The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-05-08

Convent, iui could not say ~ .sre
thef are zone. %. l4naiius chufei an
enllere vrfe totally DESTROYED nn
could hardly hnd them. ~. Marx
cathedral nlirowlv escaped An ih
rest ~ the churches within the disfrIs
were burned, nothing Wa saved. 4
Van Ness avenue had not been such
wide street they would never have ket.
! the FIRE from spreading d, The o.eaa
, ~. Patrick = church was ruined Nv tb,
earthquake. The FIRE started ncrr. h,
there. II Is thought IL started In sew
cral different places In that section
The tamcs lcaped across Market sffeet
from smiths cash store across 10 .
large hotel recently built. From th,
Call Building 10 the ferry onlv on,
building stands and that is the Buck
ley Building, seven stories high. I,
looks very queer with it's three walls
standing and the walls inside so white
80 great was the heat from the build.
ings when they had fallen the bricks
were burned to clay. which was henped
in great pyramids still burning.
The Ferry Building was badly dam.
aged from the earthquake. The tower
was badly twisted and the side walls
fell IN. The bottom part OF the tower
fell In and damaged the roof. The up.
ner floor was not badly damaged, nei-
ther was the section that the passen.
gers pass through. The building was
condemned Sunday and since then it
has been very hard for the people seek
ing relief to come to Oakland.
Ever since Wednesday the people
have been streaming over here. some
with their pets, others with most of
their belongings in sheets, and hun
dreds without coats or in some cases
without clothes. AS early as Wednes-
day noon relief committees were estab-
lished at all of the churches, lodges
and public parks and halls. / am on
the Oakland committee. Those on the
committees wear yellow badges and
they do not have to pay car fare and
can go to all the camps or wherever
the refugees are sent to. The first four
nights the committees fed the people
all night and all day. They were com
ing in all the time and all exhausted
and starving. Now they have regular
meal hours.
The Eastern States and towns in
California have been very kind in do
mating. Money has been subscribed;
food has been sent, at first it was not
cooked but it is now coming all pre-
pared; tents, bed clothing and medi-
cal assistants are coming in very rap
idly. Medical services and medicine
are needed very badly as there were
great many hurt. The hospitals are
full. 1t was a very sad sight to see
the people who were taken from the
hospitals in the city and brought over
here in express wagons and some in
drays, which were boxed in but no COW
ers. One ferry boat brought two hun
dred and fifty from St. Mary's Hos
pital. Some of these patients were
sent to hospitals, while others were
cared for in three of the largest skat-
ing rinks.
st. Luke's Hospital was badly dam
aged by the earthquake but later was
burned.
Oakland is full of people, strict
guard is on, martial law being on. 1t
is very hard to get to town. No one
can walk on the sidewalks, all have tp
walk in the middle II the street. The
Governor has declared legal holidays
from day to day ever sinrr "Wednesday.
~ few of the stores are open, but
everything is cash. and the people can
not get their money out of the banks.
II is very hard to get things to eat
All of the refugees are being well
cared for. Clothes and bedding are
being given to them, also all the food
they want. The very old pepnle sleep
in the churches and there are doctors
and nurses at all of the relief camps
or halls.
The food is very good. I was in the
kitchen the other day at the Relief
Hall and the sheriff from one of the
counties in the interior asked how they
were feeding the babies. The ladies
told him that they were giving them
milk and in some cases they had to give
them skim milk. The very next day
fifty gallons of cream was sent up from
Fresno and on the cans was written
For the babies Wasn't that
lovely?
The smoke was very thick until yes
terday, when we had a very heavy
cold rain. The rain caused "A great deal
of trouble, IS the people were living
out in the open air over in the Col len
Gate Park and on the beach. Those
over here were more fortunate, as they
have tents and coverings 1t is fea'.,d
a great deal of sickness may arise
from it.
Dear Emma, we just received Mrs.
Cooper's cable inquiring about her son.
We have expected him ever since
Wednesday but SO far have not heard
from him. We think he may be at
Mrs. Walters Is, as their place, ! believe,
escaped fire. We have been very anx-
ous about him, We have looked for n,m
IN town and gone over the register here
N Oakland, but have so far not heard
word. We have tried for the
} 'Shaughnessy but have failed. We
.annot hear from anyone of our friends.
several of them we know are safe. W.
Dray to God that we will find them all
,afe.
The San Francisco fire is said to be
he largest in history, it being one
hundred million greater than the Bos-
on, Chicago and Baltimore fires all
ogether. The insurances, it is said,
cill cover over three hundred millions
If dollars. The damage done by the
was enough to ruin san
Francisco without having the terrible
fra A