Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-04-27

Tee, us well us ny IHe VOluuJdTy dCIH
of householders.
Homeless people were fed in a sys-
tematic manner. From the water
front, where the boatloads of pro-
visions docked, there was an endless
procession of carts and drays carry
ing food to the 80 sub-stations estab-
lished throughout the city and the
parks. At these stations food and
drink, comprising bread, prepared
meats and canned goods, milk and a
limited amount of hot coffee and even
fruit were served to all those who ap-
piled. About 1900 tons of provisions
are moved daily from the water front.
Large supplies of blankets, tentings
and other material to provide cover
ings for those who have been scantily
supplied are reaching the supply sta
tions rapidly. Barracks have been
completed at several points and in
these many persons have found COM
fort and shelter against the inclem-
encies of the weather. The situation
in the congested camps, such as Gold
en- Gate park and the various public
squares throughout the city, has been
considerably relieved by the departure
of many persons for points on the
other side of the bay. While the num-
ber of persons leaving the city is moth
ing like the vast crowds that packed
the ferryboats during the first two
days following the earthquake, the
number was sufficiently large to sat
tsfy the relief committee that it's task
will become less difficult from day to
day.
General health conditions are salts
| factory. While the number of cases
at the various hospitals has increased
each day, sickness is mostly due to
exposure and worry. The most en-
couraging feature is the absence of
anything like contagion or an epi-
demic of disease of any nature.
Legal business will be resumed in
San Francisco to-day. All the su-
perior judges will open their IL de-
Criminal cases will have precedence.
Probate matters will follow and civil
cases, such as damage suits and di-
vorces, will be reserved for the last
place on the calendar. All trials that
were progressing at the time of the
catastrophe will be recommended.
The following telegram from ]. G.
! Stubbs, traffic director of the South
ern Pacific railway, was sent Monday
to Assistant Traffic Director McCor-
mick in Chicago:
"Please ask the press generally to
advise all people not to try to reach
San Francisco. Outsiders are not al
lowed to land here. They would only
add to the congestion of the cities
around the bay and it would be i'm
possible for them to locate anyone.
All the people are being well taken
care of and there will be no trouble if
supplies are kept coming"
The condition of the 500 persons
camped in Jefferson square is terrible.
Not more than per cent. have even
an army tent, and makeshifts are con-
structed of carpets, bed sheets and
every imaginable substance.
H. c. Tilden, one of the most promi-
nent members of the general relief
committee, was shot and almost in
stantly killed in his automobile Mon
day morning at Twenty second and
Guerrero streets while returning
from Menlo park. He was shot by
members of the citizens patrol. Hugo
Altschull, a coachman, who was in
the automobile, was cut in the face by
bullet and another ball pierced the
seat and struck in the back of r. G.
Seaman, acting lieutenant of the
second company of the signal corps.
| Seaman suffered no injury
Tilden was a prominent commission
merchant of this city and was one of
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relief work.
The three men under arrest are e.
S. Boynton, telephone inspector,
George w. Simmons and Malcolm
Vance. They are all young men and
members of the citizens patrol. Boyn-
ton declares that he did not see the
Red Cross flag on Tilden's car and
when the latter did not stop when
challenged he fired. The coachman in
the car then began shooting and Sim
mons and Vance replied.
San Francisco, Cal.-Tuesday was
the seventh day since the earth
quake Jared the city and started the
fires that laid it in ashes, and as on
the preceding days, Tuesday took uI
the accumulated impetus of Monday
own, so that Wednesday dawns on a
situation that is long way towards
the normal.
One of the gruesome scenes that
followed the fire was that witnessed
on Telegraph and Russian hills and
along the entire North Beach front OF
the city Tuesday morning when scores
of half starved dogs were found eating
human bodies. The animals were dis.
covered -gnawing and tearing at the
corpses half buried in the ruins
Where only a leg or an arm protrudet
the dogs were digging for the rest o.
the body.
Men who had been sent into the
ruins of homes to look for what little
property that might have escaped the
flames came upon this sickening con
dition and reported it to the naval Of
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