Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-05-03
Startled San Francisco
Wednesday.
KILLED A WOMAN.
Food is in Plentiful SuppIy-The
Mayor Requests That Only Un-
perishabIe Food be Sent.

San Francisco, Cal. - At 3:15
o'clock Wednesday afternoon a shock
of earthquake was felt. 1t lasted
nearly a minute and caused consider
able alarm and one woman was
killed. A number of walls of buildings
which were burned were thrown down
and fral buildings were considerably
shaken up, but the damage done was
slight.
The shock was felt in Oakland and
Berkeley, but in these places it was
very slight and of brief duration.
An idea of the task which confronts
the food commission may be gained
from the fact that throughout the city
rations for $40 .440 persons were dis
tributed Tuesday. This is an average
estimate based on reports from few
of the food depots. At one point pro-
visions were given out to 672 persons
an hour for ten hours. This station is
neither one of the largest nor one of
the smallest, and so its reports were
used as basis to strike an average.
All flour that was received in sacks
is exchanged al bakeries pound for
pound for bread. Almost all the bak-
cries in the unburned region have
opened and are selling bread at five
cents a loaf.
There is no danger of a meat fam
inc. Representatives of the Western
Meat Co. in south San Francisco re
ported to the relief committee We'd
nesday morning that there are now in
the yards 800 cattle, 5000 sheep and
500 hogs.
More than 200 cattle are killed and
dressed daily and sheep and hogs are
put under the knife as fast as they ar
rive.
In the distribution of clothing, pre-
cautions against fraud will be taken by
squads detailed to visit each tent or
shelter and list the occupants and
tabulate their wants. Orders will be
given out emitting the holders to the
needed clothing, bedding or other
stores.
Pitiful stories of suffering from ex-
posure, ignorance and heIplesspe5s
are flooding the relief committee.
The surgeon In charge OF the gen
eral hospital at the Preside states
that his force is perfectly organized
and that IS members of the army
nurse corps are due at the Presidio
from Chicago Thursday. They will be
divided between the Preside and
emergency hospitals of the city.
Since the beginning of the calamity 20
deaths have occurred in the general
hospital
That San Francisco is to be rebuilt
on better and more beautiful lines is
indicated by the fact that James d.
Phelan, chairman of the Improvement
association of San Francisco Tuesday
dispatched kilograms to Architect
Daniel V. Burnham and his assistant,
Mr.. Bennett, of Chicago, to come i'm
mediately to San Francisco to take up
the work planned two years ago.
San Francisco, Cal.-The relief
work has made rapid progress. 1t is
now in the hands of the military au-
thorities and has been perfected and
systematized until the feeding and
sheltering of the thousands of hungry
and homeless people is going on eXpe-
ditiously. There is still scarcity of
sugar and coffee, and an urgent and
pressing need for more blankets, cots
and tents, owing to the unusual cold
nights for this season of the year,
which now prevail.
Restoration of the telephone system
is making good headway. Forty tele-
phones were in operation Wednesday,
but the dynamiting of walls tempo
rarily put some of them out of com
mission again.
The Dairy Mems association has an
nounced that it will furnish milk free
! tO tho relief organizations until Nav |
For the first time since the earth
quake street lights were burning in
| San Francisco Thursday night
| Sixteen thousand persons are now
! being cared for at the Presidio most
of them in tents. All the available
| tents are in use, but a supply of about
! $4,000 is expected in a day or two,
when everyone needing shelter will
! be provided for. There is no contagi-
Gus disease in or around the grounds.
San Francisco, Cal. - Harmony
and pledges OF good feeling marked
the meetings Friday of the various
| bodies of citizens committees and
representatives of the army which are
administering the affairs of San Fran
! cisco.
The last sign of confusion and mis-
understanding which at times existed
! disappeared and the first signs OF the
return 10 former conditions were the
resumption Of street car traffic in GER
tain streets and the taking out OF the
first permit for the erection of a mod.
ern steel structure on the ground Oc-
oupied a few days ago by a less sub
stantial building.