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Show A DELUGE OF RAIN VISITS SAN FRANCISCO Additional Horrors Faced by the Sur-vlvors Sur-vlvors of the Terrible Earthquake and Fire In California. San Frnnclsco. A drenching rain fell upon Snn FrnnclBco Sunday night. From midnight until 3 o'clock- It poured nnd drizzled nt Intervals, whllo n high wind ndiled n melnncholy nc-companlment, nc-companlment, whistling nnd sighing about the iiilna of the buildings In the burned district. Flvo days previous when tho flro catastrophe was In ItB Infancy this downpour would hnvo been regarded as a mercy and a Godsend. God-send. Hut coming whon It did, It could bo rcgnrd'ed In no other light thnn nn additional calamity. It meant iudescrlbnblc suffering to the tens of fhousnnds of people camped upon tho naked hills and In tho parks and open places of tho city. Few of theso were provided with waterproof covering. For the most pnrt their only protection from tho wot was n thin covering of Rheetlng tncked upon Improvised ,tent poles. Through this tho water poured ns through a sieve, wetting the bedding bed-ding and soaking tho ground upon which they lay. When It Is understood under-stood that thoiisnnds upon thousands of delicately nurtured women and Infants In-fants In arms and old nnd feeble peo ple were In tills plight, notmng noeu bo added to describe tho misery of their condition, The downpour has aggravated ag-gravated the already unsanitary condition con-dition of tho camps, and will doubtless doubt-less ndd great numbers of pneumonia cases to thoso already crowding tho regular nnd temporary hospitals ot tho city. It wns feared by many that tho heavy rains of Sunday night had weakened weak-ened the walls left stnndlng In tho burned district nnd further Increased tho danger of life and limb, but nssur-nnco nssur-nnco wns given nt the hendquartcra of tho building committee thnt tho downpour down-pour had no such effect. Under tho direction of this commlttco walls aro being dynamited and tho danger Instead In-stead of Increasing Is lessoning ovcry hour. |
