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VOL. XX. MANNING, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 25. 1906. NO.80 AWFUL CALAMIJY. San Francisco Destroyed by an Earthquake. AND THE FIRE FIND. Without the slightest Warning the Peo ple Are Forced to Pace an Awful Death in The Streets or Their Wrcked homrs. Fire Adds to ilorror. Eartquake and fire on Wednesday caused the greatest clamity Califor nia has ever knovwn. Sin Franci:cI was almost destroyed and thousands of people in that cty were killed oT hu-rt. A dispatch from San FZancisco says the dreadful earthquake shock came withcut warning at preciselY 5.13 o'ctck, its motion apparently being from east to west. At first the upheaval of the earth was gradual, but ina few seconds it increased In intersity. Chidres began to fall and bul.dings to erac, toTtering on their foundations. The pecple be came panic sticken a-d ,uzhed tntc the streets, most ,.1 thE ni Aa their night attire. Tney were met bj showers of falling builair.gs, corniers. bricks and walls. Many were instant ly cr.shed to death, while others were dreadfully mangled. Those who re malned indoors generally escaped with their lives, though secres we:e hit b; detached plaster, pictuiesand artiles tbrown to the fior by the shLcek. I: Is believed that mcre or less k s3 was sustained by nearly every family in the city. The tall steel frame structures stood the strain Lettbr than brick buildings, few of them being badly damaged. The big eleven story Mo nado cffice building, in c. urse of con struction, adjoining tre Palace Hotel, was an exception, Lowever, its rear wall collapsirg, many cracks being made acroes its front. $omre of the decks and freight sLeds aici.g the wa ter front slid into the bay. Peep fsures opened in the tiiied-in grcuno near the shore and the Union ferr) depot was injured. Its high tower stil stands, bu will hae to be torn down. A portion of the new CiA, Ball, which cost over seven million dollars, clapsed, the root siiding intc the court yard and sm.Aler towers tumbling down. Tae grett dome was moved but did not fali The new Post Mice, one of the floet in ime United States. was badly sL.rid. Tn. Valencia flotel, a four bt.y WOoaQa bulding, sank into the bast mont a pileof splintered timbers, under whic were pinned many dead and dying co cupants of the house. Tne basement. was full of water and seme of the helpless victims were crowned. Searcely had the earth co'.sed to abe when ifres broke en simultane oosly 13n many places. Th~e tire de prtmient promiptly rescondied to the irst call for aid, but it was found taa the water mains had been rendere3 useless by the underground move ment~. Fanned by a. bgn b~e s the lames quickly spread a&Ld coon mi) bcks were seen to be comed. Tn dynamite *os resorttd to and the sound of frequent e:po iorLs acded rx the terror of the pop~u:ation. All gnorts to stay the pre gress of the fire, howver, proved futile. The South side of Market street from Ninth street to Bay was soon abhe za, the"dr& covering a belt two blocks wide. On this, the mai~n thoroughfare of the city, are located many of tle fiaest ediftces in the city, including the: Grant, Parrott, Fiood, "'Call" "Ex pmner," and -Monadncock buildings, the Palace and Grand Hotels, and nuerons wholesale houses. At the same time the commercial estsblish ments and banks north of Market street were -burning, Tre burning ditrct in this se-tion of the city tx tended from Sansome street to the water front, and from Ms.rket street to Broadway. Fires also broke out in the Mission and the entire ciay seemed to be in dlumes. The flames, fanned by the rising bres,, swept down the main streets until within a few hundred feet of the ferry depot, the high tower of which stood at a dangerouis angle. The big wholesale grocery estabusu~ment of Weelman, Peck & 0o., was on fire from celler to rocf, and -the heat w~a so oppressive that paseengers from the ferry boats were obliged to keep close to the water's Edge in order to get past the burning structure. It was impossible to reach the center of tho city from the bay wIthout akirting~ the shore for a long distance so as to get entirely around the tLurnzing dih tric. At 8 o'clcck the Southern PacinL offcials refused to allow any more passengers from Trans bay points te land and sent back those already or. the boats. Tne ferry and tramn ser vice of the Key route was entirely abandoned, owing to damage done toe power house by the earthquake at Emeryville. At 9 o'clock WedrEsiay morniIng a thousand men from the Preidio ar rived down town to patrol te e city streets. The Thirteenth infantry, 1,000 strong arrived fri.m Angel E land, a little later, and went on pat rol duty. The soldiers hays been or dered to shoot down thieves caught ii the act of robbirg the dlead and ti guard with their lives the mill:ons o' dollars' worth of property which har been placed In the streets that it wa3 escape from the ravages of the 11a.mes Mayor Schmitz, who na establisntc his cfflbe at police hea. g iaromrs, ha: named a committee ot eniety, comn prising many promirent cliaizens Mayor Schmitz sent out word to thb bakeries and miuk stationls through out the city that their food supphe mst be harbored for the homeiesa Tents have been placd in every park in the city, and t-oFe who have lost their homes will be given food and shelter. Ttvusands of people are homeless and many are huddled intc the parks and public Equ res beside the househo.d goods they were able tc save. The city is under martial law, and all the down town stri ets are psti rolled by cavalry and infan' ry. De tails of trops are also guarding the banks. Mcst of the principal build ings have already been destroyed and otbers are i-a imminent dar gr. Over all the scene of desolation hangs a cense pa!l of smoke. It will be many days before the cjmplete stdry of the ruin wrought by the double calamity of eartrhquake and fire that visited San Francisco will be written and then there wil: remain untold countless tales of woe. The exact loss of life will never bs known, as hundreds of unfortunates have been incinerated in the flames, which made the rescue of those bur ied under the toppling steeples and fallirg walls impossible. Temporary moTgues were improvised at many points only to be raz d by the flames. The city resembles one vast shambles wibr the red glare of fire thiowing weird shadows acroms the worn and panic-stricken faces of the homeless who are wandering the streets or sleep ing on piles of matresses and clothing in the parks and on the sidewalks in those districts not yet reached by the fire. Thousands have fled the city. Forgetting for a mcment the terrible sufferir.g, phTElcal and financial, that tra.ils in the wake of the disaster, -ne sene presented by the fdimes is one of unspeagable grandeur. Tae scene at the Iechanies' pavl ion during the early houTs and lintil noon, when the mnured and dead were removed because of the threatened de strtotion of the building by fire, was one of indescr.bable sadness. Sisters, rothers, wives and sweetheart searched eagerly for some missing dea one. Thousands of persons hurriedij -ent through the buildirg inf.pecting the cots on which the suff reis jay, it *he hope that they wLtUld find som* lov.d one that was missing. The 4d ad were placed in one portion of the buildiug and the remainder was dbv.. red to hospital purposes. After the tire forced twe nurses and physicians o desert the building, the eager crowds f llowed them to the presidio and the children's hospital where thn renewed theIr search lor m!ssing rela tves. Up to a lite bour Thursday f!.ernoon more taan 750 pefsons wh: who were seriously injurtd by tL-e earti qiake and tne fire had beE.n !-reazed at the varicus hospitak hrougLtout the city. A falung wall f on one of the dna oited buildings on Mission street -rushed out the lie of Fireman Max enner, wile pmany ott er fire fihter met a like fate, Tnrough ail the itees automobiles atd exoress %a ,rons are hurrying, carrying deid ani i j'red to morgues and bospitals At tie morgue In the ball of j is Aze, 1T1ty wcoies lie. Tee flames rapidly a; p Qwhed this tui'd ,g and tne wcrk of. removing tie bodies to Jackaor quare began. While tMe soldiers and police were cirryirg the dead to what appeared safe placos, a shower of oricks r~omn a builin dynamited tc heck the flunmes, itjuired many o1 he workmen, and sant soldiers in procession hurrying to hosp!ais. T'ce vrk o~f :-em ving the b';dieA s -oppsd ad the retrainoer c f the dead were left to possible cremation in the mor gu. The debris killed and buried bundreds of horses. hitched to vegeta ble weg-nns which were ready to re ceive the day's supplies. The dead -orses were pzled high and the wreck age bl eked the streets until the ad vacing cLr n gratb9n turned all tha :ctofi of $ne Sown inltQ a yagt funer .. pyre. From the Barbary coast the ho:d f vie'us and criminal thay infesr hat g iarte~r pau-ed forth tr.d starter -aly in the eve~ning to loot streeta ud rob the dead. Fearing such a dendish climax to this day of borrors Mayor Sobmig. and Police Ch~ef Dinar. sued orders fur the soldiers to kill all who engaged in such work. Be fore the eyes of an Associated Prea~ representative, t:-ree thieves were shot in the back and fatally wounded in the b rning com..io-sl district. P spite the vigilar es of police and solders, many places were pillaged in ihe wholesal' regions. Tiquor stores were broken i2to a- d vsEaboods are lying in the streets Tr~e ruin in the commission and the wholesele g iar ters is eplete, the fi smes Wednes day night having compicted the par aly zing work of the morning. Knights of Honor. The Siate Lodge of the KaiMghts of Honor met in Clumbis last week. Afer the transion of routine business the following t~filers were elected and duly installe-d for the en suig term: J. J Verr~on, past grand dictator, Welford; C.. P. Q attlebaum, grand dictator, Ca.n ay;.Miles B McSweeney, grand le dictator, Hasmpton; B. 0. DuFre, grand assisasnt dictator C.'lt mbia; V.. N. s'ay, grand reporter, Columuia; N W. Trump, grand treaaurer, Co lumbia; D. Melutyre. J. A. Ball and Rv B. G. CJaff jrd, grand trustees; L N Z :aly, grand representaiive for tour years to supreme Iodg ; 0. P. Qattlebaum _,1At7O. Very iSad Advice. At Chicano eight hundred negro mnen an-1 Weuien at.ook Usrtitutionial A. M E cubrch with applause Thur., iay rug-it when L~a Wells Barneti advised ticheithck man to put a revet ver in his pocke; at d 'anticip-ate thre white Iran in his deviltry."'.?The oc rason for the speh was a Neeting oalled te- p'ctest against th-e mob vio jence that has marked Sping fled, Mo. he last few days. Wauck the speakmng had edded resolutions were adopted urgg President BR.aseveltsto take. -ome steps to protece the Legro race rcm destruction at the hands of tne whites. __ _ _ _ _ _ Congrebs Vor a a Mullon. Oa Tzuursday Congres' appropriated $1,000,000 for thre suff aring and home less in San Francisco and and otbor California towns, and gave the secre tary or war, the secretadia: cf t':e treasury, navy and commerce. power ac o Dcate wim. t e n-ge 01 tme strckm cities, that the very best re sults might be omtained in affording rief. Prrsident Rocsevelt signed A CITY IN RUINS. Beautiful Santa Rosa Has Not a Building Left. ONE THOUSAND DEAD. As Last Great Seismic Tremor Spent its Force the City Toppled to the Ground. Many Other Towns. and Hamlets Badly Shak. en Up. Beports from the interior of Cal. ifornia are most alarming, Santa Rosa, one of the prettiest oiis of the state, in the prosperous county of Sonoma, Is a total wreck. There are 10,000 homeless men, women and ohildren, huddled tcgether. The loss of life Is not to be estimated. It wil probably reach one thousand. As the lat great seismic tremor spent its force in the earth, the whole. business p 2rtion tumbled into ruins Tne main street is piled many feet deep with the fallen buildings. N t one business building is left intact The destruction incluIes all the coun ty buildirgs. The four story c.urt houie, with its high dome, Is merely a pile of broken masonry. Nothing is left. Identification is impos Ile. What was not destroyed by th earbquake bas been swept by fire. Until the 0 ,mrs start-d there wa nope of baying the resiience- dis trict. It was soon apparent that any such idea that might bava been en terrained was to be atandoned. T.is was aprebended by the citi zas and they prepared to desert their homes. N3t even their house hold goods were taken. They made for the flelds and bills to watch the destruction of one of the most beau tiful cities of the West. Nis ergers bring the ssddest tid ings of the destruction M' H .aldsburg, G-iserville, Colv3rdale, Ho. I.ad and Ukiah. This report takes in the ccurtry as far rorth as M cdocinG md Lake cunties, and Es far west as e P.cific Ocean. These are frontier ccnties and hays not as laige towns is farther south. la every gsse the 'oss of life and proearty is shoicking. KILLED IN A HOTEL. A r port from San Jose, 50 miles ruthi of San Francisc>, says that the VAndome hotel annex was wrfceked, 10 or 15 persons bntr~g klled. The Do herty block wai burned a*nd one wo msn was k lled. Dr. MoGrow was kil!ed and 14s wif'e Injured. ThF -ayor deput'z'd 500 min to wa'ch oroperty, it is eilated that 50 p rs - were killed in San Jose. Th ostcf'ce was half wrecked. The First Presbyterian c'6curci was de mcolished and the cturt hcuse is a wreck. Passen'gers arrivinz from man15 okher cities in Califoinia, bring talms of d path and disaster. Santa Cruz Monterey, Gilroy and H :lister are fatally wrecked. Tne deat.h list at Sam;.a Ceii is reported to be large. A report say' that Santa B .a is a 'ireck, ten theirand being homeless TaQe loss will probably reach into the taounands. Main str'eet is pilkd many feet deep with fallen ouildi-g%. Not ,.ne business building is intact. The four story court house is a pile of broken mascnry. I entification of the dead is imp p hib -. What was not dpstroyed by eart'quake was swept I y tire. Cit-zins flad to ti e hills ar d~ tid tQ watch the destrui. tinof Sinia Wra Tae water sys BUEIED IN~ THE EUIDs. News c mes from N-la, a small town in the Santa Clara valley, about 15 miles from San Jose, stating that the eartl quake demolished the sta'.e insane aulum at Ag :ews, near Sin Jose, burying many of the inmates in he ruins. It is stated that Sin Jose suffered severely. Tals news was brought by an automobile from San Jose to points which communicatio~n nad been est.blishal to 'L~ s Angeles temporailly. Mayor McAler, of 1L3 Angels, has iled messi.ges to M&ayor Schmitz, of San Franscisco, .ffring to render any astsistsace p-saible and asking for tdvice as to abe 4:uation, and what aid may be needed. P:esident Sum neriand of the ciky c *uncil, called a :pecial meeting of :that body, and orwarded a teltgrami to the mayor of San Francisco, :ffering in the name of L ' Angeles to render any aid posible. B :th the mnayor of Los Argeles and the president of the city council req iest the Associated Press to comn-unicate, if possible, thei: ienders of assisbaruce, as they do not expect to be able to reach them through the ordmnary channels of commtun'catior. SHOCKS AT ||ALINAs At 5.15 o'clock Wednesday morning three shacks of earthaunate shook Salinas, lasting respectively 5, 3 and 42 seconds. They came from the aortheast and southwest. The dom age is 82 500 000. No lives were lost in Sal:nas. -Smong the buildings destroyed in . nsare the Fosrd and Saanbu'y iiding, dry gocas; Esks Halls, MIe sonic bull sing, t. Kights of Pyt.hta bulding, Por& and Irvings etore, L. gan Cyclery, Oid .Fello a bulaing City Ball and several..sm'aller build ings. Every window in ene city was oroken. Chimnefs toppled over and craed through ros fs. Spzeckk s Sugar Fictory, three rriles fntote town, was destroyed, eausing damage f 81,500. Tl'e hmb scruis uilde g was wrecked. Soveral sunres lost tiAer entire stocks. At 2.25 o'c.lock this afternoon, another shock was x perienced but no lives were lo~st. Several men, women and cuildren were cut about t ;e face by fly'ng glass. There is inaerse excitement. sWEP'T INTO THE sEA. From the Cliff House comes word that toe great pleasure resort .anc show place of tae San Franc :c0 which st-ld on a, ft undation of solid rock has been swaet Into the sea. N t a thingr andr to tell where the monster stone buildirg orce stood. It 'as been levelt d to the foundation a!d orly the reck linirg the s-acoast rE ms.ins intact. T wenty towns have reported loss of life of from liv to one hundrr d each. O1atside cf San Francisco the death list will run high into the thousands. As reports come In from the country abont the already intense horror be -,mes even more intenee, if that were por-sible. Yet there are but few who have folded their bands. Tcera Is tco mucni to 6o--too n uh suffering to tight and too many bodies tu bury. ENTRIES TO CORN CONTEST. Many of Them Be4ng Received by Commssioner Watson. The State says Commissioner of Agriculture Watson has received a large number of entries to the State at d national orn contest. One of the most Important entries Jeceived was that of Mr. Melver Williamson, whose recent article on corn planting at tracted a great deal of attention and which has been cffloiaUy endorsed by the Southern Cotton ass ciation. Oher entries are: B. W. Taylor, R!obland; T. 0. Wil loughby, FiorencE; J. A. Peter. kia ind J. K Mos-, Orange uurg; J. R Hale, CO.arie3ton: H. M. Preacher, Hamptor-; E A Brown, K:rthav,; T. S. Stubbs, Marlbort; J. El. Marlien, J., Oollecton; W. B Clutty, B imberg; J. J. Pnilips, L i cister; E. S. Ple--cher, Mariconz; W. M. Spears, Mirlboro; A. J. Tindal. C arendon; Walker Ficyd, Manor; J. R Fairey, Orangeburg; Dr. W. D. ich, Williamsburg; J. M. Woodley Sumter; W. R E E:iott, Fa1rdeld; J. F. McKinnon, Marlborc; Jameb Iack ou, Andersor.; B. E Moore, Marl borc; Thes Taylor, Jr., R e iland; Taos. R.ff, R chlan'; S. R. Liver, R c'1lanf; J. F. Weekiey. Birnwell; T. P. Abley, Florenc ; C. F. Moore. Cheraw and B:nnettaville, and Ben. P. DeLoacu, Camden. It is also thought that Capt. E. -S. Drake, who won the pr.za sevdral years 'ago for the best and largest production f corn to the acre, will nter gain, Capt, Drake has a fine farm in M tr'b ro county. Ii fiug his entry Mr. Williamson, who has b..en in correspondence with Commis 8toner Wats-n in regard to the amournt it corn and corn products Imported iato the State, writes: "Your letter in rigard to corn Importation was more infojrmation than I bad or have been able to obtain with the (ff irtb [ have made. it will help me to fi..? ae out the vast am-Ua or corn we I.excusab:y ship into the Soate every year. I am going to keep up Dhe fi-ht so long as there is a singie ar of corn Importen.' We must and shall raise cur supplies at home." THROWN ACROSS ROOM. G:vcs His Experience in the San Francisco E arthquak-. Albert H. Gzuld of Chicago, was *ne of three persons to arrive in Lis Angeles on the first train from San Frar cisco after the eartl guake. "I was asleep on the seventh floor f the Palice hotel, '4 be said. "ab the time of the drst earth~quak. I was hrowo cut of bed anid half way across the i-oom. Immediately reallz ng the import of the occurrence and fearing that the building was about to colla p-e, I made my way down six fihts ef stairs atnd into the main corridor, 1 was the first guest to ap poar. The clerks and botel employ es were running like mad men. With in two minutes after I had reached the corridor, other guests began to fpck int ti e c'urt. Most all wore wgght clothing only. M.en, women at d chiidren stood as though firsd. Oildren and women cried. Thes men were hardly less aff eted. "I returned to my room at d got my clothing; then walked to the oi~ces of the Western Uniton in my pajamas and bare feet so telegraphi so my wife in L .s Angeles. 1 found the tele graphers on duty, but all the wires wore down. I aat down on the side walk and picked the broken glass cut ofi the soles cf my feat, and put on my clothes. All this, I suppose, took tweoty minutes. Within that time, below the Palace hotel, buildings for more than three blocks were a mass. of dames, which spread to other build irgs. "People by the thousar d4 were cowded around the ferry station. They clawed at the iroa gates like ao many mnaniac4. Tney sought to break the bars and falling in that, turned on each other. A fter a mad dning delay, we got aboard the boat and crossed the bay." Gov. e~y wex.r's Messages. Gov. Hey ward Friday sent these telegrams of sympathy; "Mayor Schmitz, San Francisco, Cal. "~Words osn not express the sympa thy which the people of my State feel for your sorely stricken city. It wil be indeed a labor of love for us to aid you in all that lies In our power. "D. C. HzYwARD, "G,vornor." "Hon. George C. Pardee, G,:,vernor, Sacramento, Cal. "The appalhmg disaster which has befallen your State toucaes our hearts deply, Accept our sincerest sympa thy in the terrible- ordeal which Is yours. We are now taking steps to give practical expression to the heart fet sympatby wtc we feel for you. "~D. C. HEYWARD, "G 'vernor." A white Elend. Evan Waters, a white man 20 years of age, an employe of a shovel g'n;r working on the outskirts of Atlanta, has besa lcceed in tioe Tower chargd w11n criminally assaulting Miss Ruth Weaver, thie 'fifteen year-old daughi ter cf C. C. Weaver. a well kuown tinner o Atlanta The father of the young girl found Waters when a posse of ctt zins of the Grant Park neigh orhocd were securi g the woods looking for h:m ard hut for their prompt action and strong persuasion the man would have b:en dealt with roughly. Waters denied the jhrge FIRE BURNED OUT And Stricken City Sees One Ray of Hope. LOSES VERY HEAVY. Thirty Thousand Houses Are Destroyed in San Francisco Alone and One Thousand More in Balance of the State. Loss of Life Two Thousand. A dispatch Friday night said San Francisco's darkest hour has dawned into a day of hop3. Its time of over whelming disaster and peril has ended and its future is now a su* ject of gen eral consideration. The fire Is practically under cvntrol. A clear sky over the mission district hows that the fire there has been ex linguished. The snread of the flames toward the western addition, the best part of the c ty remaining, has been stayed, and the only portion of the rondagration that demands tthe atten ,Aon or thr. firemen is that ext eding fron the Nob Hill section down to the north western part of the water front. Tae western addition dang'r was averted at 2 30 o'clock Friday morn ing by the use of gun cotton, dyn . mite and t wo streams Of water. The xplcslves were handled b? the chief gunner c f of the Mare Island navy yard acd his accomplishments proved nim to ',e a mastrr of his profession. Tihe fire at San Franud cz was stop ped, 'r practically burnt itself out on Friday afternoen. and for the first time since the first eartt quake shocks at half-past five o'clock oi Wednesday -norning, the people cf the stricken city had a breathinz spell, and some sort of estimate of the disaster. Oae thing is certain the city of San Fran Cisco is practically destroyed, and will have to be rebuilt. L is estimat'd tW-t a least three fcurths of the city has feen wiped cut by the earthquake and fire tegether. TLere is ten Equ-.re miles cf ruins and fully thirty taausid ho.uses of various kinds hva been dcstroyed in tbeeity of Szn Francisco alone. Other cities and towns hav a'so suffered severely. The entire loss in the State vill amount to $300 000 000 in money and the houses destroyed will number at least fort y thueand. The money lois in San Francisco Is s mething like $200,000,COO. *The city is now under martilulaw, 3 000 reguhr troops from the presi, Io acting as policemen, stop ping tbi try and d ig all sorts of re:cue - relief work. It is estimated that the loss of life in San Francisco will r ach at least one thousand when all the returns are in. At this time the pecple are so badly scattered that it is almost Im possible to get any where near the correct figures. The ies of life in the rest of the State wll reach a thousand more, whichl will make the total loss of life two thousand. Hos p tal and improvised asyl ams are able, with difficulty, to care f or the injur ed, of whom hundreds hsave been treated. Gen. Fanston, who is in command f the United States troops in that district, sent the follow:ng telegram to the war department on Friday: "*We need thousacds of tents and all the rations that can be sent. Busi ness portivn of city Is destroyed and about one hundred th'.usand pecple are homeless. Loss of ife probably one thousand. Best parta of the resi dent district not vet bu-nedl." After dark on Friday thousands of persons were makirng thier way with olankets and scanty provislcn to the Golden Gaite park for shelter. Taiose in homee in Mayes valley piled house LLold gocds in the street from where they were- carted by trucks and auto mobiles to tbe outskirts of the city. E verybody in San Francisco who can is prepared to leave the city, believ -g the town will be totally destroyed. Down town everything 18 in ruins. Not a busincss house is left standing. Theaters have been crumbled. News paper p ants are unles , On every side I. deatnl and suffering. The country b:twe n Montrey, Cas troville and Tajaro shows unmistak ab'e slans of the terrible wrenching yesterday in apheavel at earth. Great sinks extending along railroad tracks as far as the eye can reach, running fro'n four to sir feet in depth, have been left on the surface of the earth, mute testimony of the power of the internal forces. For a distance of nearly a mile, the road has sank into the earth. Between Castroville and M-,n-e mud geysers have been in cited into action, showing a hot bln ishi colored mud to the height of from ten to fifteen feet. Between Seaside and B3lmont railroad tracks are twisted until all resemblance to. tracts have disappeared. The destitution and suffering Is indescribable. Women and children who had comfortable homes a feew days ago slept several nights-if sleep came at all-on bay on th-e wharves, or. tne sand lots near Norah B ~acil, some of them unde.r the little tents made of sheeting which poorly protected trcm from the ch liing ccean winds. Toe people in the parks are possibly better iff in the matter of shelter. for they left their homes better pre oared. Instructions were issued by Mayor Schlmiiz F~iray to b-eat ope every store coA,ining provisions and to distribute them Lo the ti.isands ai ader pa!!ce su'perv50on. Tae work or relef was started ear ly F-iday. A big bakery in the saved Eistrict starned its ovens and arr.ng -d to baka 50 000 loav s or bri a-i be tore niglht. Tuuad or peopte were in line Fiday m rsing beftre the Calfornia street bakerv. The polic an~d military were pr sot in force and each pzrson was allowed only one lloaf. T.IXe n .nmi~ess jpeople in the parks r~d vacant lots were trvided. For as speedily as poss.'b'e. All the stores camtaining prvovns bas been seized by the aufhorities. In no other way could the distressel peo ple been fed. Three relief sLations for the home le.s have already been established by the general committee. The stations are temporary home of homeless. Car vans of provhlons are now on their way to the three relief stations. In the meantime the hills and beaches of San Francisco look like an Immense tented city. Not alone are the parks the places of refugees, but everylarge vacant lot in the safe znes has been preempted and even the cemeteries are crowded. A well known young lady of social position, when asked Friday where so had spent the night, replied: "On a grave." A few cf the families who could se cure willing expresammn are possessors of cooking stoves, but over 95 per cent. cf the refugees are doing their cooking on little camp fires made out of brick or stone. Kitchen utensils that last week would have been re garded with centempt -are today ar ticles of high value. Many of the homeless people are in possession of comfortable clothirg and bed-covering but the great bulk of them are in need. The grass is their bed and their dilly clothing their only protection against the penetrating fog of the ccean or the chilling dew of the morning. F:esh meat disappeared Wednesday morning and canned goods and breadstuffs are the only victuals In evidence. The common destitution and suffer ing have wiped out all social, flaancial -ind racial distinctions. Toe man who last Tuesday was a prosperous mer Chann 18 oCcupylrg with his ramily a little plot of ground that aejlins the open air homes of a laborer. The white min of California has forgotten his antipathy to the Asiatic race and Is maintainir g friendly relati.ns with his new Cintese and Japanese neighbors. The'society belle who, TueEde n'gh was a butteifly of fashion at Vie G-azd Opera performance, was assisting somr factory girl in the preparation of hum ble daily meals. The family who bad had foresight to lay in the largest strck of foodstufa on the first day of the disaster is rated highest in the scale of wealth. Next to viewing the many Pq'ara miles of ruins that only made S, r Francisco a eity, no better realz. tion of the ruin that has came to t1aa place can be gained than by visiting the refugee camps locased in the di; triots wuich were untoucned by the fi'.mes. Golden G:ate park was the mecca Tf the (atitule. This im a .no ph.yg-u. of thb municipality has been convrtwd azo a vast mush room city that bears striking resem blance to the fleeting towns locateo on bhe border of a government res'r vation about to be opened to pabi3l settlement. "IH MAN WITE 0OUGE." Former Confederate Offcer Released From Jai at Michigan Oity. A dispatch to the Chicago Tribune from Michigan City says: "- rro Man With a Cough," Col. A. B. Ward, one time Confederate army calOcr and daring spy, one of the men sent N -rth to burn New York city during 'the civil war, was released from thie State prison here Wednesday. Ward Is one of the last of the old. time confidence men. Born near In dianapolis of wealthy pa--ents seventy three years ago, he'was cast off by his family because cf too high living. tLater In Washington he klled an army efiler and fled South, where, at the outbreak of the war, he enlisted in the Confederate army. The second year of the war he was sent North to burn New York city and was arrested while applying the torch to the Astor House. Sentenc~d to be hanged, he devoted himself, to the care of Confederate prisoner sol diers while in prison, so that Presi dent Lircaln pardoned him. After the war Ward ran a packet on the Mississippi river, which was flttei up lavishly and numbered among its pr.trans the biggest gamblers in the United States. He later went to New York. On one occasion he broke Pnl Daly's gambling house, winning over 830,000 in one night. Ward's wealth gradually slipped away and he took to forging checks. and he has served more than a score of termcs in prison during the last forty years. He got the title, "The Man With a Cough," several years ag c .vhen he secured his pardon from a Southern prison by coughing and re gardAd his cough as his principal stock in trade. P.OUSD .lN A WELaL. Mrs. Mary L- was Fell Into Hole Nine ty Feet Deep. Thursday morning about 9 o'clcct the body of Mrs. Ma~ry Lewis, aged. 49 years, the wife of Seth Lewis, wc8 dilscovered lying at the bottcm of a 90-foot well near her home at Gler, dale, Spartanburg county. Tne wo man's neck had been broken by the fall and death had been instantan eons. The start'insr discovery was made as the resula of a search for her by members of the family, who missedi her from the home at 2 o'clock, when she q.11etly left the room, and unob served, went out into the yard. She siad been in a highly nervous condi tion for several weeks, and the bdief is that during a period of temp'orar i derangement she took the fatal pluinge int'. the deep well. Several months sgo one of her somr accidently shot and killed his brotc,is, and the tragedy so bore upon her mind that fears for her safety were enter mined to such a degree that an a tendant has been with her most a:l ?tue time bince. It was durie g a lapa of the usual precaution on the part os one cf the members of the famil that Mrs. Lewis succeeded in evading their vigflensce atd either purposam ended her life or accidentally fed into the well while wandering abouti the yar:1. Coroner Turner was notified and beld an Inquest. The jury desided that the tagedy was the resldt o0 deliberation on the-part~of the unDfor tunate womarj. Ts~e deceased Is Lur vived by her bus land and three chCi dren. The family is well known in Glendale, which is a c'tton mill town about six miles from Spar-tanburg. OALLAD 1131 DOWN SOUrK CAROLLNA SLURRED J SENATE BY BOPKINS end To i sked Questions by fenatow Tillman Which He Failed to Answer. Th2ere was decidedly a spirited en counter in the Utited States Senate on Thurzday be-ween Mr. Tillman and Mr. H ipkins corcerning the re cant Chicago bank fdilure. Mr. Tillman read from the news papers e arges to the ff ot that the Illinois senator had used his omiljal position to prevent pu Asbment' for violation of the binking law and Mr. Hopkins resp-n'ied by charging the South Carolina sanator with approv ing the l ncbing of negroes and with securing his election to the senate by suppressing the negro vote. H: also declared that Mr. Tillman had chang ed the rcfial report of his last speech en the bank question so as to make it apoear that he (Mr. Hopkins) ad evaded a question and to this Mr. riUman respunded that he had done nothing of the kind. The colk quy at last became so bitter that it wa. nec waary to call the senators to order. Tae climax came when Mr. Hgp kins said: ' I is time that the country should known who this modern reformer is. wbo is he and where do; a he come from?" BEfplying he snid that Mr. Tillm-a Is from South Carolina with a white popolation c.f 557.000 and a black p-p ulation of 782 00). This beirg the case Mr. Ti;man had been abie, h aid, to get to the senate only by suppressing the colored vote-secur tig a majority by manipulation. which results Ia depriving a majority of tte people of the rights guaranteed to them by ti e constitution. lp would ask the senator if he wouid deny that in a speech made In 1900 br had said that he bad done all ;e could to keep the negroes from vrt ing. "Wy should I deny?" respondf Ar. Tiilmn= promptly, "when I Pa is in the record? I do not deny IL ,nd I t.m wiling to repeat." Mr. Hopkins then charged his an fagcnist wish favoring the lynching of negroes, quoting speeches made by 7he Souoh Carolina senator a year ago m which reference was made to the burning alive of nego-s. "Think of a senator who can en dorse such barbarities and, atroctieg al.ivg about the violation of law. a.w is a matter of a little money tc o compared with the taking of hu man life." Replying, Mr. Tilimanb said that be had never been In a court of law ex cept as a spectato. but in that ca pacity he had notlced that when the :awyers had pcor cases they indulged in a. manner of abuse of their oppo nersts. "Is he," ne asked, referring to Mr. Hopkins, "the vice president -f the bonding compsun" "Let us nave it-yes or no," went on the South Carol ulan. No response I rake th- ref.asal .to answer a a confession, as n-'oof positive shat he is exerting h's i fi lal position to pro note the violai*D of the law.' At the toDs of their voices the two senators eng'tged In wrargling, one talking on banks, the other on De groes, until Mr. A-drich finally called for the regular order, on the ground .hat nothing was before the senate, and Mr. LsFllette was waiting to speak. The dispute was renewed and be. came even more heated. Mr. Tillmar *Ienied that he had said negroes haG been cowed by lynching to proven. them from going to the polls, but de 31ared that it was necessary in South Carolina, where the negroes have a maj~risy of the population, to "des roy the brute who outrages a white woman in order for the white men to gain protection for their wives and daughters.". Many Kil~ed. A dispatch from Oakland, Col, says one hundred and three bodies bsve oeen taken out of the Agnews Str nrospital, near Santa Clara. Tue o: ticial estimates place the nu-zber -o iz-j-red lnsi~ue patients at 207. and of sihese thirty are not expected to live The main building of the hospital col iapsed, piunlr'g many patienits unoe; sne falien walls and debris. The pad dadi cilis had to be broken open and the more dangerous patients were tied r~o trees on the lawn. Very little dam age was d:)ne to the buildings at San'a Ciara college and not one of the stu *dents or priests wasB I jured. Another Mine Horror. As the result of a dust explosion in a. mine ot the Colorad'. Fuel and Ir' n ^o~npany. fo.r:y mu;es west of Tr.nm did, Col , on Sundiay, twenty-two miners are known to be'dead and on utner Is mi sit'g. There we-e forty men in the mine at srue time of the explosion. Seve'neen miners WLo were working 3. 704 feet from the en~ troncc-, esor~pedI ur-injured througt another c'penin~g. The explosion oc on-red in B ems 3 and 24, near the mnain entrat c--, and was t-be resiult of a, windy shoit wrnich lgrite'l the dust. Fkorence0 Wan. The board of directors of the re formatory school for juvenile d iend ers met in Colum~b~a on Tatsday an( -eceiv.,d bida for the location of the in'stitu-ion. S. veral koclities D2'm offers, but ta of Ficrence appeared to e the ba:,t. Tnc was fint~' acres :i n in~ suourts of th'e city and $4, 000 cesa sn-: this wy: scepteod, p-o vid--d th bo-rd, after a vi5it, should F-gic rfr a chauz~Ici A d'sp'wi from Wa:'.a, P aland, s:ys a proce:ssion of 2 000 Catholics triad to recapoture their chrc at L isLnos A furious fight with Matrla 'itcs ensued. in the course of which twelve persons were killed and fiftly wounlded. Farai Fire. Four lives were loss early Sar day in a are, woich swept away a stable and a row of three story frame flat rouses in West 2d- street, near Park P,a-:e, Coney Island. and nearly thirty families vaera rendered home. lana. SPUTS STATES. Probibition a Warm Political Is sue in Maine and Texas. TRYING TO DODGE IT. tegresentatives .of Thes .Stat at .WAinton Are Not LUciled te Discuss the Questios. People Divided on the.Efficiency of Prohibiuion. The prohibition question appeartio be cutting curious capers -I -duiirent parts of the country,.judging t:r9 she stories told by the .statmen .t. the respective states says a Sitih from Washington. how, there's lfd Maine. With the exception.oie presentative Littlefieldjo u codiadi get a senator or representatlif-fibin 6h4t state to express his.-views-lor oublication for lve, or money.?Why? Beesuse the qaestie-A Is loaded--The tiere's grana old Texas, atthe other end of the' cuntry. Her aien in congresa avoid the question thi same as they would a mad dog. 'Ot coursei Is jtst as -baamong-the 3->ath Carolina representatives.:-E only man from thatSate -who-ill talk at all. Is "Pitcbfrk"? Ben-rTili. man. He gives voice to his coniu. tOns regardless of how they harmon Ise with pubhc opinion. 1.1 the recent spiing elletion 4. Maine, according to the tteinf Zf- politiciins- of that tstie hbere) number t.of ERpublican-.-fties'et. Demz-cratic oecause -the Euneeda apenly opposed prohibition:-ddlI --iounced Is as as ake and-s.prodficiak - more hy'ocritical violanton. of.ini and evasicns of truth than. -anithi e'rr known. .Gcvornor Cobb chimsWf as come out aglainst prodiIid operated In that state, Wud-i -o be quite certain that DeCh In tate onvention, will-maketen ibA :in the issue, of-turning to the Betis plana of selling-whiskey. They clain to have the sympathy of.the-mahrlty f the cities and towns, &1thougirte. o ntiry districts emay ~. 4gt. taem. The claim is boldly .t .-der the present laws the attiti deluged with blind- tiger -rom Canada and e1sewheraot~dd there has- not been the .algb .rease in -druntren. iTheArM, it is asserted-, pay- out -arge!sbiss' money for -whiskey and .strng drnk orought in by expresa and Xelgh, -Phile the -ligt drinks are .shut - Proposittns are pendili lidipb onta piatform showing wide, dnsrWsiis in future laws in favor of beer:nd? wines and -making - thetx' cib& itrictly ardent spirits 1h4W Mts 3elief being thatthiswill endotfe one class of drink'in a legitimatsy at the expense of-the other.m ::: Down In Texas the Deoratapg terribly split up .over .whether t question of .prohibition-for the re saate -is to be made-an's coming campaign -or-wbethe - e isting local option laws albrs kueie ' -3d to stand as they are.- <hisian~ Democrats has organissd -toMiig0 prohibition In -the- partj p~eiasi :vhlle others say that this must .nob Ulowved. Tae anti-prohibitlonists de *Jare that the teetotalers and the whiskey interest are working t0gelli er again~t the brewers and winispro ducers. "Tee whiskey pieole,"-id a Texas congrussman here a day@t - two ago, "are selling aboutr as pinch whFhkey Ila the dry counties of- 20 state as they ever did by.-means-ot ~xpress and freight, while thie tie whbo make beer and wine Und Iffsli products shut out by retaon iobith act hat these drinks are too lk 'o be handled by the blind 'b1i6s. There is a genuine sentimnent sprit ing up in the state to change this and dye the light drinks the advantage in law over the others; as-iiIs e my tended this would reduce dzuigkn. sess a great deal." The pihiiom sts declare they have notnin-g i vith the attb ude of the whiske e ose and that tney are satisfiedwti 'he way thing4 are going. ThehT' -hirg is sucn a delicate one evie Ceras politician Is bolding off a :ng as he can before getting intp:ie :ray on one side or another. In South Carolina, as know stor Tillman is seeking to ~I state dispensary .as the oesat -solnt10 )f the w-dskey problem and chasrge -das the liquor people and probinl sioemsts are workirg together to abol* su1 it, tnle former with the belief uey can bring about prohibition-and hre latter believing they can: bring .bout a rerrn of the licene systieur ir Lsoal option. In his relens. fo .-idress to the state, Sana- or Tifluwin .unphassd the heavy Ic altf mots of whiskey Into the 4 y coun *Ais and declared that au ktmnma s as widespread as ever. Ore mation 0r The Dead4 At San FranCISCO two hundred bed. les fcand in tne PtOrera -distrit, cut, or S-asnon street, In the 2Iaisi ty of the Union Wooks,-ware creek' '-C as th-- S~x-mlO Hfouse- Satuirday .y order C f Coroner Wilsh. Cremation was deemn absolutely necessary to prevent dise. I-i wne majority of. eases Idestification was impossible owing to the mtilation-of tbe fer -:ures. Thne city has been devided Into anitary districts and equadsfiirsli~ era for bodies of vicums haveait -ent out to every quartier." TnbT~lns of the bumned buildings in':theengt-. new and the old residence section hsae sufflently cooled to mike the. aearch possibl. __ Dr. Charles Fi Taggart, of 7Ls Angel's who had charge of a coiis'oT nurses at the Hearst -Balief Hospial in the Crocker Gramm~ar School, .on Page strLeSt, near Baker, San Facls co, was instantly killed Sunday. Au automttic revolver dropped' ont of his pocke;, was disaharged and 'as bullet passed througu bis heart.' Dr. Taggart was one of Calhfornia's prom h.ant physinin.