St. Louis Post-Dispatch
September 15, 1900

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ng i in ¥ re Regular Edition. COMPLETE MARKET REPORTS. ‘Gave All Her Gold to Christ... A househeld servant in St. Louis endows a home where evangelists may be trained. See tomorrow’s Sunday Post-Dispatch. | yoy. 53, NO. 25. Oenete Re A St. Lowisan’s Millions... Distributed by his own hard among those he loved before his death. See tomorrow's Sunday Post-Dispatch. ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH THE ONLY ST. LOUIS EVENING PAPER WITH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES. (‘tIn St. Louis, One Cent. / Outside St. Louis, Two Cents. SATURDAY EVENING—ST. LOUIS—SEPTEMBER 15, 1900. PRIC ORDER COMES OUT OF CHAOS GRIEF’S POIGNANCY IS LESSENED ~ GALVESTON WILL BE REBUILT ~ ~s ——— o CKED CITY OF GALVESTON PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS OF WRE iy , “Ss yf) A) ire Pe ee ee ae Pe DeOeOeOedeOovied Oe Nn ret oe — a -_--- - New Arrivals Find Their Sor-| rows Lessened by Great- | er Griefs of Those Around Them. ADMITTANCE BY PASS ONLY From a Post-Dispatch Staff Correspondent. GALVESTON, Tex., Sept. 14.—Gal-! veston is slowly bringing a semblance of | order out of chaos. By this it is not tneant that the city is being restored to POD eHioOotie TOUCHING SCENES OVER MANY FUNERAL PYRES. ried, burned or cast Into the sea. Disinfectants are used as never be- fore in the world. The smell of the charnel house has been driven away and the whole city is filled with fumes of car- bolic acid and lime in solution. It is estimated that 300 bodies were cremated yvesteday. Many of the negroes left the task of cremation, overcome by fright and nausea. White volunteers took their places and the work went on. The men bandaged their noses and mouths in cotton cloths saturated with disinfectants and were relieved by other volunteers overy hour. Fires could not be started everywhere that bodies were found. The usual plan was to collect all bodies within two blocks in one spot and then build the funeral pyre. On the bodies of many women was valuable jewelry, but the men made no attempt to remove it and it was burned with the bodies. JOHN FAY. From a Post-Dispatch Staff Correspondent. GALVESTON, Tex., Sept. 15.—Many tragic scenes have been witnessed at the pyres upon which the bodies of the dead have been burned. Immense crowds have gathered witness these ghastly ceremonies. AS a rule they have been effectively held back by military police, but now and then a man ov woman would break past the line and dash toward the blazing pile in the frenzied hope of reclaiming from the flames the body of some loved one for whom all search had been in vain. There have been several suicides of those who have cast themselves in man- iacal despair upon these funeral pyres and there would have been many more had the rigor of the military cordon been more generally relaxed. The sanitary experts are pushing the work of burning the dead. No other dis- posal is considered. It is believed that three-fourths of the dead have been bur- Hee OeHeoede: - ¥ Oo to ; MG me “gobo 4 eee: a + > Py Galve AST ST. LOUIS ee esidence Portion of the City. 7 —_ is entered by the hopeless and forlorn | Assisting the soldiers are a large number refugee. Those who have money buy | of deputy sheriffs and extra policemen. ChEEHS BRYAN The Presidential Candidate Speaks to Thousands. ARRIVAL AT RELAY STATION. ENTHUSIASTIC DEMONSTRATIONS MARK DRIVE THROUGH CITY. tO eOeO oSelededededenedeleleteienened After Luncheon at the National Hotel and an Informal Receptioa, the Nebraskan Speaks on Trusts at the City Hall. Mast St. Louis received William J. Bryan Saturday afternoon with enthusiastic dem- onstrations, The Democratic presidential candidate arrived on a special car attached to the Vandalia train, which pulled tnto Re- lay Depot at 12:38 o'clock. A committee of East St. Loulsans, com- posed of James H. Donahue, C. D. Derleth, | yguts Kidich, J. N. Sullivan, E. C. Singer, omas Healy, Jerry J. Kain and Robert Menroe, had gone to Greenville to meet Mr, Bryan. r. Bryan was smiling broadly as he stepped irom the train. He is much stouter then when he last visited East St. Louis. and looked the picture of rugged healtu. Me was dressed plainly in a blue serge coat and gray striped trousers. Mr. Bryan made his way through crowd, shaking hands right and left. Iiolton'’s Band was at the station played “Columbia, Gem of the Ocean,’ the train pulled in. After greetings at the station, Mr. Bryan Ws escorted to a carriage and was driven, accompanied by the reception committee, to the National! Hotel. Part of the distance was traversed in a carriage and the bal- ance in a street car. After lunch hundreds crowded Into the the and as 7 “ . ") v e. >to a 2 2 " - . SON ies aa y he *. - > “> ey. nN, _ alin eS a ae . PS i ee an ———— — ©. : “4 SSS Ree >. 7 ‘ ¢ “ee * Debris Piled Wrecked on Wharf. Boats on Wharf. in Background Was Blown Ashore and DOO OO OOOO OOO OOOO OO OOOO OL OOO OOO OOOO OOO COCOOO-S SOOO OOSO OOOO Salveston’s Sreat Disaster Gold by Photographs in the Sunday Post-Dispateh—Gwo Fages of Halt-Cones. Ursuline Convent, PHeHeHedHeOedeHeccetiedetHieHedeletend FOP OPOPI OOO OOO CO POS Oo eeHoietetevieiters SUPPLIES NEEDED FOR POST-DISPATCH CAR NO. 2 A Few More Donations of Foodstuffs, Drugs and Disinfectants Should Be Delivered Today at Wells-Fargo Express Office, Union Station. f | THEIR DRAM ALTH EN — George Mesinger and Wife Will Leave St. Louis. 'to feel the ordinary desire and experience anything like its former appearance. To do that will require ten years oi hard work and commercial enterprise. But, in the sense that the people are beginning to think and act normally and the usual sensations of human beings, it may be said that chaos is being con- quered, still there are mourners who go about the streets refusing to be comforted, but for the most part these are persons who just arrived and found that mem- of their families perished. After Re a nave 1 a voers their own transportation and go beyond Houston to other destinations. The des- titute ones are supplied with free trans- portation to States. It is evident that a good many of the | refugees do not intend to return to Gal- veston. Why should they? Their homes are obliterated, the very pillars of their houses are torn up and cast away, they cannot even identify the lots on which their dwellings stood. It isa fact, strange as it may appear, that in the eastern and southern portions of the city along a strip extending four blocks from the beach and two miles in length, it is impossible for most of the former residents to find the streets where they lived. This strip is almost clear of wreckage and is like a barren field. All Landmarks Wiped Out. Here and there is a stake or a plank curb, a slight depression clear of grass, showing where a house stood, but for the rest it is utter annihilation ¢f human evi- dences, so that not one person in a hun- dred can identify the stre:t om which he lived. This sudden and complete change in the appearance of ths city ‘as caused many to lose their home-love for ihe place. “This is no longer Galveston,” they say. “Galveston is gone,” and then they go, vowing never to return. Hundreds of families have gone to Houston without the slightest idea as to their destination, after they shall have re- ceived supplies and had time to consider any place in the — It reminds a St. Louisan of the days of the posse comitatus. But otherwise St. Louis even during street car riots or after her cyclone is not to be compared with Galveston in her stricken state. There are persons here who went through the Johnstown flood and the St. Louis tornado. They say that those disasters were mild in comparison to this, Benevolent Orders Render Aid. The secret orders are doing good wort in the way of relief, Masons, Odd Fel- lows, Knights of Pythias, Modern Wood- men and others are represented by dele- gations which have been sent in to open headauarters and render aid to impover- ished members and their families. Phy- sicians, Sisters of Charity and of Mercy, trained nurses and hospital attendants arrive daily, Telegraph Wrres wee Sd) Restored to Use. , Today both the telegraph companies succeeded in restoring communication by placing operators at the end of the cables runnig from the main land near the island end of the demolished wagon bridge, three miles from the business section. By 4 o'clock the Postal had a wire in the main office. Railroad officials promise that within twenty days a bridge will be built to the island, using the old piling, much of which remains, but the people are not sanguine on this score. As an indication of the utter wreck of the residence districts, it is observed that the city directory has - practically One cannot find one a a SGP en eon Se , iin Di tailind. ate aden... seanihirtctet ds nda vemiagapdltiadce, gone out of use. ALMOST SEPARATED the future. To get out of Galveston is their sole aim, and for the rest, they are content to let the world wag until they take a look around. The fact that people are leaving Gal- veston with no intention to return and live here, serves better than columns of adjectives to describe the terrible nature of the storm and its results. One man said this morning that he had lived here eighteen years, but he was going away. “I'll never risk another night like Sat- urday,” he said. “I know there are storms elsewhere, but I'll take my chances Saturday I was in a house where twenty-five women and children were shrieking and praying from dark to day. There's hell for you.” Sturdy Determination to Rebuild. On the other hand there is a sturdy de- | ltermination upon the part of many to re- main in Galveston and help to rebuild the | These men are working with might | Today assistance came from Houston, the street 150 men of his force | help in clearing the hotel to see, and meet Mr. Bryan duriigz the few minutes before he started for the City Hall. He spoke from the platform at the north front. of the City Hall. r. Bryan's East St. Louis speech, fo!- lowing his genera! plan for this tour, deals chiefly with the trust question the conclusion of -his speech at East St. Louis, Mr. Bryan will be taken in cvharge of by the reception committee from St. Louis, composed of 50 traveling men, under the leadership of James W. Jump, chairman of the national Democratic coni- mittee of commercial travelers. is committee will escort the distin- | Suished visitor to the St. Nicholas Hotel via the Kads bridge. A private reception will be held at the hotel. The route of Mr. Bryan's carriage from bridge approach at Third and Wash- nm avenue will be west on Washington to Twelfth street, south to Olive street, east to Ninth street, north to Locust street and east to the hotel. Mr. Bryan will remain in his aparments after the brief reception until the time for his visit to the Coliseum. At the Coliseum Mr. Bryan will be intro- by James R. Boddie of Arkansas, an old commercial traveler. James W. Jump, chairman of the national executive com- mittee of the Democratic League of Com- mércial Travelers, will preside. He will in- troduce John A. Lee of St. Louis. candi- date for lieutenant-governor, who, in turn, t Webster Davis. has been made to have Mr. Brv- Ee celebration of the Knights onor at Lemp's Park. It veg elles St. sepolas Hotel head- ay mort ‘ *\'- ae wake ling that Mr. Bry tion. > 2. 7 o° oe o,° “? RS HERE. ‘they have mingled with old friends, near- ly il of whom have lost relatives, it to the observer that their grief grows less poignant. They exemplity the homely old adage that mis- ery loves company and 1s cheered thereby and it is well that such is the case. Other- break + + J *. o° o,° ¢,¢ o,° MONEY FOR GALVESTON. Post-Dispatch Fund. . $1,926.33 Merchants’ Exchange Interstate Merchants Furniture Board of Trade.. Anheuser-Busch Brewing Co. Wm. J. Lemp Brewing Co.... Lumbermen of St. Louis.... Continental Tobacco Co Waters-Pierce Oil Co Catholic Knights of St. Louis Stock Exchange members... Live Stock Exchange of East i? Tees wibssstucwee Pedagogical Society Post A, T. P. American Biscuit Hiamomnd Typewriter Co. Hamilton-Brown Shoe Co .... Supplies are being received fo? Post- | Dispatch Quick Relief Car No. 2 by the | Wells-Fargo Express Co. at Union Sta- will leave St. Louis to- citizen in fifty by looking up his old ade dress. ‘ No Mails and No Newspapers. The daily scenes at the postoffice fur- nished another illustration, no mails be- ing delievred. People from all over town gather at the carriers’ windows, some- times the lines are half a block long. Ex- cepting the Houston Post and one isste of another paper, no newspaper has come into Galveston since the disaster. Until Wednesday the people had read no out- side news whatever. Town Resembles Huge Wash Day. . In the business section of the town pre- sents a remarkable aspect. The mer- chants have stretched ropes along the supports of the wooden awnings, which yet remain, and upon these they have strung damaged shirts, underwear, socks and other goods, making it resemble a wash day on a huge scale, though the clothing. on the lines is extremely dirty. In front of several stores there are three or four such clotheslines, one above the The grocers have dumped big bins of potatoes, and other vegetables into the street to be carted away. Feed store men are saving corn and oats by spreading them on the ground, with gunnysacks underneath to dry in the sun, From the shattered windows of the residences standing one may see all sorts of wearing apparel, carpets, rugs, table linen and matting hung out to dry. Many families are living im houses keeled over like the leaning tower of Pisa. In the west end of town, a big frame house, two stories high, sets squarely across a street car track. The remnant of the family lives in it. The Tremont and other hote?s still quarter many of the homeless. It is almost impossible for a stranger to obtain a room or even @ bed. ROBERTUS LOVE. * > yy one or more 7. *. ¢ seems t MESINGER WOULD NOT TOUCH HIS SAVINGS. > * . 9 °° > 5° 9 The ¢ night, | The things most needed are prepared disinfectants, tents, sup- tion. ar 2 * >. ° —-~—- ------— Work Failed Him, and Spurred by’ Hunger, His Wife Sought to Se- cure a Divorce From Him. > » °° o,° >. . o,° > °,° > *, foods, medicines, hearts must wise these crushed under the load of grief. Since the working gangs have cut pas- sages through the principal streets, buried her- | or of all cents a day, | corpses, they have reduced the stench by South Broad- | | a nil rr from h r the abundant application ot disinfectants e 2. e* > * o,° °° > clothing cots, bedding, household plies, foodstuffs for animals, Among those who have already tributed to Post-Dispatch Car No. The Union Biscut Co., 50 boxes of milk | Paris Medicine Co., $100 worth , . > °° *. o * °,° +. > + con- . °° . ° + '* 2 are: 7 * otherwise visible she tired trying to support disposed her children on 10 Mesinger of 3127 for divorce Mesinger. she Because . + °° *,° . oe > ~_— self and | Mrs. | way band, > > ” biscuits: of laxative, bromo-quinine and $100 worth of Groves’ tasteless chill West | Disinfectant Co., 10 gallons chloie-nap thiloeum, which will make 1000 gallons | of disinfectant; the Milliken Chemical | Co., a large consignment of drugs and | Henry clothing; | Co., 3 barrels of vinegar; | 250 gallons otf Chemical Katie filed a George Thursday morning of action and announced that she would with- draw the suit her strugeie for existence. Kor a week consisted mainly sSayvs thev would > hus- | suit 'and in other ways lessened the too insist- >. > > > outside. > °° s¢ tonic: * *. her 'ent and visible horrors of the situation. = | Admitted Only On a Pass. nl Br {! The military commander, Gen. Scurry, esinge ’ (nH) repented >. © o,° *,° + i") (") " Se * *. and continue > > . 7 > + > *, + o,° family's Mrs . the Mesinger of breud have gotten along fair , Well but for the fact that the price of food- stuffs rove so rapidly that her allowance of 10 cents purchased less of the necessities ol | life cach succeeding day . weak and hungrv and on collapse, Mrs Mesinger went ‘ofa ilawyvel She suvs she sough fonly relief from the conditions under which she was forced to live and did not reailze what sheiwas doing when sh signed the petition ior divores Prior to the woman's | visit to the lawyer her hustvand had packed lup his effects and left the house Mriday d ti train ‘night he returned and a reconciliation wa effected liere Mrs. Mesinget accou 0 eT | dargo ee ete “e fe Se ae “ & Se es ee & “el experience as RIV\« to the bos rate : “We had always been life. husband owned a good farm Mo and we were pros a great deal about the entet were to be found in th ay, a ' up his mind to come to St. Louis get him to stay on the farm was made up A month ago irm und came here M \ S700 in the bank, and kept out »# ms to pay current expen untt} | | position That wasnt would be Hiis re: A week ago he oO * 7 *, 7 °° Total . . . $55,323.73 Shipments of Supplies: Post-Dispatch—One carload of pro- visions and drugs. Merchants’ Exchange—Two car- loads of foodstuffs and. one carload of disinfectants. Merchants—Two provisions has relaxed to a considerable degree the * *. * ” medicines; Robson, Globe Pickel Godfrey Disinfecting Co., disinfectants; Baker-lidson Co., 1 barrel of Canoline, to make dV0 | gallons of disinfectant; Cannon Manulac- turing Co., one barrel of Canoline; the Tilden Co., 1 barrel of disintectant; Phe nique Chemical Co., $100 worth of cam- : pho-phenique (second donation. ) | Additional supplies are solicited for de- | rigid rules of admission to the city whicn No one, however, 1s admitted without a pass from | * > °° . . > . + ** prevailed for the past three days. > > ” > ” - * o° + eo the , Mayo bra Applicants lat thre V had relatives 11) (salveston Sut- + . o,° Houston. shiear or city and main to remove the debris. > 7 9 7 > '” must prove at Houston] carTr- a nd Commission loads of produce, foodstuffs by express. Army Kations Four with 30,000 United States tion? ap oe oe not be able to accept the invita- and to betore they allowed /commiussioner At Lawrence lat AaTe . " ? night * ~ loaded ra- » *, cars army having arrived ' wreckage from the streets A thousand men working constantly for | : month could scarcely make an apprect- the litter along the hes. Consider that it! lexas City, ids, the 7 > ” > 'e” other DANGER FROM LEAVING PEKIN. Chinese Elsewhere Are Apt to Construe It as Defeat of the Allies. SHANGHAI, Sept. 15.—News of the con- templated withdrawal of the allies from FPe- kin has caused a great mistake, which is likely to eventuate in disturbances in other parts of China, where the people are certain to attribute the evacuation to a defeat of the European forces. Even here the Chin. se, as a whole, don't believe that the ailies ever reached Pekin. They think the story @ fabrication concocted for the Purpose of imposing upon the offictais. Competent observers believe that a lesson must taught to China now in order to prevent serious outbreaks in the future. > *, J 7 > ’ * > another examination by the mil se ie ¢ No persons who |; pe , , ‘ , . SUC] Liline > %, ate oe . Cr Tou ite@ry guard on the pier possible moment. | hauled tree by the St. | . Pann AR ) ” ; faiston breakfast! ei Louis Transter Co. the Walton- | any grits and wheat —— > om : y “© ; , > Yr >| Reid Northrup, pres dene of the Amertl- | good jobs Knost kexpress Co., who have generously) a. Refrigerator ‘Mransit Co., in inclosing | and made check ror Slw tor the company and 324 I tried to himself, adas: “We willl turnish our: his mind storage station free for the receipt of | sold the f: werishable goods which it is desired to} put about the earliest will livery at LOW, mere business are rmitted to ,;able diminution in packages of Opts, hom- Ons east and south beac requires men tor months to erect an or- dinarv house: with 4000 houses, their con- tents. fences, sidewalks, paving blocks and for there 1s no as busi- and ness im Galveston. Refugees Given donated their services. b Aid in Houston. Post-Dispatch Quick Relief Car No. 2) a e WN 5c , € ; + ro any | : Sis | will be in charge 4 the se arg any peri will also furnish refrigerator cars, | tmall amount Express Co. from St. Louis to Galveston, ice and transport them tree of expense) he should find a through the liberal courtesy of that com- nameless other refuse to clear away, it will be if before the last debris is removed, At present the men are attacking the ) ' ; , es urgent necessity of cleaning ‘ ‘ “1 hy ce re ne ben ) }s ‘) ycalrs when so requested by the committee os as he thought it siTeeLs and Mousses a d SAVING the lives Tih nth not yCcal (gov Bayvers Saturday morning telegraphed dwindted rapidly the New York Bureau of the Post-Dts- would have to get along on patch the following. cents a das When he Went out in “Upon the government vessel, or any morning he left me a loaf of bread and a No other vessels that leave for Galveston with- | qime. He would remain away al! day. With i in the neat two days, please have shipped the menev which he left me I had to pro- without 2s without fall five hundred barrels of copperas| .ige food for myself and my two children a.) and one hundred barrels of carbolic acid a bov 12 vears old and «a gi l4 vears old VicCaleb. Badly needed at Galveston for sanitary pur- “I gave the children most of what we | During the entire week we ney meat or vegetaible: One day little coffee, the next a little butter ; next sume preserves, tread and bread and butter and bread and were our meais. ensy niones | ’ | tne Survivors 18 tiie paramount issue told me | consent as well as by martial to the by Adjutant Today the departures of refu party. ‘ommon huge windrows of wreckage that lodge against the houses lett standing, a number of blocks from the beach. This is in order to remove the bodies that le under the ruins. Were it not for the fact that tim- bets are piled against houses that cari be saved. the debris would be cleared away T.. , “eT tvee ttm 1 . . The Post-Dispatch fund at 3 o'clock one is permitted ee urday afternoon had reached the splendid total of $2081.11. This includes 500 the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and $1581.11 contrib- | uted in other sums by the people of St. Louis whowe hearts were stirred by the sul- fering in Galveston. It is more important than ever money should be forthcoming for pass, signed ee °---— WEATHER INDICATIONS. FAIR AND COOLER. -For St. Louls and vicinity—Fair and cooler to Sight end Sunday. For Missourt--Fair tonight and Sunday; cooler subscribed by got increased ; have oer Probably ZUM) per. women and children. have pus.cs ; very effort is gether these much that - the The Lumbermen’'s Exchange of St Waldstetn, mostly Hiouston, where the destitute afte SaTLs being made to get to- needed disinfectants. coffe wone to Louls, preserves provided with food. shelter and clothing collected N. president, has tonight and in east and south portions Sunday. Variable winds. . Ulinote and Indiana—Posstbiy showers this after- moon: fair toniglt and Sunday; south to west winda. : Kenuses—Fair tonight aod Sunday; cooler tonight; vortberly winds. POST-DISPATCH THERMOMETER. a. CER hn 11 a. Wh. scecseeee mm, eeerrrereee m. 7. See eeeee y- GB Bert eweweeees - > ~~ Prsseeeeese storm-wretched city, and subscriptions are still urgently solicited. The erchants’ Exchange committees and the Interstate Merchants’ Association has now a growing fund of $15,760.25. Among the large single subscriptions Fri- day afternoon were: American Biscuit Co., $600; Hamilton-Brown Shoe Co., $500; Hammond Tyewriter Co., The Lumbermen’s fund has reached the total sum of $1817 and is rapidly increas- ing. . "t surance one , eee have subscribed is f $1 ch. rhe Purina mills forwarded to the relief have increased their collections to $24,289 15 Mr. the folowing sums for, the benefit of the Texas sufferers: Waldste'n Lumber steele & Vhillp Gruner Ino. J. Ganahl Lamber Ce.. Wo. Drube Hardweod Lumber c. F. Leebrman Lamber Co Kau Clalr-St Louls Lowber Uo Ables & Taustig . Vale Thomas & Prots Commission Co tdeel Ganah! Russell-Massengale Commission Oo ..... (oe Lo seer? ~~ (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ——— “My husband did not want to draw on the money we had in bank. When he left Fri- day morning | went to see a lawyer i signed some sort of a paper. I do not want to leave my husband 1 will have the suit withdrawn at once. My husband and | have talked it all over, and we have decided to go back to the country. Our dream of wealth in the city is over.” Mrs. Mesinger's statement that she gave most of the food to the children is borne out by their appearance. They ‘are both well nourished and stout, while the wr mother is weak and pale, 8 agar ag Reg «2 . as soon as they arrive Hiouston 1s the great rele! depot NMirs Rosine Ryan, who represented the United States in an official capacity at the Paris Exposition, is chairman ot the commit tee to attend to the wants of women and children. Supplies donated by sympathi- zers are reaching Houston daily, and there "is no real suffering after that city by burning it. Fear of Fire Constant Menace. The fear of fife is a constant menace to Galveston. With the waterworks ruined, a fire would complete the destruction of the town. This is one reason why the place is under martial law and persons are not permitted to go abroad at night. | CUBA WILL RAISE FUNDS. | HAVANA, Sept. 15.—The mayor of San Nicholas. province of Havana, telegraphs to Governor General Wood. that a subsertp- tlon has been opened there for the benefit of the Texas vaerer. The moog, = Linge the | ‘const. of Cuba. Rese are to be rebullt and replaced we i * ~