Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1906-04-28
NOTES OF FRISCO FIRE
Thousands Of Dollars and Train Loads
Of Supplies Rushed There.


R. W. Brown of Louisville, KY,
grand exalted ruler OF the order of
Elks. after a conversation at Cinci-
Eatti with Grand Officers John Gil
vim and Eugene Lewis. wired San
Francisco $4,000 for the relief of
sufferers.
carload Of provisions valued at
$4,000 has been sent by Mayor Gil
lette on behalf Of citizens of Nelson,
5. c. to the destitute citizens OF
San Francisco.
The st. Louis relief fund for San
Francisco sufferers Sunday reached
the 100000 mark The work Of rails
ing funds has scarcely started
Nearly $4,000 in cash was collected
in one night at Baltimore at a meet
ing in behalf of the San Francisco
fund.
The Canadian government has voted
100000 for the earthquake suffer
ers in San Francisco.
Old Chinatown is gone and hun
dreds of the yellow slaves are said
to have persisted in holes.
Eleven postal clerks were taken
from the debris of the postoffice.
All were thought to be dead, but it
was found that, although they were
buried in the stone. every one was
alive. They had been for three days
without food or water. All the mail
was saved.
San Quentin prison is intact. The
walls we're cracked and a few chin
neys were upset, but no further dam
age was done. During the first shock
the convicts set up walls that could
be heard for mile. They acted like
wild animals and tore at their trem-
bling bars like maniacs. Warden
Edgar called out all the guards, lined
the walls and released the prisoners
into the big yard.
An urgent appeal has been sent out
for a supply of chloride of lime. 1t
is absolutely necessary to insure sani-
tary conditions 1t is wanted i'm
mediately and in large quantities.
Other drugs badly needed are sulphur,
carbolic acid, bichloride of mercury,
vaccine points, general antiseptics,
formaldehyde and cathartics of any
Lind, castor oil, opium in pills, NOR
phine in tablets and quinine. 1t is
almost as urgent that the people out
side the city furnish these drugs as
it rs that they send food.
The Oakland offices of the Western
Union and Postal Telegraph COM
panies are literally swamped with
messages filed by people from San
Francisco anxious to assure their
friends of their safety. There are
more on hand than could be sent in
week. To relieve the strain as
much as possible, packages of mes
sages are being mailed to nearby Of
fees to be sent by wire to their desti-
nations.
1t is stated that a number Of firms
Of San Francisco in structural and
architectural work are making pre-
parations to open up their iron plants
as soon as possible and that many of
them will establish temporary plants
| IN Oakland.
The town of Tomales is a pile of
ruins. All of the large stores are fiat.
Dissatisfaction is being expressed
at the conduct Of some of the soldiers.
Many of those doing guard and patrol
duty are little more than mere boys
who are wrought up to a high state
of excitement by their position and
have been shooting at pedestrians in
circumstances where milder measures
would have answered. Chief Oman
has asked the military authorities to
withdraw many of these men from the
city.
Mission Dolores church the oldest
building in the city, erected 100 years
ago by Spanish missionaries. survived
the earthquake shocks and was saved
from the fire. 1t is constructed OF
adobe blocks. The newer church, bull
of brick alongside of the old building
suffered from the shock.
Assistant Treasurer Jacobs, at SaI
Francisco, for whose safety fears wer,
entertained, is safe.
President Roosevelt has sent to con
gress a message. accompanying docu
ments and papers from the war depart
ment, recommending the appropria
ton Immediately of an additions
S1,500OO0 for the relief of the SUI
ferers by the calamity at San Fran
cisco.
Every person left in San Francisco
breakfasted Saturday morning on foo'
cooked in the open streets. no fire
being allowed in the houses. A few
bricks or stones gathered in a sem
blance of furnace. with a few dr..
sticks beneath cans or kettles. wa
the improvised kitchen in which tn
food Of the millionaire. as well as tn
humblest workman was prepared.
The Stanford university is close
and there will be no more school thi
year.