Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1900 — RELIEF WORK IN GALVESTON. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

RELIEF WORK IN GALVESTON.

Twenty Thousand Survivor* of the Dis* aster Being Fed. Twenty thousand people are being fed and cared for daily in Galveston with the supplies which are pc-uring in from all parts of the country. The estimated cost of the aid which is now being extended is $40,000 a day. The great bulk

of the aid Is going to the 4,000 men who are at work cleaning up the wreckage, digging for bodies nnd cleaning the streets. Through them it goes to their families. No able-bodied laboring man is allowed to escape the work, whether he'needs aid or not, though most of them do. The business men who are in position to resume are allowed to attend to their stores, nnd their clerical forces are not interfered with. The first few days’ wages consisted entirely of rations, which were given according to the number and needs of the laborer’s fnuiily, regardless of the amount of work he accomplished. Since other supplies have begun coming in they have been added. The work of distribution is being conducted systematically nnd with an apparent minimum of imposition nnd fraud. There is a central committee, of which W. A. MoVitie, a prominent hnsiness man. is chairman. Then there is a committee for each one of the twelve wards. As fast as goods or provisions arrive the mainland they are placed in the central warehouse, from there the different ward chairmen requisition them, nnd they are taken to supply depots in the different wards. All day long there is n motley crowd around every one of these depot*, negroes predominating n’t least two to one. Every applicant passes in review before the ward chairman. HIGH ISLAND BWKPT AWAY. Texas Seaside Resort Kntlrely Destroy ed by the Hurricane. High Island, a seaside resort thirty miles northeast of Galveston, near the gulf shore and in the southwestern corner of Jefferson County, Texas, was entirely destroyed by the hurricane. Tht place had about l,t¥)o residen ts, many of them visitors. Not a house Is left standing and more than 400 dead bodies were found by relief and exploring parties. A rod la lOft foot or Bty yards. j

SHOOTING A GHOUL IN GALVESTON.