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TIE FRISCO DISASTER.


Sitting in the midst OF it's ruins, SaE
Francisco is beginning to take heart
The fires are out, there is food for all
trains are running, street cars are in
operation, the post Office is open, and
there is a general renewal of the activ-
tiles of business life.
After five days of intense suffering,
confusion and almost superhuman eff
fort on the part OF citizens and SOL
diers the problem of sheltering, feed
ing and otherwise providing for the
thousands made homeless by the fire
and earthquake has been successfully
solved.
There is wide discrepancy in the
figures reckoning the number of dead at
San, Francisco Coroner Walsh esti-
mates the total casualties at 1000. But
Gen. A. w. Greeley, now in charge OF the
federal troops, has officially stated to
the war department at Washington that
the total dead is 277.
Property loss is placed at O0,OO0,-
900 in San Francisco. The number of
buildings in ruins or burned is placed
at 10000,
San Francisco of past days, the beau
tiful San Francisco which has gone, is
to be utterly eclipsed by the San Fran
cisco Of the future-a San Francisco
which is being planned to make the
most exquisite city in the world.
In accordance with a recommends
ton contained in message from
President Roosevelt congress pro-
vided another $1,5OO,OOO for the re-
lief of the San Francisco earthquake
victims.
Maj. H. G. Tilden, a member OF
Gov. Pardee's staff and one of the
most prominent members of the gen.
eral relief committee, was almost in
stantly killed in his automobile by
members of the citizens patrol.
Mrs. Ida Reed arrived in Oakland
of apparently sound mind, but when
she was safely located on the refugee
train bound east her mind gave way
and she arrived in Ogden raving
maniac.
Health conditions in the camps and
the unburned section OF San Francisco
are improving. Work has begun on
sewers.
The Cliff house and the Sutro baths
were found to be unframed and will be
used to house the homeless.
Banks and bankers wishing to make
Geographic transfers should place the
funds with the correspondents of the
Oakland banks in New York and have
them wire Oakland instead of remit
ting drafts.
San Quentin prison is intact. The
walls were cracked and few chimneys
were upset, but no further damage was
done.
The railroads and the express COM
panies are bearing their part in the
work. Practically all have offered to
carry everything for the suffering peo-
pie Of the California coast free of
charge.
All of San Francisco's best play.
houses, including the Majestic. Column
bia, Orpheum and Grand Opera house
are mass of ruins.
Nearly every famous landmark that
has made San Francisco famous over
the world, has been laid in ruins or
burned to the ground.
The Chinese theaters and joss
houses are in ruins and rookery after
rookery has collapsed, covering alive
hundreds of the celestials.
The first fire insurance company to
put up signals Of distress in conse-
quence of the heavy losses sustained
in the great San Francisco confagra-
ton is the American Fire Insurance
company of Boston.
There is one place within pistol shot
of San Francisco that the earthquake
did not touch, that did not lose CHM
uey or feel a tremor-Alcatraz island.
Despite the fact that the island is COW
cred with brick buildings, brick forts
and brick chimneys, not a brick was
lOOsened, not a crack made nor CULVER
felt