Vigilance committee forms in San Francisco amid refugee camps
San Francisco hosts a vigilance committee led by Dr. Donald McCulloch Gedge to segregate Asiatics into nationality camps near the Presidio. Ex-auditor Baehr serves as chief of staff as 130 new members join. Meanwhile rain worsens misery for refugees sheltering in parks and open lots with improvised tents.
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Donald McCulloch Gedge
United States
Navy
Baehr
Steiner Street
Golden Gate Valley
Presidio
North Beac
San Francisco Real Estate Board
Fire fanned near San Francisco docks as outsiders urged to stay away
A telegram from J C Stubbs to E H McCormick urges the press to tell people not to travel to San Francisco as outsiders are forbidden to land. The coal bunker fire near the Ferry Building rekindled after midnight and burns fiercely, threatening the docks if not controlled.
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San Francisco
E. H. McCormick
Southern Pacific Railway
J. C. Stubbs
Bay
Two Old Women and a Monkey at Portland Earthquake
Portland reports describe crowds at the ferry after the quake with two gray haired women carrying a monkey in a cage, another woman with two bird cages, a lunatic shouting alarm clock, and a woman jumping from a second story window. Hair turning white is noted for a Fort Worth salesman witnessing San Francisco flames.
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Jacob Bader
Southern Pacific Free
Fort Worth
Pueblo
Colo
B. J. Coffman
Tex
San Francisco
Mr. Coffman
Fire sweeps San Francisco section as grapes douse flames
Six sets of flats survive as the seven square mile blaze subsides in San Francisco. About 300 houses on Telegraph hill and the north and east slopes endure, with residents forming patrols and Italians using wine from cellars to quell flames. Captain Wolf and Company D of the Twenty second Infantry helped save buildings near the appraiser’s vault containing $5 million in goods.
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Associated Press
Telegraph Hill
Montgomery, Battery
Jackson
Washington
Wolf
Company D
Twenty-second
United States Infantry
San Francisco fire death toll estimate disputed
Washington reports from Oakland indicate fires in San Francisco caused far fewer deaths than sensational totals. Mint official Leach writes that casualties may reach about 300, not 400, and notes no epidemic and ongoing efforts to warn and aid residents.
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Washington
San Francisco
Secretary of the Treasury
Oakland
Fortunate Fiske Recalls Major Disasters After SF Quake
J B Fiske of Chicago survived the San Francisco earthquake after a stairs collapse in the Terminus hotel lobby. He credits luck for escaping prior floods and disasters. City officials set temporary offices and report vaults intact with about 6 500 000 in the treasurer vault.
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J. B. Fiske
Chicago
Terminus
Johnstown
Galveston
Cremations Proceed For 200 Bodies In San Francisco
The coroner ordered cremation of two hundred bodies on Sunday in San Francisco. Most victims were unrecognizable due to injuries. twenty three bodies were recovered in the city that day, including an infant found in Union Square.
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City
Unon Square
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