The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-04-24
REVIEW OF SITUATION
SAN FRANCISCO
4 CAREFUL SURVEY-NOT AS
BAD AS MIGHT BE.
Cliff House Sound and All Ocean
Front-No More Danger of Fire
Unless Orders Are Disobeyed
Number of Deaths by
Earthquake Exag-
gerated.

A special correspondent of the
News and Courier at Oakland, CAL
ifornia, under date Of April 81, sends
the following review of the situation
to that paper:
The fire, while not yet quite out,
is nearly over. It is simply finishing
up the corners of the city. Tomor-
row everything should be cooling. I
made a personal inspection of the
ruined section today, paying particu-
lar attention to the banks and the f.
nancial situation. In a general way
it may be said that from Van Ness
avenue eastward to the bay every
thing is gone. West Of Van Ness
avenue the city is burned in spots
south of the Western Addition, and it
is said, although I did not see this
part myself, that the Mission is gone.
all except small fringe.
1t is now reported that, contrary to
first news, the
Cliff House Is Safe
and that all Of the ocean front es-
capped. 49, :'.,
There is no more danger Of fire,
unless the residents disobey the may
or's order and make fires in their
houses. There is not a safe chimney
in San francisco. It would seem that
the report Of deaths in the earthquake
are exaggerated. However, about a
hundred were shot, by soldiers for
5leosing and rioting and two men were
fynched for robbing stores. The po-
lice and the troops are confiscatlng
whiskey wherever they find it. Fri
days whiskey caused some of the SOL
.diers to go on the war path, but this
Is all stopped now and the Offenders
are under military arrest
Al day long the
Procession OF Refugees
asking for the ferry to escape to Oak
land continued. There was CORE
spending movement from Oakland to
the country districts, so that Oak
land remains at about the same popu-
lation. The Elks, who are maintain
ing relief camp in Oakland, had g.
600 guests. On Friday night they had
to ask for extra military guard. It is
estimated that there are $4,000 in the
region about the city dump and the
unburned part Of the water front and
perhaps twice as many in Golden Gate
Park. All day there have been ru-
mors Of an outbreak Of smallpox. This
appears ridiculous on the surface, for
while in San Francisco as in most
seaport towns, there is always some
smallpox, the authorities are very
strict with it and rush every case dis
covered to the pest house, which is in
an isolated spot ten miles from the
center Of the city. Besides the period
of incubation for small pox is from
ten to fourteen days, and the mix-up
of the population has been on for only
four days. So, if there were any cases
urnoticed by the board of health in
the people who focked from their
houses to the parks: there would not
have been time for the infection to de-
velop. The physicians mere do not
take this report seriously. The thing
which they fear most is the regular
camp fever.
Now as to the
Condition of the City.
Mob Hill, with its stately mansions,
is all razed. The Stanford mansion,
the stately Mark Hopkins Institute,
some of the Art school, the Hunting
ton mansion, the Croker house, are
all on the ground. The walls Of the
Flood mansion stand, but it is ruin
The window frames and wood work Of
the Fairmount hotel are burned and
the white walls are blackened, but it
stands and is little damaged.
The wholesale districts, the down
town. retail district, the banking and
insurance districts may be counted of
the map.
Of the Clubs, The Cosmos,