The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-15
d WORLDS RECORD.

Made by the Southern Pacific company
 In Saving and Relieving the People
 of the Great san Francisco Disaster.
 On the occasion the great San Francisco disaster the entire resources of the Southern Pacific Company were employed to their utmost in saving and relieving the people. They were the first to order by wire, from ad1a- cent cities car loads of food supplies for free distribution They threw wide open their gates, and passengers were carried free on their Ferry Steamers, which never stopped running from San Francisco to Oakland Pier. They ran steamers around the water front pick ing up all refugees congregated on the whalves for saftey. From Oakland Pier the people were carried free to what ever point they could care for them selves or be cared for-whether 1t was Berkeley, Cal, or Boston, Mass; Port Hand, Ore, or Portland, Maine. Within ten days the Southern Pacific Com pany carried free 224,069 passengers. | lLn6 NdluE LII BlilCLt SOl1IP0LNa SNN tSFt est rates for the class of service rend- cred, amounted to 54OOSS69, and this Icovers only the earnings of the line west of Fl Paso.
 Canvas of accommodations in the in- terior of the State was made that re- fugees might be properly directed. Can
 yass of avenues of employment WaF ,st-in Iort i111gIctrtpE thai
 employment might be provided. lnfor- nation Bureaus were established at nine points in the burned district o1
 San Francisco, which were served pS
 horseback riders and automobiles. Mes
 sengers carrying bulletins relative tt train service, relief work, information about finding people and general pub
 lie information, including statement O accommodations for relief at outside cities. Inquiries from eastern cities b. . the thousands from eastern friends re
 garding missing people were answered as far as possible, the officers using al , the avenues at their command.
 Transportation for relief committees ' hospital corps, physicians and nurse
 was arranged for on a large scale be f tween adjacent cities and San Francis co. The State Health Board was give
 transportation for it's employees in tn a sanitary service. Transportation of rt lief supplies was given precedence ove
 all other trains. Nearly all were ru on passenger train time. MILK, brea etc. which were badly needed, wei brought in free in baggage cars.
 Gasoline for automobiles early bt
 came exhausted, and a large numbt : of machines in the service of Eme f gency Hospitals, physicians, militar
 and civil authorities and relief con : mitties were tied up. The Southel Pacific Company furnished for the s machines every drop of gasoline in i f stores. In addition, it wired to nearl ,s cities for all automobile parts whi
 were likely to be needed in an eme
 gency. These were supplied free to an, " one engaged in emergency and reli f. service.
 ,, The transportation of relief suppli ai from April 18th to May 28rd, computt '@ at lowest tariff rates over the Sout 'u arn Pacific Company, Union Pacit : Railroad Company Oregon Short Lii gq, Railroad, and the Oregon Railroad al
 Navagation Company, amounted
 S445 55O.OO, representing 1863 full ca ~ v loads. in addition to great many le 'L than carload shipments. This does n " incblde business handled by the expre ~ companies, of which there were quite er good many cars on which the railro is 5s company received no compensation. a5 Much more than this has been do
 by the Southern Pacific Company sin