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Show .... sure in dts SEP; mm at mm .,, ..- . Death List in Disaster Not as Great as Reported, Insists Gen. Greely; Roosevelt Roose-velt Ms That Formal Request for U. S. Troops Be Made. .4 ' BULLETIN. N XOS ANGELES,' April 27. A long distance telephone message to this - city from a correspondent of the Associated Press at Salinas, 120 miles '. south of San Francisco, at 10:30 o'clock this morning, states that three moj-e heavy earthquake shocks were felt there last night, one at 8 o'clock, ancfther at 0:50 and the last at 2 o'clock this morning. The shocks lasted ' si SCfovt seconds each, but so far as known did no damage. I The news could not be reported from Salinas earlier because of the lack of All communication. The damage at Salinas from the earthquake shock ' of last Wednesday is in excess of $1,000,000. . The Salinas rlVer is reported to have sunk ten or twelve feet all along Its course for miles. Nearly all of the bridges across the river have been ' condemned and will have to be rebuilt. SAN FBANCISCO, April 27. It is the opinion of Gen. Greely that tha number of casualties has been over- i estimated. "So many and so grossly exaggerated exagger-ated reports of the number of deaths due to the earthquake have been sent ' . out, that we have determined to make a systematic Investigation," he said. ;'For instance, it has been stated that there, were as rxunj as seventy-five lives lost in the Valencia btel, but so far as we have been able to ascer-tain, ascer-tain, the loss did not exceed twenty. X believe that there are similar dls-. dls-. crepancleg Which . will be discovered later after a thorough examination, of the records and seeicch of the ruins." . WASHINGTON, April 27. Secretary Secre-tary Taft has telegraphed to Gov.' Pardee o California a suggestion , from the President that in order to few days fully 150,000 refugees will be comfortably housed. Street Cars Running. Cars were started to . run on several streets in San Francisco today, permission per-mission to run cars on Pacific avenue, Fillmore. Church and Sixteenth streets, and certain parts of Mission street, having been granted by Mayor Schmitz late last night., It is specified that the cars will not run after 7 o'clock at night and that the United Railroads will maintain a patrol of one man In each block along the lines operated in the unhurried district, as a protection against fires. , ' Complaints of Extortion. ' More than 150 stores were opened for business yesterday,, but before night numerous complaints ;'were .received that storekeepers had raised prices to prohibitive figures. Capt. RIttenhouse- of the United States marines, and commanding the district from Bush to Oak and Fillmore Fill-more to Dlvlsadaro streets, called at the central police station last night and requested that detectives be detailed to Investigate some of the complaints made to him that exorbitant prices j avoid any possible legal complies- j (l tlons, the Governor should call upon the President formally for the use of United States troop in San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO, April 27. Many of San Franjisco's homeless people Vamped in the parks, squares and vacant va-cant lots were awakened early this morning because of water dripping through improvised " tents, which afforded af-forded poor, protection against a heavy rain that began to fall about 1 o'clock and continued for several hours. Drenched to the skin by the heavy downpour, and with bedding thoroughly thorough-ly soaked, many persons were driven Into nearby bouses for shelter. ' A'T aough the various camps were be"' f prepared for the storm than for Bf it8-' days past, hundreds of tents having: been received and put up since ' the laaT storm, still there are thousands thou-sands who are without proper shelter and who shivered In their wet clothes last night, vainly trying to get warm ' after the rain ceased by walking, or were huddled around a little camp fire. ' Protected at Presidio. . were being charged in certain storeB. Theft of Belief Supplies The alleged systematic theft of several sev-eral tons of Red Cross supplies has been disclosed by the arrest of Arthur Jacobs yesterday by Police Commissioner Commis-sioner O'Grady and Detective Mathe-son. Mathe-son. Jacobs Is said to have made a confession Implicating several confederates, confed-erates, and revealed the place where he had hidden the loot. Jacobs is a teamster team-ster and volunteered his services to haul supplies from the waterfront to the various relief depots. His offer was accepted, and It was while hauling Red Cross supplies given to him for delivr ery that he Is alleged to have done the looting." during the first few days , of the relief when It was not organized as It now Is. Under the present system of handling supplies this would be practically Impossible. About two tons of the stolen goods have been recovered recov-ered and It is expected that Jacobs' pals will soon be under arrest. Water Front Again Busy. The waterfront Is as busy as ever today. From the Pacific Mall dock to Melggs' wharf the docks and wharves look as they did before the flre. The work of the customs and quarantine officers has not been Interrupted for a dav. The least distress and suffering was at the Presidio, where nearly all the refugees have been provided with tents by the quartermaster's department. A , wagon-load of picks and shovels was furnished, with which trenches were dug to carry off the water and the ground banked around the tents, making mak-ing them comparatively comfortable. Distress Among- Foreigners. ' In "Cow Hollow," near Harbor View, about 3000 Italians from Telegraph and Russian hills and a sprinkling of Chinese Chi-nese and Japanese are camped. Few of them have been provided with tents and there was much distress among the women and children, of whom there are many In the camp. A chill wind is blowing this morning and the difficulty of preparing warm food adds to the distress of the home-Jess, home-Jess, especially those who are flounder-Hnrjn flounder-Hnrjn the mud and In the low bottoms thisSmornlng. ' 'dtirattvely few tents have been i - f fuUf "to those camped In Lafayette I iPid Hamilton squares, but the ground , .JJrhlgh and the drainage good. 1 joldlers GJve Up Tents. I Where the ' rain penetrated the Improvised Im-provised tents of blankets, quilts and . other like material, the soldiers took . the women and children Into, houses in the) viclnityv - In many Instances, they gale up their, own'tents to shelter the ' iffering. - '' ' ' inice the last rain many tents have Tien provided at Jefferson square, waere several thousand, are camped. A ! fev who were not adequately sheltered weie taken Into the large automobile i parages in the vicinity and to the Lu- theran church In several Instances people In bouses refused to admit worn. '' rn and 'children In distress from the -told and rain, and the militia uncere-i uncere-i monlouely broke down the doors with I the butts of their rifles. ' ' ' Several thousand tents are en route re and it Is expected that within a ; P . . - --J . . Williams, Dlmond & Co. are unloading unload-ing the big steamer American, where she lay at Greenwich. Among her cargo Is 600 tons of structural steel, as well as the usual quantity of merchandise mer-chandise from around Cape Horn. The Massachusetts is on the way and will be here in two weeks. It is her first trip to the coast, she having been recently re-cently chartered. The officers of the company express their belief that their two steamers at the Union Iron works could be put Into commission without great additional cost. Steamers Discharging. The Alameda Is discharging at the Spreckels dock, and at the Pacific Mail dock the China and Mongolia are being unloaded. The Pacific Coast company resumed regular sailings of Its steamers steam-ers yesterday, after the Interruption from carrying relief stores. The steamer Queen arrived yesterday morning and the Umatilla sailed in the afternoon. At Melggs' wharf the brlgantlne Luraline la discharging a cargo of lumber from Gray's Harbor for Hickman Hick-man and Masterson. The steamer Mackinaw is discharging coal at the foot of Vallejo street, and in the stream two vessels of the Red Salmon Canning company are taking on their last stores preparatory to sailing for. Alaska. The steamer Newport . has been brought over from Oakland Creek and will be put Into commission again. Government Vessels Uninjured. It Is officially reported that the three Government vessels, . the California, South Dakota and Milwaukee, which are being built at the Union iron works, are entirely uninjured. One of the most important arrivals yesterday was that of the transport Sherman. After passing quarantine she went up to Folsom and docked at the army dock as usual, and her passengers passen-gers from Manila and Honolulu landed there. , ' r . . . ..... ... r " |