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RELIEF WRORK FOR THE SICK AND DYING. 291
usefulness. Men are in demand and workers are coming to engage
in the duty of restoration. Life is beginning to supersede death,
and there is apparent everywhere a desire to save the city and
rebuild it.
" Before another week has passed, the listlessness of mourning
people will have been changed into a lively interest in life, and as
this comes so, Galveston will begin to realize just what the world
expects of her. General Scurry now has charge of the town, and
it is really under martial law.
" Of course there is some friction. Martial friction, like the
martial law, is a matter only temporary. It would be difficult to
challenge the necessity of this measure. There are many defenseless
women and children in the city, living in houses without locks
and keys, and they must be protected against prowlers of all kinds,
How long such protection will be necessary cannot be known now,
but General Scurry can be depended upon to discharge the important
obligations which he has assumed.
" There are political factions here who resent the idea of martial
law, but this fact does not, for a moment, abate the necessity
for it. United States Marshal John Grant has arrived with twelve
deputy marshals. He tendered his services to General Scurry and
they were accepted.
WALKING OVER CORPSES.
" One hundred people at present are at Virginia Point, some
waiting for transportation over to Galveston, some for day to break
so as to permit of the burial of corpses, of which there are many
scattered up and down the beach and all over the prairie for a radius
of ten miles. Others are waiting for a first chance to get as far
away as possible from this terrible scene. Men who will work are
very scarce. Those willing have a desire to boss, which does not
facilitate matters in the least. An organized force of considerable
proportion should be sent here at once.
" An eight-mile walk from where the passengers were put off
the train last night to this place, over the corpses of human beings
and animals, piles of lumber, household articles of every descrip-
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