| Show DELUGE OF MID VISITS SAN FRANCISCO add dional horrors faced by the sur livors of the terrible earthquake and fire in cal forn a san francisco A drenching rain cell upon san francisco sunday night from midnight until 3 clock it poured and drizzled at intervals while a high wind added a melancholy ac whistling and sighing about the of the buildings in the burned district five days previous when the fire catastrophe was in its infancy this downpour would have been regarded as a mercy and a god send but coming when it did it could be regarded in no other light than an additional calamity it meant indescribable suffering to the tens ot thousands of people camped upon ohp naked hills and in the parks and open places of the city few of these were provided with waterproof covering for the most part their only protection from the wet was a thin covering of sheeting tacked upon improvised tent poles through this the water poured as through a sieve wetting the bed fling and soaking the ground upon which they lay when it is under tood that thousands upon thousands of delicately nurtured women and in ants in arms and old and feeble peo pie were in this pi nothing need pe added to describe the misery of their condition the downpour has ag grava ted the already unsanitary con flitton of the camps and will doubt less add great numbers of pneumonia ases to those already crowding the regular and temporary hospitals ot the city it was feared by many that the heavy rains of sunday n had weak ened the walls left standing in the burned d strict and further increased the danger of life and limb but assur ance was given at the headquarters of the building committee that the down pour had no such effect under the direction of this committee walls are being dynamited and the danger in stead of increasing is lessening every hour |
