Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-05-03
SHOCK TUMBLES
RUINS TO GROUND
TREMoR AT FRISCO CAUSES
sHAKY WALLS TO FALL, BUT
DAMAGE is SLIGHT.
Earthquake Lasting Nearly a Minute
Causes Considerable Alarm, De-
spite Fact That None Is Injured
Gen. Greedy Tells of Conditions.

O'CLOCK Wednesday afternoon SHOCK
of earthquake was felt. 1t lasted near
ly minute and caused considerable
alarm, though no one was injured. A
number of walls of burned buildings
which were standing, owing to their
weak condition, were thrown down,
and frail buildings were considerably
shaken up, but the damage done was
slight.
The shock was also felt in Oakland
and Berkeley, but in these places 1t
was very slight and of brief duration.
Conditions in Frisco.
Washington, April 26.-Gen. Greedy
responded in the negative to the sug-
gestion that governmental registra-
ton bureau be established, and he
added a statement of conditions in San
Francisco and in a manner forecasted
the future. His letter follows:
Headquarters, Fort Mason, Cal,
April 25.-Three hundred thousand
people are homeless and the entire
business facilities of a city of 100000
have been destroyed except those on
one street of minor Importance; ac-
commodations for most urgent flnan-
cial and other indispensable business
institutions are being obtained only
with the greatest difficulty. The entire
body of those men are naturally de-
voting their energies to restoring their
own affairs, and even those who have
applied themselves devotedly to relief
and rescue work the past week are
gradually Withdrawing therefrom,
stating correctly that domestic and
business affairs demand their entire at
tention. The mayor and police are
so fully occupied operating without
ordinary accommodations that even
the ordinary current duties such as
pertain to the coroners Office and vital
statistics are largely neglected for lack
of force and Office accommodations;
under such conditions a registration
bureau is impossible.
Newspapers Will help.
"The newspapers have taken up the
matter as far as possible with their
own limited accommodations, and it Is
understood that kind of registration
bureau has been opened in Oakland;
can only suggest that interested parties
telegraph the examiner, the Call and
Chronicle, who at present are best in
formed as to the location of prominent
individuals. To appreciate this situa-
ton it is to be borne in mind that San
Francisco covers 20 square miles and
that all street car lines and usual
Al
still unavailable and imperative. There
is no telegraph system within the city
except that constructed by the signal
corps, nor does any telephone service
exist beyond the military system con-
Meeting these headquarters with the
mint, post office, various district head
quarters and other points of great pub
lie Importance. Even the present mill
tary systems are being continually
broken by parties engaged in repair
and rescue operations. Under these
conditions no part of the city can be
reached save by messenger on foot,
which entails hours, or by automobiles,
of which there are few.
Doctors and Nurses.
81 have gone fully into the situation
to prevent misrepresentation and to en-
nble the war department to disclose
the situation to the public 1t should
be added that the names of the dead
already have been furnished the de-
partment and, IL desired the names Of
every injured person In hospital will
be similarly transmitted. To relieve
public apprehension, 1t should be clear
ly understood that beyond isolated
eases already reported, there are no
deaths or serious injuries of guests of
any well-known hotel in San Francis
co. 1t should be also understood that
there is no demand for nurses or doc
tors. The medical, civil and military
will be able to handle the entire stu
alton, unless Unexpectedly adverse
conditions arise. The hospital corps
force sent here will be utilized more
for sanitary purposes and preventive
measures than for the cure of any
great body of sick, of which none eX.
fist"
Worry Over Relief Chief.
The citizens of San Francisco had
done so splendidly in the face of such
an appalling catastrophe that some lit
tie CONSERVATION was created Tuesday
morning when President Roosevelt s
proclamation was read, turning over to
DR.. Edward Devine, of the National Red
Cross, the management of relief meas
dres and the distribution of the great
funds so generously appropriated by
congress and recommendation to the
people of the United States that theiI
contributions of food and supplies anC
money should be diverted into the same
hands. If there were momentary feel
ing that the men who had endured tn,
heat of the burden of the day were bein,
unfairly treated by this division of au
thority into new and foreign keeping
was soon dissipated by the reflection
that the action of the president was tn
result of misinformation. At confer
ence at FIT Mason, attended by Gems
Greeley and Funston, Mayor Schmitz
Gov. Pardee, DR.. Devine and some 9th
ers, 1t was agreed that this was the cas-
and that DR.. Devine himself shout