The Great Galveston Disaster. Paul Lester

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APPEALS FOR HELP.

       TERRIBLE SUFFERING AND MISERY.

       CHAPTER IV. The Cry of Distress in the Wrecked City—Negro Vandals Shot Down—Progress of the Relief Work—Strict Military Rule.

       POCKET FULL OF HUMAN FINGERS.

       THE STORY INCREASES IN HORROR.

       ACTUAL LOSS WILL NEVER BE KNOWN.

       DISPOSING OF THE DEAD.

       PEOPLE DELAYED FLIGHT TOO LONG.

       REALIZED THEIR PERIL TOO LATE.

       MORE HORRORS DETAILED.

       NINETY NEGROES EXECUTED.

       THE CITY OFFICIALS IN A LIVELY QUARREL.

       WORK OF THE RELIEF COMMITTEE.

       WORK AT THE WATER WORKS.

       STRICT POLICE RULES.

       NURSES FROM A DISTANCE.

       GOVERNOR SAYRES ON THE SITUATION.

       THE TRANSPORTATION PROBLEM.

       ADJUTANT GENERAL SCURRY’S ESTIMATE.

       LOSS OF LIFE AND DAMAGE AT OTHER POINTS.

       BOATS FOR TRANSPORTATION.

       THE DEVASTATION APPALLING.

       VESSEL ORDERED TO GALVESTON.

       ATTEMPT TO SUM UP THE LOSSES.

       RELIEF PUSHED FORWARD NIGHT AND DAY.

       AN APPEAL TO THE FREE MASONS.

       SUBSCRIPTIONS UNDER WAY.

       PROTECTION OF GALVESTON A COSTLY PROBLEM.

       STORM TRAVELED OVER THREE THOUSAND MILES.

       NOT MEN ENOUGH TO HANDLE THE DEAD.

       RELIEF TRAIN FROM HOUSTON.

       ROBBERY AND MUTILATION OF THE DEAD.

       A REFUGEE’S STATEMENT.

       MONEY BADLY NEEDED.

       CARNEGIE’S PRINCELY GIFT.

       GREAT TIDAL WAVES IN THE WORLD’S HISTORY.

       OLD AND CHARMING TRADITION.

       STORY OF THE LOST ATLANTIS.

       BELIEVED THE SEA HAD CONCEALED A LAND.

       TIDAL WAVES ON ENGLISH COASTS.

       GREAT INUNDATION OF 1571.

       A REAL TRAGEDY AT GALVESTON.

       TIDES AND EARTHQUAKES.

       CHAPTER V. Vivid Pictures of Suffering in Every Street and House—The Gulf City a Ghastly Mass of Ruins—The Sea Giving Up Its Dead—Supplies Pouring in from Every Quarter.

       TERRIBLE SUFFERINGS OF THE SURVIVORS.

       BODIES PILED IN THE STREETS.

       ALL SUFFERED INJURY.

       BLESSINGS IN DISGUISE.

       BODIES

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