The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-22
there. Prodigal, hospitable San Francisco
is being paid back in kind by the country.
FUNSTON TACKLES sANITA7

threatens San Francisco. The sewers arc
gone. 1t is city without sanitation. ON
ditions are ripe for any kind OF pestilence.
There is just enough water for drinking and
cooking, not enough for cleanliness. To
settle this problem Gen. Funston, the little
man with horse sense to whom the city
owes so much, has bent all his energy.
troops nave arrived from the south, a good
part Of the soldiers rave been sent of to
arrange sanitary camps in the Potrero
and on the ocean slope Of the city. Even
Golden Gate Park, large and open as it is,
has become foul through the occupation
of more than 100, 900 people for two nights.
TOWNS ASK FOR REFUoEEs.
Committees from this side Of the bay;
passed specially by the troops, were in
San Francisco to-day advising every one
to leave. The whole State has telegraphed
offers OF hospitality. Berkeley, where the
University CT California campus is a con-
centrating camp, asks for 2 900 more; Fresno
wants 5000, and nearly every town Of the
San Joaquin Valley offers to help. The
Southern Pacific is giving free transporta.
ton and all trains are crowded. This will
help to avert the pestilence.
There is a great forest country with
flowing streams to the north. If only
provisions can be got to those this and the
slopes Of Mount Tamalpais can accommodate
thousands without danger. Yet what can
three railroad lines do with 100000 people?
Sanitation is the problem now. The ruins
Of the tenement district south Of Market
street, where most Of the dead lay, have
cooled. Yesterday the police, the soldiers
and hardy citizen volunteers set themselves
to gathering the corpses, which are in fright
full condition from the great heat, and
burying them. So many bodies appear to
have been taken out from little houses whose
fall escaped notice in the general disaster
that the number OF dead must pass the
early estimate OF 600.
To- oDIEs IN PARKs
There was no attempt to get them to the
cemeteries OF even to the temporary
teries at the Preside. They were buried
in the nearest parks unidentified. In Colum-
bia Park and in South Park big trenches
were dug and the corpses were piled in
fifteen to a trench. At one place on Folsom
street there was no park near at hand. They
dug the trench there in an unpaved street.
A military messenger who came over to-
night with dispatches reported that this
horrible task is nearly done. Most Of the
corpses are under ground.
CHINATOWN NNE cAvED IN.
There is another unconsidered factor
which adds to the list of probable dead.
Chinatown was built three stories above
the street and three below it. The Chinese
had run their tunnels, chambers and secret
were always populated, especially at night.
AS they were not timbered, these tunnels
must have caved in, for the shock was
strong enough at that point to overthrow
which must have happened down there in
the bowels OF the earth! Even If the Chinese
had thought Of rescue work here, the fire
would have driven them away, for China
town caught fire almost at once and the
population was driven into Portsmouth
square.
TWENTY-FIVE PEDLER KILLED.
New details of the earthquake shock keep
coming in. Only to-day did We learn that
about twenty-five vegetable pedlers, mostly
Italian, were killed by the fall of the vege-
table market on Washington street. This
was a wide, low building and was doing q
lively business at 8 O'Clock in the morning
when the shock came. The roof fell and
the fire reached that building before the ruins
could be searched. 1t is said that two or
three were roasted alive.
Men are mighty good or mighty bad in a
time like this. We have learned that. Three
quarters Of the people are helping one an
other, sharing their rations with them, help
ing to hunt for the missing, burying the
dead, caring for the sick. ~One-quarter Is
grabbing and storing food, trying to make
money from the necessities of others, ready
to rob and to plumber. One old man who
came over alone on the ferry to-day wore
a big overcoat, although the weather is
mild, appeared very fat and walked with
difficulty. A soldier took a good look at him,
stepped forward, ripped his overcoat open
and found that he had tied bags Of provisions
all about his body. like a life preserver.
He cried piteously when the soldiers COM
Wandered the provisions.
STILL SHOOTING LooTERs.
They are still shooting the ~looters, but
certain rumors about men caught stealing
Jewels from the dead and cutting of the
fingers Of corpses to get at the rings are re-
garded as preposterous on the face Of it. The
dead were among the very poor. That alone
makes this story foolish. Although the
soldiers asa whole have behaved like heroes,
there are isolated cases Of p~rivates who have
got drunk on liquor taken out Of ruined
buildings and uaed their rifles too freely.
Probably more than one case OF reported
execution for footing amounted to cold