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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Numerous inquiries from the East have been received as to the best way
to send subscriptions to the Governor for the Galveston Relief Fund. The
Austin National Bank, of this city, which is the United States
depository for Texas, has notified the Governor that it will make
transfers of all contributions for Galveston free of charge by wire or
draft. Remittances may be sent direct for transfer to Governor Sayres.
The House of Representatives has sanctioned a motion to send a cablegram
to the President of the United States expressing the condolence of the
Government and people of Peru over the catastrophe at Galveston.
APPEAL TO DRUGGISTS IN HOUSTON.
To all druggists: The storm stricken district is very much in need of
the following drugs: Iodoform, chloride of lime, gum camphor,
assafetida, crude carbolic acid, phenol sodique, gauze bandages, quinine
and iodoform gauze. Contributions should be sent to the Houston Relief
Committee.
“A. E. KESLING,
“Houston Relief Committee.”
“Chicago’s first offering of food and clothing for the Texas sufferers
left here last night (Thursday, the 13th), over the Rock Island Road on
a special train of six cars that has the right of way over all trains as
far as Fort Worth, Texas. Other cars packed at Rock Island, Davenport,
Muscatine, Topeka, Kansas City, St. Joseph and Wichita will be picked up
on the way, and it is expected the train will consist of twenty-three
cars when it reaches its destination. The train is expected to reach
Fort Worth on Saturday, from where it will be taken to Houston, over the
Houston and Texas route on a special train schedule.”
The banking house of Munroe & Company, New York, received from its Paris
branch advices to draw on that bank for $10,000 for the aid of the
Galveston sufferers.
Vice-President and General Manager Trice, of the International and Great
Northern Railroad, spent several hours at Bryan on the 13th. Mr. Trice
has just come from Galveston, where he had been in touch with the
situation since the great storm. He said the railroad losses will
aggregate $5,000,000 or $6,000,000.
“We are now operating trains to Texas City, and carrying on traffic from
that point to Galveston by boat,” he said. “Better shipping facilities
will be established at Galveston than ever as fast as men and money can
place them there. Negotiations are now going on to the end that all
railroads entering the city join forces and materials and establish a
temporary bridge across the bay, and if the plan succeeds it is hoped
that trains can be run into Galveston in thirty days. The negotiations
going on also contemplate the construction of a permanent double track
steel bridge, to be used by all the railroads entering the city.”
PLANS FOR A NEW BRIDGE.