The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1906-04-26

| Gen. Funston realized that stern
| measures were necessary and gave or
| ders that looters were to be shot at
sight. Four men were summarily exc
| cuted before o'clock yesterday after
noon. At a meeting of fifty citizens
called by the mayor it was announced
that 1,4OO tents will be pitched in
| Golden Gate Park and arrangements
| have been made to feed the destitute
| in the public squares.
Outside Help Needed.
It is probable that, even with the
| spirit and willingness shown by the
|, people of San Francisco, outside aid
| will be necessary. A message from
| President Roosevelt was received yes
terday morning and it has a cheering
| effect.
Mayor Schmitz, who has established
his Office at police headquarters, has
| named "a committee of safety, COM
posed of prominent citizens. The
mayor notified bakeries and milk sta
lions that their food supply must be
harbored for the homeless. Prepare
lions have been made to place tents
in every park in the city and in these
those who have lost all will be given
food and shelter.
Will Pay Dollar for Dollar,
Commissioner E. Myron Wolfe an.
nounced at noon that the eighty odd
: fire insurance companies interested
| have decided to pay dollar for dollar
to every one insured with them. The
companies will not discriminate be.
tween fire and earthquake and every
one insured will be paid to the extent
of the loss.
One of the first orders issued by
Chief of Police Oman was to close
every saloon in the city, to prevent
drink-crazed men from rioting.
Sweeps Everything in Path.
The fire swept the streets so rapidly
that it was practically impossible to
save anything in it's path.
The dense smoke that arose from
the entire business district spread out
like an immense funnel and could
have been seen for miles out at sea-
Occasionally, as some drug house or
place stored with chemicals was
reached, most fantastic effects were
produced by the colored flames and
smoke which rolled out against the
darker background.
Other Places Suffer.
Reports from outside districts fndi.
cate widespread damage. San Jose
fifty miles south, lost many buildings
and between fifteen and twenty per.
sons were killed. The annex of the
Vendome hotel collapsed and fires
broke out. Stanford university and
Palo Alto suffered. At Stanford many
of the handsome buildings were de.
molished, and two people were killed
Suburbs in Ruins.
The court house at Redwood City
and other buildings collapsed. Menle
Park, Burlingame and other fashion.
able suburban towns suffered Santa
Rosa, to the north; Napa, Vallejo and
all towns around the bay were dam.
aged. These reports, alarming as
they were. created little interest in
San Francisco, where the people were
so frantic that they rushed into the
1 streets in night garments.
Cliff House Slides Into Sea.
From the Cliff house comes word
that the great pleasure resort and
show place of the city, which stood
upon a foundation of solid rock, has
been swept into the sea. Not thing
remains to tell where the monster
stone building once stood. 1t has been
levelled to the foundation and only
the rock foundation lining the sea
coast remains intact.
Hundreds Incinerated.
1t will be many days before the
complete story of the ruin wrought by
the double calamity of earthquake and
fire that visited San Francisco yester.
day will be written and then there will
still remain countless untold tales of
pitiful tragedy. The exact loss of life
will never be known as hundreds of
unfortunates have been Moderated in
the flames which made the rescue of
those buried under topping steeples
and falling walls impossible.
Hundreds of Chinese Killed.
The earthquake has worked aston
ishing havoc in San Francisco's IA
nous Chinatown. The theaters and
| joss houses are in ruins and roekery
after rookery has collapsed, burying
alive husdreds of the Orientals. Panic
reigns among the countless thousands
of Chinese and they fill the streets,
dragging whatever they could save
from the wrecks.
| Hundreds Killed in Other Towns.
| Oakland, April 19.-At San Jose the
Vendome hotel and annex were
wrAclsAd and ten or fifteen persons