The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-04-27
Observation-Disclosures
and SAN FRANCHISES INSURANCE
AMOUNTED TO $2OO,OOO,OOO.
Over Seven Square Miles of Ruins
500 Bodies Recovered Already
No Hungry Person in the City, No
Disorder; All Are Hopeful.-Health
of Camps Good.

San Francisco, April 23.-The Asso-
ciated Press representatives have COW
cred the entire outer edge Of the
burned~section. The circumference of
the great confiagration, as near as
can be ascertained by the markings of
a cyclometer, measures rs miles, and
the ruins comprise the entire business
district and large section of the
residence district, all OF which was
donsely populated. Seven square miles
Of ruins are presented.
Five hundred bodies have already
been recovered.
1t was estimated today by competent
insurance authorities that the loss
would aggregate $30O,OO0,OO and on
this vast amount of property the in
surance companies carried approx
mately $175, 100000 insurance.
Had it not been for the sight Of the
rude affairs set up in the open wher-
ever San Francisco's homeless thou
sands were camped, one would have
had some difficulty in finding any Of
the peaceful associations of the Sab
bath in this city today. Everywhere
throughout the burned, as we'll as the
remaining section of the city, there
was the greatest activity. Streets
were being cleared Of debris, laborers
were repairing broken water pipes,
sewers and gas mains; electricians
we're everywhere seeking to disen-
tangle the almost hopeless confusion
of wires; in fact, San Francisco was
in the first stages of it's regenera-
ton. EF ,. ...n.
There are no hungry people here to-
night; the gaunt specter of starvation
has been banished by the magnificent
response OF the people of California
in particular, and by the entire nation
in general, to the appeals that went
out for assistance. Food by the car
load and boatload poured into Oak
ficient quantities to overwhelm the
committee which has in charge it's dis
tribution. So great was the volume
of foodstuffs brought into the general
depot at Oakland mole that the gen.
eral committee made an appeal for
skilled labor in the handling of these
supplies. Grocers, butchers and COM
mission men have been requested to
secure men who are familiar in the
handling of foodstuffs, in order that
the distribution at the scores of sta
tons might go on without confusion.
The homeless people are no longer
obliged to subsist upon bread and
canned stuff entirely, as they had been
during tie previous days of their try
ing experience, but were today given
hot coffee, canned meats, and even
cakes and oranges. Oranges have
come in in plentiful supply from south
ern California, and the sight of Cali
fornia's famous product was every
where hailed with words of delight
1t must not be understood by the
charitable people of the country that
there is surfeit of food for the suf-
ferers. While the supply is abundant
at this writing, it is well for the pub
lie to remember that the homeless
thousands must be fed and cared for
by the organized relief committee for
an indefinite period. 1t is desired.
therefore, that contributions be con-
tinued everywhere until the people
who have been rendered helpless and
destitute by the city's misfortune can
care for themselves.