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Clearing Away the Debris and Trolley Cars Run-
ning in San Francisco.
Relief from All Over the Country Pouring Into
the Stricken City.
Valencia Hotel Sank Ten Feet Into the Earth and
Then Pitched Forward.
Oakland, Cal., despatch: The tide of
traffic is no ting t; -o ways, instead of
one, in San Francisco to -day. The peo-
ple are ..till getting out to the cities
across the bay, A night in the rain
eves enough fora great many house -
less families who had intended to stay
by the city until they- could find
shelter. So Oakland, whose stree'.;s
look like a county fair, are packed to
the limit, notwithstanding tdie fact
that it, too, is having an exodus of
people, who are going to friends
throughout, tate State or to the Cali-
fornian towns which have offered
refuge. Still dirty, for we have not
establitihed laundries yet, but some-
what cleaner as to the faces and
hands, the crowds are taking trains as
fast as they can secure places.
But the back eddy is nearly as
great.
Not only are the stores and building
material foe the camps coming into the
city from the ferry, but gangs of
workmen in half a dozen lines of
activity are being passed through the
linen The street car company is
rushing to provide rapid transporta-
tion foe a part of the city at least.
On Market street there have been
early cable ears, which, distributing
'themselves over four lines after they
passed the centre of the town, have
ruse over the .hills. The electric lines
were all south of Market street
through the :Mission district.
Trolleys Running.
Now time conips.ny bas a. special
temporary franchise frown ethe Mayor
to run trolley dines on Market street,
and one of their electric po,werwhouses,
that on Bryant street, (escaped with
e no important damage.. There happen-
ed,
appened to be a 'lot -of constructive material
in Oakland, so all eLay laborers and
electricians have here strin ing trol-
ley lanes and setting up trolley poles
on 1tia.rket cetreet. If .eve'ryt:hing gores
well, we. shell have a street car lime
erorm the ferry through the main thor-
-oux hfare and nut to the Mission dis-
trict tomorrow night. The Fillimore
street line is now run:ting normally
with electric power. This is a cress -
town tra.ek, weigh rains through the
standing res•idenee d.i=trict. The cars
are crowded. It goes without efteeng
that the company as charging no fares,
otherwise they would have no p men-
gera. Rides well be free until the
banks open and money begins to flow,
The workmen, both of the Govern-
ment and private ort ' rne-, are working
on tick, ate feeling at the expense
of the Government, up the
money- they will need when this 'ceases
ee be a. city of peepers and tl:ey begin
to reb-uld trleir) r nee.
That evpre'ises it. '[here never was
cinch a F•ituation, end there Indy never
be another enele Rich and poor alike
on a common n -i on level, dependint, for a
week end bound to r'rTend for a month
Upon tribe nffesial charity 'of the nation
and the private charily of their fellow -
citizens all over 'the ]and. The root of
this state of affairs is what San Fran-
dsen bare (shred Bier "magnificent iso-
3ation" It is fear or five hours to
Saeramenty, tI:;e nearest city 'of size,
and. Lox 1nerrlcss is nearly 500 ntilee
away. There ie no heavily populated
surrounding country to draw on or to
take up the refit -gees, although the
State is doing the beet it am, and
neer, when you coneider it, did disaster
make n. cleaner sweep. It struck, too, e 'name of dig ribution, and the
very goods which were there to be dds-
tributed. All the elaborate machinery
by Wilke soeicty moves in the modern
interdependence of nnan upon man, is
broken down. One realizes now what
n balky, unwieldy thing is a city gone
Wrong.
200 Cars of Relief Supplies.
More than 200 rare of relief supplies
came in yesterday, mainly from the
region west of Salt Lake City. The
givers had sensibly tuought of a great
many Thing►, for which the people of
San Francisco never thought to seek.
The Southern California trains brought
not only food, eoolced and uncooked.
but complete rookie; equipment for
preparing food on a Margo scale. This
releeveci r•omewbat the embarrassment
of the department of supplies, which
has had to resort to all kinds of make-
shifts. More than half the bread of
yesterday was cooked in ovens roughly
mads from tate broken bricks which
litter Marled street. The people of
the Northwest thoughtfully sent a lot
of cheap furniture. such as Beds and
'chairs, which will help 'make the
temps Corn fortahle. The bells went to
the hospitals, wbere half the patients
,stave laid on mattresses. chips are
coming, too, either with relief supplies
'Or with eargoes which contain feed and
comforts, and which the authorities
seize, after making memoranda, so that
the owners may be paid. The energy,
the good sense, the courage with which
the army and fhe citizens have ar-
ranged things are admirable. This chap-
ter in the history of California is as
dazzling and wonderful as the story of
the Argonauts. No one would have
thought it of the careless modern city.
The New Market Street.
It is certain now that Filliniore
street will become a great business
thoroughfare, second only to Market
street. It has been a street of resi-
dences and small shops. But now the
first trolley line is running through it,
and what is )eft of the city lies out
that way, and houses and small stores
are spoken for as places of business
for banks, agencies and wholesale
houses. For months it will be the new
Market street. The old Market street
was deserted to -day, and traffic had
to find its way into the city by side
streets. The standing walls of some
of the buildings were tottering, and a.
small shock of earthquake which oc-
curred late last night, called to mind
the possibility that some of these
walls might fall. With the last ex-
plosives from the Presidio, the artil-
lerymen went to work to reduce these
walls. Most of them were down be-
fore nightfall, and the street will be safe
to -morrow. The artilleryment were
careful to work so that the pavement
would not be piled up with rubbish
again. for the new elareet street electric
road needs it for their lines, and intel-
ligent work kept most of the rubbish
from the streets.
One hears but little of the epidemic
scare. The sun is out after the rain,
the sewers are running still, and most
of the debris of a week was cleared
away yesterday. Of the out-of-doors
population most are now living in
camps made sanitary by the method
of the Goverment engineers, and male
so by the policing of the regulars. The
city in future will be wholly- in the
hands of the regulars and the police.
Pistol Permits Revoked.
An order issued to -day forbids any -
one except t the soldiers, to bear aims,
and praetically revokes all pistol per-
mits, Disorder is now taking the
form of attempts on safes among the
Gaoling ruins. Last night soldiers
caught three in in the act of rifling a
safe in the ruins of California street.
Tho robbers'si n away, the soldiers fired,
killing two of them. One had his hat
filled with gold pieces. Four other men
are at Fort Mason, under arrest for an
attempt on tie safe of the McCloud
River Lumbus Company. With the re-
storation of Order and the arrival of
fresh troops elle cavalrymen and artil-
lerymen who,Once from the Presidio on
the first day e i'tave been able to get a
little rest. There is no rest for the
officers, who ai•e worn out. The police,
too, who have. worked as faithfully
and heroically;;as the regulars, are dead
on their feet. .
Death List Provably r,000.
Burial of the dead goes on, but the
number of bodies recovered and buried
and the number in the ruins is still a
matter of guess, work. General Greely
has published :a list which states that
277 bodies have been buried. Coroner
Walsh reports that his department has
cared for 350 bodies. These are prob-
ably independent figures, added to-
gether. With a little further addition
for bodies privately buried or cremated
without notification of the Health
Board the list reaches nearly to 700.
There must be a great many more in the
ruins. They are using now a tempor-
ary cemetery at the foot of Van Ness
avenue for temporary interments, and
Oddfellows' Crematory, which can dis-
pose of 40 bodies a day, has offered its
services free. The real extent of the
loss of life uiay never be known, so dis-
organized was the work in this respect
during the first few days of the confu-
sion. The coroners office announces
that a compilation of figures by degrees
shows that the number of the dead
will reach 1,000, and perhaps more.
The troops are beginning to relax the
rule in regard to coming into the city,
and the business Wren are demanding
that they remove the restriction on peo-
ple having legitimate business. Unless
this is done .they say. there can be no
start at getting the city into working
order again. With the relief camps thin-
ning out, the fire extinguished and the
danger of pestilence remote, this looks
like common sense. When it is done,
there will be a. lot of family reunions.
Many refugees in Oakland know from
friends that their families are in some
of the concentration camps, but cannot
reach them, many more are still lost to
their relatives. In the last two days
people have taken to posting placards
with their names and temporary address-
es up and flown Market street.. This,
posted in the ferry building, is a sam-
ple:
('Herman q.,9_94„, of 1573. Geary
street, is in fgolden Gate'Park near the
Garfield monument. -He wants especi-
ally to hear from his brother William"
These have been, appearing all day in
Fen Francisco and Oakland. In Gol-
den Cate Park they have nailed a regu-
lar direetoy to the band stand.
The Chinese Question.
Speaking of automobiles, the troops
have formally taken possession of every
machine in town. The garages stood
pretty far out, and the machines owned
by the companies, did invaluable ser-
vice in transporting the sick and the
wounded on the first day. They have
all passed oven now into the temporary
possession of the soldiers.
A good many private autos got away
the first day or two, carrying families
into the country. The owners have
generally brought their machines back
and turned them over, and some private
owners at Burlington and San Rafael
have contributed their machines, Sev-
eral automobiles hidden by their own-
ers were found in the stables of the
'Western addition to -day. These were
taken over at once. The supply of
chauffeurs was rather short until to -day
when a number of rich young Wien, see-
ing the 'need, volunteered to act as pub-
lic drivers in the period of need. They
are using automobiles for every purpose
from carrying Government messages to
transporting supplies. Just now extra
horses would be of but little use, be-
cause the supply of feed. is short again.
Even the cavalry officers at the Presidio
are wondering if they will he able to
feed their horses. To -day drivers of ex-
press wagons used in the public service
were allowed to pasture their horses
on the lawns of the Golden Gate Park.
Sunk Into the Earth,
The most tumbled and tangled dis-
trict in the city is not the southern
fringe of Market street, the area
where the devatation was widest and
the loss of life greatest, bet on a little
strip between Harrison. and Valencia
17th and lOth streets. It was in this
area that the Valencia hotel sank into
the earth. The car tracks at one point
run in a wavy line from one side of the
kerb to the other. The asphalt is bro-
ken as though great bubbles had forced
their way through it. At the corner
of 18th and Valencia there is a hole
ten feet wide. The asphalt is turned
up from the centre of this hole like the
petals of a flower, and from it comes
a stream of clear water, No one can
tell whether this stream comes from a
broken main or from a brook, which used
to run down 18th street.
The Valencia Hotel sank ten feet
into the earth and pitched forward in-
to the street. When the debris of the
hotel was cleared away, it was found
that the asphalt pavement before it had
bulged upwards to make a mound four
feet high. The hole into which the foun-
dations sank is filled with water.
Loss, $300,000,000.
The underwriters, who are in session
every day in 0alcland, have tabulated
the amount of insurance carried in
San Francisco, and estimated that be-
tween $175,000,000 and $185,000,000 is lo-
cated: within the burned area. They
are discussing the adjustment of lessee,
but they sore giving out nothing, The
total 'lose they place at about 4)0,01H1,-
000: The United States Mint has dis-
tributed $S,000,000 to banks in San Fran-
cisco and Oakland, so that they will
have ready cath 'on hand when they
open. Governor Pardee will extend the
period of legal holidays until it is safe
to open the bank vaults. The bankers
sa;y that this may be about two weeks.
The railroads, trine insuranee c'ompaeu.es,
and ' some of the banks are finding
quarters in Oakland . 0f course, offices
are in great demand. One insurance
company is quartered now in the span*
floor spt.ee of a barber shop. Int fact,
Oekleed, together with Fillmore .e reet,
will be the business distriet of San leron-
ciere for some time to come.
There is enough water in the mains
no11v to justify the removal of the re-
strict:ions on meshing, Up to this tame
the only way to get a bath was to dip
into the bay. Lights, only candles, of
course,will be allowed now up to 10 p.
in. Theme may be free traffic between
Oakland and an Francisco within a day'
or two.
Disposing of Debris.
The Southern Pacific Railway Com-
pany put before. the Citizens' Commit-
tee this morning a proposition to build
a railroad line clear to the city from
their temminal freight station nt Third
and Townsend streets, to haul away
trite debris, whdelt must be removed be-
fore building can commence. ;;oneething
of this kind must be done, and the
eommuttee favored the plan. 13ut this
is one of a. thousand things which the
Board of Supervisors will 'have to pass
upon at once, since the .franchise is
necessary before the railroad conripeny
can begin building. Ganga of riggers
have examined the tall bleedings alt
day to test the conditions of their
frames and to see what must be done
to put 'then in shape. The standing
churches were all examined to -day,
Such of them as sire safe will be uesd
for public dormitories.
The provision of clothing for the
women is a pressing, 'problem. A great
many ran out in thed'r night clothes
when the earthquelee came, and did not
clamo return before .the fire caught
their houses. Women in nightdresses
and men's coots are common in the
park districts. Some of them have
gorse barefooted for five days'.
The soldiers acre shooting all stray
dogs to -day. The town dog of estan
Francisco is a greyhound, the over-
flow progeny of the coursing pack. No
provision was made in Government re-
lief measures for feeding the homeless
dogs :which have overrun the city. 1t
was found that some of ahem had been
feeding on 'the corpses in the ruins.
Among the missing is Count de la
Pacca, the FrenchConsul. The at-
taches of the Consulate leave .been
searching for hdm ever sdnee the earth-
quake. The children of Vice—President
Rasion Carrel, of efexioo, were in the
earthquake. Mexicans itt the city hact
his two daughters taken to a convent
in San Jose by automobile on the first
day, and the son was taken over to
Haye aids. To -deny Senor Montcverde,
of Los Angeles, took them in charge
and started for the City -of Mexieo.
01 the city and State records tat San
Francisco the only really valuable
documents lost were the papers of the
County Clerk's office and the reeards of'
the - Supreme Court. Tee register of
deeds escapee If this had been. lost
the confusion in titles would hake iieen
enormous. Policemen at the City hall
saved, the eecomds of the police de-
partment. The. Customs House came
through unscathed.
The Insurance Company of North
Am -caries subscribed $5.000 to the relief
fund, and wired: "Our San Francisco
losses will be paid as' ilrompey as
they can be adjusted. If the entire
city is destroyed our surplus tnd con-
tingent fund will not be exhausted."
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