| Show MANY FUNERAL PYRES J They Are Blazing Throughout Through-out City of Galveston BODIES QUICKLY DESTROYED As Each Corpso Is Removed it is Thoroughly Saturated With Coal Oil and Thrown Into a Blazing Fire This Plan of Incineration Has Been Entirely Successful Largest Loss in Single Family by Flood is that of Rattesauc Fortytwo in All Martial Law to Cense Galveston Tex Sept 20Thls evenIng even-Ing Mayor Jones proclaimed that martial mar-tial law would ceafe at noon tomorrow and the civil authorities would assume direction of municipal l affairs This was done at the suggestion of Gen Scurry who expressed the belief that conditions had reached such a stage that the civil authorities wore able to cope with the situation This however how-ever doc not mean the Immediate tlC withdrawal of the military They am to cooperate with the city ofllclals In the enforcement of order and will continue con-tinue on duty us a part of the government govern-ment Since martial law has prevailed pre-vailed In Galveston good order has resulted re-sulted S suled The shooting of negroes by military men for looting has had a moat aalu tary effect and him in n measures terrorized ter-rorized the offenders Ktlll there arc I 4 cases of robbery reported dally which I I arc hclntf dealt vllh severely Labor in Galveston is at a premium There is not an idle man In the city Regardless Q st ton or position a man must work Today warrants were issued to Impress every ablebodied man for streetcleaning service Over GOO men Were secured today under this order and fully 2000 men are engaged In the work Still this force Is not 8Um cleat and more men must be secured Men fOI this servhc are to be Imported Import-ed from the Interior of the State 1 The prevailing method of disposing of the dead is cremation As each corpse is taken out it Is thoroughly saturated with coal oil and thrown into a blazing fire This plan of incineration incinera-tion has been entirely successful and the bodies are quickly destroyed Funeral Fu-neral l pyres are blazing throughout the city cityCapt William Hutchinson superintendent superin-tendent of the Ninth United States lighthouse district embracing all stations sta-tions on the Gulf coast has received reports of damage to stations In the district The Galveston station was wiped out nnd the keepers wife Mrs Hayes and one of the surfmen drowned Other persons at the station were saved The Galveston station staton r was valued at 15000 and will be rebuilt re-built The San Luis lifesaving station was damaged to the extent of about 1500 The churches of Galveston suffered greatly by the hurricane Sacred Heart St Patricks Catholic the First Baptist and the African Methodist churches arc total wrecks while1 Trinity Trin-ity church the First Presbyterian the I Swedish church and the Synagogue are partially destroyed but It Is possible that repairs may make them serviceable service-able Not a church edifice In the city escaped serious damageS damage-S K Barton nephew of Clara Barton Bar-ton of the Red Gross society has arrived I ar-rived here from New Yok In an Interview In-terview he suggested the raising of 0 fund of from 5000000 to 15000000 to aid the people In rebuilding their homes An appeal of this nature will be made to the people of the United States Tim largest losri of a single family by the flood Is that of the Rattezaus who resided down the Island Of a lost family of fortylive fortytwo were lostBishop Gallagher of the Catholic church has made the following report of the losses estimated to have been sustained by the church from the storm Property loss 226000 com munlcants 1100 ten Sisters of Charity and eighty orphans |
