The Topeka state journal., 1906-04-25
NO FAINT HEARTS
San Francisco Citizens Are Alert
and Active.
New Buildings will Be on Larger
Scale.
TEAMS PUT TO WORK.
Streets Are Rapidly Being
Cleaned of Debris.
Indiscriminate ShoOtingStOpped
by Mayor Schmitz.
TEAMS PUT TO WORK.


san Francisco, April 25.-It is a
week today since the city was visited
by an earthquake which laid low the
metropolis of the Pacific coast and
started a confagration unequaled IN
the history of this country. Although
the ruddy glow of the dying embers of
the fire which devastated San Fran
cisco made homeless 800, 600 people,
caused the loss of many lives and left
a black trail of utter desolation and
ruin in its wake. still nightly illuminate
the sky, the work of restoration is al
ready well under way, showing q
spirit unbroken, a courage undaunted
and a determination seldom equalled
and which has never been surpassed.
Plans for the construction of new
buildings to replace those destroyed
by earthquake and flames are rapidly
being drawn and work on some of
them will begin as soon as the ruins
of the old sites are cooled. Many of the
new buildings planned are on a larger
scale than those licked up by the
flames, giving promise that from the
ashes will rise a new San Francisco,
greater ana more beautiful than the
old.
Within the past week the people of
this city have gone through the entire
1 gamut of distress, misery and suffer
/ ing indescribable and in the face of
disaster and calamity of such magni-
tude with poverty, privation and utter
/ ruin staring them in the face they
have maintained Spartan courage and
an unconquerable spirit. At no time
has there been any panic, disorder or
In addition to the large force Of .mer
and teams already at work about so
teams of government mules were put
10 work yesterday hauling away de-
Drls Several more streets were
cleared for traffic, numerous street car
lines are ready for operation while
the repairing of the water mains and
ne work OF restoration of the gas and
electric systems is making rapid head
way Work on taking down and re-
building the ferry tower viii begin to-
day.
The Exodus Continues.
The exodus from the city is continu-
GUS All day yesterday a constant
stream OF men, women and children,
a1oot ana on every conceivable vehicle
Wended their way down Market and
Mission streets toward the ferries A
little bundle on stick carried over the
shoulder represented all the worIdls
possessions of some, others had grips
and baskets and great many have
saved trunks and furniture. It is es
timated that $4,000 people were fur
n1shed with free transportation to dif-
ferent parts of the state by the Santa
Fe and Southern Pacific railways The
rellef work is now thoroughly OrRaniz-
ed and rapidly becoming systen1a tfzad
! Many carloads of provisions and sup
plies are being received daily Five
cars were received from southern Cali
fornia, among other things 1900 blank
cts which were Immediately distributed
at the transport docks by the marines
The blankets came at an opportune
time, but are insignificant in number to
what are actually required. in fact i'm
peratfvely necessary to alleviate the
distress of the suffering. many of the
refugees being poorly protected agains.
exposure.
The rain was followed by a clear cold
night, causing much distress in the
parks and crowded camps for want os
dry bedding, blankets, cots and water
proof tents. Many people walked fos
hours to keep warm, others huddled
around little camp fires, shivering with
cold, in some instances their clothing
being still wet from the rain. Everv-
thing possible was done to alleviate
their distress by putting women and
children In houses. but as no fires are
allowed and there is a lack of blankets.
it helped but a little.
Little Shooting Last Night
AS a result of Mayor Schmitz's sharp
letter yesterday evening to General
Roster commanding the National
Guard in which the mayor called the
generals attention to the fact that the
city was not under martial law and
that the drastic measures and arbitrary
actions of some of his men which have
caused SO much complaint were illegal
and requesting him to put stop to it,
there was but little shooting last night
in the district over which the militia
hold sway.
A mariner has reported finding a light
burning in a house on lower Fillmore
street after 10 o'clock last night and the
military sentry on the post shot through
the window. A looter who, it is stated
broke into several places on Vallejo
street. was reported to have been shot
by a marine sentry at Vallejo and East
streets.
Several bullets fred from the water
front struck a Red Cross launch in
which DR.. Diggins, of the emergency
hospital service. was going from the
Poetro district to the Preside. The
shooting was done while the launch
, was off the ferry depot. None of the
; occupants was hit The bluejackets
! who patrol that section of the water
front disclaim all knowledge of the
) shooting.
An alleged thief who is said to have
jumped out of a window with a
bundle Of clothes at Pierce and O'Far-
reH streets early this morning. is re-
I ported to have been shot by a national
: guardsman. The fact that two COM
\ panies of the Fourteenth infantry from
Vancouver went to Oakland yesterday
to do guard duty in that city indf-
Gates that the militia will be recalled.
Q Oil Fields Didn't surer.