The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-04-22
GIVE Us WORK" !"
IS NOW THE CRY
Women, Rich Three Days Ago,
Seek Employment as
Servants.
CONSTRUCTION OF WESTERN
PACIFIC HELPS GREATLY
Special Trains Loaded With
Supplies Are Arriving in
Quick Succession.

QUICK succession.
OAKLAND, Cal. April n.-Crowded by
hundreds OF refugees In search OF aid,
the relief stations that were hurriedly
established in this city are now the scenes
OF great activity, Prominent among the
departments of the stations are employ
ment bureaus. where men and women
clamor to be put to work. Inc Survivors
are seeking work not only for the money
that II Will bring. but as relief Tor minds
that have been sorely tried for the past
four days
All Seeking for Work.
Gathered among those who are search
Ing for work are men VINO were In pros
porous circumstances. Former rich and
poor alike are willing TO take any Kind
OF employment that is offered Women
who were a few days ago the poSsessors
OF snug fortunes are temporarily taking
places as domestics that they may secure
homes while order Is being restored In
San Francisco.
Coming to Utah.
The heads of the employment bureaus
announced today that they would have
work enough for nearly all applicants.
ii;.Sdreds are being provided with trans
portation and sent to Utah, Nevada and
portions OF California to work on the
proposed route of tho Western Pacific
railway.
Supplies Pouring In.
As soon as e specials carrying food
arrive at Oakland the provisions arc
carted to tho relief stations and from
there distributed. Flour is sent to pri-
vate families that arc engaged In baking
bread for the public restaurants, Spe-
cial trains are arriving In fast succession
from various nearby cities. Each train is
respondent with banners announcing the
section from which the donation was sent.
Tonight AdJt Gen. Louck OF the Ma
tional guard, who Is In charge of the mil
itary here. announced that he expected
the arrival of the Seventh regiment of
tho National guard from Los Angeles and
southern California tomorrow. Two
squadrons OF cavalry and the signal corps
VIII be added to the soldicry already sta
toned here, and as fast as the companies
report for duty they Will be dispatched to
the suburban districts about Oakland and
throughout the county to protect that
part of the country. Already Oakland is
getting so conEested that the crowds of
survivors are making their way into the
country districts in the hope of finding
work and of escaping the clamor and
restleSSneSs of the city OF refuge,
Work in Good Shape.
Tonight the relief work is in finer con-
dtion despite the large crowds. than on
any day since the commencement Of the
calamity OF last Wednesday morning The
work has been SystematlZed and placed
under executive heads. The hospital work
Is all under the charge OF the local ply
sicians. assisted by willing workers from
outside cities This force will be increased
by the arrival Of the steamer Modoc from
Vallejo tonight, with two score of phySi-
clans. under the charge OF j. j. Hagen,
AS yet no cases of serious Illness have
been discovered among the refugees here.
Every precaution has been taken To guard
against pestileHce. and the perfect sanl-
tary inspection that Is going on every
hour gives splendid assurance that there
will be little danger from that source.
Nurses Volunteer.
Maternity hospitals have been estab-
lished in two parts OF the city, and quite
a number OF such cases are being tender
ly cared for Society girls and students
the valiant and heroic work rendered by
these volunteers under most trying cir
cumstances Is cheering and grand.
Uniting Scattered Families.
The nlimitabe and almost impossible
task Of uniting families and friends is oc-
cupying hundreds OF willing volunteers
AT fifty points registry bureaus have been
established and these are crowded with
anxious, grlcf-stricken ones.
In countless numbers Of cases, of course,
the searching and inquiring Is without re-
suit and all that remains for the dis
tracted ones are resignation, patience and
hopefulncss. In other cases. however. ex-
traordinary reunions have taken place.
Strange Reunion.
Dr. Knox reports the case tonight OF
nyStcrlCal woman at the congregational
church. who had arrived there prostrated
after seeing her husband buried alive un-
der the flaming walls OF their home while
trying to rescue few articles OF value.
AS the doctors were trying to restore her
she gave a scream Of JOY as she reCoG-
nzcd standing not seven feet from her
q brother whom she had not seen for
seven years
Found Mother in Street,
Today G. E. Hale. wealthy orchardist
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mother. who had been staying at the
Hamilton hotel In San Francisco. Failing
to find her in Oakland. he gathered to-
gether supply of food and water and
lett for San Francisco to continue his
search. He trudged seven miles through
the ruins and was making his way out
of the refuge centers. when he saw com
ing toward him woman and q man. both
carrying heavy bundles. lie recognized
I'm the woman his mother The man was
a total stranger, who had camped with
his family on the peaks. and taking pity
on the distress or Mrs. Hale, had left his
own loved ones with trends and had
started TO assist Mrs Hale to the ferry.
hoping at that point to get food to take
back with him TO the hills
No One Will Starve.
Tho work OF feeding the hungry is an
other department OF the work that IS we'll
organized, and If the relief trains keep
arriving as they did today there should
be no extensive hardship or enforced
starvation Tho great problem is the
distribution of the supplies-how to reach
all those who need food. This problem
under the able direction of the executive
committees and the Governor Is rapidly
being solved, and soon a perfect system
of food supply Will be working. Mean
while. private parties. notably the mer-
chants. are aiding with Independent effort
the work OF the committee. At many
points benches and tables have been I'm
proYisod along the streets and sidewalks
and here women and mon pass out coffee
and sandwiches TO the streaming truog-
Ing masses OF the homeless
Searching for Sister.
ID, e Barnwcll, Deputy County Clerk of
Fresno arrived tonight searching for his
sister. Mrs. s T I.ockhart. who came to
San Francisco Sunday to spend her
honeymoon She was staying in the
Hamilton hotel. the walls of which were
shaken TO the ground by the earthuuake
! and which afterward caught fire MANY
Of the guests were killed, but many more
escaped.