Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-04-26

/ have thus far been found. There was
considerable shooting of looters ON
Thursday, but the offenders escaped
with wounds.
San Francisco, GAIA wind of
high velocity is blowing from the
northwest over the fire stricken dis
trict along the water front and is
! threatening to cut off communication
with Oakland and Berkeley. Gen.
Caster has ordered out a squadron of
men to endeavor to keep back the
/ flames which threaten the Union
ferry depot, the only means of egress
! from the city. The water front emerg-
ency hospital is endangered and the
officials in charge are prepared to
move their quarters. The wind is of
such velocity that brick and granite
walls, weakened by the earthquake
and the subsequent fire, are falling
| into the streets. Market street, the
principal avenue of escape from the
city to the ferry buildings, may be
blocked, thus shutting off the only
ready means of escape to the ferries.
The problem confronting the city
government and federal authorities is
how to feed the multitude of destitute
Supplies are coming in by the train
load, but as yet the system of distri-
button is not in working order.
At the Presidio military reservation,
where probably $4,000 persons are
camped, affairs are being con-
Quoted with military precision. Water
is plentiful and rations are dealt out
all day long. The refugees stand pa
tiently in line aEd there is not a
murmur. This Characteristic is OBJ
servable all over the city The people
are brave and patient and the won
derful order preserved by them has
been of great assistance.
In Golden Gate park are encamped
100000 persons. A huge supply sta
tion has been established there and
provisions are dealt out.
| Many thousands are camped in va
cant lots and squares scattered about
the city, and these are the unfortu-
mates that are hard to reach.
Fourteen men were killed Thursday
night by soldiers guarding the mint
and Policeman Joseph M. Myers was
bayonetted and killed by a national
guardsman in dispute as to au-
thority. The men at the mint were
killed for attempting robbery.
Eleven postal clerks, all alive,
were taken from the debris of the
postoffice Friday. All at first were
thought to be dead, but it was found
that although they were buried in the
stone, every one was alive. They
had been for three days without food
or water. All the mail in the post
office was saved and business has
been resumed there.
AT meeting of bankers Friday Mr.
Lynch of the First national bank, re-
ported that committee had examined
all the bank and safe deposit vaults
! in San Francisco and found them all
intact. This makes it certain that the
money and papers on deposit are all
safe. 1t was also reported that the
books and records in the San Fran
cisco hall of records also escaped
serious injury.
From a three-story lodging house
at Fifth and Minna streets which col
lapsed Wednesday morning, more
than rs bodies were taken out Friday.
There are so other dead bodies in
sight in the ruins. This building was
one of the first to take fire on Fifth
street. At least 100 persons were
killed in the Cosmopolitan on Fourth
street. The only building standing
between Mission, Howard, East and
Stewart streets is the San Pablo hotel,
which is occupied and running.
Many persons dropped dead Friday
of heat and suffocation. More than
$50 persons are reported dead in the
Brunswick hotel.
San Jose, Cal.-Nineteen persons
were killed in San Jose by
the earthquake of Wednesday and the
entire business quarter was wrecked
The damage is $5,000,000. One hun
dred and ten persons were killed and
70 were injured, mostly patients at
Agnew insane asylum, near San Jose
The damage to the Pacific Milling
Co. at Santa Clara. a suburb of San
Jose, is $150,000. The total loss in
Santa Clara is 100000 No loss of
life. At Gilroy $500,0OO damage, no
one dead. The Southern Pacific tun-
mel at Wright's, nearly a mile long,
caved in.
Oakland, Cal.-To feed and
and house the unfortunate people of
San Francisco who have suddenly
been bereft of homes and means of
livelihood is calling forth the best eff
fort of the people of this city AT
least 100000 people have come to this
side of the bay and are now distribut-
ed among the homes of Oakland, Ala
media and Berkeley. While hundreds
have found lodging with friends,
there are the countless poor who are
dependent upon charity.
Washington, d. C.-Every branch
of the government service from
the president down is bending
every effort to bring to the earthquake
sufferers speedy relief. The cabinet
on Friday considered the San Fran
cisco situation and it was decided that
Secretary Metcalfe should proceed to
that city as the representative of the
national government and TO consult