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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“BAXTER, Quartermaster.”
VESSEL ORDERED TO GALVESTON.
President McKinley received a telegram from Governor Sayres, of Texas,
asking that a light draft vessel be sent to Galveston to assist in the
communication between the island and the mainland. The message was
referred to the Treasury Department, and an order was issued to the
revenue cutter Winona, at Mobile, to proceed to Galveston without a
moment’s unnecessary delay. The Lighthouse Board also ordered the
lighthouse tender Arbutus, then at New Orleans, to clear at once for
Galveston.
Captain Shoemaker, Chief of the Revenue Cutter Service, is apprehensive
as to the fate of the cutter Galveston, which was anchored in Galveston
harbor at the beginning of the storm. It is assumed that she put to sea,
but as three full days have elapsed since she was heard from there are
fears for her safety.
The relief work, now under full sway at Houston, is along two lines—to
succor those who cannot leave Galveston and to bring out of the city all
those who can and are willing to leave.
Mayor Jones and the citizens’ committee of the island city are urging
that only those shall be permitted to enter Galveston whose presence is
imperative, and transportation lines are straining every nerve in order
that they may accord the privilege to those who are pleading to get away
from the scenes of horror and desolation around them.
Hundreds of people have come to Houston from the four points of the
compass, anxious to get into the stricken town, but since the exodus of
islanders has begun many of these have concluded to remain here rather
than run the risk of missing on the way those for whom they are in
search.
ATTEMPT TO SUM UP THE LOSSES.
News has gradually been reaching here of the immense losses along the
coast beyond Galveston. Damage difficult to estimate in dollars and
cents has been done in a wide stretch of territory, and many human lives
have been lost besides those which were wiped out in Galveston and its
immediate vicinity. Based on reports believed to be accurate, the
following statement is probably as near correct as can be arrived at at
this time:
Place. Lives lost. Property loss.