City Rises from Famine Fears and Earthquake Aftermath
Army engineers plan sanitary camps and strict refuse rules as refugees stream from Oakland and San Francisco. Neighbors offer aid while Funston marshals troops to establish camps, restore water and sanitation, and curb looting amid a vast relief effort across the Bay Area.
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Funston
San Francisco
Potrero
Golden Gate Park
Bay
Berkeley
University of Califonia
Yresno
San Joaquin Valley
Southern Pacific
Mount Tanalpaig
Mclvor
Calfornia
Fire Devastates San Francisco District Across Market to Twenty Fifth
Reports describe near total ruin in the burn zone bounded by Market Street Van Ness Greenwich and the bay with deaths estimated above 600. Fires threaten further spread though winds ease. San Francisco seeks aid as railroads reopen and refugees move to shelters.
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San Francisco
Market Street
van Ness Avenue
Greenwich Street
Bay
Guererro
Rollan Watt
Royal and Queen Insurance Companies
San Francisco Bay
Fought Hard to Save the Ferry in Fire Hit San Francisco
The April 21 fire along the North Beach and Russian Hill fronts threatened the ferry depot, with flames reaching toward the ferry buildings. Fire tugs and police ferried crews fought through the day, saving the ferry depot and wharves while refugees moved along Market Street. Provisions arrived from Alameda and Santa Clara counties to avert famine as smoke hung over the city.
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Epecat
Washington Port
Oakland
Ten Ness Avenue
Utg
Telegraph Hall
Telegraph Hill
Russian Hil
North Beach
Russian Hill
Balalyss
San Francisco
Oak- Tana Hills
Exen
Market Street
Market
Soldier shoots man to end torture during building blaze
Special to The Washington Dost reports from Los Angeles in April describing a three story frame building fire near Sacred Heart College. Miss Margaret Underhill witnessed soldiers and policemen delay rescue as flames trapped a man. a soldier finally shot the bound man after he pleaded to be spared. The victim died as the frame collapsed and others perished or were burned. Mrs Henry Murray and A J McLear family guests had not heard from since the fire.
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Washington
Los Angeles
Margaret Underhill
San Francisco
Misa ‘Underhill
Miss Underhill
Sacred Heart College
Henry Murray
A J Mclear
Devastation in Tomales and Mendocino towns after quake
San Rafael April 21 reports Tomales a pile of rumble with stores down ranches down and two children Anita and Peter Couzza killed by a falling house. Fort Bragg nearly destroyed by a fire after the earthquake with many injured but few dead. Jureka largely undamaged fifty miles away as tremors were felt. Relief expeditions sent from surrounding towns to aid Fort Bragg victims and displaced residents.
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San Rafael Cal
Tomales
Anita
Peter Couzza
Berkeley
Fort Bragg
Mendocino County
Idet
Jureka
Forty Burned to Death in Tugucing Collapse
San Francisco on April 21 reports forty bodies recovered from the ruins of a Tugucing at 119 Fifth Street after an earthquake caused the structure to collapse. Some occupants were pulled alive from upper floors, but the final toll was feared higher as the ruins later caught fire. Exhibition of the Southern Collection continues with mahogany furniture rugs armor and curios at Washington Art Galleries beginning Monday.
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San Francisco
Fifth Street
Red Cross Service
Riordan Shot by Soldier Near Home in San Francisco
In San Francisco on April 1 a son of TP Riordan real estate dealer was shot and killed near his residence after refusing to discard a bottle of whisky. A nearby tannery worker, halted while heading home to see his dying wife, was shot at but missed, then fled back to the tannery.
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San Francisco
TP Riordan
Riordan
Gerson Tannery
Fire Destroys Depot. Man Killed by Falling Chimney
April 21 Pensacola reports the union depot at Mamaton Alabama burned. Ed Tucker stood near a chimney as it collapsed, killing him instantly. Gosen and Birge of German-American Insurance Co reported telegrams from San Francisco about meeting abilities promptly, noting a large surplus and unchanged business.
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Pensacola
Tia
Union
Mamaton
Ala
Ed Tucker
Gosen & Birge
Insurance Company
San Francisco
Ing Co
Indictments Sought Against Fertilizer Trust in Gibbs County Scope
The Department of Justice, led by Moody and Purdy, plans criminal indictments under the Sherman Act against the Southern States Ints fertilizer trust. Evidence gathered over months targets the Virginia Carolina Chemical Company, accused of monopolizing Carolinas phosphate works and seed oil mills to block competition. Indictments expected before a Nashville grand jury, with court terms affected by timing.
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Department of Justice
Great Corporation
Carolinas
United States Grand Jury
Nashville
Moody
Purdy
Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company
The
Fertilizer Trust
Richmond Ve
South
Virgina‘Carolina Chemical Company
ST Morgan
H VY Addison
B Crenshaw
W Travers
T Morgan
South Carolina
United States District Court
Tennessee
Gondral Mody
PAYMASTER ASSASSINATED AT MINEVILLE
Paymaster for Witherbes hermen & Co, D Rosenberry, was shot and killed while delivering payroll to Disher Hill Mine workers at Mineville. The assassin named Brown fled into the hills, pursued by a posse of eighty men. A separate report notes the steamship Colon set a record from Isthmus New York, sailing in five days four hours. End.
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Port Henry N . Apri
D . Rosenberry
Witherbes
Hermen & Co
Mineville
Disher Hill
Brown
Isthmus
New York
Colon
Asylum to Be Investigated Texans at a Banquet
An editorial note outlines an inquiry into asylum conditions and reports on a Texan banquet. It reflects concern over public safety, welfare facilities, and political responses. The piece ties humanitarian oversight to national policy debates.
Experiences of Notables in San Francisco Fire
Ex mayor James D Phelan recalls awakening to a blaze that destroyed his Market street office and endangered his home while his family fled to Golden Gate Park and Burlingame. Rudolph Spreckels offers no full account but says he helped firefighters at Van Ness and Union, pledging SF will rise stronger. Herman Delncis describes losing possessions at the St Francis Hotel but aiding relief efforts while exhausted.
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Phelan
Rudolph Spreckels
Herman Delncis
San Francisco
James D Phelan
Finance Relief Committee
Market Street
Mission Cgty
Permaessus
Golden Gate Park
Burlingame
van Ness Avenue
Union Street
Berman Oetrichs
St Francs
Court SUSTAINS STRIKERS in Cincinnati contempt ruling
The Superior Court of Cincinnati reverses Judge Hosea and dismisses contempt finds in the Iron molders strike case. Henry Hinnekamp and John O Leary were fined 950 dollars each for allegedly aiding unlawful persuasion, but the court holds neither violated the court order.
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Superior Court of Oo
Cincinnati
Superior Court
Hosea
Henry Hinnekamp
John O'Leary
Stabbed Three and Himself in Passaic NJ
Passaic New Jersey April 2 After stabbing his wife another woman and a man tonight Joseph Mamari a coal miner stabbed himself five times and is said to be mortally wounded His victims will recover The trouble began over Mamari's refusal to give his wife 900 which they had accumulated during their four years of married life The pair lived at Simpson Pa a suburb of Carbondale but the woman left her husband a month ago and came here to live.
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Chinatown
Portsmouth Square
Washipeton Street
Passaic N J
Joseph Mamari
French Miners Clash With Troops at Valenciennes
April 2 reports a violent clash between striking miners from Danan and a troop detachment near Trith-Baint-Leger, four miles from Valenciennes. Many officers soldiers and strikers were severely wounded in the confrontation. The item also contains scattered local notices about a Virginia Hot Springs parlor car and various advertisements.
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Valenciennes
France
Danan
Trith-Baint-Leger
McLean accuses DAA and Row ruling as arbitrary and illegal
Mrs. McLean says the parliamentary interpretations trigger a volcanic disturbance in Continental Hall. Mise Desha labels Mrs. McLean a dictator and charges that the group seeks to control the convention, shaking the venue.
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Continental Hall
Desha
McLean
Resignation of Miss Desha Opens Extraordinary Continental Congress Row
Mary Desha resigns as recording secretary general of the Daughters of the American Revolution after clashes over Roberts rules of order and chair rulings. amid accusations of unfairness, a vote sustained the chair and intensified the party’s dispute, with Desha declaring she served fifteen years to uphold the constitution and rules.
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Fifteenth Contenental Congress
Mary Desha
Continental Congress
Daughters of the American Revoluion
Mary & Desha
McLean
Board of National Managers
Montana
Congress
Committee On
Mass Deshi
Board of Managers
Roberts
Miss Desha
Whitney
Michigan
Stevens
Ballinger
Char
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Jgoods Pictures
Cabin John Bridge
Maryland
Pres@le
University of California
Jordan
Stanford University
Rabot Voorsanger
Stanford
San Franciaco
Merchants Exchange
Fairmount Hotel
Monadnock
Tts
Gur
Steve Nataly
al Alameda
Santa Clare County
Foe
BIG Trust
Fertilizer Company
California
Matic Shrine Pigrimage
Rawlings
Washington ‘Art Galleries
Brown & Tolson
Part
Santa Rosa
Gen Porter
D A. R
Argentina
Confederate Congress
George Ade
Cairo
COURT
Virginia Hot Springs
Chesapeake and Ohio
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