The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-22
TOWNS ASK FOR The REFUGEES.
Nearby Cities Want The Homeless
TO Be Sent to Them,
SUPPLY TRAINS COMING IN.
Neishboying Counties Rushing in
Food on Wagons.

Greatest Danger TO the City Is From Bad
sanItation-The Mayor warns tho
People to Take the Utmost Precautions
-CaIfornians Rushing Food to the
City In All Sorts OF Conveyances-What
Fire There Remains Is Along the
Wharyes on the Bay-Ferryheuse
watched Closely to Keep II safe-Many
OF the Sick Sent Out to the Preside
Some OF the Dead Buried in the City
Parks-Looters stin Being Dealt with
Judge Lynch Fashion-Refugees Not
Allowed to Take Baggage With Them
-Asome Buildings Available for Oflces.
The San Francisco fire is nearly spent.
{ has spread q little to corners which 1t
missed in the first sweep, but as the west
wind holds steady it Is borne to the east
ward and it's march is limited by San Fran
cisco Bay. In another day or two it will
probably burn itself out.
All the surrounding country has sent in
supplies in advance OF the relief trains,
and DR.. Joseph Voorsanger, the member
of the Committee Of Safety in charge Of
the food supply. reported last night that
there had been enough provisions to go
around; and as supplies are coming fast
from all directions the homeless people
will not starve.
The danger now is from pestilence
through lack Of sanitation. To avert
this Major McIver Of the Regular army is
laying out sanitary camps and the au-
thorities are encouraging every one who
can do so to leave town. The water supply
is partly restored. There is enough for
cooking and drinking purposes. A rule
that it shall be used for no other purpose
is enforced strictly.
The railroads are running trains again
and giving free passage to refugees. As
yet no one is allowed to enter the city.
Several smaller Californian cities have
offered accommodations and have in
formed the Committee Of Public Safety
as to how many refugees they can ac-
commodate.
All up and down the Pacific Coast the
people are doing all they can to get the
necessities of life into San Francisco. Mayor
schmitz has asked especially for tents,
blankets and all other necessities Of out
Of door life.
Hope has flowed back into the city. No
one in San Francisco seems to doubt that
it will be rebuilt at once. 1t Is only a ques-
ton of ways and means. Three Office
buildings passed over but not seriously
damaged by the fire will be occupied to-
morrow morning for the transaction Of
pressing business. The main thorough
fares, at least those which have cooled of
after the fire, have been cleared for traffic.
The tenement district, where most Of the
lives were lost in the earthquake, has cooled
of. Yesterday soldiers and volunteers
went through the ruins taking out the
bodies. 1t was impossible to take them
10 the regular cemeteries. They were
buried fifteen in a trench in the public
parks or even in unpaved streets. There
were found small buildings whose loss
escaped notice on the first day, each holding
from two to six corpsss From the CON-
ditions which the soldiers found in this
district it is prob1b!e that the loss OF life
Is greater than the estimated 600.
Details Of the earthquake disaster which