The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-04-23

Soldiers are everywhere. and few per-
sons are allowed to pass their lines.
Looters are being shot down without
mercy.
Death by rifle bullet without even
the formality OF drumhesd court
martial tx the fate that martial law il
now melting out TO San Francisco's
malefactVs.
In Golden Gate park. where tens Of
thousands of men. women and children
sought sleep or rest on the green.
sward, two men were summarily shot
10y the guards for attempting gross in
suits upon women refugees Their
doom aroused NO sympathy. Their
speedy punishment, II Is believed. will
have an exemplary influence upon the
horde Of worthless vagabonds from
Chinatown aud the "Bsrbary coast
whom fate has thrown temporarily in
to the same environment with hun.
dreds Of refined women.
Unfortunately the belief Is growing
that there have been many shootings
that have not been so well justified.
Various reports Of the summary exc
cutiOn Of men caught in the act Of loot
ing are ahoat. One man shot was 3
foreigner who was ordered by sol
der 10 cut down some trees Under
standing English imperfectly. the man
started to walk away. He was shot
through the body without further par
ley aud, though not killed outright, Is
dangerously wounded.
The entire western addition OF the
city lying west VI Van Ness avenue
which had escaped the sweep OF flame.
is absolutely safe.
A trip through the burned districts
revealed a scene OF unspeskable desc
1 lation. From many points on Market
street as far as the eye could reach in
I any direction there was nothing but
skeleton walls and smoldering ruins,
1t should be borne In mind that San
Francisco was not destroyed by the
earthquake. While old buildings In
/ that part of the city, which stood on
street. and some OF that district lying
south OF Market street. IL is true, sur
( fered from the shock. II was fire that
wrought the great devastation and
wiped out the entire business section
and probably half of the residence sec
/ ton Of the city. The great modern
/ steel structures were practically unin-
iured by the earthquake, except for
cracked walls and displaced plaster.
/ All these great structures Of course
/ subSequeD''r were utterly ruined by
/ the flames - far as the inner construc-
/ ton is concerned. hut the walls are In
most cases intact The most notable
cases OF practical immunity from the
shock were the st. Francis hotel. the
Fairmount hotel. the Flood building,
the Mills building, the Spreckels build
ing the Chronicle building and scores
Of other modern steel structures
Chief ID. J. Sullivan OF San Francis.
cos fire department died yesterday
from the effects of injuries received
,on the morning Of the earthquake.
Chief Sullivan and his wife Were sleep
ing in the firehOuse adjoining the Cali
fornia hotel on Bush street. The earth
quake shook down the chimney OF the
hotel and sent II crashing through the
irehouse. Chief sullivan and his wife
were carried with the debris two
stories to the ground floor where they
were extricated after great difficulty.
sullivan had fractured skull, four
broken ribs and other injuries.
Thousands of Tents Co West.
JUNCTION CITY. Kan. April 2l.-
Three express cars loaded with thou
sand tents aud more than 500 cots left
Fort Riley on the Union Pacific for
San Francisco.