Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-05-10
DISEASE APPEARS.
Typhoid and Ptomaine Poisoning Dan
gers of San Francisco.


mass of tangled and still smolderine
wreckage, and it's thousands of suffer:
ing people! The place tonight presents
scene which no pen can describe.
What has passed during the nineteen
days since the earthquake and fire is
slowly creeping into history. During
the past nineteen days San Francisco
has been living hell. In the weeks
and months to come, yes, even in the
years that are to follow, this state of
hell will continue.
1t is all we'll enough for the promi-
nent business men of San Francisco,
the government officials and those con-
nected with the Red Cross Society, to
be sanguine over what is being done
to relieve the suffering Of San Fran
cisco's stricken people and of the fu-
ture.
1t is all well enough for these men
to say: "Well, we II build better and
more beautiful CITY," 1t is all we'll
enough for DR.. Devine to say: "We
have the situation well in hand, and no
one will 60 without food or clothing"
This is right and hopeful view to
take of the matter.
These big committees will care for
the masses after their fashion of doing
things on big scale, but there are
hundreds who are bound to be over
looked, thrust aside by the scramble for
supplies, and this is not all.
Yesterday and today gave an init
nation of the disease and sickness
which physicians have feared would
break out The drinking water of the
stricken city is polluted with typhoid
fever germs. The constant cry of the
health department officials for days has
been "boil the water before drink
ing" This is easy advice, but, when
people are cooking outdoors on shat
tered stoves and rudely constructed
ovens made of broken brick, with the
wind day after day blowing a gale, it
is no wonder that the warning to boil
the water is ignored.
Those in charge of the city's affairs
across the bay have steadfastly main
tanned there was no danger from an
epidemic. This was the truth week
ago. 1t was too early for infection,
huf {ba var;oJ
run, and what the physicians have been
themselves for-the out
break of typhoid-has struck the city.
Yesterday fourteen cases were taken
to the Preside hospital, and today a
dozen more cases were recorded
Ptomaine poisoning is developing This
must follow the constant diet
If corned beef and other canned goods
upon which the people have been living
since the earthquake. This is one way
that sickness is spreading in San Fran
cisco.
The other and even more dangerous
way will come from the supply depots.
At these places wagon loads of bread,
lfter being carted through the streets,
lust-strewn and filthy, are unloaded at
hese camps Typhoid germs will find
heir way into the bread and into the I
tomachs of the people, just as they
would by drinking polluted water. So
much for this.
Now for the half-hysterical and
people who still cling
o the stricken city. Hardly a day has
assed since Wednesday, April IS, but
hat the city has been rocked bv an
Last Wednesday there
vas terrific shock, and this morning t
hortly after 10 clock another hard v
remblor that sent men, women and d
hildren from their homes and buildings t
nto the streets screaming mad in :
right How long the people 8 nerves S
Till stand this is unanswerable. They C
re brave people, these folks who
ave passed through the earthquake {
nd fire, but there is a limit to all v
ourage. 1t simply means that, if the b
arth continues to groan and tremble, C
he most courageous will give up and e
uit the city. II
Indeed, in some quarters men of au-
lority are talking of sending all of ST
le women and children out of San G
rancisco. This is talked of by no less o
lthority that Captain Kennedy, who
as charge of the United States gener- t.
hospital at the Preside. b
Seizing Stolen Supplies. o.
San Francisco, May THE police tt
nd military authorities are slowly but p
rely ferreting out the people who
I'VE abused the free supplies privilege. pl
he detectives engaged in the work are tc
'oceeding cautiously, so that no seiz- ca
'es will be made unless the officers &c
e certain that no injury to deserv- pl
G persons will be inflicted. When it ca
established that supplies have been al
cured by subterfuge, the goods are ST
lied and turned over to the nearest fr
alton. The authorities are being as 81
'ted by numerous anonymous letters, OF OF
ling of the unlawful boarding of III
Dres.
Will Paralyze All Rui1dinc