The Great Galveston Disaster. Paul Lester

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TRAGIC INCIDENTS.

       HARROWING TALES TOLD BY SURVIVORS.

       A TRAGIC WEDDING CEREMONY.

       GIGANTIC DISINFECTION.

       THE SHERIFF’S WORK.

       GALVESTON IN DANGER FROM FIRE.

       “SEEMS LIKE AN AWFUL DREAM.”

       WOMAN SHOT TO END HER SUFFERING.

       SAW FOUR MEN SHOT IN ONE DAY.

       NO DANGER OF PESTILENCE.

       DOCTORS CARING FOR THE SUFFERERS.

       FIRES ALL OVER THE CITY.

       WELL-KNOWN BUILDINGS DAMAGED.

       MAYOR SETS ALL AT WORK.

       HUGE TANK MOVED SIX BLOCKS.

       FEAR TO LOOK ON THE SEA.

       EVERY WAVE HAS ITS TRAGEDY.

       WALKING OVER CORPSES.

       REFUGEES CRAZED BY THEIR SUFFERINGS.

       CHAPTER XV. Family in a Tree-Top All Night—Rescue of the Perishing—Railroad Trains Hurrying Forward with Relief—Pathetic Scenes in the Desolate City.

       SUBSISTED ON RAW MEAT.

       ALL HAD LOST LOVED ONES.

       HAD TO BURN BODIES OF THOUSANDS.

       DEAD WASHED FROM THEIR GRAVES.

       OLD SOLDIER SHUDDERED AT THE SIGHTS.

       MAKING A FIGHT FOR LIFE.

       THE STENCH IS OVERPOWERING.

       DESOLATION ON EVERY SIDE.

       “THEY WERE ALL DROWNED.”

       TOO BUSY TO TALK.

       LODGED HIS CHILD IN A TREE.

       MIRACULOUS ESCAPE FROM DEATH.

       NEW LIFE IN THE CITY.

       SWIFT TRAINS LOADED WITH SUPPLIES.

       “GALVESTON SHALL RISE AGAIN.”

       SYSTEMATIC RELIEF.

       HOMES MUST BE REPAIRED.

       TIME FOR DAUNTLESS COURAGE.

       SERMONS ON GALVESTON.

       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

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