three children.\\nRudger, C, wife and child.\\nRunter, A., and mother and father.\\nSchoabel, George, wife and daugh-\\nter.\\nSeveret, J., and wife.\\nSherwood, Thomas, wife and three\\nchildren.\\nShilke, Mrs., son and infant.\\nSiegler, Mrs. Fred.\\nSommers, F., wife and three\\ndaughters and his son Joseph,\\nwife and child.\\nStetgel, Mr., and family.\\nStockfelt, Peter, wife and six chil-\\ndren.\\nSwanson, Mrs.\\nStcckfletch, Petci-. wife and six\\nchildren.\\nSchwotsel, George, wife and daugh-\\nter Lulu.\\nSayers, Dr. John B.\\nSayers, Tom.\\nSmith, Jacob.\\nStowinsky, Mr., and wife.\\nSeixas, E., and two daughters,\\nAnna and Lucile.\\nTarpey, Joseph.\\nToveca, Sam, policeman, wife and\\nfour children.\\nTow, T. C, wife and five children.\\nThomsen, Mrs. W. D., and two\\nchildren.\\nTovrea, Sam, wife and child.\\nToothacker, Miss Jennie.\\nTillebach, Charles, wife, mother-\\nin-law and two children.\\nVilleneve, Mrs., and child of Hitch-\\ncock.\\nVogel, Mrs. Henry, and three chil-\\ndren.\\nVondenbaden, Mrs., and two chil-\\ndren.\\nWalden, Mr.\\nWarmarvosky, Adolph, mother\\nand sister reported missing.\\nWarneke, Mrs. A. W., and five\\nchildren.\\nWarren, James, wife and six chil-\\ndren.\\nWebber, Mr., family missing.\\nWedges, Judge, justice of the\\npeace, and wife.\\nWilsh, Joseph, wife and two chil-\\ndren.\\nWincott, Mrs.\\nWindman, Mrs.\\nWebster, Edward, Sr.\\nWebster, Mrs. Julia.\\nWebster, Mrs. Sarah.\\nWebster, George.\\nWebster, Joe.\\nYeats, child.\\nYoungblood, L. J., wife and child.\\nZipp, Mrs. and daughter.\\nTHURSDAY S (SEPTEMBER 13)\\nAWFUL ROSTER OF IDENTI-\\nFIED DEAD.\\nThe official list of those identi-\\nfied on Thursday was as follows:\\nAdams, Toby.\\nAdams, Mrs.\\nAgin, George.\\nAllen, Mrs. Alex.\\nAnderson, Mrs. S.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0365.jp2"}, "364": {"fulltext": "308\\nLIST OF IDENTIFICATIONS.\\nAlbertson, A.\\nAlbertson, Mrs.\\nAlpin, George.\\nAlpin, Mrs.\\nAnderson, Mrs. .Jack.\\nAshe, George, Sr.\\nAshe, George, .Tr.\\nBell, Alexander.\\nBerger, Mrs. Lucy.\\nBell, Henry.\\nBland, Mrs.\\nBland, Mrs. Florence.\\nBodecker, Charles.\\nBoss, Charles.\\nBoss, D.\\nBrooks, J. R.\\nCain, Rev. Thomas W.\\nCain, Mrs.\\nCalhoun, Mrs. Thomas.\\nCarter, Corinne.\\nCasey Mrs. Annie.\\nClark, C. Y.\\nChaffee, Mrs.\\nCuney, R. C.\\nDavis, Gabe.\\nDay, Alfred.\\nDay, Willie.\\nDempsey, Mr. and Mrs.\\nDavis, Henry T.\\nDorrfe, Mr.\\nDorrfe, Mrs.\\nDunton, Mrs. Annie.\\nDammel, Mrs.\\nDammell, W. D.\\nDirekes, Henry.\\nDowell, Mrs. Samuel.\\nDunning, Mrs. H. C.\\nDunning, Richard.\\nEvans, Mrs.\\nFalkenhagen, Mr. and Mrs.\\nFreitag, Harry.\\nFrank, Mrs. Aug.\\nFrieman, Mr. and Mrs.\\nFeither, Mrs. F.\\nFerget, Julius.\\nGibson, Professor.\\nGoth, A. E.\\nGoth, Mrs.\\nGreen, Mrs. Lucy.\\nGentry, Charlotte.\\nGottleib, Mrs.\\nHomes, Florence.\\nHarris, Effie.\\nHiggins, Mrs.\\nHoffman family.\\nHolland, Mrs. .James.\\nHughes, Robert.\\nJefferbrook, August.\\nJefferbrook, Mrs.\\nJohnson, Mrs.\\nJohnson, Mrs. W. J.\\nJones, W. R.\\nJasters, Perry.\\nKing, Mrs.\\nKnowles, Mrs. W. T.\\nKuhn, Mrs. H. Clem.\\nKuhnel, Mrs.\\nl^awson, Charles.\\nTjawson, Mrs.\\nLewis. Agnes.\\nLewis, Maria.\\nLewis, Mrs. Maria.\\nLevin, P.\\nLindquist, Mrs. 0.\\nLockman, Mr. and Mrs. H.\\nLudwig. Alfred.\\nLyle, William.\\nLemmon, Virgie.\\nLloyd, Buck.\\nLloyd, Mrs.\\nLudwig, Albert.\\nManley, Joe.\\nMoore, Mrs. N.\\nMoore, Mrs. Nathan.\\nMartin, Herman.\\nMenzel, John.\\nMenzel, Mrs.\\nMorse, .Arthur P.\\nMorse. Mrs.\\nMcGuire, John.\\nMcPherson, Robert.\\nMcDade, Ed.\\nNelson, Mrs.\\nPark, Miss Lucy.\\nPiney, Mrs.\\nPatrick, Cora.\\nPatrick, Ida.\\nPierson, Mrs. Mary.\\nPierson, Alice.\\nPierson, Frank.\\nPiner, Mrs. Ella.\\nPowers, Mrs.\\nRandolph, Edith.\\nRavey family.\\nRoehm, Mrs.\\nRoehm, William.\\nRoehle, John.\\nRoehle, Mrs.\\nRuehrmond, Professor.\\nRuehrmond, Mrs.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0366.jp2"}, "365": {"fulltext": "LIST OF WENTII ICATIONS.\\n3()9\\nRoukes, Mrs. Charles.\\nReuter, Otto.\\nReuter, Henry.\\nRowe, Ada.\\nRowe, Hattie.\\nRowe, George.\\nShaw, Frank.\\nSeidenstricker, Henry.\\nSchultze, Charles.\\nSchuiz, Fred.\\nSchulz, Mrs.\\nSchuiz, Charles C.\\nSchwotsel, George.\\nScott, Annie.\\nScull, Mrs. Mary.\\nSeixas, Miss Arma.\\nSeixas, Miss Lucille.\\nSexalis, Sella.\\nSchutte, E. R.\\nSchutte, Mrs.\\nShilhe, Mrs.\\nTix, Herman.\\nTorr, T. C.\\nTorr, Mrs. T. C.\\nThurman, Mrs.\\nTresvant, Jordan.\\nTrostman, Mrs.\\nTurner, Mrs.\\nTurner, Mr.\\nTurner, Mrs.\\nUlerldge, Adelaide.\\nVan Liew, Mollie.\\nVan Buren, Herman.\\nWaring, Mrs. (Chicago).\\nWarren, Celia.\\nWashington, Mrs.\\nWeiss, Professor.\\nWeidemann, Fritz.\\nWilke, assistant city electrician.\\nAVilke, Mrs.\\nWilliams, Mrs. E. C.\\nWilliams, Sam.\\nWilliams, Mrs.\\nWoodrow, Matilda.\\nYeager, William.\\nZweigel, Mrs.\\nIDENTIFICATIONS MADE ON\\nFRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14.\\nAberhart, T., and wife.\\nAckermann, Herman, wife and\\ndaughter.\\nAdams, M., and Mrs. Tobey (col-\\nored).\\nAdameit, Mrs. G., and seven chil-\\ndren.\\nAkers, C. B., wife and three chil-\\ndren.\\nAlbertson, A., wife and two chil-\\ndren.\\nAllardico, R. L., wife and three\\nchildren.\\nAllen, Cornelia.\\nAllen, Daisy.\\nAllen, Elve.\\nAllen, Zerena.\\nAlphonse, John, wife and family.\\nAnderson, Oscar, wife and chil-\\ndren.\\nAnderson, Andrew, wife and chil-\\ndren.\\nArmitage, Miss Vivian.\\nArmour, Mrs., and five children.\\nArtisan, John, wife and nine chil-\\ndren.\\nAndrew, Mrs. A., and family.\\nBell, Alexander, wife, two sons\\nand daughter.\\nBoedecker, Charles.\\nBercer, Mrs. Lucy.\\nBrooks, J. T.\\nBland, Mrs., and seven children\\n(colored).\\nBell, Henry.\\nBankers, Mrs. Charles.\\nBeach, Miss Nina of Victoria.\\nBoedenker, H., father, brother and\\nsister-in-law.\\nBarnard, Mrs.\\nBecker, John, wife and daughters,\\nMae and Vida.\\nBrown, Winnie M.\\nBellew, Mr. and Mrs. J., and\\ndaughter.\\nBass, John, wife and four children\\n(colored).\\nBaulch, Will, wife and two chil-\\ndren.\\nBeal, Mrs. Dudley, and child.\\nBedford, Cushman (colored).\\nBohn, Dixie.\\nBoss, Peter, and wife.\\nBowen,\\nBradley, Miss Mannie.\\nBradley, Miss Ethel.\\nBentley, and family.\\nBriscoll, A. M.\\nBockelman, C. J.\\nBrown, Joe, and family.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0367.jp2"}, "366": {"fulltext": "370\\nLIST OF IDENTIFICATIONS.\\nBuckley, Selma.\\nBuckley, Blanche.\\nBuckley, mother and father.\\nBuckley, Mrs. and daughter.\\nBurgee, William, wife and child.\\nBurrell, Mrs. (colored).\\nBittell. Mrs.\\nChristian, John.\\nCampbell, Will.\\nCurry, Mrs. Martha J., and Miss\\nLouisa.\\nCampbell, Miss Edna.\\nCarter, Adeline.\\nNinety people at Catholic Orphan\\nHome.\\nCato, William (colored).\\nChilds, William, and wife.\\nClark, Tom.\\nCorbett, James J., and four chil-\\ndren.\\nCaddoe, Alex., and five children.\\nColsen,\\nConnor, Captain D. E.\\nConnor, Edward J.\\nCowen,\\nCrouse, J. J., wife and children.\\nCredo, Will.\\nCromwell, Mrs., and three chil-\\ndren.\\nCrook, Ashby.\\nCrowley, Miss Nellie, and brother.\\nCuneo, Mrs. Joseph, New Orleans.\\nCurry, Mrs. E. H., and child.\\nCarven, Mrs., and daughter.\\nCarnett, and wife, of Orange,\\nCrawford, Rayburn.\\nCarson, Frank C.\\nClinton, Mrs. Mary, and children\\nGeorge A., Horace, Lee W.,\\nJoseph B., Willie B. and Freddie.\\nDarrell, and five children.\\nDavis, Mrs. T. F.\\nDeltz, M., and two sons.\\nDinter, Mrs., and daughter.\\nDonahue, Ellen, Utica, N. Y.\\nDonahue, Mary, Utica, N. Y.\\nDoll, George and wife.\\nDoll, Frank, and family.\\nDoty, John.\\nDoyle, Jim.\\nDunningham, Richard E.\\nDunnin, Mrs. Howard C, and\\nthree children.\\nDirke, Henry, and family.\\nDarfee, Mr. and Mrs., and two\\ndaughters.\\nDammill, W. D., and wife (col-\\nored).\\nDunham, George R., and wife.\\nDunham, George R., Jr., and two\\nchildren.\\nDonnelly, Nick.\\nDucos, Madeline and Octavia.\\nDavis, Miss Emma.\\nDrewa, H. A.\\nDemesie, Mrs., and two sons.\\nDowles, Samuel, wife and one\\nchild.\\nDavis, Mrs. Mary, and children\\nCarrie, Alice, Lizzie and Eddie.\\nEckett, Fred.\\nEckett, Charles.\\nEdward, James, and family.\\nEismann, wife and child.\\nEismann, Howard.\\nEllas, James, and two children.\\nEnglish, John, wife and child.\\nEmmanuel, Joe.\\nEppendorf, Mr. and Mrs.\\nEads, Sumpter.\\nForget, Julius.\\nPfeither, Mrs. Fritz.\\nFrau, Mrs. August, and daughter.\\nFaby, C. S., wife and two children.\\nFoster, Mrs. August.\\nFreise, Mr. and Mrs. Charles M.\\nForbush, John, and Freddie.\\nFretwell, J. B., Mrs. and boy.\\nFoster, Mrs. S. F.\\nFarrer, Miss Nannie of Sullivan s\\nIsland.\\nFrank, Anton, wife and two daugh-\\nters.\\nFanchon family.\\nFedo. Joe.\\nFerwedert, Peter.\\nFickett, Mrs., and four children.\\nFiegel, John.\\nFigge, Mrs., and four children.\\nFranks, Mr., and daughter.\\nFornkesell, T. C.\\nFoster, Mr. and Mrs. Harry, and\\nthree children.\\nFox, Thomas, wife and four chil-\\ndren.\\nFrankovich, Charles and John,\\nFredericks, Corinne.\\nFurst family.\\nGait, A. E.. and wife.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0368.jp2"}, "367": {"fulltext": "LIST Of WEN Til J CA TIONS.\\ni\\nGibson, Professor, and family.\\nGentry, Charlotte (colored).\\nGonzales, Andrew, wife and daugh-\\nter Pauline.\\nGraham, Mrs. H., and baby.\\nGarnett, Robert F.\\nGibson, Mary C.\\nGuilett, Colonel, of Victoria.\\nGeorge, H. K., and family.\\nGrey, H. K., and family.\\nGrey, Randolph, four children and\\nsister-in-law.\\nGarbaldi, August.\\nGabel, Mr. and Mrs. (colored).\\nGallishaw. and five children.\\nGaires, Mrs. Lillie, and two daugh-\\nters.\\nGanth,\\nGarrigan, .Joe.\\nGecan, Matt.\\nGordon, Oscar.\\nClausen, Charles, and family of\\nfour.\\nGregg, and four children.\\nGrief, John, wife and three chil-\\ndren.\\nGrosscup, Mrs.\\nGoodwin, two girls.\\nGenning, Tim, and wife.\\nGruetsmicher, Louis, wife and two\\ndaughters.\\nGaines, Captain Edward, and wife.\\nHildebrand, Fred.\\nHarris, Miss Rebecca.\\nHubbell, Misses Maggie and\\nEmma.\\nHaines, sister of Mrs. Captain\\nHaines.\\nHuebener, Mrs. A., and boy.\\nHaughton, Willie O.\\nHunter, George.\\nHausinger, George.\\nHall, Charles (colored).\\nHannamann, Mrs. August.\\nHarris, L.\\nHarris, Thomas, wife and three\\nchildren.\\nHarris, Mrs. W. D., and son.\\nHarrison, Tom, and wife.\\nHassler, Charles, and wife.\\nHasselmeyer family.\\nHaughton, Mrs. W. W.\\nHeidmann, William, Jr.\\nHelfenstein, Sophie and Willie.\\nHennessy, Mrs. M. P., and two\\nnieces.\\nHerman, Martin, and two children.\\nHersey, Mrs. John.\\nHolmes, Mrs. (colored).\\nHoskins, T. D.. wife and three\\nchildren (colored).\\nHubbell, Emma and Maggie.\\nHull, William (colored).\\nHull, Charles (colored).\\nHumberg, Mrs. Peter, and four\\nchildren.\\nJackman. Ada, and two children.\\nJaeger, William H.\\nJaeger, John, and wife.\\nJaecke, Mrs. Curt, and three chil-\\ndren.\\nJennings, James A., and wife.\\nJennssen, Mrs. and Mr., and five\\nchildren.\\nJohnson, Asa, wife and son.\\nJohnson, Julian.\\nJohnson, child.\\nJohnston, J. B., wife and two chil-\\ndren.\\nJohnston, Mrs. Alice.\\nJohnston, Mrs. E. E., and four\\nchildren.\\nJunkf, Martha.\\nJunka, Mrs. Paulina.\\nJunker, Mrs. Colina.\\nJohnston, Mrs.\\nJohnston, Mrs. W. J.\\nJohnson, Mrs. C. S.\\nJones, J. H., and wife.\\nJaeger, Walter H.\\nJohnson, V. S.\\nJohnson, Odin, wife and child.\\nJohnston, J. A., and wife.\\nKeats, Tom, and wife.\\nKeeton, J. C., wife and three chil-\\ndren.\\nKelmer, Charles L., Sr.\\nKely, wife and three chil-\\ndren.\\nKeiffer, wife and daughter.\\nKennelly, Mrs. Annie.\\nKester, Fred, and daughter.\\nKirby, James, and three men.\\nKirby, Mrs. George, and two chil-\\ndren.\\nKleinicke, Mrs., and family.\\nKlenmann, Fred and wife.\\nKnowles, Mrs. W. T., and three\\nchildren.\\nKuder, Ed., and wife.\\nKuhn. Oscar, wife and three chil-\\ndren.\\nKleinmann, Henry, and wife.\\nKlindlund, Newton and Carl.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0369.jp2"}, "368": {"fulltext": "372\\nLIST OF IDENTIFICATIONS.\\nKemp, Tom and wife.\\nKemp, W. C, and wife.\\nKotte, William.\\nKimlo, Mrs. John, and two chil-\\ndren.\\nKelly, Thomas, wife and two chil-\\ndren.\\nKreckrecek, Joe, wife and three\\nchildren.\\nKing, Mrs.\\nKarvel, Mrs. Jack, and four chil-\\ndren.\\nKonstantopolos, F.\\nKreywell, David, and daughter.\\nKeis, L., wife and four children.\\nLawson, Charles, wife and child.\\nL.udwig, Alfred, mother and sis-\\nter-in-law.\\nLackey, Mrs., father and mother.\\nLyle, William, grandmother and\\nsister.\\nLabatt, H. J.\\nLabatt, Louisa C, and sister,\\nNellie E.\\nLackey and children, Leon and\\nPearl.\\nLane, Rev. Mr., and family.\\nLane, F.. and family.\\nLang, five children.\\nLapeyre, James, wife and four\\nchildren.\\nLarson, H., and two children.\\nLaukhuffe, Genevieve.\\nLawson, Mrs. W., and one child.\\nLearman, H. L.\\nLeverman, Professor.\\nLemier, Joe, and four children.\\nLeon, and two children.\\nLeslie, Mrs. Gracie.\\nLettermann, W., wife and two\\nchildren.\\nLevine, Mrs. P. A., daughter and\\ntwo sons.\\nLevy, W. T.\\nLewis, Mrs. J., and six children.\\nLonder, John, wife and seven chil-\\ndren.\\nLivingston, Mrs.\\nLloyd, Charles H., wife and one\\nchild.\\nLocke, Mrs. Mary.\\nLockstadt, Albert, wife and three\\nchildren.\\nLoasberg, Miss Maggie.\\nLorance, Mrs. E. A.\\nLove, Ed. G.\\nLudeke, Henry, wife and son.\\nLuddeker,\\nLittle, Mrs. J. A.\\nLepehear, J. H., wife and three\\nchildren.\\nLanahan, Laura, Francis, Tcr-\\nrence, and Claud, children of\\nJohn Lanahan.\\nLuca, Mrs. J.\\nLeibe, Mrs. Mary.\\nLang, F. A., four sons and daugh-\\nter and colored nurse.\\nLevy, Miss, of Houston.\\nLegate, Louis, wife and son.\\nLegate, Mrs. Peticles,two sons and\\ntwo daughters.\\nLegate, Christian.\\nManley, Joe, mother and two\\nnieces.\\nManley, Mrs. S. R.\\nMiller, Mrs., and five children (col-\\nored).\\nM Neill, Miss J., and Miss Ruby.\\nMaybrook, wife and five children.\\nMorris, Harry, wife and three chil-\\ndren.\\nMuri, Annie and Murine.\\nMarcotte, Miss Pauline.\\nM Avay, Mrs. E. C.\\nMulsburger, Tony, and wife.\\nMartin, Miss Annie.\\nMario, Alex.\\nMassey, E., wife and child.\\nMati, Xmendio.\\nM Camish, R., wife and two\\ndaughters.\\nM Cluskey, Mrs. Charles, and two\\ndaughters.\\nM Cormick, Mrs. B., and four chil-\\ndren.\\nM Millan, Mrs. E., and family.\\nM Peters, wife and children.\\nMealy, Mrs. Joseph.\\nMealy, Joseph.\\nMielhulan, Mrs,\\nMedzel, John, wife and five chil-\\ndren.\\nMesley, Charles (colored).\\nMilan, wife and four children.\\nMiller, Leslie.\\nMitchell, Louis R. (colored).\\nMitchell, Mrs. Annie and son.\\nMoffett, wife and two chil-\\ndren.\\nMongan, John.\\nMonoghan, Mike and family.\\nMonoghan, John, and wife.\\nMorrow, Mrs., and four children.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0370.jp2"}, "369": {"fulltext": "LIST OP IDENTIFICATIONS.\\n373\\nMoore, Miss Maggie.\\nMoore, Mrs. Nathan (colored).\\nMoore, 10. W.\\nMoore, two children.\\nMoore,\\nMoore, 0.,wife and seven children.\\nMorley, D., and wife.\\nMorton, Hammond, and four chil-\\ndren.\\nMorse, Albert T., wife and three\\nchildren.\\nMulcahey, two children.\\nMunn, Mrs. J. W., Sr.\\nMurrie, Mrs. Annie, and daughter.\\nMyer, Hermann, wife and son.\\nMyers, Mrs. C. J., and one child.\\nNeimann, Mrs., and daughter.\\nNorth, Miss Archie.\\nOakley, F.\\nO Connor, Mamie.\\nOlds, Charlotte (colored).\\nOrmond, George, and five children.\\nOhlsen, Mr. and Mrs.\\nOpperman, Albert L., and wife.\\nO Connolly, Miss Mamie.\\nPett, Mrs.\\nPark, Mrs., and two daughters.\\nPowers, Mrs., and child.\\nPalmer, Mrs. Mae, and son Lee, 6\\nyears old.\\nPatterson, Florence.\\nPruesmith, Mrs. F., and three chil-\\ndren.\\nPaisley, William.\\nPark, Mrs. M. L.\\nPellins, Mrs. M.\\nPenny, Mrs. A., and two sons.\\nPerry, Jasper, Jr., wife and two\\nchildren.\\nPeterson, Charles, wife and two\\nchildren.\\nPeterson, Mrs. J., and children.\\nPhelps, Miss Ruth.\\nQuinn, John.\\nRaab, George W., and wife.\\nRaphael, Nick.\\nReader, and family.\\nRichardson, William (colored).\\nRicke, Tony, and wife.\\nRiley, Solomon, and wife.\\nRing, J., proof reader Galveston\\nNews, and two children.\\nRiordan, Thomas.\\nReagan, Mrs. Patrick, and son.\\nRhea, Mrs. and Miss Mamie of\\nGiles County, Tennessee.\\nRoach, Annie.\\nRoberts, watchman.\\nRobbins, Mrs. H. B., of Smith s\\nPoint.\\nRodefeld, William, Jr.\\nRohl, John, wife and five children.\\nRoll, Mrs. A., and four children.\\nRoss, daughter of Mrs. Ross of\\nHouston.\\nRoth, Mrs. Kate, and three chil-\\ndren.\\nRoe, Ada (colored).\\nRowe, Hattie (colored).\\nRotter, A. J., wife and two chil-\\ndren.\\nRudder, Robert, wife and four\\nchildren.\\nRudger, C, wife and child.\\nRughter, Lena.\\nRuce, Ida (colored).\\nRice, Fisher (colored).\\nRedello, Angelo, wife and four\\nchildren.\\nRandolph, Edith.\\nRosenberg, and baby.\\nRoe, K. (colored).\\nRiser, Henry, wife and three chil-\\ndren.\\nRiesel, Mrs. Lula, and children-\\nRay and Edna.\\nRoberts, Herbert N.\\nRhodes, Miss Ella, trained nurse.\\nRose, C. M.\\nRuhler, Frank, Mrs. K., Leon and\\nAlbert.\\nReagan, John P.\\nRutter, H., wife and five children.\\nSandford, S., and family.\\nSawyer, Dr. John B.\\nSawyer, Tom.\\nSawyer, Mrs. Robert, and three\\nchildren.\\nSchadermantle, Maud and Randle.\\nScheirholz, W., wife and five chil-\\ndren.\\nSchoolfield, D. (colored).\\nSchrader, Mary.\\nSchuler, Mr. and Mrs., and five\\nchildren.\\nSchook, Mr. and Mrs. Robert, Jr.\\nSkarke, Charles F., and son.\\nSmith, Mary.\\nSmith, Charles L.\\nSmith, Professor F. C, wife and\\nfive children.\\nSmith, Jacob.\\nSmith. Wiley, wife and children\\n(colored).", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0371.jp2"}, "370": {"fulltext": "374\\nLIST OF IDENTIFICATIONS.\\nSodiche, L.\\nSolomon, Frank, and family of six.\\nSolomon, Julius, and wife.\\nStacker, Mrs. Sophie.\\nStacker, Miss Alfreda.\\nStacker, George.\\nStackpole, Dr., and family.\\nSteding, wife and children (seven\\nin family).\\nStenzel, wife and three children.\\nStewart, Captain T., and family.\\nStewart, Miss Lester.\\nStiglitz, Miss Mamie.\\nStrabo, Nick, and family, except\\none.\\nStrickhausen, Mrs.\\nSweigel, George, mother and\\nsister.\\nSymms, two children of H. C.\\nSmith, Mrs. Mary, and baby (col-\\nored).\\nScull, Mrs. Mary.\\nSchutte, R., wife and two children.\\nSimpson, W. R., and two children,\\nJames and Berry.\\nSargent, Thomas, Arthur and\\nAllen.\\nSladeyce, R. L., wife and three\\nchildren.\\nStanford, Mrs. Emma.\\nSchwartz, Marie, Maggie and\\nWillie.\\nSeidenstucker, John.\\nSchrader, Mary.\\nSummers, Miss Sarah, of Cading,\\nKy.\\nSmith, Jacob (unaccounted for.)\\nSpann, J. C. wife and daughter.\\nTurner, Mrs.\\nTrizevant, Jordan.\\nThurman, Mrs.\\nTaylor, Mrs. J. W.\\nThomas, Nolan and Nathan.\\nThomason, Mrs. W. B., and two\\nchildren.\\nThomas, wife and six chil-\\ndren.\\nThornton, two children of Leigh.\\nTickel, Mrs. James, Sr.\\nTrahan, Mrs. H. V., and child.\\nTravers, Mrs. H. C, and son, Shel-\\ndon.\\nTurner, Mr. and Mrs.\\nTrostman, Mrs. E., and three chil-\\ndren.\\nTayer, Verma and M. C.\\nUnger, Mrs. E.. ^nd five children.\\nUlridge, Adelaide (colored).\\nVan Buren, Ethel.\\nVaught, Edna, child of W. J.\\nVaught.\\nVitocitch, John, and family.\\nVan Buren, Herman, wife and\\nthree children.\\nWallace, Scott.\\nWallace, Earl.\\nWaldon, son of Henry.\\nWalsh, J., wife and child.\\nWarner, Mrs. A. S.\\nWarner, Mrs. Flora.\\nWarren, Martha.\\nWeber, Mrs. Charles T.\\nWeber, Mrs. Anna.\\nWebber, Mrs. F., and family.\\nWindberg, Otto, wife and child.\\nWeiss, Oscar, wife and child.\\nWenderman, Mrs.\\nWestway, Mrs. George.\\nWharton,\\nWhite, family of Walter.\\nWhittle, Tom.\\nWilde, Mrs., and Miss Freida.\\nWilliams, Frank, wife and child.\\nWilson, Annie.\\nWinscoatte, Mrs. W. D.\\nWhite,\\nWilliams, Alex.\\nWindmann, Mrs.\\nWinmt)ore, James, wife and two\\nchildren.\\nWinn, Mrs., and child.\\nWithey, H. M.\\nWood, William (colored).\\nWoods, Miss, from Joliet, 111.\\nWoods, Mrs. Julia and Miss Nan-\\nnie, of Joliet.\\nWright, Lulu and John.\\nWurzlow, Mrs.\\nWilliams, Mrs. E. C. (colored).\\nWoodrow, Matilda.\\nWisrodt, August, Jr., and wife and\\ntwo children.\\nWeinberg, Otto, wife and five chil-\\ndren.\\nWalker, Louis D.\\nWatklns, Mrs. F., Stanley, Arthur\\nand Berna.\\nWallis, Lee, wife, mother, four\\nchildren and a little orphan girl\\nwho formerly lived at Palestine.\\nWeight, Jennie T., and Lula.\\nWalker, Joe.\\nWilliams, Rosanna (colored).\\nWinberg, Mrs. F. A., and Fritz.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0372.jp2"}, "371": {"fulltext": "LIST OF IDENTIFICATIONS.\\n375\\nYeager, William.\\nYuenz, Lillie and Henry George.\\nYounger, Evelia, and two children\\n(colored).\\nZeigler, Mrs., and two daughters.\\nZwigel Mrs., and two daughters.\\nAt the Catholic Orphanage:\\nSister Camillas, Superior.\\nMary Vincent.\\nMary Elizabeth.\\nRaphael.\\nCatherina.\\nGenevieve.\\nFelicitus.\\nMary Finbar.\\nEvangeline.\\nRanignus.\\nADDITIONS TO THE DEAD ROS-\\nTER FOR SATURDAY, SEP-\\nTEMBER 15.\\nAllison, S. B.\\nAntonovitch, P.\\nAugustial, P.\\nAllen, E. B.\\nBowles, Samuel.\\nBowles, Mrs. S.\\nBellew, J.\\nBellew, Mrs. J.\\nBourdon, Mrs. L. A.\\nBlum, Mrs. Isaac.\\nBlum, Mrs. Sylvan.\\nBarry, Mrs. M. E.\\nBereckman, Edw.\\nBell, Clarence.\\nBuckner, Mr.\\nBenston, T.\\nBergeron, Mrs.\\nBanneval, Mrs. A.\\nBearman, T.\\nBrown, Adolph.\\nClupp, Mrs. C. P.\\nCook, William.\\nCook, Mrs. Scott.\\nCopps, Charles.\\nCowan, Mr.\\nCarlton, Charles.\\nCratz, Jack.\\nCleary, Dan.\\nCoddard, Alex.\\nDuett, Miss M.\\nDawler, Mrs. Samuel.\\nDavis, Mrs. Thomas.\\nDorrin, Mrs. C.\\nDemsie, John.\\nDemsie, Mrs. John.\\nEdwards, A. R. C.\\nEsteman, Paul.\\nFalk, Mrs.\\nFuger, Frank.\\nGoldman, Theo.\\nGarbaldi, August.\\nHoffman, H. H.\\nHegman, Edward.\\nHerr, Leonard.\\nHayman, John A.\\nHolland, Mrs. J.\\nHiggins, Mrs.\\nIrvin, Joseph.\\nJohnson, H. P.\\nJefferbrook, August.\\nJefferbrook, Mrs, Aug.\\nJones, J. H.\\nJones, Mrs. J. H.\\nKinds, Joseph.\\nKimpan, Paul.\\nKeefe, T. J.\\nKalb, August.\\nKalif, Mrs. John.\\nKaiser, Louis.\\nKinsfader, Joe.\\nKelly, Florence.\\nKirky, George.\\nKing, Mrs.\\nKarvel, Mrs. Jack.\\nLindner, Mrs. L.\\nLevy, Major W. T.\\nLossing, Mrs. H.\\nM Bwan, John H., Jr.\\nMassey, Tom.\\nMartyn, Mrs. R.\\nMott, Mrs. Frank\\nMartin, Jim.\\nMarcoburro.\\nMiller, Joe.\\nMeyer, Joe.\\nMcGovern, James.\\nMcHale, John.\\nMenard, Miss Mary.\\nMellor, Robert.\\nMorton, Mrs. A.\\nMorton, Henry.\\nMiller, Mrs.\\nMartin, Herman.\\nMcGuire, John.\\nMcPherson, Robert.\\nMarcotte, Miss P.\\nMcVay, Mrs. E. C.\\nNick, oysterman.\\nNelson, Mrs.\\nOpiliz, Anita.\\nO Keefe, Mrs. C. J.\\nOlsen, Steve.\\nOlson, Thomas H,", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0373.jp2"}, "372": {"fulltext": "376\\nLIST OF IDENTIFICATIONS.\\nProTOst, James.\\nPlotomey.\\nPlitt, Hermann.\\nPotoff, Charles.\\nPhelps, Ruth.\\nPeklinge, Mrs.\\nPinto, Mrs. Tony.\\nPeco, Leon.\\nPierson, Miss Mary.\\nPierson, Alice.\\nPierson, Frank.\\nQuarrovich,\\nRummelin, Ed.\\nReagan, H. J.\\nRaleigh, Miss Nellie.\\nReamann, Mrs.\\nRedford, Mattie.\\nRitter, Mrs. W. M.\\nRoehm, W. W. F.\\nRavey,\\nRandolph, Edith.\\nRosenberg,\\nRurehmond, Professor.\\nRurehmond, Mrs.\\nRiser, Hy.\\nRiser, Mrs. Hy.\\nRiesel, Mrs. Lulu.\\nSchuler, A.\\nSteager, J.\\nSmith, 0. P.\\nSenott, Maggie.\\nSchultz, Charles.\\nSchultz, Charles C.\\nSchultz, Fred.\\nSchultz, Mrs. F.\\nScull, Mrs. Mary.\\nSimpson, W. R.\\nSargent, Thomas.\\nSargent, Arthur.\\nSargent, Allen.\\nStanford, Mrs. E.\\nTuckett, Walter.\\nTayer, Verma.\\n1 ayer, M. C.\\nWilliams, Mrs. E. C.\\nWoodrow, Matilda.\\nWaring, Mrs.\\nWisrodt, August, Jr.\\nWisrodt, Mrs. A., Jr.\\nWalker, L. D.\\nWatkins, Mrs. F.\\nWatkins, Stanley.\\nWatkins, Arthur.\\nWatkins, Berna.\\nWallis, Lee.\\nWallis, Mrs. L. C.\\nWeight, Jennie T.\\nWeight, Lula.\\nWilliams, R.\\nWoodward, E. C, Jr.\\nWilliams, Rosanna.\\nWalters, F. A.\\nWicke, Mrs.\\nWegner, Fritz.\\nZippi, J. M.\\nZumberg, Gus.\\nThe members of Battery O,\\nFirst Artillery, U. S. A., lost in the\\nstorm were:\\nAndrews, Greorge F., private.\\nAndrews, William L., private.\\nCantner, James W., cook.\\nDelaney, William A., private.\\nDowney, Peter, private.\\nGeorge, Hugh R., first sergeant.\\nGlaffey, John, private.\\nHess, Fred, private.\\nHunt, Frank W., private.\\nKelly, John, private.\\nLewis, Everett A., private.\\nLink, George, mechanic.\\nMarsh, James A., sergeant.\\nMitchell, Benjamin D., private.\\nMcArthur, Malcolm, mechanic.\\nPeterson, George, private.\\nRander, Leopold, private.\\nRoberts, Samuel, corporal.\\nSauerber, William S., private.\\nSeffers, Otto, private.\\nVantilbruch, Benjamin, private.\\nWheeler, Wadsworth B., private\\nWhite, Herbert R., private.\\nWilhite, Carvan M., private.\\nWright, Sidney, private.\\nHospital corps:\\nForrest, Samuel, private.\\nGossage, Joseph, private.\\nMcllvene, Elright, private.\\nFew of the bodies of the dead\\nregulars were ever found. Twelve\\nmiles down Galveston Island the\\nfollowing were killed:\\nJohn Schneider s whole family.\\nHenry Schneider s whole family.\\nFritz Opper s whole family.\\nWilliam Schroeder s wife and\\nseven children.\\nSam Kemp (colored) lost all his\\nfamily.\\nFritz Boehle s wife.\\nAnsie Boehl lost wife and three\\ndaughters.\\nOstermayer and wife.\\nOnly about six houses remained", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0374.jp2"}, "373": {"fulltext": "LIST or IDENTIFICATIONS.\\n37.7i\\nbetween South Galveston and the\\ncity limits.\\nFollowing is a revised list of\\ndead outside of Galveston:\\nAT ARCADIA.\\nJames Bodecker and son.\\nJames Wofford.\\nEleven lives were lost here.\\nAT ALVIN.\\nMisses M. and S. M. Johnson.\\nMrs. Wilhelm, sister of the Misses\\nJohnson.\\nMrs. Hawley, killed by being\\nblown against a post.\\nON CHOCOLATE CREEK.\\nMr. Gilaspey.\\nMrs. J. W. Collins.\\nMrs. S. 0. Lewis.\\nMrs. Proctor, of Rosenburg, killed\\nin Santa Fe wreck.\\nAT MARVIL.\\nMr. Bumpass.\\nH. H. Richardson, Jr.\\nMrs. Jules A. Tix, of Galveston\\nCounty.\\nON MUSTANG CREEK.\\nJ. McLain.\\nTwelve were lost altogether.\\nAT ANGLETON.\\nFeklin Williams.\\nE. J. Duff and son.\\nThree unknown.\\nAT BROOKSIDE.\\nW. B. Smith s daughter, aged 16.\\nAlice Leonard (colored).\\nAT COLUMBIA.\\nPerry Campbell and three un-\\nknown negroes.\\nAT DICKINSON.\\nThree ladies, mother and two\\ndaughters and seven unknown\\nmen.\\nAT HITCHCOCK.\\nWilliam Johnson and wife.\\nWilliam and Robinson Linnie.\\nMrs. Pietze.\\nMary Monenla.\\nMr. Palmero, wife and five chil-\\ndren.\\nUnknown woman, aged 45.\\nUnknown boy, aged 14.\\nGeorge Young, wife and four chil-\\ndren.\\nT. W. O Connor and wife of Alvin,\\nMiss.\\nMrs. J. W. Collins.\\nW. P. Hawley.\\nSon of Joseph Bodecker.\\nSon of James Bodecker.\\nHiram Johnson and wife.\\nWilliam Robinson.\\nDomenio Child.\\nMrs. Joe Meyer.\\nSeveral unknown found on the\\nprairie.\\nThree unknown found on a fence.\\nAT LEAGUE CITY.\\nW. A. Williams.\\nMiss Letitia Schultz and Mrs.\\nSophia Schultz.\\nAT MORGAN POINT.\\nLouis Bracquail.\\nBilly Jones.\\nAT PATTON.\\nB. Landrum, wife and five chil-\\ndren.\\nAikins, wife and child.\\nMrs. Slatom and child.\\nTraney Lenton, wife and five\\ndaughters.\\nA. Vinson, wife and child, of\\nLiverpool, Texas.\\nJohn Gluspey.\\nAT QUINTANA.\\nFifteen convicts.\\nSix bodies picked up on beach, be-\\nlieved to have floated over from\\nGalveston.\\nAT ROSENBERG.\\nJ. L. Cantrell.\\nRev. Mr. Watson.\\nColeman Norman, of Needville.\\nMrs. Robert Dawson s infant.\\nChild of Mrs. Graggiss.\\nChild of Mrs. Kirkpatrick.\\nChild of Mrs. Palmer.\\nCharles Scott.\\nMary Hughes.\\nAT RICHMOND.\\nEighteen unknown.\\nAT SANDY POINT.\\nEight negroes, names unknown.\\nAT SEABROOKE.\\nMrs. Fred May.\\nMrs. P. Pflinger.\\nMrs. Vincent and three children.\\nMrs. S. K. Milhenny.\\nHaven Milhenny.\\nChild of Rice Davids.\\nMrs. Dr. Nicholson.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0375.jp2"}, "374": {"fulltext": "378\\nLIST OF IDENTIFICATIONS.\\nMrs. Jane Woodlock.\\nTwo unknown.\\nAT VIRGINIA POINT.\\nTwo children of Mrs. Wright.\\nMrs. Leon Cleary and three chil-\\ndren.\\nJames Sylvester.\\nThree negro men.\\nTwo unknown negro women.\\nLouis Domengeux.\\nAT MOSSING SECTION.\\nForeman Kirby, with fourteen\\nwhite men.\\nAT VELASCO.\\nRev. Father Keene.\\nL. W. Perry.\\nSam Bliss.\\nMrs. Parker and granddaughter.\\nAT WALLER.\\nMrs. Mary Proctor, of Rosenberg,\\nkilled in Santa Fe wreck.\\nThe number of those known to\\nhave met death outside of Galves-\\nton aggregated 1,000.\\nTHOSE IDENTIFIED SATUR-\\nDAY AND SUNDAY, SEP-\\nTEMBER 15 AND 16.\\nAugustine, Pasquila and wife.\\nAnderson, Nelson.\\nAgin, George and child.\\nAnderson, Henry.\\nAlexander, Annie and Christian.\\nAlmeras, children of Thomas.\\nAlpin, Geo., and wife.\\nAmundsen, Emil, wife and child.\\nAnderson, Ned, wife and two chil-\\ndren.\\nAnderson, Amanda, colored.\\nAnderson, Mrs. Carl, and four\\nchildren.\\nAnizen, Mrs. Frank, and two chil-\\ndren.\\nArmstrong, Mrs. Dora, and four\\nchildren.\\nAzteanza, Captain Sylvester.\\nAlaway, Fred, and family.\\nBradford, F. H., and family.\\nBoygoyne, Mrs. Francis, and son.\\nBurke, J. G., and wife.\\nBurns, Marco, wife and four chil-\\ndren.\\nBernerville, Mrs. Antonio, and\\ntwo children.\\nBadger, Otto.\\nBalliman, Gus, Irene and John.\\nBalseman, Mrs.\\nBarns, Mrs. Louise.\\nBarry, Mrs., and six children.\\nBalje, Otto.\\nBatteste, Horace.\\nBaubch, William, wife and two\\nchildren.\\nBell, George, wife and four chil-\\ndren.\\nBell, Miss Mattie.\\nBell, Henry (colored).\\nBerger, Theodore, wife and child.\\nBergman, Mrs. E. J., and daughter.\\nBierman, Frederick.\\nBlackson, baby of William.\\nBlock, son of Charles.\\nBlum, Isaac.\\nBorden, J. M., and wife.\\nBlum, Sarah and Jennie.\\nBornkessel, T. C. of United States\\nweather bureau, wife and child.\\nBoske, Mrs. Charles and two sons.\\nBowen,\\nBranch, Allen (colored).\\nBrandies, Fritz, v/ife and four\\nchildren.\\nBrandon, Lottie.\\nBritton, James (colored).\\nBrooks, J. T.\\nBrown, Adolph, wife and two chil-\\ndren.\\nBryan; Mrs. L. W. and daughter.\\nBuckley, Selma and Blanche.\\nBurgoyne, Douglas.\\nBourke, J. K.\\nBurrell, Elivie and two children\\n(colored).\\nBureel, Mrs. C. (colored).\\nBaxter, Mrs. George and two chil-\\ndren.\\nChambers, Ada.\\nCurtis, Jane, two children and her\\nmother-in-law (colored).\\nCleary, Mrs. Dan and five children.\\nChenivere, Mrs.\\nChristian, Paul and wife.\\nClancy, Pat wife and three chil-\\ndren.\\nClauson, Katie.\\nCleary, Mrs. Leon and one child.\\nCleveland, George and wife.\\nCleveland, Roy and Seneca.\\nClose, J. M.\\nColeman, Mandy and child (col-\\nored).\\nConnell, William.\\nCook, W. S., wife and six children.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0376.jp2"}, "375": {"fulltext": "LIST OF JDENTIIUCATIONS.\\n3Y9\\nCornell, Mrs. Porter and two\\ndaughters (colored).\\nCort, Infant of E. L. (colored).\\nCramer, Miss Bessie.\\nCredo, child of Anthony.\\nCromwell, Mrs. and three daugh-\\nters.\\nCurtis, Mrs. J. C. and one child\\n(colored).\\nCurtis, Lula (colored).\\nCushman, John Henry.\\nDaniels, Mrs. E., three girls, one\\nson, two grandchildren.\\nDavis, Annie N.\\nDavis, Henry T. (colored).\\nDaley, Nicholas.\\nDarby, Charles.\\nDavis, Irene.\\nDeegan, Haddy.\\nDelaney, Joe.\\nDelano, Asa P., wife and children.\\nDeltz, M. and two sons.\\nDempsey, Mr. and Mrs. Robert.\\nDixon, Mrs. Louisa and children.\\nDinsdale, wife and two children.\\nDittman, Mrs. F., and son.\\nDore, an old Frenchman.\\nDore, Deo, Jr., wife and two chil-\\ndren.\\nGarrene, Mr. and Mrs., and two\\nchildren.\\nDorsett, B., and family of five.\\nDotto, Mike, wife and six children.\\nDoyle, Jim.\\nDrecksmith, D.\\nDreckschmidt, H.\\nDrew, H. A.\\nDuffard, A.\\nDuffy, Mrs.\\nDunant, Frank, Sr.\\nDunton, Mrs. Adelaide.\\nDunkins, Mrs.\\nDuntonovitch, John and Pinckey.\\nDarkey, John and wife and daugh-\\nter Belle.\\nEdmonds, Mrs.\\nEberhard, F., and wife.\\nEberg, Mrs. Kate.\\nEckel, William, wife and son.\\nEdmondson, Fred and father.\\nEichler, W.\\nEichler, Mrs. A.\\nEismann, Howard.\\nEllis, John, and family of four.\\nEllo, Joseph, wife and two chil-\\ndren.\\nEnglehart, Louis.\\nEnglehart, Mrs. Ludwig.\\nEnglehart, G. C.\\nEvans, Mrs. Katy and two daugh-\\nters.\\nEverhart, J. H., wife and Miss\\nLena and Guy.\\nFerrell, Mrs., wife of Rev., and\\nthree children.\\nFalke, Joseph, and three children.\\nFaucette, Mrs. Robert.\\nFeigle, John, Sr., and wife.\\nFeigle, Mabel.\\nFlanagan, Mrs. Martin, and child.\\nForeman, Mrs. Mamie, Cassie,\\nThomas, Amos, Webster.\\nFranklin, George.\\nFranck, Mrs. Augusta.\\nFreidolf, wife and son.\\nFreilag, and son Harry.\\nFrohne, Mrs. Charles and two chil-\\ndren.\\nFrye, Mrs. W. H.\\nFryer, Bessie Bell.\\nGwynn, Mrs. D.\\nGordon, Sol and two children.\\nGabell, Mr. and Mrs. (colored).\\nGaines, Mrs. Tillie J. and two\\ndaughters.\\nGallishaw, five children.\\nGarrett, Ed.\\nGarrigan, James.\\nGarrigan, Joseph.\\nGarth, Johnnie and Gussie.\\nCenter, Robert.\\nGensen, four children.\\nGeorge, first sergeant of Battery O.\\nGeorge, Charles and wife.\\nGillis, Dan.\\nGordon, Asker and baby.\\nGrant, Fred (colored).\\nGrant, Mamie E. (colored).\\nGother, Mrs. Fred.\\nGrumberg, Alex, supposed to be-\\nlong to life-saving station.\\nHaag, three children of Mrs. B.\\nHagen, George W.\\nHall, Joe and family (colored).\\nHansel, Dick, wife and three chil-\\ndren.\\nHarris, Tim.\\nHarris, Thomas, wife and three\\nchildren.\\nHarris, Robert, wife and one child.\\nHarris, George.\\nHarry, Mrs. (colored).\\nHarris, Mrs. W. R. and son.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0377.jp2"}, "376": {"fulltext": "380\\nLIST OF IDENTIFICATIONS.\\nHayes, child of Mrs. Eva of Tay-\\nlor, Texas.\\nHalf stein, John, Jr., (child).\\nHelfstein, Sophie and Lily, chil-\\ndren of W.\\nHemann, Mrs. R. M. and child.\\nHess, Bugler.\\nHester, Charlie.\\nHoarer, Martin, wife and son.\\nHoch, Mrs. and three sons, Mike,\\nWillie and Louis.\\nHolland, James H., wife and son\\nWillie and grandson Otis.\\nHolland, (colored).\\nHolland, Mrs. James.\\nHolmes, child of Laura (colored).\\nHubner, Edward and Antoinette.\\nHudson, Mrs.\\nHughes, Mrs. Mattie.\\nHughes, Stuart C.\\nHughes, John.\\nHull, Charlie (colored).\\nHuzza, Charles, wife and four chil-\\ndren.\\nHyman, Anthony.\\nHybach, Charles and son.\\nJaeger, Mr. and Mrs. and two chil-\\ndren.\\nJackson, Mrs. J. W. and two chil-\\ndren.\\nJamoneck, Ed., wife and two chil-\\ndren, all of Dallas.\\nJasper, two children of Perry\\n(colored).\\nJefferbock, Mr. and Mrs. Augusta.\\nJerrel, J., wife and four children\\nand mother-in-law.\\nJones, Frank, son and Fred (col-\\nored).\\nJones, Mrs. Matilda and daughter.\\nJohnson, Peter, wife and five chil-\\ndren.\\nJohnson, Mrs. P. and children.\\nJohnson, R. D., wife and two chil-\\ndren.\\nJohnson, Mrs. Genevive and\\ndaughter.\\nJohnson, W. J., wife and two chil-\\ndren.\\nJohnson, Mrs. Ben and three chil-\\ndren.\\nJohnson, Mike, wife, child and\\nmother-in-law.\\nJohnson, Harry.\\nJohnson, Mrs. H. B.\\nJohnson, A. S., wife and six chil-\\ndrea\\nJunemann, Charles, wife and\\ndaughter.\\nKunker, William, wife and child.\\nKace, Mrs. John and four children.\\nKennedy, Benton, wife and three\\nchildren.\\nKemp, Pearl C. (colored).\\nKemp, Mrs. (colored).\\nKerpan, Mr. and Mrs. Paul.\\nKing, Mrs. (colored).\\nKing, Rosa J. (colored).\\nKindlund, Edgar.\\nKnowles, Mrs. W. T. and three\\nchildren.\\nKimley, Mrs. John and family.\\nKinsell, E.\\nKreza, Joseph, wife and three sons.\\nKurpan, Paul and wife.\\nKaiser, Louie, wife and three chil-\\ndren.\\nKehler, Mrs. Fred and two sons.\\nKeisB, Mrs. John.\\nKeiss, Miss Judie.\\nKeiss, Mrs. Louise and four chil-\\ndren.\\nKeiffer, wife and daughter.\\nKelsy, James.\\nLackey, Miss Pearl.\\nLackey, Alma.\\nLackey, Robert.\\nLackey, Mrs., four children and\\ndaughter-in-law.\\nLafayette, Mrs., and two children.\\nLapierce, James, wife and five\\nchildren.\\nLarson, H. and two children.\\nLaukhuff, Genevieve.\\nLashley, Mrs. Dave.\\nLausen, August and three chil-\\ndren.\\nLawson, Mrs. W., and Miss Oralie.\\nLawson, Mr. and Mrs. and child.\\nLegue, three children of Mrs. Lil-\\nlie.\\nLee, Captain G. A. and wife.\\nLenker, Tom.\\nLennard, Fred.\\nLemira, Joseph, wife and four\\nchildren\\nLeon, and two children.\\nLeslie, Miss Gracie.\\nLewis, Mrs. C. A. (colored).\\nLewis, Mrs. Jake, and six children.\\nLewis, Agnes (colored).\\nLindgren, John, wife and seven\\nchildren. (Miss Lillie, eldest^\\nsaved).", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0378.jp2"}, "377": {"fulltext": "LIST 01 WENrilUCATlONS.\\na.^i\\nT.loyd, Buck and wife.\\nJ^ocke, Mrs. Mary.\\nLockhart, Mrs. Charles, and two\\nchildren.\\nLosica, Mrs. F., daughter, three\\nchildren and sou-in-law.\\nLucas, Mrs. William and two sons.\\nLucas, two children of Mrs. David.\\nLucas, John and two children.\\nLudke, Henry, wife and son.\\nLudewig, E. A. and mother.\\nLumberg, Will and Lena.\\nLumber, Gus, wife and nine chil-\\ndren.\\nLynch, A.\\nLynch, James and wife.\\nLynch, Ed and family.\\nLyster, W. W.\\nMiller, Joe and children.\\nMunn, Mrs. S. S.\\nMcCauley, J. B. and wife.\\nMacklin, W. L., wife and three\\nchildren.\\nMaudy, Mrs. and daughter (col-\\nored).\\nMatson, Grace and three children\\n(colored).\\nMartin, Frank, wife and son.\\nMaquelte, Mrs. Pauline.\\nMaxwell, Mrs.\\nMcAmish, S. A., wife and two\\ndaughters.\\nMcAughlar, Ira (colored).\\nMcCulloch, A. R. (colored).\\nMcManus, Mrs. W. H.\\nMcMillan, Mrs. M. J.\\nMcNeill, Mrs. and baby.\\nMcNeal, Mrs. James and child.\\nMcPeters, wife and two children.\\nMcPherson, Robert (colored).\\nMerley, Mrs. John.\\nMealy, Joseph.\\nMegna, Mrs. Joe.\\nMegna, child of Mike.\\nMenzella, John, wife and five chil-\\ndren.\\nMeric, Eugene and mother.\\nMeric, John, wife and children.\\nMestry, Charlotte (colored).\\nMeyer, Chris, missing.\\nMiller, wife and six children.\\nMoran, James and wife.\\nMorrow, Mrs. and four children.\\nMoore, Mrs. Nathan.\\nMoore, Estelle (colored).\\nMoore,\\nMorley, D. and wife.\\nMorris, Harry, wife and three\\nchildren.\\nMorton, Hammond and four chil-\\ndren.\\nMott, B. F.\\nMulcahey, two children of J., of\\nHouston.\\nMulholland, Mrs. Louise.\\nMullock, Henry, wife and child.\\nMundyne, Mrs. Meria.\\nMurie, Mrs. Annie and daughter.\\nMeyer, Herman, wife and son\\nWillie.\\nMyers, Mrs. C. J. and one child.\\nNapoleon, Henry, wife and sister\\n(colored).\\nOtis, Charlotte (colored).\\nO Dowd, D. J.\\nO Keefe, C J. and wife.\\nOlsen, Ed.\\nOterson, A. A. and wife.\\nOstermayer, Henry and wife.\\nO Shaughnessy, Pauline.\\nPerry, Mrs. H. M. and son Clayton,\\nHouston.\\nPuesnutt, Mrs. Fred and three\\nchildren.\\nPaetz, Mrs. Lena.\\nPaskall, August and wife.\\nPashelag, Miss Louisa.\\nPashelag, Mrs. E. and three chil-\\ndren.\\nPaysee, Mrs. Henry and two chil-\\ndren.\\nPauly, Mr. and Mrs.\\nPeetz, Mrs. Captain J. J. and eld-\\nest and youngest daughters.\\nPellenze, Mrs. and mother.\\nPerkins, Albert (colored).\\nPerkins, Arthur (colored).\\nPerkins, wife and grandson (col\\nored).\\nPeterson, Mrs. J. and children.\\nPeterson. K. C, wife and child.\\nPettit, W. B.\\nPettingill, W. H. and wife and\\nthree sons. Walter W., James\\nand Norman (missing).\\nPilford, W., Mexican Cable Com-\\npany, and children, Madele,\\nWillie, Jack and Georgianna.\\nQuowvich, John and four others\\nunknown.\\nQuester, Bessie.\\nQuinn, Thomas.\\nQuinn, John, engineer (missing).\\nRockford, William and wife.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0379.jp2"}, "378": {"fulltext": "382\\nLIST OF IDENTIFICATIONS.\\nRyan, Joseph, wife and child.\\nRaleigh, Miss Lelia.\\nRayburn, Crawford.\\nRattisseau, A. and wife and three\\nchildren.\\nRattisseau, Mrs. W. L. and three\\nchildren.\\nReagan, Mrs. John J.\\nReagan, W. J., wife and three\\nchildren.\\nRein, wife and daughter.\\nReinhart, Agnes and Helen,\\ndaughters of John.\\nRhone, Lulu L. (colored).\\nRichardson, S. W. and wife.\\nRichamderes, Mrs. Irene and baby.\\nRiley, Mrs. W. and two children.\\nRimmelin, Edward H. and wife.\\nRiordan, Thomas.\\nRitzeler, Mrs.\\nRhymes, Thomas, wife and two\\nchildren.\\nRoach, Annie.\\nRoberts, Shorty.\\nRitchford, Ben and wife.\\nRoemer, C. C. and wife.\\nRoemer, Elizabeth, wife of A. C.\\nRoehm, Mr. and Mrs. William and\\ntwo children.\\nRogers, Blanche Donald, niece of\\nD. B.\\nRoss, 9-year-old child of Mrs.\\nRoss, of Houston.\\nRosse, Mrs. L. and three children.\\nRossalee, B., wife and three chil-\\ndren.\\nRoth, Mrs. Kate and three chil-\\ndren.\\nRowe, Mrs. and three children.\\nRudder, Robert, wife and four\\nchildren.\\nRudger, C, wife and child.\\nRuenbuhl, Johnnie.\\nRuther, A., mother and father.\\nRuhrmond, Prof., wife and two\\nchildren.\\nRust, Henry and three children.\\nRedelli, Angelo, wife and four\\nchildren.\\nSanford, Southwick, wife and\\nchild.\\nSchmidt, Mrs. F. and son Richard.\\nSchmidt, Richard J.\\nSchneider, J. F., wife and six chil-\\ndren.\\nSchoolfield, (colored).\\nSchoolfield, Isaac.\\nSchutte, wife and two chil-\\ndren.\\nSchutze, Mr. and Mrs.\\nScott, Hugh (colored).\\nSeals, Wallace D. (colored).\\nSeats, Sarah N. (colored).\\nSedgv/ick, child.\\nSeibel, Mrs. Julius.\\nSeibel, Lizzie.\\nSeibel, Mrs. Jacob and son Julius.\\nSeixas, Mrs. E., Arma, Lucille,\\nCecilia.\\nSevert, John and wife.\\nShaper, Henry, wife and two sons.\\nSherman, Albert.\\nSkelton, Mrs. Emma and two chil-\\ndren.\\nSharke, Charles F.\\nSmith, Jim, prize fighter.\\nSimerville, S. B. and wife (col-\\nored).\\nSourbien, Battery 0.\\nSlayton, Mrs. Carey B. (colored).\\nSteeb, J. and wife and two chil-\\ndren.\\nStevens, Frank, Leo, Jerold and\\nEdward, sons of T. J.\\nStewart, Captain P. and family.\\nStilkolitch, Mannie.\\nStimman, Robert, wife and child.\\nStrabe, Nick and family, except\\none.\\nStrickhausen, Mrs.\\nStrunk, William, wife and six\\nchildren.\\nSudden, Clara (colored).\\nSwartsbach, child of A.\\nSwickel, mother and three sisters\\nof John.\\nSylvester, Miss.\\nSimms, two children of H. G.\\nThomas, Miss Daisy.\\nTavinette, Antoinet.\\nTerrell, Mrs. Q. V. and four chil-\\ndren (colored).\\nThomas, Newell and Nathaniel.\\nThompson, Mr., wife and three\\nchildren.\\nThurman, Mrs. (colored).\\nTiggs, Lavina and daughter (col-\\nored).\\nTilsman, Robert, wife and five\\nchildren.\\nTinbush, and family.\\nTrickhausen, Mrs.\\nTrostman, Mrs. and three chil-\\ndren.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0380.jp2"}, "379": {"fulltext": "LIST 01 IDENTIFICATIONS.\\n383\\nTucker, Mr. and Mrs. and one\\nchild.\\nTurner, Mr. and Mrs.\\nUdell, Oliver, wife and child.\\nUhl, Mrs. Christopher and six\\nchildren.\\nUlridge, Val, Mrs. and six chil-\\ndren.\\nVan, Miss Mary.\\nVining, Mrs. Annie and four chil-\\ndren.\\nViscaviteh, Magdelena, daughter\\nof Mrs.\\nWemberg, O. M., wife and five\\nchildren.\\nWinn, Mrs. and grandchild.\\nWallace, Scott and Earl.\\nWade, Mrs. Hillie (colored).\\nWade, Hettie and husband (col-\\nored).\\nWalden, Samuel, son of W. H.\\n(colored).\\nWaldgren, Mr.\\nWalker, Mrs. H. V.\\nWalter, Mrs. Charles and three\\nchildren.\\nWalsh, Joseph, wife and three\\nchildren.\\nWalters, Gus.\\nWaring, Mr. (colored).\\nWarrah, Martin.\\nWaters, three nephews of James.\\nWatkins, child of P.\\nWatson, Judge, wife and two chil-\\ndren.\\nWebber, Mrs. and family.\\nWeber, W. J., wife and two chil-\\ndren.\\nWester, George and Joe.\\nWeidmang, Fritz and wife, Paul\\nand mother.\\nWeiss, Prof.\\nWalsh, Mrs.\\nWestaway, Mrs. George.\\nWesterman, Mrs. A.\\nWestman, Mrs.\\nWhite, James, wife and babe.\\nWicke, Lena.\\nWilke, C. O.\\nWilcox, child.\\nWilde, Miss Freda.\\nWilliams, Mrs. Mary.\\nWilson, Bertha (colored).\\nWithey, H.\\nWitt. C. H., wife and two children.\\nWood, Mrs. R. N.\\nWood, Eddie and Burley (col-\\nored).\\nWood, Mrs. Caroline and two\\ndaughters, Mary and Kate.\\nWuchnach, M., wife and two chil-\\ndren.\\nYoung, Mrs., two daughters and\\none son.\\nThe following, previously re-\\nported dead, were saved:\\nCoddou, Alex, Jr., Ray and Eu-\\ngene, whose father and three\\nbrothers were lost,\\nCato, William.\\nHunter, Mrs. J. J.\\nSommer, Miss Helen T.\\nLIST OP IDENTIFICATIONS\\nFOR MONDAY, SEPT. 17.\\nAllen, Mrs. Kate.\\nAllen, Mrs. Alex and five chil-\\ndren.\\nAnderson, Mrs. Dora.\\nAnderson, Mrs. Sam (colored).\\nAnderson, Nick and two sons.\\nAndrei, Mrs. and three children.\\nAnlonovich, Eddie.\\nBaker, Florence (colored).\\nBaker, Mrs. and three children\\n(colored).\\nBaldwin, Sallie (colored).\\nBastor, Mrs. Clara.\\nBostford, Edwin and wife.\\nBostford, Kate.\\nBrady, and wife.\\nBrandus, Fritz and wife and four\\nchildren.\\nBurns, Mrs.\\nBushon, Hisom.\\nBoyd, Andy and family, on beach.\\nBrophey, M., and mother of Peter.\\nCalvert, George W., wife and\\ndaughter.\\nCampbell, Mrs. Emma.\\nCaroline, Mrs. Alice and three\\nchildren.\\nCheles, William and wife.\\nChester, Paul and wife.\\nChristian, John.\\nGrain, Anna M.\\nGrain, Charles.\\nGrain, Maggie McCree.\\nGrain. Mrs. C. D.\\nGarter, A. J.\\nCarter, Mrs. Celeste.\\nDavis, E.\\nDebner, William, wife and three\\nchildren.\\nDoherty, Mrs.\\nDagert, Mrs. and children.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0381.jp2"}, "380": {"fulltext": "S84c\\nLIST OF IDENTIFICATIONS.\\nFloehr, Mrs.\\nHoesington, H. A.\\nHurt, Walter, wife, two children\\nand two servants.\\nIwan, Mrs. A.\\nJones, John A. and wife.\\nJohnson, Leonard, wife and four\\nchildren.\\nJoughin, Tony.\\nJones, E. B.\\nKaufman, Mrs. Eliza.\\nKeller and family.\\nKolbe, infant of C. B.\\nKleiman, Joe, wife and two work-\\nmen.\\nKroener, Will, Sophie and Florie.\\nKupper,\\nLarson, H. and two children.\\nLuckenbell, B. E. and wife.\\nLott, Walker C, wife and two\\nchildren.\\nMartin, Miss Annie.\\nManly, Joen, Sr., mother and twO\\nnieces.\\nMcCauley, J. and wife.\\nNeuwiller, William, wife and\\nthree children.\\nNewton, Mrs. J. M. and child.\\nOakley, F.\\nPoland, Ed. and sister.\\nPryor, Ed., wife and four chil-\\ndren, of St. Joseph, Mo.\\nPatrick, Mariah.\\nPowers, Carrie V.\\nPatter, C. H. and baby.\\nQuinn, Mrs. Frank and son\\nClaude.\\nRipley, Henry.\\nRoberts, John T.\\nScholea, Richard, wife, son Frank\\nand adopted daughter, Tilla\\nMeyer.\\nSommer, Joe, wife and child.\\nSpaeter, Mrs. Fred.\\nSpaeter, Otilla.\\nSlayton, Mrs. Carrie (colored).\\nSteeb, wife and child.\\nSteinbnnk, Edward, George and\\nArthur.\\nSweikel, mother and three sisters\\nof John.\\nSteinforth, Mrs. Emma.\\nStillman, Lily.\\nStevens, Frankie and Lee, two\\nboys of T. J.\\nStewart, Miss Lester.\\nSwenson, Mrs. Mary K.\\nSimons, two children of H. G.\\nTavenett, Anton.\\nThompson, Milton.\\nThompson, wife and four children.\\nTickle, H. P., wife and two chil-\\ndren.\\nTold, Subie.\\nTorr, T. C.\\nToothacre, Miss Etta.\\nTozen, Mrs. G. M. and Miss Bella.\\nWashington, John and five chil-\\ndren.\\nWiede, wife and five children.\\nWhite, Willie.\\nWhite, family of Walter.\\nWilliams, Ed.\\nZickler, Mrs. Fred and two chil-\\ndren.\\nZinkie, August and two children.\\nZwansig, Adolph, Sr., Richard,\\nHerman and three daughters of\\nAdolph.\\nROLL FOR TUESDAY, SEPTEM-\\nBER 18.\\nAndrews, Mrs.\\nAllen, William, wife and three\\nchildren.\\nAllardyce, Mrs. R. L., and three\\nchildren.\\nAllen, Claude.\\nAllen, Herbert.\\nAllen, Lucy.\\nBradfoot and wife.\\nBrown, William.\\nBriscal, Alfred, and two children.\\nBurkhead, Mrs., and daughter.\\nBurns, Mrs. P., and daughter\\nMary.\\nByman, Mr. and Mrs. George.\\nClancy, Pat, wife and five chil-\\ndren.\\nColsberg, Frank G.,wife and baby.\\nChester, Frank, Ellen and Mary\\n(colored).\\nChristianson, Miss Annie, of\\nShreveport (who was visiting\\nGeorge Dorian).\\nCostly, Sanders, and wife and\\nchild of Alexander Costly (col-\\nored).\\nCowan, Isabella, and daughter.\\nCalloum, Antona, wife and four\\nchildren.\\nCornell, Mrs. Eliza.\\nDago Joe and wife Mary.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0382.jp2"}, "381": {"fulltext": "LIST OF IDENTIFICATIONS.\\n385\\nBearing, William, wife and six\\nchildren.\\nDevoti, Joe, and three children.\\nDevoti, Mrs. Julia, and two chil-\\ndren.\\nDevoti, Louis.\\nDevoti, Doc.\\nDurrant, Frank.\\nDumond, Joseph, and wife,\\nDazet, Mrs. Leon, and child.\\nEaton, F. B.\\nFachan, family gone; he is alive.\\nFalk, Mrs. Julius, and five chil-\\ndren.\\nFalk, Gustavo.\\nFelsmann, Richard (blacksmith),\\nwife and five children.\\nFritz, wife and two children.\\nGraus, wife and two children.\\nHall, Chase (colored).\\nHarris, John, wife and two chil-\\ndren.\\nHaucius, Mrs., and one child.\\nHermann, W. J.\\nHerman, Mrs., and five children.\\nHylenberg, Jacob, wife and child.\\nJerrel, J., wife and four children.\\nJordan, Charles.\\nJames and children.\\nJackson, wife and daughter,\\nMabel.\\nKaper, August, wife and one child.\\nKeogh, John, wife and four chil-\\ndren.\\nKeogh, Mrs., and three children.\\nKoch, William, Sr.\\nKothe, William Q.\\nLeagett, Mrs., and three children.\\nLeaget, Mrs. Celia, and family of\\nsix.\\nLetts, Captain, wife and two chil-\\ndren and sister.\\nLynch, Peter.\\nMackey, Mrs. W. G., and four chil-\\ndren.\\nMaclin, J. D., wife and seven chil-\\ndren.\\nMcCann, Billy, wife and four chil-\\ndren.\\nMaupin, Joseph.\\nMcDonald, Mrs. Mary, and son.\\nMcEwen, John.\\nMcGraw, Peter, and wife.\\nMcNeil, Hugh, and baby and Miss\\nJennie McNeil.\\nMcPeters, Mrs., and two children.\\nMcVeigh, Miss Lorena.\\nMiller, Frank.\\nMiller, wife and four children.\\nMidlegge, August, wife and five\\nchildren.\\nMellor (better known as Miller),\\nRobert.\\nMeyer, Henry, and four children,\\nMoore, Cecelia, Loraine, Vera and\\nMildred, children of Mr. and\\nMrs. Louis Moore.\\nMorseburger, Antonia, and wife.\\nMoserger,\\nMiddleburger, George, wife and\\nthree children.\\nMiddleberger, John, wife and\\nthree children.\\nMiller, E. 0.\\nMoore, Mrs. Dock,\\nNeal, a fisherman.\\nO Neill, James and Frank, sons of\\nJames.\\nO Neill, Lawrence.\\nO Neill, wife and five children, an\\noysterman, with four hired men.\\nPiatt, Mrs. S.\\nPeterson, George, soldier, wife\\nand four children.\\nPeters, Robert.\\nPeters, Rudolph.\\nPotter, C. H., and little daughter.\\nPraker, William.\\nPreussner, Mrs., and three chil-\\ndren.\\nPischos, Mr. and Mrs.\\nQuinn, Robert, wife and six chil-\\ndren.\\nRattiseau, P. A.\\nRattiseau, J. B., wife and four\\nchildren.\\nRattiseau, C. A., wife and seven\\nchildren.\\nRattisseau, Mrs. J. L., and three\\nchildren.\\nRaw, Mr.\\nRay, Miss Susie.\\nRoberts. Herbert M.\\nMrs. Rose s baby.\\nRosen, Mrs., and four children.\\nRudireker, and three women.\\nRyan, Mrs. Mary.\\nScarborough, Harry, a fisherman.\\nScott, Hughie (colored).\\nRicker, John.\\nSpeck, Captain.\\nSummers, Mrs. M. S.\\nTian, Mrs. Clement, and three\\nchildren.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0383.jp2"}, "382": {"fulltext": "38G\\nLIST OF IDENTIFICATIONS,\\nTripo, an oysterman.\\nTurner, Angeline (colored).\\nWallace, and wife.\\nWarnke, Mr. and Mrs., and three\\nchildren.\\nWashington, Johnnie, and family,\\ncolored.\\nWeit, Mr., and three children.\\nWalker, L, D., stepson and W. J.\\nHughes.\\nWeeden, Lou, wife and four chil-\\ndren.\\nWurzlow, Mrs. Annie.\\nOne laborer at Dr. Fry s dairy.\\nAnderson, C. L., wife, and chil-\\ndren.\\nBurns, Mrs. M. E., and daughter.\\nBoening, William, wife and three\\nchildren.\\nBurwell, T. M.\\nBuren, Larzen, wife and five chil-\\ndren.\\nBernardoni, John.\\nChouke, Mrs. Charles and child.\\nConnolly, Mrs. Ellen.\\nCook, Mrs. Ida (colored).\\nCook, Henry (colored).\\nDeboer, P. G., and wife.\\nDoyle, James.\\nDickinson, Mrs. Mary, and chil-\\ndren (colored).\\nEllis, Mrs. Henry (colored).\\nEdwards, Mrs. Jane, and daughter\\n(colored).\\nFalco, J. A. C.\\nFagan, Frank.\\nFager, Mrs. Frances.\\nFrank, Miss Anna.\\nGalmer, H. H., and wife,\\nGeist, wife and daughter.\\nColmer, H. H., wife and five chil-\\ndren.\\nHeusse, W. A., and wife.\\nHoch, Mike.\\nHeare, L., wife and twelve chil-\\ndren.\\nHomburg, Joe, wife and four chil-\\ndren.\\nHomburg, William, wife and five\\nchildren\\nHurlbert, Mrs. Victoria, Miss Min-\\nnie, Walter and Hattie (all col-\\nored).\\nHass, Professor Carl, and family.\\nJohnson, A., and wife.\\nJohnson, Dan (colored).\\nJay, J. J.\\nRessner, August, Lena, Emma\\nand James H.\\nKeats, Miss Tillie.\\nX^emere, T., and wife.\\nLisbony, Mrs. W. H., Jr., and Miss\\nEunice, daughter of C. P.\\nLehman, Charles and son.\\nMitchell, W. P.\\nMcConnelly, H., and wife.\\nMcGown, Jim.\\nMcVeagh, Mrs. J. M.\\nManning, Mark.\\nMead, James.\\nNeimeier, Henry, wife and five\\nchildren.\\nPatterson, H. J.\\nPatterson, Miss S. (colored).\\nPerkins, Lucy and Lotta (col-\\nored).\\nPerkins, Mrs. L., and two children\\n(colored).\\nParobich, Michael, wife and four\\nchildren.\\nPruessne, Henry.\\nPanleick, Matthew.\\nRose, H., and wife.\\nRadeker, Mrs. Herman, and child.\\nRehm, William, wife and two chil-\\ndren,\\nReymanscott, Louis.\\nRichardson. William,\\nRuther, Robert, wife and six chil-\\ndren.\\nSteerholz, W., and wife.\\nSeible, O. J., Jr.\\nSchroeder, Mrs. Lottie A.\\nSwan, George, wife and four chil-\\ndren.\\nTerrell, G., and wife.\\nVarnell, James, wife and six chil-\\ndren,\\nVuletach, Andrew, wife and\\ndaughter.\\nWarren, Mrs. Flora.\\nWilkinson, George, wife and son.\\nWilson, Mrs, Julia Anna (col-\\nored),\\nZurapanin, Mrs. N., and eight\\nchildren.", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0384.jp2"}, "383": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0385.jp2"}, "384": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0386.jp2"}, "385": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0387.jp2"}, "386": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3021", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "completestoryofg00cout_0388.jp2"}}