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Smallpox Has Broken Out Among the People in
San Francisco.
About Three Hundred Lives Lost—Burying the
Dead and Cleaning Up.
Money and. Food for the Necdzy--Moat of the
Bank Vaults Untouched.
Oakland, April 22.---A scourge of
smallpox threatens to afflict the strick-
en inhabitant3 of San Francisco, ren-
dered homeless and starving by the
combined disaster of earthquakes and
fire.
Though the health officials and the
milita>;y.Jiave.smnde every effort to pre-
vent the spread of the news and the
consequent panic, the grins fact re-
mains that there are at present nine
cases of smallpox being treated at the
Presidio reservation .pest -house, and
they were found in the very midst of
the huddled refugees in Golden Gate
Park and the temporary tenting
grounds of Jefferson Square, 1n the
half light of dawn yesterday morning a
covered wagon backed up to a group of
tents in the congested camp at Jeffer-
son Square, and three covered bodies
were stealthily slipped into the wagon -
box. Mut there were sleepless eyes that
e,'rught the significance of the furtive
manoeuvre, and on wings of rumor
there spread all through the camps of
the refugees and down the long, broad
liners streaming away from the bake -
chops the whispered words, "Smallpox
has cone."
Tho sanitary conditions are such that
unless the greatest precautions are
enforced an epidemic must inevitably
follow the fearful ravages of quake and
flame. In the temporary camps for tire
refugees ar11 sorts and conditions of
folks are ,jammed together in the nar-
rowest limits, with not the thickness of
a tent wall separating them from their
fellows in many instances."
Danger From Decaying Dead.
Worst of all the menaces that now
hang over the health of the hopeless
thousands is the miasma from putrefy-
ing bodies that is beginning to be no-
ticeable throughout many portion.•1 of
the ruins.
Along what wta~;r once :ldission and
Howard streets, where the collapse of
cheap lodging -houses following the jar
of the earthquakeW ednesdaty morn-
ing buried unnumbered sleepers in the
ruins ,and in the Iced Light district of
Turk and Eddy streets, where drunken
revelers returned to sleep, nothing can
be crone toward any systematic clear-
ing away of the ruins and interment of
the dead until a force of laborers from
the interior of the State can be brought
to the city.
Under the direction of the military
gangs of Chinese and Japanese re-
fugees have been impressed into the
nauseous task of removing bodies
from the edges of tine ruins and slip-
ping them into shallow graves. The
press of time does not permit of any
elaborate burial arrangements being
made. Merely a three or four -foot
trench is dug and into this are tum-
bled the decaying bodies as fast as
they can be recovered. Yesterday the
following interments were macre in the
public squares: Portsmouth 21, La-
fayette 37, Jefferson 42, Fort Mason 60,
Union 31. Yet there are many hum
drede of festering bodies that still lie
half -cooked under tons of brick and
mortar, which cannot be reached for
days to come.
Pitiful Lengths of Bread Lines.
The bread lines stretch to pitiful
lengths from every bread shop door in
the relief districts of the city. For
blocks the serrated ranks of old men,
mothers, and half-dressed children move
step by step to the door of the bakery
through the cold fog of morning to ob-
tain the day's rations of one five -cent
loaf of the preeious stuff. Milk is a.
drink for the gods. ,heat is a luxury
that few can indulge. Dry breakfast
food moistened with a cupful of water
is all the provender that passes the lips
of many a hungry, homeless one.
Throughout all the ruined district
imminent danger yawns from every
topling wall and settling cornice that
still hangs over the streets. Yet the
restless pedestrians who wander un-
afraid through the midst of the rains
seem to be fear -proof. An uninterrupt-
ed stream of wagons and people on foot
passes un and down Market street, past
walls that would be condemned as un-
safe du the police department have no-
thing
othing else to do. A large section of the
interior of the Phelan building near the
Fourth street end, fell with a crash at
about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Passing all the time were several com-
panies of soldiers bound toward the
ferry, and there were also two streams
of wagons and passengers bound in each
direction, These were temporarily ob-
scured by the great cloud of dust that
arose, but when the atmosphere cleared
all were found unhurt.
Martial Law in Force.
Martial law, rough and impolite,
stepped in yesterday to bring a little
order out of the bewildering chaos. Ou
Market street, from 'Third to Ninth,
where the obstruction of the highway
was most severe, determined deputy
marshals stood at various points with
pistols in hand and every group of elk -
bodied men pedestrians that come or
went were forced at the point of the
gun to pause and put in ten minutes'
*work at pitching bricks out of the
roadway.
The pistol point was inexorable,
Presidents of banks sweated tourer
their impressive silk tiles side by side
with teamsters from the mission for the
enforced ten minutes and then moved
back to look gleefully baek nt the relay
fang that was foreed to take their
plaees.
"Once we loitered until the soldieee
tarot up," said (me man. "A rough fellow
who had been standing by my side tried
to (fart through the line. Ile looked
like at beteb•eonbcr,
"A young lieutenant caught him by
the coat. 'Here(' lie called to hie men,
',Sonat thio man!'
"I hurtled on, without looking back. t
• don't remember that I heard a shut
fired. But at the time it scented e:o
trivial a matter that 1 did not pay orad.
attention."
The reign of order seems to be re-
stored. In the first, place there is no
more whiskey. At last the supply is
either drunk up, destroyed in the fire,
or spilled. .After the small riot of Fri-
day, when some of the soldiers got
drunk, General Funston got after the
liquor problem, and his men broke kegs
and bottles like Carrie Nation, Then,
with the end of visible peril, the people
are getting sane. The only really excit-
ing event of which we have heard to-
day was the outbreak of a drunken Jap-
anese, drunk or crazy, who let out a
yell, jumped behind an automobile
standing on Market street, and began to
shoot at the crowd. A squad of soldiers
returned the fire and killed him before
he hit anyone.
All kinds of reports and estimates
come in concerning the loss of life. We
have been saying all along that there
rousts 0)e penny dead bodies in Die
ruins of the Potrero district, south of
that fringe of Mission street, where
most of the (lend have been found so
far, '.Lite region was searched to -day.
An unconfirmed report has it that the
troops found and buried 200 bodies.
The police found this afternoon the
ab
dl
girt.
i go of r. Charles Tag -
Provisions From the East.
The advance of the Eastern provision
trains i, in, Fifty cars arrived yester-
day from Nebraska. All trains, even
the analis, had been sidetracked, to let
if. pass. Best of all, it brought 60 ears
of neat on the hoof. We are neat
hungry.
The license clerk nt the City Hall
rescued the marriage license blanks on
Friday and Saturday, and to -clay there
were a lot of weddings. Most of the
couples explained to ]lint that they
were betrothed before the earthquake,
and thought that in the emergency they
would get along better married than
single.
Then $400,000 was emphatically re-
fused for a piece of property on Mar-
ket street worth but little more than
that before the earthquake.
There is one horror of the situation
in the Park and Presidio which did not
come to public attention until to -day.
The suffering of pregnant women is
terrible. One doctor told me to -day
that he had attended or observed 74
cases of still births in two days. The
military Have the city under control
again, and everything is quiet but
sullen. The officers say that they fear
next week.
Thousands of Nurses.
It seems probable that many San
Francisco business' houses will take up
quarters in Oakland and Alameda un-
til San Francisco is rebuilt. Every
door is open in Oakland, the people are
all working for the refugees. Follow-
ing the lend of the Elks, the Mascots
'
We nm have a
are stnrtm,n
a relief camp. ll e
lot of sick on our hands in Oakland,
Alameda and Berkeley. It is a natter
not of an epidemic, but of exposure,
freight, excitement, hunger and ex-
haustion upon delicate people. So
every doctor is at work. The trained
nurses are now all head nurses, under
them are working thousands of Oak-
land women. Almost all the female
students of the University of California
are nurses in this crisis. There was a
movement at first among small dealers
to gouge the people on food prices.
After two of these places had conte
near to being wrecked, they thought
better of it. The big dealers agreed to
hold prices normal and bread is now
five cents a loaf everywhere, eggs 25
emits a dozen, with other prices on the
level of last Tuesday's market.
Famine Danger Passed.
The danger of famine is passed. We
had lost faith in everything when we
thought that the people of the coun-
try, and especially of the bread produc-
tive regions at our doors, would let its
starve, Not only have loaf a dozen
provision trains arrived, but the farm-
ers of all Alameda County and of
northern Same (lana county have
loaded all the provisions they have
into their wagons and brought them in
to offer without money and without
price to the committee of Safety.
The engineering department of the
United States army having in charge
the construction of temporary build-
ings in Golden Gate Park for the hous-
ing of the homeless, reported to -clay
that eight buildings 150 feet long, 18
feet wide and 13 feet high, will be fin-
ished to -morrow. '!.'hese buildings will
be cut into compartments large enough
to furnish sleeping room for a family
and each compartment will have an
entrance from tate outside.
Funston Tackles Situation,
Something perhaps worse than fang
ins threatens ;cast Francisco. The
sewers are gone. 11 is a city without
sanitation. t'onditlone are ripe for any
kind of pestilence. '.There is just enough
water for drinking end ('trolling, not
enengh for c'ieatililteee. to settle ibis
problem, Gen, Mundell, the little
roars *vith horse sense to whops the
city owes so 1(111011, has hent all his
energy. Now that the pity is more
quiet and fresh troops have (arrived
from the south, n good part of the
soldiers have been sent off to arrange
sanitary comps in the Potrero and on
the 01-0011 41011e of the city, Evens Golden
(,ate Park, largo and open ni it i4. rias
become foul through the °ecupation of
AST.
morn than 100,00(} people for f WO night'+, i
it wt,nl+l spent that the reports til
death boor the 1.1 rtlutuake tae pug -
gent tea,
ug-gentte.l, however, about a hundred
were shot by the soldier's for (oohs'
and riotinll', and two men were lyl'h-
ed far rot:bine sturee. Thr po!!te unit
tite 1(1)1(14 (1 re l'nnf14('it Ung wk t4k('y
wherever the find it. Friday whiskey
eaut.0,1 some of tate s:)ldiers to go on
the warpa th, but his is alt stopped
non-, and the heaviest offenders are
Inure(' military Arrest,
Sonie Structures Stood It Well,
Pr:weediit.,' up Market street tnn':u 1
the ruin of the 'City 11alt, 1 found the
Grand Mote! razed to the ground. The
walls of the Palace Hotelare standing,
but the building; ie a loss. The Exam-
iner building 14 gone. The steel frame
of the Call building., the highest in the
city, saved it, and the fire in its in-
terior seems to have stopped short of
its toll, Tln'y may b:' able to save
the walls. The ground floor, where
the National honk of the Pacific was
horsed, is a complete wreck, The Par-
rott building, containing the Empori-
um., the largest department stare in the
ttest•, is gone. '17te 'tow Jame Floo.l
hui(lding,, at Powell and Market :street•;,
on the site of the Baldwin 1I.ot•el,
burned eight years ago, stood it better
than any other big :'hruet•nre on Mar-
ket street, There is little damage to
Ibe office of that Western- National
Bank, on the ground floor, and its
taatlte are not •even warm. The vault4
were opened Friday after the fire had
p055011 that part of the city. Every-
thing was all richt, and the tithe. !nett
was set for Monday. The vaults of the
Mercantile Trust Uampany are report.
rd ,sato, The American National ]lank
is enine:l, but the vaults escaped. The
sante seems true of the California Safe
Deposit Trust Company. The Feeble
Mutual Life building and tite 1talian-
Ameri('an Bank building are total
loons.,.but the directors of the Hailing
American flank say they are not afraid
of the condition of the vaults. About
the same thing may be said of the Ger-
mania .Savings Bank, and, the San
Francisco Savings Union, next door, on
Kearney street.
Enterprising Papers.
Oakland, Cal,. April 22.—The San
Francisco daily needspapers, a•11 of
which were burned out, are gradually
getting into shape. On Thursday the
best showing the morning journals
could make MIS a email combination
sheet bearing the heading, •('a,ll,
Chronicle, Examiner,
It wa.s set ep and printed in the
office of the Oakland Tribune, gave n
brief account of the great disaster, and
took an optimistic view of the future
of the stricken eity.
Friday and Saturday the .papers,
though still printed in Oa.khtnd, have
appeared notion their own headings and
with n few illustrations ,simtvin!g
seems in the streets, of San Francisco.
BOOM IN WEDDINGS.
Seven Marriage Licenses Issued in an
Hour.
San Francisco, April 22.—Weddings in
great numbers have resulted from the re-
cent disaster. Women driven out of
their homes and left destitute have ap-
pealed to men to whom they were en-
gaged, and immediate marriages Have
been effected.
Since the first day of the disaster an
increase in the marriage licenses issued
was noticed by County Clerk Cook. This
• increase is becoming greater. Yester-
day morning seven marriage licenses
were isue(i in an hour. Cook himself
has been on duty smelt of the time, as
has his deputy, Paul ll'uthem, although
no other b11511105s has been transacted,
"I don't live anywhere," is the t11ts-
w01' given in many eases when the alai.
cent for a license is asked to etato
where his residence is. "1 used to live
in Sart I+'rancisco."
DEAD IN AGNEW ASYLUM.
Removing Bodies of ILnmates From
Building.
Agnew, Cal., April 22,—The work of
taking out the bodies of patients who
were killed in the wreck of the insane
asylum buildings here still is going on.
It 14 estimated 1110t nt least 100 are
dead. .
The cupola over the administration
department went down and all the wards
in that part of the building collapsed.
Twelve attendants were killed, and Ur.
Elly-, second assistant physician, was in-
r.tnetly (duelled. to death. 'There stere
1,000 patients in the hospital.
One hundred patients weer transfer-
red to the Stockton asyltun yesterday. 11
is believed 40 fir 50 patients have escap-
ed,
SANTA ROSA'S DISASTER.
The Death List There Numbers
Sixty,
Sacramento, ('al„ April 22.—Botta
Rosa, in proportion to its size, has snf-
fl'red wor:ie than San 1''ranoisco, '1.'lle
lig of dead numbers about sixty, but
natty perosn5 are missing, and tt 4011
greater number seriously wounded,
Forty sailors from Mato Island, folly
equipped with apparatus, are working,
while volunteer Mud has been unstinted.
Santa Rosa has suffered the greatest
disaster in her history, but the indntnit•
able spirit of her people has been shown
all along the line,
On Friday an announcement was made
that the public schools and the college
would open 04 usual on Mnudey. The
intil(lings have been inspected and fotutd
to be safe.
DEATH LIST UNDER goo,
Many Building Still Stand, Can Be
Fitted Up Temporarily,
Washington, April t:3. --The l't'esident
hag reeeiwed the following telegram
from. Governor Pardee, of ('altforni:
Oakiand, ('al., April 21.
"The ('resident, n'Cshiugton: '((rain(,
for Alpe. ('0lulitione nnt(•l itches•.
Fire out, Weather cool, People cheer -
fill and being taken (etre of, Whole
('i iintl•yy ii eiideavtning to extend our
people aid and sympathy. We npprei,
the very mucro your help:'
Frank A. Trach, anperiutelulent of no,
1'uited htates mint at San Fr1uu•i.c.1,
has informed the Secretary of the'l'it'.ts
ury under yesterday's date that from
reports to stint by 11104 who lave 1)0"04
in all parts of the city he esti mate+ (list
the loss of life will not exceed 301) Den -
ger from fn•t' has passed, lie :ways, listless
the flames should break out anew. Re.
GREAT BUILDINGS DESTROVED.
One of the sights of San Francisco was the Spreckels building, more
commonly known as The San Francisco Call building, because that paper
had its offices there. It was seventeen stories high and of magnificent
architecture, The portion of Market street adjacent to The Call office is
the busiest place on the Pacific slope. The buildings here shown have
all been either wrecked by the earthquake or destroyed by fire. The Call
building is in rho foreground and withstood the earthquake, but fell a
prey to the flames.
lief supplies are costing in rapidly, there
is no suffering on account of lack of wa-
ter, and everylntl• ie being welt taken
care of.
BOOM FOR STEEL.
The New San Francisco Will Be Built of
That Material.
Now 1 nils, April 21. • The Journal 1•1
C'otnmeree say=:
"'That no ti,tt' will i'; lost in the work
of rebuilding of Sea 1•'r,u1ciee ) is evideet
from the fort that the ('nglneeriess an 1
('nn11,201ing firsts 01'0 (errvliug th(•ir ln,':t
expert melt to investigate the ruin, we
a viers' of dise+,ve1i(1 tw!iielt fared ut eo:t-
strnotioi beet writ.ha0 1 1!,' ..emelt.
"1'he relent o)• the,,+ expert +, it 14 br-
1k'ved, will have a great deal to do wit•it
the ceat4lruet iess ! ei:sees in the future,
"Just at. the time of the earthquake
considerable building was in progress,
and from preliminary reports it ie ex-
pected that prompt action will be, taken
for a renewal of (•ontra,ts. It i, only
within the last ycnr that there has boon
Hutch activity in stool con»tinction on
the Pacific coast. Early idle year. build-
ing enterprises were projected along the
coast, calling for upward. of 100.000 tons
of structural steel, about h:af of which
MIS in San Franci co and its neighbor-
hood. Within the last few weeks San
Francisco contracts have been made call-
ing for about 15,000 tons of steel. Most
of the buildings were relatively 51114211.
1'San Francisco will require about 250,-
000 tons of structural steel to repair her
losses and erect new buildings according
to E. Ii. Gary, head of the U. S. Steel
Corporation, and other authorities; inter-
viewed yesterday.
San Franciseo, April 23. --The fire,
which seemed to have died out, yester-
day broke out with renewed vigor in the
coal bunkers, north of the ferry build-
ing, shortly after midnight. The fire
reached these bunkers on Saturday, but
was apparently checked, after a hard
fight, although the blaze stubbornly re-
sisted all efforts of the fire to extin-
,. tuis
„•h it,
Unless the flanu's can be snl,due;l
, there is grave danger that they will cat
their way al'r,tss 10 the dock- nort12 of
the ferry building told reach this great
stI tieture,
' Early this morning the fire was burn-
ing fiercely.
Architects Wanted.
New York, April 23.—Mayor McClel-
lan to -clay received this telegram from
.Mayor Schmitz, of San Francisco,
' "How many, architects and arehitec-
hued draughtsmen ran you furnish us?
Ilow quickly can they leave for San
Francisco?
M1yor .11eClellau suggests that all at•-
ohitec•t,, and ttelifeetnral draughtsmen
who are in a position to do anything
for San Fr:utcieco, send their moues at
(;nee to the permanent secretary of the
('sty lZell ef ('mu ttee. Arrangements
were mule by the officers of the Red
Cross to (1''n stores here to receive snp-
},lh's for the San Francisco sufferers.
Covers Seven Square Miles,
San nowise), .1prr1 22.—Tbe area of
the Poised (1 4111e't is seven spare miles.
TAKING STOCK.
Steel Buildings Stood the Shock—Only
Woodwork Burned.
San Franc'isc'o, April 2.3. --Property
owners had an opportunity yesterday to
inspect some of their holdings, and in n
melenic aeeertain what damage had
been done, 'l'lte new modern steel build-
inge were found to be almost intaet. Tv
every instnee it seems that the e:u•th-
quaice had net damaged them. The steel
frames were in perfect plumb and ap-
parently its ';hone. es ever, ('orniees and
fancy trimmings fell, but that MIA aril.
Even when the fire swept through then:
only the wend work 2,114 d(tn11'tc1,
The Fairmont IHott'1 on Nub Mill will
be ru.41:ed to completion, The Sp:'eekels
building, at Maiket end Third streets.
will be oe('npicd in a feta days; the
Union Trust building at Montgomery
ams Market streets, has lost only the
interior wood work, and the St. Francis
Motel is in the tame eatedory. An in-
spection of the Call building. at '11111(1
and Market streets discin;ed the fact
that several of the floors of the building
were in good c•nuditie,n, (211(1 could, after
slight repair•:., be n:4ed as fea'n(triy.
The nett`:!otradnoek building on Mar-
CAANAADIANS IN HIS.
The (Mutual Life building, on California and Sansome streets,vas de•
stroyed by fire. It is cif special interest to Canadians, because the Cann,-
dim Bank of Commerce had its Californian headquarters there. Nothing
has been received as to the staff, but it is not supposed that any of then
Weft among tho victims of the disaster,
R
-ODES IN TRENClitS,•
PUTTING F1FTUUN IN A DJTCU.
People Urged to. Leav
After the Pe
e San Francisco—Looking
ople in the Parks.
New York, April 21. ---Tho Weste
1't(ion received the following from
officers in the ferry bulding at the f
of 'Market street, in San Francis
early to -day: "The fire is still burni
around the wharves. The superintenden
of the ferry seri(. a few minutes ago tit
the building was safe and would not to
fire. It is still difficult to estimate t
number of dead as bodies are seattei
all over the city, They are burying the
in trenches and putting Mien bodies
a ditch."
A later despatch read: "'Lite ferry
boats are running oil. schedule time.
There is 1111 iunnense crowd around the
depot here and ('onunittees from all
towns across the bay are urging people
to leave Frisco and go with them to
their homes, But the authorities will not
let them take any baggage with them.
it loons like an immense second hand
store here. The people have dragged, ev-
ot'ywtllting down here from pianos to bird
Nips and their goods aro all piled up
around the depot for a long distance. The
fire is still burning fiercely up north,
est the wind has gone down making it
lee dangerous."
At the Y. M. C. A. building on Page
street, near St. Anus, and at the Park
lodge, goods and thousands were fed
from morning till night, all kinds of pro-
visions and clothing, meat, vegetables,
bread, canned gods, tea and .eoffee and
the like were handed out in abundance,
not a soul being turned away empty-
handed, Dr. Vorsanger appeals to all
citizens, who own teams or horses, to
ome to the front with them at once, as
the committee has experienced nmttch dif-
ficulty in moving the supplies. This
morning 150 Stanford students will tra-
verse the various districts of the city
and hand out supplies from door to door,
and at the sante time additional stations
will be established. Twenty carloads of
rn - food of various kinds, will be here this
its morning,
cot rn tteec(o! ltefu oCforirma the
co, slim teiuporary structures velli be er-
ng ected in Golden Gate Park for the pro-
f teetion of the homeless at once,
at Major McIver, of the United States
lie army, is now laying out •a sanitary Bump
at this point. F1'or'k on this twill he rush,
Bump, (,d as rapidly as lumber can be secured,
ed The camp will be under the supervicion
111 of an officer of the engineer corps of the
in IT, 8• A., and the chief of the army me -
teal staff will be in charge of it .as wri-
ters- officer. The conditions among the
homeless in tate park, it was reported
by Chairman Cerf, were excellent, hut
it was feared there would be consider,
able suffering in the Mission district,
where the committee had not been able
to reach all the people. A sulecom.
mittee has been appointed to inspect all
vacant buildings and all deserted houses
that after examination should prove to
be sa-
Ilerkfeeley, said Mr. Cerf, has accommo-
dated 2,000 homeless people and had sent
wore( to the authorities that it desired
to take care of 4,000 more. Alameda
has room for 3000 and Fresno telegraphed
that it wished to provide for 3,000, and
asked that that number be sent, for
which the Southern Pacific would fur-
nish transportation,
T. II, Baird, manager of'the Standard
0i1 Company, says that the City of Rich-
mond could take over 500 and that he
would telegraph thele to -day.
It was stated upon authority last
night that the Merchants Exchange,
Fairmont hotel and the Modandock build-
ing would be open for public offices on
Monday morning. All these buildings
have carefully examined by expert ar-
chitects Milo have pronounced their
frame work and foundation to be abso-
lutely safe. All three buildings have
ben burned to a certain extent but the
fire in no way caused them to be a men-
ace to life and safety,
ket street, Ilex( to the Palace lIotel, was
found to he in first class condition; even
the wood tt'orlc in the interior of the
building was 11111101, and the owner, Her-
bert L. Law, announced that 1vi1hin ten
days he would be renting offices in this
building. The Monadnock is a large
structure of steel and brick, and was
almost completed when the fire cane,
Bodies Recovered.
Oakland, Cal., April 23.—That the
bodies of 80 patients and 11 attendants
have been recovered 211)111 the ruins of
the Agnews Asylum for the Insane, near
Santa Raso, is the teles apltie informa-
tion conveyed to Governor 1'tlydee last
night by I)i•, Hatch, superintendent of
State hospitals.
• Operators far 'Frisco.
Oakland, Cal., April 23.—Three car-
loads of dynamos, telegraph instru-
ments, etc., and a dozen Wheatstone op-
erators arrived here last night from Chi-
cago, consigned to the Western Union.
A plant wi11 be immediately established
at (fest Oakland, and by to -morrow
night it is believed that the congestion
of messages will be greatly relieved.
The Western Union cables to San
Francisco were tested last night and
found to be in perfect condition.
The Postal Telegraph Co. is rapidly
installing its dynamo plants and instru-
ments in this city. The officials state
that the headquarters of the company
will be at Oakland for a firtnight at
least, possibly longer.
The Commercial Cable Co. reports
that its underground lines in San. Fran-
cisco suffered no damage from the earth-
quake shock.•
'
OREGON SHOCKED.
Earthquakes Felt at Both Grant's Pass
and Portland. •
Grant's Pass, Ore., April 23, — An
earthquake shock was felt here a few
minutes past 1 o'clock this morning.
No serious damage was done, although
the houses were shaken and windows
broken. The shock lasted for fifteen or
twenty seconds.
Buildings Rocked,
Portland, Ore., April 23.—A special to
the Oregonian from 'Glendale, Oregon,
4itys that an earthquake shock was felt
there at 1.11 a'cicck this morning. The
shock was sufficiently severe to rock
buildings and rattle china in the closets.
Reached Japan in Eleven Minutes, -
London, April 23, -According to a de-
spatch from Tokio to the Times' Seis-
mographs in the Imperial University
show that the San Francisco earthquake
reached Japan in eleven minutes. The
Red Cross Society of Japan is sending
a hospital ship to San Francisco.
Help From Australia.
Melbourne, April 23, --Fluids have been
started et the various Australian capi-
tals in aid of the sufferers by the San
Francisco earthquake. Premier Seddon,
on behalf of New Zealand, has offered
:1L•iy4 Schmidt, of San Francisco,
(ablee yesterday to the 'Mayor of Syd-
ney- that there is urgent need 'of contri-
butions for the relief of the distressed
inhabitants,
Caring for the People.
Oakland, Cale April 23.—That the
chances of an epidemic breaking out
among the refugees may be lessened.
Governor Pardee last night issued all or-
der that all large camps bd broken up
into as small communities as possible.
The Governor has received a message
from Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock,
offering to care for 300 of the California
insane patients at the St. Elizabeth Hos-
pital, at Washington, D. C.
Gen. Funston has notified Governor
Pardee that the prisoners who were tak-
en from San Francisco to Alcatraz Is-
land, it Government fortress in San Fran-
cisco Bay, at the outbreak of the fire,
must be immediately removed from the
Island on account of the lack of water
and crowded conditions..
Where to Send Supplies.
Washington, April 23.—The War De•
pertinent to -day received a telegram
from Genesial Funston requesting that
all supplies be addressed to the depot
quartermaster, San Francisco.
Help From Berlin.
Berlin, April 23. —A large meeting of
Americans took place at the Embassy
here to -day. Charge d'Affaires Dodge, in
the absence of Ambassador Tower, pre-
sided, Appropriate resolutions expressing
sympathy with the sufferers from the
San Francisco disaster were adopted and
a committee was designated to take sub-
scriptions from Americans,
A Brantford Girl,
Chicago, April 23.—Among the pas-
sengers leaving Port Riehmond, Cal., on
the Santa Fe road, last night was Emma
Bates, of Brantford, Ont,
Fire Now Out,
Washington, April 23.—A telegram re-
ceived at the Treasury Department this
morning from Lieut. Fudge, commanding
the revenue cutter Golden Gate, says
that "all fires in the city are now out."
NATIVE OF CANADA.
THE DEATH OF JUDGE MARTIN
M'MAHON.
Before Election to Bench in 1895 Was
Member of Assembly, State Senator
and United States Minister to
Paraguay.
New York, April 22.—Judge Martin
McMahon of the court of special ses-
sions died here last night of pneumonia,
aged 68.—The late Judge McMahon was
born in Le, Prairie, Quebec, but graduat-
ed from St, John's College in Fordham.
N.• Y. Ile served through the civil war
and was chief of staff of the Sixth Army
Corps. Ile was promoted to the rank
of Major -Genera} receiving the medal of
honor front Congress for distinguished
bravery at the battle of White Oak
Swamp. Before election to the Bench
in 1895, he was a member of the As-
sembly, tt State Senator, corporation
counsel, United States Minister to Para-
guay and receiver of taxes for New
York,
THE BAVARIAN.
:Montreal, April 23.--'-(Special).--Mr.
,lndre v .Ulan returned to -day from Que-
bec. Ile announced tient Mr, Arndt, who
•2116 been sent by the British Underwrit-
ers to report upon the condition of the
'Wendell, would pay his first visit to
he stranded vessel to -day, The tide con-
litions are now favorable but the water
;s still too cold for prolonged examina•
tine by the divers,
A PARTIAL LIST OF
I)r. J. Copeland, Stinson, Bradford,
Canada; IIerntan Myer; Miss 1 nttner,
fifteen years old; John- Pearson 487
Waller street; J. C. Cooper. book dealer;
King (male), 028 Mission; harry Chose -
borough, Seventh and Minna streets; K.
Kossifield, Ed. Navain, 400 Paeifio
street; Annie (Webster, 14 William
street; John I)ay, 235 (teary street;
(Willison \'are, 211(1 Sherman street; My.
rake (male), 423 Stevenson street; Geo.
Wiliam; fourteen unidentified bodies of
men, ttoni('11 and children, A, Baker, see-
med and Steveueon street; Steve linnnner,
sergeant of police; Frank Burge, native
of England, 05 t''0:104 old1 Pitiable l3rod-
crick, Valencia lIotel; 1'1111, 13usalaeohl,
fish market 1- (Willie Carrie, 1,547A Ellis
street; Mrs. Tena Crowder, 14 (Seventh
street; Mrs, 11cu•t Drumm' father and
s4)114, names nudltimcn,. living at 157
Langdon street; Max Fenner, pollee -
.man. killed at entrauec to eity halt;
!William (luolliman, 110 Eddy street;
tlrt' , Sixteenth and loleonn st•tects:
ITcalip, firs, Ida Geary, M. .d, Hostel,
2,5.7 Satter street; Sakie Thekbo; t4"il-
TFIE KNOWN DEAD.
liner Knowe; W. Kronfeld, 12 years old;
Amanda. T. Leek, 247 Stevenson street;
Peter Lind, (Western Meat Company;
Myrtle Minze, 25835 Langdon street;
Mrs, McCann, Third street; MeKenzie,
115 Haight street; Louis Paladino,
'Montgomery and Merchant streets;
Ger'otimo Stagman, 518 Merchant
street; Adolph and Amelia, Sehwinnet,
husband and wife, Geary and Howard
stects; John Thrapy, fish market,
Montgomery and Sacramento streets;
William Vali, 4 years old, 280 Steven•
son street; Annie Whcelan, 2,782 Sacra-
mento street.
Eighty-eight bodies awaiting burial its
Washington Square caught fire and
were harmed while 0104 mid women
were working to dig shallow tronehes
to inter then.
Foto' bodies lay in Folsom street,
near Sixth.
Twos hundred bodies are reported in
the ruins of the Ilrunswiek hotel,
Sixth and (coward streets, which col -
topsoil.
forty bodies are reported in the
*mins of the lIotel Valencia,