The Green Forest tribune., 1906-04-28
Ruins of City Will
 Be Cleared Away.
And on the Shaken Site of Disastrous Fire will Rise the New Metropolis of the Pacific. Merchants Mak- ing Preparation to Begin
 Business. Supplies
 Rolling In

by the arrival of innumerable relief trains and arrangements by the city authorities whereby drinking water is being dispensed by the troops is relieving suffer- ing. Relief funds on the coast and throughout the country have been reported to date as being in excess of S1O, ,0OO ,OO0, and this is believed to be less than what is to come within the next week. Fifty car loads ofprovisions have been shipped from Los Angeles alone, while relief trains are being hurried to San Francisco from every point of the compass. All western cities have nobly re- sponded to the appeals for aid and the East is contributing money and relief trains which will aid in restoring order among those who remain in the stricken city.
 It is announced today that immediate steps for rebuilding the city are being invoked, and that with the fire under control it is believed complete order will be restored within a few hours, and that the work of cleaning up the ruins will commence imme. diately. Until this work is com menced there will be no accurate estimate of fatalities. The esti- mate of the loss on property ranges from $500, 900 ,OOO to S4OO,- GOO, ,000, either of which may be corrected when it is considered that the valuation of the city ex. ceeds S400,000, ,0OO, and three fourths of the city is in ruins.
 Estimates of the loss by the earthquake shocks are less than 10 percent of this sum, the fires which followed being responsible for fully 90 percent of the losses to life and property. Trains are now running on schedule time into Oakland across the bay, and refugees are crowding the out. bound trains, while those having relatives, friends or property in the stricken city are hastening to San Francisco.
 Refugees are relating tales of horrors, but all say that the loss of life is greatly exaggerated, and that the fires wrought the principal portion of the losses to property and life.
 Many eastern tourists who were in San Francisco during the shocks and fires which followed are arriving here on their way east minus clothing and baggage, but they are giving the first true account of the damage. They say the principal loss of life was in the down town district, where the falling buildings and the panic during the fires were re- sponsible for the deaths.
 Governor Pardee has called a special session of the State Legis- lature. State aid will be forth coming and the unanimous sen- timent of the legislators heard from favors pledging the states credit to it's fullest extent toward relieving suffering and aiding in rebuilding the devastated city.
 With the fire under control, fear subsiding and reason return ing, the process of cleaning up the ruins and restoring order and establishing business will be under way within a week, al- though it is expected that it will require one entire week for the ruins to cool sufficiently to permit systematic work.
 The strong hand of the military and police regulation and patrolis all that saves the city from reign of vandalism, and heroic meas. ures are being resorted to by these law and order forces. many looters being shot dead in their tracks, while instructions are issued to parrolers to spare none caught in the act of pillage and plunder.