The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-04-20
FIRE NOW UNDER CONTROL
Dead Buried in Trenches And the Living Suffer
from Hunger and Exposure.

There is little left today of the
splendid metropolis of the West. The
care of the 800, 900 HOMELESS and star
wing refugees gathered in the city's
public squares and parks is now the
main problem. They must be fed, and
meat, bread and drink are lacking.
Three relief stations have already
been established These are at Gold
en- Gate Park, the Preside and the
San Bruno road.
The hills and beaches of San Fran
cisco look like an immense tented
city. For miles through the parks and
along the beaches from Ingleside to
the sea wall at North Beach, the home
less are encamped in tents, make
shifts rigged up from a few sticks of
wood and blankets or sheets.
1t is estimated that fully hundred
thousand have sought refuge in Gold
en- Gate Park alone and fully two hun
dred thousand homeless ones are 10
Gated at other places of refuge.
Out at the Preside yesterday the
soldiers pressed into service all men
who came near the reservation and
forced them to labor AZ burying the
dead
So thick the corpses were piled
they were becoming a menace, and
early in the day an order was issued
to bury them at any cost.
The soldiers We're needed for other
work, SO at the point of bayonets
forced citizens to take up the work
of burying the dead. Rich men who
never before labored with their hands
labored beside working men in dig
ging trenches for those who perish
ed in the awful calamity.
financial crisis has been averted
by making today and yesterday legal
holidays and giving the bankers
chance to meet the demands of depos-
itors. A guarantee has been given the
local bankers, which it is said will
prevent loss to depositors. 1t is Off
cially stated that the insurance COM
panies will pay dollar for dollar, whe-
ther the loss was caused by fire OF
earthquake This will mean, if the
loss totals two hundred millions,
hundred and ten millions at least will
be made good.
Another serious fatality took place
stampede of three hundred head of
cattle at Sixth and Folsom streets,
by which at least a dozen people were
killed
The work of clearing up the city
has already begun at the water front
in the business section.
The report that the famous Cliff
House has toppled into the sea can
not be verified, and is probably un-
true. In the confusion it is impossible
to get at it.
San Francisco. (5:19 a. m) April
20.-The fire which heretofore had
crept around the base of Telegraph
Hill and left few houses standing.
there. crept back again from the
west. and is now in full possession
doubt take everything down to the
water front on Van Ness avenue and
west of there. The main fire has
reached Octavia street and is going
| at fast rate. There has been no one
| in from there since midnight. At that
| time the fire had started afresh on
| the south end and the line of fire was
advancing fast. The Ferry buildings
present fearful scene, being packed
with men, women and children who
are attempting to leave the city by
the first boat they can get away on.
The roads leading to the Ferry north
and around the shore of the bay as
far as Fort Mason are strewn with
all sorts of vehicles that have broken
down, baby carriages, wheelbarrows,
ETC., that would not stand the loads
over the rough way. The fire came
very close to Fort Mason last night
1t is believed that a clean sweep will
be made as far as Golden Gate Park
Would not be surprised to see it take
the Eucalyptus trees that line the
park and burn the shrubbery clear to
the ocean beach.
New York, Apr. 20s-A San Fran
cisco dispatch from the Western I'm