The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-22
SEARCHING FOR
THE LOVED ONES
Distracted Men and Women
Making Inquiries for Their
Relatives and Friends.
ACCOUNTING EXPERIENCES
REMARKABLE REUNIONS IN
SOME CASES.

Oakland, April 21.-Tonight Adjutant
General Louck of the national guard.
who is in charge Of the military here
announced that he expected the arri-
val Of the Seventh regiment of the ma
tiOnal guard from Los Angeles ana
southern California tomorrow Two
scuadrCns Of cavalry and the signal
corps viii DC added to the sOlIisiy al
ready stationed here and rs fast as
the companies report for duty thCy will
be dispatched TO the suburban districts
about Oakland and throughout the
county to protect that part IF the coun-
try Already Oakland is getting so
con2ested that the crowds Of survivors
gre making their way into the country
districts i'm the none Of finding work
and Of escaping the clamOr and rest
lessness OF the city Of refuge.
Relief Work Is systematized.
Tonight the relief work IS in finer
condition. despite the large crowds.
than ON any day since the commence
nent Of tho calamity CT last Wednes-
day morning. The work has been sys-
tematizcd and placed under executive
heads. The hospital work is all under
the charge of the local physicians as
sisted by willing workers from outside
cities. This force viii De Increased by
the arrival Of the steamer MOioc from
Vallejo tonight with two score of ply
Eicians under charge Of J. ]. Hagen.
AS yet no cases of serious illness have
been discovered among the refugees
here. Every HreCautiOn has been taken
to guard against pestilence and the
perfect sanitary inspection that is go
Ing on every hour gives splendid assdr-
RnCe that there will be little danger
from that source Maternity bOspitals
h.,r- III sr1,.@
the city, and quite a number OF such
cases are being tenderly cared for So
Ciety girls and students haze Vulun-
teered for nurse service and the valiant
and heroic work rendered - these vol
Unteers under most trying circum-
stances is cheering and grand.
Registry Bureaus Established.
The -illimitahle and almost impossible
task Of uniting families and friends is
occupying hundreds Of willing volun-
teers. At fifty points registry bureaus
have been established and these are
crowded with anxious, gricf-stric6en
ones.
I'm countless numbers Of cases. of
course the searching and inqUiring is
without result, and all that remains for
the distracted ones arc resignation. pa
thence and hopefulness. In ether cases.
however. extraordinary reunions have
taken place. D-. Knox reports the case
tonight of hysterical woman at the
ConGreSa tiOnal church who had arrived
there prOstrated after seeing her nus
Ddnd buried alive under the nami0r
walls of their home while trying to
rescue a few articles of value AS the
doctors were trying to restore her she
gave a scream of JOY a she recognized
standing not seven feet from 7er a
brother whom she had not seen for
seven years.
Found His Mother.
Today G. +. Hale. wealthy orchard
ISt of Pasadena. arrived IN search of
his mother, who had been STAYING at
me Hamilton house in San Francisco.
railing to find her in Oakland he gath
cred together supply of food and wa
ter an left for san Francisco to CON
tinue his search. lie tIudccd seven
miles through the ruins and was oak
ing his way out Market street toward
Twin peaks. one CT the refuge centers.
when he saw coming toward him vvo-
man and & man. both carrying heavy
bundles. He recognized in The woman
his mother The man VAS a total
stranger who had camped with mis-
family on the peaks and taking Dity
ON the distress Of Mrs. Hale I'D left
his own loved ones with friends ana
had started to assist Mrs Hale to tho
Jerry. hoping at that poirt 10 get food
= take back with him TO the hills. Hale
exchanged his bag for his mother and
both reached Oakland in safety topirbr
The incident is typical Of the ats of
humanity that are being performed on
all sides. va
Relief Work.
The work Of feeding the hungry &c
another department of the work ibat is
we'll organized and if the relief trains
keep arriving as they did TODAY there
should be no extensive hardship or en-
forced starvation The great problem
IS the distribution of the supplies-hoyv
10 reach all those who need food This
problem under the able direction of toa
executive committees and the cover
nor is rapidly being solved AVID som a
perfect system of food supply will he
working Meanwhile private Da-.+iae
notably the merchants. are aiding with
Independent effort the work o. the COM
mittee- At many points benches and
tables have been improvised along the
streets and sidewalks and here women
and men pass out coffee and sand
WiChes to the streaming trudgin~
masses of the homeless
Searching for His Sister.
u. E. BarnweU deputy county cIerl,
or Fresno county, arrived tonight
searching for his sister. Mrs & IT
ICckhart, who came to San Francisco
sunday TO spend her honeymoon She
was staying in the Hamilton hotel the
walls of which were shaken to the
ground by the earthquake and which
afterward caught fire. Many of the
guests were killed, but many more es-
capped.
The telegraph offices continue con-
gested. The police are assisting in
keeping the people i'm line. Hundreds
liTOn hundreds of MESA opS AFRO go ,lxol7