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A STORY OF It is Graphically 1 Xucs and t I have never been in a great storm at sea," said Mr. H. F. Bower., a big, hearty, genial-looking commercial travelling man, to a newspaper report er yesterday, '-'but as near as I could judge the experience I had in Galves ion during the trouble was pretty much the Fame as that of a man on board a small ship hundred of miles j from shore, and with a hurricane blowing directly off the coast. I rep- . resent a large firm io Mechanicsburg, l'a., and part of my time is spent in the South. I had been down on the (iulf coast for a day or two and stopp ed iu Galveston the Thursday before the storm to make one of my regular calls. Our house has some good cus tomers there, and in making the rounds I found that one partner of a firm which always gave me good or ders had gone up into the State on business, and that my only ohanoo for an order was to v.ait and see him. "Well, I waited; and I got my order, too; but now I am-getting ahead of the story. I was comfortably fixed at the Tremont House and so, when I deoided to stop over a day longer, I thought that would be' something like a day of!. The day after my arrival, how ever, was not particularly pleasant. A storm had been predicted and the weather was heavy. There was no especial apprehension, however, and I retired at a reasonable hour Friday night and slept until about 4 a. ra., when a gust of wind blew down the inside blinds of . my window and awakened me with a jump. I went down-stairs pretty soon after that, for the wind was then blowing pretty live ly, and found that a great many of the guests hau also dressed and come down-st iirs. All of the morning the wind increased and at 10 o'clock it had done considerable damage. The' Tremont is situated upon the highest knoll on the island, and early11 in the afternoon the water and wind had done great damage along the beach, and carriages began to roll up to the hotel entrances with women and children, flying from houses that were creaking and groaning and suggesting immediate collapse. As the afternoon wore off the water, which had at first only sub merged the lower streets, came up to the Tremont. As long as the carriages touched the ground they continued to come to the Tremont, and the men there would carry the half-fainting women and children to a pi -ce of safe ty indoors. The water kept rising. The wind was of suoh force and fury that some people were brought into the hotel stark naked, their oiothes having been torn from them on the , streets. The streets became raging torrents and more and more filled with floating debris of every kind. As long as we could, a party watched at the doorways and rescued all who came within reach. The water finally .drove us to the second floor of the hotel, and after that we were simply, as I said before, like sailors tossed on an angry sea. The G ulf of Mexico was in front, < ! al veston Bay behind and the nearest land fifty miles away at Houston, which itself was under a foot of water at the time. Tho entire island was submerged to a depth veryingfrqm six to twenty feet, and a furious hurricane raging and grinding all above water. "There was nothing for us to do 'out to wait and lintau and wntoh? From 6 o'clock the city had bees in total dark ness. There was not even a lamp in the Tremont and the thousand and more of people, huddled chiefly in the long hall of the second floor,; in the position moBt sheltered from the storm, were as silent as though strioken dumb. For five mortal hours wo stood, or sat, or lay. Just as circumstances would admit, waiting and listening. Occasionally a woman's voioe would be heard in prayer, and as somo particu lar heavy blast would strike the house and cause it to tremble and shudder a convulsive sob could bo heard. But for the most part of that long watch there was only the roaring of the winds as they lashed and heat about the plaoe and the frightful roar of tho wa ter as it swept unbidden through tho open doors and hurried along the street, carrying towards destruction and the Gulf its priceless freight of lives and property. "The Tremont is five stories high and built with a rotunda and galleries, surrounded by a large oupola made of iron asd gl&si. That is io say, it was so constructed. Well, the wind bent up the firm cupola in stvery ahoit timo and the glass just rained down. Kvery glass in the building was shat tered by the wind, the pksteriog was broken through and the window blind Mown off. You can eea' that th made iho rooms 'aoinbabUable and. wasini'ho hallways that tho /ef W%?? mCSi* V id&hrtP. THE STORM. Fold 33y Mr. H. W. vven. Jouvicr, 2?th. ' the women and children acted splend idly. When it became, apparent that a crowd would be there some one in sisted that there must be no running about. So the ladies were carried from the street to the second floor, placed in the best spot available and told to stay thero. If you can imagine a thousand people under such,oircum I stances and so situated, iu Egyptian I darkness, you cm see how necessary it was that they keep still. I mean remain where they were placed. "Every hour must end, so after what seemed eternity some one who had ventured to go on an expedition reported that the water had gone down two feet in the rotunda. This ven turesome spirit had found a candle somewhere and his assertion was the first bit of cheering news we had. It was then about ll?o'clock. The wind waB still blowing with terrific force, but I could notice that it eame in guBts and not steadily. That, I knew, from hearing the sailors talk about it, meant that the storm was passing, and right glad was I to be able to communicate thiB fact to my neighbors. The effect of the candle and tho news about the water falling acted like magie on the refugees. From the silence of the tomb the place became like a bee bive. Each man, woman and child had something to say to those nearest them, and while the strain had been terrible there was the true ring of courage in most voices. "With the waters receding there was yet no thought of any one trying to leave the hotel, and after a short time the women and ehildren were moved into a more comfortable part cf the place that had not been available during the height of the storm. So the night wore on. "Sunday morning the water still covered the face of the island and the wind, now in gusts, that levelled hero and there a chimney overlooked by the storm king, was yet sufficient to prevent anything like walking. The j streets were rushing torrents and everv conceivable kind of wreckage was float ing toward gulf or bay. " "I was in for whatever assistance I could render and hardly had it gotten light before I was asked to help carry into the hotel a young man who had been horribly mangled by the storm. A young doctor and myself earried the wounded man up-stairs, and I gave him chloroform so that his broken limbs could be set. The doctor and I became friends at once and he request ed that I assist him during the day. And Such a day! For instance, I ad ministered chloroform twenty-seven times during the twelve hours. But that wasn't all that was goiog on by any means. The sights of that day will not leave me for many along year, if ever. It is oneoccasiopwhen the newspapers have not had to en large on the faots. They have rather had to suppress many things as too horrible to give in detail. The written story could never describe the appear ance of Galveston on the day after the storm. "I could tell you incidents without number and they would only be as drops of water in an ocean compared to the situation that confronted the survivors of the oity of Galveston that Sunday morning. There is no need to talk about the . wreoked houses, churches, asylums, schools, etc. All of those things can be replaced with money. But the tragedies enacted will never be half known. "The patrol force was organized Sunday afternoon, and Feliog, a young officer, who had served with the Uni ted States troops in Cuba, and was in the battle of San Juan Hill, having volunteered for tho work, was put in charge of the citizens who were to pro teet the lives and property that re mained on the island. There never can be too much credit given to this young officer. He went right out and placed the men, gave them their or ders, and was obeyed, at a time when any lagging or grumbling meant de struction of life and property. The men who worked under Capt. Feling found out that he knew what should be done and accepted volunteers ex pecting them to heed his orders like veterans. One of his first orders was tho olosing of all the saloons. The barkeepers were ordered to stay inside and fill physicians' prescriptions, but no drinks were sold. Then 'the patrol was instructed as to looting, and th< very prompt work in this line wat most effective in stopping the ghouliat work of a set of men unfit for th< name of human. Capt. Feliog was ?d mired and loved by the men of the pa trol, and while his namo has been stu diously kept from the official reports for 85iB? reason whioh I cannot give, 1 am sure *Jhat thf> men of G a?vcstoi know who did the work for thctn j when tho city was uua serious crises. "Through the efforts ol Capt. Fcl iog men were brought to realize the necessity of taking hold with their own hauch, and influential citizens woro seen helping with the removal of tho dead bodies. At first an attempt was made to have the dead all brought to the undertakers' plaoes and have them identified; but when about 1,500 bodies had been accumulated it was seen that this would not do at nil. Then the bodies were carried out to sea; but they floated back, and at lust they began to burn them. You read of that, didn't you? You have road, too, of the funeral pyre of some coun tries, where, after all duo and formal ceremonies, the body of a dead chief or other in laid in slate upon a heap of faggots aud inciuerated. . In Galves ton a heap of poor, disfigured, half naked bodies, maybe a score, but more likely several hundred, were laid to gether, and broken lumber, trees and rubbish of any kind, piled upou them and fired. There was no ceremony; a solitary attendant stands beside the dreadful pile and places more fuel un til the mass is reduced to ashes. Sometimes there were a dozen of these fires burning on all parts of the is land. 'Horrible!' you say; well, what could be done? The sea refused the dead, and the ground was merely mud, and a hole dug filled with water before the spade could be removed. To burn the dead w^s th'j only recourse, and while it took tttrong hearts and strong nerves to do such work, there were men ready to undertake it.. "Hunger, thirst and nakedness stared the survivors in the face that Sunday afternoon. There was sorrow enough for those who had lost family, loved ones, friends, property and home, but there was no time for la mentations; the living must be cared for. "I think it would be safe to say that for twenty-four hours at least the sur vivors never had a drink of water of any kind. Hundreds and hundreds of people never tasted food for forty eight hours, and it was several days before many had a full suit of clothes. I spent two days and two nights in a bathing suit, and know of a great many others who were similarly'situa ted. Not only men, but women, lost their clothing in the storm and were forced to wear whatever they could get. I remember one day on the Gulf beach a friend, walking with me, pointed to a group searching in a lot of debris?not for money or valuables? but no doubt fearing to find a missing relative?aad said: "Do you see that woman? Well, she is one of the rich est women in Galveston." And her costume? It was an old bathing suit, and she had neither shoes nor hat. H r home had been carried complete ly away, and she was only able to be about and boldng for some missing one through the kindness of another woman, who had loaned he* the suit. "The patrol did its work well, and no doubt the closing of the saloons was one of the moves tbat saved Gal veston from a second atorm. If the rough clement had been turned loose to drink and steal as it willed the is land would have indeed become a hell within a few days. Possibly some people may be found who would con demn the summary orders given about looting. Well, if there are any worse who think tbat the negroes who out .'fingers and ears from dead men and women, in order to get rings and ear rings, did not deserve their fate they should go down that way and see what they will be told. I saw'a negro who had been shot one day, and it , made mo almost wish that he was alive so that he eould be killed over again. He was caught by a sentinel ohewing the finger off a dead woman's hand in order to get a gold ring. Tho papers have told also of how several were found with the fingers and ears in their pockets. "The doctor and I, walking down the Strand, one day turned over a pieee of lumber lying near the side walk, and there, lying with her little face turned upwards and her golden curls still damp from the cruel water, lay a child of about 5 years. The storm had torn her clothing all away, and her little life had gone out, after all of a mother's eare and a father's pride, like a eandle snuffed by the wind. A cart was passing and, getting a piece of cloth from a store, we wrapp ed it about her and passed her tiny body to the driver. It was placed on top a score of bodies, and the cart rat > tied on towards Borne place where the I fires ware burning red and low, hun I gry for their glut of human flesh, r That is-just a passing incident, but I ' can hardly forget it. It was so differ' I ent from the little white casket-, the > flowers and the music and the friends > that usually attoud the death of a V child.* I "Thero were some reunions and i some gatherings, where dear ones 3 were missing, that would bring great i lumps into the throat of' the. averago ) man or woman under offlinaiy circum * stances. But they passed as matters' - of course in Galveston. The peoplp were as if walking in a dream for a , few days, and it is well that it ?as so. I ? few determi oed men gave the Orders i , and.the men who~had suffered obeyed. It was eu emergency wheu the lack of a leader would havo been fatal. ' 'Do I think that Galveston will be rebult? Yes I do. There was no in dication to my mind that any amount of business men who still had inter ests there would want to go away. They argue, and no doubt with good excuse, that it may bo a hundred years or never when another such cyclone strikes their city. They aro now hard at work getting things in shape, and within a few months Galveston will be a flourishing city again. The firm which kept mc waiting, or rather for which I waited, bought a tino bill of goods from mc Thursday after the storm. The p?.r*'jcr, who had been away, walked thirty miles to get back, { and then chartered a sail boat and crosred the bay. He found that his house was gone and his place of bu4i- J ness damaged, but his wife and little , ones were safe. After his anxiety the ; reactiou made him almost hysterical. 'I?owen,' he said to me, '1 am the happiest man in Texas. When I got hero and found my wife and babies all right, I wanted to dance. My house is gone, not a timber left, and the store is damaged about $10,000, but all that don't count. My family is safe and well, and to eclebrato I will give you a big order.' So that was how I got my order." ? ?-*mm For sprains, swellings and lameness there is nothing so good as Chamber lain's Pain Balm. Try it. For salo by Hill-Orr Drug Co. ? "Married life is not all sunshine," announced the pessmistic individual. "No," said Henpeck, sadly, "the greater part of it riegn." \ When you cannot sleep for cough ing, it is hardly necessary that any one should tell you that you need a few doses of Chamberlain's Cough Reme dy to allay the irritation of the throat, and mako sleep possible. It is good. Try it. For sale b y Hill-Orr Drug Co I scaped From the Penitentiary. Columbia, S. C. Sept. 20.?A dar ing escape was inado from the South Carolina penitentiary during last night, it being the first in somo years. No less distinguished a prisoner than Murphy, who was convicted of the assassination of County Treasurer Copes of Orangoburg a few years ago, was one of thoso who escaped. Collins, a white burglav from Pickens county, went with him. The prisoners at tho institution are now confined in the old main building, a massive structure of steel and stone. The fellows managed to get hold of a piece of wa^on tire. With this they forced the steel cage through far enough open to squeeze out on their backs, and with I I clothes, etc., they made a rope. Tuey were on the third tier. Goiug to the roof they let themselves dowu just outside the putrol fence. How they managed to get across the yard to the west wall and scale it is a mystery. On the top of the wall where they went over they left a mes sage reading, "(jod be with you till we meet again." Of course every possible effort is be ing made to capture the men. A new remedy for biliousness is now ou salo at Hill-Orr Drug store. It is called Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. It gives quick re lief and will prevent the attack if giv en as soon as the first indication of the disease appears. Price 25c. per box. Samples free. ? A good woman is good because she doesn't know any bettor, but little children are good because they don't know any worse. Strengthen the tired kidneys and purify the liver and bowels with a few doses of Prickly Ash Bitters. It is an admirable kidney tonic. Evans Pharmacy. ._ WANTED. By Jingoes 1 We've got too mauy $ IN OES. Of course wc bought them, and we knew we could sell them, and we are powerful glad we've got them, for there's a red-hot bargain in ever* one of them ; but wc didn't buy them to wear ourselves, but for our own dearly beloved customers to wear. Now we are here to tell them that by the grace of a right round dollar they can become t ie proud possessor of the best Shoe this market ever absorbed at that princely figure. We have only a limited number at this price, but wo have unexplored oceans of others at prices just as fascinating. We must have room to display these new Shoes, so the old oues we are just giving away. Now we tried our best to rent about half an acra iu front of our Store, where we load our customers' wagons, on which to etack the?' conn, OATS, BACQ?T and DEAN'S PATENT FLOUE, That we sell every day, but we failed because it was feared that any further obstruction of the public equare might impede the progress of the city. We will, however, perfect our delivery system so that no one will have to wait, and the dangers of a crush will be reduced to a minimum. Room ! Room ! ! Room ! ! ! is what we want. Yours for Room, DEAN & RATLIFFE. 19* Oui force now is? M. A. DEAN, N. O. B?RRISS, T. A. RATLIFFE, MAJOR HOLLAND, K P. SMITH, S. W. WILLIFORD, CHAS. M. BUCHANAN. RAISE YOUR OWN BREAD AND COMPETE FOR A VALUABLE PRIZE OFFERED BY THE VIRGINIA-CAROLINA CHEMICAL CO. FOR THE BEST WHEAT CROP MADE IN THE STATE. For particulars apply to the Company at Charleston, or any of its authorized agents in the State. Competitors must register their names not later than December 1st, 1900. 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