CHAPTER IX

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Galveston Nine Days After--Great Changes Apparent--Life in a Business Exhibited--Systematic Efforts to Obtain Names of the Dead 172

## CHAPTER X .

Magnitude of the Relief Necessary--Twenty Thousand Persons to Be Clothed and Fed--System of Relief Organization--How the Storm Effected Trade 180

## CHAPTER XI .

Insanity Follows Frightful Sufferings of the Poor Victims-- Five Hundred Demented Ones--Indifferent to the Loss of Relatives 188

## CHAPTER XII .

Serious Danger from Fire--Scarcity of Boats to Carry People to the Main Land--Laborers Imported into Galveston--Untold Sufferings on Bolivar Island--Experience of a Chicago Man 196

## CHAPTER XIII .

Two Women Tell How They Were Affected at Galveston--One Arrived After the Catastrophe, While the Other Was in the Storm from Beginning to End 206

## CHAPTER XIV .

Twenty Thousand People Fed Every Day at a Cost of $40,000-- Incidents at the Relief Stations--Applicants and Their Peculiarities--Great Mortality Among the Negroes 216

## CHAPTER XV .

Total Dead and Missing at Galveston and Vicinity 8,661--Five Million Dollars in Relief Necessary to Carry the Survivors Through the Fall and Winter to Spring 246

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