The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-04-28
PEOPLE SILVER IN
Rain AND GALE N. |: !.
Day and Night Of Suffer-.
ing Among Homeless
Thousands. nj
HARMONY AGAIN;
STREET CARS RUN
Systematic Theft Of Red Cross
Supplies Disclosed Lives Of @
Many Endangered BY 5$|
Failing Walls-The 33
Burned Dis ss5s.
trict. s
(By Associated Press.)s

(By Associated Press.) u 5}Ss,sEj II
SAN FRA ANC1SCO, April 27,--HarnlonH
and pledges OF good feeling marked the 4
meetings to-day Of the various bodies 81
citizens committees and rcpreset1tatl,vs tlves y M
o. the armies which are adn,nisterinE$5
the affairs of San Francisco. # IN
The last sign OF confusion and nisun>, /
dcrstandlng, which Mt times existed t di Sc 7
appeared ana the first signs Of the res D
turn to former conditions were the re- I
sumption OF street car traffic In certain &
streets and the taking out OF the ili'sts
permit for the erection Of q modern 81 tecl
structure on the ground occupied a Ife erHSs
DAYS ago by a5lcss substantial buildings
Rain and Gale.
\ a cold rain fell for several hours lasss
night and to-day and brought ddttlonalS q n 4
ha rdships upon the people sheltered onlY$s
by tents and temporary buildings In = ne ha I
parks TO further add to their discorn-s!
fort, the wind blew q gale from ! he SrorIt1Eas I1a
all day, scattering dust and ashes every -
where in some places throwing DO Wn&tnH8
htotering walls or burned buildings 81
Tonight IS one of the most funcoHfo forta. & \
BILE since the great fire, and the lack Eof
heat In the tents OF the homeless, a. O.
we'll as In the houses Of the more Sfortll--5
nate brings extreme discom fort. IL 3sa.S 8.
& The alleged systematic theft ct seYera!ls
tons OF Red Cross supplies has been dis E,-S 1
closed by the arrest ct Arthur Jacobs 4
yesterday by Police Commissioners @ 'GrladyS8
ana Detectiv Ma thewson. Jacobs is sad NL \
to have made q confession imp plicat ting 4
several confcderat @ 8 " and revealed the
place where he had hidden the loot, N IS;
yss Jac obs is d teamster who volunt teered@i
8his services4sto haul supplies rom thssi
water front to the Gus relie epott .
rs Consuls Sa fe.ss sss.ss
The French, Italian and Dan isll eon-s
&slils at San francisco Who were report ed
as among the missing. " have a u IA een{Ss
heard from. They had temporarily ne-.S n'lI-.$
come separated from their friends.a
Chairman Phelan. of the Finance Com!
mtttee Of the relief and Red Cross flllds,6
gave out to-day a complete statement u
Of money contributions received ior,lt ne !, ii
relief of San Francisco upto and Incl u
Ing April 26tl. The list shows y. ne 4
grand total of s4,oa1 ,O3O. Of which $2l3.s
$50 was contributed locally.
The Burned District.
Triless less than four square miles was
burned over by the fire that followed tha
earthquake Ol HPilt iot't. .'t.e's -
CITY Engineer Woodward, who today
completed an official map OF theNburned
oren There have been various states
ments as to tho area of the burned quar-.
Ter or the city, some estimates MaRinA6
tho extent Of the fire 1b square miles
IN nrefn,lly figured out from official mea IS
nrcments and maps, the burned area3al1
small fraction less than 1our squa''Ss
miles, or about o.5O0 acres $istss
The falling Of walls to-day was q dan>
ger, to the great numher or people $WhA$ t'H1A
crowded into the city to view the rulnss
rho walls Of a building at Stockton and
suffer street fell with terrible crash, A
number of pedestrians and q party %
mon and women In an automobile had
difficulty In getting out OF the way of the
shower OF bricks. The outer wall of
building at Market and Geary Streetss
where vas once the Rchelieu salo6ns$
fell outward Just as hundreds OF people
from the oakland ferry boat were wends i
Ing their way along Market Street, !;
Several persons were struck by brickss&
Int no one was seriously Injured gsSS N
Hunting of Relics. 5i55
Relic hunters are reaping a harvest by
digging among the ruins of the Japanese
md Chinese bazaars. Hundreds OF per- II
sons have visited these ruins, where
nssiduolls stirring of ashes Yielded profits q
flat are more than worth the LABOR.
Vases of statsuma and cloissonne Wart',s
brasscs and bronze ornaments, thht ~ u
I'm DAYS before the fire commanded hiGh Il
nrIces are carried away by relic-huntero
in large numbers "Six- shooters" OF the &
<ind formerly carried by hired assasslns
NJ the Chinese quarter are found IN greaS
nuantlty /. .l4t