The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-04
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loved ones. Crowding all sidewalks in
the unburned area are thousands anC
| thousands of homeless people. In some
instances men with ropes are dragging
| trunks tandem style. Others have
sewing machines strapped to the
| trunks. Women are rushing for the
hills, carrying in their arms only the
family cat or a bird cage There is
no aid for any one from outside
sources. In the awful scramble for
| safety the half-crazed survivors disre-
I gard everything but thoughts of them
| selves and their property
In every excavation and hole
| throughout the north beach house
| holders are burying household effects.
| throwing them into the bitches and
t covering the holes Attempts are made
to mark the graves of the property so
| that it can be recovered after the
flames are apDeased.
AT p. m. a crowd of 100 or more
mobbed a bread wagon and took the
contents. The police made an effort to
interfere but were powerless. Bread
is beginning to arrive from Berkeley
and Oakland and is being distributed
in the north end of town by the relief
parties organized by Mayor Schmitz.
Thousands of people are sleeping on
the hills tonight or standing gazing
with grim faces on the lurid scene be-
low them. Women and children and
little babes in arms are huddled to-
gether with the injured. In Golden
Gate Park the people are huddled to-
gether with gnawing hunger the COM
panion of all. The wall of the injured
and the calls of frantic survivors for
friends and relatives who are missing
are most pitiful. These crowds are
constantly increasing, and the relief
committees are doing all in their power
to get bedding and food for the home
less.
CRAzED DRUNKARDS
STORM SALOONS.
Oakland. Berkeley and Alameda are
short of food and in a few days will
themselves be facing a serious short
age unless relief comes from the out
side. Expressmen are charging as
much as $50 TO haul a load of baggage
or give any aid at all to refugees.
Liquor stores in the north end We're
robbed and hundreds of men carried
away the bottled goods. When the
soldiers arrived the men had to be
dubbed by the militiamen before they
would drop the bottles. Soldiers
smashed the bottles on the stones and
drove the mob at the point of the !
bayonet.
When the mansions on Mob HILL the !
Fairmount and Mark Hopkins Insti- |
tute were approached by the flames |
today many attempt We're made to re- |
move some of the priceless works of art |
from the buildings A crowd of sol
diers was sent to the Flood and Hunt
ington mansions and Mark Hopkins In
stitute of Art to rescue the paintings.
From the Huntington home and Flood |
canvases were cut from the
frames with knives The collections in
the three buildings are valued in the
hundreds of thousands. Very few were
saved from the ravages of the fire
fend.
This afternoon at 4 O'Clock the cadets
Of the University of California to the
number of SEQ entered the city to ala
the militia and regular soldiers in
their work of enforcing martial law.
The young college men have orders
% shoot without warning those caught
ooting. In many parts of town. where
he crowds of survivors are the wild {
est, it is almost impossible to get
around save at pistol muzzle. The
soldiers are disarming every person
seen with weapon f,
ALMOST
MAD FROM THIRST.