Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-04-23
ARRIVING IN
SAN FRANCISCO.
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toward 1t at record speed from all Sec
tons of the country.
President Roosevelt sent a message
TO congress calling for an additional
> l,500,000 for the relief fund.
Roughly speaking, the burned district
is five miles square. There are not less
than twenty-five square miles of bleak
ruins, and the immensely of the disas-
ter now becomes apparent.
Insurance adjusters now on the
ground estimate the property loss will
not fall short of $350,000,000. The in
surance loss will aggregate a hundred
million less.
The destruction of life was not as
great as the earlier reports indicated.
The exact number of those who perish
ed win never in all human probability
be known. for many bodies were en-
tirely destroyed. Mechanics pavilion
was Used for a time as a mOrgue and
as u refuge for the injured. After 200
dead had been taken there and several
hundred injured the fire reached the
building. No attempt was made to re-
move the bodies, all attention being
paid to the injured. The result was
that not less than 200 bodies, few of
which had been identified, were Gre
mated. The most reliable estimate is
that 1000 persons persisted.
Thirty-siX babies were born in the
Preside grounds yesterday. They and
their mothers are being cared for by
the Red Cross society, but many of
them will inevitably perish.
Despite terrific handicaps the situa-
ton is being kept under admirable con-
troll. General Funston is in supreme
command, but he is in almost hourly
consultation with Governor. Pardee,
Mayor Schmitz and General Manager
+. f. Calvin of the Southern Pacific.
Soldiers are everywhere, and few per:
son are allowed to pass their lines.
Looters are being shot down without
mercy.
Death by a rife bullet without even
the formality of a drumhead court
martial is the fate that martial law is
now melting out to San FranciscO's
malefactors.
Unfortunately the belief is growing
that there have been many shootings
that have not been so well justified.
Various reports of the summary exc
cutiOn of men caught in the act of loot
ing are afoat. One man shot was a
foreigner who was ordered by a SOL
der to cut down some trees. Under
standing English imperfectly, the man
started to walk away. He was shot
through the body without further par
ley and, though not killed outright, is
dangerously wounded.
The entire western addition of the
city lying west of Van Ness avenue
which had escaped the sweep of flame,
is absolutely safe.
A trip through the burned districts
revealed a scene of upspeakable desc
lation. From many points Oh Market
street as far as the eye could reach in
any direction there was nothing but
1t should be borne in mind that San
Francisco was not destroyed by the
earthquake. While old buildings in
that part of the city, which stood on
made" ground east of Montgomery
street, and some of that district lying
south of Market street, it is true, suf-
fered from the shock, it was fire that
wrought the great devastation and
wiped out the entire business section
and probably half of the residence sec
ton of the city. The great modern
steel structures were practically unin-
jured by, the earthquake, except for
cracked walls and displaced plaster.
Chief ID. J. Sullivan of San Francis
cos fire department died yesterday
from the effects of injuries received
on the morning of the earthquake.
Chief Sullivan aud his wife were sleep
ing in the fifebouse adjoining the Cali
fOrnia hotel on Bush street. The earth
quake shook down the chimney of the
hotel and sent it crashing through the
tirehOuse. Chief Sullivan and his wife
were carried with the debris two
stories to the ground floor, where they
We're eXtricated after great difficulty.
Sullivan had a fractured skull, four
broken Hbs and other injuries.
Eddie Graney, the well known sport
ing referee, was with Chief Sullivan
from the time the wounded man was
removed from the firehouse until Mr..
Sullivan's death. Mr.. Graney stated
that Chief sullivan never knew there
was a fire. After recovering conscious
ness the chief took great interest in
the affairs of the city, being always
~apprehensive that a fire would break
out. He knew from the first that he
was dying from his injuries.
Mrs. Sullivan, who suffered serious
injuries and was reported dead, has
progressed satisfactorily, and it is be-
lieved that she will V
The Pacific Mail steamer China, with
a large quantity of foodstuffs, has ar
rived from the orient. and the supplies
will be distributed here. The shipping
of San Francisco is at Il standstill, and
such will be the state of affairs while
the city is in the least endangered.
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