The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-05-03

Oakland, and is being distributed in |
the north end of town by the relief |
parties organized by Mayor Schmitz.
THOUSANDS SLEEP ON HILLS.
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 together, with gnawing hun |
ger the companions of all. The wall of
the injured, and the calls of frantic sur
vivors 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 ana food for
the homeless.
Oakland Berkeley and Alameda are
short of food, and in few days will
themselves be in a serious shortage
unless relief comes from the outside.
Expressmen are charging from $40 to
S. OTTO haul load of baggage or give
any aid at all to refugees.
When the mansions on Mob hill, the
were approached by the flames today,
many attempts We're made to remove
some Of the priceless works of art from
| the buildings.
A crowd of soldiers was sent to the
Flood and Huntington mansions and
| Mark Hopkins Institute of Art to res
cue the paintings. From the Hunting
ton home and the Floo dmansion can
vases 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 Their avages of the fire TEND.
This afternoon the cadets from the
University of California to the number
of 500 entered the city to aid the mill
tia and regular soldiers in their work
of enforcing martial law.
LONE BANK is LEFT.
The only institution on Market street
able to do business, according to rep
utable business man who reached the
ferry late tonight, is the Market street
bank, occupying the lower floor Of the
Grant building, at Seventh and Market
streets. Although the upper part of
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it was wiped out, the space occupied
by the bank was practically undam-
aged. A sign posted in the window
stated that the bank would be open for
business as soon as it was considered
safe.
The greatest suffering among the
thousands of homeless people was from
thirst. Although the earthquake has
broken water mains in probably hun
dreds of places, strange to say no wa
ter, or very little at least, appeared on
the surface of the ground.
Public fountains located on Market
street gave no relief to the thirsty
thousands. At the corner of Powell
and Market streets a small stream of
water spurted up through the cobble-
stones and formed muddy pool. From
this pool hundreds of people knelt and
drank, women as well as men.
In many places men took as many
bottles of liquor as they could carry
out of grocery stores, but few of them
succeeded in getting away with them.
! Wherever the soldiers saw a man with
a bottle of liquor they forced him to
give it up at the point of the bayonet
and Immediately smashed it on the
ground.
The work of the regular soldiers in
suppressing disorder, preventing loot
ing and in rescuing persons from dan
4 gerous positions is worthy of the great
est praise. Everywhere they show the
highest degree of courage. They did
not hesitate to shoot whenever they
found any one looting, and probably
twenty victims fell before them during
the day.
At 1880 o'clock tonight the flames
were slowly but steadily, moving on to
the sections of the city still untouched.
The sky in all directions presented a
lurid picture. The strongest fire to-
night seemed to be in the western end
of the city, while the volume of flame
in the Mission district would indicate
that the conhagration was less severe
than during the day.
There seemed to be an irresistible
power behind the flames that even the
desperately heroic measures being TAX
en- at Van Ness avenue could not stay
. While the heroic fire fighters were
making their last stand at the fire line
on Van Ness Avenue, panic reigned
among the survivors in other parts OF
the city.