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Ctttgefes Daily 8 FRIDAY, AI'KIJlj 2U, I'JU'o. NEWS OUTOF CITY. (Continued from Fourth Page.) OFFER THOUSANDS TO GET WORD THROUGH. Bostonians Try to Qet Message to San Francisco via Guam Cable. Senatoi Perkins Glad He Did Not Build Stone House.

ALL AMERICA QUICK AT RELIEF RESPONSE. Intense Humane Feeling Is Shown, and Offers Ate Showered on Mourning City's Committee Tendering Everything Mottal Aid Can Bestow. BY DIRECT WIRE TO THE TIMES. PRESS A.M. BY THE ASSOCU TTT ASHINGTON, April 19.

The for the relief of the San amended by the House TED it i1 i i 1- jct i i "If til 'J I Francisco earthquake sufferers waa Committee, the amount being increased BOSTON, April 19. Exclusive Dispatch. Bostonians, getting word from San Francisco friends via Guam cables, make offers of $1000 and $2000 here to get messages through to San Francisco. KAHN HASTENING HOME. BT THE ASSOCIATED WASHINGTON, AprU 19.Excluslve Dispatch.

Representative Kahn, fearing for tha safety of his wife and new born babv la hastening to uuiminlf. Senator Perkins Is gad he did not build a stone house. J. ROSENTHAL'S LONG TRIP. BT TUB ASSOCIATED PRESS P.M.

BROOKLYN (N. April 19. Exclusive Dispatch. J. L.

Rosenthal, a San Francisco shoe dealer, unable to get information from the telegraph company here regacdlng his loss, left Manhattan tonight for home. He fears the loss of his children. to $1,000,000. SENT TO PRESIDENT. Vice-President Fairbanks alined the California Relief Resolution, appropriating $1,000,000, at 5:10 o'clock, and It was at once Bent to the White House.

PRESIDENT SIGNS BILL. The President at 6 o'clock tonight signed the join resolution appropriating $1,000,000 for the San Francisco sufferers. PRESIDENT'S APPEAL. President Roosevelt has issued an official appeal for aid for the earthquake tha distribution to be made through the American Red Cross Society. The immense sum of $2,525,000 has so far been reported as subscribed to the sufferers' fund.

FOREIGN INSURANCE FIRMS HARD HIT. BY DIRECT WIRE TO THE TIMES. Flood building (destroyed.) Cost $4,000,000. NEW YORK, April 19. Exclusive Dispatch.

Foreign insurance companies lose most. Fire Insurance on San Francisco property Is carried to the largest extent of any foreign or domestic company by the London Assurance of London. The heaviest Insurance In the whole State of California is carried by the Firemen's Fund of San Francisco, With a total of $27,542,677. The Liverpool and London and Globe Company of Liverpool is second in total amount of Insurance carried in California, with $18,518,106. The London Assurance Company, which leads in San Francisco business, carries a total of $12,212,792, in the whole State of California.

The companies carrying the largest amount of premiums on San Francisco and California business (for 1905) are: London Assurance, London, Royal, Liverpool, Firemen's Fund, San Francisco, Trans-Atlantic Fire, Hamburg, New York Underwriters, Hartford, Hartford Fire Insurance Company, Hartford, Ct, London and Lancashire, London, Phoenix, Brooklyn, Rhine and Moselle. Stras-burg, North German, Hamburg, Traders, Chicago, Liverpool and London and Globe, Liverpool, Royal Exchange Assurance, London, Hamburg Bremen Fire. Hamburg, Pennsylvania Fire, Philadelphia, Northern Assurance, London, Phoenix Assurance, London, German, Freeport, 111., $52,802. Totals for 105 companies, American foreign, $1,340,621. Grand totals, NEW YORK'S INTERESTS.

NEW YORK, April 19. Exclusive Dispatch. Fire Insurance men In this city were deeply interested In the San Francisco news from a professional standpoint, as well as from natural horror at the disaster and sympathy for the victims. As an Insurance problem, the status of the ruin by fire in the California metropolis cannot be determined until complete returns are received. Whether the fire insurance companies thousand people wers gathered begging for food and transportation across the bay.

Hundreds had not even the 10 cents fare to Oakland. Most of the refugees at this point were China men and Italians, who fled from their burned tenements with little or no per sonal property. TRYING TO SAVE PAINTINGS. When the mansions on Nob Hill, the Fairmont and Mark Hopkins Insti tute wera approached by the flames to day, many attempts were made to remove some of the priceless works of art from the buildings. A crowd of soldiers were sent to the Flood and Huntington mansions and Mark hop- kins Institute of Art.

to rescue tne i aiming from the Huntington home and the Flood mansion. Canvasses were cut from the frames with knives. The cnlleetlona tn the three buildings are valued in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Very few were saved from the ravages of the fire nena. UNIVERSITY CADETS ASSIST.

This afternoon at 4 o'clock, the ca dets of the University of California, the number of BOO, entered the city to aid the militia and regular soldiers In their work of enforcing martial law. The young college men have orders to shoot without warning those caught looting. In many parts of town where the crowds of survivors are the wild est, it Is almost impossible to get around save at pistol point. The sol diers are disarming every person seen with a weapon. ONE BANK ALIVE.

The only Institution on Market street able to do business is, according to a reputable business man who reached the ferry late tonight, the Market-street Bank, occupying the ground floor of the Grant building at Seventh and Market streets. Although the upper part of this building, and every Duuaing near this, was wiped out, the space occupied by the bank was practically undam aged. A sign posted in the window stated that the bank would be open for business as soon as it was consid ered safe. AGONT OP THIBET. The greatest suffering among the thousands of homeless people today was from thirst.

Although the earthquake shock had broken water mains in probably hundreds of places, strange to say no water, or very little, at least, appeared on the surface of the ground. Public fountains located on Market street gave no relief to the thirsty thousands. At the corner of Powell and Market streets, a small stream of water spurted up through the cobblestones and formed a muddy pool. From this pool hundreds of people knelt and drank, women as well as men. LIQUOR FROM GROCERIES.

In many placeB men took as many bottles of liquor as they could carry out of grocery stores, but few of them succeeded In getting away with them. Wherever the soldiers saw a man with a bottle of liquor, they forced him to give it up at the point of the bayonet, and Immediately smashed It on the ground. "REGULARS" WIN PRAISE. The work of, the regular soldiers in suppressing disorder, preventing looting and In rescuing persons from dangerous positions is worthv of the greatest praise. Everywhere they showed the highest degree of courage.

They did not hesitate to shoot whenever neces-saryg and probably twenty victims fell before them during the day. NIGHT OF AGONY. Tonight, the suffering to many from hunger is extreme. On the waterfront what bread that is to be had is being sold for a dollar a loaf, and in some instances at a much higher price. At 6 o'clock a mob of a hundred or more mobbed a bread wagon and took the contents.

The police made an attempt to interfere, but were powerless. Bread is beginning to arrive from Berkeley and Oakland, and is being distributed in the north end of town by the relief parties organized by Mayor Schmitz. SLEEPING ON THE HILLS. Thousands of people are sleeping on the hills, tonight, or standing gazing with grim faces on. the lurid scene below them.

Women and children and little babes 'in arms are huddled together with the injured. In Golden Gate the people are huddled together, with gnawing hunger the companion of all. WAILS AND CALLS. The wail of the injured and the calls of frantic survivors for friends and relatives who are missing are most Dltlful. These crowds are constantly increasing, and the relief committees are doing all in their power to get bedding and food for homeless.

BERKELEY SHORT OF FOOD. Oakland and Berkeley are short of food, and in a few days will themselves be facing a serious condition, unless relief comes from the outside. Express men are charging from $10 to $50 to haul a load of baggage, or give any aid at all to refugees. LIQUOR STORES INTO. Liquor stores' in North End were broken into by thieves, and hundreds of men were carrying away the bottled liquors when the soldiers arrived.

The men had to be clubbed by the militiamen before they would drop the bottles. Soldiers smashed the bottles on the stones, and drove the mob at the point of the bayonet, so AN DIEGO IS undamaged! Report Sent Out From Los An gaits Has No Basis in Fact. tBT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS P.M. SAN DIEGO, April 19. Telegrams are being received in this city showing that the report has been sem out frcai Los Armies that San Diego had suffered damage from earthquake.

Theie has been absolutely no damage done in this section, the only shock lelt being a very slight one at 4:30 p.m. yesterday. An unconfirmed report from Los Angeles refers to damage to the town of Brawley, on the desert, 150 miles east, but nothing of this is known here and it is discredited. San Diego has subscribed large sums for the relief of northtrn sufferers, 1000 teats have been offered by the Corocado Beach Company, and a shipload of pro visions to bs sT.t north. 'ft" 1 i ber of Commerce, and has asked Prsi oent J.

J. Hill of the Great Northern Railroad to send the liner Minnesota, now In this port, to San Francisco with provisions and to bring tack sufferers. CHICAGO FEARS. CHICAGO, April 19. Exclusive Dispatch.

Hundreds of anxious people in Chicago strove, yesterday, to get news concerning relatives who are believed to have been within the earthquake circle at San Francisco. San Francisco business men stopping In the city vrere also unable to learn whether their families were safe. Theatrical people were greatly concerned for the welfare of the grand opera singers billed for the Coast city this week. Caruso and Mme. Fremstadt appeared last night in Carmen.

No word has been received from any of them. ON BOARD OF TRADE. On the Board of Trade little knots of men talked over the situation, recall lng friends whose wives, daughters or other relatives are visiting in San Francisco, and were In danger of death. Not In years has the board been so much agitated as by this shock. PUBLISHER HOWARD'S ANXIETY.

Chief among those torn by anxiety was B. Frank Howard, publisher of the Dally Trade Bulletin, whose two daughters. Misses Anna and Grace Howard, are believed to have reached San Francisco. MRS. CHARLES COUNSELMAN.

Mrs. Charles Counselman, widow of the late Board of Trade member, and her daughter, are in San Francisco, It was recalled by the board members, and probably stopped at the Palace Hotel. James Ball, who recently returned from California left his daughter in San Francisco. THE BOOTHS. Mrs.

William S. Booth, wife of one of the most prominent men on uie board in Chicago, and Frank and Al-hnrt hla brothers, are in San Francisco. Friends of Booth expressed fear that the three snared in me eann-quake disaster. They live in the western addition. RICHARD FRANK.

Tftrhnrd Frank, is another board member who hopes yet fears to hear details of the quake. His mother, he said, Is now stopping at the St. Francis Hotel, in San Francisco, ana no in formation has been received as to her self as yet. OTHERS FEARED FOR. Among others for whom anxiety Is felt are Mrs.

Robert Weston, Mrs. Ernest Hall of Evanston and her son's wire. Mrs. Milton Hall, wife or a well known Chicago physician. The trio, who had been in Southern California for some months, expected to be in San Francisco this week.

SAN FRANCISCO EXCITED. At nariv all of the oromtnent Chi cago hotels are Callfornlans, many of them residents of San Francisco, and they were of the throng that made demands upon all places likely to receive early and accurate information. R. REDMOND'S GRIEF. Robert A.

Redmond of San Fran claro had lust registered at the Audi torium Hotel when informed of the disaster. He nearly collapsed. "Oh. my God, my wife and babies," he shouted. A moment later, he had rushed from the hotel, his grips In his hand, and entered a cab.

He is supposed to be on his way back to San Francisco. PAYMASTER COLBY'3 SON. Capt H. G. Colby, U.S.N., a pay master stationed at Han tTancisco, reacted Chicago today.

His son, H. C. Colby, with his wife and children liva at Ts. Pierce aveuue, uur Dlocks west of the business district. FELT IN MARYLAND.

WASHINGTON, April 18. Excluslvs Dispatch. Seismographio machines of the Weather Bureau the observatory of the Coast and Geodetic Survey at Cheltenham, showed distinctly the earthquake tremors d'le to the great phenomena In San Francisco. The Weather Bureau announced that the total ground movement record was fourteenth of an inch before the stylus of the seismograph recorded guch a variation that it left the six-Inch paper provided for its course. Experts point out, however, that such an actus', movement Of the ground here would have been felt by Individuals and that the ground movement was not so great as indicated.

Never befcre have the n.aehlnes at the Cheltenham observatory nho'vn guch ft disturbance. Otto H. Tlttman superintendent of ths Coast and Oeode;) Survey, at noon today rendered this report to Metcaif of the Department Commerce enl Labori ii. w--" PARTIAL LIST OF BUILDINGS RUINED. resolution appropriating sued and any sum in excess of the $10,000 will be forwarded to the stricken city.

PENSYLVANIA WILL HELP. fBtTHTS ASSOCIATED HARRISBtJRG (Pa.) April 19. Gov. Pennypacker today sent the following telegram to uov. i-araee or uauiorma; "If tonight help Is needed in San Francisco that Pennsylvania can ren der, let me know." MONEY FROM NEW YORK.

(BT -E ASSOCIATED NEW YORK, April 19. Elghty-flve thousand dollars for the relief of San Francisco was raised on the stock exchange within twenty minutes today. WELLS-FARGO'S OFFER. tBT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A.M. 'NEW YORK, April Fargo Company announces that they will supplies for the sufferers at San Francisco free of charge which are addressed to aiy San Francisco relief committee or any public officer who may have charge of the distribution of it.

ROCKEFELLER'S GIFT. fBT THE ASSOCIATED NEW YORK, April D. Rockefeller today authorized his agents in San Francisco to expend $100,000 for the relief of the homeless and destitute of that city. TENTS ON THE WAY (BY THE ASSOCIATED PHILADELPHIA, April 19. Pursu ant to tho order Issued this morning by Secretary Taft, the quartermaster department in this city today shipped to dan Francisco 3500 tents, all that were ivallablo In the depot.

SACRAMENTO IN LINE. BY THE ASSOCIATED SACRAMENTO, April 19. Citizens of Sacramento at an impromptu meeting on the Courthouse steps in this city this morning, raised $50,000 in twenty mln-jtes for the relief of the earthquake fire sufferers In San Francslsco. It was decided at the meeting to lmmedl- itely start steamers for San Francisco with supplies and to continue sending steamers every day until all suffering is alleviated. STOCKTON SENDS PROVISIONS.

(BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A.M.J STOCKTON, April 19. The Stockton Chamber of Commerce has organized a ellef expedition and this evening a big iteamer of the California Navigation and Improvement Company, donated for the occasion, will leave Stockton for San Francisco, laden with provisions, blankets, clothing and other supplies. On board will be 100 tons of potatoes jnd other vegetables, in addition to anned goods, bread and foods, ready to eat. Donations of food and money am oourlng into the headquarters of the Relief Committee which at this writing. i o'clock p.m., la sanguine of securing $20,000 in cash In Stockton.

TACOMA'S QUICK ACTION. tBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A.M.J TACOMA, April 19. Tacoma will send 100 tons of supplies to San Fran-jisco by the steamer Nelson, leaving tonight. Ten thousand dollars in cash will also be wired tonight by the Chamber of Commerce. The cltv has divided into districts with a committee in charge of each and a careful canvass for funds will be made.

The school children are today making contributions upon request of the school board. MAYOR SHOWS NEEDS. BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A.M. 1 SAN FRANCISCO. April 19.

The fol lowing appeal for aid has been sent out by Mayor Schmits to Gov. Pardee, and shows the destitution of the people and the dire need of food and shel ter: Send all supplies and tents possime to Golden Gate Park. Have bakeries in small towns bake all the bread they can. We want bedding, food ana BIG PORTLAND GIFT. BT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A.M.I PORTLAND (Or.) April 19.

In addition to the "Telegram fund of $15,000 raised yesterday morning, Port land business men. up to 2 o'clock this afternoon, had contributed making a total of aa told ror the relief of the San Francisco earthquake 6EATLE RAISES FUND. (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A.M.J SEATTLE, April 19-Through the "Times" and the Chamber of Commerce of this city, nearly $40,000 has been rataed at 2:30 o'olook this afternoon for the benefit of the San Fian-clsco sufferers. SANTA ANA CALLS MEETING. BY THE ASSOCIATED SANTA ANA.

April 19. The Cham-ber of Commerce and the Merchants' and i.anutaciureis' Association have called a mass meeting to organize 'for the relief of the earthquake sufferers In California, and have sent a message to Mayor Schmits stating that the' town would help to the best of its ability. MISSOURI'S OFFER. BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A.M. SACRAMENTO, April 19.

Gov. Pardee today sent the following dtspa'ch to Gov. Folk of Missouri in reply to an offer of aid for San Francisco sufferers: "Thanks for offer of help. ThTe are thousands of homeless people In Han Francisco and other towns, and food and shelter must be furnished. At the eatne time, people of the Fat nhoull uri'r --retaiid that tha area af fected by eojio'iuniie is only about SAN FRANCISCO.

April 13. lp.m.-The Committee on Safety, consisting of fifty prominent citizens, met with Mayor Schmitz this morning and or ganlzed a Finance Committee com posed or James ineian, i. lieu man, Claus Spreckels, J. Downey Harvey, Thomas Magee, J. L.

Flood, William Babcock, F. Herren, M. H. De Young and Robert J. Tobln.

Before the meeting had organisscd Claus Spreckels gave $25,000, Rudolph Spreckela, Harry Tevls, Gordon Blandlng. Eleanor Martin, $5000; J. E. Flood, $5000, with a promise of more. Mayor Schmlt announced that the water company promised a supply of water this afternoon In the Western Addition, and In the Mission by tomor row.

Committees were appointed'' to take charge of the relief of the destitute, and the work has already begun. Golden Gate Park will be the main refuge, and supplies will be sent there. SUFFERERS SEEK REFUGE. Boats are being provided to take people across the bay, and thousands are availing themselves of the privilege. The University of California at Berkeley has volunteered to take care of two thousand.

Mayor Schmltx has made his committee of fifty citizens special officers, with full power to represent him and with power to requisition men, supplies, vehicles and boats for public use. Unless supplies are rushed In and arrangements made for their distribution, trouble Is feared within a few days. Even men of wealth cannot obtain food with all their money. Gens. Funston and Sumner, in com mand of the Federal troops, are rendering great service.

Refugees who go to the Presidio are being taken care of, but the number that can be accommodated Is limited. Except for an occasional accident, there has been no additional loss ol life reported since yesterday. People have had time to leave the burning districts, though most of them have lost all of their belongings. BERKELEY'S GREAT WORK. fBT THE ASSOCIATED r-RESS A.M.J BERKELEY, April 19.

Extraodinary relief work for the benefit of tho vast population which was rendered home-leos by the San Francisco earthquake is being accomplished by a local citizen a' committee headed by Rev. E. L. Parsons, pastor of St. Mark's Episcopal Church.

The work of providing meals and sleeping accommodations for the large numbers who are pouring into Berkeley by every train from San Francisco is being Joined in by University an! townspeople alike. President Wheeler has thrown open the grounds of the university to the weary refugees from the burning city across the bay and the churches have undertaken the task of supplying great quantities of food. Meals will be served from a great tent which has been erected under the campus oaks, while sleeping accommodations will be provided by strewing the baseball field with a deep layer of straw. If the weather proves inclement the homeless will have the opportunity of sleeping in Hanuan gymnasium. Tents also will be placed on the campus.

WOMEN TO BAKE BREAD. All the parish houses of the Episcopal churchee of the city have been given over to tho use of the needy, and many charitably inclined citizens are giving their extra home accommodations to those from across the bay. A special request has been sent to the women of Berkeley to bake all the hread they possibly can as there la a distressing bread famine on the other side of the bay. This Is accounted for by the fact that all the bakeries that' have been left standing are not allowed to build fires under their ovens on ac-viunt of the danger of starting other tiros through damaged chimneys. The Native Sons and Daughters, and Benevolent and Protective Order cf Klks, kept open house last nigh.

nt the relief of the poor. GIVES MEDICAL CARE. Medical attention for a large number of persona Injured In the San Francisco earthquake and subsequent fire is being provided In Berkeley. The local hospitals have been thrown open and the medical men of the University town are bending- every effort to alleviate the sufferings of the unfortunates. Among those who are believed to be fatally hurt are William Cunningham, whose skull was crUHlnl in the col-lanslnar walls- of a hotel, and C.

W. Harris, a lumberman of No. 90S Howard street, San Francisco; who t-lv hurried about the tvfl. While every attention is to be given by the citizens of Berkeley to the homeless fian Franciscans, care will be taken to prevent any lawlessness during tii time that the University and homes of the college towns re thrown open. To provide adeqne rrctection all the student cadets of the niverslty of California wre sum-renied to report at the armory tonight mn-i riPtaJlpd for ruard duty.

larre number of special deputies are to be heavy losers, or are to escape almost all loss, will denend en tirely upon how the devastating fires in San Francisco following the earthquakes prove to have originated. If any building fell before It took fire, the companies carrying risks are not responsible for the loss. If any building took fire from an adjoining building, the companies are responsible for the loss on the latter struo-' ture, if Insured. Few of the large companies transact their western business through the Nw York office, and the officials here are not posted, as a rule, as to the amounts carried in San Francisco, or as to the character of the policies used in that city. THE HOME COMPANY.

The Home Company, alone of these In New York, transacts its business in California through Its New York office, and it was stated in the latter, yesterday, that the only fire Insurance policy it Issues San Francisco Is the standard form in use in this city. This entirely Ignores risks from earthquake, or falling of uuUdlngs from any cause, except that, it stipulates that Are resulting in the fall of any insured building shah not bt consiuJ'-d as one of the causes of destruction which, under the policy, makes the company liable for loss. FRISCO'S FIRE BUSINESS. In a statement of Are insurance business done in San Francisco in 1905, it appears that foreign companies carry the largest individual totals of Insurance in that city, and the local San Francisco company doing the largest business there, the Fireman's Fund, Is only third in the list of fire insurance companies, according to the amounts of premiums received for last year. The Fireman's Fund, however, carries the largest amount of risks for the whole State of California.

The total amount of premiums received, as representing the largest amount of business done In San Francisco, Is that of the American companies, but In the dozen companies doing the largest individual business, will prove heavier losers than the smaller companies, even though the total loss of the latter exceeds that of the former. Monadnock building Eleven-story building uncompleted Damaged. The city blocks that show the moat property damage Include the following: South street Sixteenth street Pine street Bush street. New Montgomery Sixth street Washington street. Battery.

Valencia street. Drumm street. Davis street Front street Spear street Main street Beale street Fremont street. Tehama street Portsmouth square. Kearney street.

California street. Third street Howard street. Mission street Market street Stevenson street. Second street Four blocks bounded by Sansoma, Front, Pine and Sacramento streets. Clay street" Merchant street.

NO NEWSPAPERS. SAN FRANCISCO, April 19. Exclusive Dispatch. All of the newspaper btlng issued in the city. Not only have me papers Deen rorcecs to suspend publication, but no new la being gathered by their men.

The Associated Press has the only organised staff In the city. Aside from this there are representatives of a few large outside papers and while the volume of news to be cent out is conditions are such that it Is impossible to send it out, owing to the fact that the city Is rractically ehut oft from the outside ILEEING AIDED BY HAIililMAN. tBT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS t.VLl SAN FRANCISCO. April 19. President Harriman of the Southern Pacific company has wired the officials here to place all the company's ferry boats at the disposition of the San Fran-lisco municipal authorities to snable them to send all tbosa Scslricg to leave out of tha itricken city.

The Southern PaclfSo Hospital it Fourteenth and Mission itreeia baa bfwu dynamited, all patlfnts been removed to cf one-fifteenth of the whole State. The great Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys and all the northern and southern portions of the State escaped the disaster. In San Franclso most of the destruction was wrought by fire and not by earthquake. "GEORGE C. PARDEE." DENVER SHIPS SUPPLIES.

BY DIRECT WIRE TO THE TIME3.1 DENVER, April Dispatch. Denver started the first train-load of supplies to San Francisco tonight. QUAKE MAY CHANGE CANAL. TBY DIRECT WIRE TO THE TIMES. WASHINGTON, April Dispatch.

The San Francisco earthquake probably will result In a sea-level canal being built across Panama. PARIS POSTPONES EVENT. BY DIRECT WIRE TO THE TIMES. PARIS. April 19.

Exclusive Dispatch. The Franklin statue unveiling ceremonies planned for today have been postponed on account of the San Francisco earthquake. They will probably take place a week hence. JOHNSTOWN CALLS MEETING. BY DIRECT WIRE TO THE TIMES.

JOHNSTOWN (Pa.) April 19. Exclusive Dispatch. Mayor Youtlg issued a call today for a mass meeting to be held tomorrow evening for the purpose of devising means to send help to the earthquake sufferers In California. When Johnstown was visited by iha flood disaster, San Francisco and Los Angeles were among the first cities to respond promptly with substantial help. and all the contributions were paid In gold.

Johnstown residents have not forgotten San Francisco's generosity and it is believed that the subscription at the meeting tomorrow will be liberal. TRAIN LEAVES PORTLAND. BY THE ASSOCIATED PORTLAND (Or.) April .19. The Southern Pacific will run a special train of twenty cars, leaving here at 6:15 tonight for San Francisco carrying ten physicians, twenty trained nurses and 800,000 pounds of provisions The train is expected to reach Sn Francisco Friday afternoon. SEATTLE SUBSCRIBERS.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS P.M.) SEATTLE, April 19. Seattle will subscribe $100,000 through Its Cham- SE BULLETS ON LOOTERS. Mayor Authorizes Troops and Police to Stamp Out Criminal Activity. (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRES8 P.M.J SAN FRANCISCO, April 19. Mayor Schmitz this afternoon Issued the following proclamation to the people of San Francisco: "The Federal troops, the members of the regular police force and all special police officers have been authorized by me to kill any and all persons found engaged In looting or the commission of any other crime.

"I have directed all the gas and electric lighting companies not to turn on gas or electricity until I order them to do so. You may therefore expect the city to remain In darkness for an Indefinite time "I truest sit citizens to remain at home from darkness until daylight every night until order is restored. "I warn all citizens of the danger of Are from damaged or destroyed chimneys, broken or leaking gas p'pes or fixtures or any like cause." Mayor Schmitz has addressed in appeal to the people of Oakland, asking for bread and food supplies of all, kinds, tents and bedding. Golden Gate Park will be the place where the destitute will be taken care of. "We Want th pro things." adds the Mayor, "and we vjuit tUem Immediately," Following is a partial list of the buildings ruined in San Francisco.

Emporium building Wrecked. 1 Hale store In ruins. Hotel Franklin Wrecked. Mechanics' pavilion Burned. Majestic theater Wrecked.

Columbia theater Wrecked. Orpheum theater Wrecked. Casserly building Wrecked. Union Trust building. Crocker-Woolworth Bank building.

Grand Opera house Destroyed. Rlalto building Destroyed, fire. Occidental hotel Damaged and burned. Levy Straus wholesale houses-Destroyed. Payot, Upham A wholesale house Destroyed.

Dinkelsplel Hayman, wholesale house Destroyed. California Game Association buildingDestroyed. Mutual Life Insurance building Destroyed. Beale St Rosenbaum'a clothing store building Destroyed. Byron Jackson's store 'lulldlng In ruins.

Van Winkle, Alexander Yost store building In ruins. Yankee block In ruins. Holbrook, Merrill Stetson store building Burned. Western Union Teleraoh company building Damaged. Nevada Bank block Demolished.

Lick house Damaged. Palace hotel Burned. Fish market Wreck, Gore block Burned. Valencia hotel Collapsed. Klngaley hotel Collapsed.

City hall Demolished. Majestic theater Roof fell in. Studebaker building Mass of ruins. Episcopal church, Eleventh street-Damaged. Postofflce building Collapsed.

White house Walls cracked. Winchester hotel Destroyed. aed. St Luke's Episcopal church Destroyed. Mechanics' Library building Damaged.

Crocker building Damaged. California hotel Damaged. Hamman Baths building Damaged. Pacific Union club Damaged. Merchants' Exchange building A wreck.

Mining exchange Badly damaged. Mills building Badly damaged. Hayward's building Badly damaged. Examiner building Wreck. Call building Wreck.

Oaks hotel Wreck. Ferry building Badly damaged. Hobart building Fell on Postal Telegraph building; both destroyed. Huntor houbt Burned. Flrt Methodist church Burned.

Gas woiks Blown up. starting bier fire at Fifth and streets. Llpman Co. dry goods, Twenty- i ft-i ave been sworn In by the chief of police to prevent thlevtnr. INDIANAPOLIS RESPONDS.

fBT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS-AM INDIANAPOLIS. April 19. After a with a number of Indlanap-r is buMncf smen at noon today, 'yor Charles A. Bookwalter int Vi following telegram to Mayor fill of teao Francisco: people of mdianapoils author io wait a draft upon for IW.OuO I i of suffering people of u. Vrw if further assistant a tor rrlicf has beta is.