Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-04-28
INCIDENTS
OF DISASTER
Triplets Arrive on the Scene
Italians Quench Flames with
Wine = Women Saves Ca
nary.

smoking ruins marks the site of the
wooden warrens where the slant eyed
men Of the Orient dwelt in thousands.
The place is pitted with deep holes and
scared with dark passage ways, from
whose depths came smoke wreaths.
White men never knew the depth of
Chinatown's underground city. They
often talked of these subterranean run
ways. And many Of them had gone
beneath the street levels two and three
stories. But now that Chinatown has
been unmasked, for the destroyed build
ings were only a mask, men from the
hillside have looked on where its inner
secrets lay. In places they can see
passages n hundred feet deep. The
fire swept this Mongolian section clean.
Joss houses and mission schools, grocery
stores and opium dens, gambling hells
and theatres-all of them went. The
half-crazed yellow men fled the scene
early, In their arms they bore their
opium pipes, their money bags, their
silks and their children. Beside them
ran the bag%gy-trousered women, and
some of them hobbled painfully.
Thousands of gallons of wine were
used in a novel way by the residents of
the Italian quarter at North Beach in
their efforts to prevent the fire from
igniting their homes. Carpets were
torn up from the floors of the houses
and were hung over the fronts of the
buildings which stood on the opposite
side of the street to the blazing blocks.
When the fronts of the residences had
been covered with carpets suspended
from the roofs, the people stood on the
roofs and poured down claret, sherry,
port and angelica wines until the carpets
were dripping wet. In this novel man
ner a protecting wall was formed to
prevent the heat of the burning build
ings directly across the street setting
the nearby houses on fire. Others
among North Beach fire fighters car
ried buckets Of wine to the roofs and
poured the grape liquid over the roofs
and sides of the houses. There was no
water in the house pipes, the mains
having been broken by the earthquake.
Several of the wine warehouses at
North Beach were placed at the dis
posal of the residents Of the district,
and the barrels were rolled along the
streets to the homes menaced by flames.
w. J.. B. Lee received a telegram
Tuesday from Mrs. Lee in San Fran
cisco to the effect that she had suffered
a broken ankle and fracture of the ribs
through a falling wall Of their home.
She is now on the road to recovery.
Mr.. Lee left for Oakland Wednesday
morning.
The survivors are seeking work not
only for the money that it will bring,
but as a relief for minds that have been
sorely tried for the past four days.
Gathered among those who are search
ing for work are men who were in
prosperous circumstances. Former
rich and poor alike are willing to take
any kind of work that is offered.
Women who were a few days ago the
possessors of snug fortunes are tenn
porarily taking places as domestics hat
they may secure homes while order is
being restored in San Francisco.
A maternal hospital has been estab-
lished at Berkeley under the direction
of Prof. Magee of the University of
California, where unfortunate victims
Of the fire about to become mothers
are being care for. All Of the infants
born thus far are living.
The thousand of individual shower
bath rooms in the mems gymnasium
and the like number in the woman's
gymnasium at the university have beer
thrown open to the refugees and men,
women and children alike being com,
PEELED to take a bath and change al
clothing.
Last Saturday night triplets were
born to one of the homeless at the
iresidlo and the same night eight little
Tots made their first appearance on tbs
reservation at Fort Mason. Six wer,
born in the Emergency Hospital ant
TWO out on the vacant space adjoining
the fort where the mothers had takel
refuge.
Sir Thomas Upton has cabled SIS, 00I
No.
IRON London to Mayor Schmitz TO
the relief fund.
One hundred physicians, nurses an,
surgeons, left Chicago last Monda,
night for San Francisco.
One woman hurried along Van Mes
avenue with something secreted unde
nef dress. 1t looked suspicious, ant
sne was stopped and asked ~to!disgorge
what she brought to light was a Dir,
cage and her pet canary futterini
MiChln from fright. Many womer