Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-20

naming stores were entered by the police
last night and their goods confiscated. Car
avans of provisions are now on their way to
the three relief stations.
In the meantime the hills and beaches of
San Francisco look like an immense tented
city.
For miles through the park and along; the
beaches from Ingleside to the seawaJl at
North Beach the homeless are camped in
tents, makeshifts rugged up from a few
sticks of wood and a blanket or sheet. Some
few of the more fortunate secured vehicles.
on which they loaded regulation tents, and
are therefore more comfortably housed than
the great majority.
Golden Gate Park and the Panhandle looks
like one vast camping ground. 1t is said
that fully 100000 persons. rich and poor
alike, sought refuge in Golden Gate Park
alone and 100000 more homeless ones To-
Gated at other places of refuge.
Portsmouth square yesterday became for
a time a public morgue. Between twenty
and thirty corpses were laid side by side
upon the trodden grass in the absence of
more suitable accommodations.
1t is said when the flames threatened to
reach the square the dead, mostly unknown
were removed to Columbia square where
they were buried when danger threatened
that quarter.
Citizens Forced to Bury Dead.
Out at the Preside yesterday soldiers
pressed into service all men whb came
near the Preside and forced them TO labor
at burying the dead. So thick were the
corpses piled up that they were becoming
a menace and early in the day the order
was issued to bury them at any cost. The
soldiers were needed for other work, so. at
the point of rifles the citizens were COM
PEELED to take to the work of burying. Some
objected at first but the troops stood no
trifng. and every man who came in reach
was forced to work at least one hour. Rich
men, unused to physical exertion, labored
by the side of workingmen digging trenches
| in which to bury the dead. AT the present
writing many still remain unburied and
the soldiers are still pressing men into
service.
Today and tomorrow have been made
legal holidays This, II is believed, viii
give the bankers Of San Francisco time to
be in a position to meet the demands of
the depositors and the danger of finan-
ciaI crisis will be averted.
The state and banks of the United
States in general have telegraphed guar
anteeng support to local financial institu-
tions and arrangements have already been
made whereby 1t can be stated every de-
positor will be paid in full
The Insurance Losses.
| The insurance companies have already
! taken up the question of losses. 1t was
| stated yesterday that the companies have
| decided IL possible to pay dollar for dollar
| on all the loses whether occasioned by fire
| or earthquake This viii mean IL the loss
| totals $500 COO 600. as it is believed 1t viii,
that s11O coo viii be paid into the pockets
| Of San Francisco realty owners, and with
| this as a start new structures will soon be
| in course of erection on the sites of the old.
| The Fireman's Fund and the Home and
| Marine. both local corporations, will, 1t Is
| said be the principal sufferers The losses
are divided among eighty insurance com
| nanies. and 1t is stated authoritatively all
| claims viii be satisfactorily adjusted, and
| that no company will be so weakened that
! II will be forced to suspend
| The Pacific coast managers of the fire in
| surance companies which have suffered by
the FIRE will meet tomorrow morning In
| Oakland TO discuss the situation.
| The Folsoru street dock was turned into a
| Temporary hospital yesterday the harbor
| hosnital belng unable to accommodate all
the injured who were brought there.
Care of the Injured.
Anout one hundred patients were stretched
| ON the dock at one time. In the evening
| tup. conveyed them to Goat Island, where
| thev were lodged in the hospital The docks
| from Howard street to Folsom street have
| been saved and the fire at this point was
, not permitted to creep further east than
| Main street.
Explosions of sewer gas have wrecked
| many streets and caused needless alarm
| among people who mistook the upheayais
| for further earthquakes. Yesterday after
noon a vesuvius in miniature was created
hy such an upheaval at Bryant and 18th
| streets Cobbiestones were hurled twenty
| feet upward and cloud of sand filled the
| air.
There is an immediate prospect FOR large
| supply OF water Ofiicers OF the Spring Val
lev Water Company stated last night that
/ they expect to be able to furnish the city
| with l0,0oO 900 gallons of water today or to-
| morrow There 10 water now west Of Van
Ness avenue, and the engines there are