The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-05-03
A SECOND DAY
OF TERROR


the military reservation and TO the
suburbs.
Refugees who go to the Preside are
being taken care off, but the number
that can bc accommodated is limited.
President Hartman, of the Suthern
Pacific Company, has wired the officials
here to place the company 5 ferry boats
at the disposal Of the San Francisco
municipal authorities to enable them to
send all those desiring to leave out of
the stricken city.
ASKS FOOD AND SUPPLIES.
Mayor Schmidt has addressed an APP
peal to the people of Oakland, asking
for bread and food supplies of all kinds,
tents and bedding. G@den Gate park
will be the place where the destitute
will be taken care Of.
owe want these things adds the
mayor, "and we want them immedi.
ately.'
The following appeal for aid has been
sent out by Mayor Schmitz to Gov.
Pardee and shows the restitution of the
people and the dire need of food and
shelter:
''Send all supplies and tents possible
TO Golden Gate park. Have bakeries
in small towns bake all the bread they
can. We want bedding, food and
tents The committee on safety CON
sisting of fifty prominent citizens, met
with Mayor Schmitz this morning and
organized finance committee com
posed of James n. Phelan, F. w. Hell.
man, Claus Spreckels, j. Downey Har-
vey, Thomas MacGee, j. l.. Flood, Will
liam Babcock, w. F.. Herrin. NJ. II.
DeYoung and Robert j. Tobin.
Before the meeting had organized
Claus Spreckcls gave $4,000, Rudolph
Spreckels $4,000, Harry Tevis $4,000,
Gordon Blanding 10000, Eleanor Mar
tin $4,000, j. l.. Flood $4,000, with n
promise of more.
CITY CONTROLS GROCERIES.
Mayor Schmitz announced that the
water company promised a supply Of
water this afternoon in the western adj
dition and in the Mission by tomorrow
Committees were appointed to take
charge of the relief of the destitute
and the work has already begun and
assumed some system.
The Preside reservation, the vast
Richmond district of thousands of
acres, Golden Gate park and the sur
rounding hills resemble vast picnic
grounds. Tents and improvised cover
ings have been erected everywhere, fire
places built in the streets, beds and
mattresses thrown down all over the
section.
The people thus situated are phiIoso-
phical.
There is only one danger and that is
that the food supply will run out.
Every grocery in San Francisco has
been taken by the authorities and each
family is being sold only one article at
a time. In many places the police and
military officers prohibit overcharging.
Gen. Funston announced this morn
ing that rations would soon reach the
city and then the people will be sup
piled from the Preside. Bakeries have
already been built within the reserva-
ton, and the bread supply, therefore,
has not failed completely.
The government also has begun to aid
in transporting the people out of the
city to Oakland, Berkeley and Ala
media. Tug boats and steamers are
being pressed into service for this pur,
pose.
INCESSANT CRY FOR WATER.
Today is bright and warm. The sun
| is beating down on the tired workers
and rescuers. There is scarcely any
water to relieve the thirst of the suf
| fering. The heat is threatening dan.
ger, for the dead, in many instances
are lying in the streets and ruins. The
| Il oil ~, h,f,
| to remove bodies in order that a pesti.
lence may be prevented.
1t has been necessary repeatedly to
move the injured from places where
they had sought refuge, for the fire
| kept increasing with alarming rapidity
| Water is the incessant cry of the fire.
men and the people-one wants it to
fight, the other to drink-but there is
only a scant drinking supply.
| Residents of the hill sides, in the cen,
| trail portion of the city seemingly were
safe from the roaring furnace that was
| consuming the business section. They
| watched the towering mounds of flame
| and speculated as to the extent of the
| territory that was doomed.
Suddenly there was whispered alarm
| up and down the long line of watchers
and they hurried away to drag clothing
cooking utensils and scant provisions
through the streets.
From Grant avenue the procession
moved westward Men and women
dragging trunks, packed huge bundles
of blankets, boxes Of provisions-every
thing Wagons could not be hired, ex
cept by paying the most extortionatc
| rate.
PEOPLE CALM IN CALAMITY.
But there is no panic. The people are
calm, stunned. They seem not to realize
the extent of the calamity. They hear
that the city is destroyed in so far as
business plants are concerned; they tel
each other in the most natural tone that
their residences were destroyed by the
flames, but there is no hysteria no out
cry, no criticism.
Mayor Schmitz and Chief of Police
Oman have been forced from place tC
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