12 Sep 1900
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Newspaper
Houston Daily Post
Location
Houston, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1900
Page
1
C A Williams reports on Galveston after the disaster. Mayor Walter C Jones estimates up to five thousand dead with hundreds still buried in ruins or burned. Police and soldiers patrol wreckage as bodies are found, identified slowly, and buried in trenches.
General McKibbin leads troops through Houston to take control of rail lines toward Galveston as riots and looting erupt after the disaster. Civilians beg for ice water food and disinfectants while authorities pledge to halt dead-body desecration and raiding.
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