The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-04-23
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streets, weeping and yalnly lnqulrlng
| for lost relatives and friends and
suffering for food But rations are
being distributed by the military and
police at fifty points in the ely, where
thousands are lined up waiting. Bread
| and groceries have been confiscated
trcm the shops.
The spirit OF the unlajured surviv-
ors is splendid.
Men and women volunteers are
working night and day TO reliave die
tress.
The lighting, water and saver sys-
TENS ara useless, ard danger of an ep-
idemIc is imminent.
The water front is completely gone,
with the exception OF the Oakland
ferry house. which has been declared
unsafe and may go down with the first
big gust of Wind
Fire in the Russian ana Italian quar-
rers last night ana today cost approx
imately twenty five lives AMI rend-
cred $4,000 more people homeless.
1.-The number of dead in San Fran
cisco will never be kpown, but it will
probably reach into the thousands"
Oakland, April 2t.-Crowded by
hundreds of refugees in search OF sue
cor the reliaf stations that were hur-
rledly established il this city ale now
the scenes of great activity.
Prominent among the departments
If the stations are employment bur
eaus where men and women clamor
70 ba pt to work. The Survivors
are seeking work not only for the
money that il Will Dling but as re-
!ief for minds that have been sorely
MED for the past four days
Gathered among those who are
searching for work are men who
" re i'll prosperous circumstances.
Former rich and poor alike are willing
10 take any employment that il offer
| ed.
Women who were few days ago
tie possess0Is of snug fortunes are
temporarily taking places rs domestics
that they may secure places as domest-
| les homes while order is being restored
III San Francisco.
The heads of the employment bureaus
announced touay that they would have
work enough for nearly ali applicants.
Hundreds are being provided with
| transportation and sent tn Utah, Ne
vada ana portions of California to
work on the proposed route of the
Western Pacific.
Santa Rosa, CAL, April 90 The list
Of known dead now totals fifty-ei2ht.
and it Is beloved that 100 Is Il cOnserv
alive estimate of the number of people
W NJ kOSt tHOiI lives III tfiO a W lul Odtro-
trophe which visited this city Oh We'd
nesday morning. Five bodies were
recovered today from the wreckage,
and the search has hardly begun.
TIE entire business section is in
ruins, ana practically every residence
in town is more or less damaged, fiji
teen or twenty being badly wrecked.
The damage to residences was caused
principally by thu sinking of the foun-
datIons. whi3h let many structures
down to the ground.
The brick and stone business blocks,
together with the public buildings,
were all thrown flat.
The count house, hall of records. the
Occidental aud Santa Rosa hotels,
the Athenaeum theater, the new Mas
onic temple. Odd Fellows block, all
the banks-everything went and IN all
the city not one brics or stone build
ing is standing except the California
Northwestern depot.
Los Angeles. April Ell witness
sed the burning of Chicago in 1871 and
was in charleston when an earthquake
created great destruction there, but
the San Francisco horror far nutshad-
cws those dire calamities, said DR..
Frank BarKer, OF Rochester, N. Y,