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Show VICTIM Or FIRE DIES A PAUPER Body of Jacob Danzig, Once Wealthy Merchant of San Francisco, Buried in Potter's Pot-ter's Field. EENO, Oct. 17. Jacob Danzig, a one-time wealthy merchant of Kew York City, where he has relatives living liv-ing in comfortable circumstances, and until the San Francisco disaster head of the retail firm of Jacob Danzig k Co. of i Saa Francisco, died here today, a pauper in the county hospital. Danzig came here immediately after the earthquake, a poor man, broken in health and alone.- He had been deserted, desert-ed, he said, by his relatives and recently re-cently divorced from his wife, a woman wo-man whom he had made wealthy. His relatives in New York were tele graphed to and asked tor aid by the authorities here, but they made no reply. re-ply. When his death took place today they were telegraphed to again that the body would have to rest in potter's field if something was not done. Then came the reply: "'Let the city authorities authori-ties bury the body. ' ' |