San Francisco Fire Relief and Reconstruction Plan
Mayor Schmitz telegram to President Roosevelt thanks for a 1.6 million federal relief grant and outlines post fire rebuilding of public buildings schools jails hospitals sewers and water systems. Fire control improves west city area. relief supply shortages and mass burials reported amid ongoing refugee crisis.
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San Francisco
United States
Washington
Pacific
Eugene E Schmitz
Flames Fanned by Sudden Gale in Forgotten City
Chaos swept San Francisco as a southwest gale fanned fires from the northwest to the Presidio. Troops, marines, and sailors battled flames, evacuated residents, and distributed scarce food while countless buildings burned. Bodies were buried as looting persisted and relief efforts organized across three camps.
Night in the park as troops guard refugees and fire fighters rest
Amid broad avenues of a park a chaotic scene unfolds with troops keeping order none the less. A newborn babe is aided by a doctor and women while volunteers guard water wagons and exhausted firefighters drift to sleep along driveways.
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Sax
Washington Square
Jand
Mason
San Francisco
San Francisco Fire Aftermath Report On Safe Vaults
Bankers report San Francisco vaults and hall of records escaped major damage. Money and papers remained safe with funds transferable by telegraph from the subtreasury. Reconstruction plans are under way with claims of strong backing from major owners and firms to rebuild city properties.
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Lynch
First National Bank
San Francisco
Hall of Records
New York
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London
Ladenburg Thalmen & Co
United Railways Investment Company
R Evair
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
NW Halse & Co
H E Huntington
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W K Vanderpiller
George Crocker
G A Fuller Company
Thompson-Starrett Company
Sunday Post Half Tone Supplement Preview
The Washington Post announces the second number of its half tone supplement to be issued tomorrow, April 22, with eight pages of photographs. Features include Mrs Roosevelt and Mrs Fairbanks, cabinet wives, Municipal Building at work, canoe club items, Railway Commissioners, and Oldest Inhabitants of Washington. Order now from your newsdealer.
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Washington Post
Roosevelt
Fairbanks
Washington Gane Club
National Association of Railway Commissioners
State, War, and Navy Department Building Association
Washington
Sunday Post
Thousands Face Starvation in San Francisco Disaster
The Presidio camp near 50 000 refugees are fed with military precision as relief work continues across Oakland Berkeley and San Francisco. Shelter shortages loom while water and rations flow to the desperate with women and children sleeping on hay and tents along North Beach. City officials urge distribution of provisions and the Young Mens Hebrew Association Hall serves as a food depot. Berkeley reports martial law as trains bring hundreds of refugees and UC cadets patrol streets. Hospitals and emergency tents treat the injured and newborns amid a broad humanitarian effort.
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Tremendous Earthquake Wreaks Havoc Across California
Only fragments remain but reports indicate 103 bodies recovered at Agnews State Hospital near Santa Clara and numerous fatalities in San Jose and Santa Cruz. San Jose suffered major destruction with key buildings leveled and martial law imposed. widespread fires and damaged telegraph lines.
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Woman's weary vigil amid San Francisco fire ruins
A destitute California mother sits with four children at Van Ness hillside overlooking the bay hoping to glimpse her husband the ship captain reported missing in the great fire. A bystander offers shelter but she stays to wait. Also a New York order to bar immigrant ticket sales to San Francisco travelers.
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Cal
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van Ness Avenue
Bay
Fort Mason
Masston Street
San Francisco Heat Toll and Mint Robberies Rumors
A chaotic San Francisco scene reports hundreds dead from heat and hospital debris as fires spread from collapsing lodgings and high buildings. National Guardsmen fight robbers at the Mint while a mayoral proclamation urges calm, relief efforts, and water supplies for the displaced in Mission and Golden Gate Park areas.
Proclamation Declares Saturday a Statewide Legal Holiday
To avert financial crisis Gov Pardee issues a proclamation making the upcoming Saturday a legal holiday in California. Banks will close and no legal business may be transacted as San Francisco and Sacramento authorities seek to reassure depositors and guarantee full payment of all deposits.
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Cal
Gav Pardee
San Francisco
Pardee
United States
Cable from Frisco Reports Newman Family Safe
A wire relay from San Francisco to Los Angeles reports the Newman family at 1202 Summer Street are well and alone. The message sent via Isidor Holdheim in Berlin confirms the San Francisco contact could not reach Black Brothers by wire. Germany forwarded the information to Black Brothers today.
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Los Angeles
Raw and
Newman
San Francisco
Black Brothers
Isidor Holdheim
Berlin
Germany
Summer Street
Geremany
Americans Abroad Help to Red Cross Subscriptions Rise
Four hundred Americans met at the Hotel Cecil London under the American Society to aid California relief. Ambescador Reii chaired a campaign that raised subscriptions totaling 100,000 dollars, soon to be cabled to Red Cross agencies.
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Red Cross Sorjea
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