Pittston Gazette

              THE HOME PAPER WEATHER CONDITIONS. ttetxm Forecast Until 8 p. m. Tomorrow for the People of PitUton and Eastern Pennsylvania. Vicinity. Fair tonight and Sunday 7Y/252 KjLjJBI AMj THE HOME NEWS. J WEEKLY BBTABLlSntlD 1860. 1 DAILY EST. ny T1IEO. 1IAKT 1882. PITTSTON, PA., SATU 'DAY, APRIL 21, 1906. TWO CENTS A COPY. FORTY CENTS A MONTH. \ TEN PAGES 56TH YEAR. ANOTHER MILLION I SAN FRANCISCO PARTLY SAVED THE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO THAT WAS BEFORE THE CALAMITY ADDED TO THE LOSS Alxmt Olio-Fourth of tlio City Spared by tliu Conflagration. San Francisco, April i\-—Although tlio main tires that devastated San Francisco after the eartht(Utike of Wednesday morning burned themselves out, leaving three-fourths of the city In ashes, the tire that started at Nob hill and worked Its way to the north beach, sweeping that quarter clean of buildings, later veered around before a fierce wind and made its way southerly to the immense sea wail sheds aud grain warehouses. Story of the Wonderful Romance and Beauty that Marked the Metropolis of the Pacific Coast, and Last Niglit, When it Was Thought the Flames Were the Strange People That Were Met. From Time to Time There. Under Control, a Fierce Wind Swept Over the City, Fanning a Blaze That Thrsaten- ed to Destroy the Ferries. The flames headed directly for tbe immense ferry building, the terminal point by ferryboat of all overland aud local trains of the Southern Pacific1 road, aud threatened to cut off the roads of refuge to Oakland aud Berkeley.THE CITY GAVE ITSELF UP TO SEEKING AFTER PLEASURE REPORTS COME NOW THAT DISEASE HAS APPEARED IN THE CAMPS All Tongues of the Earth Seemed to Mingle There- Great Forests Edged the Place—Its Hills, The wind, which ut times aujuuuted to a Kale, and darkness added fresh terrors to the situation. The author!- ties considered conditions so grave that it was decided to swear in immediately a thousand special policemen, armed with rltles furnished by the federal government. In addition to this force companies of the national guard arrived from many interior points. Relief Trains are Beginning to Arrive with Provisions for the Homeless and Starving People — Congress Today Voted an Additional Million Dollars to Relief Fund. Its Quarries, Its Dwellings, and Its Careless People. The old San Francisco is (load. The gayest, lightest hearted, most pleasure loving city of this continent, and in many ways the most interesting and romantic, is a horde of huddled refugees living among ruins, says the New York Sun. It may rebuild; it probably will; but those who have known that peculiar city by the Golden Gate and have caught its flavor of the Arabian Nights feel that It can never be the same. It is as though a pretty, frivolous woman had passed through a great tragedy. She survives, but she is sobered and different. If it rises out of (lie ashes It must be a modern city, much like other cities and without its old flavor. tramp windjammers were deep chested craft, capable of rounding the Horn or of circumnavigating the globe; and they came In streaked and picturesque from their long voyaging. Hope Dawns In Burned City. San Francisco, Ca'l., April 21.—rcverytliing seems to conspire against litis rated city. Last night when it was thought the llaines were well innler control a tierce wlml swept over tin* city tlial tanned litem again into a tierce lire and threatened to destroy the ferries to Oakland and Berkley. It also seemed tor a time that the llaines would reach Tort Mason. 'I'he most heroic efforts were put forth and the llaines checked though not until a million dollars had heeu added to the total loss. However, over the smoking reuiuttiit of what was San Francisco hope dawned. The ordeal of earthquake and tire had been passed. The perils of famine and pestilence remain to be faced, but the sons of the pioneers of 1849 are facing them with undaunted hearts. In the orange colored dawn which always comes through the mists of that bay, the fishing fleet would crawl In under triangular lateen sails, for the fishermen of San Francisco Bay are all Neapolitans who have brought their costumes and their customs and sail with lateen rigs shaped like the ear of a horse when the wind fills them and stained an orange brown. Then came the rc|iort that small pox and typhoid fever have apitcared in the camps of the refugees. What truth there is in these stories it Is impossible to say at this time, but an outbreak of this sort is one of the things that lias been feared since the people were driven from their homes and were compelled 1o herd in the parks and open places without anj of the conveniences so essential to civilized people. For lack of fuel on which to feed the miles of flume gradually burned them-' selves out. They have eaten out the city's heart and have spared perhaps one-fourth of its outlying area. All else Is a waste of ashes and tumbled Along the waterfront the people of fijese craft met. "The smelting pot of the races," Stevenson called it; and this was always the city of his soul. There are black Gilbert Islanders, almost indistinguishable from negroes; lighter Kanakas from Hawaii or Samoa; Lascars in turbans; thickset Russian sailors; wild Chinese with unbraided hair; Italian fishermen In tam o' shanters, loud shirts and blutD sashes; Greeks, Alaska Indians, little buy Spanish-Americans, together with men of all the Furopean races. These came in and out from among the queer craft, to lose themselves In the disreputable, tumbledown, but always mysterious shanties and small saloons. In the back rooms of these saloons South Sea Island traders and ctptalns, fresh from the lands of romance, whaling masters, people who were trying to get up treasure expeditions, filibusters, Alaskan miners, used to meet and trade adventures. Kclicf trains are beginning to arrh bringing aid to the thousands so sorc- masonry l,\ in need of il Huddled in camps of refuge, bivouacked under the billowing smoke from their burning homes. San Francisco's wealthy and poor alike arose from a night of horror such as few cities have witnessed since Nero burned Rome. The city lay on a series of hills and the lowlands between. These hills are really the end of the Coast Kange of mountains which lie between the interior valleys and the ocean to the south. To its rear was the ocean; but the greater part of the town fronted on two sides on San Francisco Hay, a body of water always tinged with gold from the great washings of th$ mountain, usually overhung with a haze, and of magnificent color changes. Across the bay to the north lies Mount Tamalpals, about 5,000 fee1 high, and so close that ferries from the waterfront took one in less than half an hour to the little towns of Sausallto and Belvidere, at its foot. Sun Francisco, C'al., April 21. ly this morning the fury Of ward swept by the flames All the BELLAMY mail matter was recovered today com- paratively uninjured laying wasti front as far had a .strip along the water as Meigs wharf, and de- nhated somewhat lit cr ST0RER, FORMER AMBASSADOR TO AUSTRIA. Oakland. April 21.—News from afoutside San Francisco is it appears that the dislias been uiidereHtl- is ft Cincinnati lawyer, was a Republican congressman and lias been minister to Belgium, minister to Spain anil for the past four years ambassador to Austria. His recent sensational recall from this |K»st is thought to have been due to the action of Mrs. Storer in attempting to have created another American cardinal. .Mrs. Storer is an aunt of Congressman Nicholas lxmgworth, son-in-law of the president. Mr, Storor and warehouses in that portion. The fire completed the work of destruction on Telegraph and Russian Hills, troyinK a large number of factories Those who slept had slept the heavy sleep of exhaustion. It was a night haunted by a thousand terrors and punctuated by the crack of the rille. The soldiers guarding the treasure vaults of the United States mint and of the ruined bauk buildings were aster at San Jofmated and that ;it Santa Rosa overpublic and business nt Santa Rosa were wrocke dwellings escaped for the The loss of lift? is placed weepiri them clear of human habi- To save the water front and tai ions. shipping the large Henry machin works were dynamited. After a de n -in part ;iy nothing of lire. HOM B PEOPLE RESPOND GENEROUSLY alert. Station II were A brief dispatch direct from San Jose says ISO were killed and 200 Injured During the night they shot and killed no less than fourteen men who were prowling about, apparently Intent upon robbery. lived in the Agnew's asylum The near approach of ihe fire to the ferry building: caused a report that the structure was a tire. Heroic work of fire. and other vessels, however, stopped the progress of the flames in that direction. It looks now as if the fire on the water front will he checked at Lombard street wharf. Xew York, April 21.—From reports at hand today ft'is seen that the relief fund for the San Francisco sufferers aggregate;; $8,000,000. A million or two will he added today. The Joseph M. Vlyers, a local policemau, disputed the authority of a national gimrdHinnn who had told him to move oil. There was a brief altercation. Then the soldier ran Myers through with his bayonet and killed him. It is a wooded mountain, with ample slopes, and from it on the north stretch away ridges of forest land, the outposts of the great Northern woods of Sequoia semi-pervirens. This mountain and the mountainous country to the south brought the real forest closer to San Francisco than to any other American city. The Gazette's Fund in Aid of the Stricken People of country, always generous in time of need, has outdone herself. There was another element, less picturesque and equally characteristic, along the waterfront. For San Francisco was the back eddy of European civilization—one end of the world. The drifters came there and stopped, lingered awhile to live by their wits in a country where living after a fashion has always been marvellously cheap. These people haunted the waterfront or lay on the grass on Portsmouth Square. Wliere the- Drifters Lingered San Francisco Has Received an Excellent Washington, April 21.—Dispatches received this morning from General Funston say that the- Tire 1s making no progress, though west of VanNess avenue wind of considerable force is blowing. The indications are that that part of thi? city south of Van- From a three story lodging house at Fifth and .Minna streets, which col- Oakland, April 21.—A newspaper man who left San Francisco late last night says that srtiatl pox and typhoid fever have broken out among the refugees in the parks. It is believed that it may be necessary to place the Start and is Being- Increased Hourly Within the last few years men have killed deer on the slopes of Tamalpais and looked down to see the cable cars crawling up the hills of San Francisco to the north. In the suburbs coyotes still steal in and rob hen roosts by night. The people lived much out of doors. There is no time of the year, except a short part of the rainy season, when the weather keeps one from the woods. The slopes of Tamalpais are crowded with little villas dotted through the woods, and these minor estates run far up into the redwood country. The deep coves of Belvldere, sheltered by the wind from Tamalpais held a colony of "arks" or houseboats. where people lived in the rather disagreeable summer months, coming over to business every day by ferry. Everything invites out of doors. Ness nvenue ami nnrlh of the bay will be destroyed and that it will be impossible to establish proper sanitary conditions. Much sickness must necessarily be expected. If that portion of the city which now remain standing is not burned, there will be many, good buildings that can be used as hospitals. The soldiers, police and firemen are almost exhausted. The conduct of the people in general has been admirable. The great majority of the casualties were in the poorer section of the city south of Market street. Not many people were killed in the better portion of the city. city under quarantine (iiivmior's Apiicnl I'lt'slilcilt's Appeal Washington. April 21.—The House today passed a bill appropriating an additional million dollars for the San Francisco sufferers. Harrisburg, April 21.T-Oovernor Penny packer issued the following proclamation calling upon the people of Pennsylvania to contribute to the relief of the San Francisco earthquake sufferers: Washington, April 21.—President Roosevelt issued tile following appeal to tin' American peopli That square, the old plaza about which the city was built, Spanish fashion, had seen many things. There in the first burst of the early days the vigilance committee used to hold Its hangings. There In the time of the sand lot riots Dennis Kearney, who nearly pulled the town down about his ears, used to make his orations which set the unruly to rioting. In these later years Chinatown lies on one side of It and the Latin quarter and the "Barbary Coast" on the oth- ' In the nee of so terrible and appalling a national calamity as that which has befallen San Francisco, the onlpour.'ng of the nation's aid should London, April newspapers here suggest that each nation look after its native born people who suffered at San Francisco. 21.- —The evening "In the name and by tin- authority of the Commonwealth of Pennsylva- nia, Executive Department a- far a." possible, be entrusted to the American Ked Cross, the national org'lnl/.nt'on best fitted to undertake such relief work. A specially appoint Proclamation UNITED STATES MINT San Francisco, April 21.—The work of registering all people has begun, so that the missing can he numbered. "An overwhelming and heartrending uftlamlty has fallen upon the City of San Franeiseo and neighboring lapsed Wednesday morning, more thau seventy-live bodies were taken. There are lifty other dead bodies in sight iu the ruins. This buildiug was one of the first to take fire in Fifth street. eCl Red Cross agent, Dr vir.G. started Thursday Vrtrk for California, to co-operatc thero with the Red Cross branch in the work of relief. Edward Dofrom New towns. Homes and property are gon» and the bereft people are helplessntnld desolation and want. THE HINDOO FOOT "Sow, therefore, I, Samuel W-hltaker Pennypacker, governor of Penn. pC ivania, call upon the citizens of tHis Commonwealth to express their sympathy by sending out of the abundance of their means commensurate contributions to their kindred In distress and I appeal to all corporations, associations and Individuals alike to Yet the most characteristic thing after all was the coloring. For the sea fog had a trick of painting every yxposed object a sea gray which had a tinge of dull green in it. This, under the leaden sky of a San Francisco morning, had a depressing effect on first sight and afterward became a delight to the eye. For the color was soft, gentle and intliniteiy attractive in Sea (Dray Coloring of the Olty On this square men used to lie all day long and tell strange yarns. Stevenson lay there with them In his time and learned the things which he wove into "The Wrecker" and his South Sea stories, and now In the center of the square there stands the beautiful Stevenson monument; stands or stood—one finds his tenses queerly mixed in writing of this city which Is and yet is no more. In later years the authorities put up a municipal building 011 one side of the square and prevented the loungers, for decency's sake, from lying 011 the grass. Since then some of the peculiar charaoter New York, April 21 The Western Union company received the following bulletin from the Kriso office at 11:15 this morning: "The fire which It I* Quite Different From Otir* [n It' l'oriiint loi: "Tn order that this work may be well systematized and in order that the contributions which I am sure will (low in with lavish generosity, may be wisely administered, I appeal to the people of the United States, to ail cities, chambers of commerce, boards of trade, relief committees and Individuals to express their sympathy and render their aid by contribution to the • American National Red Cross. They can be sent to the Hon. Charles Hallam Keep, Ked Cross treasurer, Washington. D. C.; Jacob H. SchliT, New York Ked Cross treasurer, or other local Red Cross treasurers, there to be forwarded by telegraph from Washington to the Hed Cross agents and officers in California. At least 100 persons were killed in the Cosmopolitan, in Fourth street. Hundred Killed In Hotel lti thf native quarters of tho towns of India the strange spectacle may be seen of a butcher seizing a piece of started along the water front last night which it was feared would con- The only building standing between Mission. Howard, East and Stewart streets Is the San Pablo hotel, which ts occupied and running. sume the fi rry house where the Western Union had established headquarters, is still burning, but unless high wind comes we feel safe for the pres- ineat in liis bunds and 'cutting it in two with a stroke of his knife held between the first and second toes of his foot. '1'he shoemaker uses no last, but turns the unfinished shoe with his feet, while his hands are busy in shaping it So the carpenter holds with his great toe the board he is cutting, and the wood turner handles his tools as wtll with his toes as with his fingers. .Many persons dropped dead of heat and suffocation. Mure than 150 persons are reported dead In the Brunswick hotel. Seveuth and Mlssiou streets. The Southern Pacific hospital, at Mission and Fourteenth streets, has been dyuuniited. iici with promptitude ent. _ As a precautionary measure to prevent the world from being shut out from San Francisco, we are ar- Given under my hand and The hills are steep beyond conception. Where Vallejo street ran up Russian Hill is progressed for four blocks by regular steps like a flight of stairs. It Is unnecessary to say that 110 teams ever came up this street or any other like It, and grass grew long among the puvlng stones until the Italians who live thereabouts took advantage of this to pasture a cow or two. At the end of the four blocks the pavers had given it up and the last stage to the summit was a winding path. On the very top a colony of artists lived In little villas of houses whose windows got the whole panorama of the bay. l.ucklly for these people, a cable ear climbed the hill 011 tile other side, so that it was not much of a climb to home. mass. great seal of (he State, at the City of | Harlsburg, this 20th day of April, in i the jear of our I.ord one thousand i nine hundred and six, and of the Commonwealth the one hundred and i thidleth. langiiiK to carry the cables working to Oakland to a point up the bay where we will be able to continue the ferry Chinatown was destroyed completely. It is estimated that at least twenty Chinese, stu|a*fied with opium or driuk, were blown up with dynamite. Several mangled bodies have been found. I.ieutenaut F. M. Freeman •dates that .in one buildiug live or al. bodies were thrown fifty feet Into tht air and buck into the flames. building is destroyed.' This use of the feet to assist the hands in their labor is not, however, tlie mere result of practice, but is principally due to the fact that the Hindoo foot is quite different from ours in its anatomical conformation, The ankle of the Hindoo and the articulation of the back of the foot permit considerable lateral motion. Then the toes possess a surprising mobility, The great toe can be moved freely in all directions, and the first and secoud toe? are separated by a wide space, sometimes as much as flvA-ighita of an inch across at the base of the tues and two inches at their extremities. By the Governor (Continued on Page Six. New York. April 21 at San Francisco,■* in —Electrician his "SAMUEL. W. PENNYPACKEU. Robert W. McAfee, Secretary of the Commonwealth." Converse THEODORE HOUSEVELT morning salutation to Assistant General Manager Barclay, of the New York office of the Western Union Co., Special said in part that the situation In San Francisco this morning is apparently The announcement in yesterday's Gazette that this paper would receive There is nCD way »Df getting nt a generality of the news. No one to know what is going on ex- and transmit to the proper authorities subscript ions of money for the relief Ou entering hln lioiue in the earlj morning a policeman named Flood en countered a strange man, who attacked liiui like a uiaulac, Flood shot tht Intruder dead. A apeelal policeman nauied Snyder also killed a man, but lite details are not known. lu tht chitos und despair of the disaster aueli passing tragedies attracted scant no tlee. bargain no worst of the suffering thousands who have been rendered homeless and hungry through the visitation of lire ami earthquake in San Francisco ami vicinity Ladies' patent colt blucher and cept In his own immediate vicinity The wharf lire, which vVorried us a has met with ready and generous response from Pittston people The ball shoe; sell everywhere at 13; an exceptional value; our price while the lot last*... .12.00 night long by spurting up at times, may yet get away from the firemen. It menaces the sheds and warehouses oh, the water front, of which there are about 15 left, ail of them being of need is immediate and urgent and money given now will do more good than With these ItlllM. with the strangeness of the architecture and with the green gray tinge over everything, the city fell always into vistas and pictures, a setting for the romance which hung over everything, which has always hung over life in Sun Kraneisco since the padres came and gathered the Indians about Mission lDo- at a later time. Notwithstanding all the great amount that is being sub- Ttae articulation of the hip Is also peculiar, and this renders It easier to tine the toes in baudllng the objects by enabling th" Hindoo to sit lu a squatting posture oineb more comfortably than we can «lo. A similar formation of lLa feet and toes Is found among the A»- uuiese, but it Is not, as might be supposed. u common thin* among barbarous and savage tribes. scribed throughout the nation every dollar will be needed, so vast and wide- spread is the disaster. Many of our people have notified the Ouxette tlur- Lmlies' Oxfords from vvood ing the day of their intention to send in 11 vulwi'riptloii In tluD fund ami Not lean than tifty men have paid with their Uvea the penalty either ot their cupidity or their iudhterttttou. Hue was allot by a guard for washing his hands lu drluklug water. Another, who waa a hauk clerk, was shot by a sol die:' while aeuivhluK utter nightfall auiid the ruiua of the bauk in which he had heeu employed. 89c to $3.00. {Jan Francisco, via. Oakland, April 2V.—Eleven postolllce clerks, all tlive, wore rescued today liom the ruins of the collapsed postotllee building, where I hey hud been entombed under tons of stone and timber since the such amounts will tDe acknowledged us received Do not hoHltutr, but mDnd In your subscription at once The in oney when rucelvwl Is deposited to the credit of the Hun Francisco Kellef Fund In the First Ktttlunal Hunk and will um hooii us possible be transmitted in the I'uniuylvunlu treasurer of the Ited Cross society, Mrs. A. J. Cussutt, in i'hlindc||dilu, Ill uccorduiu'e with lores. !e sure and visit this store. Special Bargains. And it wus a city of romance and a gateway to adventure. It opened out on the mysterious Pacific, the untamed ocean, and most of t'hlna, Japan. the South Sea Inlands, Uiwer California, the west coast of Central America, Austrulla that came to this country paused in through the Uolden Hate. There was a sprinkling, too, of Alaska and Siberia, from ills windows on llutfxian Hill one suw always something strange and suggestive creeping through the mists of the bay. It would be a South iea Island brig, bringing In copra, to take out cottons and Idols; a Chines junk wilh fanlike sails, buck ft am an expedition after sharks' livers; an old wltaler. which seemed la drip oil. back iiom a year of wi'uUuig In ike Arciic. Kwu the lUsrttrl of All I lace*. fen la*t Wftdnenduy. All wo it at tlrxt thought lCD be dead, hut when it rtwruInK parly reachi'd them dfiw hour* of C-fTi.it they \ver« found to hi- alive, thouKh exhausted and uuemiHCiuiiH. The t.tructuri' had col - lapsed In such 11 way as effectually to linprltoojl them on all wldes without crushing them, heavy timbers having ilrucUit-i One naturally think* of the reseiu| Illume to a monkey whteh a Uuiuan lwinn utiirig liotli feet ami hand* In tlnD manner described above must present, auil yet the 11 Union loot In not at all like the foot Of un upe or monkey. The great toe Ik not opposed to tlio other toes like u thumb un oeeurn with the moukey, ami aoeordinuly the pedal dexterity of the Hindoo* |» not to lxD taken an an indication of Hlnitnu du■c-wul.—I'oaruon'a Weekly I Ilk* IHMiuext Milltttillfl) III 1*1 ikIiIi lit Hi) (IBi'V»II'h prPL'luinutlini The fullnuiiiH nubHOi'lplloim Have hi'Wi |mIII Klevel) poslorttce clerka. all alive, were rescued troui the rulua of the collapaeil poatottice liuildiug. where they hud boen eutoiuhed under luua of atoue and timber since the structure fell last ft'odntaday. All warn at tlrst thought lu lie dead, hut wheu a reacti tug party reached theui after hours of effort they were fouuit to he alive, though exhausted aud umouacious Imwu revealed all Iheao aud a thou sand other horrors, but the llfiiug pall VV. Why If Hull . \ It. Mai'kuw .. (I. I). LD Wfiirliiu K \V. Hi'uwn .. . J. W. i'nlii'ii . . . Prloni}  6,00 I'. H. t'uilt'r 35.00 5.00 5.00 it. (}. I'uoiii'r  K. If oat* i .... •I'. B. MiUiit  ft. no wiIIliint ,1. tvik .. too S. J. Kit'i'iiiau 7 .ui» I. I' Itu Hit' ft.till Mi anil Mix. l'lias "itt.Otl M H. H4k«'  fill. (It) T \V Ititvli'M ft.ua u. K i.uintoiti .. r..ou a j. iiiti in r & i'ti. SMIIOTllE, Hhlelded 11n-i11 from I he falling mil oonry. For three dny* they had beei without either foml or drink, lijl they have « fair chance of recovery. They were found hy u party of workmen who were trylwr to recover the .~ , •• , ~  ni/tll mallei'. 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