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Show Most JippaWmg Disaster In Our ' Country's ffistorp f As the Intermountain Catholic ocs ! piv it notices with extreme satisfaction the generous response- of the American people to the appeal for aid from the (ialveton sufferers, show- itiLT that while Americans mav have misunderstandings and . . . contentions among themselves,' thev are ever readv with their monev to relieve the unfortunate. When such an awful ca- " lastrophe as the Texas flood occurs it becomes a national ca- 4- laniitv. and the heart of America is decplv wounded. Galveston. Tex.. Sept. 12. S p. m.. vi i Houston, midnight. All attempts at burying the dead have been utterly abandoned, and bodies are now being disposed of in the swiftest manner possible. pos-sible. Scores of them were buried today, to-day, and hundreds were taken out to sea and thrown overboard. The safety of the living is now the paramount ejuestion. and nothing that wi!! tend to prevent the outbreak of pestilence is being neglected. This morning it was found that large numbers of the bodies which had been previously thrown into the bay wasned back unon the shore, and the situation was thus rendered ' than before they were first taken in barges and thrown into the water. It w'!i now never be known how-many how-many have lost their lives in this awful j catastrophe. Mayor jones thinks the ! dead will amount to several thousand, j and others ' whose opportunities for judging are less than that of Uie mayor place it is high as 10,000. j Efforts were made this afternoon to i pick up the dead bodies thnt have ! floated in with the fide, having once I been cast into the sea. This is awful I work, and few men are found with suf- I ficiently strong -n.'r. c? to last at it j more than thirty minutes at a time. All of the bodies are badly decomposed, decom-posed, swollen to enormous proportions I and of so dark a complexion t hit t it Is impossible to tell, except by the hair, whether the corpses are those of whites or of the negroes. General McKibben,-U. S. A., arrived last night and has assumed entire charge of the city, with the result that conditions have much improved as far as method in the disposition of the supplies and work is concerned. General McKibben represents the government gov-ernment in a general way. but has not assumed direct charge of the city, which is under the command of Ad- jutant General Scurry. I |