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HORRORS
CHIEFLY IN
IMAGINATION
San Francisco Fugitives
Haunted by Visions of
Impending Epidemic.
ITY LIVES IN SKELETON FORM
Soldiers Deal Out Bread and
Bullets and Make All
Idlers Work;
DREAD HORRORS OF NIGHT
Only Choice Is Stay Indoors or
Risk Being Shot as Thief.
WALK UP MARKET STREET
All Races and Ranks Meet in Bread
Idne on Equality Hundreds
Shot Down by Evcr
Prescnt Soldiers.
. TSY-ARNO DOSCH.
OAKLAND, Cal.. April 22. (Staff Cor
resjNmdence.). In San Francisco Itself the
elU'uion is not half so uppallinK as In
OaSa(3 &r at any outside point. Horrible
faraUpn of the.$mage. rumors of
fever, .cholera, smallpox, anything you
please, vrcep from under thWack smoke
that fringes the water frtiit. and iUa
fact that all leaving the city must stay
away lifts the tension to the screaming
polr; But here, at Jefferson Square, on
the very edge of the burnt district. It is
another story. Of the 200.000 left In San
Francisco, all have found some sort of
shelter, for. If they had no shelter, the
road to the ferry has been pointed out to
them and they have been urged to go. If
reluctant the first day. one night's wan
5ering in the dead, black city, with a
rifle in the face every minute, has meant
flight In the morning.
Yesterday, as we crossed into San Fran
cisco on the ferry from Oakland, there
were dozens of men and women without
the Governor's pass begging Jted Cross
and relief committees to permit them to
go through with them. They were des
perate They would fight before they
would turn back.
Market Street Still Survives.
First we saw the ferry building, wlth'lts
metal flagstaff bent by the earthquake.
Then Market street, for Market street
still survives. There Is not a building
Intact along its sidewalks to Van Ness
avenue, two miles, but the street Itself Is
there. San Francisco may be burned.
but its great thoroughfare is a greater
thoroughfare than ever, though its com
merce goes all one way.
From the ferry to the Donahue foun
ialn, at the Junction ot Bush and Battery
ptrrets with Market, there is hardly a
wall standing. Over to the right is the
gutted Merchants Exchange building,
Diagonally to the right, nothing but the
walls of the Fairmount stand, even to
tho far side of Nob Hill. Diagonally to
the left there is not a wall standing ten
feet high for so great a distance that the
end cannot even be seen In tho thin
smoke. Just ahead totter the ghastly re
mains of what San Francisco means to
most of us.
Shells of Building. Mock.
The Palace, the Call and the Chronicle
buildings stand in mockery- They keep
up the semblance when everything else is
gone. It is tho most pitiful sight. To
walk by those buildings is llko attending
the funeral of a friend. 1 sat on the
stone seat of tho waiting station, oppo
site the Palace, where five, days ago
crowds were scrambling off and on the
-Market-Street cars, and tried to get my
mental bearings.
The brick frame of the Palace, with Its
sandstone portal, was directly opposit
tho Palace brick. I had. thought it was
wood. I have found out since that half
San Francisco thought it was wood. It
was solid brick, and stood the upheavals
of the earthquake better " than many
modern building. This far from the water
front, there was no smoke to. speak of.
But there was a thick, choking dust rising
from the bricks powdered in the street.
Down to the ferry passed a string of wag
ons. carry-alls, automobiles, wheelbar
rows, bicycles, taking to the ferry 10,000
people an hour. On the back track were
only soldiers, relief committees. Army
wagons filled with provisions, a few sight
seers and an occasional policeman avoid
ing the soldiers.
Work or Be Shot.
Half a block ahead the soldiers were
stopping sightseers and putting them to
work clearing bricks from the street. Two
nobby-looking individuals with canes were
stopped and put to work within lea feet of
me. Assuming a very business-like air. I
starlet up I be street a thc-Iar xMe e a
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LOOKING eOLTUWKST ON MAICKKT STREET. TIIK HOLDINGS. READING FKOM THE LEtT. ARE: A. FALACE
1 LAMES AKK ISiaiNU FROM THE DOME Or THE LA ST-NAM ED. IN. THE CLACS SPKKCKEI.S
provision wagon and got by. For' the sfli
dicrs might keep "you "working there all
day. and even to. hqsjtatc meant doa(h.
Two men are reported .shot .on Market
street yesterday. because they did not
show due readiness to turn in and help.
As far as the City Hall there are many
"tottering walls, but beyond to Van Ness
avenue then Is -.nothing but a waste of
ashes. The only building intact is the
postofnec, about the walls of which yes
terday sprawled hundreds of people writ
ing. Beyond Van Nests, over to the Pre
sidio and out to the Goldt-H Gate Park,
only a few spots arc burned. What re
mains remains Intact, and an far as I can
sec most of the householders Intern! to rc:
main whore thry arc ' The world may le
llove that San Francisco can never build
up as It was.. but .'thche people have their
all right where they are. and they wllj
remain.' Moreover. there . rt'Sf.) of
them. J
All Meet in I'eedln: Line.
In a house on Oetavta ttrcet .where, we
found sholU-r with a friend' there ay 2
poopio where mere wore rour ociora
These strangers each go out and stand
-in, lino where the soldiers are givingiout
food and bring it back to the common
table. Out in-Jofferson Park, within a
block, arc thousands or people Injtho
small area. jeople of every class and bon
dltlon of life. . Three tbnes a day they
stand in line and get their little handout!
Yesterday 1 saw a Turk In native jeos-tumc,-
one of the worst if San Francisco
bums, a refined lady. a barefooted child, a
workingman, two. Chinamen and a ptjetty
girl all J5queaed into ton feet of awaiting
lino that extended a quarter of a mile.
Everything is reduced tp a common
levcL Here we have civilization Infthe'
bare. .On one extreme the ureat horde,
reduced to standing two- hour) In ilne
for a loaf of bread, and on the other
the Impressive organization of the
military assuming complete coslroi on
an hours notice and looking after the
he'altli and general welfare of the mul
titude, sodhat no one has pone .hungry
since the imminent danger of fire has
passed.
.-Terrors or dhc Mglil.
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On the surface things have a holi
day .appearance as long as Uie "day
lasts, but 'with the night toks terror.
"With the city imder" military-control,
not a, light- burning after dark. 'not
even a street lamp, the night fancies
are awfuL Below, the last.flre In' the
city are dying, throwing a jle. ghast-
Cpada& w.?t-t&
CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER
The M'ratber.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum trrnpratre. 6
tec. minimum, rrcdpStata. O-Ol of
an lark.
TO DA YS rlod st unbilled it bw
fru. ' iuth le wett lrd- -
The California Dlter.
fun KraaetFoe 'as tn after the fire by aa
OrtxenUn rtair cerrerpondent. race I.
San FranclMO - recovering and organising
mWef. werk. race t.
Acilt preparatiMU for rebwIMtng city.
le 1.
Jlua4reds tf p'ifn rruthed and tNNaed to
dath In rain, race -1. .
iJrVju; eainiK of reXace f M irrvW"d for
In Sis FranriiM-e'and Oa3flwLTsMt i-K
I.I u I.- aamac to l!ff pur and Hutro
Hal hi".. rcr 5
Vallani rk"e ihf mint. rir S.
ltallaa m win- t exUaruih fire.
PK n.
"V1crw vnratMrfM M-eteet hoallh. Ta(e I."
TtofwiiSfM? preppy Itsi Cri manace r-
. Mf ark. r;r,4. 1
HKlrnt
f Mr ,1-eritM- a nym la. aate-'
. nMrtrflf lour.
;cneral New.
ArmMt inMtrrmlen in- KreaH mtnlnc 4i-
. ttlet. .Pasc :
BrjniMng l Olympian came at Athena.
I'iKW" . - . . .
Twenty nitnr killed Tv explaln la Colo-
'r B.I ii lr-.
Dtaill tattle ttwcn rcllclou ecte in
' ItUnd. Vmsv 2.
raclfle Crxit.
.Tmlntnad of timely rappH' feai been nt
"t San FranHwn by Orra-en ti. Tage S
TActraltnead of 'refoieca -arc fed at Aah-
1. "laud. I'ace . .
Iong-tiurJvJ carne-pf oorlaw U aarartard
In rmatllla Coanty. Pace 2.
Benittm'.'xnd fetcrl , tiin'T pjYih3j -ion far
Socrarv,ef Stat and :Jlale Tre-aaurer.
"JUcr I. I . " .
. r Mariae.j
l'ortlan-Aiatlr Steamvhipr CvmpaKy pr-
- "pare - .rlabllth, f nelihl j-ats frpm
.Uorttand to Europe la vhz Canal,
race' 12. " .
Detroit woman l anxlmia tn Ifim here
abouts ft hturtiantU who- came Wrti to
awltt la floating ttiR Gee. W. Elder,
race 12.
rortlaad aad "lclnltj.
Serluu problem confronts the Coaat. says
F. TV, keadbetter. I'acv 10.
Dr. Ilavlln make trong'tatetnent in reply
to clergymen ho think drvatatlon of
Saa Kroci was a vlrltatlen from God.
Iate II
Stanford tudenta return and teM of wreck
or university and raxcty of cludcnia.
race 12
First rruReea reach rorttand. hem their
ar teAderlr cared for. -Pce:l.
ncIisbwoman tells graphic story of cala
. 'trophe at San Franctc race I-.
Train leave rorttand to feed tb famUhed
and clothe the nateid. race '12
'Word continues to com ot safety of Port-
lauders in San Frasclsoo. rage 11.
HellrJ eommlttc keeps op Its rood ork for
San Francisco. Pace 10.
Eteaxner Alllanc arrives with ecsrs.of de-
atractioa or JurVx and ateer the Coast.
and report iaA Mghthosto at Io!t Areaa
is 'a'KCked. laz 12. .
DEftTH LIST LARGE
Will Probably Exceed Even the.
Earliest "Estimates. . .
'MANY- HUNDREDS RERISH
Cpllapc of Lodiii-llotiHJs Sotitli ofj
-Market Street Kills "jlajdr'ity. .
. Victim.. Are Crcmatctl "
in the Kulii.-.
i SAN tKR'ANClSCO. April 22. Now.
that the 'extinction df the Are allows of
Ihqulfyrit has become known'that hun
dreds, if not thousands, of people Joit
.their, lives, either in .the collapse . of
'buildings due to thc'ea"rthijuake'or"ln
the fire which consumed the ruins in
which !thcy were imprisoned alive," but
injured and powerless to flee. A
merely partial estimate places the
totaf at 'over 709 In the lodging-bouses
and a few ndjoln'ing buildings.
South'4F Market, street the loss of
life was chiefly brought about by. the
collapsing- of -many cheap 'lodging
houses. Among others, the caving- of
the Royal, corner. Fourth and .Minna
streets, added to the horrorof the. sit
uation by the shrieks of Its many
scores of victims embedded In the
ruins. ,
Otcr 360 In Ohc 1Iousc.
The collapsing of the. Portland
House, on Sixth street, between Mis
sion and Market came about In a sim
ilar manner- 1 Fiilly -SO'nersons .we're
entombed. Many of these were saved
avefore the nre'e-entuaH" trept tonne
'scene- . , . -1 .
' The large,' five-story Brunswick
lodjCdng-lioose with' its - :ta roems
lllled wirhefta?f oh. tlae, corner '.ot
mxth aiIlwar streets col lapsed, to
Ibe crewsd entirely Hd. Arc started
M UtetwiKs, scarcely Are jalawte
HOTEL. H. MONADNOCK. C. IIKAKST. D. CLl'S SrRECKELS BUILDINO
BUILDING THE "CALL. HAD ITS BUSINESS OFFICE.
later. ; It is estimated that over S00
persons lost their lives.
"Part -of" tlie large ' Cosmopolitan
House, corner Fifth and Mission
streets, collapsed "at the very first
tremor. Manv or the leerera were'
."burled "lritfie ruins, oih'ers" escaplng-ln
their nlghtelothlng. . v I
' At 775' Mission street, the Wilson
4lfQuse. -with its .'four stories and .SO
rooms, fell to the ground a mass- of
ruins. As far as Known very icw ot.
the inmates were rcscued-
Hoa1 of Strangers Perish.
The'Dc'nver House. 'on Lower Third
strcjt. with. its many rooms, fared the
.same rate, ana none may crr nno
how many were killed, the majority of
"the inmates lAlng strangers.
A small two-story frame building,
- MORE MONEY NKCOCO.
The wrnrk f ratine a popular CaH-
foe Bla rritef SuBd-umtertaken by The
Orrsonlan and Erenlng TeUcrarn. I
txiac. continued wth creat sucotm.
Although It was Sunday, a conslderabe
aiaoasl f cajhv and . a number of
. Lev bland -Clark ceilflcate were left
yesterday at The OreconUn business
office. lfyoawlll read the news ae-
ccpnUi from . San Francesco you will
learn that It will be necessary to feed.
t clqUie .and. ahelter jaany thousands of
people for many months, to. there b no
dancer -of too much money being sub-
.aerlbed or their relief. Thr Ore
jror.Un hope t raise Zn,W30 la thl
r manner, .It knows, erery cent of 'it
will be needed. So brine In your
money, ryeur certificate, or slve
yeur manejr and crrtlllcates ta the cen-
.trst..reHer, cp-ntslttee. ; It I no mat-
ter which fntsd gets" It. for It" will all
. be-devoted 4tna -common -cacse.
I occupied by a man and wife at 405 Jes-
'sle street, colRtpsed without nn in
'stnnt's warning." Both 'were 'killed.
it To Uie norm of taricet street, the
lodging-house people fared somewhat
better. The Luxemburg-, corner Stock-
Lion and O'Farrell streets, a three-story
affair, sqffered severely from the fall
Jn of many, tons of brick from an ad
Jolpirjs building. The falling mass
crashed; through .the building, klllias
a. nan4und woman- . ,
-j tbe-.-Sutter-atrcet Turkish .baths
a "brick chissmey toppled over and
tCoadu44 oe Taae X)
PLAN TO IB
Property-Owners in Consulta
tibn With 'Architects.
EX-MAYOR -PHElfAN - LEADS
YIir Replace StructHres - on 'Market
Street Merchants Order New
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Stocks Many Buildings
Iiittlc Damaged
SAN FRANClSCOAprll 22. Many-of
hthe most. substantial business men and
ppropertj; ownersvof San Francisco are
in consultation with the ' architects,
Vhile the work of clearing away tho
debris &ocs forward a great corps of
draughtsmen will be busily, occupied
preparing plans for the new buildings.
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X t 15 UIIUCISIUUQ JUD;S. u. X IlClUIX
will be one of the first to rebuild on
Market street. His plans are not com
'plete'. but call in general for a flno
structure at Market and O'Farrell
streets.' Mr. Phelan recently purchased
the property adjoining and reaching- to
Stockton street. His intention Is to
cover the entire frontage with build
Ings as soon as it can be done..
All Banks to Bcbuild.
'Practfcally;everx bank: in-San Fran-
.cisco will be rebuilt. AIL of. these in
stitutlona have Eastern connections
and "many of them are afSllated with
foreign banks-. Owing- to the great
Drosoerlty of San Francisco- the local
institutions, almost without exception.
have lance deposits to their credit in
rNew York and European -capitals. This
'iKoney will be available at once, and
after the strain of the moment 'has
been relieved, building operations will
bexta. -
p. w. IdUcnthal. president of the
"SngVe-Callfornia Bank, said: "Now is
'the 'time for every aan ' to put his
JanuIfWr to the wheel to build UD'the
'new 'city. . There Is gelag to be a sew'
'cny. asd I am. going- wot an x'can
tColed w I"ae .11.)
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ENSON DEFEATS
GATCH AT FINISH
Very Close Run For
Secretary of State.
STEEL IS HOW AHEAD OF HOYT
Clackamas Man is the Prob
able Choice for Treasurer.
WITHYC0MBE NOMINATED
Cake Has a Lead in the Senatorial
Contest That Cannot be Over-
come and Duniway "Walked
Away From Competitors. ,
KEPCBUCAN NOMINEES.
Senator, short term. F. W. Mulkey.
Senator, long term. H. M. Cak.
Congressman, First District. "W. C.
Hawley.
Congressman. Second District. W.
R. Ellis.
Governor, James' Wlthycombe.
Secretary "of State. F. W. Benson.
State Treasurer, G. A. Steel.
Supreme Judge. Robert Eakln.
Superintendent Public InatrucUon,
J. H. 'Ackerman.
State -Printer. W. S. Duniway.
Attorney-General. A. AT. Crawford.
Labor Commissioner. O. P. HofC
Frank W. Benson, of Roseburg. has
apparently won the Republican nomina
tion for Secretary of State, with Claud
Gatch. of Salem, a very close second.
Saturday night the returns, whlch'wera
very incomplete, presented a 6mall plu
rality for (Jatch. Yesterday figures were
received which put Benson in the lead
by 309 .to 00, with very little prospect of
Gatch making up any considerable portion
of this- difference.
George A. Steel, of Clackamas County,
has probably won out for State Treas
urer over Ralph Hoyt. of Portland, by a
very small plurality. There is some
chance that complete returns may show
Hoyt a winner, but the probability la
that Steel's lead will increase rather than
grow less. His plurality up to last night
was 129.
The counties not yet heard from are
Curry. Lake. Crook. Grant. Harney and
"Wheeler. The totals last night ?how Ben
son 13,:T73 and Gatch 13,966, but Benson
will add at least COO to his total by later
returns from Douglas County.
It Is conceded that Benson will havo
Lake County by over 100 and Curry by a3
MEN ON" STATE TICKET WHO
CARRIED MULTNOMAH.
Plurality
or
Name and Office Majority.
F. W. MutVey. V. S. Senator.... 7, SCO
H. M. Cake. U. S. Senator 2.053
George S. Shepherd. Congress... 1.3SO
T. T. Geer, Governor........... 1.7CT
Claud Gatch. Secretary State.. 234
Ralph W. Hoyt. State Treasurer 767
Robert Eakln. Supremo Judge.. 0,729
A. M. Crawford. Attorney-Gen.. 133
J. H. Ackerman. Supt. Pub. In.10.133
tV. S. Duniway. State Printer... 3.157
O. P. HoCT, Labor Commissioner' 9.K72
A. F. Sears. Jr.. Circuit Judge.. 1,132
C. U. Gantenbeln, Circuit Judgo 111
much more. He may lose Harney Grant
and Crook by a corresponding- amount,
though 1C is not likely. He stands at
least even chances In the few outlying
precincts not included in rcturna from
the counties that have reported.
The visible plurality In favor of Steel
was Increased by the returns from Klam
ath County, which were received last
night- Carter carried tho county, but is
so far behind the other two that his lead
there cannot help him. Steel had 63
votes in Klamath to 56 for Hoyt.
Whether Hoyt can gather pluralities
enough in Curry, Grant, Harney. Crook
and Wheeler to . overcome this lead of
139 is doubtful. Hoyt put forth no spe
cial effort in those counties. The East
ern Oregon counties will probably give
Aitkin a plurality and Hoyfs lead over
Steel,- if any at all, in those counties,
would not be much, while the prospects
for pluralities there are as good for Steel
aa for thc Portland man. This situation,
looks very promising for Steel.
The Gubernatorial contest looks like a
certainty for "Wlthycombe, hl lead over
Geer belny 1135. which It is believed Geer
cannot possibly make up from returns re
ceived In the future.
On Congressman no returns have been
received from Klamath, which has re
ported incomplete returns on Senator,
Governor. Secretary and Treasurer.
f Cake leads Bourne for Senator by over
MSA votes.
The vote on state and district officers,
so far as received, is as follows:
Senator Bourne 10,131. Cake 11,265.
Lowell 6047, Smith 5254, Watson 3316.
Congressman. First District Hawiey
6595 Huston 3728, Tooze 5613.
Congressman. Second District Ellis
6656, Lacbner 4133. "Rand 4053., Shepherd
5479.
Governor Brown 4031. Geer 11,956,
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