Bisbee daily review., 1906-05-02
Clyde H. Tayener Finds People Eager for Greater City Than Before Disaster Swept It Bare of Buildings.
WEAR BADGES THAT
 PROCLAIM CONFIDENCE.
Many Dead Being Found in Unexpected Places - Body of Unknown Woman in Bank Where She Sought Safety,
(By Clyde H. TavennerD


 SAN FRANCISCO, May 1.-The spectacle of thousands of workmen taboring like beavers in the smoking ruins of what was once San Francisco q sight which could Cnly have beer cIuaiei in the uncovering of Pompeii confronted me today as I laboriously made my way through streets filled with debris.
 4 te-rihle fire did its work well Not q piece Of wood or infiammable material as large as match can b. found in all of the 26 fire swept square miles in the heart of San Francisco As far as the eye can see is ruins Even the hills C1 all sides of the bay are clean swept. That the city car Dc rebuilt seems almost impossible BRs the work of reconstruction has q rcldy been begun. and foundations fo: 2 score Of buildings have already beer completed. Business men and person in all walks of life predict that the ECw Saa Francisco will be larger and more beautiful than the old one.
 Iu the crowds that throng the streets. hundreds are wearing badge hGprirE such inscriptions as Back Frisco, net yet cut soon," ''I am for Frisco, 9 fer the qu!tters,' Watch SID Francisco STOW" and Tt might hivc Ecen worse"
 One business man said to me: '' h2d q five story business block burned to the ground. But I am not dis courcred. will build a 10-story struc- ture in its place. The material has already been ordered"
 Many hundreds have fled from the city never to return, but hundreds are arriving from the east daily to take tbeir places, believing that the pros poets for man with little capital to start in business on an equal with the merchants whose places were wiped out by fire, to be exceptionally good.
 Although the experiences through which they have passed seems to have aged them by years, the average San Franciscan is anxious to return to the city.
 Aren't you afraid of another earth quaker I inquired of an injured man as he was brought across the bay on a ferry.
 No" he declared, 'I don't believe there will be another earthquake in San Francisco. There never was a second one in Charleston, you know. Lightning never strikes twice in the same place"
 This degree of fortitude and cour- age is typical of these homeless, pen niless, people. Their makeup is the same that characterized the sturdy old pioneers of the eos who went into the mountains in the spring with only bag of beans slung across their shoulders. depending on their stability to carry them through fall. The au- thorities here opened the gates of the city to visitors and countless thuo- sands are visiting the ruins. I under stand excursion trains are to be run to San Francisco from ali parts of the United States within 8 few days, to give the people chance to see the sight that ordinarily is to be had but once in life time
 Scores of bodies are being un- earthed every day by the workmen, mute evidence of the terrible fate of some of the victims. Undoubtedly many that were cremated will never be heard of, their bodies having been completely incinerated.
 Today l witnessed one of the most gruesome scenes that has attended LA2N "OA n O1 NhC |" llliC workmen were taking away the piles of brick and stone from Telegraph and Russian Hills, a score of half starved dogs were discovered eating human bodies. The animals were gnawing and tearing at the corpse half buried in the ruins Where orly a leg or arm protruded the dogs were digging for the rest Of the body. -.- Men who were sent into the ruins to look for such little property as might have escaped the flames came upon the sickeaing condition and i'm me<iiately reported it to the Naval authorities stationed at the water srclt military districts. In the re sponseeto their appeal that something bc dc1e bluc-jackets were detailed to oove- the section and kill all dogs found fn those yicinities. All morning rifle shots could be heard along the t;lls and On tho beach.
 tsca wore pressed into service tc E.9- the bCdies in lime strewn trench es CT throw them into the sea. In sev eral places bodies were cremated or s-aoulde-ine beds of coals.
 !. vas not believed that there were @ many dead cn Telegraph and Rus sian Hills until the bodies were dis eovcrc4 b. the dcgs. Undoubtedly moro bodies will be discovered iron tine 70 time for weeks, and the clear ing away of the ruins will extend int months.
 l today saw forty bodies, all burned beyc7d recognition taken from th' ruins cf lodging house at Fourth an, &inra street, although the search ha been going CT for days
 also saw the woTkmen uncove the body Of woman while dynamitinl tse wal of bank building on Mont