The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-04-22
DANGER IS NOW
FROM PESTILENCE
lack of Water and Buildings
Cause Terrible Sanitary
Conditions.
AUTHORITIES ARE TAKING
ALL POSSIBLE PRECAUTIONS
Strenuous Efforts Are Being
Made to Prevent Spread
of Disease.

SAN FRANCISCO, April H-Amons tn,
homeless hundreds now being sheltered Al
Jefferson square, conditions are as ad
mirable as they could be under the awfu
circumstances, The relief committee has
supplied every sufferer with food and
blankets. and many tents are In place
Cannot Count Dead.
An effort has been made by tho military
and civil authorities TO secure some kind
OF an accurate list of the dead In the
neighborhood, SO far they have boon
greatly handicapped through their abi-
lty to get reliable people TO engage in the
work.
Not Milk Enough.
Among the homeless in the square are
many litt!e ones. Last night there was
shortage Ia the milk supply, but this oon-
dition wes relieved at an early hour this
morning by the arrival OF many cans Of
tne precious fluid.
Health Is in Danger
The sanitary condition of the camp IL
,he square Ia matter that must be Civ n
immediate attention II tho health OF ne
homeless is to be preserved. This nat
ter Is In tho hands of tho engin- erinC
corps OF the army, and no time viii be
lost In looking TO the sanitatio;, OF the
whole city. but meanwhile there is great
tear that sickness will wipe cut the lives
OF many unfortunates who have been
Some Relief of C.owding.
There was some reEje OF the crowded
condition OF the CAM in the square be-
lore noon today wen n little army of
rotugeess carrying all they had In the
world upon their Jacks, made their way
through debris ard wreekage to the ferry
building, Here nose who were out OF
funds were giy n transportation across
the bay,
Bettfr at Golden Gate.
At Colder Gate park. where therc are
camped probably the greatest number of
refugees conditions today are improved
No estl ate OF the number of people In
the pat, can be made at this time, but
some .ort Of canvass is being made by
The Iallitary authorities to ascertain tho
approximate number of people, as we'll as
10, relieve all the individual cases of suf-
teflng and to Improve the sanitary con-
GUS. There was plonty OF food OF tho
simplest sort. of course, provided for
every one a. the different bread lines this
morning. AID more VIII be dealt out this
afternoon,
Depots for Supplies.
Maj F. H. Keeslins of the First bat
talon of the Coast artillery, II. G.. c., ia |
In command Of the military relief meas |
ures In the park His headquarters have |
been established at the tennis courts
Here supplies OF sugar. coffee bread and |
canned goods are being distributed and |
At another point some prepared meats |
were given out, Army tents, as many as |
could be obtained. were set up eycry- |
where and other rude shelters were
clothes and every other sort of material
that could be used for the purpose In /
some places refugees had cleared out
spaces beneath tho thick shrubbery and
The semi-tropical plants for which Golden
Cato park is famous. and under these
found some sort OF natural protection
from the chill night air.
Not Much Sickness.
As yet there has been very little sick
ness. aside from nervous shock and physi-
cal exhaustion. and from these most OF |
the people have had time to recover The
efforts Of the military authorities today are
al In the direction of improving the sanl-
tary condition, providing Safeguards
against any possible epidemic that may
many thousand people All refuse and
debris Of every sort must be deposited In
trenches dug for that purpose. and the
park has been divided into various sani-
tary districts, over which military on
GERS have been given command, and which
are patrolled by regular soldiers or by
municipal police.
Getting Telephone Service.
Information bureaus have been estab-
lished and telephone service Is being pro-
Nided by the signal corps of the regular |
army. At the entrance OF the park known |
as ,s,,, the Panhandle district; an enormous
used as directory by those who wish To |
designate their location in the camp for
A |
hicles that enter the park are confscated
by the military authorities and are being
used 10 deliver supplies to tho various
points. as well as to remove refugees de-
string to reach points beyond the juris-
dlction of the authorities.
visit along the North beach OF San |
ration, revealed conditions which may de-
velop into serious menace to the health |
of the city People who have been per
their homes have violated ordinary health
having been deprived OF wa
ter for flushing purposes.
Striving for Sanitation.
In the Presidio the military authorities
full conditions. The largo corps Of man |
are detailed TO provide sewage system and
arp being freely distributed
20 prevent the threatened epidemic of dis
caees-
At the general hospital in the Preside
20 patients arc being cared for In the /
Yards Many of these patients vera re I
moved to the general hospital from public c
and private hospitals In various parts OF t
yesterday and today for contu /
lions, abraslons. burns and minor in c
juries. 8
At the general hospital In the Preside
seven deaths have occurred
10000 in Preside.
In the Preside over COO people are he
.LY sheltered in 400 tents. A constant
sueam Of wagons and pedestrians Is en-
tering and leaving the reservation We
hicles Of every description are being utIl- |
lzed to carry household effects and pro
Visions. and altogether generally eatisfac-
tory conditions prevail Tho commIssary !
Is caring amply for the people
within the reservation and those persons
who reside close By. Provisions are being
with liberal hand, -four beans |
eanned goods. eggs and milk being given
cut in ample quantities. Tho milk and |
gge arc beinS served only TO Young
mothers and infants and to families in
which there arc young children.
Supplies Coming In.
Three cargoes OF supplies are now ar
he Preside dock. and the goods already
n the warehouse will last for week or |
en- days at the present rate OF distribu- |
lon Large quantities OF goods are now
m route from coast points and from the
last.