The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-26
eREELY MAKES A REPORT.
Impossible TO Furnish . List of the
 Injured.

| Washington. April 25,--Major Gen. | eral Ainsworth. the military secretary, I today asked General Greeley a1t San Bnancisc6 for tclegraphic inforfnation | covering the names of all injured sscer- 1 tainab1e. and to designate them as Tn ! jured slightly" injured severely, but not dangerously" and injured danger ously."
 General Greeley this afternoon re- sponded in the negative to the sug- gestion that a governmental registra- tion bureau be established and he ad- ded a statement of conditions in San Francisco today and in a manner fore casted the future.
 He Said in part: "The Militry Sec retary, Washington: Three hundred thousand people are homeless and the entire business facilities of a city of half million have been destroyed. ex- cept those on streets of minor import ance; accommodations for most urgent financial and other indispensable busi- ness institutions are being obtained only with the greatest difficulty. The entire body of men are naturally devoting their energies to restoring their own affairs, and even those who have applied themselves devotedly to relief and rescue work the past week. are gradually withdrawing therefrom, stating correctly that domestic and bus mess affairs demand their entire at tention The Mayor and the police are so fully occupied operating without
 sanitary accommodations that even the
 ordinary current duties, such as pertain
 to the coroner's office and vital sta
 tistics, are largely neglected for lack
 of force and office accommodations; un-
 der such conditions a registration bu-
 reau is impossible.
 The newspapers have taken up the
 matter as far al possible and with their
 own limited accommodations. and 1t
 is understood that a kind of registra-
 ton bureau has been opened in Oak land: can only suggest that interested
 parties telegraph The Examiner. The Call and The Chronicle, who at presen. gre best informed as to the location of prominent individuals.
 There is no telegraphic system within the city except that constructe ed by the signal corps, nor does any tel- ephone service exist beyond the mil itary system connecting these quar- ters with the mint. postofice, various district hAadquarters and other points of great public importance Under these conditions no part of the city can be reached save by A messenger on foot. which entails hours, or by au- tomobiles. of which there are few.
 q have gone fully into the situation to prevent misapprehension and to eE- able the War Department to disclose the situation to the public. It should be added that the names of the dead already have been furnished the De- partment and if desired the names of every injured person Tn hospitals will be similarly transmitted. To relieve public apprehension, it is not clearly understood that beyond isolated cases already reported there are no deaths or serious injuries at any prominent hotel in San Francisco. It should be known that there is no demand for nurses or doctors. The hospital corps force sent here will be utilized more for sanitary purposes and preventive measures than for the cure of any great body of sick, of which none ex- ist."