Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1906-04-24
GREATER San FRANCISCO Will Be
BUILT ON RUINS OF DESTROYED CITY
Descendants of the Agnaus Udauned the Greatest Catastrophe
Which Ever Overlook Great City on the American
Continent And Will Soon be Rebuilt.

Three carloads of flour, ordered from
the Judith Basin Milling company,
were loaded Sunday and left yester-
day morning for San Francisco Cali
fornia, to be made into bread for the
thousands who are destitute as re-
suit of the catastrophe which over
whelmed that city last Wednesday.
Thursday and Friday The three cars
contained 100000 pounds of flour and
less than actual cost. The railroads
will ship the flour to Frisco free of
charge.
At meeting Of the city council
held last night a citizens committee,
comprising Geo. J. Bach, cashier Of
the First National bank; Louis Leh-
ment Of Charles Lehman & Co.; A. w.
War;, president Of the Lewistown
Telephone company; John P. Barnes,
president of the Judith Basin Milling
Co., and David Hilger, land attorney,
was appointed by Mayor Pinkley to
solicit contributions for the San Fran
cisco sufferers. 1t is likely that there
will be at least one carload of flour
sent from this city.
San Francisco, April 24.-It is yet
to early to estimate with anything like
exactness, the financial loss from the
earthquake and fire in this and other
California cities. Over ee-fourths
of San Francisco was destroyed and
the loss throughout the state will cer-
tainly reach $5OO,OOO,OOO. Plans are
already being drawn for rebuilding the
ciers that a better and more beauti-
full city will spring up like magic on
the ruins of the destroyed city.
San Francisco. April 25.-The total
number of bodies recovered and burf-
ed up to Sunday night is 500. No COM
plete record can be had at this time,
as many bodies have been buried
without permits from the coroner and
the board of health. The searchers Of
the coroner's and board of health de-
partments found today not more than
20 bodies. They We're buried immedi-
ately.
Few of these bodies could be ident1-
fed, and the graves We're marked by
numbers. It is impossible at the pres
ent time to obtain any sort of death
list or even to make reliable estimates
as to the number of casualties. When
ever a body is found it is buried i'm
mediately, without any formality
whatever, and as these burials have
been made at widely separated parts
of the city, by different bodies OF
searchers, who don't even make a
prompt report to headquarters. con-
siderable confusion has resulted in the
estimating of the total number of cas-
ualties and exaggerated reports have
resulted.
AS THE DISASTER WAS SEEN.
Los Angeles, April 19.-Egbert H
Gould, president of the Chicago Car
Heating company of Chicago. was one
OF three passengers to arrive in Los
Angeles on the first train from San
Francisco which arrived here at II
O'Clock today.
As one who passed through the ter
rors of the hours between 5:15 and
O'Clock yesterday morning, the des-
cription of the scene witnessed by Mr.
Gould is a story of fire and blood
Il was asleep on the seventh flool
of the Palace hotel" he said, "at the
time of the first quake. 1 was thrown
out of my bed and half way across tbs
room. Immediately realizing the i'm.
port of the occurrence, and fearins
that the building was about to col.
lapse, I made my way down the six
flights of stairs and into the corridor
I was the first gest to appear. The
clerk and hotel employees We're running
about as if they We're mad Within 8
few minutes after I had appeared 9th
er guests began to flock into the corri
dor. Few, if any of them. wore any
thing but their night clothing. Men
women and children with blanchei
faces stood as if dazed. The womer
and children cried; the men wer'
hardly less affected.
II returned to my room and got m.
clothing and then walked to the West
ern Union in my pajamas and bar,
feet, to telegraph to my wife in Lo
Angeles. I found the telegrapher
there, but all the wires were down.
sat down on the sidewalk picked tn
broken glass out of the soles of m!
of my feet and put my clothing on. Al
this suppose. took little more thai
20 minutes. Within that time, belov
the Palace, the buildings for NOR
than three blocks were a mass o
flames which quickly communicated t
other buildings. The scene was a ter
rible one. Billows of fire seemed t
roll from the business blocks soon af
ter consumed. to other blocks in tn
vicinity. only to climb and loom agar