The Great Galveston Disaster: Containing a Full and Thrilling Account of the Most Appalling Calamity of Modern Times Including Vivid Descriptions of the Hurricane and Terrible Rush of Waters; Immense Destruction of Dwellings, Business Houses, Churches, and Loss of Thousands of Human Lives; Thrilling Tales of Heroic Deeds; Panic-Stricken Multitudes and Heart-Rending Scenes of Agony; Frantic Efforts to Escape a Horrible Fate; Separation of Loved Ones, etc., etc.; Narrow Escapes from the Jaws of De — John Stuart Mill — John Shaqi
The Great Galveston Disaster: Containing a Full and Thrilling Account of the Most Appalling Calamity of Modern Times Including Vivid Descriptions of the Hurricane and Terrible Rush of Waters; Immense Destruction of Dwellings, Business Houses, Churches, and Loss of Thousands of Human Lives; Thrilling Tales of Heroic Deeds; Panic-Stricken Multitudes and Heart-Rending Scenes of Agony; Frantic Efforts to Escape a Horrible Fate; Separation of Loved Ones, etc., etc.; Narrow Escapes from the Jaws of De
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Some of the large pipe needed was not available, but carpenters are
making a wooden section which will stand the slight pressures. It is
expected that water will be turned into the mains from the rig tank
before morning. This will give a supply in yard hydrants and fill plugs
from which the steamers can work. The men at work on the pumps and pipes
are well along with their work, but the boilermakers are not so far
along. Mr. McMaster thinks the pumps can be started by to-morrow, and
that they will give the usual pressure in the mains.
VISITORS DO NOBLE WORK.
In addition to the arrangements made for handling people from here to
Texas City and thence via the Galveston, Houston and Henderson Railroad
to Houston, the prospect is that the Southern Pacific will be ready for
passengers within the next few days. Mr. W. S. Keenan, general passenger
agent of the Santa Fe, said this evening that he expected that their
track would be completed to both ends of the bridges by to-morrow
evening. The company has chartered three boats and will take passengers
by train from Galveston to the bridge and there transfer by boat to the
mainland.
A large number of people reached here to-day from Houston and other
points. Some of them came to lend helping hands, and are doing noble
work; others came to look for relatives. But there are many who come out
of sheer curiosity and who do nothing but eat provisions and drink the
water. They are taking up room in the boats returning to mainland which
women and children ought to have. People who are not coming to help, or
on other urgent missions, ought to remain away; sightseers are not
wanted, and those who have no higher purpose in coming will do Galveston
the greatest service within their power by staying away.
The police and soldiers have orders not to permit the landing of
strangers, and the order is being carried out as far as possible. The
committee on transportation purposes to see that women and children get
a chance to leave here first, and able-bodied men will not be permitted
to leave during the first few days. If sightseers come anyway they will
find it difficult to get in and still more difficult to get out of the
city.
Mayor Jones received a telegram to-day from President McKinley,
expressing his sorrow that Texas had been visited by such a dreadful
calamity, and advising that he had instructed the Secretary of War to
render all the assistance possible.
The Mayor also received a telegram from the Kansas City Chamber of
Commerce, saying that body stood ready to help, and asking what it could
do.