St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1906-05-02

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The Death List Smaller than First
Reported. The Property Loss not
Exaggerated. -0rs phic Letters From
CaIifornians. -AIfred Stanley among
the Injured.
1t is two weeks since the great EARTH
quake in Central California and the
various relief committees have been busy
night and day. Gen. Greeley has taken
command OF the military forces and
order is gradually coming out OF chaos
1t is believed now that the fatalities will
not exceed 400 and the property loss is
conservatively estimated at $500 00O,-
900. A conservative estimate OF the
insurance losses places them at $175,-
900 900 and none of the big insurance
companies will be driven to the wall by
the disaster. For the past two years,
Daniel H. Burnham, the architect OF the
Worlds Fair buildings. has been draw.
ing plans for q greater San Francisco
and now he has a chance to make good.
Strangely enough the city seal repre-
sents phoenix rising from the ashes and
soon a new city will arise which will
closely follow Mr.. Burnham's plans OF
| boulevard eucircling the water front and
smaller circles OF boulevardsinsid When
completed along these lines it is expected
| that San Francisco will rank with Ber-
lin, Paris and Vienna in the beauty oil its
street lines and the general effect OF its
architecture. The generosity Of the
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and over $40, 100000 has been sent to
the sufferers from all parts Of the United
States. 1t is not expected there will be
any legal tanges in rebuilding the city
and every facility will be afforded the
people to recoup their shattered fortunes.
We are sure our readers will be interest
ed in the following extracts from a
private letter from winter resident in
Pasadena:
No telegraph messages yet to Oakland
and love or money will not induce the
office in Los Angeles to accept a message
Tor Oakland or San Francisco and the
chief operator cannot promise to send
any short OF three or four days. Anxious
and Pasadena, who had friends or
relatives in the burned city OF San Fran
cisco, must wait and hope or 60 to them
by railroad. Absolutely no messages
are sent over the wires except from
government and state officials and the
relief committees, and these must concern
the catastrophe at San Francisco. Pri.
vate messages are, however, sent on the
owl" train every night, and since
Wednesday morning when the earth
quake threw down the wires, over 12,-
900 messages have bten shipped by the
Western Union in this way. The rush OF |
business at the telegraph office is some.
thing tremendous. There are rs opera
tors at work day and night. There is no
stop in the office as the company
furnishes the men with their meals as
they sit at their instruments and many
of them work for SO hours on a stretch.
A notice is posted that all messages for
the East are subject to from II to SO |
hours delay and now there are 1000 |
kilograms for the East piled up on a
table waiting to be sent.
All Pasadena is working and giving to |
the sufferers in the north. The Board Of |
Trade rooms are the center Tor shipping
supplies and several carloads are for
warded each day. Thursday and Friday |
every mother in the CITY was asked to |
give loaf OF bread or its equivalent, ten
cents, and by afternoon not loaf could |
be bought in the city. Each school child |
was asked to pack and tie up box of
lunch, and hundreds OF these lunch boxes
were forwarded. Boston man in Los
Angeles turned all his energies to filing
baby bottles with properly prepared
milk and sending them packed in ice
When one reads that a San Francisco
doctor estimates there were 1870 babies
born in the parks and streets during the
first "a hours after the earthquake one
feels that anything done for the women
and children would be most acceptable.
The old historic Cliff House still stands,
contrary to early reports that it was
swept into the sea.
The papers report the serious condition
of DR.. J. K. Mclean, president of the
Pacific Theological Seminary, Oakland.
He was in San Jose and was almost kill
ed in the collapse OF the St. James Hotel.
The bed in which he lay was completely
covered with bricks and debris and he
was severely cut in the head and reuder.
ed Unconscious for some time DR.. Nc
Lean has friends in st. ohnsbury and
paid a visit there year ago.
Sunday was busy day for hundreds
of women in Pasadena who met at the
Catholic church, the Shakespeare club
rooms, hotel parlors and IN private
houses to sew for the San Francisco SUIT
ferers. Twenty FIVE new sewing machines
were loaned by the agents and eight hun
dred yards OF cloth was made up at one
of these gatherings. With many other
things started north on Monday were
104 nightdresses, rs flannel petticoats,
60 cotton petticoats and AZ dresses.
The women OF the Shakespeare Club have
sent baby things exclusively.
The refugees are pouring into Los Ange.
les and Pasadena. The railroads give
free transportation end Sou hern Cali,
tornia is preparing for them. One church
in Los Angeles accommodates 700 women
and children in its Sunday school rooms.
Here in Pasadena, Tournament Park is
being fitted up with tents and 500 or
more can be placed there. Five thousand
have already come to Southern California
and are scattered among the towns.
We are permitted to print extracts
from letter from Mrs. Walter G. Cook
OF San Francisco, received last week by
her mother, Mrs. c. L. Shattuck, who