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Fifteen Hundred Requests Received by Journal to Locate Friends or Relatives in Destroyed City.SYSTEMATIC SEARCHES WILL BE MADE FOR ALL11Winy Homes Gladdened by News q That Loved Ones Have Escaped— ! Some Whose Lives Were Saved *Lost All in Holocaust—C. Lom- 1 hard) Sends Word He Is Safe. p♦ ♦ *♦ The Journal requests that #+ Portland people receiving tnf«- # a♦ nSn concerning friend* nnit ♦ *'4 relatives. especially Portland ♦ n4 people. In the stricken city of ♦ 114 Ban Frsprisco, report the same 44 to this or Doe This will grout iy 4 114 Tarllltat* the work of locating # »'4 those mlanlng and publication 4 ■4 will greatly relieve ttie anilely 4 *4 of their ft lends hoi a 4 11♦ ♦IILast even In i The Journal not I red the 11 public that U would undertake to locate [] friends stid relatives In the 'Stricken City of Kan Francisco. By 1 o'clock Ihls e afternoon It had been requested to find n more than l.iou people. In their hour j of dlstresa. when telegraph companies c and Hie mall service failed the people;), of Portland have returned lu The Journal' as their only hope, and no pains or rr money will he spared to serve them in n the best possible manner. nWithin live minutes after The Journal si was on the street* last night people be Kan to pour into the office, giving the. ft names of friend* end relatives they w Wished found. Until midnight three men! »M* kepi busy IwnrJlng the requests I fi . Early thlg morning the rush began again 1 m lines of people entering the office of The fi Journal, some with inr* In their eyes, el asking (hat loved ones be found. I fpEvery request will receive the ul- j most consideration. Iri spile of the w large number The Journal ' has made pi arrangements to care for alt, and »ys- , hi tematlc searches will he Inaugurated si In Sen Francisco, Oakland and the sur-round tug towns. When news is t# 11 chived that the people inquired for are i lo safe the fart will he published. In cane . of news of accident or death the Inter-rated persons In Par I In nd will let not). | 0( fled Immediately either by telephone fr or special messenger. ^It Is oteo asked that If Buy one who i nlt; has requested The Journal to search i m receive news from hie relatives or ^ friends, he noit/y this offtn so thttl the search msy he discontinued end the ) ^ m*n devote their energies to locating t those still missing. j.,Mo 1.1m It So ■egssate. ft Is probable that il.ODO will have at filed requests before midnight tonight.The Journal wishes II understood I hat hi any number of requests can be arqomo- at dated, aa the system In use enables . lb search for a large number lo be made as cosily as for a few. inNumbers of messages have been re- hi reived within the past few hours by Q1 Portland people from friends and rrla- , cil lives In Ban Francisco, telling of thclrjar escape, while others are reported still among the miislhgMiss Virgil Middleton received s message from her mother that she la In Oshland and is safe Hhe lived at ITd O'Farrell street, in «an Francisco, and her home was destroyed. I chE C. Hanann received word from Earl Hanson, also In Oakland, that he was f-* safe - InThomas Whalen of 119 Everett street. rJ has been trying since the disaster to ^ get news of Ills son, Joe. Ban Francisco
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Portland Oregon Daily Journal
Portland, Oregon, US
Sat, Apr 21, 1906
Page 2
Full Page
Clipped by
Indiana S.
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