The Topeka Daily Capital from Topeka, Kansas • Page 1

Advertising Medium VOL. XXII. TOPEKA, KANSAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1900. NO. 220.

WEATHER INDICATIONS. POPS ARE SAD. THROUGH IT ALL W. W. Garrison Tells of Galveston's Storm.

pears to be badly wrecked. The San Jacinto batteries could not be reached by land, and inspection was from a distance. The sand around these batteries is pretty well levelled off to about two or three feet above mean low tide. At Fort Travis, Bolivar Point, the damage is great. The shore line has made back about 1,000 feet on the line of the rear of these batteries." WRECK IS BEING CLEARED MINERS' SIDE IS GIVEN.

No examination is yet possible as to the-condition of those still on the sand. Apparently Galveston has no immediate need for ships. The destruction of the bridges of all the railroads entering the city make it well nigh impossible to furnish outgoing cargoes. Thee bridges were each about three miles in length, and the work of reconstruction will be a stupendous undertakirg. CITY STILL IN DARKNESS.

One of the most serious results of the storm has been the wrecking of the electric light and street car plants. The city has been in darkness for several nights, and only a few concerns which operate their own illuminating service are enabled to do buisncss. Nearly every residence has gone back to the primitive candle. The absence of street lights drives all who have no imperative business on the streets to their homes at nightfall, but the work of patrol system is made more difficult thereby and the opportunity for looting greater. The motormon deserted, their cars when the fury of the wind and the rush of the water made it no longer possible to operate them.

Attempts are being made now to set the cars in shape again. The great destruction of live stock has eliminated carriages and cabs as a means of transportation, and the need of the trolley promises to become a most pressing one when rebuilding begins. Among the worst sufferers by the dis aster were the churches. Nearly every one of them felt the effect of the storm. Some of them are entirely wrecked, beyond repair.

WORK OF RELIEF. The work of relief continues. Mayot i Galveston catastrophe. It "is simply be-Jones and his associates are bending yond description, and it will have to be every nerve to open a direct line of trans, seen before any conception of its awful portation with Houston by which he may magnitude can be gained. That a storm be enabled promptly to receive the great of such fearful power could come is be- quantity of provisions which are now on the way to the city.

"I wish to say, however," said Mayor Jones, "we have made such arrangements as will make it possible for us to feed the needy until we can get in our supplies. We are relieving every case presented to us. I think within a day or two our transportation facilities will be sufticient temporarily to meet our needs. Galveston has helped other cities in their distress, and we are consoled by the generous response of the country to our appeal." The relief committee is strivins to sys tematize its work, and there is undoubt- edly distress here which ought promptly erty from the impending doom, and it was to be relieved. Weazen-faced, bare- thirty hours before I could get out of headed children were seen yesterday there.

The storm lasted from about 5:30 eagerly appropriating soiled and ca9t 1 in the evening till 12:30 at night, and after off stocks of food. The committee has it was all over, an intense quiet and dark-instructed the local drug stores to pro- ness fettled down. The darkness of thi Fusionists Turn to Legislature. the ALL THEY DOPE TO SAVE. Discouraged Over Prospect for State and Electoral Tickets Pitts of Wellington Gets in 3.

G. Johnson's Way. The hunted look has come into the eyes of the fusionists as a result of a story which lately has circulated that the Democratic and Populist campaign managers, having become discouraged over the prospect for their state and electoral tickets, are turning their attention to the Legislature. It is said that the managers are staggered by the returns from precinct com mitteemen, showing long lists of floppers from the ranks of the triuners to the Republicans. Secretary W.

H. L. Pep- perell of the Democratic committee is quoted as having said that the returns from one county in the Fifth district showed 11 McKinley Republicans in 1896 who are for Bryan now, and 265 Bryanites in 1896 who are for McKinley now. CAN'T STAND THE RACKET. "We can't get anywhere when our peo.

pie desert us like that," said a Populist member of the House of 1899 yesterday "We would better expend our energies in trying to capture the Legislature. The Republicans are putting in their best licks for the state and electoral tickets, and if we go after the Legislature we may be able to get it. At any rate, ft seems to be our only show. "We could accomplish a lot with the Legislature, even if we lose the rest. We could elect Johnson.

Overmyer, Little, Doster or some other good man to the United States Senate, and manufacture much political capital by passing Populist bills for the Republican Governor to veto." It is reported from other sources that while the fusion committees do not give up their state and electoral tickets as lost, they have decided to do their best work in the legislative districts. Tho scheme is to do this as quietly as possible so that the Republicans won't "catch PITTS IS AMBITIOUS. George T. Pitts of Wellington, the Seventh district Democratic boss who en gineered the nomination of Claud Duval at Hutchinson, may Drove an obstacle in J. G.

Johnson's way to the United States Senate. Perhaps Pitts will be a candidate for the place himself. A boom has been started for him by the Duval Dem ocrats and anti-Simpson Pepulists, and he seems to be pleased with it. A report comes from Kansas City that J. Mack Love has been ordered into the Seventh district to promise Pitts the United States marshilship to keep out of the race.

Pitts is to manage Duval's congressional campaign. "TOLEDO" JONES COMING. The Populist state committee announces that Jones will this month spend a week in Kansas. Hugo Glosser of Chicago, who makes speeches in the German language, also is booked for some addresses here. Their dates have not yet been fixed.

It is said that the national Democratic committee will not send its big guns to Kansas after this month, but will use them in the east. Kansas having passed from the doubtful column to the Republican column, the Democrats feel that it would be a waste of time, talent and money to send their noted spellbinders to this state. The managers kicked on Bryan's forthcoming tour of eastern Kansas, but J. G. Johnson insisted, and the objections were withdrawn.

Johnson wanted Bryan to make the trip for the effect it might have on his (Johnson's) senatorial boom. It was given out that Johnson "made" the national committee let Bryan come. McNALL INACCURATE. Webb McNall stated in his speech at Hutchinson that Governor Stanley took all the credit for receiving the Twentieth Kansas volunteers at San Francisco. "Stanley went to 'Frisco alone at the state's expense, and represented to the boys that he was the whole thing," said McNall.

The people who read know that a delegation of a dozen or more men and women went to 'Frisco with the Governor to welcome the Twentieth on behalf of the state. Members of the delegation spent nearly a week in the soldiers' camp, comforting the sick and jollying the well. As a matter of fact the soldiers saw more of the delegation than they did of the Governor, for official business called his excellency home the second day after the regiment arrived. Twentieth Kansas boys who heard Me-Nall's speech will not hesitate to say that he was suffering from the effect of an impediment in his veracity. SOCIALIST CAMPAIGN OPENING.

G. C. Clemens will next week file with the Secretary of State a petition, nomi- Washington, Sept. 13 Forecast Kansas: Fair and warmer Friday and probably Saturday; southerly winds. Hourly temperatures yesterday: 7 a.

62 8 a. m. 66 9 a. 73 1 p. 2 p.

m. 3 p. 4 p. 4 u. 5 p.

83 84 84 85 85 84 82 10 a. 7S 10 a. m. 78 11 a. m.

82 12 a. 82 6 p. m. i p. 76 Maximum.

.85: minimum. .61: precinita- tion, .0. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S PAPER, Friday, September 14, 1900. Pages 1. Galveston Storm.

Kansas Political Talk. Tells of Galveston's Storm. Statement of Miners' Grievances. 2. Topeka Will Contribute Generously.

News of Sports. 3. Indians Salute the Flag. Fort Wayne's Monument to Lawton. 4.

Editorial. Kansas News and Comment. Troops to Stay in Pekln, 5. Jolntist Wood's Trial. Highland Park School Exercises.

1904 Committee Meets. 6. News of the Railroads. North Topeka News. In Society Circles.

Short Story of the Day. 7. Markets. 8. County Bonded Debt Reduced.

nating a Socialist state ticket. The law requires that there be 2,500 names to the petition. Mr. Clemens already has secured 1,140 names. The Socialists will open their campaign in Topeka September 25.

It is likely that Eugene V. Debs will be present. G. C. Clemens and Carl Browne will make speeches.

Browne has challenged) Jerry Simpson to a joint debate. Simpson has not yet replied. Browne is just now one of the chief pushers in the Freedom Labor Exchange colony at Mapleton. He says the colony is prosperous. There are now six families in the organization, and ten more will join in the spring.

SUMNER AND BROWN O. K. Ed Greer, editor of the Winfleld Courier, was a Topeka visitor yesterday. Mr. Greer says that the Republicans of his section are feeling very good, politically.

Flops to the Republican party are report ed daily, he says, and the fusionists are down at the mouth. In Sumner county the fusionists have done little toward organization. Many fusionists who are supporting Bryan are doing it in a halfhearted manner, because they recognize prosperity and are in favor of expansion. O. J.

Nugent of Hiawatha was a caller at Republican headquarters yesterday. He says Brown county will go Republican this year by an increased majority. J. D. DAVIS IN TOWN.

John D. Davis of Wichita, candidate for State Senator on the Republican ticket in the Sedgwick county district, was in the city yesterday. He expects to be elected. His opponent is Jim Tapp, who ran for mayor of Wichita last spring. Attorney General Gockard and F.

L. Williams addressed a rousing meeting of the McKinley and Roosevelt club at Clay Center Tuesday night. Chairman Ed Ridgely addressed the Topeka Bryan and Breidenthal club Wednesday night. BACK TO CANTON. President McKinley Expects to Remain There Some Time.

Canton, Sept. 13. President and Mrs. McKinley arrived in Canton this evening, in a special train from Somerset. Thty expect to remain here fcr some time.

Both seem to be in excellent health and spirits, the President especially showing that he has kept up well under the strain of the five weeks of almost incessant hard work since he left for Washington. The special train made no stops after changing from the Baltimore Ohio to the Pennsylvania lines at Johnstown, but notwithstanding crowds lined up along the station platforms at every station. Bigr Lead for Republicans in the Pine Tree State. Lewiston, Sept. 13.

Returns received from all but two of the 521 towns and plantations in the state show the following vote for governor: Hill, Republican, Lord, Democrat. 39.911; Rogers, Prohibition, Lermond, Socialist, 455; Republican plurality, 33,245. OBITUARY. J. T.

Gregory. Wellsville, Kan Sept. 13. T. J.

Gregory, who has long been prominent in business and politics here, died today of appendi citis. In their demands the miners ask the correction of many evils, the mora important of which are the following: Abolition of the company stores; reduction In the price of powder to $1.50 a keg; abolition of company doctors; semi-monthly payment of wages; abolition of the sliding scale; wages paid in cash; 2,240 pounds to the ton; $1.50 and not exceeding $1.75 a day: that all get an advance of 20 per cent in wages less than classes of day labor now receiving $1.50 and not exceeding $1.78 shall receive 15 per cent over present wages; that all day labor now receiving $1.75 shall be advanced 10 per cent; that no miner shall have at any time more than one breast, gang or other class of work, and shall get only his legal share of cars. ENTOMBED FOR 30 HOURS. When Storm Broke It Seemed as If Hope Was Dead Awful Danger From Disease and Filth. W.

W. Garrison, a nephew of Mrs. W. W. Phillips, 1029 Jackson street, returned last night from Galveston, where he has been in the employ of a milling company.

His relatives here had heard nothing of him since the storm, and were greatly and agreeably surprised when he arrived in the city. Mr. Garrison expresses himself as being glad to get away from the scenes of awful desolation and horror of which he has been an unwilling witness. "You newspaper people have not told half of the tale," said he, "and the world will never know half the horror of the yond conception, and it means that a prosperous southern city will be entirely obliterated, at it were, from commercial activity. Nobody will invest money there again, beyond the possible rebuilding of the wharves, as the risk is too great.

The cuy nas nad floods before, which were warnings, and this will be the last as a large and prosperous city. "I will never forget the experiences I went through. The storm threatened all day, and when at last it broke in all its fury, it seemed as though the last vestige of hope was dead. I was on duty Saturday night in the mill where I worked, helping make an effort to save the prop- elements was not to be compared, how ever, to tho anguish 3d apprehensions of ihe inhabitants of the city, waiting for day to break, so that something more definite could be learned of the horror that had been unexpectedly precipitated. "All day Sunday, it was impossible to obtain anything to eat in all the city of jalveston.

The stores opened for an hour In the morning, and then closed up for the day. The bakers would open their doors after they had gotten a supply of bread baked, and a hungry horde of people would rush to the door and light over the loaves until they were all out, and hundreds would turn away unsatisfied and disappointed." Mr. Garrison would not place an esti mate upon the number of lives lost, saying that could never be known. Undoubtedly thousands had been washed out to sea, and would never be found. All the bodies that were being recovered now were being buried, and as the debris was removed more bodies came to light.

Every wagon and vehicle in the city was pressed into service for transporting- dead bodies early in the week, he said, but now the bodies were burned wherever they were found. An unbearable stench permeated the streets, said Mr. Garrison, caused by the ooze which the merchants shoveled out of their stores after the flood had subsided. Men grow deathly sick while at the work of relief, he said, and if sanitary conditions can not be speedily developed a plague will be the result, as the weather is unbearably hot. Mr.

Garrison said that there were practically no sewers in Galveston, and that the filth could not be carried off. but would lie in the streets and on various parts of the island under the blazing rays of the sun, to produce disease and death. DISASTERT0 TRAIN. Eighty-Five Lives Were Lost on Gulf and Interstate Road. New Orleans.

Sept. 13. The States this morning received a telegram from Hon. John H. Poe, member of the state beard of education and residing at Lake Charles, stating that eighty-flve were lost on the Gulf and Interstate train which left Beaumont early Saturday morning from Bolivar Point, after having made connections with the Southern Pacific which left this city Friday.

Mr. Poe was a passenger on the train and fortunately with a few others, he sought safety in the light house at Bolivar Point and was saved. The train reached Bolivar about noon and all prepartions were made to run the train on the ferry boat preparatory to crossing the bay. The wind blew so swiftly. uii me ierry coukj not make a landing and the conductor after allowing it to stand on the tracks for a few minutes started to back it toward Beau mont.

The wind increased so ranidlv coming in from the open sea. that soon the water had reached a level with the bottom of the seats within the cars. It men wai some or tne passengers sought safety in the nearbv light house But Mr. Poe states in his telegram that in spite of all efforts eighty-five passengers were blown away or drowned. The train was entirely wrecked.

Doubtless some of the killed were from New Orleans as the train made direct connections with the Southern Pacific train which left here Friday night and there were a large num ber of New Orleans passengers aboard. It is known that at least some of these were bound for Galveston. Those who were saved had to spend over fifty hours in the light house on almost no rations. Damage to Government Works. Galveston.

Sept. Charles S. Roche. U. S.

after he had SANTA EE IN600D SHAPE Road Will Soon Be Doing Business Again at Galveston. Chicago, Sept. 13. Third Vice President Barr of the Santa Fe railroad, who went to Galveston to look after the company affairs, sent the following dispatch to headquarters ip this city today: "The dock company will be able to resume handling grain and cotton as soon as we are able to open our track into the city. The damage to the wharves is not serious.

The grain in elevators is not seriously damaged. The damage to our tracks in Galveston is not so great as reported. Six thousand dollars will repair it. "The round house and freight house were demolished. The freight house is damaged, but we will be able to repair it so as to handle business there.

The loss of cars will not exceed twenty-five. Repairs to the tracks in Galveston will be made by the time we reach the bridge from the north. We will be able to begin repairs on the bridge at once. We are new working from both ends. "The outlook for resuming business is bright.

Conditions at Galveston as to order and food are good. We have large forces employed and everything is working well." Previous reports declared the damage enormous and that it would be months before regular trains into Galveston could be resumed. None of the company's 700 employes at Galveston was killed or seriously hurt. New York, Sept. 13.

A. F. Walker, chairman of the board of directors of the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe company, today said that the company's loss due to the Galveston hurricane would not exceed $100,000. Mr. Walker was confident of the future of Galveston as a shipping port.

M'KIBBIN'S REPORT. General Estimates Loss of Life at "Possibly More Than 1,000." Washington, Sept. 13. The War depart ment has received the following telegram from General McKibbin, who was sent to Galveston to report upon conditions there: "Houston, Sept. 13.

Adjutant General. Washington: Arrived at Galveston at 6 p. having been ferried across bay in a yawl boat. It is impossible to adequately describe the condition existing. The storm began about 9 a.

m. on Saturday and continued with constantly increasing violence until after midnight. The island was inundated; the height of the tide was from eleven to thirteen feet. "The wind was a cyclone. With few exceptions every building in the city is Injured.

Hundreds are entirelj destroyed. All the fortifications except the rapid-fire battery at San Jacinto are practically de stroyed. At San Jacinto every uilding except the quarantine station is carried away. "Battery First artillery, lost twenty- eight men. The officers and their families were all saved.

Three members of the hospital corps lost. Names will be sent as soon as possible. "Loss of life upon the island is possibly more than 1,000. All bridges are gone, water works destroyed and all telegraph lines are down. Colonel Roberts was in the city and made every effort to get telegrams through; the city under control of committee of citizens and perfectly quiet.

Every article of equipment of property pertaining to Battery was lost. Not a record of any kind is left. The men saved have nothing but the clothing on their persons. Nearly all are without shoes or clothing other than their shirts and trousers. Clothing necessary has been purchased and temporary arrangements made for food and shelter.

There are probably 5,000 citizens homeless and absolutely destitute who must be clothed, sheltered and fed. Have ordered 20,000 rations and tents for 1,000 from Sam Housto.i. Have wired commissary general to ship 30,000 rations by express. Lieutenant Perry will make his way back to Houston and send this telegram. M'KIBBIN." NEW YORK'S DONATION.

Nearly $135,000 Subscribed to Galveston Relief Fund. New York, Sept. 13. The subscriptions to date for the relief of the Galveston sufferers are: "Merchants' association. mayor's fund, New York Mercantile Exchange fund.

Cotton Exchange fund, New York Exchange. New-York Produce Exchange fund. Chamber of Commerce fund. $25,000: miscellaneous subscriptions, $30,000. Total, $134,394." The transport McPherson will leave this port at noon Monday next for Galveston, carrying supplies which have been contributed through the Merchants' association.

The steamer El Sud of the Morgan line, sailed this afternoon for Galveston with a large contribution of food supplies and clothing for the relief committee, which was contributed through the Merchants' association. A dispatch purporting to be from New Orleans and giving the information that a Southern Pacific company train which left New Orleans for Galveston last Friday had been struck by the hurricane and wrecked and eighty-five people killed was pronounced untrue by C. H. Tweed of the company today. Mr.

Tweed today rei erated his state ment tht his road would not abandon Gal- vestcn, but would in the immediate future I proceed with further improvements plan-Bed. He thought the Southern Pacific's loss by the hurricane at Galveton would i come inside of $400,000. Santa Fe Reconstructing. Chicago. Sept.

13. Vice President Morton of the Santa Fe road received a mes- to Galveston was progressing rapidly and announcing that the company was devoting all its energiey to the transportation of supplies and medicines, physicians and nurses to the stricken city. He said it is impossible to forecast just when the lines will be in full running order. Mitchell tells Why Strike Is Ordered. MEN TREATED UNFAIRLY.

Their Wages Said to Be Less Than $250 An nually. CHEATED IN THEIR WEIGHTS. Leaders Allege That They Are Com-polled to Mine From 2,700 to 4.000 Founds for a Ton Many Other Alleged Grievances. Indianapolis, Sept. 13.

In order place before the public the conditions existing in the anthracite fields of Pennsylvania, President John Mitchell and Secretary-Treasurer W. B. Wilson, of tha United Mine Workers of America, Issued today to the public a statement giving the causes that have led up to the strike. After the statement had been given ou: for publication, President Mitchell said: "At this time I do not believe anything will take place between now and Monday that will prevent the strike. All tha information coming to my office today predicates that the struggle is practically on.

"I have been receiving messages all day from the anthracite region, which indicate clearly that the Indorsement of the strike and the issuance of the order has met with the approval of the miner. There are a few details to be arranged, but the men are preparing for the fight. I have not received today any information direct or indirect to show that the operators have receded from their position." MITCHELL'S STATEMENT. The statement follows: "Indianapolis, Sept. 13.

The members of the national executive board of the United Mine Workers of America, realizing that the material welfare of a large number of the American people will be injuriously affected by a suspension, of work in the coal fields of Pennsyl. vania, knowing the irrestible power of a concentrated public opinion, and having a profound respect for the opinions of their fellow men. have decided to maka a general statement for the information of the public. "No one can have a greater appreciation of the far reaching effect of a strika of the anthracite coal miners. The coal miners and their families, the coal companies and th coal carrying railways ara but a small portion of the vast multitude whose interests are so directly and indirectly connected with the coal trade that a conflict of such magnitude will affect their welfare.

"The domestic fuel supply of the west: the great manufacturing Industries of tha east; the wholesale and retail business establishments; the gr-at ocean, lake, canal and railroad transportation Interest; laboring men and capitalists, will all be affected by such a gigantic strug gle. That the world may know that wa have done all that honorable men can do to avoid the conflict, We herewith submit a few facts for careful consideration. MINERS' GRIEVANCES. "The average wages of the anthracite miner for many years have been less than $250 annually. During that period of time the cost of many of the necessities of life has been Increased over 10 per cent.

An increase in the cost of living without a corresponding increase of wages Is equivalent to a reduction in wages. "The laws of the state of Pennsylvania mak' 2.400 pounds a ton of anthracite coal, yet anthracite coal miners are compelled to mine from 2,700 to 4,000 pounds fox a ton. and in addition to that are docked exoribant amountn, often reaching 12 per cent of their daily earnings, for any impurities which may be sent out with their coal. Where they are paid by the car, instead of being required to furnish a wll rounded heap on the car at the breakers, as was originally agreed to, they have gradually been compelled to increase tha amount of coal in each car by building the same perpendicularly from six to eighteen inches above the They are compelled to purchase the powder used In mining from their employers, paying $2.75 per keg, and which wholesales for about $1 rer keg. They are required by many of the -om paries to deal In "pluck-roe stores or leave their employment.

They must pay the company $1 per month for I a doctor whether they need him or not. and have no voice In saying who the doctor shall be. "The smallness of their earnings, together with the great cost of Jiving, has compelled them to take their children from school before they have reached the ag" prescribed by law and place them at work In the breakers, in order to keep tho family from starvation. NO RELIEF OFFERED. "When any miner, feeling the burden of these conditions, has gone to the management and asked to have them removed, he has been told that If he does not like it he can quit.

When they have organized at any colliery and sent committees to the management, asking to have their grievances remedied, the committees have either been discharged, or they have been told that the evils could not be remedied because of the competition from other companies. When the representatives of the miners of the whole region have met and asked the coal companies to meet (Continued on Pace Galveston Slowly Recover ing From Pitiless Blow. PROBLEM OF REBUILDING. Citizens Await the Lead of the Big Railroads. RELIEF IS POURING IN.

Aid Comes From Every Part of the Country Volunteer Forces Still at Work Burying the City's Dead. Galveston, Sept. 13. Galveston is beginning slowly to recover from the tunning blow of last week and though eit appears tonight to be pitilessly desolated, the authorities, the commercial anil industrial interests ar setting their forces to work, and a start has at least been made toward the resumption of business on a moderate scale. The presence of the troops has had a beneficial effect upon the criminal classes arid the fear of a brief but desperate reign of anarchy now no longer exists.

The Haver saloons have at least temior-arily gone out of business, and every strong limbed man who has not his own aluxle to look after is being pressed into nervlce, so that tlrst of all, the water Service must be resumed, the gutters flushed and the streets lighted. THE DEATH LIST GROWS. The further the ruins are dug into the greater becomes the increase in the list of those who perished as their home. tumbled about their heads. On the lower beai yesterday a searching party found score of corpses within a small area, ifoing to show that the bulwarK of ue-brls that lies straight across the island conceals many more bodies than have been accounted for.

Volunteer gangs continue their work of hurried burial of the corpses they find on the shores of Galveston island and at th- many neighboring points where fatalities attended the storm. It will prob ably he many days yet. however, before all the floating bodies have found graves. Along the beach bodies are constantly being washed up. Whether these are those who were swept out into the gulf and drowned, ot are simply the return ashore of some ot those cast into the sea to guard against terrible pestilence, there is no means of knowing.

In any event, the Associated press correspondent, in a trip across the bay yesterday, counted seven bodies tossing in the waves with a score of horses and cattle, the stench from which was unbearable. Tn various parts of the city the smell of decomposed flesh is still apparent. Wherever such Instances are found the authorities are freely disin. feeting. Only today a babe lashed to a mattress was picked up under a residence in the very heart of the city and burned.

IDES PR BA I WRECK. The city still presents the appearance of widespr'ad wreck and ruin. Little has been done to clear the streets of the terrible tangle of wires and the masses Ot wreck, mortar, slate, stone ana gljiss that bestrew them. Many of the sidewalks are impassable. Some of them arc littered with debris.

Others are so thickly covered with slime that walking on them is out of ihe question. As a rule substantial fram buildings better withstood the blast of the rale than those of brick. In other instances, ht wever. small wooden structures, cis terns and whole sides of houses have been plumped down in streets or back ards. squares away from where they originally stood.

BUSINESS MEN CAUTIOUS. Here and there business men have al ready put men to work to repair the damage done, but in the main the com merclal interests seem to be uncertain ttbout following the lead of those who ap parently show faith in the rapid rehabili tation of the island city. The appearance of the newspapers to day after a suspension of several days is having a good effect, and both the News I and the Tribune arc urging a prompt sue coring of the suffering and then equal promptness in reconstruction. It is dif ficult to say yet what the ultimate effect of the disaster is to be on the city. Many people have left and some may never return.

The; experiences of others still here were so frightful that not all will remain If they can conveniently find occupation Jn other cities. The bulk of the population, however, is temporarily panic-stricken. and there are hosts of those who helped to make Galveston prosperous who look upon the catastrophe as involving a temporary halt in the advancement of the city. AWAIT ACTION OF RAILROADS What is most bothering business men at rresent is what attitude the railroads and especially the Southern Pacific, will assume with respect to reconstruction The decision of the transportation lines will do more than anything else to rt 'Store confidence. Big ships, new arrivals, rode at anchor today in front of the city.

They had Just reached the port and found the decks and piers damaged so that no accommo dation could be given them. They found) sheds torn away, freight cars overturned and planking ripped off. The steamships reported ashore in early reports are, save two. tho Norwegian steamer Gyller and the Bitisu steamer (term, still high ana dry. vide the poor and needy with medicine at the expense of the relief fund.

DEATHUST. Names of Storm Victims Not Heretofore Published. Houston, Sept. 13. Following are names of persons killed at Galveston that have not heretofore appeared in the Uses of dead: T.

Aberhart and wife. Herman Ackerman, wife and daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Tobey Adams, (colored).

Mrs. G. Ademitie and seven children. C. B.

Akers, wife and three children. A. Albertson, wife and two children. R. L.

Allardice, wife and three children. Cornelia Allen. Daisy Allen. Elve Allen. Zenera Allen.

John Alphonse. wife and family. Oscar Anderson, wife and children. Andrew Anderson, wife and children. Miss Vivian Armitage.

Mrs. Armour and five children. John Artisan, wife and nine children. John Bass, wife and four children VoW ored). Will Bulch, wife and two children.

Miss Nina Beach of Victoria, Mrs. Dudley Beal and child. Cushman Bedford (colored). Dixie Bohn. Peter Boss and wife.

Bowen. Miss Nannie Bradley. Miss Ethel Bradley. Bentley family. A.

M. Briscoll. C. J. Bockellman.

Joe Brown and family. Selma Buckley. Blanche Buckley. Blanche Bickley. Buckley, mother and father.

Mrs. S. Buckley and daughter. William Busbee and wife. Mr.

George Burnett and wife. Mrs. Burnett. Mrs. Burrell (colored).

Mrs. Tom Calhoun and three children. Miss Edna Campbell. A. Carter.

Catholic Orphans' home, ninety people. William Cato (colored). William Childe and wife. Tom Clark. James J.

Corbet and four children. Alex Caddoe and Ave children. Colsen. Captain D. E.

Connor. Edward J. Connor. Cowen. J.

J. Crouse and wife. Will Ceydo. Mrs. Cremwell and three children.

Ashby Crook. Miss Nellie Crowley and brother. Mrs. Joseph Cueno. New Orleans.

Mrs. E. H. Curry and child. Darrell and five children.

Charles M. Darby. Mrs. T. F.

Davis. M. Deltz and two sons. Mrs. Dinter and daughter.

Ellen Donahue, Utica, N. T. Mary Donahue. Utica, N. Y.

George Doll and wife. Frank Dolla and family. John Dotty. Jim Doyle. Richard E.

Dunningham. Fred Eckett. Cnafles Eckett. James Edwards and family. Eisman.

wife and child. Howard Eisman. James Ellas and two children. John W. English, wife and child.

Joe Emmanuel. Mr. and Mr. Eppendorf. Sumpter Eads.

Fachon family. Mr. and Mrs. Falkenhagen. Joe Fedo.

Peter Ferwerder. Mrs. Fickott and four children. John Fiegel. Mrs.

Figge and four children. Mr. Franks and daughter. Mrs. Floeher.

(Continued on Page Two.) FACTS AND FIGURES OF THE MINERS' STRIKE. Number of men in anthracite mines Number belonging to I Number of persons deprived of income Union funds on hand $450,000 Average daily wages received by miners Average wages of day men at mines $1.35 30 Daily loss in wages $166,880 Area of coal fields, 470 Average annual production, tons eompleted a tour of inspection of the gov- sage today from L. J. Polk, the general ernment works, said to a News reporter: manager in Texas that the work of sunk nearly to mean low tide constructing bridges and tracks leading level, but not seriously breached. Channel at least as good as before, perhaps, better, twenty-five feet Certainly." "The damage at Fort Crockett, "Captain Roche says," is not serious.

The shore line at Fort Crockett has moved back about WO feet. Fort San Jacinto ap-.