Appeals for Texas Storm Relief From Governors and Red Cross
Gov Sayers urges county judges mayors to mobilize immediate relief for Galveston disaster. Ship food and clothing to Houston mayor. send money to Sayrens for forwarding to committees. Clara Barton calls nationwide Red Cross aid appeal pledging steady relief work to Texas sufferers and asks donations to national and local Red Cross funds.
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Texas
Galveston
Houston
Tex
Washington
Clara Barton
National Red Cross
Ohio
Mississippi
Johnstown
Port Royal
United States
Red Cross
William K. Flather
Rigg’s National Bank
Washington, D. C
Red Cross Indian Famine Fund
Fifth Avenue
New York
Louisiana Red Cross Society of
New Orleans
Loss to Railroads and towns in hurricane wrecks
Houston reports extensive damage from the hurricane across Galveston and surrounding areas. Rail lines and bridges washed away, plains destroyed, and many plantations leveled. In Arcadia Belleville Pattison Hempstead and Wharton districts homes churches and schools suffered severe losses with multiple fatalities and many displaced.
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Houston
Loas
Galveston
International
Great Northern
Santa Fe
Houston and Northern
Arcadia
Belleville
Pattison
Steel
Hempstead
Stone
Buchanan
Waller
Prairie View
Negro Normal School
Wharton
Matagorda
Evacuated Lydenburg Shelled After British Occupation
The Boers, ashamed by a hurried retreat from Lydenburg, returned to shell the town from a nearby height after British occupancy. Reports place President Kruger abroad at Lorenzo Marques with possible surrender. Portuguese reinforcements bolster Rosano Garcia across the border as Transvaal fugitives surge west.
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New York
Lydenburg
Maritsburg
Kruger
Lorenzo Marques
Rosano Garcia
Damage to Crops in cyclone wreckage totals 3 million
The West Indian cyclone devastates Texas and Louisiana with crop ruin and a three million dollar aggregate loss. Cotton losses exceed one million with rice losses about one point one million. Beaumont and Lake Charles suffer seed problems and widespread destruction. Alvin reports heavy losses to trucks, orchards, and strawberry fields as buildings lie ruined.
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Houston
Galveston
Gulf
Mississippi River
Beaumont
Louisiana
Lake Charles
Texas
Alvin
Governor Sayers Appeals For Gulf Flood Aid
Governor Sayers describes the gulf coast flood as the most deplorable catastrophe in American history and pledges full relief. He reports 59 000 rations and 1000 tents supplied by the Federal government and orders mayors and county judges to secure funds and provisions for the victims. The aditated general and assistants will supervise living aid, water, food, and distribution on site.
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Austin
Gulf Coast
Gov. Sayers
America
Relief Corps
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Candy Kitchen
Leerea
Is HO
Lowney's
Gunther’s
Bryan, Texas
Hall’s Drug Store
Bryan Water, Ice, Light & Power Company
Dallas
Galveston Daily News
Dallas Morning News
Dallas News
Bryan
BRTAD
B. E. Hawes
Bryan Marble Works
City Bakery
M. Griesser
Webb Bros
Paul M. Baylor
James Drug Store
MO. M. Lawrence
Brazos County
A. W. Buchanan
M. Nagle
The
Eagle
W. Gillie Mitchell
Justice of the Peace of
Precinct No. 4
J.G. Minkert
Office of Justice of the Peace of
Jostin D. Sayrns
RED Cross Society
Miss Barton
South Carolina
Columbia
McSweeney
James A. Hoyt
Hoyt
Gary
Patterson
Whitman
John T. Sloan
James H. Timman
Bandera
J. B. Robinson
Texes
W. E. Jones
Gonzales County
Robinson
Mount Pleasant
Cotton Belt Road
Here
Corsicana
Franz Emmerson
Pekin
Sugyma Kiara
Willis & Coleman
Exchange Hotel
Rta
Maryland College OF Pharmacy
Baltimore
Burguyn S Livery Stable
Jas. C. Kernale
J. W. Brogdon
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North
South
Sanat
Iste
North Texas
St. Louis
Denison
Southern Pacific
San Francisco
East
F. B. Morse
M. L. Robbins
E. G. Harder
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