Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-21
TOURISTS SAFE.

TOURISTS SAFE.
Eastern people need have little So
ijcitude for their friends who were
tourists at the time Of the earthquake.
lt may safely be asserted that few, it
/ my, such persons have been killed or
injured. The casualties, with few
exceptions, were confined to occupants
of cheap lodging houses.
ASSOCIATED PRESS.
BULLETIN.
san Francisco, April 21.-1t Is stated
Governor Pardee will Immediately call
special session of the legislature to
prepare relief measures.
San Francisco, April 21.-For the
first time in It's history San Francisco
has had its taste Of martial law. When
darkness fell upon the desolated city
every inhabitant Of houses that were
4 left standing groped about their homes
in darkness. Early in the evening the
survivors Of the terrible calamity were
cooking their suppers on fires built IN
many a fire into nasty blazes and for
q time 1t looked as If many new fires
would be started. But police orders
were issued that all fires must be put
& out, and with a score Of assistants and
the soldiers the building of fires in
front Of houses was summarily sup
pressed. In all homes left standing no
lights were allowed to be burned. In
ss;laees where persons lit lights con-
trary to orders, the police and militia
citizens forced the occupants to ex-
y tinguish them. The only exception was
In the case Of hospitals. Soldiers pa
trolled the streets and no citizen was
another except with the written permis-
sion Of the chief Of police Mayor
Schn1itz issued a declaration pointing
cut the danger of building fires in
houses and suggesting various sani-
tal.y precautions to be followed in the
hope Of preventing pestilence and sick
ness.
Feeding the Hungry.
Or. Vorsang, chairman of the COM
mittee to feed the hungry, reported
everything possible had been done to
provide food for the populace and that
not hungry soul existed in San Fran
cisco last night. There was no trouble
In the distribution of food nor in pro-
curing 1t, and that in quantity and
quality it was satisfactory. At the Y.
NJ G. A. building on Page street and
at Park Lodge thousands and thous-
ands were fed from morning to
night. ALI kinds of provisions and
dothing, msat,vegetables, bread, canned
goods, tea and coffee and the like were
handed out in abundance, not soul
being turned away Today $50 STAN
ford students will traverse the various
districts of the city and hand out sup
plies from door to door and additional
stations will be established. Twenty
carloads of foods of various kinds will
be. here today. The McNear
mills announced they will send 5000
pounds of flour day from now on.
Marcel Cart. chairman Of the COM
mittee on refuge for the homeless says
temporary structures will be erected
of the homeless at once. Major Nc
Ivor, of the United States army, is
now laying out sanitary camp at this
point. Conditions among the homes
less in the park are reported by Chair
man Cert to be excellent, but it is
feared there will be considerable suf-
fering in the Mission district, where
the committee has not been able to
reach all the people. A sub committee
has been appointed to impress all va
cant buildings and all deserted houses
that after examination should prove
to be safe. 1t was stated. upon au-
thority last night that the Merchants
Exchange, Fairmont hotel and Monad-
mock block will be open for public Of
fees Monday morning. All these build
tngs have been carefully examined by
experts and architects who have pro-
nounced their frame work and foun-
datibns absolutely safe.
AS an inevitable result Of the catas-
trophe the people are scattered far and
wide, and the destruction of telegraph
facilities renders it impossible to find
them or to communicate with them A
great many strangers do not know
svhere the temporary offices of the tel
egraph companies are located. These
offices have been necessarily shifted l
from time to time. Even il the offices ,