The Oskaloosa herald., 1906-04-26
Plan TO REBUILD
ON BURNED SITE
CALIFORNIA; SOLID MEN GATH
Err AT OAKLAND.
CITY WILL RISE FROM ASHES
steps Are Already Under Way e
Start Work on Modern Metropo-
lis as Soon as the Debris Can
Be Cleared Away.

Oakland, CAL, April 21.-Oakland Is
vast city OF refuge and intelligence
Office for the innumerable thousands OF
survivors who have managed to escape
from San Francisco. A great section
of the world-famous cosmopolitan pop
ulation OF the metropolis has taken
every available space that offers itself
in the city and shelter and food are
being provided for all. though the re-
lief committee is taxed to the limit OF
its powers.
The tremendous and almost hopeless
task has been begun OF trying to re-
unite scattered families, Of getting
trace of lost ones, Of determining
whether the missing are dead or still
safe somewhere in the great and
tangled mass OF stricken refugees that
spreads itself over all the country
through thousand highways on this
side of the bay and In the San Mateo
county to the south Of San Francisco.
Messages are stacked yards high in all
the telegraph offices waiting to be sent
throughout the world. Conditions
warrant utter despair and panic, but
through it all the people are trying to
be brave and falter not.
Takes Place of Metropolis.
This city has temporarily taken the
place of San Francisco as the metropo-
lis Of the Pacific coast, and here the
finance kings, the bankers and mer-
chants of the San Francisco of yester-
day are gathering and comforting and
getting into shape the first plans for
the rebuilding of the burned city and
preventing widespread financial panic
that, in the first part Of the awful
catastrophe, seemed certain. In the
face of enormous loss and the complete
wiping out of the commercial life Of
the empire city of the Pacific, the lead
ers of trade and commerce here are
cheerful and confident that all will be
well in the end. The governor, the
bank commissioners, the architects,
the insurance Offices and the represen-
tatives of many of the large CONNER
cial enterprises are now in the city
arranging offices and clearing the way
for the smooth adjustment of affairs
that will tighten the heavy hand of
disaster that has leveled everything in
common ruin.
Money Safe in Bank Vaults.
The big men of the state are here
assisting In the work Of reorganization.
The news that the money in the vaults
of the banks in San Francisco is safe
and that all the banks will pay in full
as soon as calm takes the place of the
disorder of the present, has done
much to prevent panic. The big con-
struction companies here have opened
up employment Offices and hundreds Of
survivors have been employed to be
sent Immediately to the quarries, that
there may be no lack Of building and
repair material. Already many Of the
buildings damaged by the earthquake
of Wednesday morning are being re-
paired and activity Of healthy and
reassuring sort is stirring all about.
aid the homeless poor arrive quickly,
that famine and pestilence and wretch
edness may not add their horrors to
the present calamity, one with suffi-
cient amount of fortitude may look on
the present plight of the city not with
out strong confidence in the future.
Through all of the disaster the splen-
did, indomitable, courageous spirit Of
the west has asserted itself.