The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-22

/ wholesome effect. To General Freders
lex Funston is due the present favor
able state of affairs, and late tonight
he notified Mayor Schmitz of his def
| sire to surrender all propositions in con-
| nection with maintenance of order to !
| the city officials, and this will be done
/ as soon as possible. --------e----
A sinister aspect of the situation Isl
the report of fourteen cases of small-il
pox within the city, but it is hopeds
that these cases are sporadic. Abso.
Lutte isolation is being attempted. Gem
eral Funston tonight declared that this
question is the big one, and that there-
fore everything must be done to stamp
/ out the disease before it gets a foot.
hold.
The dead are being buried in trench.
es unidentified, as many as fifteen be.
/ ing placed in a single ditch. This
may seem horrible to outsiders, but it
is the only way, and those within the
4 city do not believe any one can pro-.
test against the Dissertation of their
4 dead, as all are treated alike.
Rations for Sunday.
Tonight it became necessary for the
soldiers OH duty and the police to fol-
low up their orders of last night that
no lights be allowed in tents or the
homes left standing, and in many cases
they had to use force to carry out the
orders of their superior officers.
Every one of the thousands of honle-
less went to sleep tonight with his
hunger satisfied and each has been
given sufficient rations to last him thru
Sunday.
Marcel Cert, who is in charge of the
work of providing for the safety of the
homeless, has men at work erecting
large temporary barracks in Golden
Gate park, in the Preside and other
points where they are necessary. All
of these places are in charge of officers
of the regular army and the result Is
that matters could not be in better
shape under the circumstances.
Scores of Doctors.
, By stroke Of good fortune, the
State Medical society was in session
in this city and every physician has
! turned to and is helping. This means
that competent men are looking after
the sick, and before tomorrow night
, there will be enough medical stores or
hand to guarantee that no one shall
suffer.
AS the bodies of the dead are being
found, the estimates of the total loss
of life grows, but as yet there Is moth
ing upon which accurate figures can be
based. Neither can there be any esti'
mate placed upon the number who have
died from fright, hunger or exhaustion
Conditions Improve.
Late this afternoon the conditions
in the stricken city have moder
ated and improved to such a.
extent that every one connected
with the city government an
the work of relief are in happy moo
and declare that there is now no chance
Of any very great suffering, tho O
course there will be for many week
/ great Inconvenience.
There is water in abundance now, ant
there is also a constantly increasing
supply of food being brought into thu
city and being distributed into the va
rious relief depots, where it will do tn
Il most good. sfss
Pestilence Grave Danger.
The grave danger IS, OF course, tina
Of pestilence. Rumors of serious sich
ness among the survivors quartered i
the concentration camp at the Presldl
are in circulation, but, according to M;
Tor Krauthoff, the chief commissary o.
ficiaI,s who has practical charge of tl
various camps, this is not so. He state
that, of course, many persons driven
the verge of insanity by their terrib
experience of the last few days are !
completely exhausted that they requil
medical care, but he does not belle,
the fear that smallpox or dysentel
will break out and become epidemic
well founded.
3. Fire Dies Down.
: At this hour the fire has died dow
in every section of the city, and in til
west end, where the gravest fears wer
felt. the fire is well-nigh extinguishet
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