Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-23

tlons of the country.
 President Roosevelt sent a message to congress calling for an additional $1,500, 900 for the relief fund.
 Roughly speaking, the burned district is five miles square. There are not less than twenty-five square miles of bleak ruins, and the immensity of the disas- ter now becomes apparent
 Insurance adjusters now on the ground estimate the property loss will not fall short of $35OO0O,OOO. The in- surance loss will aggregate a hundred million less.
 The destruction of life was not as great as the earlier reports indicated. The exact number of those who perish ed will never in all human probability be known, for many bodies were en- tlrely destroyed Mechanics pavilion was used for time as morgue and as refuge for the injured. After 200 dead had been taken there and several hundred injured the fire reached the building. No attempt was made to re- move the bodies, all attention being paid to the injured. The result was that not less than POO bodies, few of which had been identified, were ere mated. The most reliable estimate is that 1000 persons perished.
 Thirty-six babies were born in the Presidio grounds yesterday. They and their mothers are being cared for by the Red Cross society, but many of them will inevitably perish.
 Despite terrific handicaps the situa- tion is being kept under admirable con trol. General Funston is in supreme command. but he is in almost hourly consultation with Governor Pardee, Mayor Schmitz and General Manager E. E. Calvin of the Southern Pacific. Soldiers are everywhere, and few per sons are allowed to pass their lines. Looters are being shot down without mercy.
 Death by rife bullet without even the formality of drrnhead court martial is the fate that martial law is now meting out to San Frsncisco's malefactors.
 Unfortunately the belief is growing that there have been many shootings that have not been SO well justified. Various reports of the summary exc cution of men caught in the act of loot ing are afoat. One man shot was foreigner who was ordered by a sol dler to cut down some trees. Under standing English imperfectly, the man started to walk away He was shot through the body without further par ley and, though not killed outright, is dangerously wounded.
 The entire western addition of the city lying west of Van Ness avenue, which had escaped the sweep of flame, Is absolutely safe.
 A trip through the burned districts revealed scene of unspeakable deso- lation. From many points on Market street as far as the eye could reach in any direction there was nothing but skeleton walls and smoldering ruins. It should be borne in mind that San earthquake. While old buildings in that part of the city, which stood on made" ground east of Montgomery street, and some of that district lying south of Market street, 1t is true, suf- fered from the shock, 1t was fire that wrought the great devastation and wiped out the entire business section and probably half of the residence sec tion of the city. The great modern steel structures were practically unin- jured by the earthquake, except for cracked walls and displaced plaster.
 Chief D. J. Sullivan of San Francis co.'s fire department died yesterday from the effects of injuries received on the morning of the earthquake. Chief Sullivan and his wife were sleep ing in the firehouse adjoining the Cali fornia hotel on Bush street. The earth quake shook down the chimney of the hotel and sent it crashing through the firehouse. Chief Sullivan and his wife were carried with the debris two stories to the ground floor, where they were extrlcated after great difficulty. Sullivan had fractured skull, four broken ribs and other injuries.
 Eddie Graney, the we'll known sport ing referee, was with Chief Sullivan from the time the wounded mar was from the firehouse uutil Mir. Sullivan's death. Mir. Graney stated that Chief Sullivan never knew there was a fire. After recovering conscious ness the chief took great interest In the affairs of the city, being always that fire would break out. He knew from the first that he was dying from his injuries.
 Mrs. Sullivan, who suffered serious injuries and was reported dead. has satisfactorily. and 1t is be- lleved that she will recover.
 The Pacific Mail steamer China, with a large quantity of foodstuffs. has ar rived from the orient. and the supplies will be distributed here. The shipping of San Francisco Is at a standstill. and such will he the state of affairs while the city is in the least endangered. The United States cruisers Chicago and are stationed of Melggs i wharf and prevent every vessel. wheth- l er foreign or native. from leaving the l port.
 Street CUTS were running on Fillmore street and appeared 10 have plenty of l power. The service was free to al; er- ! sept boys.
 pr. Charles F. Tagzert of Los An -eIes. who had charge of a corps of l nurses at the Hearst relief hospital. I