Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-20
Property Being Buried


Property Being Buried
There is no aid for any from outside
sources. In the awful scramble for
safety the half crazed survivors disre-
gard everything but thought of them
selves.
In every excavation and hole through
out the North Beach householders are
burying household effects, throwing
them into the bitches and covering the
holes. Attempts are made to mark the
graves of the property so that it can be
recovered after the flames are ap-
pedsed.
The lack of water throughout the
burned area, together with the intense
heat and the total absence Of food. has
driven people desperate, and innocent
victims of the catastrophe that has
visited the great city are at, places
invading what few buildings remain
in the hope of finding something to eat.
They only dcsist when warned or shot
by soldiers.
Thousands at Ferry Building
A crowd of a thousand people were
gathered at the ferry building begging
for food and transportation across the
bay
Hundreds had not even the 10-cent
fare to Oakland. Most of the refugees
at this point were Chinese and Italians
who had fled from their burned tene-
ments with little or no personal prop
erty.
Suffering Is Extreme
Tonight the suffering to many from
hunger is extreme. On the water front
what bread that is to be had is being
sold for a dollar a loaf and in some
fcrI1e TATiPn
At 8 o'clock a crowd of hundred or
more people mobbed a bread wagon and
took the contents. The police made an
attempt to interfere but were power
less. Bread is beginning to arrive from
Berkeley and Oakland and is being dis
tributed in the north end of the town
by the relief parties organized by
Mayor Schmitz.
Thousands sleep on Hills
Thousands of people are sleeping on
the hills tonight or standing, gazing
with grim faces on the lurid scene be-
low them.
Women and children and little babes
in arms are huddled together with the
injured. In Golden Gate park the peo-
pie are crowded together with gnawing
hunger the companion of all The wall
of the injured and the calls of frantic
survivors, for friends and relatives who
are missing are most pitiful.
These crowds are constantly increas-
ing and the relief committees are doing
all in their power to get bedding ard
food for the homeless.
Food Becomes Scarce
Oakland and Berkeley are short Of
food and in a few days will themselves
be facing a serious shortage unless re-
lief comes from the outside.
Expressmen are charging from ten
to fifty dollars to haul load of bag
gage or give any aid at all to refugees.
Liquor stores in the north end were
broken into by thieves and hundreds Of
men were carrying away the bottled
liquors when the soldiers arrived. The
men had to be dubbed by the militia
men before they would drop the bottles.
Soldiers smashed the bottles on the
stones and drove the mob at the point
of bayonet
Works of Art Burn
When the mansions on Mob Hill, the
Fairmount and Mark Hopkins institute
were approached by the flames today
many attempts were made to remove
some of the priceless works of art from
the buildings. A crowd of soldiers were
sent to the Flood and Huntington man
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Art to rescue the paintings from the
home and the Flood man
sion. Canvases were cut from the
frames with knives. The collections in
the three buildings are valued in the
hundreds of thousands. Very few were
saved from the raYages Of the fire
hend.
Cadets Aid Soldiers
This afternoon at o'clock the cadets
of the University of California to the
number of 500 entered the city to aid
the militia and regular soldiers in their
work of enforcing martial law.
The young college men have orders
to shoot without warning those caught
looting.
In many parts of town where the
crowds of survivors are the widest it
Is almost impossible to get around save
at pistol point. The soldiers are dis
arming every person seen with a
weapon.
The only institution on Market street