New-York tribune., 1906-04-21


/ hungry refugees is now the main problem the
/ local authorities have TO solve. They must be
/ fed and bread meat and drink in sufficient
quantities were lacking. Bread sold as high
as 81 loaf and two loaves and can of sar
| dimes brought in one instance So 30. This
dition Of affairs was not permitted to last long.
In towns across the bay the master bakers met
and fixed the price of bread at five cents a loaf,
with the understanding that they would refuse
| TO sell TO retailers who attempted 10 charge
famine prices. The committee of citizens in
charge of the situation in the stricken city used
every effort to keep the prices Of food from ris-
ing.
AUTHORITIES SEIZE STORES
Three relief stations for the homeless had been
established at early hour to-day by the gen.
eral committee as temporary homes of the
homeless. The stations are at Golden Gate
Park, the Presido and San Bruno Road. BY
order Of the general committee all remaining
stores were entered by the police last night and
their goods were confscated. Caravans of pro-
visions were sent from them to the three relief
stations.
The hills and beaches of San Francisco look
like an immense tented city. For miles through
the park. and along the strip of coast from
Ingleside TO the WALL at North Beach, the
homeless camped In tents nakeshifts rugged
UP from few sticks Of wood and a blanket or
sheet. Some few of the more fortunate fugi-
tives obtained vehicles. on which they loaded
regulation tents.
Golden Gate Park and the Panhandle are one
vast camping ground. It is said that fully one
hundred thousand persons, rich and poor alike,
sought refuge IN Golden Gate Park alone. and
there two hundred thousand homeless ones
at the other places OF refuge
Portsmouth Square yesterday became for
time a public morgue. Between twenty and
thirty bodies laid side by side upon the
trodden grass in the absence of a shelter. II is
said that when the flames threatened to reach the
square the dead. mostly unknown, moved
to Columbia Square, where they were buried
when danger threatened that quarter.
CITIZENS FORCED TO BURY BODIES.
Out at the Presidio soldiers pressed into SER
vice all men who came near the reservation, and
forced them labor at burying the dead So
thckly We're the bodies piled up that they were
becoming a menace and early in the day the
order was issued TO bury them at any cost. The
soldiers were needed for other work So at the
point of rifles. the citizens We're compelled to
take to the work Of burying The troops stood
no trifing and every man who came in reach
was forced TO work at least one hour. Rich men,
unused 10 physical exertion, labored by the side
of workngmen digging trenches in which TO
bury the dead.
To-day and tomorrow have been made legal
holidays This IL is believed will give the
bankers at San Francisco time 10 be in posi-
ton 10 meet the demands Of the depositors and
the danger of a financial crisis will be averted
The state banks and those of the United States
in general have telegraphed guarantees of sup
port TO local financial institutions, and arrange
ments have already been made whereby every
depositor will be paid in full.
LOSSES TO BE PAID IN FULL.
The insurance companies have already taken
up the question Of losses. 1t was stated yester-
dav that the companies have decided If possible.
10 pay dollar for dollar all the losses. whether
occasioned by fire or earthquake. This will
mean II the loss amounts 10 100000, 600, as 1t
is believed it WILL that s11OOOO.O0O will be paid
into the pockets Of San Francisco realty owners.
and with this as start new structures VIII
soon be in course Of erection on the sites or the
old.
The Fireman's Fund and the Home and
Marine both local corporations, Will, II is said'
be the principal sufferers The losses are
divided among eighty insurance companies, and
IL IS said authoritatively that all claims viii be
satisfactorily adjusted. and that no company
VII he so weakened that ii will be forced 10
srsnend The Pacific Coast managers Of the
era insurance companies which have suffered by
The fire will meet tomorrow morning in Oak
land 20 discuss the situation
The Folsom street pier was turned into tenn
porary hospital yesterday, the harbor hospital
being unable 70 accommodate the injured who
were brought there. About one hundred patients
were stretched the pier at one time. In the
evening tugs conveyed them 10 Goat Island.
where they were lodged in the hospital The
piers from Howard street to Folsom street have
been saved. and the fire at this point not
permitted 10 creep further east than Main street.
GAS EXPLOSIONS WRECK STREETS.
Explosions of gas have wrecked many
streets and caused alarm among people, who
mistook the upheavals for earthquakes Yester-
DAY afternoon a miniature volcano spouted at
Bryant and sth streets. Cobblestones were
hurled twenty feet upward and a cloud OF sand
filled the air.
Another series OF fatalities was caused yes
terday by the stampedins OF herd of cattle at
9th and Folsom streets Three hundred OF the
paniestricken animals amucI when they
and felt the flames and charged wildly down
the street. trampling under foot all who were in
the way. One man gored to death by q