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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1906
Page
1
Mayor Schmitz proclaims the danger past as fires cool in San Francisco after a massive blaze. Relief efforts shift to aiding destitute residents, with 200000 homeless in Golden Gate Park and water supplies promised. Lodging house collapse yields extensive casualties while eleven postal clerks survive buried three days in debris.
The national response to Pacific coast distress swells with large donations from ex mayors John D Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie. Corporations and governments join in with food, clothing, and supplies. Chicago, New York, Boston, and other cities send trains and funds totaling millions as relief efforts move toward San Francisco.
Refugee camps fill districts spared by flames with Golden Gate park converted into a vast camp. Wealth and social differences vanish as people share fires, tools, and food while a social elite aid laborers. Stanford University suffers damage including Memorial church and library. two lives lost. Damage around four million dollars.
Damage done. Stanford President Jordan issues signed statement from Sacramento dated April 21.
In San Francisco on April 21 the delivery of telegraphic messages from outside points to residents is deemed impossible. Messenger services of the major telegraph companies are gone and even with an army of messengers they would be of little use due to the population being widely dispersed.
The Los Angeles chamber of commerce relief committee urges the women of the city to bake bread and deliver it to the chamber. The appeal cites San Francisco crying for bread and says local bakeries are inadequate.
Mrs Mary J Maltke of Shelby township sues Edward Mauke for divorce after ten years of joint farming and domestic labor. She alleges she earned half the farm profits, discovered the deed was in his name alone, and suffered repeated abuse including head injuries. She seeks $3000 alimony, child custody, and regular support.
President Charles R. Van Hise of the University of Wisconsin, a noted geologist, states in a signed message that scientists have long warned San Francisco is dangerously located and likely to suffer a severe earthquake. He notes the city would be first to feel effects on tall structures and cites established concerns about its seismic risk.
A report designates Cisco as the top danger spot among large American cities for seismic activity, highlighting its exposure to earthquakes and potential impacts on infrastructure and residents.
San Franciscans in Paris rush back to the United States as property losses mount and fears for relatives grow. J D Grant William Irwin George Newhall and George Lent depart, while hotel owner Fred Sharon cables about losses. Women endure agony over children left behind as the Grant contract for a San Francisco residence near destruction is gone. Paris banks halt San Francisco letters of credit pending word on monetary affairs.
League games in New York Boston and Pittsburg Cincinnati results show Brooklyn 2 New York 8 Boston 7 Philadelphia 3 Pittsburgh 4. American games Philadelphia 11 New York 3 Washington 10 Chicago 6. Association scores Columbus Kansas City 1 2 Louisville 9 Toledo Milwaukee 9 Indianapolis St Paul 8. Adverse trade factors noted.
R G Dun weekly review notes Pacific coast devastation and coal labor rift as grave local factors yet the nation shows resilience. Weather aids spring business and farming while winter wheat sustains largely intact. manufacturing stays busy though coal dependent plants face labor shortages. crippling failures total 199 in US and 18 in Canada versus prior year.
William Waldorf Astor directs Mutual Life president Charles A. Peabody to forward 100000 dollars to the mayor of San Francisco for earthquake relief. The gift supports immediate aid to victims and disaster response efforts.
Pan Leatherman, a farmer near Greencastle Indiana, brought in a tooth weighing seventeen and a half pounds that he unearthed on his farm on April 21.
Springfield reports a party clash over primary nominating rules with votes on a percentage threshold and a secret committee report. Downstate Republicans favor plurality rules while Cook County Republicans seek a 5 percent restriction if no majority is agreed. The House caucus then moved to contention without adopting the committee’s recommendations.
A De Graff Logan County posse and five bandits clashed in a pistol and shotgun exchange after robbers dynamited the local post office. The outlaws fled in stolen buggies. no injuries were reported to robbers or citizens.
New York authorities received orders from Secretary Metcalf to refuse selling tickets to immigrants who wish to travel to San Francisco. The directive comes from the department of commerce and labor in Washington.
Greensboro notes that Joedge Goff directed the case against Representative Blackburn to the jury and ordered a verdict of not guilty.
Chicago April 21 1906 estimated receipts seven thousand hogs left over from yesterday three thousand five hundred twenty three prospects generally steady light prices from 86 to 66 mixed packers 86 45 to 86 72 heavy shipping grades 8 25 to 66 72 rough 86 25 to 86 45 cattle 200 unchanged sheep 2000 unchanged
Chicago market notes show receipts and shipments with mixed hog and cattle prices. Early gains faded with light hogs at 6.45 to 6.67 per unit and mixed packers near 6.45 to 4.70. cattle and sheep quoted largely unchanged as of April 1906. Beach-Wickham Co. and McCall Bros. act as agents.
Work of taking care of the dead in Frisco is underway with bodies being laid in trenches. Fifteen in each trench are reported, as the city handles casualties.
The ferry building remains safe from destruction after a blaze along the sea wall was checked by fire tug crews and steamers under General Castor. Fire control extended to Lombard street slips and areas around St Mason where Mayor Schmitz and General Funston aided by sailors from the Chicago. The Hall of Records records survived, preventing a title tangle.
President Roosevelt sent a special message to Congress requesting an appropriation of one and a half million dollars to aid relief efforts in San Francisco.
Western Union reports from San Francisco that the death count is not yet estimable as bodies lie across the city. They are burying victims in trenches with as many as fifteen bodies per ditch, indicating widespread devastation and grim conditions.
President Jordan of Stanford University said damage to the university would reach 4 million. He traveled from Palo Alto to Oakland by car carrying 400 telegrams for outside world. It is believed a message sent to Mrs. Wallace stated there is no telegraphic communication direct with Palo Alto yet.
George Paul alias Taylor, a convicted felon with multiple identities, pleaded guilty in Muskegon Circuit Court to bigamy after two months in custody. He had four wives with two still living, including Marie Preadmore-Panul of Jackson and Della Woods-Paul of Muskegon. He lured a widow while peddling flowers, then fled with her former husband’s watch and money, and was linked to a jail-delivery bid. Judge Sessions was to sentence him.
Evansville Indiana April 21 The Republicans held a primary to choose a county slate. Fifty candidates vied for posts with strong interest. It is conceded C C Schroeder will be representative, Alexander Gilchrist superior judge, and Harry Stinson auditor. Wealthy Milwaukeean Kills Himself Mobile Alabama April 21 William Becker aged 67 a wealthy Milwaukee citizen visiting his nephew James Hagan of Mobile shot himself through the head dying instantly Becker had been in ill health some time.
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