The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-06-27
RELIEF MEASURES
QUICKLY PROVIDED
More Than $500 Directly De-
pendent for Shelter and
4,5OO for Food.
SALEM LOSS is s12.OOO,OOO
Insurance of $1o,OOo,O0O Well
Distributed-Talk Of Rehabili-
tation Already Heard.

Salem. Mass. June 2S.--Measures for
the relief Of the $4,000 persons made
homeless i'm yesterdays coniagratiou
were proceeding with military prcci-
sion tonight More than $500 were
directly dependent upon the relief
committee for shelter. while $500
waited patiently in bread lines for
food which strcamcd into the city in
Those cared for in the tented camps
were of the poorer class. mostly for
ciGncrs. Nearly all the well-to-do
had found refuge with friends and
relatives.
.An insurance adjuster tonight es-
tinated the loss at $1,000, 600. Of
which $4,000. 900 was covered by in
surancc. This insurance. it was
stated, was we'll distributed. the heav-
lest amount falling upon any one com
pany being 100000
The loss of the Naumkcag Steam
| Cotton Company was placed 1T $4,000
600. Fifteen hundred employees were
thrown out of work by the destruction
of these mills. The total number
added by the fire TO the ranks of the
unemployed was estimated at 5000.
QUICKLY HEGIN WORK
or RECONSTRUCTION
The Naumkeag Company and some
of the other larger lrmS announced
that they would begin the work of re-
construction of new and better plants
as quickly as possible. and property
owners began to talk OF rebuilding.
In the meantime. the unemployed will
be given work in the rehabilitation OF
the city. or Will be provided with jobs
in nearby places.
TIL" active work OF relief was tenn
por;srily in the hands OF the State
militia. Strictcst sanitary precautions
were taken. y few cases of measles
and two OF scarlet fever were reported
and We're immediately isolated.
tbnc OF the S;it.teSt places i'm the city
vas about IA" quarters of the dotnes-
tic affairs department Of the relief
| committee. Early in the day the COM
mittcc had the names Of 200 men. wo,n-
en- aid children who had become sepn-
rated from thciI families. Tonight
this number had been reduced to 100.
THOUSAND BUILDINGS
LAID WASTE nY FIRE
The CONFEDERATION which laid waste
more than l.0o0 buildings in the his
toric city OF Salem burned itself out
to-day in the lcvelcd ruins.
The burned district followed the lines
OF rough semicircle. three miles In
/ length and varying in width from half
a mile To a mile and 4 half
! The loss of life. so far as known, was
restricted to three persons:
Mrs Jennie Cunningham. whose body
! WAS recovered from her tenement
homo. on Lafayette Street: Samuel p.
Withey. burned to death in his home
v" i'Hcott otreet. 10 which he had
returned to save some personal be-
| lonSinSs after he had once escaped: q
third body, found in the mill district
| so burned that IL was impossible to
determine the sex.
At LEAST 10000 ARE
! RENDERED NOMELESs
~ icaSt $4,000 persons. Il fourth OF
The city'S population, were made home
! less Thousands passed last night in
the oEen Many hundreds were shell
tered in schools. churches and public
buildings In this city and Beverly
Before the fire had been fairly
checked relief measures and plaus for
rebuilding were under way. Governor
J walsh. l-icutenan Barry and
Secretary of State Donahue spent tho
night here. The Governor announced
that 5000 tents and lighthouses ana
rations would be shipped to the city
at once. He also issued call for a
public meeting at the Statchouse i'm
/ Boston 10 take further action
MORE NOTED BUILDINGS
! SPARED BY FLAMES
In the midst OF the gloom caused by
the staggering blow TO the city, resi-
dents found cause for thankfulness I'm
the fact that the more noted buildings
ana the museums. with their priceless
collections of antiquities, were spared
the birthplace of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
the House of Seven Cables" and the
tline, and the flames approached dam
gerousiy close To the Peabody Museum
ana the Essex Institute, but none OF
! those structures WIS damaged
The companies Of militia summoned
10 assist In maintaining order patroll-
cd the streets to-day. Martial law was
not declared. but no one was permitted
to approach the fire swept area with
out pass. Only one ATTEMPT ut loot
| ing WAS discovered
On the common and in open spaces
IN the outskirts of the city thousands
OF refugees tried to find little rest
during the night. Many stretched
themselves out on the grass: others
had managed to save mattresses or
rocking chairs from their burning
homes. Lite groups huddled together
about piles of household goods Some
OF the children were frightened and
crying, others hailed the nights ad
ventures as a lark
The relief committee tonight an
nounccd:
The principal need Is money, not
clothing or food. The people who were
burned out managed to save all the
necessary clothing. and there is on hand
sufficient supply Of food to last "A
week or possibly longer"
So many maternity cases were re
ported that number OF women. prom
inent I'm the wealthy North Shore sum
iner colony. organized hospital for
them In the North Church.
SUM OF S07,O1O
RAISED BY COMMITrE,Fc
Boston. Mass, June 26.-The sum OF
s?Iol9 was raised to-day by the com
mittee appointed by Governor Walsh
for the assistance of Salem fire suf
ferers Contributions amounting to
more than $4,000 were pledged. and
other piffS
WOOD TO ASSUME DUTIES