The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-05-08
VILLAGES OF TENTS
Mill DOT JACKsONVILLE'sB BURNED
DISTRICT.
FAIR PROGRESS OF RELIEF.
ACTICALLY ALL THE DESTITUTE
CARED FOR YESTERDAY.

rhe Two Hundred Tents Erected
were Crowded Last Night ms Were
Also Suburban Churches and
scbool Houses-The 1000 Tents
rurnished by the Wav Department
Exnected To-day and Will BE
rrected at Once-ThOusands Have
left the City, but the Work OF
cleaning Up Is Proceeding Rapid
I,TveIve Carloads of Food Ar
rive From New York.
racksonville, May THE almost super
human work of the different committees
has somewhat relieved the situation, and
a. &c now believed that in every instance
+boee without proper food and clothing
uere in measure provided for to-day,
and that tonight there were vastly fewer
,sonle who were compelled to sleep upon
the streets.
Two hundred tents were erected to-day,
and were very crowded tonight, and
ubiIe several churches and schooihouses
in the suburbs were also crowded with
cleaners. this will be relieved tomorrow
bv the arrival of 1000 tents from the gen.
ArsI government at Washington, which
Chairman Bours of the housing committee
will have erected at once. The military
companies have been of great assistance
n Mr.. Bours with their experience in
rapid,y erecting tents. and before to-mor-
row night there will be several tented viii
lages in the city with cots and blankets,
and water supply in almost every viii
lase for the sufferers.
Extra Commissary Stations.
Tomorrow there will also be provided
several extra commissary stations in "a
rols parts of the city to relieve the sit
nation at the two already established
and no doubt there will be one in each
village of tents. There has been no out
break of sickness in the city and the sew
ersl cases of nervous prostration which
have been reported are now well on the
way to recovery.
Thousands of people have left the city
and those remaining will be able to re-
ceive some kind of labor at the bureaus
which have been established.
The cleaning up of the streets has been
going on rapidly, telephone connections
with the nndaEnaged part of the city mas
been resumed in almost every district,
and the wires which encumoered the
streets are being cleared away.
The street car service has been run
ming in the western part of the city as
far east as Julia street, but there is no
service in the north or east.
The Relief on "a Proper Basis.
All the relief committees are now located
near the center of the city in large tents
and the Relief Association has at last
reached basis of work that is both rapid
and suitable for the emergency.
Clouds of smoke still envelope the city
from the smoldering embers of the con-
fagration, but many of the buildings have
been sufficiently cooled off to allow the
safes TO be opened and the books and pa
pers of great many concerns have peen
found only slightly scorched. In other
cases so intense was the heat that iron
safes failed to protect money or papers
the city and county government officers
are all at work again in temporary Of
nees and a great many of the county
papers have been saved.
Twelve carloads of provisions arrived
tonight from New York and are now at
the depot where they will be unloeded and
stored ready, for delivery in the morning
No more dead bodies have been found,
though a systematic search has not yet
begun
1t was announced to-day that the Wind
sor Hotel the Gardner building, the
Baldwin building and the opera house
Will be rebuilt at once.
Negroes May Give Trouble.
An order was formally promulgated
this Afternoon that the idle negroes shall
60 to work or leave the city. This had
the effect of increasing the gangs at
work in various parts of the city, but
some of the negroes are dissatisfied and
declare openly that they cannot be COM
PEELED to leave.
Dr. George Gebauer was seriously in
lured this afternoon while assisting in
pulling down tho ruins of the Leeman
and Skinner building.
An appeal has been issued by Jackson
N'e transportation men to the railway
ana steamship fraternities of the country
,oF contributions to the aidi of their fel-
70" craftsmen, which, the appeal states,
should be sent to f. VI. Ironmonger, Jr,
t'orlda passenger agent Clyde Line,
SusIman Jacksonville Transportation
Meh Relief Association.