Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-23

| fortune can care for themselves.
The water situation, while necessarily
causing great inconvenience to the
people, is no longer u serious problem,
About two-thirds of the remaining SEQ
tion OF the city is being supplied with
sufficient water for the pressing do
mestic needs, but of course there Is not
yet enough to be had for fire fighting
purposes.
The most stringent orders have been
issued by the military and civil police
that no fires shall be built within any
house and no lights, not even a candle
| light, can be shown at night in the
houses. All cooking for the present
must be done on the sidewalks or the
open streets in the daylight.
Work Being systematIzed
| One of the noteworthy features of the
situation Is the remarkable promptness
with which the work of Systematically
caring for the homeless has been thor
oughly organized and put into opera
| ton. The fear that existed two days
ago that the immense task of caring
FOR the destitute and helpless people
could not be organized quick enough TO
save thousands from hunger and pos
sible epidemic exists no longer.
The administration of the city's af-
fairs is progressing most harmoniously.
Mayor Schmitz and General Funston
are working in perfect accord.
There was some slight confusion yes
terday owing to the misunderstanding
of orders by some members of the ma
tional guard, but this has been min
imized.
The system put into force by the
mayor and General Funston today is
working order out of confusion and the
city is as orderly as before the tire.
No Complaints Made
Where permits and orders have been
issued by so many heads of depart
ments, as has been the case during the
past few days. there has been neces-
sarily more or less conflict of authority.
1t is to be observed. however, that
there have been no complaints made
anywhere concerning the actions either
of the federal troops or the municipal
police.
1t is only of the national guard of
the state of California that complaint
has been made. Many citizens have
reported extremely arbitrary acts of
the militiamen.
Contributions of money continue to
be made from every part of the United
States. Chairman Phean of the finance
committee today reported additional
subscriptions of about $4,000. the
largest of these being 100000 by the
Chicago Commercial association. The
finance committee will tomorrow con-
slider some plan for the use of the large
sum of money which will soon be avail
able for the relief of the sufferers.
Total Number Buried 500
The total number of bodies recovered
and buried up to Sunday night is 500.
No complete record can be had at this
time, as many bodies have been buried
without permits from the coroner and
the board of health.
The searchers of the coroner's and
the board of health departments found
today not more than twenty bodies.
They were buried Immediately today.
Few of these bodies could be identi-
fed and the graves were marked ly
numbers.
1t is Impossible at the present time
to obtain any sort of death list or even
to make a reliable estimate as to the
number of casualties.
Whenever a body is found it is buried
Immediately, without any formality
whatever. and as these burials have
been made at widely separated parts
of the city by different bodies of
searchers who do not even make a
prompt report to headquarters, consid-
erable confusion has resulted in the
estimating of the total number OF cas-
ualties and the exaggerated reports
have resulted.
The health of the scores of thousands
camped in the open air is, under the
circumstances, remarkably good
There have, of course, been several
cases of pneumonia reported, and colds
are quite common, but there is nothing
like an epidemic of pulmonary troubles.
The board of health reports that
there is very little contagious disease
and for the treatment of those cases
special hospitals have been provided.
An interesting item from the Golden
Gate park district today was the report
of the birth of eighteen babies. These
cases have received prompt and effi-
ciert attention and the mothers ana
children removed to the various ma
ternity hospitals.
Will Improve Sanitary Conditions
Vigorous measures are being taken
by the board of health and the board
of public works to improve the sani-
tary conditions throughout the city.
While not entirely satisfactory at
some places, the sanitary conditions IN
general are not serious menace TO
the health of the people.
The turning on of considerable water
in the residence district today and a
promise of much more tomorrow Will
relieve the minds of all those living IN
houses of the fear of disease; 1t is
those thousands camped in the parks
and on every other bit of open ground
that must receive prompt attention.
The work at these places is In the
hands Of the engineering officers of
the United States army and under
their efficient direction is progressing
satisfactorily.
Eight temporary structures $50 feet
in length by % feet wide and 1S feet
high have been erected at Golden Gate
park and in these sheds thousands
found reasonably comfortable shelter
tonight. :.
AS lumber and workmen to put it
into place are on hand, more of these
buildings will be ready tomorrow. The
buildings have been divided into COM
partments large enough to house
family.
Those without tent shelter received
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