The Great Galveston Disaster. Paul Lester

BLESSINGS IN DISGUISE.

       MAKES THE WHOLE WORLD KIN.

       MISFORTUNES MAKE US ONE.

       NO WEAK FIBRE IN GALVESTON PEOPLE.

       HOPE FOR THE RUINED CITY.

       CHAPTER XVI. Startling Havoc Made by the Angry Storm—Vessels Far Out on the Prairie—Urgent Call for Millions of Dollars—Tangled Wires and Mountains of Wreckage.

       GENTLE AS A COUNTRY POND.

       WRINGING THEIR HANDS IN AGONY.

       CLASPED HANDS AND ESCAPED.

       RESCUED TWO BABES FROM DEATH.

       “ALL GONE!—ALL GONE!”

       NO TIME TO DIG GRAVES.

       DISINFECTING THE CITY.

       SOME ACCOUNT OF CLARA BARTON.

       FACES OVERSPREAD WITH SADNESS.

       ROOF BLOWN AWAY.

       NECESSARY BUREAUS.

       WORK PUSHED WITH VIGOR.

       WANTS A BREAKWATER.

       SOME MEANS TO HELP PEOPLE.

       “WE ARE BROKE.”

       OPENING UP THE STREETS.

       CAPTAIN WOULD NOT RISK THE TRIP.

       GETTING OUT OF GALVESTON.

       ABOUT 17,000 PEOPLE RECEIVING RELIEF.

       NUMEROUS CASES OF INSANITY.

       ESCAPE OF REV. L. P. DAVIS AND FAMILY.

       CHAPTER XVII. Governor Sayres Revises His Estimate of Those Lost and Makes it 12,000—A Multitude of the Destitute—Abundant Supplies and Vast Work of Distribution.

       DISTRIBUTING $40,000 A DAY.

       ONLY THE DESTITUTE HELPED.

       SAYS MONEY IS MOST NEEDED.

       STOOD THE STORM WELL.

       ONLY ONE WHO ESCAPED.

       KAISER MOURNS FOR GALVESTON.

       PRESIDENT THANKS THE KAISER.

       EXHAUSTION THINS OUT THE WORKERS.

       SERIOUS CASES OF INJURY.

       DESTRUCTION IN OUTLYING DISTRICTS.

       HOUSES AND OTHER PROPERTY GONE.

       THE CRIES OF THE PEOPLE.

       MR. GRAY’S STORY.

       A GRUESOME SIGHT.

       DESTRUCTION OF CATHOLIC ORPHANS’ HOME.

       NEW FEATURES OF THE CALAMITY.

       THE ANGER OF THE SEA.

       IMPOSSIBLE TO NAVIGATE.

       CHAPTER XVIII. An Island of Desolation—Crumbling Walls—Faces White With Agony—Tales of Dismay and Death—Curious Sights.

       REVEALED A SCENE.

       A TERRIBLE FATE.

       HOUSES COMPLETELY CAPSIZED.

       BURNING 1000 HUMAN BODIES.

       IMPOSSIBLE TO DISPOSE OF THE DEAD.

       STORIES OF SORROW.

       MASSACRE OF THE LIVING.

       RESCUING DESTITUTE CHILDREN.