The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-20
BREAD ST A LOAF.
Enormous Prices Charged the Fam
ishing Earthquake Victims.


Oakland, Cal. April 19-Refugees
from san Francisco continued to pour
| into Oakland until a late hour tonight.
While no one was taken from this side
of the bay to San Francisco after 6
o'clock, the ferries continued to land
their cargo of humanity on this side.
Many narrowing stories of hardship
were told by the refugees, women in
particular, having most pitable eXpe-
rienCes. One lady. the wife of an As
ISOLATED Press employee, walked from
{ the western addition seven miles
around the burned district and en-
dured all sorts of hardships in order
to reach the water front at North
Beach, where she was taken aboard
tug and later transferred to an Oak
land ferrybOat She said that she had
had nothing to eat for almost two days
and that her experience was not eX-
/ ceptiOnal, but that there were tens of
/ thousands of people far out on the hills
/ toward the west beach, in Golden Gate
park, in vacant lots and along the
| north beach water front without food
/ or water. Many were seeking TO
/ reach the ferry, but thousands were
| camped in the hope that the fire would
| soon exhaust itself and that they
/ might be able TO return to the place
/ where their homes once stood, or To
their houses, should they be so for
! tunate as TO have one left.
Crackers 10 Cents Apiece.
/ In the extreme west end of the city
] the few grocery stores remaining open
were besieged by hungry crowds and
/ their supplies quickly exhausted in
| one place two men* fDught over a bag
/ Of waInuts the ot1y food remaining
/ in the store. 1t is Said that a loaf Of
! bread sold for a dollar, and that soda
/ crackers retailed at 10 cents apiece.
/ Oakland is feeling the effects tonight
of the great influx Of refugees from the
/ burned city across the bay. Every re
/ staurant in this city was "eaten OUT
! by o'clock tonight and the doors
! closed, because no supplies could be
] had until morning. Thousands of peO-
/ pie are wandering through the city
/ seeking a place to sleep, and there are
! few private homes tonight that do not
| house a refugee from San Francisco.
! There has been a great rush of peO-
! pie from Los Angeles and other Cali
! fOrnia cities to this place, many of
! those arriving here being residents of
/ San Francisco. who rushed back when
! they learned of the terrible calamity
! to their city. Hundreds Of others came
! to ascertain the fate of friends or to
! look after their material interests.
Trains All Crowded.
Both the Southern Pacific and the
! Santa Fe lines south from Oakland
/ have brought in trainlOad after train
/ load, and few, if any, Of the paSsen-
! gers landed in Oakland have been able
! 10 reach the other side of the bay.
/ Even those who did succeed in crossing
| through the devastated city were I'M
able to locate their families or their
! friends. AS the fire swept westward
| toward the residence section people va
! Gated their homes and sought safety
/ wherever they could.
/ State militiamen and local police pa
/ troll the streets in the business section
/ of Oakland tonight and have estab-
/ lished lines about the various build
/ ings damaged by the earthquake ana
which are considered unsafe. There is
| absolutely no disorder or confusion in
Oakland, Notwithstanding the thou
sands of refugees who have been
brought across the bay today.
Every train leaving Oakland is load
ed to its utmost capacity with persons
seeking 10 get away. Most of these are
women and children who are being
sent to various California cities until