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he quality o coal as there is
yetween white and yellow sugar,
‘We sell nothing but the celebrated
Lehigh Valley fresh mined anthra-
ite. We also sell Bituminous and
Loyalsock coal and all kinds of
wood.
Our specialty is prompt service
snd the lowest market pnce,
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Paid on Time Deposits.
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San Francisco's Fire Terror
Ends at Last.
HUGE CARGOES OF FOOD ARRIVE
No Civil and Military Clash, as
Was Reported.
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TALES OF HORROR FROM REFUGEES
Victory Over
to Gevernors
Flames Brings Hope
Pardee of California.
Whe Wires Roosevelt That ithe
Fire Is Out and Conditions Much
Better = Feople Cheered By Syme
pathy and Asslsiance Recelved-Aid
Comes From All Over America.
Great Need of Clothing, Shelter and
Medical Sapplies — Foresees Great
Metropolis te Arise, Larger and
Grander Than Before Earthquake
and Fire Fiead's Havoe,
SAN FRANCISCO, April 28 —More
thag balf of San Francisco's popula-
tion has now abandoned the ruined
city. Trains and ferry boats which
are agains running regularly, are tak-
ing them tv neighboring towus in tens
of thousands,
Those who remain are camplug In
the parks and open spaces, with no im:
mediate dauger of suffering either a
food or a water famine. Their most
serious wendce now Is the deager of
pestilence, due to uusauitary coud!
tious, aud Generul Funston admits
that, while all pussible precautions are
Lelong taken by the civic and military
authorities, much {loess must Le ex
pected
The death roll does not now excesd
1.000 sud may Le less. The fire has
been checked Estimates of the loss
vary from $120.000 (80) to $3540 000) 100
Governor Pardee of California sent a
message to President Roosevelt, say-
log
“Thanks for ships. Conditions much
better Fire out, Weather cool. Peo
ple cheerful snd belug quite well taken
care of, No epidemics. Whole coun
try vielug tuo extend our people ald
and sympathy We appreciate very
much your help.”
Later Governor Pardee sald:
“The situation is as goud as cau be
expected, cousldering the greaifuess of
the calamity that has befallen us. The
pation apd the world arc Wking great
Interest In our welfare aod showing
material and financial ald. Although
I am considering the advisability of
calliug an extra session of the legisla
ture, I do not see the especial need of
it at the present time
“What we need especially Is med:
leal stores, clothing sod shelter for
the refugees. Uf course foul will Le
needed In cousiderable quantities for
soe time to come. An epidemic does
uot exist at present. It Is not proba
ble that there will be any uecessity for
ordering a quarantine. The work of
building Sap Francisco has comwenc-
ed, and I expect to see the great me
tropolls replaced ou & much grauder
scale than ever.”
Forty budles were taken from the
ruins of the building at 119 Fifth
street by the Red Cross service. Mrs,
Henry Murray and A. J. McNear and
wife lived iu this bulldivg. They have
not been heard from by friends since
the fire.
An urgent appeal bas Leen sent out
for a supply of chloride of lime. It Is
necessary to iusure sanitary conditions.
It Is wanted immediately and in large
quantities. Other drugs uceded are
sulphur, carbelle acid, bichloride of
mercury, vaccine points and genernl
sutiseptics,
Mauy relief trains have already
brought succor to the burned city, and
hundreds of tons of sfores are rushing
toward It at record speed from all sec
tious of the country.
President Roosevelt sent a message
to cougress calling for an additional
$1,500,000 for the rellef fund
Hope is being revived lu the hearts
of the people of desolate Ban Frapn-
cisco.
Houghly speaking, the burned district
Is five iniles square. There are not less
than twenty-five square iles of bleak
rulus, and the immensity of the disas
ter now becoloes apparent.
losurance gdjusters now on the
ground esthiuate the property loss will
wot fall short of $350.000.000° The jo
surance loss will aggregate a hundred
willlon less. Whether or not sil the
companies will be able to pay Is a
question upon which depends iu large
measure the future of Sap Francisco,
The prediction has been made that not
more than G0 per cent of the Insurance
loss will be pald, No adjuster places
the total to be paid at wore than 70
per cent of the sutire Insurance loss
The destruction of life was not as
great us the enrlier reports Indicated
The exact number of those who perish’
ed will uever in all bbman probability
| be known, for wany bodies were en-
firely destroyed. Mechanics’ pavition
“was sed for a time as A morgue and
ate The most reliable estimate 1s
foal LO persous perished.
Many more deaths will be directly
Freel fo to the fire. These will Le
caused Ly exposure, by privation and
by fright,
Thirty'six tables were born in the
Presidio grounds yesterday. They and
their mothers are belug cared for by
the Red Cross society, but many of
them will inevitably perish.
Despite territie hanlicaps-the situa-
tion Is being kept under admirnlide con-
trol. General Funstou is in supreme
command, but be Is in almost hourly
consultation with Governor Pardee,
Mayor Schmitz und General Manager
E. E Calvin of the Southern Pacific,
Soldiers are everywhere, and few per
sons are Allowed ta pass their lines,
looters are being shot down without
mercy.
Death by a rifle bullet without even
thé formality of a drumbead court
martial is the fate that martial law is
now mellng out to Rin Francisco's
malefactors,
Iu Golden Gate park. where tens of
thousands of wen, women and children
sought sleep or rest on the green
sward, two men were sulumarily shot
by the guards for attempting gross in-
suits upon women refugees. Thelr
doom aroused no sympathy. Their
speedy ploisliment, it Is belleved, will
have an exemplary fufinence upon the
horde of worthless vagabouds from
Chinatown aud the “Barbary coast”
whom fate hax thrown temporarily in
to the same environment with bun.
dreds of refined women
Unfortunately the belief is growing
that there bave Leen tnany shootings
that have pot been so well justified,
Various reports of the summary exe-
eution of wen caught {no the act of loot.
ing are afloat. Ove man shot was a
foreigner who was ordered by a sol.
dier to cut down some trees Under:
standing English lwperfectly, the man
stirted to walk away, He was shot
through the body without further par
ley aud, though uot killed outright, is
dangerously wounded.
The entire western addition of the
city lylog west of Vau Ness aveaue,
which Lad escaped the sweep of Hauie,
is absolutely sufe
A trip through the Lurped districts
revetled u scene of uuspeakable deso
lation. Frow mauy poluls ou Market
street a= far as the eye could reach in
any direction there was uething but
skeleton walls and swoldering rufus
It should be Lorue iu wind that San
Francisco was uot destruyed by the
earthquake, While old buildings In
that part of the city, which stood on
‘made’ grouud east of Moulgomery
street, and some of that district Iylug
south of Market street, It is true, suf:
fered frown the shock, It was fire that
wrouglit the great devastation and
wiped out the entire business section
and probably Laif of the residence sec.
tion of the city. The great modern
steel structures were practically ualn
jured by the earthquake, except for
crucked walls sod displaced plaster.
All these great structures of course
subsequently were utterly ruined by
the Sawes 30 far as the lnner construc:
tion is concerned, but the walls are In
wost cases lutact. The wost notable
cases Of practical lmmuaity from the
shock were the St. Fraucls hotel, the
Fairmount hotel, the Flood Lullding,
the Mills Luildiug, the Spreckels build
ing, the Chronicle bullding and scores
of other modern steel structures.
Chief D. J. Sullivan of San Francis
co's fire department died yesterday
from the effects of Injuries rygcelved
on the momipg of the earthquake
Chief Sullivan and bis wife were sleep
tug lu the fBrehiouse adjoining the Call
fornia hotel ou Bush street. The carth-
quake shook down the chimpey of the
hotel mud seut It crushing through the
firehouse. Chief Sulllvan aud his wife
were carried with the debris two
stories to the ground floor, where they
wore extricated after great difficulty,
Sullivan bad a fractured skull, four
broken ribs and other Injuries,
Eddie Graney, the well known sport.
lug referee, was with Chief Sullivan
from the time the wounded man was
removed froin the firehouse until Mr.
Sullivan's death, Mr. Grauey stated
that Chief Sulllvan uvever knew there
wos 8 fire. After recovering consclous
ness the chief took great luterest In
the affairs of the city, belug always
apprehensive that a fire would Lreak
out. He kuew from the first that Le
was dylug from bis 1ojuries,
Mra. Sullivan, who suffered serious
injuries aud was reporfed dead, has
progressed satisfactorily, and If is be
lleved that she will recover.
The Pacific Mail steamer China, with
a large quantity of foodstuffs, has ar
rived from the orient, aud the supplies
will be distributed here. The shipplug
of Sau Frucisco Is at a standstill, and
such will be the state of affairs while
the city ix In the least endangered
The United States cruisers Chicago and
Marblehead are stntioned off Melggs
wharf and preveut every vessel, wheth-
er forvign or native, frown leaving the
port
street and pppeared to have plenty of |
power. The service was free to all ex
cept boys,
Dr. Charles F. Taggert of Los An-
nurses at the Hearst rellef hospital,
was lustantly killed, Aun
revolver dropped out of his pocket, It
was discharged, aud the bullet passid
; through his heart, Dr. Taggert was
one of California's prominent physi
cians
Mayor Schiuitz bas wired the Wash
ington war department as follows
“Report of conflict between General
out foundation. We are not ouly with
difference, bul are cooperating lu
: and Ns
fu this hour of great distress The ar
wy and uation are to be congratulated
Fon the possession of such officers as
Geueral Funston.”
On the steps of Bt. Mary's catliedral
apd on the upheaved pavement of
Golden Gate avenue, overlooking the
blackened waste that commenced just
across the street, Archbishop Mont
gomwery celelirated mass at 8 o'clock
Yestenday morning. The service was
attended by thousands, covering the
church steps and extending well np
and down _the street ln either direc
tion. The archbishop’s words aud his
reference to the death of Fire Chief
Sullivan affected the entire assem
blage.
Two hundred bodies found In the
vicinity of the Union Iron works were
creinated by order of Coroner Walsh
S0 many dead were found in this lim
ited area that cremation was deewed
absolutely unecessary to prevent dis
ease. The unawes of sone of the dead
were learned, but io the majority of
cases identification was [mpossible
awiog to the mutilation of the features
An incident of the fire in the Latin
quarter, on the slope of Telegraph
hill, was the use of wine instead of
water Id fighting the fire. The only
available water supply was found in
a well dug in early days. At a critical
wowent the pump suddenly sucked
dry, and the water lu the well was ex-
hansted.
Italian residents crashed ju their cel
lar doors with axes and calling for as-
sistance begau rolling out barrels of
red wine. The cellurs gave forth bar
rel after barrel until there was fully
500 gallons ready. Then barrel heads
were smashed In and the bucket bri
gade turual from water to wine,
Nearly $200000,000 In coin and buyj-
Hlou are stored in the vaults of the
mint, and for the preservation of this
prize a devoted band of employees,
re-enforced Ly regular soldlers, fought
until they buffed the Names,
Comparatively little damage was
done iu the vicinity of the CUE, which
was reported destroyed. The Cliff
house not only stapds, but the damage
sustained by it from the earthquake
will not exceed $500
The famous Sutro baths located near
the Cl Louse, with its hundreds of
thousands of square feet of glass roof
ing, also was practically uphanued
Bulldiugs io the burned district that
Lave withstood the ravages of the
flames so as to admit of rebuliding
are the James Flood, thé Unlon Trust,
thie uew Chronicle, the Call, the Mutual
Saviogs bank, the Crocker Woolworth
and the St. Fraucls hotel
Buildings that are practically up
damaged are the new postoffice, the
mint and the old custo house
United States Marshal Shoup of
Alaska, who was Iu the Palace botel
at the time of the earthquake, Is safe
with hundreds of others Iu FPledmont
park, Oakland
Five children were bLoru Saturday
uight in the refugee camps. Eight ba
hies Lave Leen Loru lu Bueua Vista
park
Weddings In great number Lave re
sulted from the recent disaster. Wow
en, driven out of their Lowes aud left
destitute, have appealed to the wen to
whotn they were eugaged, and imme
diately warrlages bave heen effected
“I dou't live sauy where,” Is the an
swer giveu lo many causes when the
applicant for a liceuse Is asked where
Lis residence 18. “1 used to live In Sau
Francisco”
Among the hundreds of carloads of
assorted provisions that are belong sent
cisco sulferers are several carloads of
lewons aud ormpges. Manager Wood
ford of the Califorula Frult exchauge
Las Issued nu appeal to fruit growers
to send large shipinenuts of both lewons
and oranges at ouce, The lemous es
pecially are desired for use iu San
Francisco with the drinking water to
purify it and lessen the dauger of any
possible ep!demnle from that source,
What is perhaps the largest commis
sary train lu the world has Leen rush
ed worth over the Southern Pacliic
from here. This huge restaurant,
destined to cater to the hungry refu
gees of San Francisco, Is the Shattuck
sud Desmond “mess” outfit, enlarged
to a guarsuteed capacity of 20,00
meals n day
Supported by the local relief commit.
tees, thls mawmoth caravausary Is ex
pected to cost $1500, It was wade
up of thirty cars, which are all kitch
ens and pantries
his tealn was to be In Oakland In
time to serve early morning breakfasts
this moruiug
“I witnessed the burning of Chicago
in INT1 amd was in Charleston when
an earthquake created great destruc
tion there, but the San Francisco hor
ror far outshadowed those calamities”
sald Dr. Frank Barker of Rochester,
N. X
“1 cannot belleve that the loss of
Ife In San Francisco was confined to
I would be the last
to stretch facts, but | am convince}
that several thousand persons sufferad
Thieves and looters were dealt
‘with summarily. 1 persouslly witness
"ed the sudden demise of several ghoul
ish wen
“1 saw a fellow cutting riugs from
the hands of a dead woman lu Bush
street, Just below Sacrawento. There
was a rush of wen, and within » few
minutes the robber was dangliug from
® pole, Ope Innocent man wet his
death at the hands of the wilitary, He
but con
He wun shot
South of Market streel the loss of
life was mostly Grought about hy the
, Collapsing of many cheap and crowd.
'ed lodging houses, Among others the
rth und Minos - streets, added to
b situation. by the
The collapsing of the Portland house
on Sixth street came about {ua similar
manner. Fully sixty persons were en
tombed amidst the erash of timbers
sud brick. Many of these were saved
before the fire eventually erept to the
scene.
The large five story Brunswick room
Ing house, with jis 300 rooms filled
with guests, on the corner of Sixth
and Howard streets, collapsed entire
ly, oud fire started amid the ruins
scarcely five minutes later. If i= es
timated that over 300 persons there
lost their lives.
THE EARTHQUAKE'S TERROR.
Vivid Pictures by Hefugmees From
Sau Francisco.
SALT LAKE CITY. Utah, April 23
~L.ocal botels are Alling with eastern
people who escaped from Baa Fran-
cisco at the tine of the earthquake
Mr. Rlernberger, of the frm of New
York stockbrokers, Sternberger, Sinn
& Uo is here with his wife, son and a
mald. He was ou the fourth floor of
the 8. Francis hotel. After hurriedly
dressing, he and his fawlily rushed in
to Union square
“We bad hardly got seated” sald
Mr. SBternberger, “when firemen came
along asking for volunteers to take
bodies from the ruins just above the
hotel. There was a ready nnd willing
response. It was a low buildlug ou
which had toppled a lofty one. and all
in the former were burled In the de
bris. We heard the stifled cries and
prayers, ‘For God's sake. come this
way! ‘Ob, lift this off wy back! ‘My
God, I'm dying” and many others,
perviug us to greater efforts. Fiually
we gol lo some of thew Bruised,
bleeding, blinded by smoke and Just,
terrified past reason, the poor fellows
who fell in the street fell from utter
exhaustion. Those that were penned
away below we could not reach, and
their seeing faroff crie= for wiercy
and life will ring in wy ears till
death”
Charles
Dodge, Ia,
fel, nays
“] passed through Chinatown just as
a good shook came, and all Chinatown
was lu the streets, gesticulating, cry
lug, runpleg around aud aetiug like a
lot of monkeys. If left to themselves
1 kuuw they must all bave perished
The authorities drove them up the hill
sud out of muge of the fire. Super
stition mastered thew, aud all sorts of
gods were produced from all sorts of
pockets, and joss paper was scattered
all aloug the way."
Henry Herz, 1 New York traveling
man, after a terrible experience, wade
his escape aud coustituted bimself a
traveling relief committee. At Sacra
mento be organized a shipment of
eggs, at Reuo Lie set the housewives to
bakiug Lread aud ln Salt Lake he Las
raised a potato fund of $4w Mr
Herz crossed the bay ln a launch. The
boatman asked Lis bow wuch mouey
be Lad, aud when be replied, with a
wental reservation, $40.40] the boat
wan charged him $0.40 and collected
the money lu advance
W. R. Hearst, through Lis local
bankers, has duplicated Lis first order
for $7.500 worth of gowds, and several
more cars have been started west
FOUR CHEATED DEATH.
C. Lanferweller of Fort
who was at the Grand ho
Seffering In Stricken City of Two
Women and Two Men,
LOS ANGELES, April 23--One of
the most thrilling of the storles yet fre
lated of adventure iu stricken San
Fraucisco during the days of horror
and uights of terror Is that of a party
of four, two women aud two wen, who
arrived bere after having spent a night
aud the greater portion of two days oun
the hills about Golden Gate park
This party was cvmiposed of Mrs
Francis Winter, Miss Bessie Marley
Dr. Eruest W. Fleming and Oliver W
Posey, all prowiuent local people. Al
were at the Palace hotel Tuesday
night.
They returued with feet swollen and
bruised from miles of walking over
ragged, broken streets and with flesh
seared and Llistered from cinder aud
flame. The women hastened to a local
hotel, where they remained for awhile
prostrated from the shock aud the ex
posure and denylug themselves to all
friends,
Mr. Posey went directly howe. but
Dr. Fleming, unkempt aud disheveled,
went to the chamber of comiuerce to
give suggestions for succoriug the
stricken oues who had uot been fortu
nate enough to dee Mum the city of
desolation. It was ou his advice that
the relief committee made purchases
of lluen and bandages to send north
He sald that the suber of Killed has
been exaggerated, but that hundreds
probably thousauds, are suffering from
burns aud hinndreds of thousands from
hunger and exposure
Ihe party of which ie was a ember
was formed lo the streets of Sau Fran
cisco Wednesday woruing when the
second shock bad wade the Majace ho
tel untenable
Destruyed by Earthyuake,
ASTORIA, Ore, April 23 The stein
er Alliance, which arrived from Eu
rekn, reports that the Point Areun
lighthouse was destroyed] by the earth
quake. The vessel while off Eureka
Wednesday morning was severely
shaken, The captain thought the ves
sel bad struck bottow, but after mak
ing soundings found that she was in
twelve fathoms of water. The captain
banged his course to westward
Town of Tomales In Ruins,
OAKLAND, Cal, April 23 — A dispatch
from San Mafael says that the town of
Townles Is a pile of rains. All of the
jurge stores are Aal Many ranch
houses sud baras are down, Two chil
dren, Anita and Peter Couzza were
led In a falling Louse about a wile
town,
PRICE ONE CEN
Curtain
Below we give a pa
list of curtains on ss
There are Irish Point, Wire
Backs, cte., not included i
the fo'lowing list. Our
quotations are taken from
those in the window only.
Many other nuinbers we
will gladly show with pro-
portionate reductions:
ruffled
45¢c
65¢
75¢c
$1.00
1.25
1.35
50c 2! yds Nottinghams, 38¢c
toc 2} a
$1.25 31 yds
1.35 4“
1.50
[.65
1.75
1.85
200
2.25
2.50
2.85
3.00
3..0
3.75
4.50
5.00
Wash Goods
We have added sey
very pretty lines of shée
plain colors and figured ma=
terials, every one sparkling
with fresbness. All prices,
and our values are never
beaten.
New Shirt Waists
Just received new line of
white shirt waists, short
and long sleeves. We are
just as hard to beat on shirt
waists as anything else.
They are bought in the
Scranton store for both
wholesale and retail depart=
ments, the combined output
of which compares favo
bly with the largest con
sumers in the slate, hence
our remarkable values
dry goods of all kinds. Wa
buy right See our line
shirt waists.
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One case Galatea clath,
best make, perfect goods
plains, stripes and fig
white,” black, navy, cadet
and red grounds.
everywhere for from 15¢
18¢c. Our price for ono
only, Wednesday, 12jcy
Carpenter and Build
17 Pleasant St. Wavecy. B
R. AH DRISLAN
Contractor and Bu
Plans and a
210 Miller 8¢ Bt.
Kverything New and Up-to-Date,
ery (fire Roconmodationn:
Thomaa Ave, Opposite L, V,
alex $1 50 Por Dav.
OR. A. 6. REES, i
100 Lake 50 West Ba
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