The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-04-27

shock from which it will be years In
recovering. Practically all its fine
business blocks and magnificent
public buildings have been destroyed
by earthquake or fire. Where but
a few days ago stood a magnificent
city oftranscendent beauty aud great
ness is now but a waste of desolation
and charred ruins.
The poor are homeless and de-
pendent and many prosperous mer-
chants and tradesmen are little bet
ter About two thirds of the city of
100000 people is destroyed. 1t is
supposed the loss Of life will not
exceed GOO but the loss of property
will reach the enormous total of
near soc, 900, 900 dollars.
Thanks to the prompt and vigor-
Gus action of the militery and city
authorities, order has been brought
out of chaos and life and property
are now reasonably safe from the
ravages of the low and vicious,
Some 200, 900 people are homeless
and are being cared for by charity.
Train loads of provisions and
supplies have been pouring into the
city all week, from every quarter,
the goods donated by a generous
people and much of it carried long
distances free of charge by those
same soulless corporations we read
about, the railroads. A common
sympathy caused the people of this
country to rise up as one man and
contribute generously from their
abundance to the relief of this
striker people. The sufferings and
privations endured by the citizens
and guests of San Francisco, the
first few days after the earth
quake were intease. But now COM
plete arrangements are made for the
distribution of food stuff, the home
less located In regular camps and
rNiief carried on in regular army
style. Work agencies are opened
and thousands of men and women
already set to work. The business
of cleaning up the streets has begun
and already nave building opera
TONS been commenced. No fears
but that San Francisco will rise out
of its ruins greater and a prettier
city than before. 1t will take years
to accomplish it but it will come.
When Galveston was swept off
the earth by the great tidal wave
and thousands of Its citizens
drowned, people said it would
never be rebuilt, but American
money and American push soon had
the work of reconstruction going
and today Galveston is much bet
Ter city than before the great dis.
aster. San Francisco is much more
able than was Galveston.
INCIDENTS OF THE EARLHQUAKE FROM
4 THE TOPEKA CAPITAL
kEvery incoming train from the
west brings refugees from San Fran
cisco, who tell narrowing stories of
their experience and give graphic
descriptions of the horrors that fol-
lowed the earthquake and fire.
Worn by the exposure, hardships
and terrors of two days effort to
escape from the stricken city, Mrs
d. NJ. Johnson of Utica, N. Y,
and Miss Martha Stibbals of Erie,
Pa, passed through Denver Sunday
on their way home.
"The first that we Knew of the
earthquake was when we were awak-
hned in our room at the Randolph
hotel Wednesday morning by a
terrific shaking which broke loose
fragments of the ceiling" said Miss
Subbals. "There followed ire
mendous shock which shook the
building sideways and tossed it
about with something like spiral
Notion. When we reached the
street people were running hither
and thither. Some one passing ad-