Show i ILEA VE STRICKEN CITY t Exodus from Galveston Grows in Number as the Facilities for Getting Away 1 r Are Increased < I Several Thousand Men Are at Work Clearing Away Debris on Beach 150 Bodies Were Discovered in the Wreckage Yesterday and BurnedNo Attempt is Now Made to Atempt w Identify DeadAost of Bodies Found Are Naked and Mutilated Galveston Tex Sotft t 5rhc exodus exoru from Galveston grows In number aa the facilities for getting away from the stricken city arc Increased Boats left here yesterday more frequently than on any day since the storm some proceeding proceed-ing directly to Houston via Buffalo bayou and others making connection Itl Texas City with the Great Northern train > I ARMY OFFICERS LEAVE Among tlTosc who departed today I were Gen McKlbben and Llcuts Ferguson Fer-guson and Perry who were sent hither by the United States Government when the news of the horror wan given t tho world Gen McKlbben will communicate communi-cate with the War department on his arrival at Houston and thence proceed to San Antonio to transact official business which requires his attention atenlon Before leaving lip was solicited by the authorities to return and expects to do so within the next four or five days WILL NOT ABANDON < GALVESTON The news which was printed here this morning in the shape of a personal telegram from VIcePresldcnt Huntington Hunting-ton of the Southern Pacific that that road is not to abandon Galveston hod created intense satisfaction and has maerially accelerated tho movement for the reconstruction of the city LITTLE DANGER OF EPIDEMIC Dr Blount State health officer today printed n statement showing that apprehensions ap-prehensions that sickness will result from the overflow Just experienced are unjustified He shows that In II6in the midst of a widespread epidemic yellow fever a severe storm occurred at Galveston In the early days of October Octo-ber resulting in a deposit over a greater great-er portion of the city of slimy mud Not Only did no sickness result but the cyclonic disturbance cut short the yellow fever epidemic and but few cases of fever occurred thereafter BURNING BODIES j Several thousand men are at work clearing away the debris on the beach One hundred = and fifty bodies were dig covered in the wreckage and burned yesterday No attempt Is now being made to Identify discovered bodies Indeed In-deed most of them are found naked and mutilated beyond recognition A New York relief train arrived last night with 0 number of physicians and nurses and a large supply of provisions which were distributed today WATER PLANT T OPERATION In some quarters of the city today the waterworks company a serving customers cus-tomers on the second stories This Is I taken as Indicating the rapid headway being made In putting the plant again in operation operaton The streetline company suffered a losa of 250000 and the entire system is torn to pieces An effort will be made to temporarily operate the cars with horses NEARING NORMAL CONDITIONS Every hour brings Galveston nearer to normal conditions and the improvement Improve-ment of each day shows a decided gain over the previous I will be weeks and possibly months before the city I will be in good running shape but matters mat-ters are fast rounding into a condition which compared with the chaos In th3 early part of the week Is comfort and happiness COLD HARD CASH NEEDED The great Immediate need of the city at present is money not subscriptions but cold hard cash I is needed In every direction and for n multitude of purposes The most important oC these is to pay tho men I who arc cleaning UptIme up-tIme streets Adjt Scurry said today I Hr have not a dollar to pay the men who arc working In the streets all daylong day-long 1 am not able to say to a single one of these men You shall be paid for your work MUST CLEAN THE CITY We must have this city cleaned up at any cost and with the greatest speed possible I It Is not done with all haste und at the same time done well there may be a pestilence and If It once breaks out here It will not be Gal I 1YAtnfl nlnno llifil will Kllffpr Such things spread and l Luls not only for the rake of thlsilty but for others outside out-side of thin plJice that I urge that above all things we want money IN ABSOLUTE WANT HOfal lie poor people here not one has anything A majority of them anythlnl could not furnish JL single room In which to commence housekeeping even though they had tho mOle = t rebuild the room Those people have absolutely absolute-ly nothing except what Is given them by the relief committee They are In a te condition of absolute want they lack everything and save for the splendid generosity of the Nation they would be I utterly without hope I TOTAL NUMBER OF LIVES LOST 1 The residents of Galveston are of the opinion that there are more dead than the outsiders coming In are generally willing to admit I Is beyond all possibility possi-bility that any actual count will ever I 11t t 1 I h IS I nll nhtnlnlbl I i LJU II HI UU t LIIU uWkJfc v u v Mind M-ind Il li allowing for those bodies which have been cst up by the waters after being once thrown Into the gulf and twice counted and for the number that were carried out to sea and will never be hoard of i total list of the dead cannot can-not be for from 3000 TEN THOUSAND DEA I The people of Galveston say that Mioy know that it will amount to anything between 5000 and 10000 and the estimates I will be In the mates for the most part wi I neighborhood of those large flgurss Ml up and down tho coast there has I Al been JOSH of life that will not be learned of for weeks and months if ever The j I total number of dead from the storm In this State cannot be far from 1000 l j FORAGE FOR HORSES NEEDED Forage for the horses IB badly needed FOfgc Carloads of supplies have been received rom all parts of the country for tho csldontn of Galveston but not a wisp rcsldcnL bushel oC oats hits come In o f hay or a for tho animals Provisions continue of the East to come in from all parts but there IB need for it all Supplies J V 1 are beinghandlcd In tho most excellent manner and there is no waste During the day bodies were waste found at frequent Intervals and Just at sunset I house Bcven were found in the ruins of one LOSS BEYOND REPAIR I The residents of REPAIR are plucky I In thu extreme In their determination to rebuild and make Galveston a great er and better city than It has ever n beAn I before but In one direction at least they have suffered a 1933 h that is beyond repalr and that lies In the extent oC I tho territory wrested from them by tho storm Tho waters of the Gulf now cover 5200000 square feet of ground that was formerly a part of Galveston This loss has been suffered entirely sufered on entrel the south side of the city where the finest residences were built facing the gulf and where land was held at a I higher valuation than in any other a part of the cIty > with thc exception of the business district For thrci miles along the shore of the Gulf this choice residence property extended but the shore line was so changed by the storm that at low tide the water is 350 feet higher along the entire three miles fet |