The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-10
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o-unaaunence, vpftoua departments have
lost records and Documents ~ incnlcilahle
yaltts accumulated ever since tho frat
transcpntinehtd road VIVA completed.
Tho United stated Steel Corporation Il
going 10 stand by tho people ~ San Fran
cisco. This n tho announcement made by
Frank Baackes
II havo been arut here to inform tho
d business men ~ san Francisco hat the
United States STEEL Corporation will lend
every assistance b. san Francisco. You
can have ali structural steel YOU want at
the same prices. In ninety days We will
deliver Rl that will have been ordered.
We are ready 90 deliver 5000 tons Of steel
the first year. I doubt II more stool Ia
required. IL II IL, we will deliver COOS
tons at the same prices which prevailed
before the Disaster
Only one book of mortgages was saved
out 81 i,439 books, and only 500 books Of
deeds out Of 2,iOO, although the complete
index OF deeds was saved from the Hall Of
Records. The result ~ that nine-tenths OF
the property owners will have to prove
q title to their property, IL IL likely that
many suits will be brought TO acquire title.
Abstract COMPANIES and assessments and
tax rolls will help In determining titles.
The United Railroads now has in opera
ton all electric lines outside of the burned
district and Is operating on Market and
Mission streets in the devastated sections.
To meet this business 1t has $50 cars in
service.
Up to the present the company has been
feeding its men at the car houses, but will
seek 10 arrange its business 20 hat the
m,n with families may eat at home.
The discovery has been made that thou
sands Of dollars beld by the police as evil
dence in criminal cases has been destroyed.
The vaults in the property clerks office
mt the Hall Of Justice, instead OF being
freproof, as building specifications re-
Quired, were nothing more than closets
with formidable looking doors.
The Signal Corps Of the United States
Army is photographing San Francisco's
Capt. l.. O. Wildman and Capt. Clark a
series of pictures of the ruins is being taken,
to be kept on file by the War Department in
Washington. Several hundred pictures
have already been taken Of different build
ings, and an order was sent for three bal
looms, so that a complete panamoric picture
of the city can be had.
The report that diamonds were lost
among the ruins Of the Majestic Theatre
excited the cupidity Of hooters. The rumor
had its origin in q statement OF Harry w.
Bishop to the police that he had lost two
valuable diamonds from his office. From
this grew stories that valuable gems be-
longing to actresses had been lost, also
c%oronets, necklaces, girdles, sunbursts, DC.
Soon there was a gang of looters scrambling
among ruins and sitting ashes. They re-
covered a quantity of baubles, probably a
gallon, but they were the kind that one
may buy by the ~pound-stage diamonds.
A fssure one mile in length and a land
slide creating a fault eighty feet deep are
described by Robert Edgar, a local justice
Of the peace, and Edward Schmidt, who
nave just returned from Sobrante Hills, a
few miles north of Berkeley. The geo.
logical effects Of the great trembler are
noticeable in all that locality, especially
about four miles from the little town of
San Pablo. Judge Edgar says:
The hills are rent and torn in a way
that can scarcely be believed except by
personal observation On tho slope of
one of the hills Is a assure th~ree-quarteTs
OF a imle long. At one end of the aperture,
which is tapering, the crevice IL ten feet
across and eighty feet deep. The ground
must have been tumbled about in a frightful
manner, for in one place a large knoll has
risen and in another entire OAK trees have
been moved thirty feet"
There Is great confusion in the country
at Point Reyes, ~thirty-three miles north of
this city, owing to manifest changes in the
lay of the land, Although there is no visi-
BILE break in the earth's surface, numerous
signs record the moving of the country at
least ten feet northward. An old oak
tree, a landmark in those parts, is now ten
feet distant from the fence which it for
merly overhung.
At Olema, a nearby town, a pipe line 300
feet long, which was broken by the quake,
on being repaired showed an excess length
of three feet, indicating n contraction Of the
earth. At Bo!inas knolls Of earth have been
thrown up where before there was level
ground. Proprietary lines have been
changed and there is confusion over the
present acreage Of large estates.