SUPPRESSION OF INFORMATION.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12506, 19 May 1906, Page 10

SUPPRESSION OF INFORMATION.

THE DEATH ROLL.

"When I \e r fi San Francisco on Sunday, there were- sixty thousand parsous quarantined in Golden Gate Park on account- of a serious outbreak of emallpox there," declared Mr J. H. Rogers, of Toronto, to a Vancouver reporter on April 27th. ''People outside San Francisco have not the slightest idea of the terrible conditions which prevailed there," he continued, "for the reason that not a single lino which would in any way be harmful to the work of rebuilding tho city ever reached the outside Press. The California Promotion Committee hae censorship of all outside telcgraphio news and correspondence, and is doing its beet to keep the facts from the outsido world. Press despatches indicate that the number of killed in the earthquake and fire approximate five hundred, but I saw moro than that number of dead myself a wwk ago last Wednesday night in Washington equaro. That was tiio night ot the day on which the oarthqunkc occurred. Dead bodies were piled all over the ground on that one square, and ac tho night wore on, automobiles and waggons were bringing dead in from all parts. When I left the city bodice were being buried in trenches and covered with quicklime. The actual number of dead in San Francisco will never be known because of tho suppression, of the facts by inUrestod parties.