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Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-21

sure / do not think 1t will exceed 300
dead and it may not reach that num-
ber
This earthquake was utterly unlike
any other shock 1 have ever felt. In
my experience shocks have come with
a rolling motion but this one was a
constant shake. The only way l can
express 1t is to compare it to a man
shaking the last apple off the tree.
felt as though I was that last apple
and I believe everyone else felt the
same.
Those people need food and clothing,
blankets and tents, sent in charge of a
competent committee. But do not send
volunteers. Keep people away from
there. They have all they can do now
to handle those they have. 1t Is inn
perative that people be kept away from
that stricken city,"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-21

To open the churches for the care of
women and children from the stricken
city is the movement taken by the
pastors of the city at meeting of the
Church Federation yesterday afternoon.
The project was first voiced by promi-
nent railroad officials and was imme-
diately taken up by the pastors, who
will care for all women and children
for a week or ten days.
The project will be taken before the
proper railroad officials and If arrange
ments can be made for transportation
this move will be made.
1t is thought that in the crowded
condition in the north it will be hard
to care for the women and children
and that as all the men are needed to
work, it will make it harder for them to
care for their families. In this way
the women and children will be cared
for and the men will be relieved.
The city pastors will meet at o'clock
this afternoon at the Y M. C. A. to
plan for the Sunday services and for
the collections to be taken up at all
the churches
Give Wagon Force
The Bethlehem Institutional church
yesterday gave their working force and
wagons for the use of the chamber of
commerce in collecting provisions and
clothing In addition to this Rev. DAM
w. Bartlett. the pastor. donated the
stock of clothing kept on hand, which
was to have been sold at nominal prices
to the people of the neighborhood. This
stock comprised a small clothing store
and was boxed yesterday for ship
ment.
Mass Meeting
mass meeting will be held by the
colored people tomorrow afternoon at 8
O'Clock at the Wesley chapel. corner
Eighth and San Julian streets. r. G
Owens will preside. Money will be
raised for the earthquake sufferers.
On Tuesday evening benefit enter
tainments will be given simultaneously
at the Second Baptist church Wesley
chapel and the First A. M. f.. church
in which the local colored talent of Los
Angeles and Pasadena will take part
They will go from one church to the
other, thus carrying on the program in
all three.
Y. w. C. A. Directors
At meeting of the board of directors
of the Y. w. G. A. yesterday noon 1860
was raised for the relief fund. This
sum was raised by the directors, sec
retaries and young women who lunched
at the association rooms.
Old Plaza Benefit
A scene of activity manifested at the
old Plaza church yesterday where a
stage is being erected in the patio
prepare tory to the benefit entertain
ment which will be given next Saturday
evening by the Sons of Montezuma,
assisted bv the Spanish societies of the
church. The program for the event
will be arranged today.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-21
SAW THE GHOULS
SIEZE JEWELRY
FROM THE DEAD

John w. Hancock, who was connect
ed with the Palace hotel ard who bare
~ escaped from the shattered building
with his life, was registered at the Van
Nuys yesterday. He came in on the
noon owl He said;
Just as the tottering walls of the
Palace trembled for the last time, and
fell into the flaming ruins of the one
time splendid structure, the last fright
ened guest was hurried from the build
ing.
The injured were taken out on hast
lly lmproVised stretchers by their
friends. The employees of the hotel and
all the expressmen who could be
pressed into service worked hurriedly
to get out the trunks of the frenzied
mob of guests.
terday at l O'Clock Half burned bod
les of naked men and women who were
killed while trying to escape from the
hretrap lodging houses Uttered the
streets. Ghouls were everywhere in
evidence looting wrecked jewelry stores
and the more daring wrenched rings
from the fingers of the dead.
although the military authorities
tried desperately to stop the outraees.
they succeeded only in Isolated eTS, in,
stances and in many quarters. notably
the poorer portion of San Francisco
TIE dastardly criminals worked unmo-
Tested
chinatown was one of the first see
tions to be destroyed and the celes-
tials crazed with fear, in many in
stances killed themselves and their
families to escape from the more terri
BILE death by earthquake and fire.
For the first few terrible moments
after the initial shock everyone seemed
to think that the crack of doom had
fallen upon the fated city. Scenes of
the most fearful devastation were
everywhere in evidence
THE CHASTITY and revolving nature of
the sights to be seen in the streets of
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-21
WORKMAN WIRES
HE Is SAFE IN
OAKLAND HOTEL

A telegram was received yesterday
afternoon from "Uncle Billy" Work
man, who has been in the north for
several days. Mr.. Workman said In the
dispatch:
THANK God. Arrived here this MORN
ing all safe. Driven out of three hotels.
San Francisco in complete ruins. Wire
Immediately care Hook Bros.
"W. II. WORKMAN"
The message was dated at Oakland
and was sent to the Office of the well
known city treasurer.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-21
.TEEEGRAMS PILE UP
AT TELEGRAPH OFFICE
WESTERN UNION COMPANY CAN.
NOT GET MESSENGERS
Partial List of the Messages Which
Accumulated in Few Days.
Boys With Wheels Are in
Demand

Ihe many undelivered teIeprama nj
me Western Union Telegraph cOmnnny
9ue 9rn 10 the rush growing out of the San
franciscO horror cannot he meI
promptly because of the denrtb ~ hnw'
ana men here.
The Western Union pays well fo,
messengers m but seems unable to gel
ria or the accumulation, II will nny
all who apply for the Jobs well pro.
Vided applicants have bicycles.
Meanwhi1e the offices are besieged
win those who want to send teIegrnms
or are expecting answers.
Deliveries Will be made as quickly
us possible, but owing to the heayy
rush addresses shown below are re-
quested to call for kilograms;
App, NJ. Il.
Burke, j. E.
Boepp1er, Louis.
Beach, Mrs. Nellie.
Benedict, Chas.
Beck, Geo, w.
BOwles, Mrs. C. G.
California Rose Co.
Carney, Mrs. Geo. S.
Cook. G.. A.
Cottrill, Galz.
Dee, John
Dalsel1, Chas.
Enefer, II. j.
Earl, E. II.
FOrse, Miss Ada.
Fresneda, Manuel.
Gold, Mrs. L. III.
Glove, Miss Bertha.
Gnie, mrs. Mary 8.
Gibbs, w. W., jr.
Gates, Carroll.
Garnett, Mrs. j. II.
Hendrickson, MOsmar
Hill, j. Il.
Hook, John.
HOugh, w. w.
Harley, Della.
HO1me, Garnett.
Hess, Earl E.
Jacobs, ii. q.
knutsen, X.
Laugmier. Murray.
Lawson, Mrs. j. $.
Mueller, Mrs. Jennie.
McFall, Herman.
Merrill, Mrs. T. ID.
Mitchen, Park.
McClOud, Mrs. w. w.
Owen, II. B.
Owen. l.. ID.
POmerOy (cable).
Roth, l.. f.
RagsdaIe. w. j.
RizknajOb,
Stapley, III.
Shetes, j. NJ.
Spaetly. Sadie.
Smith. j. w.
Sawyer, f. o.
Tompkins, +. G..
Tuck, Mrs. Chas.
TOrrey, G. IT.
Van Vranl<in, Frank.
White, Emma.
Walden, Mrs. j. A.
Weston. Fred.
Wood. Thomas r.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-21
MESSAGE TRAVELS
LONG WAY, BUT
BRINGS GOOD NEWS

Black Brothers received word that
their relatives, Edward Newman and
family of 1902 Suffer street, San Fran
cisco, are alive and safe.
Mr.. Newman being unable to get a
telephone message through from San
Francisco, cabled the information to
his cousin, Isador Holdhein, promi-
nent merchant of Berlin. Germany, who
in turn sent a cablegrar to Black
Brothers containing the good news.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-21
PARTY FROM THE
NORTH REACHES
LOS ANGELES

Mrs. r. w. Roach 20S Henne build
ing, and Mr.. and Mrs. H. Heidelberg,
residents of 1923 California street, San
Francisco, were among those who left
the devastated city and arrived last
night. They will remain at Long Beach
for the present.
j. A. Stark Of 104 East Pico street,
Los Angeles, was at the American
hotel when the first quake occurred.
The hotel fell in with the shock, but
Mr.. Stark escaped without serious in
Jury.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-21
WALLS FELL OUT,
ROOF CAVED IN,
KILLING WOMAN

Herbert Delderfield was in a rooming
house at 236 Winston street when the
shock came. Last night he said that
the stone walls fell out and the inside
of the building collapsed, killing the
landlady, Mrs. A. Clayton.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-21
DEATH LIST WILL
TOTAL THOUSAND,
SAYS E. J. HUGHES

e. ]. Hughes of Chicago, clerk in
the Southern Pacific railroad offices,
was over a great deal of the destroyed
territory yesterday and says that 1T is
almost impossible to describe what he
saw. 1t is his belief that the dead will
number more than a thousand, al
though he said that it is difficult to
determine anything definite OH account
OF the roaring flames and heat keeping
the people at a good distance away.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-21
SUPT. HANLEY GOES
NORTH WITH FOOD
IN HIS AUTO

Anxious for word from his brothers,
Street Superintendent Hanley left at 3
o'clock yesterday morning in his auto
mobile for San Francisco and San Jose.
His son James accompanied him.
They carried an abundance of food
packed in baskets and boxes for the
relief of the sufferers.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-21
STUDENTS AT
STANFORD SAFE
AND WORKING

c. S. Smith, manager of the Pacific
Coast Manufacturing company, arrived
here yesterday at l p. m. from Stanford
univ ersity.
He left here Monday night for San
Francisco but when he heard the news
at Stanford of the disaster he went
no further. He said:
students at Stanford are all safe.
They have organized themselves into
relief committee and are distributing
food and clothes"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-21
WELCOME REFUGEES
IN THE CHAMBER
READING ROOM

Headquarters for refugees from the
northern cities have been opened at the
reading room of the chamber of COM
merce.
Negotiations with Abbot Kinney are
pending for the use of tent city at Ven
ice for sufferers.
Everyone in Los Angeles who has
furnished rooms to donate for the shell
ter of refugees is urged to communicate
with the chamber of commerce at once
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-21
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Contribute

The German-American alliance last
night contributed $1,000 to be sent to the
San Francisco branch of the organiza-
tion. The same society will give benz
eft concert April % at Turner hall and
donate all proceeds to the cause.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-21
Caught in shaftlna

w. b. Hayning, an employe of the
glass company at Fifteenth and Wall
streets, was caught in a shafting and
seriously injured yesterday afternoon.
Al the emergency hospital, where
Hayning was taken after the accident,
the physicians said he is suffering great
pain and has sustained serious internal
injuries.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-21
Los Anaeles Headquarters

Postmaster Flint, who is in Oakland,
has been wired to establish permanent
Los Angeles headquarters and regis
tration bureau for Los Angeles people
at that place or San Francisco.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-21
Woman,s Mass Meeting

The women's mass meeting at
Blanchard hall raised $5,11930 yester-
day afternoon.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-21
SILvERToN HAS BIG FIRE
Silver Lake Mill Burns at a Loss of
Fully Two Hundred and Fifty
Thousand Dollars

Thousand Dollars
BY Associa ted Press.
SILVERTON, COLO, April 2O.-The
Silver Lake mill, three miles from Sill
verton, was destroyed today by fire.
The loss is estimated at $25O,000, fully
insured.
The fire is believed to have been Of
incendiary origin, as the hose was
found to have been cut.
The mill was owned by the Guggen-
helm Brothers of New York and gave
employment to $50 men.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-21
The New York Central Line,

Have their office at ZIG West Fourth
street. Tickets and sleeping car
reservations to all points east of ST.
Louis and Chicago Six tourist cars
week to Boston.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-21
HOW DESTITUTE
ARE BEING FED
THOUSANDS FORM INTO LINES
TO SECURE BREAD
Supply Of MIX Sent to Golden Gate
Park Proves Boon to Women
and the Little
Children
Bv AaaoriataH Drnr.

By Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO, April 2O.-Al-
though every effort of the various re-
lief committees today was bent to ap-
pease the gnawing hunger of the desti-
tute thousands-efforts that were in a
large measure entirely successful-there
are tonight In this city many persons
either. without sufficient food or entirely
without it.
The government officials took charge
of every grocery store in that part of
the city standing and gave out food
stuffs to all those who were hungry.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1906-08-16
SHELLS OF SMOKELESS POWDER.

men are required to wear long white
serge suits and m%occasins, and no
metal articles are allowed in the
pockets which might cause friction.
All the tools. tunnels. measure cups,
scales and other appliances used are
made Of copper. Here the delicate
and somewhat dangerous business Of
Weighing out the various smokeless
powder charges is done. Even one or
two grams difference In weight is
carefully observed. At the Indian
Head proving grounds the naval ordi.
n experts by tests determine the
powder charge best adapted for the
various guns. These firing charges
are constantly being changed and re-
ivsed, which keeps the filling house
men very active. Daily boxes of
smokeless powder are emptied into a
long wooden trough. The powder
looks like cut up sticks of yellow can-
dy with holes punched through them.
With a copper scoop the powder is
dipped out of the trough, accurately
weighed and tied up in quarter, half
nAA AuAA NAaA bC1s III WnllG Ud65s luCbb
bags have several wide streamers at
tached. and each is tagged with the
date of filling and amount of the pow
der it contains. A small ignition
charge Of quick burning black powder
is slowed in the bottom of each bag.
They are then placed in large copper
cans and are ready for transfer
aboard ships.
The heaviest charge used in the
navy weighs a little over 220 pounds,
and is arranged in four quarter
charges of 30 pounds each. This is
for the 13-inch guns. The bags, when
piled one on top of another, reach to
the top of a mans head and present
a formidable sight of bottled up de-
struction.
Another important operation per-
formed in the filling house is loading
the 10 and Pinch ~projectiles with
their bursting charge. For the for
mer so pounds of black powder is
used, and about So pounds for the r.
inch. To hold the shells steady and
to get at the base of these huge steel
missiles, weighing over 1000 pounds
each, they are roped in a sling and
hoisted clear of the floor by a pulley
and chain. The point is then lowered
a foot or so into a stanch wooden
frame with an opening a trife larger
than the shell. A long, narrow bag is
inserted, and with a funnel the black
powder is poured out of the covered
measure into the shell. Some so of
these giants can be loaded in a day.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1906-08-16
FROG WAS TO BLAME.
weather Prophet Had Simply Put
Faith Where He Believed He
Had a Right

James Wilson, the secretary Of agri
culture, was discussing an Anticipated
kind Of farming.
1T is about as profitable and logi-
CAL" he said, AS the weather reading
Of a Connecticut farmland / used to
know.
This farmland claimed that he
could read the weather infallibly. On
a walk with me one afternoon a frog
eroaked, and he said:
1--WE will have clear weather for "a
hours. When a frog croaks in the
afternoon you may be sure OF "a hours
Of sunshine
I'VE walked on and in 20 minutes
OF so a heavy shower came up and we
we're both drenched to the skin.
"'You are a fine weather prophet
said I, as we hurried homeward
through the downpour. You ought to
be ashamed Of yourself
40, we'll, said the farmland, the
frog lied. It's to blame, not me. Am
/ responsible for the morals of that
particular frog?'"
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1906-08-16

st. Ignace, Mich.-What has been
looked upon more or less as a wild
dream of a ship canal by the people of
northern Michigan may yet become a
reality if the views Of Lawrence E.
O'Mara, once Of Sault Ste. Marie but
now of Chicago, are to be taken as
correct. His scheme is for the con-
%struction Of a ship canal between Lakes
Michigan and Superior following a
route a few miles to the east of Mar
quette. A bill authorizing the project
was introduced in the recent congress.
Were such water way constructed it
would mean a saving in distance from
the head of the lakes to Lake Michi-
gan Of over 400 miles. The canal would
be 40 miles long and would cost, it is
estimated, $4,000, 900.
Schemes contemplating the same
project have been preached before, but
nothing yer came of them. The plan
has been pronounced feasible by some
persons, while others have said that it
was impracticable, among these a Mar
quette engineer familiar with the pro-
posed route, who figures that at the
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1906-08-16

FOUND TREASURE IN LAKE

gold and silver and" Just then a
patrolman happened on the scene.
Whats that? Found Capt. Kidd's
treasure, have you? Guess not. I've
heard of that iron chest before"
He took charge of it and carried it
to the station house. When the lid
was pried open inside were found
stock certificates and life insurance
policies to the amount Of $4,000 and
other valuable papers. 1t was the
iron box which had been stolen from
the Office of the Brewers union on the
night of June 81 by some one who en-
tered the office with a duplicate key
and then distracted the box from the
safe. A silver watch was missing
from the chest. Otherwise the con-
tents were intact.
Frederick Zepp, the treasurer of the
union, was called to the station and
took charge of the box.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1906-08-16
-N~s~NN-'-NN''-ON-'N
SEEK RELICS OF IRELAND.
Deputation Coming to United States
to Obtain Objects for Exhibition
at Dublin in 1907.

London.-A deputation is going to
America to obtain objects of historical
interest for the International exhibit
ton to be held at Dublin in 1907. Prof.
Thomas H. Teegan, principal Of the
Central Training college, Dublin, has
sailed for New York, and Father Pat
rick Lally of Galway and Col. McHack-
EFT of Dublin will follow. They will
visit all the larger cities to obtain rel
les in the possession Of families Of
Irish descent and objects associated
with the Napoleonic era held by Amer
leans.
While the exhibition is being strong
ly supported opposition to 1t has'been
aroused in some quarters. The Irish
nationalist are especially opposed to
1t, John e. Redmond, leader Of the
Irish parliamentary party in the house
Of commons, explaining that what Ire
land desired at present was a national
and not an international exhibition, as
the Irish industries are not sufficiently
developed to be placed beside the man
ufaeture of cher countries.
Representations have been made to
the state department at Washington
not to support the exhibition by en-
couraging people to exhibit.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1906-08-16

Cleveland, O.-"Ouch!" exclaimed
one of a group of small boys who we're
bathing in the lake the other after
moo Gee, my foot hit somethin'!
Somethin' hard like iron"
Soon all were splashing about and
cropping their way along the bottom,
~endeavoring to find the cause of the
trouble. In a few minutes two of them
bumped heads as they crawled blind
ly about. Then they put out their
hands and one Of them felt a hard,
square metallic substance. He strug-
gled to the surface with a good sized
iron chest in his arms.
All shouted as they gathered
around: "Cap'n Kidd's treasure"
Guess we amt luckyi" And they car
ried the box, good and heavy, to the
shore. There they expected to open
it and to divide the treasure in true
pirate style. Maybe its diamonds and
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1906-08-16
CABIN NEARLY 200 OLD
Relic Situated at Pittsburg Recalls
Days When Settlers Battled
with Redskins.

Pittsburg, Pa.-Alone, yet with
stately appearance, stands a log cabin
built of rough hewn timber and mud
plaster upon Squirrel hill by John Nc
Comb, nearly 175 years ago.. At that
time the McComb cabin was a veri-
table fortress.
Indians galore inhabited the now
peaceful residential section of Squirrel
hill and many times the McComb fam
lily and their few nearby neighbors
were forced to take up arms and fight
for their lives against the redskins. "
The log cabin stands alone in the cen
ter Of a big plot of ground just off Muir.
ray Hill avenue
The old cabin, Of historic fame, Is
now a dilapitated structure. The walls
still stand as firm as when they were
erected some years ago, but the floors
have warped, and the interior is in a
general state Of decay. In the cellar
Of the cabin are located two large
wells Of water, dug by the McComb
family at a time when they were be-
sieged by Indians.
Until last February the cabin was
occupied by an old servant of the Nc
Comb family. Mrs. Lucy Rogers. For
20 years after the McComb. family va
Gated the cabin Mrs. Rogers and her
family lived IN the log house. Mrs,
Rogers was a slave to DR.. e. A. Van
Camp. formerly American consul to
the Fill islands. and after her services
as bondswoman to that family ceased
she entered the employ Of the Nc
Comb family.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1906-08-16

drift in closer proximity to the pole
thar as yet has been done, reaching
between "a and So degrees on the 9TH
er side of the passage. We will then
leave the ship, taking to our automobile
boats in the summer tease and make
for the trip to the pole. Having a spe-
cially devised system of wireless teleg-
raphy with box-kite stations, we shall
be enabled to keep our advance known
between the parties on the Ice and the
ship at all times. Our drifting may
cover a period Of from three to four
years, but we shall be pr%ovisioned and
QUILTED for six years, so that there
will be no anxiety in regard to food"
While drifting toward the pole sur
veying parties will be sent out on both
sides of the ship, extending their op-
erations at least so miles on either
side. and being in wireless communica-
ton with the ship at stated intervals
during the day.
The Arctic has been fitted with a
large and powerful air compressor
driven by a windmill, so as to econ
omize coal, the power thus accumulated
and stored being used for the dynamos
for lighting IS well as heating pur-
poses.