The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-26
FRISCO REFUGEES
GO TO Los ANGELES
Homeless Find Helping Hands in
Neighbor City-Minnea-
politans Help.
rectal Correspondence of The Journal.

Special Correspondence of The Journal.
Los Angeles, Cal, April 21.--The city
of Los Angeles has this week passed
thru an experience it will never forget
so long as the present generation en-
dures.
The terrible disaster which has be-
fallen her sister city of the north was
hardly realized when the first reports
began to arrive Wednesday, morning,
and it is probable that not until today,
when the first Of the refugees, began
coming into the city, that the full i'm
port of the awful thing which has come
to those north of us begin to penetrate
the minds of the majority of our PEG,
pie. This does not mean that relief
work has been neglected. Never IN
the history of the country has call
for help from fallen sister city been
responded to so promptly and so gen.
efously. Hardly a man, woman or
child in Los Angeles who has not
given his or her contribution OF money,
supplies, time or labor. Relief head
quarters were established at once at
various points and pleas for contrlbu-
tions sent out by the Chamber OF Com
merce and Native Sons.
- Men and women have worked day
and night receiving and. packing food
and clothing. Automobiles, hayracks,
wagons and vehicles of every sort are
being driven up and down the streets,
bearing banners asking for aid; society
men stand on street corners and ask
aims like street beggars, making har-
Bushels and bushels of flowers are
hawked from every. corner and door
way, and the streets are lined with Sal
walton Army and Volunteers of Ameri-
ca members. gathering nickels and
dimes. . Every ones mind is on the
events known to be transporting in the
wrecked city, and little or no thought
is being given private interests.
Fear for Relatives.
It would seem that every resident of
Los Angeles has relative or friend
sin San Francisco, and days and nights
of untold misery have been spent by
thousands of people, haunting newspa-
per and telegraph Offices in utterly
useless attempts to learn news Of alb
sent ones. San Francisco is 400 miles
from here. And now attention is be-
ing turned toward the railway stations,
where trains are arriving again.. 1t IS
here that the people of Los Angeles are
learning what San Francisco has really
gone thru.
: The depots are packed. The crowd
is quiet. Some faces are without ex-
preston, while others show evidence of
continued grief.
Here on a truck sits an old man and
woman. They haven't spoken dozen
words for hours. Their only son was
employed in San Francisco, and slept
downtown.
E~.. Saved Her Bird.
When the first Frisco train arrived, a
tiny girl with big blue sunbonnet was
one of the first to alight. She was
dirty and pinched, but the appeal in her
pathetic little figure was forgotten fol
a moment when her sister, a little larg
err, alighted, clasping in a dirty hand
bird cage in which was a live canary
She had toted it three days and nights
and kept it alive.
There were thirteen in this particular
party, neighbors and relatives. One, :
babe in arms, had broken arm. They
: had no friends here and like hundreds
Of others were cared for by the Cham
Der of Commerce.
4 An old lady limped by with many {
moan. She was alone and nearly
:erazed. Kind hands cared for her. a
once. Men and women, boys and girls
fled by. many with eyes as expression
less as doll's, and as they came thu
waiting crowds scanned each face will
eager ewes, usually to turn away dis
appointed to await another train. Th'
tales told by all are alike, of terror
Ere and famine.
Minneapolitans Help.
Minneapolis people may be interested
particularly to learn what has been &C
complished at Hollywood, where abou
forty Minneapolitans reside at present
Hollywood people to date have raise'
more funds and contributed more foo
and clothing than any other town o
its size near Los Angeles. The foo
and clothing was solicited and packe
by the Woman 8 club of the city, an
at the headquarters were noticed yes
terday Mrs. Edward Winterer, Mrs. J
n. McDermott. Miss Jessie War;, Mr.
E. D. Taylor, Mrs. Rosetta Dennis, Mis-
|essica Dennis, Miss Pearl Parcher, Mr.
E. B. Wakeman, Miss Jean Wakema1
Mrs. H. Goodwin, Mrs. W. H. Caint
Charles Curtis, James Irsfeld, F. N
Parcher, Truman Parcher, E. D. Taylo
and J. E. Williams. all former Mime
apolis residents. The latter is at tn
head of one Of the committees and ha
assisted in raising nearly $4,000 by
house-to- house convass.
Considerable newspaper energy ha
put into hourly bulletins by the Cit
IN, a weekly sheet issued by E. I
Taylor and W. G. Parcher, two forme
Minneapolis men.