Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1906 — SAN FRANCISCO. QUIETING DOWN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SAN FRANCISCO. QUIETING DOWN

Some Sort of Order Being Brought Out of , the Chaos. HEALTH OFFICERS ARE ACTIVE House to Hous© Inspection of Sanitary Conditions Is Under Way. MILITIA HAY BE WITHDRAWN Exodus from the City Continues Daily —Three More Bodies Found —Terrible Situation at Santa Rosa. San Fraudsco, April 28.—At 3:15 p m. yesterday a shock of earthquake was felt. It lasted nearly a minute and caused considerable alarm. One Woman was killed. A number of walls of burned buildings which were standing in weak condition was thrown down, and frail buildings were considerably shaken up, but the damage done was slight. San Francisco, April 28.—Things are quieting down iu San Francisco. Telephonic communication with Oakland has been re-established. For the time being the service will be confined to business coimnunications, but It will l>e extended very soon. Telephone service will he resumed in the uudestroyed portions of the city In a fety. days. Superintendent Judson, of the garbage reduction works, announces that within ten hours he will have practically cleared the city of dead animals. At the reduction plant a large force of Chinamen is engaged in cutting the carcasses up and committing them to the flames. Two scows, having a capacity of 2,000 cubic yards, were engaged for carrying garbage to sea. May Withdraw Militia. As a result of Mayor Schmitz’s sharp letter to General Roster, commanding the national guard, in which the mayor called the general’s attention to the fact that the city was not under martial law and that drastic measures and arbitrary actions of some of his men, which have caused so much complaint, were illegal and requesting him to put a stop to it, there was but little shooting in the district over which the militia holdsway. A marine reported finding a light in a house on lower Fillmore street after 10 o’clock atJiight and the military sentry on the post shot through the window. A looter, who, it is stated, broke into several places on Vallejo street, was reported to have been shot by a marine sentry at Vallejo and East streets. Belt Railroad in Operation. The licit railroad is now operating around the water front, and all sorts of relief supplies are being distributed from there. The electric lights were started on East street and these lights will be extended to the wharves right away. There will lie plenty of electric lights almost immediately. An official list of the conditions of the school buildings throughout the city, shows that twenty-nine buildings were utterly destroyed and that fortyfour were at least partially spared. As many of the latter were so damaged that they will have to be either pulled down or thoroughly repaired, it is likely that the resumption of Hie short term will he made in tents erected in the parks. Surgeon General Gerard, of the United States army, has taken possession of the (’rocker grammar school, on Page street, for the benefit of the sick people in the park, who will all lie removed to that place for care and shelter. House to House Inspection. A force of 200 physicians and surgeons is now making a house to house inspection of sanitary conditions, under orders of the health commission. The bodies of three men and one woman were found among the ruins in the burned district during the afternoon. One of them, which is identified as that of John Hynes, was found at Eighteenth and Kentucky streets. Hynes met death by drowning. The remains of another man were found in the ruins of the Southern Pacific build Ing. at Fourth and Townsend stress, and those of another at 552 First avenue. The body of the woman was found at Sixtli and Townsend streets. None of the three could be identified. Train service bn the Southern Pacific’s coast division, operating between tins city and Los Angeles via San Jose, has been resumed. The northern terminal will be Oakland pier’.! Exodus Continues Daily. The exodus from the city continues. Alljlny constant streams of men, women and children, afoot and on every conceivable vehicle wended their way down Market and Mission streets, toward the ferries. A little bundle on a stick carried over the shoulder represented all the worldly possessions of some; others had grips and baskets I and a great many had saved trunks and furniture. It is estimated that 00,000 people were furnished with free transportato the different parts of the state by the Santa Fe end Southern Pacific

j r, . railways. The relief work la «ow thoroughly organized and rapidly becoming systematized. Many carloads of provisions and supplies are being received dally. OPTIMISM IN THE REPORTS "Conditions Improving” Is the Btory on All Sides. Yesterday was a day of optimistic reports from all aides. “Conditions improving,” was the happy 'expression from those who have had charge of any of the self-imposed duties of curing for their less fortunate fellow townsmen during the last few days. There was resumption of business to an astonishing extent yesterday, considering the condition throughout the resident section. Retail stores were instructed to reopen and the municipal government has established a scale of prices for the most important commodities—food, clothing, etc.—which is even below that existing under normal conditions. Warning was given retailers that any effort on tlieir part to charge exorbitant prices would result in summary action by the authorities. Street cars were promised for this

morning and electric lights will be turned on this evening. Many tons of fresh fruit were distributed free Tuesday afternoon anil yesterday morning. Great bunches of bananas and boxes of oranges were given unsparingly to the people, who flocked from the tents along the lieach and al*out Fort Mason. The oranges had been shipped to San Francisco for commission merchants before the earthquake, but not having been delivered to the consignees were largely the property of the growers and packers in the. southern part of the state, and word was m-eived by telegraph that the homeless sufferers were only too welcome to take them. The bananas were mainly in the warehouses where they were being held to ripen. They belonged to San Francisco commission men. DEATH LIST DISAGREEMENT General Greely Says 377, the Coroner’s Figures Are at Least 1,000. San Francisco, April 25. —There is a wide disagreement as to the number of deaths resulting from the great disaster. General Greely, who is in supreme command here now General Fuuston being still in direct charge of military work has telegraphed Washington stating with great positiveness that the dead number not more than 277 in San Francisco about fifty being unidentified. On the other hand Coroner Walsli reports with equal positiveness that the dead will number not less than 1.000, and that Ills deputies have cared for 350 bodies, which do not include those buried by the police and by the naval militia. All the bodies heretofore buried will be exhnmed and their identification made If possible, and hereafter all bodies recovered will be properly reported, identified and buried. Following are additional names of those who died in the catastrophe. The unidentified may have been partly included in former reports: Charles Alleman, Charles Anderson. Fannie W. Barrett. William Bock. F. Burge, Anna Butler. Fat Brodenlt, Frank Bodwell, George A. Bowen, O. Bird, Frank Bordwell, Henry Brannan, Geo. Brown. Robt. Broderick. J. K. Cooper, Annie Conway, Emily Curran (child), Mattl Delucehi. Dominleo Deducclil, Mrs. MarieDebrunner, F. H. Delaraiielli, Mary Dolovan, Louis S. Enger or Eugen. Eugene, Martha Fay, Joseph Gallagher, George Green, Mrs. Gross (suicide). G. Guy. Henry A. R. Hansen. Higgins, Mr. John, Mrs. Kohnlou, Johnson (child). Walter Nicholas Kepmston. Rudolph J.lvrouser. Krontt (male). Lander, H. Lund, Alfred Londaie, L. Louts, Lyon, Muroney, Mrs. Macurren, C. McCarthy. Robt. McCarthy, Jos. Meyers, J. Murtba.E. C. Neuman. J.Troppy Nye, George Nicholas, Richard Nasse (child), Frank Nunnii. Paolo O'Neill, O'Neill, Thomas O’Brien, Paolonelle, Ragan, Reilly, Ring, Mrs. Elizabeth Reece, Joanna Relche. Rosenberg (woman), Frank Riordan, Sakamdah (Japanese), N. F. Slestte, A. Shlonl and wife, Henry Sehmuchert, Caroline Simpson, Temperance Sherry. Wm. Stanelse (baby), George Biol., Lilian J. Sherman. I). T. Sullivan (fire chief), Dr. Charlea F. Taggart, 11. C. Tilden (shot by thugs), Mary Sf. Van Slyck, Ferdinand Vanaeicht, Julia Ward, John Weir. Faul Seinke, sixteen unidentified men. ten unidentified women, six unidentified children, six Chinese, twenty-one unidentified (sex not known). Wanhlngton, April 2tk—The war department has received a telegram from General Greely. giving an additional Met of dead, aa follows: Albert D. Saeghter, Margaret Miles, Anna Mary Ffetrlg, unknown man, Joseph U. Aebl,

Jens Porrensen, Mel Meclalr, Kelber M. Mnuden, Patrick Dockery, Bernard Shay, Jules .Tauzi, Amelio Marco, John Fanrth, Frauds Mercler, Teresa Roche. Two hundred and twenty-one injured are being cared for at the general hospital, Presidio, and 734 at the Park Emergency hospital, making 1,006 Injured so far reported. Proclamation by President. Washington, April 28. —In a proclamation just issued President Roosevelt urges the American people now to send their contributions for the alleviation of the distress in San Francisco directly to former Mayor James D. Phelan, chairman of the finance committee. In San Francisco, Instead of to the American Red Cross. The president pays a high tribute to the work accomplished by the citizens’ committee of San Francisco and indicates that the necessity for working through the Red Cross exclusively has passed.

DR. EDWARD T. DEVINE, RED CROSS CHIEF.