The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-22

wholesome effect. To General Freder-
lex Funston is due the present favor
able state of affairs, and late tonight
he notified Mayor Schmitz of his DEF
sire to surrender all propositions in cons
nection with maintenance of order To
the city officials, and this will be donei
| as soon as possible. -a
| A sinister aspect of the situation isl
the report of fourteen cases of small-is
pox within the city, but it is hoped!
that these cases are sporadic. Abso-.
lutte isolation is being attempted. Gem
eral Funston tonight declared that this
question is the big one, and that there-
fore everything must be done to stamp
out the disease before it gets a foot.
hold.
The dead are being buried in TRENCH
es' unidentified, as many as fifteen be.
/ ing placed in a single ditch. This
may seem horrible to outsiders, but it
! is the only way, and those within the
4 city do not believe any one can pro-
test against the Dissertation of their
dead, as all are treated alike.
Rations for Sunday.
/ Tonight it became necessary for the.
soldiers on duty and the police to fol-
low up their orders of last night that.
no lights be allowed in tents or the
homes left standing, and in many cases
they had to use force to carry out the
orders Of their superior officers.
Every one of the thousands of hofile-
less went to sleep tonight with his
hunger satisfied and each has been
given sufficient rations to last him thru
Sunday.
/ Marcel Cert, who is in charge Of the
work of providing for the safety of the
| homeless, has men at work erecting
large temporary barracks in Golden
Gate park, in the Preside and other
| points where they are necessary. All
of these places are in charge of officers
of the regular army and the result is
that matters could not be in better
shape under the circumstances.
Scores of Doctors.
| BY a stroke of good fortune, the
State Medical society was in session
in this city and every physician has
turned to and is helping. This means
that competent men are looking after
the sick, and before tomorrow night
there will be enough medical stores on
hand to guarantee that no one shall
suffer.
I AS the bodies of the dead are being
found, the estimates Of the total loss
of life grows, but as yet there is moth
ing upon which accurate figures can be
based. Neither can there be any esti-
mate placed upon the number who have
died from fright, hunger or exhaustion.
Conditions Improve.
Late this afternoon the conditions
in the stricken city have moder-
ated and improved to such an
I extent that every one connected
with the city government and
the work of relief are in a happy mood
and declare that there is now no chance
of any very great suffering, tho of
course there will be for many weeks
great inconvenience.
There is water in abundance now, and
there is also a constantly increasing
supply of food being brought into the
city and being distributed into the va.
& rious relief depets, where it will do the
& most good. -
Pestilence Grave Danger.
The grave danger IS, of course, thai
of pestilence. Rumors of serious sick
ness among the survivors quartered in
the concentration camp at the Preside
are in circulation, but, according to Ma
ior Krauthoff, the chief commissary of
ficial,e who has practical charge of ths
various camps, this is not so. He state:
that, Of course, many persons driven te
the verge of insanity by their terrible
experience of the last few days are s.
completely exhausted that they requir,
medical care, but he does not believ,
the fear that smallpox or dysenter,
will break out and become epidemic i
well founded.
Fire Dies Down.
At this hour the fire has died down
in every section of the city, ard in the
west end, where the gravest fears were
felt, the fire is well-nigh extinguished.
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