Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-04-25
DEATH REPORTS DIFFER
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in Il rra1- $50 mere arc 10y land
marks left 10 go by. Down in Ports
mouth square stands the monument to
the memory of Robert Louis Steven
son. The trees are scorched aud with
cred. and the bronze galleon on the
monument looks down on Il long. rude
french with twcnty-three wooden pegs
staked less than two feet apart. They
sleep close together, those namelesS
victims of earthquake and flames.
touching shoulders in their shallow.
lime streWn grave. Without priest or
prayer they were hurried ont Of the
sight of man. buried at night in the
glare Ct a burning city.
Secretary Shaw has sent S~1J,0O0,000
Of treasury funds TO san Francisco for
bank deposit to relieve money strin-
gpucy.
Danger of Presidential epidemic APP
pears Hvcrtcd. hut hundreds of cases of
pneumonia are now reported in the
refugee camps. Rains added to the
general misery.
Several cases Of intermittent insani-
ty have appeared among quake sur
vivors owing to uvrrStrained nerves.
Chinatown is gone forever from its
old site. Mayor Schmitz has ordered
that all the Chinese be concentrated on
Hunters point. several miles from the
city's center.
l'ortifications at the Golden Gate Suf-
fered severely in the earthquake. and
nearly all the big gun batteries are
useless.
Willis Ames. a Salt Lake man who
escaped from San Francisco, makes Il
CHASTITY statement, saying:
while was walking about the
streets ! saw man after man shot
down by the troops. Most of these
were ghouls. one man made the troop
or believe that II of the dead bodies
lying on Il pile of rocks was his mother.
and he was permitted to go up TO the
body. Apparently overcome by grief.
he threw himself across the corpse. In
another instant the soldier discovered
that he was chewing the diamond ear
rings from the ears of the dead wOm-
an. Here is where you get what is
coming to YOU said one of the soldiers.
md with that he put Il bullet through
the ghoul. The diamonds We're founo
in the mans mouth afterwards
That three men We're shot 10 death
on IL blazing root in San Francisco to
keep them from being burned alive is
solcmuly asserted by Max Fast, Il gar
ment worker.
"When the fire caught the Windsor
hotel at Fifth and Market" said Mr..
Fast. there were three men on the
roof. and it was impossible to get them
down. Rather than see the craZed
men fall in with the roof and be roast
ed alive the military officer directed his
men to shoot them. which they did in
the presence of 5000 people. | saw
great stones fail on three men near the
city hall, crushing the life out of them.
In Union square | stood beside IL wom-
an who died actually from fright and
thirst. Her last request was for water,
and we had none to give her
Coroner William Walsh estimates
that the total number Of dead will not
be less than Il thousand.
His reports are complete, and his es-
innate is made up from all the data he
has been able to collect,
A late report says that 400 more bod
les have been uncovered in the clear
ing away of Market street ruins. Fa-
tality estimates are steadily rising.
Once the pride Of SAN Francisco,
Van Ness avenue is fiat as the earth
from dynamite and gun cotton. Every
pound did its work, and though the
ruins burned 1t was but feebly. From
Golden Gate avenue north the fire
crossed the wide street in but one
! place. That was the Claus Spreckels
place ON the corner of California street.
There the flames were writing up the
walls before the dynamiters could
reach it. Yet they made their way to
the foundations, carrying their eXplo-
Sives despite the furnace-like heat.
The dynamiting squad of Captain
MacBride saw that a stand vas hope
less except on VAN Ness avenue. The
ruined block that me- the wide thor
oughfare formed Il trench through the
clustered structures that The confiagra-
ton. wild as it was, could not leap.
The dcsOlute waste straight through
the heart Of the city is a mute witness
to the most heroic and effective work
of the whole calamity. Three men did
this. and when their work was over
and what stood of the city rested
quietly for the first time they departed