The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 22, 1906, Page 1

\ he Liprary. """ | "w Oakland Office of The Call, 1016 Broadway. | PRICE FIVE CENTS. People’s Courage Grows Flames Subsi ide. HOPE RUNS HIGH Strong as the The fire has been stopped. Relief work is progressing favorably. The financial outlook is bright. Work of clearing the city has begun. The people are courageous and cheerful. reached homes of relatlves or friends will be succored well. GREAT FIRE STOPPED AT CITY FRONT y: Ehhe Saving Wharves and Ferry Building Accomplished by Fire Boats. Many of lts Hose Lines Shortly after dawn yoster- day morning the conflag- | ration that brought suffering and ruin to 8an Francisco reached its limits and con- cluded Its work of destructic:i- Arter raging for a period of | three days, fought desperate- Iy, In faco of its tremondous | advantage, it subsided when it had reduced hundreds of blocks of valuable property to ashes and rendered over 250- 000 people homeless. ite accomplished WO staying of the flames on Van Ness avenue and in the Mis- the District. The water frnnt checked the hurricane of fire on the north and east, while Channel street served to good ad- | The area | age on the south. of ashes and desolation runs south et street from the water wenty-second, between Bry- Dolores streets. On the h of Market it extends beyond Ness -avenue as far as La- reet in Hayes Valley, but es along the line of Van s venue, except for a distance of | blocks, where it reached klin street. It is bounded on the north and east by the waters of the bay. five Y| In this vast territory but few bwldings remain. Several sur- | mount the summits of Russian nd Telegraph hills and scattered hmn in the heart of the ruins are more. The appraisers’ building stands on - Washington et, though fire was all around 14 a short distance up the Iding known as the Washing- k, withstood the fire un- ler the same conditions. On low- er Howard street a large struc- ture was untouched and along the a iew st ses Houses | nnel as far west | Ness avenue north of Golden Gate | l | | water front several nd factories resisted the fury of royer. x L.\S'I‘ STAND OF FIREMEN. The last stand taken by the firemen was on the water front rry building, which latter loomed late Friday night. Fire and tug boats were utilized blaze which Hill extend seem in keeping down the around Telegraph m the wharves that | from Lombard street. - The nu- merous streams of salt water | thrown upon the blazing struc- tures subdued the fire and saved the sheds. Then the great blaze harl exhausted itself and the fire fighters withdrew. The fire had h en stopped at Van Ness avenue late Friday mqht Just east of Telegraph Hill a cluster of buildings, including the | Asti Colony’s wine warehouse, the | plant of the American Canning Company and the Merchants’ Ice {and Cold Storage Company, cared destruction. The branch | ireight office of the Southern Pa- cific Company was also spared and a number of freight cars on the Belt Railroad were moved from time to time and saved. The | contents of these cars were taken by the Government and hauled to the food headquarters. About 100 cars were burned on sidetracks and adjacent freight landings at | the foot of Broadway. REMOVING THE DEBRIS. Work of clearing away the de- bris from the principal thorough- fares used for transportation be- tween the ferry and the inhabited districts was begun yesterday. | The military authorities pressed men into service and heaps of brick and other wreckage were moved from the center of the streets. Trolley and other wires were taken down by the Board of FElectricity, and the work of tear- es- warehouses | ing down dangerous walls will be- gin very soon. The Government wiil undertake the task of remov- ing the bulk of the wreckage. This will occupy a great deal of time and will give employment to a large number of men. The street repairs will be attended to by the Board of Public Works and the street railway companies. Many of the thoroughfares are in extremely bad condition, due to the earthquake, and in the burned district the street railways will all have to be rebuilt. Tracks are warped and twisted and cable slots closed. The rolling stock of a number of lines, including the Powell, Jackson, Sacramento, California, O’Farrell, Sutter and Union street lines, together with their power houses, were com- plefely destroyed. DEPARTMENT CRIPPLED. After the fight to save the ferry brilding and the wharves’ had beenn won by the fire fighters Chief Shaughnessy found the depart- ment in a dilapidated condition. T'welve engine houses had been VICINIZY OF THE NATIYE S o E v L Views of Areas of City Res duced to Ruins by Flames, destroyed and the Central fire alarm station was out of exist- ence. There were several engines and hose wagons lost along the two sections of the seawall when the fire swept from North Beach. The flames approached so rapidly thzt the firemen were obliged to abandon the machines and run for their lives to places of safety. A large number of - horses were killed and some of the engines are badly scorched and put out of commission. As soon as the tele- phone service is restored in the city it will be utilized for the sending in of alarms until the Board of Electricity can secure a new Central station. The department is also sadly in need of hose. Thousands of feet were destroyed during the °con- flagration and but little is avail- Those able for use. Yesterday Chief Shaughnessy telegraphed to Los Angeles, Sacramento and Oak- land for chemicals with which to charge the tanks of the chemical engines. Small fires still blaze among the ruins and the depart- ment, in the absence of a water supply, must rely on its chemical ergines to extinguish them. The population of the last dis- trict to be destroyed spread in many directions. Most of the poorer classes are destitute and Lelpless and but little of their per- sonal effects were saved. Fisher- men’s wharf was not damaged and Meiggs wharf survived. Both of these are crowded with human- ity. Many people have taken ref- uge along the water front, but the bulk of people from this district is quartered cn vacant lots and at Fort Mason. PLACE OF REFUGE. There are two public squares in the district—Washington and Portsmouth—the latter opposite the Hall of Justice. It charge - of Detective Charles Taylor and contains many of the Police Department With the assistance of many brave policemen and citizens, who have remained with him since Wednes- | day afternoon, Taylor has estab-, iished a model place of refuge, huried the dead, while fire raged | around, and fed thousands who were victims of the disaster. The Chinese and Japanese pop- ulation, for the most part, have decamped. The few that loiter in the vicinity of their homes are fed in the square, but the major- ity stampeded to Oakland and huddled into the heathen quarter | cf that city. They are cared for by their fellow-countrymen and by the various relief committees. | A police officer, a sailor and John C. Ennis of Company E, First Artillery, prevented the fire irom crossing Van Ness avenue at California street at the risk of their lives. They extinguished a emall blaze on the cormer of the building and would have saved the structure had not the fire come from the south. Thousands Homeless in Manila Fierce Flames Sweep Over Two Towns in the Prov- ince of Rizal. Government Officials Rush Aid to the Many Starving and Shelterless Natives. WASHINGTON, April 21.—The War Department received the following ca- blegram from General Wood, at Manila, dated today: “Flres swept the town of Mariquina who have not The situation is one of hope. MEN SHOOT FIENDS WHO TRYTOROB | Three Are Killed by the Sol- diers Guarding the Sub- Treasury, | 1 {8on ‘of T. P. Riordan Is Shot to Death Near His Home. gUnfversity of California Stu- dent Receives a Bullet Wound in Thigh. Three men were shot and killed by the guards of the Subtreasury on Com- | mercial street last night. The men | were attempting tear away the bricks near one corner of the bailding. ‘When ordered to throw up their hands and give an account of themselves | they attempted to escape. The guards { at once shot them down. The troops guarding the Hibernia Bank building at Jones and McAllister streets found four méen attempting to break into the building. The soldiers captured them witaout firing and turned the men over to their superior officers.’ They will be court-martialed. Looters broke into Schoenfeld's gro- cery, on Octavia street, near Geary, yesterday sfternoon. Women tried tor get some of the provisions, but men | after liquor trampled them down. Ser- geant Giovanessi and a detail of tem men from Company B, Sixth Regiment, were passing the place on their way to Fontana's warehouse, and some of the women appealed to the sergeant. He immediately ordered his men to clear the place. J. B. Riordan, son of the real estate agent, who lives in the neighborhood, grabbed the gun of one of the guardsmen and called him a “tin soldier.” Riordan was shot at once. He died in a carriage containing Father Yorke and a party, into which he was | lifted. An unknown workman employed at the Gerson Tanning Company on Web- ster street, near McAllister, was on his way home yesterday morning, and was ordered to halt by a sentry. The workman explained that his wife was dying and he wanted to see her, and tried to pass. The sentry saot at him but missed, and the workman ran back to the tannery. JAPANESE THIEF IS SHOT. Shanto Komata, a Japanese, was shot early yesterday morning in. Lau- rel Hill Cemetery by one of the Uni- versity of California cadets. He was holding up some of his fellow-coun- trymen and relieving them of thelr valuables. ‘Wong Hung Chang was killed on MecAllister street, between Gough and Octavia streets, yesterday morning by a guard while he was going through a trunk. Wing Lee, a companion of the robber, stood at a distance from the scene of the crime. He was placed under arrest. Fred Kohler, a twenty-three-year~ old youth, murdered an aged man named Pringle on Meiggs wharf about 6:30 o'clock last night. Conflicting stories are told about the cau-es which led to the killing. Police Corporal Wil- Ham Ferguson captured Kohler and charged him with murder at the Park police station, Kobhler says Pringle objected to his rowing away a skiff from the whasf. The lad and his brother jumped into the boat and were rowing out into the stream when, Kohler alleges, Pringla Continued on Page 3, Columa L i