davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01
LIFE RECORDS BURN.
$5O,OOO,OOO i'm Risks Face Serious
Complications.


Complications.
The destruction of the San Francisco
building of the Mutual Life Insurance
Company, which was located al Sansome
and California streets, may involve $4,000
policy. holders carrying an aggregate of
$50,000,000 of insurance in serious COM
plieations. All of the records concern
ing these $4,000 policy holders were de-
stroyed with the building. Complete du-
plicats records containing all of the late
information concerning the Pacific coast
policy holders were not kept at the home
office in New York.
Officers OF the large fire insurance com
panies having their headquarters in New
York City announce that losses by earth
quake were not included in the fire in
surance policies written for California,
and that such losses could not be allowed,
even if the companies were so inclined,
for the reason that the laws of New York
State prohibited it. The rulings on the
losses by fire, however, will, it is said.
be broad, the insurance companies agree
ing that to draw the lines with an Sc
verify whatsoever would be extremely I'M
wise, in the face of such an appalling dis
aster, where the suffering will no doubt
be WIDESPREAD
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01

The glorieS of the Eastern season
have come and gone, but the wonder
full creations of the milliner's art are
still with us for further exhibition.
The cost was great, bnt in most cases
necessary to keep matrons and maids
in good humor for that great consumS
nation of their hopes for distinguished
appearance.
1t only remains to pay tie bills of
those who bought upon credit, and to
think over the prodigious sum expend-
eu by the American people. Over
$200,000,000 is expended every year
by our wives and daughters for mil
linery manufactured in this country.
besides the millions for what is inn
ported.
The tariff tax on such articles of
adornment increases the price of mill
linery. more than 80 per cent on the
average, for the manufacturers are pro
tected by the tariff which is collected
on imported millinery, so that they
can add to the price of the home
product about what the imported ar
ticleS have to pay at the Custom House
Every woman therefore is interested
in the tariff question, for through the
protection it gives the American manu-
facturer the cost of hats and bonnets
are increased quite 80 per cent. If
the present tariff rates on millinery
We're reduced to 20 per cent, the wo-
men OF the country would save nearly
such articles, whether imported or
made in this country. for the price of
the American manufactured goods
would have TO decline to meet the re
duced cost of the imported article 1t
would be tedious to give all the tariff
rates on hats and bOnnets. or the many
articles tisat go into the hats and bon
nets that are mace up in this coun-
try, but the tariff tax runs from 90
to 20 per cent of the cost of the ar
ticles in the couutry from which they
are imported, 80 that if a hat cost $40
in Paris, the tariff tax on it is from
s. to 81, and as the cost is often much
greater than this. therefore the tariff
tax is so much greater in proportion.
The protectioaists tell us that we
must be willing to pay this import
duty to protect our manufacturers from
foreign competition and 70 protect
American labor in being 7a.id higher
wages than the foreign laborer gets.
The Democrats claim that TO reduce
the tariff to a reasonable rate would
still give the American laborer all the
protection he needs, while at the same
time producing enough revenue from
custom duties to run the government
! Under such q Democratic system the
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01

fire fighters at last triumphed, and the
flames which devastated three-fourths
OF he city were finally under complete
control.
The long and heroic struggle to sub
due the flames reached its successful
conclusion Saturday morning near the
ferry house, where thousands were
trapped on the wharves, to which they
had been driven by the relentless ad
vance of the fire. Here the final stand
was made by firemen, sailors and citi-
zens. aided by fire tugs and few en-
gines. Victory rewarded their efforts.
and the entrapped people were saved.
$4,000 Homeless Chant Hymn.
In the midst Of San Francisco's ruin
and desolation Sunday $4,000 homeless
people in Golden Gate Park united their
voices in this hymn:
Other refuge 1 have none hangs my help
less soul on Thee.
Leave, oh leave me not alone; still sup
port and comfort me.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01

mately 100000 with contributions COM
ing in fast. The State Of Massachusetts
undertook to raise $300O,OOO. Chicago's
fund, spontaneously subscribed, promised
to go beyond $1,OO0,00O Philadelphia
sent 100000. These are but a few of
the larger sums. A score or more of
cities contributed 100000 and more.
while hundreds of municipalities sent all
their means would allow. From London,
Paris, Berlin and wherever Americans are
congregated a generous inflow of gold
came
Wholly foreign contributions, while
deeply appreciated, were not accepted, ac-
cording to the precedent established by
the President in declining a gift of $685.
600 from a German steamship line. Amer.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01

every city, town and hamlet in this coun-
try, but from over every. sea came news
that all humanity in its profound SYM
pathy was showering material aid upon
the stricken city and its besgared people.
No more amazing instance of world wide
generosity ever has been recorded.
In the list of generous contributors,
New York City ranked next to the govern
ment itself and babe fair to far exceed the
federal contribution. Saturday night the
New York fund amounted to approx
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01

The general cry that has been taken
up ia all sections is to begin at once
on a new San Francisco which, when
completed. will rival Paris in beauty
and grandeur. Out of the ashes of yes
terday arise She hopes of tomorrow,
hopes builded on courage and inspired
BY that faith in Western spirit and
Western grit which are neither tenn
pered by adversely nor defeated in sor-
row.
Many Bodies Blotted Out.
After thorough investigation in
San Francisco a conservative newspa-
per estimate OF the number of dead is
$500. 1t is singular that information
concerning the most vital feature of
this calamity has been all but lacking.
The facts for which the outside world,
and especially the people of the United
States, have been looking up to this
time have been unavailable This is a
condition due to two causes. First,
the suddenness of the calamity, and,
second. its widespread effect.
A correspondent asserts that beyond
question 206 men. women and children
were killed in the POtrero district In
the Brunswick House 300 persisted. The
Valencia Hotel, which dropped into a
gap opened by the earthquake, is sup
posed to have carried with it 106
souls. At 18th street and Natoma,
where large new buildings utterly col
lapsed, 200 people-this is merely the
estimate of first-class authOrities-un
doubtedly were incinerated. 1t is not
Il wild guess to say that the scattered
dead, including the unknown, the re-
mains of scores and hundreds who
have been completely blotted out, will
be 1900.
A tragically picturesque and peculiar
item in connection with this is the fact
that many persons have become lost
they are dead beyond possible trace
These statements are made by a cor
respondent in the face of the testi-
mony of the coroner. William Malsh,
who declared that the total number
of dead resulting from the earthquake
shock will be less than 1000 1t is
feared that the coroner'S office and
all the city officials who are cogs in the
municipal machine have been stunned
by the enormity of tie disaster. The
official records of the dead are incom.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01
hallway TO clear DEBRIS.

The Southern Pacific railway viii aid
in the work Of tearing away the debris.
The railroad officials have begun to build
a track through the heart of the deyas-
tated city from Harrison street to the
bay, and will run fat cars in for the
wreckage that must be removed before
new buildings can rise and normal condi-
tons be restored. In this great work it is
announced that between 5000 and 1000
men viii be employed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01
New Location for chinatown.

Chinatown has been obliterated from
San Francisco forever. Mayor Schm:zx
said that ali of the Chinese now in the
city would be collected and placed in and
near Fontana's warehouses, near Fort
Mason, and that the pew Chinatown
would be located at Hunters Point, in
the southern extremity of the county, on
the bay shore. 1t is several miles distant
from the old Chinatown.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01
Women in Male Attire.

In some Of the provisional camps es-
tablished for refugees near the foot Of
Van Ness avenue and near Fort Mason,
it was difficult to distinguish men from
women. Evidently the supply of women's
clothing had been exhausted, for many
women could be seen dressed in ordinary
soft shirts and overalls.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01

are to go up in their places. Merchants
are hanging out signs or advertising in
the papers that they are preparing to
resume business. Posted on heaps of
still hot bricks are signs notifying en-
ployes where to report for work-for
there is work to do, and work for pay,
not labor performed at the point of
bayonets held by soldiers
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01

sion of lis sincerity. 1t would have pour
ed willing stream of gold into the cot
ferS of the Red Cross. The only thing
which held back flood of gifts was the
report in Washington that no foyeign con
Jrihurions were needed or desired. Offers
of foreign contributions have come from
many quarters but all were declined with
the warmeSt expression of the President
appreciation of the thoughtful generosity
which prompted the offers
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01
WILLING TO GIVE. BUT CAN'T.

RooscveIt'S Announcement stops
Golden Flood from Europe.
The eyes of Earope have been turned
20 America in such absorbing interest
that the public affairs of the old world
have been ignored temporarily. The cable
told of the almost Unprecedented response
Of human sympathy which the news Of
CaIfornia's calamity brought from every
land and people under the sun. This uni
yerssl leveling of all the national boun-
daries which ordinarily divide mankind
was commented on.
Europe longed to girs practical express
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01

quake worbmen began dynamiting
standing walls 10 make way for the
new San Francisco. 1t will require a
fortnight or more to tear down all the
menaciug monoliths of cracked brick
and stone The blackened debris is
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01
Mans shooting stories FnI.e.

Over half the stories printed of the
shooting down of innocent men are false
A few gho1ls were shot down and one
or two men were killed through careless
ness on the part of the guards, but such
stories as the killing of half dozen men
who tried to reach the vaults of the mint
are grOundless. The guards on watch
there declared that not a shot had been
Ernd
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01

While she lay unconscious upon the
floor Of the lobby of the St. Francis hotel
in San Francisco after the earthquake,
a Miss Logan had the third finger Of her
left hand cut off by 6end, and she was
robbed Of rings that she had worn there.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01
Strenuous Life.

Tom-There goes a man who looks
as if he had loved and lost.
Jack-Well, he was once in love all
right, and he both won and lost.
Tom-Why, how's that?
Jackie won the girl, but since
their marriage he has lost about TWEEN
ty-five pounds hustling for sufficient
coin to liquidate her bills
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01
Awful Fate of Chinese.

There is another unconsidered factor
which adds TO the list of probable dead.
Chinatown was built three stories above
the street and three below it. and all
was destroyed The Chinese had run
their tunnels, chambers and secret pas
sages fifty feet below ground. These
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01
DOE Feed on BodIes.

One of the grewsome scenes tn9t fol
lowed the fire was that witnessed III Tele-
graph and Russian hills and along the en-
tire north beach front of the city, when
scores Of half-starved dogs were found
eating human bodies. The animals were
discovered gnawing and tearing at the
corpses half buried in the ruins
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01

were always populated, especially at night
As they were not timbered, these tunnels
must have caved in, for the shock was
strong enough at the point to overthrow
some of the old rookeries. The things
which must have happened down there in
the bowels of the earth!
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01
A Degenerate Pnrtr.

The Republican party has brought
the coui try to a shocking state of af-
fairs and there is no end to the scan
dals and exposures that are constant
ly being brought to light. That keen
observer of affairs, the New York Post
says:
The present is a period of havoc
and upheaval. The gale of reform
that RACES DER the land lays bare most
hideous conditions. A dollarized So
ciety, insensible to all but pricking
selishness, makes possible corruption
high and low. Bride, graft, knavery,
exploitation, investigation, disclosure,
confusion, shame, in all the avenues of
activity the public ferret is at work
This is a period of iconoclasm. Idol
after idol crumbles In the fierce glare
of revelation. An age whose mighty
achievements are grounded on conf
dence finds itself at the apex of its
triumph preoccupied in revealing vast
betrayals of trust. And the bewild
cred soul shocked into uncertainty
snatches desperately after fragments
of that primal faith which binds So
ciety together, fearful lest the slow
fruits of an agelong altruism be lost
to this universal exploitation"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01

Comedian-The old gentleman at the
stage door said that every time he look
ed at you he was reminded of his boy
hood days.
Sodbrette-Ah. because L look so
young, | presume?
Comedian-No. because you wear q
switch
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01

lea, though touched by the evidence Of
foreign generosity, felt able to care for
its own.
Nor was the work Of raising relief
funds confined to the large cities. From
every section, every State, came the news
of contributions made by small towns. Not
large in themselves, but their aggregate
has been enormous. Uncounfed thousands
sent their contributions and the glsnd
total Of the relief fund viii probably
never be known
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01

being removed fast. and no sooner is
the earth cleared of broken brick and
burned wood than carpenters and ma
sons appear. ready to begin the con
struction of another house. Hundreds
of architects and draughtsmen from
Denver, Chicago. st. Louis and New
York have hurried to the stricken city.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01

More than S15.00000O has been sub
scribed for the San Francisco sufferers.
The largest contributors are New York.
S3,j00,000; Congress, S2,J00,0O0; Chi
cago. 100000. Other cities are respond
inc literally.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01
ALL HUMANITY HEsDs APPEAL.

Flood os Material Aid to Stricken
City Has No Parallel I'm History.
With spontaneity and liberality with
out parallel in history the whole civil
lied world answered the unvoiced appeal
of ruined San Francisco. Not only from
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01
Bury Dead in Trenches.

San Francisco buried its dead in
trenches all over the city, and in some in
stances more than fifteen bodies have
been placed in a single ditch. There was
no time for transportation to cemeteries
and TO leave the dead uncovered meant
pestilence. So in public squares, in va
cant lots. in jagged holes made BY the
earthquakes shock. all that was left of
rich and poor alike was placed. most OF
them to remain there unidentified
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01
Temporary Homo. BuiIt.

Temporary structures have been erect
ed in Golden Gate Park for the housing
Of 10000 people.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01
OF Course.

Edna (writing composition Dear
me. l have forgotten which are the
seven wonders Of the world. think
III ask Mrs. Brown
Tom-Don't.
Edna--Why not?
Tom-Well. she has seven children
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01

the disaster at San Francisco. and is
sending $4,000 to the Chinese in that
city.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01

The Empress Dowaser of China has
sent TO the American legation check for
$4,000 for the relief of the sufferers from
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01

trusts and combines that control so
many articles of necessity would have
to reduce the price they charge and the
present high cost of living would be
greatly reduced
Nearly everything we consulG or
wear, is protected by a high tariff
rate, and whether we buy imported ar
ticles, on which the government has
collected the duty or similar home
manufactured articles, on which the
trusts, combines, or protected manufac-
turers has collected the tax, by adding
the tariff to their profits. there is no
escape from the high prices which the
tariff causes and the American con-
sumner has to pay the bills.
Wives and mothers should talk this
over with the bread-winners of the
family and urge them to vote for the
candidates of the party who will vote
to revise this unreasonable tariff law
that taxes everyone numerically from
the cradle to the grave.
A Republican Congress is a rich field
for the corporations and trusts to get
in their work, and when a bill is
pending that is intended to plumber the
people their lobbyists gather around the
corridors of the Capitol like buzzards
at a feast. When Mr.. Carlisle and
Mr. Crisp were speakers of a Demo
cratic House, the corrupt lobby was
eliminated. But how different now. Re
citing the events on the consideration
of the ship-subsidy bill by the House
Committee on Merchant Marine and
Fiseries, a New York newspaper says:
Lobbyists overrun the committee
room and their leader occupies a place
at the head of the table prompting
Grosvenor, Littlefield and Minor when
any witness argues against subsidy"
Comment on such national dis
grace is unnecessary, but voters can
draw their own conclusions about who
to vote for next fall, for it is hardly
necessary to say that all the Demo
cratic members of the committee are
opposed to the bill and every Demo
cratic member of the House is in line
to vote against it, Why President
Roosevelt recommended this corrupt
legislation is a mystery, but that he
encouraged the lobbyists and grafters
to corrupt his party is certain.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01
Heartstrings of Continent
Touched by the City's
DesOlatiOn.
Tide of Gold Flows Westward
to Relieve Suffering of
Stricken.

San Francisco's four days battle
with the flames came &c an end Satur-
day. The homeless people found shell
ter-such as it was--in parks and
across the bay, and all remaining in the
city were fed San Francisco's heroic
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01

Protestant Christian commitment.
in China number 1l2S sos.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01

If time is money some people vast.
a lot OF wealth.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01
REVISED DETAILS OF LOSS
IN SAN FRANCISCO.

Number of dead, estimated 900
Number of injured, esti-
mated ... . 1900
Number of homeless esti-
mated 1890. ...,... 100000
Property loss, estimated. .S4000O0,0oo
Area burned. square miles. 10
City blocks burned ....... 1000
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-03-21
600

S. Howard Leech declared in an impassioned
speech in favor of the senate b that he would sup
port it even if it contained an amendment making
Chickasha the capital till 1899.
Col j. L. Isenberg was there, it is suspected, in
the interest Of his candidacy for Wild Duck Inspector
in and for Beaver Comfy.
Col. Bill Cross was also there, making no secret of
the fact that he enter the for congress
again against Bird Mcclure.
1t looked for time as if the convention would
fail to concur" in the senate amendments, but it
did
Col. w. s Whittinghill Of Enid was one Of the
most statesmanlke figures the floor ofthe conven-
ton.
No one was buster than Charlie Hunter He
was elected permanent chairman.
Roy Stafford declares that he will not oppose the
amendment capital location.
600
Charley Barrett Of the Shawnee Herald was
among the compicuous workers
600
The Chickasha delegation worked together very
harmoniously.
A vote Of thanks to the Kansas City Commercial
club was adopted.
What was said about Cannon plenty
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-03-21
THE SHAWNEE cONvENTION-LAST CALL
FOR RsTATEHooD, VIZ HOPE

The holding Of statehood conventions has be-
come such confirmed habit with the people Of these
two territories. that when call is issued for one,
everybody knows exactly what will happen We
know that the call viii be hceded that from all sec
tons Of Oklahoma and Indian Territory the statehood
workers will trek up the appointed place and see
about the work in hand that all thessold memberst
win be in their placesand some new ones; that there
c. G. Jones will be there goes without saying, that
there will be radicals and conservatives, some who
advocate give me liberty give me death" and
who urge mild supplication-all these and more
will be there.
The convention in Shawnee was no exception to
the general rule, indeed it was typical example of
such gatherings Called at the most critical period
il the very midst Of the fight on the eve Of action III
House that may prove the salvation Or the death
knelI Of our hopes, the men who attended it, if little
less bosterOus were none the less earnest and deter
mined that those who assembled last July in OklAho-
City and they entered upon their work in as order
y and systematic manner legislature Congress
would meet and proceed to business.
hs 20 inc view ol the SITUATION TAKEN Dy tnose al
the convention it may be said that in general the
crowd optimistic one. The speakers professed
the utmost confidence in the success of our efforts at
this session c. G. Jones felt absolutely sure-but
the mere holding Of such convention was confes-
sion Of doubt which admitted by the more candid
When asked if the Athenians would win in battle
the Delphc oracle replied Yes, if they fight with
all their might and this probably the feeeg of
amajority Of the statehood warriors.
II Twas q representative gathering and the attend
ance was larger Sequoyahans and the single slater
alike there-there was ne difference Of opinion
on the main issue The only difference was to the
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-03-21

Col. ]. 1. Isenberg was there, it is suspected in
the interest of his candidacy for Wild Duck Inspector
in and for Beaver Comfy.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-03-21

Col. Bill Cross also there making no secret oi
the fact that he enter the for
again against Bird MCGUIRE.