The Great Galveston Disaster, Containing a Full and Thrilling Account of the Most Appalling Calamity of Modern Times Page: 154
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154 BURNING THE RUINS AND THE DEAD.
tection and should fire break out the destruction of the city
would soon be complete.
"When searching parties come across a human body it is
hauled out into an open space and wreckage piled over it. The
pyre is then set on fire and the body slowly consumed. The odor
from these burning bodies is horrible.
"The chairman of the Central Relief Committee at Galveston
asked me to make the announcement that the city wants
all the skilled mechanics and contractors with their tools that can
be brought to Galveston. There is some repair work now going
on, but it is impossible to find men who will work at that kind of
business. Those now in Galveston who are not engaged in relief
work have their own private business to look after and mechanics
are not to be had.
" All mechanics will be paid regular wages and will be given
employment by private parties who desire to get their wrecked
homes in habitable shape as rapidly as possible. There are many
fine houses which have only the roof gone. These residences are
finely furnished, and it is desired that the necessary repairs be
made quickly.
WELL ORGANIZED.
" The relief work is fairly well organized. Nothing has been
accomplished, except the distribution of food among the needy,
and some attempt at clothing them. I found no one who was
hungry or thirsty. About one-half of the city is totally wrecked,
and many people are living in houses that are badly wrecked.
The houses that are only slightly injured are full of people who
are being well cared for. The destitute are baking removed from
the city as rapidly as possible. It will take three or four days
yet before all who want to go have been removed from the island
city. A remarkably large number of horses survived the storm,
but there is no feed for them, and many of them will soon die of
starvation.
"In the city the dead bodies are being disposed of in every
manner possible. They are burying the dead found on the mainland.
At one place 250 bodies were found and buried on Wednes-
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Lester, Paul. The Great Galveston Disaster, Containing a Full and Thrilling Account of the Most Appalling Calamity of Modern Times, book, 1900~; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth26719/m1/189/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.