Show BORN BORNAT BORNAT AT THE PRESIDIO Several Sever l Other Little Waifs Ush Ushered Ushered Ushered ered into nto I the World on the Military Reservation ALL HEALTHY YOUNGSTERS SCENES AND INCIDENTS IN SAN FRANCISCO i t San Francisco April 23 Thousands of San homeless people slept in the open if they slept at all allin allin allin in a drenching rain last la t night adding untold misery and suffering su to those whose cup is already full Shortly af after after after ter midnight It began to rain and con continued continued Continued for three hours from a mere drizzle at times to a heavy heay downpour for a few minutes At 6 the rain began to fall again and indica indications indications Indications are that it may continue today Thousands of the people men women and children camped in the parks squares and open lots were awakened by the rain dashing in their faces and the water dripping through improvised tents Whenever possible women and were were crowded and huddled in into into into to the regular canvas c waterproof prof tents as are on could be done as the facilities are en entirely entirely entirely too inadequate to house all the homeless and large numbers sought the protection prot of trees bushes and a few boards placed so as to ward off the water i About daylight a man appeared at pollen police headquarters with tears stream streaming streaming ing lug down hi his cheeks and sobbing until he could not speak asking for some kind of conveyance to take his family from Golden Gate park to some shel shelter shelter shelter ter He was told that nothing could be done until daylight Rain Cooled the The rain has cooled the ruins and extinguished some of the fires which still illuminated the sky nightly from the ruins of the city The night was of almost stygian darkness the silence only broken by the measured tread trend of patrols and sentries and an occasional shot Last night for the first time lights were vere allowed allo ed in the houses but only from dark until 10 A temporary detention hospital is to tobe tobe be established in the basement of the Sacred Heart school conducted by the Dominican Sisters at the corner of Fill Fillmore Fillmore Fillmore more and Hayes streets and the first commitment since the earthquake was made yesterday The sisters of the Sa Sacred Sacred Sacred cred Heart kindly tu turned tuned ned over oer a part of the already al ead crowded quarters to the insanity commissioners and a num nurn number number ber her of o patients are already housed there Killed by Crazy Man The board met yesterday afternoon with Judge and Judge Gra Graham Graham ham and nd Charles Barclay a former inmate of Stockton was sent sert t there again An insane Chinese at the Pre Presidio Presidio sidio hospital was killed yesterday by bya a delirious federal patient The Orien Orientals OrientalS tala skull was crushed by an iron bar barin barin barin in the hands of his crazy crAz aggressor The night attendants of the central emergency hospital who were wore all an be believed believed believed to have hae been killed when th city hall hail was razed by the earthquake escaped with the exception of Steward He was severely injured by bythe bythe bythe the falling walls but was rescued from the ruins and taken to the Presidio hosl hos al Colonel T Draper has offered to supervise the erection of a huge barracks for the refugees at the Presidio and his services have hae been ac accepted accepted accepted by b the federal authorities Work will commence on the structure today and it will be rushed to completion with the greatest rapidity The plans call for the housing of people One Department at Work The only government department in inthe inthe inthe the San Francisco custom house in which work ork was as continued during the day of the fire was that of Surveyor of the Port Woodward He and his chief deputy Chauncey M St John were at their desks by 9 in the morn morning morning morning ing and remained there all ll day The fire lire crept up toward them from the water front and finally was on all four sides of the building Amid the roar of the conflagration the crash of fall falling falling falling ing walls the excitement attending the work ork of the jackies who saved the building their work went on uninterrupted uninterrupted uninterrupted Inspectors fought their way to the building reported to St John and received further orders regarding their work along long the water front It was a severe test but neither the surveyor his deputy dep ty nor lor his inspectors Ins s showed any until their days work was done The first vessel to clear from San Francisco since the fire was the Ex Expansion Expansion Expansion a small steam schooner which received her papers today She was laden with provisions for the cannery men at Bristol and on that account was allowed to sail Mayors May rs Proclamation Mayor today issued a pro proclamation proclamation announcing that all persons regularly employed em loyed in the work of ol clearing and renovating the city would be paid Chief of Police Dinan has issued an order to the police company com corn commanders commanders manders instructing them in view of ot the carelessness of persons granted the privilege of or carrying firearms to notify said persons to discontinue carrying weapons of any description as it is en entirely entirely entirely unnecessary President Fred Hall of the Bohemian club states that all the historical and other Important pictures in the clubs gallery were saved and are now at the Park museum The officers books anc and records were also saved Triplets at the Presidio On Saturday S night triplets were born to one of the homeless at the Presidio ran and T the same night eight little tots made appearance on the res reservation at Fort Mason Six were born In the emergency hospital and two ou out outon outon on the vacant space adjoining the fort where the mothers had taken refuge The Th babies all aU are reported to be healthy youngsters The rh r museum at Golden Gate park was not seriously damaged by hy the flar earthquake The main entrance is no not Injured but halt half the north wall has suffered The Th pictures and the relics the building contained were w re not de destroyed destroyed destroyed but some of the destructible relics TV were ere broken The Th band stand Ir if not badly hadly dam damaged damaged damaged aged The balustrades of the viaducts j bridging the main driveway near the museum are wrecked The finance committee of the general relief committee reported that it had received contributions to date amount amounting amountIng amounting ing to is the amount of the local subscription mak making making making ing a total of Three hun hundred hundred hundred dred and thousand dollars has been promised locally The committee is not satisfied with the local subscriptions subscriptions subscriptions and urges the citizens of San Francisco to subscribe more y Unloading Provisions It was as ascertained today that provi provisions provIsions provisions have been hauled from along the water front to various distributing sta stations stations stations at the rate of 1500 tons a day since yesterday morning Several hun hundred hundred dred from the cruiser Bos Boston Boston Boston ton are unloading from arriving ves yes vessels vessels sels and loading the endless procession of or wagons and drays at the transport dock Ships that do not carry provi provisions provisions for the relief of suffering San S Francisco are not permitted to dock at any of ot the wharves Vehicles of every description are used to carry the food A considerable portion of Market street was closed to traffic today while the demolition of ruins considered dan dangerous dangerous dangerous was In progress Under direction direction direction tion of the board of public works half halfa a dozen tottering walls portions of the most imposing structures along Market street before the fire were leveled with dynamite The ruins of or de department department store and the Odd Fellows I building were among the first to be destroyed Inspecting I the Ruins While the work of complete destruction destruction destruction tion was progressing along this portion of Market street men intent upon re rebuilding rebuilding rebuilding building at the earliest possible mo mc moment moment ment were climbing to the upper floors of the th Chronicle Call and other tall buildings nearer the ferry terry for the pur purpose purpose purpose pose of estimating the repairs that are areto areto areto to be immediately commenced The explosions of to the ground many walls and columns in the Immediate neighborhood of the ruins destroyed A force of workmen assisted by der derricks derricks derricks ricks Is raising poles for the temporary trolley system to be established on Market street Commanders of vessels lying in inn inn inS S n fl Francisco harbor are cooperating i 1 every way to relieve the distress Some of the larger ships have been fit fitted fitted ted ed up for the accommodation of refu refugees refugees refugees gees and Captain of the Aus Australian Australian ralian ship Henley yesterday had aboard his vessel homeless San Franciscans In to this he is I housing and feeding the members of the he harbor emergency hospital staff Greely Grady In Command Major General A W Greely who was vas on his way east to attend the wed wedding wedding wedding ding of his daughter learned of the fire in n San Francisco and immediately re returned turned General Greely is commander of the three divisions including the Pacific division commanded by General I Funston The judges of the San Francisco dis district district of the appellate court met this afternoon and vacated v all orders of submission in expending cases In all causes auses wherein the time for filing briefs had md not expired up to April 18 IS an ex exten ten ion of ninety days was granted The same extension was granted on transcripts of appeals All extensions date from April 18 IS During the twelve hours ending at d L treated at the th harbor emergency hos hospital hospital pital None Non of them was fatal The ship Francis H Leggett ar arrived arrived arrived rived this morning from Los Angeles with tons of provisions aboard and proceeded to unload her cargo at the transport dock Doe Estate Losses Representatives of ot the Doe estate say their losses by fire were ere between and Bartlet Doe head lead of the lumber firm of B J 3 S Doe and owner of the St Nicholas hotel died last Wednesday several hours after the earthquake He had been in poor health for several months Dr E A Diggin of the Harbor emer emergency emergency emergency gency hospital with police patrol tugs boarded vessel after vessel lying tying in the harbor to obtain supplies for relief In nearly every case the commander gave willingly Bunks of sailors were strip stripped stripped stripped ped of blankets and bedding and in inmany inmany many cases Dr Diggin received con contributions contributions contributions consisting of extra canvas sails and tarpaulin used in the con construction construction construction of tents |