CHAPTER V. Relief Sent from All Parts of the World as Soon as the True Situation of Affairs Was Made Known--Millions of Dollars Subscribed and Thousands of Carloads of Supplies Forwarded to the Desolated City 117
CHAPTER VI. Cremating Bodies by the Hundreds in the Streets of Galveston-- Negroes Faint While Handling the Decayed Corpses--How Some of Those Rescued Escaped with Their Lives 133
CHAPTER VII. Lives Lost and Property Damage Sustained Outside of Galveston-- One Thousand Victims and Millions of Value in Crops Swept Away--Estimates Made 149
CHAPTER VIII. Business Resumed at Galveston in a Small Way on the Sixth Day After the Catastrophe--"Galveston Shall Rise Again"--How the City Looked on Saturday, One Week After the Flood 159
CHAPTER IX. 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
CHAPTER XVI. Galveston's Inhabitants Refuse to Heed the Lessons Taught by Their Experiences--Carelessness in Failing to Provide Against the Recurrence of Catastrophes 261
CHAPTER XVII. Galveston's Storm Flies Over the United States and Does Great Damage--Many Lives Lost--It Finally Disappears in the Atlantic Ocean 267