The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-23
OAKLAND CARING
FOR 4 MULTITUDE
Nearly $4,000 San Francisco
Refugees Now Camped or
Housed Across the Bay.
RELIEF BUREAU WEDDING
SURVIVORS BEING CAREFULLY
REGISTERED.

Oakland, Cal, April 22.-Oakland is
caring for $4,000 people rendered home
less by the San Francisco disaster, and
is prepared to care for twice as many.
The height of the influx has been
reached, and the number of the ref
ugees is slightly decreasing. Although
they are still coming in large numbers,
still more are leaving by every train
for different points. Requests for free
transportation are Investigated as
closely as possible, and all the deserv-
ing are sent away. Women and chill
dren and married men who wish to
join their families in different parts of
the state are given the preference. The
transportation bureau is on a street
corner, where a man stands on a box
and calls the names of those who are
entitled to passes
Few Lack Shelter.
No one now goes hungry here, and
few lack shelter, but cots and bed COW
ering are needed Parks, public
squares, vacant lots, churches, frater-
nal halls shelter the homeless ones. At
the First Presbyterian church 1900
were fed today and 1000 people will
sleep there tonight Pews have been
turned into beds. Cots are in the
aisles, in the gallery and in the Sunday
school room. Every available inch of
space is occupied by some substitute
for a bed. An emergency maternity
hospital has been established at Eme-
ryville.
John D. Rockefeller has sent money
for the establishment of a new camp,
which will bear his name
Los Angeles has provided for a camp
to accommodate 1000 people. and has
sent sixty physicians and nurses to
look after the sick In it. Food is also
help is offered if needed The princi-
pal food needed now is fresh fruit,
which is requested of nearby cities
Registration of Refugees.
An important piece of work that is
going on at relief headquarters in the
chamber Of commerce is the registra-
ton of refugees. There are forty-five
clerks engaged in this work alone. All
who register are catalogued by cards
which bear their names and their old
and new addresses. In this manner
dozens of families have been reunited
and friends have found each other A
line of anxious inquirers extends far
out into the street, while others file
past to register or to leave an inquiry
for some one who might seek them.
There Is an employment bureau where
work is provided whenever possible.
Hundreds of letters pour in, and the
information asked is given wherever
possible.
Independent of the regular relief
committee much work is being done by
fraternal societies. the members of
which meet all incoming trains and
take care of the destitute.
Wedding at Relief Bureau.
A wedding took place at the relief
bureau at midnight last night. Despite
the fact that the groom had only 81 80
the newly married couple looked cheer
fully on the prospect that confronted
them and departed happy and hopeful
A relief bureau especially for thea
trical people is situated on Broadway,
near Twelfth, and transportation east
has been furnished to 200 people, One
hundred are being fed at the Bell the
atre and will be given tickets out of
town as soon as possible Stars as we'll
as music hall singers are gathered at
the bureau, and there are many of
them who look hungry for a sight of
the lights of Broadway.
The Chinese Jared worst Of all the
San Francisco refugees. Some got out
with their belongings at the first alarm
of fire, but others remained until the
afternoon Then, as the flames came
closer they were driven out by the SOL
diers without being allowed to gather
food or clothing. A haSty guard shot
one as he was going into his own store
for goods. Nearly 900 of them have
arrived here, and the majority have
been cared for in the local Chinatown.
Nearly all of then s-e absolutely des-
titute, and it was IIl-DC Ssible until this
morning to provide in any adequate
way for feeding them. Many are
going to other towns, but there are
thousands who, with no prospects of
finding work, no matter where they go,
have sunk into a state of apathy
They are housed as we'll as possible
among their countrymen, but the ac-
cOmmOdatiOns are very meagre.
You can afford to be loyal to Home
Industry when qualities such as
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