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THE ST. LOUIS REPUBLIC Fun n nil nm A t leoe of Brilliant Description. By E1HYSAV HKLNDUR. THE HE -CO OF THIBET. NEXl bUNLUY'a RcPUBLlC. A CAPITAL FEXTURE OP NEXT SUNDAY'S REPUBLIC. NINETY-THIRD YEAR. ST. LOUIS, MO.. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER U, 1900. PRICE 4 f On In St. Louis. One Cent. JulUe ht. Louis. Two Cent. rrniii,riiree Cents. MILLION AND A HALF AT NEEDED FOR GALVESTON RELIEF COaLBHiHE I0W FACES THE CITIES. LEAST 1 Prices Have Already Been Sharply Advanced in Some Markets. Twenty Dollars Per Ton Will Be Paid in the East if the Strike Be Prolonged Many Miners Now Out. jiefublic srnciAi New York. Sept. 13 New lork find tho country at large are threatened with a cenj famine men us has not been experi enced since the great strike of 1870-71. w hen, na a result or the suspension of work In tho mines, anthracite coal coat the con sumer from $11 to $11 ft ton. Ills operators have pooh-poohed the com ing strike, set for Monday, and declared that the miners would not go out In force find could not stay out If they did. But tha dealers of New York have been rushing in orders to buy coal In view of the pros pectlvo shortage and n advance of a dol lar a ton. It Is understood, will e Into ef fect on Monday. This city, of all others, will bear tho lirunt of any coal famine which the Penn Kylvanta etrtke. may develop. It will fall most heavily on the poor, who buy their coal by the bushel. The amount of coal now In the hands of the dealers, or on the way to this city. Is estimated at only forty-five days supply, or 1.125 19 tons New York consuming each day about S.K tons of tha fuel. Advance Predicted. The representative of a mining and com mission house, which mines 3.0000 to 4. CO0.000 tons a year, besides handling coal for the railroad companies, to-day preilcttd an advance In four days. "On Monday." said he. "we shall raise our price $1 a ton. and I presume that there will be a general rise of at least that amount. Anthracite coal now costs the con sumer $5 a ton. It will probably bo i&Z a ton In a few days, because th retailer Is likely to advanco the price somewhat mora than It is advanced to him. The head of a retail concern In this city, who handles JS,0 tons yearly, or over, told u- to-day that he was determined to announce an Im mediate advance to $7 a ton. "I have Just returned frcm tha mines. The men are determined to no out. The opera tors will not yield an Inch. We expect a long fight. Undoubtedly people will be re duced to the cece-sltp of using bituminous coal and the mi nlcipal ordinance against the use of soft coal here In New York will have to be repealed or temporarily suspend ed." Dealers were busy to-day In complet ing arrangements for getting in stocks of coal, but the big railroad companies proved how thoroughly they appreciated the situa tion by shutting down on tho dealers In the course of the day. All but the Philadelphia and Heading Tefused to take further orders for coal, and this company took them with the under loading that they were to ba canceled In the event of a strike Parlous Scramble to Day. The dealers have only bert aln. to tlie Huitloti-"for about" a week, but ttf that time they have been scrambling furiously to buy. and water freight rates and whole sale rates for coal have already risen sharp ly. This advance simply presages a much larger one. Some dealers estimate that the price of anthracite after October IS will advance lit the rate of $1 a ton each week, that tho strike Is prolonged. Every Ctty Want CohI. Every city In the country east, of Chicago is In the market for anthracite coal, and the competition for It Is of the keenest char acter, i The grave question as to what this city Kill do If the strike lasts six months, as did that of the anthracite miners which fcetan In December, 1S70, suggests tho pos sible use of soft or bituminous coal. The city does not permit the u&i of roft toil cow, although plenty of It Is mined, but If the price of anthracite mounts to C( a cn, as It did In the spring of 171, the Municipal Assembly will be compelled to rtpeal the lav 'forbidding the use at soft Bituminous coal eells at wholesale for ADDRESS OF MINE WORKERS, STATING 1HEIR GRIEVANCES. Indianapolis, Ind.. Sept. 13. In order to yUca before the public the conditions exist ing in the anthracite fields of Pennslvanla, President John MltcheU and Secrotary Trtssurer W. B. Wilson of the United Mine Workers of America issued to-day to the publio a statement, giving in detail the causes that have led up to the strike After the statement had been given out tor publication. President Mitchell Bald: ' "At this time I do not believe anything Will transpire between now and Monday that will prevent the strike. All the Infor mation coming Into my office to-day predi cates 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 ap- froval of the miners. There ore a few de alls to be arranged, but the men are pre pared for tho fight. 1 have not received any Information to-day, direct or Indirect, to show that the operators will rccedo from lhelr position." Position of tlie Miners. The statement Is as follows: "Indianapolis. Ind.. Sept. 13, 1300. The members of the National Executive Board of the United Mino Workers of America, realizing that the material welfare of a large number of American people will fyi Injuriously affected by a general suspen sion of work In the coal fields of Pennsyl vania, knowing the Irresistible power of a concentrated public opinion, and having a profound respect for the opinions of their fellow men, have decided to make a gen eral statement for the Information of the public "No one can have a greater appreciation of the far-reaching effect of a strike of the anthracite coal miners. Coal miners and their families, the coal companies and tho coal-carrying railways are but a small por tion of the vast multitudes whose interests bxo so directly and Indirectly connected with the coat trade that a conliict of such magnitude would affect their welfare- The domestic fuel supply of tha West; the great manufacturing industries cf the East; the wholesalo and retail bus.ness es tablishments; the great ocean, lake, canal and railroad transportation Interests; la boring men and capitalbU will oil be af fected by such a gigantic struggle. That the world may know that we have done all that honorable men can do to avoid the conflict, we herewith submit a few facta tor careful consideration: "The average wages of the anthracite miner for many years have been less than (250 annually. During that period of time tho coet of many of the necessaries of life has been Increased over SO per cent. An in crease In the cost of living without a cor responding Increase In wages Is equivalent Lo a reduction of wages. Ton of Four Thousand Pounds. "The laws of the State of Pennsylvania, tatka t,10 Bound a loa of anthracite coal. about $3 a ton hero. ThLi would make the retnll price about ti. nnd woald grently re lieve the thounds upon thousands of tenement-house dwellers who purchase coal by the bushel. At present this class of New Yorkers pay J3 a ton for anthracite, pur chased by tho bushel. If anthracite should advance to $10 a ton Hat there people would be compelled to pay nearly VS) a ton for it. In the circumstances there Is no doubt that tho Municipal Assembly will adopt measures of relief, and In that event the strange spectacle will be presented of clouds of curling smoke hovering over the metropolis. The coal strike Is not popular in New York, but the sympathy of the peoplo Is with tho miners and powerful pressure un doubtedly will be brought to bear by rep resentative bodle?, moved by local con siderations, mainly, to force a settlement of the trouble.. CHICAGO I.V A HAD TVAY. bcpcbuc srcciAi. Chicago. Sept. 13. Chicago's vlilble sup ply of hard coal Is lew than v.iu tons. Tho season's demand Is Just opening, and of the 2.CvO,0CO tons annuilly taken for the local and tributary market, not more than TdO tons have reached Chicago. With the mines closed Rnd the East taking all avail able stocks, Chicago cannot count on In creasing her present supply. Should the J strike be as widespread as anticipated New : leaxs cay win unu ute t-uivasu ueaie.a without coal with which to supply the de mand. Prices have not yet been marked up. but when the strike is once on the local dealers will advance rrlccs from JG.25 to $7.23 a ton, and further advances are sure to fallow. CI) A I, ADVAXCED I.N UOsTU.V. RErmsuc f I'eciau I.ostou, Sept. 13. Anthracite coal took a jump of 7i cents a ton In Boston to-dav. This makes tho price now $J a on. ns com pared with the recent quotations of $4.75 and $5.25. The coal companies offer no guar antee that the price will not go higher, say ing that It all depends on tho length of tha strike. They did not wait for U.e announce ment of the strike, however, but put tho price of coal up 75 cents a ton at one bound. It la expected that hard coal will bo very scarce In Boston by October 15, as the vis ible supply Is 70 per cent Ies3 than It tsually Is at this season. Some dealers express the opinion that coal will advance at the rate of $1 a ton each week that the strike Is prolonged, after the Immediate supply Is exhausted. In deed,' the facta teem to warrant the state ment of a local dealer that the competition for coal which is sure to follow the strike will carry the price of hard coal to $10 a top. before the 1st of November If a settle ment is not effected by that time. " PHILADELPHIA IX AEED SOW. REPLBUC 61-ECIAL. Philadelphia. Pa., Sept. 13. With the rest of the country Philadelphia Is threatened . with u coal famine. The visible supply or i anthracite coal In this city Is unusually ! .. , , i i... i ...a............ small anu aireauy prices u-lvu uccu uu.aittvu 25 cents a ton. BALTIMORE WELL SUPPLIED. REPUliUC SPECIAL. Baltimore. Md.. S;pt. 13. Local dealers, anticltiatlnsr a strike in the anthracite re- I glon, have been purchasing co.il in large quantities. It Li estimated that there is stored here p. supply sufficient to last until Christmas. There has been no material advance In prices as yet. COAL I.V WASHIXGTOX. REPUBLIC SPECIAL. Washington, Sept. 13. There has been no advance as yet In the price of coal in Washington on account of the strike in the Pennsylvania anthracite regions. Johnson Bros., who are among the larg est dealers here, said to-night they would not advance prices unless compelled to do so by the situation as It develops. jet anthracite coal miners aro compelled to mine from 2.700 to 4,000 pounds for a ton, for in ndlltlcn to that lire docked ex orbitant amounts, often reaching 13 per cent of their dully 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 well-rounded heap on the car ut the breakers, ns was originally agreed to, they have gradually been compelled to Increase the amount of coal in each cor by building the same per pendicularly from six to elsht Inches above the edge. "They are compelled to purchase the powder used In mining from their employ ers, pajlng $3.75 per keg for a grade of ?owder that can he purchased elsowbere or Jl.;9 per keg, and which wholesales for ubout tl per keg. They are required by many of the companies to deal in 'pluck mo' stores or leave their employment. They must pay to the company Jl per month for a doctor, whether tney need him or not, and liave no voice la saying who the doctor shall be. "The imallness of their earnings, together with the great cost of living, has com pelled them to take their children from school before they have reaclud the aqe prescribed by law, and place them at work in the breakers, in order to keep the faml.y from starvation. "When any miner, feeling the burden of these conditions, has gone to the manage ment and asked to have them removed, he has been told that If he does not like It l.e can quit. Whenever they have organized in any colliery, and have sent committees to the agent, asking to have their griev ances considered, the committees have either been discharged or have been told that evils could not be remedied because of the competition from the other com panies. "When the representatives of the miners of the whole rcglun have met and asked the coal companies to meet them in Joint convention, to arrange wages and conditions on an equitable basis, so Slat each would know what his competitor was paying and no advantage cou d be taken of any one, the petition for a conference has beeu com pletely ignored. Operators Were Silent. "Whenever the business men. clergymen or outside influences have appealed to the ccal companies to correct some of the evils complained of. their requests have been de nied; and when, as a last resort, the ottlcera of our organization hate wired the presi dents of tho great railroad companies, who control the anthracite coil fields, offering- to submit the whole question to' arbitration, tho proposition has been treated with silent contempt. Having exhausted all otiier means of , adjustment, wo hud reached the point where we must either advise the miners of the anthracite region to continue working under these unjust and tyrannical condi tions or counsel strike. "We have chosen the latter, and, having done so, ne Invite a thorough, impartial and publls investigation of the conditions existing In the anthracite coal fields. We be Ieve that the great American uoart throbs In sympathy for the down-trodden and op pressed, whether In this or lu any other li Continued on Pnee Four, iMONEY IS THE NEED FOR Money is the most pressing need of tlie relief committees in Tex- as. It is more quickly transmitted to them than are other forms of relief, and with it they can more speedily alleviate the keen snf- firing which has followed in the wake of the storm of last Bat- unlay. Checks should be addressed to .George 11. Morgan, treas- urer of the Merchants' Exchange, or to John IT. Tennent, treas- g urer of the Relief Committee of the Interstate Merchants' Asso- ciation. Other forms of relief, while entirely welcome and accept- able, will not so quickly accomplish what is most to be desired t o o tho immediate succor of the storm sufferers. x A IUU ! ST. 10U1SAN TELLS OF GALVESTON HORRORS, Lee M. Byrnes Reached the Stricken City While the Storm Was in Progress Terrible Sights on the Streets Piles of Dead Bodies. Lee JL Byrnes', tun of Michael Byrnes of No. 3141 Washington avenue and a brother of James W Drne of the 13yrne Helling and Hose Company, nus perhaps the enly St. Louisan who was on the last train that ran Into GaKesion beioro the greater por tion of the Texas town was swept away. Mr. Iiyrncs arrived In St. Louis yester day afternoon and Is temporarily staying at Hotel Deers, although he makes his home with bis father on Washington ave nue, rr Mr. Byrnes travels for a local milling supply house and as he happened to bo In Texaa last Saturday he dtcidtd to spend the day In Ualvcston. On Saturday nignt he was to bo Initiated Into tho myUriuus order of Hoo itoos, but Instead he spent tho night lying on the fioor of his hold in total uarkness, expecting that the walls would cave in upon him every moment. He helped to dig out the bodies of some of the killed on tho day oiler the sturm, al though he did not get a mt.al from Saturday afternoon until Sunday nignt. With several other gentlemen he got out of Galveston on Monday afternoon on a tug boat. paing a good sum fur passage. One i ol aximlm fw..d a Eallboat woulu take na one to main land for less than IZ3 a per son. From where they were placed on main land Mr. Urnes and his filenus were com pelled to walk to Texas City Junction, which was seven miles away, and the tliiiig clung to muat eagerly was a Jug of water. On the spot nnere Texas Junction stood before the tidal wave struck It the men met the ilrst relief train to Galveston with provisions. As It could go no further the freight and relief corps were forwarded to the tug boats by wagons and tho train look the party, of which Iiyrncs was one, back to Houston, Tex. He stayed there a day and then started for u Louis. SCn.MiS IIUFOKU tiii; viou.u uuoKii. His story of his experiences Is graphic and full of Incidents not before related. Mr. Byrnes said in describing his experi ences: "What I have been told about tho tornado In this city by those who were in It con vinces mo that, cumpared to the Galveston stormf it was like a candle to an arc lamp. It pastes description. "I was up in Orange, Tex., on Saturday, and, ss there was to ba a concatenation of the Order of Hoo-IIoos. at Galveston. I thought it would be a pleasant thing to so down there to bo Initiated, and to spend Sunday. I wroto to my brother James of my plans, and ho received my letter on Monday morning. You can naturally lnftr how ho was worried until I was ublo to telegraph to him that I was ollvo. "From Orange I went to Galveston on a G.. H. & II. train. It was the last train that entered tho city before the storm. When we were- on the bridge entering Gal veston the wind blew with an awful velocl Ity and the water was rising rapidly. The waves continually lapped against the Pull man coach in which I was riding, but I did not think that this was very much out of the ordinary. h some fellows whom I met on the train who had made the trip quite often did not seem to be concerned. "When we got into the Galveston rail road yards we saw that the Santa Fo train, which was due into the city long before noon, was sandwiched In between two woshouts with all lis pasengers on .board, and the water was constantly rising about the train. I heard that the passengers were later taken oft by a G.. IL IL spe cial. "It was quite dark, despite that it was noontime, when I tried to get out of the coach In tho Galveston Depot, and tho gale was so violent that I was compelled to edge out sideways,, step gingerly to avoid the .H ESTIMATE OF PROPERTY LOSS NOW $40,000,000. r-EFUBLlS SPECIAL J' MNEALTJS. Dallas, Tex.. Sept. Il-The counting of the property losses of the Gulf Coast storm Is now engaging the attention of newspaper men In connecUon with their general work. The situation has become sufficiently clear to Jujstlfy attempting an Intel ligent approximation. The estimate made In Dallas from Information gathered by Interviews with Governor Sayers, the managers of railway, telegraph and telephone companies, cattlemen, cotton men, merchants and others is H0.000.000. The total is more likely to go abevo than to fall below these figures. Comparison of nil the statements, eliminating the highest and the lowest from the calculation, and adopting Intermediate figures, makes the following exhibit: (ialve.lon City ana Island, Including railway, steamship, wharf, compress, elevutor, .tree! railway concerns, municipal and Slate property, private residences and general business concerns SUO.OOO, OOC - Cotton crop losses throughout tlie State. Including the Ilrasos and Colorado valleys, the const country and the 18,000 bales lost at Gal veston, the totul estimate beinu S50,000 bales, at 830 per bale, a ts.cOO,- ooo. Kallronds, Including bridges and tracks lost and the Interruption to traffic, 5.l00,000. Telesrupli nnd telephone companies, 8500,000. Farm properties and miscellaneous Industries In a .core or more of mall towns. 82,000,000. Total property loss. 840,000,000. These estimates Include the losses sustained In the city of Houston and In Harris County by the storm of Saturday night and Sunday, that particular lo cality being credited with a loss of CWO.OCtt. PRESSING RELIEF WORK. water, and then receive my three email grips from the porter when I was outside. We drove to the Tremont Hotel, which in the largest and best In Galveston, in a "bus In the teeth of the storm, but I saw peoplo in great groups hurrying to the beach nnd the cars were crowded. The beach is ul wuys crowded when there Is tho spectacle of a storm In prospect. nATTLU AGAINST TI1C UAGI.Nfi WATEJIS). "After luncheon, about 3 o'clock I went to call on a friend who had an office about four squares away on Tremont street, and at i o'clock, when 1 went to the door of his office. It was almost Impossible to get it open because the water was lapping wildly against it. When I started back to the hotel the water was at least four feet high and it took me fully three-quarters of an hour to wade and swim back. The water came as high us my knees and tha waves splashed all over me. The wind by this time was so swift that one could hardly see. "In the rotunda of the hotel the water was at least a foot high when I anally got there, and there were no lights, as the smokestack 1 ." ws.Mrt UfeUb IJJjU UIM IXTVU U1UHD Ul -early in the day: Afttr i hd put ou soma ury clothes I went downstairs again, but we had no supper. In fact. 1 think very few of those In the hotel thought about it. Tha water rose constantly and about dark the velocity of the wind was simply terrifying. We could sometimes hear tho dumb crash us somo house collapsed, and everywhere In our neighborhood tlie tin roofs Capped and knocked about as if they were pieces of paper. Outside we could sco things flylnif thruugh tho air. '"liiiee other men ard myself were in my tuu.t, iuici in iuu eemng, not laiKir.g rnueh. but keeping near to the lire escapo so that wo could get out quickly if the hotel should collate. But whho we sat there a. nah in a building opposite the win dow crashed against tho hotel, and we fled for our lives, une of the men hod a room on the second floor, and we all went down there. It was dark us pitch in tho hotel, ai.Uas we picked our way along we often stumbled over people, who lay m the halls for safety. "It was midnight when we saw some ono moving about in the hotel rotunda with u blcyc.o lamp. When we called down wo were answeied that tha water was falling. The storm abated slightly, and 1 believe the women in tho hotel quieted down some what, and we got a chance to sleep. There were alujut KO guests In the hotel. UAUIUU AM) ;itIPl'Li:i MJUKl.NU ilUUIUAL TUEATilENT. "Tho next morning when we awoke on our places on the fiiwr wo looked about for food, but the only thing we could get was a cup of coflec. I started down 'iremont stre-et with several companions to see the sights, and I saw them. People were wan dering about, looking for streets which they cou.d Identify, and men were frantical ly digging on every wrecked house for tho bodies of their friends and reU lives. The common sense of decency seemed to have been killed In most people, as they wan-dere-d on the streets almost without clothes. Seme, with broken legs and arms, and with bloody heads, were seeking physicians. "Before the storm the beach was covered with cottaguB; when I came down on the beach Sunday morning It was swept as clear as a prairie. Wagons wore busy everywhere loading bodies, Juht as if they were lumber. They wero hauled away and dumped Into the sea. All sorts of vehicles were put Into use carriages, commercial wagons, buses, the patrol wagons, and the Fire Department came with its hose reels and truck. "It was the 'most difficult thing to get fresh water. I knuw I went to the Ice pipe In the Armour packing-house and filled a cup with the water dripping from It. Crack ers wero sold as high as J1.50 a box. and were hard to got even at that. There were always gTeat corwds around the places where the food was sold. Those who had no money were given short rations nnd their names were taken. If any one was caught stealing food he va summarily beaten or shot. H1 ESTIMATE IS BASED UPON GOVERNOR SAYERS' REPORTS. ONE-HALF OF THIS Seventy-Five Carloads of Provisions Are Now on the Way to Galveston and the Storm-Swept Region of Texas. BY A. G. SMOOT. KEPTJBLIC SPECIAL. Austin, Tex., Sept. 13. Touching on tho subject of the needs of tlie flood sufferers and the funds being furnished b!in for the purpose. Governor Say ers stated to-day that It vwould take at least $1,500,000 to render the assistance needed. Many will have to be supported for possibly the neit two months. It Is eslltnated that there are 25,000 dcstltuto persons at Galve&ton and fully one-half that many along tho main shore. As to the contributions up to date Governor Sayers says that he cannot yet pivo a correct estimate, as subscriptions nre pouring In so rapidly, but ho roughly estimates that he has received ?7."0,000 to date. Considerable money has been sent direct to the Mayor of Galveston, and until this amount is reported here no correct report can be given as to the totaL In addition to this 57."iO.OJO sent tho Governor, there have been up to date about ecventy-five carloads of provisions and clothing routed to Galves ton, and all of It Is expected to arrive there not later than Tuesday of next week. By that time the various Government tugs and cutters placed at tho disposal of the Government will be perfectly pystematized as to the handling of passengers and freight across from the island to tho mainland, and the hupplies can bo landed on the Island without any trouble. Grateful, Indeed, was Governor Sayers to receive a telegram from Miss Barton of the Red Cross Society, stating she and her assistants were en route to Galveston. LEAVING THE BT J. V. ILVY3. HEPOTUC SPECIAL. Galveston, Tex., Sept. 13. The evacuation of Galveston has been begun. Schooners by the dozen are leaving for Texas City, and thoir crews have to stand guard to keep the people from overcrowding and sinking the crafts. Tho people are leaving with no desti nation, but with a strong determination to get many miles from this panorama cf wrecked business houses, blockaded streets, hospitals filled with wounded and dying vic tims of the awful disaster, Tha number of dead under the debris In the central parts of the city will never bo known, as burning is going on oil ever : the city. I Tho East Knd beginning at Fifteenth street and Avenue U running on a line parallel with the Island, has a gTeat mass of wreckage plied as high ns a man's head at any point, and from that to the top of tho houses, three stories In height. This line extends as far along as there were any houses to wreck, and consists of all manner of buildings. It Is a desolate scene from Eighth street east, when one compares It with the Ufo that was present but a short time aso. Two buildings of all the colony at the point are left standing. These are the house of the quarantine officer and the lighthouse. The quarantine warehouse Is gone. AH the barrack buildings and the dirt mounds that surrounded them are gone, and in placo of all this is a watery waste, with the exception of a few little Islands that appear above the water. The water has cut Into tho land from the beach to the Jetties, covering all the ground practically from Seventh street east. OMiY A WASTE WIIBIIU HOSPITALS STOOD. For a block or more, in the neighborhood of the hospitals, there is a prairie waste. and then begins the mass of debris. Lucas Terrace, a large three-story brick building, divided Into flats of thrco and four rooms each. Is almost a total wreck. The building Is situated on tha northwest comer of Broadway and Sixth street, the extreme eastern end of Broadway, on the Gulf bench. Out of thirty-seven persons re ported to have been In the building when the storm started Its work of destruction fifteen are said to have been killed. Business concerns of the larger order In the East End Buffered with the corner groceries and tha smaller merchants. Boysen'a mill Is considerably damaged, the smokestack, some of the windows and a part of the roof being gone. Across the street the bone meal mill stands with scarcely any north wall what ever. It. like Boysen'a mill. Is a sheet-Iron structure building on wooden frame. The Neptune Ice Company on Eighteenth street and Avenue A, is almost a total wreck. A part of the building Is gone into a mass of debris, while other parts remain standing. The oil mill at Eighteenth street and Strand suffered little apparent damage. In tho West End west of Thirty-third street, the storm swept the ground practi cally clean of the residences that once stood upon It, and piled them up In a con glomerated mass five block3 from the beach, strewing the ground and piling In with the debris tLo bodies of Its many victims. Many of these are still lIng out In the sun, and are frightful to look uoen. The tearful work of the storm was pot contlned to the district along the heaib. but took In all the district along the beach, e'rn part of the ctty and tho Denver lUsur vey. But It was near to tha beach that the most destruction of human life occurred. The waves washed away the Home of the Homeless, and It Is thought that the In mates (consisting of thirteen orphans end three mttionu ere drowned. Out In the Denver Resurvey the destruc tion was terrible, and many of the sol diers at Fort Crockett, together with a number of the :e6ldents of that place, werf among the many victims of tho storm. The Government works were greatly damaged, and the buildings on the beach were washed out Into the Gulf and their occupants are thought to have perished. COTTOX AND LVMUCR YAUDS COMPLETELY HAZED. In the northern and central part of the West End th damage was great also, al most every building being damaged to some extent, and many completely wrecked. The cotton and lumber ard3. which are In that section of the city, were completely razed to the ground, and much valuable machinery Is ruined. However, the loss of tire was not renrly so great In that district as It was out toward the beach. All of the telephone and telegraph poles are down and In some parts the streets are a moss of wlre3. Some Idea of the extent of the destructive path of the hur ricane can bo seen from a view of tho beach front east of Tremont street. . Standing on the high ridge of debris that marks toe Uao el davtutaUoa cxundins AMOUNT IS RAISED. STRICKEN CITY. from the extrem East End to Tremont street, an unobstructed view of the awful wreckage Is presented. Drawing a line on the map of the city from the center of Tremont street and Ave nue Pis. straight to Broadway and Thir teenth street, where stands the partly de molished Secred Heart (Jesuit) Church, all the bouses south and east of this line were razed to the ground. The ridge of wreckage of several hundred buildings that graced this section before the storm marks this Une as accurately as If scalc-d out by a surveying Instrument. Every building within this large area was leveled by the wind or force of the raging Gulf waters, or both. This territory em braced seventy blocks, and was a thickly populated district- Not a house withstood the storm, and those that might have held together If dependent only on their own construction and foundations, were burled beneath the stream of other wreckage that swept like a wild sea from the east to the west, carrying tha unfortunate Inmates to their deaths either by drowning or by blows of the fly Ins timbers and wreckage that filled the air. NO VIEW OF JETTIES CAX VET HE OUTAI.VED. No reports have come from Fort Point, the extrerao eastern end of the Island. A view from the wharves disclosed that all the barracks jet uninhabited the United States department storehouses. lighthouse, life-saving station, torpedo casemate, quar antine warehouse In fact, everything- but the quarantine station proper, have been swept away. The Jetty Is not visible and orly a portion of the fortifications ore vis ible. At Tort Crockett fortifications, west of the city. Battery C, First Artillery, suf fered greatly. Twenty-eight of the men wero killed and a number Injured. All the barracks, storehouses and Captain Itafferty's residence were demolished. Tho mortar and gun batteries were undermined. Thirteen members of the battery wero at Fort San Jacinto (Fort Point), and seven at tha Bolivar Point fortifications on duty. They have not been heard from. Along tho wharf front the destruction is great. Tho wharves proper have not suf fered except from the tearing loose of tha planking. The wharf sheds, however, are mojtly demolished. WHEAT 11AMACB MAY TOTAL TO 2,300,000 IIUSHELS. Tho wharves are almost Impassable. The roofs and upper portions of the Galveston Wharf Company's grain elevators. "A" nnd "It." r.nd of the Star Mills' elevator were carried away and tho engine-rooms col lapsed. The conveyors of elevator "B" and tho Star wero demolished. Thero were 2,300.000 bushels of wheat In the three elevators, and It is badly dam aged If not a total loss. The water tora great holes In the filled land of the wharf front, and sections of tracks dropped Into these holes with hundreds of cars. The estimate grows larger every hour. Tho crisis In the water situation has passed. By to-morrow morning. It la ex- TOTAL CASUALTIES SO FAR REPORTED TO GOVERNOR. BY A. G. rtEnrcLic special. Austin, Tex.. Sept 13. The following ficial reports received at the office of tho CITIES. LIVES LOST. Galveston (official estimate) K00 Hitchcock 2 Texas City 5 Alta Loraa , 3 Missouri City 9 Houston .................. ........... w Dickenson ....... Alvln 12 Angelton S Velasco 9 Areola ... 2 Columbia 8 Sandy Point S Quintana (convicts) 15 Jt XI I 6V Brazoria County i MISSIXG. Gnlieston 1-15 Alvln lf Texas City CITY WRECKED FOR ALL TIME TO COME. ItEPUBLIC SPECIAL. Austin. Tex.. Sept. 11 Former Stat Senator Wortham, who went to Gal- veston as tho special aid to Adjutant General Scurry to Investigate th conditions there returned homa to. day and made his report- He says: "l am convinced that the city U s practically wrecked for nil im tn come- Fully 75 per cent of the busl- ness portion of the town Is Irre- parably wrecked, and tho same per cent of damage Is to bo found in tha residence district. "Along the wharf front great ocean steamships have bodily bumned them. selves ontb the blj piers and lie there, great masses of Iron and wood that even fire cannot totally destroy. It will require weeks to obtain some semblance of physical order In tho city, and it Is doubtful tf even then an tha debris will be disposed of. There is hardly a famllv nn fJm l.ir. whose household has not lost a ratm- ber or more, and In some Instancea entire families have been washed away or killed. Every Interest on tho Island has suffered." LEADING TOPICS -IN- TO-DAY'S REPUBLIC Tor Missouri-Partly cloudy Friday! to-morrow rain In southeast portlom. Sntnrduy falrj Tarlable minds. For Illinois Partly etondy Friday; night, with rain In southern portions' cooler In extreme southeastern por tion. Saturday fair' In western, ralK In eastern portion! west to northwest winds. For Arkansas Fair Friday and Sat urday, preceded by rains In extreme) southern portion Friday) northerly winds. Page. - 1. JItnion and a Half Needed for Galves ton's Relief. Coal Famine Now Faces tho Cities. 2. SL Lcul3 Itushln? Aid to Stricken City. 3. Additional list of Galveston Dead. M Another Gulf Hurricane. Hundred Miles of Coast Stora-SwenU . ' y 4. Mayor Jones Makes Appeal for Bryan -Russia Said to Hayo Sent Ultimatum. E. Jim Howard on Trial In Kentucky. ; Woman Preferred Death to Shame. "3. Wild Horses Race Through the city. Population of East St. Louis Nearly Doubled In Ten Years. City News in Brief. C. Race-Track Results. Baseball Games. Kid McCoy and His Wife Fought. Sporting News. T. Senator CockTell on tha National Issusa, New York, Democrats Confer. 8. Editorial. Will Try Roemer la Secret Session. Events In Society. American Bible Bocietyj Trout:. 9. Former Secretary cf stata Diea m Pauper. 19. Republic Wonj; Ads. U. Republic Want Ads. New Corporations. Transfers of Realty. Tht Railways. 12. Grain and Produce. Cotton Markets. Sales of Live Stock. 13. Financial News. River Telegrams. To Form Army of Native FIDpIn,.. 11. Robbed by His New Friend. Scburz Again Addresses Gaga, Ready for Reception to Bryan. Mr. Bryan Eulogizes General LawtOJJ pected, that repairs to tha wattrworks will be so for completed that water on ba turned Into the malnsfrom the recelylnc tank. This will give a supply to yard hy drants and flro plugs, and for steamer uso and flushing sewers. By noon It Is anticipated that tha boners will bo repaired and the pumps set to work shortly thereafter, which will give usual pressure and carry the water Into the build tags, enabling flushing of closets, thus re moving a very serious menace to health. Tha stench from clogged sewers and closets has been stifling in many parts of the city. SMOOT. list of dead Is prepared from tha of Governor: CITIES. LIVES LOST. Wharton County 8 El Campo 2 Colorado County 4 Austin County (Belleville) 1 Matagorda County (bay) 3 Dlcklnscn ....... ........... 7 Richmond H Fort J2end County, outside cf IUchnond 21 Sabine County (Sabine) 3 Areola 2 Waller County In general 6 Seabrook 11 Tolal ...HEJ Veluvcu .... 3 Alln. l.oniu 4 Missouri City , 5 i I. i .1 I .-i-,tH:'.