The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-04-27
NOTES OF FRISCO FIRE
Thousands of Dollars and Train Loaas
Of Supplies Rushed There.

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Elks. after a conversation at Cincl
ratti with Grand Officers John Gil
vim and Eugene Lewis, wired Sal
Francisco $4,000 for the relief o
sufferers.
A carload of provisions valued a
$4,000 has been sent by Mayor Gil
lette on behalf of citizens of Nelson
5. c. to the destitute citizens o
San Francisco.
The St. Louis relief fund for Sal
francisco sufferers Sunday reached
the 100000 mark. The work of rails
ing funds has scarcely started.
Nearly $4,000 in cash was collected
in one night at Baltimore at a meet
ing in behalf of the San Francisco
fund.
The Canadian government has voted
100000 for the earthquake suffer
ers in San Francisco.
Old Chinatown is gone and hun
dreds of the yellow slaves are said
to have persisted in holes.
Eleven postal clerks were taken
from he debris of the p~ostoffice
All were thought to be dead, but il
was found that, although they were
buried in the stone, every n was
alive. They had been for three days
without food or water. All the mail
was saved.
San Quentin prison is intact. The
walls were cracked and a few chin
neys were upset, but no further dam
age was done. During the first shock
the convicts set up walls that could
be heard for a mile. They acted like
wild animals and tore at their trem-
bling bars like maniacs. Warden
Edgar called out all the guards, lined
the walls and released the prisoners
into the big yard.
An urgent appeal has been sent out
for a supply of chloride of lime. 1t
is absolutely necessary to insure sani-
tary conditions. 1t is wanted i'm
mediately and in large quantities.
Other drugs badly needed are sulphur,
carbolic acid, bichloride of mercury,
vaccine points, general ~antiseptics,
fornaldehyde and cathartics Of any
kind, castor oil, opium in pills, NOR
phine in tablets and quinine. 1t is
almost as urgent that the people out
side the city furnish these drugs as
it is that they send food.
The Oakland offices of the Western
Union and Postal Telegraph com
panies are literally swamped with
messages filed by people from San
Francisco anxious to assure their
friends OF their safety. There are
more on hand than could be sent in
a week. To relieve the strain as
much as possible, packages of mes
sages are being mailed to nearby Of
fees to be tent by wire to their desti-
nations.
1t is stated that a number of firms
OF San Francisco in structural and
architectural work are making pre-
partitions to open up their iron plants
as soon as possible and that many of
them viii establish temporary plants
in Oakland.
The town Of Tomales is a pile of
ruins. All of the large stores are fat.
Dissatisfaction is being expressed
the conduct of some of the soldiers.
Many of those doing guard and patrol
duty are little more than mere boys,
who are wrought up to a high state
Of excitement by their position and
lave been shooting at pedestrians in
circumstances where milder measures
would have answered. Chief Oman
has asked the military authorities to
withdraw many of these men from the
Mission Dolores church the Oldest
building in the city, erected 100 years
go by Spanish missionaries, survived
be earthquake shocks and was saved
rom the fire. 1t is constructed of
.dobe blocks. The newer church, built
4 brick alongside of the old building,
Uttered from the shock.
Assistant Treasurer Jacobs. at San
francisco, for whose safety fears were
ntertained, is safe.
President Roosevelt has sent to CON-
ress a message, accompanying docu-
lents and papers from the war DEPART
lent, recommending the appropria-
on Immediately of an additional
100000 for the relief of the suf-
erers by the calamity at San Fran
lsco.
Every person left in San Francisco
reakfasted Saturday morning on food
BOXED in the open streets. no fires
eng allowed in the houses. A few
ricks or stones gathered in a sem
of a furnace. with a few dry
ieks beneath cans or kettles, was
lie improvised kitchen in which the
Of the millionaire, as well as the
lmblest workman was prepared.
The Stanford university is closed
Id there will be no more school his
ear.