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By Electric Telegraph.—Coftbight. ffiE GALVESTON DISASTER. ■ + . TERRIBLE SUFFERINGS. ABBEST AND EXECUTION OF BOBBERS. PKR PRIS3 ASSOCIATION.) Beceived 14, 9.25 a.m. New Yobk, September 13. Five thousand perished at Galveston, many of the ruins being burnt in order to cremate the bodies within them. Scores of survivors became frenzied from thirst and died. Others lost their reason. Belief measures are active and efficient. The troops at Galveston arrested 100 drunken negroes, 43 ef whom were conrt-martialled and shot for possessing loot. One of the culprits had in his pocket twenty-three human fingers with rings on them. I TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE. Beceived 15, 0.15 a.m. , New York, Saptember 14, \ A thousand bodies were cremated at and eleven hundred bodies dropped into the sea tied together, to j prevent their washing ashore. j
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 196, 15 September 1900, Page 3
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134CABLE NEWS. I Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 196, 15 September 1900, Page 3
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