The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-05-23

dressed men and keeping them at the
brick piles for long terms. I passed
them in the shelter Of a provision
wagon. afraid that even my pass would
not save me. Two men are reported
shot because they refused to turn in
and help. There are many rumors
about the shooting by soldiers.
Relief trains continue to arrive.
There is plenty Of food. The macllin-
cry of the military relief and of the
food department Of the citizens com
mittee is running smoothly. Every
dray and truck which call be found is
! employed in getting the food across the
freight ferry from Oakland and into
the parks and concentration camps. Al!
the bakers who can be found in the
city are working at brick ovens turning
the -four which arrived early from
Stockton into bread. There is a short.
age of yeast, but the Italian and French
bakers, of which there are many III the
city, are working in their own fashion
with sour dough, and this helps.
The city is one great bread line. The
trucks Of rations drive up to the parks.
the soldiers form the people into lines
and each takes his bread. his cooked
OF uncooked food and his little sack of
coffee and departs to cook or eat it.
The troops play no favorites. Some
times it takes two or three hours to get
| through the lines, and with three meals
4 day a man living in the parks passes
| a good part of his time standing for
his food. The Red Cross sees that
| weak women and children are pro-
vided for without waiting III line.
Even the people living in houses have
to take their chances with the rest OF
! the crowd in the parks near by.
It is impossible now to purchase any
food in San Francisco. The citizens
committee manages to feed every one,
but the rich, unless they happen 10
have a store of food in their houses,
must take their chances with the poor
in the bread lines which are formed in
all the parks. The continuous arrival
of relief trains makes it certain that
the city will not starve. 1t may be a
month at least before all who stay in
San Francisco will cease to be wards
of the Government.
General Funston and Mayor Schmitz
Indignantly deny the stories that there
are epidemics OF immediate danger Of
them. In order to avert disease Mayor
Schmitz has ordered the breaking up
of the big camps, and as many people
as possible are being sent out of the
city free of expense.
Major Krauthoff, chief comlnissary
officer at San Francisco, has tele-
graphed to the Commissary-General of
the Army in Washington that it is the
opinion Of the relief committee and
himself that further rations from the
Government will not be required.
In the basement of the Sacred Heart
School the Dominican Sisters have
started a detention hospital for the in
sane. A good many people with in-
cipient insanity have been driven vic
lently mad by the strain of these few
days. Since all the city police stations
have been destroyed the disposal OF
these people has been a problem.
There is a shortage Of horses. Thou
sands of the poor animals must have
died in the fire. After that there was
no food for horses, even for those
which were in use: and during the hot
test trouble automobiles were price
less. A lot of owners just turned their
animals out to make their way into
the country and find grazing on the
hills.
More than eighty churches. missions
and converts were RACED in San Fran
cisco. among then. some of the most
notable in the city. 1t is estimated
NV aoo1nc;o cftno1 01fhn.ifinG fhnf rho
loss to churches will not be less than
$40, 000, 900. The bodies to suffer
most severely are the Roman Catholic,
the Presbyterian, the Congregational.
the Baptist, the Episcopal, the Luther
an, the Methodist and the Disciples of
Christ.
In response to inquiries Surgeon
Torney in command of the army sur
geons at San Francisco, notified Sur
geon-General O'Reilly that no more
surgeons or nurses are needed. There
are 1900 physicians in San Francisco
and they are cooperating with the
military authorities. There are enough
nurses there to take care of the situ-
alton. A special train, with fifty ply
sicians and the same number of nurses.
started from Chicago for San Francis
co. Other special trains, with doctors
and nurses, were also on the way to
the Pacific Coast. These trains were
intercepted en- route with orders to
the physicians and nurses to return
to their homes.
The United Railways. which control
all the important car lines in San Fran
cisco, have put men to work straighten-
ing out the tracks. Only one important
car house was burned; the rest are in
the suburbs and traffic will be re-
sumed as soon as the tracks are
Strengthened, new cables laid and the
machinery in the power houses set up
again. The electric lines, which a
probably get power from the long dis
lance transmission systems, may be
running in a week or two.
Revised estimates of the loss to the
1O5 insurance companies involved in
tho San Fra nciScO disaster We're made,