Bankers' Row forms for refugees in San Francisco
Bankers' Row is organized on Laguna Street near La Fayette square as Crocker-Woolworth National bank Central Trust and Merccan tile Trust place banners over refugee camps. The clearing house representing commercial banks held a meeting and plans to pay depositors up to $500 on account with each bank to follow.
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Restoration Plans Formed For City’s Fire Ravaged District
Dr Edward T Devine and Red Cross chaff transfer funds from London Paris and New York to Fifth Street mint where money will be available. Savings banks executive committee reports vaults in excellent condition and to open with commercial banks. Three grand downtown buildings the St Francis Crocker and Shreve to be restored after earthquake and fire gutting. Reconstruction will mainly replace floors partitions and fittings.
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Sixteen Thousand Cared For At Presidio In San Francisco
San Francisco on April 26 reports sixteen thousand persons, mainly in tents, being cared for at Presidio. All tents are used with fifty thousand more sought. No contagious diseases are noted nearby. General Greeley relayed a list of additional dead to Washington but said fatalities did not rise. Coroner Wech oversaw removal of fire victims from Portsmouth square and later Washington square, transferring thirty bodies to Laurel Hill cemetery or to undertakers as relatives requested.
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Laurel Hill Cemetery
Washington Square
Earthquake Damage Reported in Northern Counties
Dispatches from San Francisco describe damage from the April 18 quake in Lakeport Albion and Anderson. Two story brick walls collapsed at a Lakeport Masonic hall site and windows cracked across Main street while sawmills suffered destruction. no fatalities reported.
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Pardee to Call Special Legislature Session
Oakland May 26 Governor Pardee will summon a special session to address the San Francisco situation and take action on the matter.
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Pardee
San Francisco
Wednesday's Work In Relief Effort Distribs 350000 Rations
In San Francisco on Wednesday nearly 350000 rations were distributed across food depots. At an average station provisioning ran 762 people per hour for ten hours. Bakeries reopen selling bread at 5 cents, meat not in famine, and 1500 cattle 3000 sheep 500 hogs in yards with daily slaughter.
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San Francisco Earthquake Alarm Tops City News
A strong earthquake struck San Francisco at 3 15 pm on Wednesday lasting nearly a minute. Oakland and Berkeley felt a lighter tremor with minor damage. Mrs Annie Whitaker aged twenty five died when a chimney collapsed during the quake in the Mission district on Wall Street.
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President Roosevelt asks contributors to aid San Francisco
In a proclamation issued in Washington on April 26 President Roosevelt urges Americans to send relief contributions directly to former Mayor Phelan, San Francisco, as chairman of the finance committee. He says the citizens' committee has done substantial work and that relief through the Red Cross is no longer exclusive.
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Texas League Opens With Early Wins Across Three Cities
The 1906 Texas League season began Wednesday with Dallas shutting out Cleburne and scoring four runs, Greenville beating Fort Worth 6 to 5, and Temple defeating Waco 4 to 3. Major leagues results follow: Shreveport 4 Memphis 1, New Orleans 5 Little Rock 3, Nashville 6 Atlanta 1, Birmingham 5 Montgomery 4. Other scores include New York 9 Philadelphia 7, Cincinnati 8 St Louis 5, Chicago 11 innings 4, Boston 3 Brooklyn 2, Detroit 2 Cleveland 2, St Louis 4 Chicago 2, Philadelphia 5 Boston 0, Washington 7 New York 2.
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Religious frenzy in Lesnos clash leaves many dead
Warsaw April 26 reports a brutal fight at Lesnos on April 22 between Catholics and Marmvates. Ten killed and seventy seven wounded. Four priests terribly mutilated. Combatants fought like beasts, eyes gouged, Catholics threaten a St Bartholomew-like massacre.
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Connerly Wins State Trap Championship in Austin
R H Connerly of Austin again broke fifty blue rocks to win the state trap shooting championship and also capture the Houston Chronicle cup, which he had won on the first day of the match in Houston.
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