The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1906-04-27

been sent out to every quarter. The
ruins Of the burned buildings in the
business and the older residence sec
ton have sufficiently cooled TO make
the search possible. The body of an
infant was fouLd in the center OF
Union street. 1t was learned that q
number of people had camped at this
place, and it is presumed the child
died and was left when the party was
forced to move. Three bodies were
found in the ruins of a house on Har
rison street, between First and Sec
ond. They had been burned beyond
all possibility of identification. They
were buried on the north beach, at the
foot of Van Ness avenue.
Reports have been made by deputies
sent out by the board of health of the
finding of twenty-three bodies in vari-
u parts of the city. Few of them
could be identified. The bodies were
buried in various places and the
graves numbered.
Health of Homeless Remarkably Good.
The health of the scores of thou
sands cGmped in the open air is, under
the circumstances, remarkably good.
There have of course been several
cases of pneumonia reported, and
colds are quite common, but there is
nothing like an epidemic of pulmonary
troubles, An interesting item from
the Golden Gate park district was the
report of the birth of eighteen babies.
These cases have received prompt
n efficient attention and the moth
erS and children removed to the Vari-
ous maternity hospitals.
The turning on Of water in the resi-
dence district will relieve the mind of
all those living in houses of the fear
Of disease; it is those thousands
camped in the parks and on every bit
of open ground that must receive
prompt attention. The work in these
places is in the hands of the engineer
ing officers of the United States army
n is progressing satisfactorily.
Eight temporary structures, $50 feet
in length by % feet wide and IL feet
high, have been erected in the Golden
Gate park, and in these sheds thou
sands found fairly comfortable shelter
last night. AS lumber and wOrkmen
to put it in place are on hand, more
of these buildings will be ready to-
night. The buildings have been di-
vided into compartments.
Extent of Burned District.
The fire having exhausted itself,
with the exception of the still flaming
embers in a thousand places here and
there through the burned district, the
Associated Press, for the purpose of
determining with accuracy the boun-
diaries of the confagration, sem out
an automobile, which skirted the fire
On all sides. The register of the ma
chine showed it had travelled twenty
six miles, which, therefore, nay be
taken as the length of the lines on
which the flames travelled. The extent
of the area is seven square miles.
This area included the COM
mercial, financial and most of
the densely packed residence
mansions which had grown up with
the progress of the city. Within this
vast waste of smouldering embers
were found three GASES, where human
beings still have their habitats as be-
fore the great confiagration. One of
these was to be seen on the very sum-
NIT of Telegraph hill, where perhaps
a score of homes still stand. At the
northwest corner of Jones and Green
the residence of O.. D. Baldwin, the
real estate dealer in the Mills build
ing, is still habitable. Across the way,
at the northwest, Mrs. Edward Huber
has preserved her home. On a south
erly line Of Greene, at 1909 to 1917,
are to be found the residences of Mr..
K~irkharris, George ]. Phillips, B. j.
Birdsall, William Hanke, Charles
O'Brien and Martin Fussier. There
are also six sets of flats in this vi
cinity which remain intact.
Some three hundred houses lying on
the south and east slopes of Telegraph
hill remain to attest the efficacy of
the juice of the grape in q~uenching
the flames when water failed, for in !
this quarter the householders, many of
whom are Italians, saved their abodes
by a free use of the red wine stored
in their cellars. The red walls of the
houses show the stains where the
claret soaked sacks had been used to
cool the heated walls of the buildings.
The n remaining spot unburned
within the district is bounded by
Montgomery, Battery, Jackson and
Washington.
Loss $500, ooo, 900, Insurance IT'S, ooo, 900
1t was estimated by competent in
surance authorities that the loss will
aggregate $780, 900, 900, and On this
vast amount of property the insur-
ance companies carried approximately
$175, 000, 900 insurance.
Property owners have had an op-
portunity to inspect some of their
holdings and in a measure to ascertain
what damage had been done. The
new, modern steel buildings were
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