The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1906-04-27
COUNTY, MONTANA, FRIDAY April 81 1906
IS BECOMING NORMAL.
Situation at San Francisco Improving
Deaths Less than Three Hundred.

mere.
Il have come here to see, hear and
report" he said, "and my chief aim is
to cooperate with you and carry on the
work you have SO we'll begun"
At joint meeting of the finance
| committee and the chairmen of all the
emergency committees it was ascer-
tanned that the loss Of life is less
than 800.
This approximation was made by
Fairfax Phelan, chairman of the re-
lief of sick and wounded committee,
and surprised every one present, as an
| estimate Of 1000 and more had been
made by the coroner's office. It was
=, also ascertained that the expenses in
Cured by the different committees in
carrying on their divers duties are
thus far considerably less than ex-
pected. Representatives of railroads,
whose Offices we're destroyed, have de-
cided to follow the example of the
Southern Pacific and will not abandon
locations here.
Before noon practically all the es-
sential departments Of the Southern
Pacific were in operation. During the
morning every available employe was
| engaged in arranging for the great
| press of business entailed by the ar
| rival of food supplies. New Office
/, furniture consigned to dealers who
have no use for it was carried into the
ferry building, where provision has
been made for all Eastern railroad
agencies not elsewhere accommodated.
| Traffic Director Stubs confirmed
the statement that the main offices of
the Southern Pacific will remain in
San Francisco.
| Commence Reconstruction.
A force of men during the day COM
meneed reconstruction of the ferry
building tower, the upper half of which
will have to be replaced with lighter
material.
| The military officers early in the
morning returned to the state harbor
commission full authority over docks,
wharves and piers.
| Nothing Is TO be handled at the
docks except food supplies, and no yes
sci will be allowed to lie alongside a
wharf where there is any possibility
Of unloading anything needed by the
people
In company with William Dohrman,
the auditor of the ST. Francis hotel,
representatives of the Associated
Press explored the building as far as
the fouth floor The interior re-
sembles the inside of dead furnace
/ The effect of the intense heat is
shown by melted glass and metal OBJ,
/ jects. The walls, however, do not ap-
| pear to be sprung and the building can
be repaired.
Of the 450 guests who were in the
hotel, about forty have returned and
registered at temporary Office at the
main entrance.
| Telephone connections to Oakland
and San Bruno are now complete.
During the day the Pacific States
Telephone and Telegraph company
had 800 men at work. Before night a
25-wire cable had been laid the en-
tire length of Market street in the
cable slot, and messages are now be-
ing sent without difficulty.
| The cable toward San Bruno has
thirty wires and this also is In work
ing order. The company's under
ground conduits were generally shaken
and in some cases destroyed, but to
what extent has not yet been de-
termined.
Three hundred merchants met dur
ing the afternoon to consider the best
methods for reconstructing retail
business. Steps were taken for the
formation of Resumption of Trade
| League.
Shipping at Standstil.
Shipping is at standstill Only
one vessel of any size has been per-
mitted to leave this port The excep-
| tion was big German freighter
bound for Hamburg
The fire underwriters are making
some plans to reopen Offices in the
Merchants Exchange building.
The San Francisco Gas and Electric
| Light company has obtained permits
for small army of men to go about
the city to gain some idea of the dam
age to its mains.
The United Railways company has
500 employees clearing the tracks and
erecting temporary trolley poles on
Market street. These poles were
erected from the Ferry building to
Fifth street
Chairman Phelan reports contribu-
tfons to the relief fund as follows:
Outside s1,917.000: local $4,000;
total $2,263, ,4Ss.
Many cases of clothing, old and
new, were distributed among the
needy. Several thousands persons
were supplied with garments during
the first few hours and there still re-
main many unopened cases. A dozen
large boxes containing assorted sizes
OF overcoats were emptied In twink
ling, and for half an hour afterward
the gratified owners of the garments
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