Corvallis Gazette

Tell What They Saw.

Otto and Walter Locke, who arrived home the first of this week from a two months' visit to various points in the East, tell interesting things of San Francisco, where they visited on the way home. They state that the work of cleaning up is in progress but that little has been accomplished save the clearing of the streets where the street car lines operate, and even there are bad conditions. Hundreds of people are still coming to Golden Gate park, and there is general complaint and assertions of "graft" regarding the shady dealings of those who are entrusted with the food supplies and cash contributions that have been shipped in. It is alleged that the food is sold out to the refugees at high prices, while the cash is pocketed by those in command of the funds. Many, in fact nearly all, the basements of the ruined buildings are still filled with debris,

from which a horrible stench arises, and the inference naturally is that there must be corpses innumerable under the wreckage. In many of the ruined hotels and lodging houses, the frames of which still stand, bedsprings are caught on the steel braces and crossbars and remain suspended in midair, like grewsome skeletons. Where the sleepers went when the buildings were shattered is left to the imagination of the spectator. Many visitors are constantly in the city, and the sight presented is said to be worth a long trip. There is a scarcity of laborers and therefore the cleaning-up is more or less delayed. Refugees are still leaving the ruined city every day, and several women who came to Oregon on the train with the Locke boys had no better wearing apparel than calico wrappers, and the baby in the company possessed but one dress, and that had seen much wear.