The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-14
No Further Deaths Ire Reported
 to Authorities
READY AID IS PROVIDED
Legislature Appropriates $1oo,ooo for Fire Sufferers and Contributions Are Sent in From Cities
 and Towns.

Boston, April 13.-From the embers there arose a well organized movement for aid and relief of the 10000 home less, a counting of the cost by insur- ance companies whose representatives placed their losses at $3,500,000, and a determination by the city authorities to rebuild the $50 acres swept by the flames where stood, before the fire. property valued at nearly s6,000,0OO.
 No further deaths were reported to- day, and of the injured persons taken to the various hospitals, only two are believed to be in a critical condition. The three bodies which were taken 70 the morgue in Boston last night re- nained unidentified today.
 Revised figures obtained today iadi- cate that the losses were divided, ac- cording to the various classes of prop erty destroyed, as follows:
 Churches and schools, $525,O0o.
 Public buildings, $475,000.
 Factories, business blocks, and con- tents, sS25,000.
 Dwelling houses, $3,750,00o.
 Total, $5.575,00O
 The insurance of $3,500,0O0 is divided among about so companies.
 There was comparatively little suf- fering reported among the fire victims today. So prompt and efficient was the relief work begun yesterday that practically no one was without shelter during the night. Today the relief work was taken up by those who han died the Massachusetts fund for San Francisco sufferers Early in the day Mayor Beck issued an appeal to the country, but after a conference with Acting Governor Eben s. Draper, the appeal was amended so IS to include only the state. Encouragement was made that $15,0 had been raised by subscription in Boston before noon. Tn addition, the city of Chelsea appropri- ated $10,000 and a resolution for $100,- coo from the state was introduced in the House of Representatives today. Many nearby cities announced the starting of subscription papers, aad other city governments will hold spe- cial meetings to take action.
 A message from President Roosevelt expressed sympathy and volunteered the services of the army and navy
 In the meantime the local organiza tions. such as the Associated Charities and the Salvation Army were perfect ing their work, and they professed en- tire ability to find temporary quarters for all the homeless.
 The burned district was closely pa trolled today by the state militia. The work of the guard, however, consisted mostly in keeping people from ventuT- ing too near the standing walls. Ther5 was very littleS property remaining to be guarded, so thoroughly had the area been swept by the flames In fact, the underwriters who viewed the ruins to- day saw no prospect of salvage of aNy description.
 With nightfall all search in the ruins ceased. Electric lights, telephone and trolley wires were down throughout the territory and the black ened waste lay in darkness.
 While the official list of dead still remains at three, it is believed that there must be more bodies somewhere among the blackened timbers and stones. Today fully 100 persons were reported missing. The work of reduo- ing this list necessarily proceeded slowly, because families are scattered in widely separated places of refuge.
 Offices for registration purposes to assist in reuniting and tracing the missing have been opened and during the day and night some of the absen. ones reported themselves.
 All the patients treated at the. sew eral hospitals are doing nicely, and it is believed that no further fatalities will result. Two women were reported 60 have gone insane during the day as a result of their experiences.
 One gratifying feature of the situa- tion Is the fact that all the homeless people are housed. As far as is known no one is sleeping out of doors or in tents. Provisions poured into the relief stations from all sides, and during the night meetings of all the citizens in various cities and towns of the state took steps to organize relief work. It is believed that Massachu setts will be able to provide for the sufferers, but Acting Governor Draper. Mayor Beck and other officials, as well as the citizens generally, express their Geep gratitude at the spontaneous of fers of aid that have come from all over the country. Tonight the relief fund reached $39,23S.