Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-05-07
SAN FRANCISCO.

tefestS, ieel that there is no ques
ton about its immediate rebuilding
They have planned and finally come
to definite conclusion and formally
announce that 5000 1000. 900 will be at
once available for the rehabilitation OF
the city.
One hundred and fifty million dol.
lars will be due from the insurance
companies by loss from ire. There
is nearly S20O O00. 600 due, but per
maps s30.u00,000 will be pro. ested, the
dispatches from London this morning
saying that the big English comDsa.
les would protest paying earthquake
losses. The American companies
will pay everything.
The bankers have agreed not to
hoard money. but to place it in CON
struction and make thei, great in
yestments in new buildings.
The Ocean Shore Railway company
will spend S2.000OOo at once. and the
telephone companies will add another
million each
The financial element OF the city
was never more hopeful aud convinc-
ed of the future of San Francisco
than they are today.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 3.-Early
this morning an alarm of fire called
out the department and for a short
time created intense excitement. The
fire was in a small building imme-
diately adjoining a hospital in which
there were over a thousand patients.
The firemen however, succeeded in
confining the flames to the smaller
buildings, although the hospital was
scorched and the inmates badly
frightened.
This morning building was com
menced in earnest, 5000 workmen
being secured from different parts of
the state to help rushing needed i'm
provements
SAN FRANCISCO, May 3.-When
the earthquake of April 17th toppled
over the city prison over 100 vag-
rants, men and women were within
the cells. The earthquake so twisted
and warped the locks that they could
not be released and were kept there
for long time. They knelt and
prayed to God for deliverance, which
finally came.
They suffered much agony, how-
ever, and four of them have since be-
come insane
OAKLAND, May 3.-With rapid ex.
tension of the street car service ana
Increased lumbermen working. the
situation shows steady improvement.
The commercial banks opened this
morning and received deposits. The
opening of Oakland saloons has
caused the police to arrange new
plan to handle drunks, who will be
forced to clean the streets and wear
heavy BAH and chain.
DENVER, May A carload of
goods and supplies viii be sent from
this city tonight for the exclusive
use of Coloradoans in San Francisco.
who find themselves destitute owing
to the disaster. the supplies and
generous sum Of money will be han.
died by Mrs. Herbert George at pres
ent in Frisco, and who knows the
needy Coloradoans
SAN FRANCISCO, May 4.-E. H.
Hartman today announced to the
Bankers committee that as the GOV.
ernment would not come up with the
loan asked for rebuilding, or tempor-
arized on the subject, he, Hartman
ana MS associates, stood ready to
loan the City of San Francisco $780,
ooU,o0O, the money to be available
ior building purposes at once.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 4-Thore
were two slight shocks of earthquake
early this morning, but no panic is
reported. The food problem is acute
and it is feared an appeal to the na-
uoh VIII again be necessary. Three
hundred thousand people are depend
ent on only ten days supplies on
hand. Immense amounts have been
given away without system. but every
effort is now made to stop waste
Much certifcation from relief officials
Is now necessary to get relief. Sta.
pie food is specially needed.
SAN FRANCISCO.-Two million
dollars in round numbers is the loss
sustained by the several religious de.
nominations in this city by the earth.
quake and fire. Fifty-seven church
edifices, including the finest in the
city were DESTROYED. The Roman
Catholic church, with a loss Of S7S5.-
600 is the greatest sufferer. The
Protestant Episcopal church is next.
its total loss being s355, 900 All the
buildings were damaged beyond re-
pair.
OF the II churca ana eight chan.
els lost by the Roman. CachoIic de
nomination, the most costly building
was the st. Ignatius (Jesuit), which
sunered TO the extent of $3.50, 900; st.
Boniface and st. Patrick's. costing re-.
spectively $175,0OO and 800 ooo
were other heavy losses sustained
The Episcopalians lost Grace
church, worth sl25,0O0: st. I,uke,s
worth $4,000; the Church of the Ad'
vent, worth 100000; st. Johns worth
$4,000. Two small churches also
We're destroyed.
The Hebrew denomination moi,rns