The Nome daily nugget., 1906-06-05
BY CLYDE E. TAVENNER. Especial COrrespOndenCc.)

spectacle of thousands of workmen laboring like beavers, in the smoking ruins of what was once San Francisco sight which could only have beer equalled in the uncovering of POmpeii confronted me today as l laboriOusly made my way through streets filled with debris.
 A terrible fire did it's work well. Not a piece of wood or inhammable ma terial as large as a match can be found in all of the 76 fire swept square miles in the heart of San Francisco. As fal as the eye can see is ruins. Even the hills on all sides of the bay are clean swept. That the city can be rebuilt seems almost impossible. Yet the work of reconstruction has already been begun, and foundations for a score of buildings have already been completed Business men and persons in all walks of life predict that the new san Fran cisco will be larger and more beautiful than the old one.
 In the crowds that throng the streets hundreds are wearing badges bearing such inscriptions as Back to Frisco not yet, but soon;" q am for Frisco 23 for the quitters;" !" Watch san Fran
 
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 one man said to me: q had a five story business block burned to the ground. But l am not discouraged. will build a ten-story structure in its place The material has already been ordered.'
 Many hundreds have fled from the city, never to return, but hundreds are ,,;, -;,, ha 11il tn tnl lgl their places, believing that the pros poets for a man with a little capital to start in business on an equal scale with the merchants whose places were wiped out by fire to be exceptionally good.
 Although the experiences through which they have passed seems to have aged them by years, the average San Franciscan is anxious to return to the city.
 Aren't you afraid of another earth quake?" l inquired of an injured man as he was being brought across the bay on a ferry.
 "No," he declared, q don't believe there will be another earthquake in San Francisco. There never was a second one in Charleston, you know Lightning never strikes twice in the same place."
 This degree of fOrtitude and courag, is typical of these homeless, pennlcSs people. Their makeup is the same that characterized the sturdy old pioneers of the eos, who went into the noun tains in the spring with only a bag of beans slung across their shoulders, de- pending on their stability to carry them through fall. The authorities here opened the gates of the city to visitors, and countless thousands are visiting the ruins. l understand eX- curSion trains are to be run to San Francisco from all parts of the United States within a few days, to give the people d chance to see the sight that ordinarily is to be had but once in a life time.
 Scores of bodies are being unearthed every day by the WOrkmen, mute evil dence of the terrible fate of some of the victims. Undoubtedly many that were cremated will never be heard of, their bodies having been completely incin- erated.
 Today l witnessed one of the most grueSome scenes that has attended the work of removing the ruins. While Workmen were taking away the piles of brick and stone from Telegraph and Russian hills a score of half starved dogs were discovered eating human bodies. The animals were gnawing and tearing at the corpSeS, half buried in the ruins. Where only a leg or arm protruded the dogs were digging for the rest of the body.
 Men who were sent into the ruins to look for such lit1ie property as might have escaped the flames came upon the sickening condition, and inn mediately reported it to the naval au- thorities stationed at the waterfront military districts. In the response to their appeal that something be done blue jackets were detailed to cover the section and kill all dogs found in those vicinities. All morning rifle shots could be heard along the hills and on the beach.
 Men were pressed into service tc | bury the bodies in lime -strewn trenches or throw them into the sea In several places bodies were cremateo on smoudering beds of coals. It was not believed there were SC many dead on Telegraph and Russian hills until the bodies were discovered by the dogs. Undoubtedly more bodies will be discovered from time to time for weeks, and the clearing away o1 | the ruins will extend into months. l today saw forty bodies, all burned | beyond recognition, taken from the | ruins of a lodging house at Fourth and Minna street, although the search has | been on for days.
 I also saw the workmen uncover | the body of a woman while dynamitine the wall of a bank building on Mont gomery street. No one could account for the presence of the woman in the structure, the only theory being that | she took refuge there following the earthquake shock. As to her identity that will probably always remain 6 mystery.