The evening world. Newspaper, April 19, 1906, Page 2

THE WORLD: THU RSDAY EVENING APRIL 19, 1906. FLAMES STILL CARRY ING ON THE WORK OF DESTRUCTION AND THE MAGNIFICENT = PALACES OF THE WEALTHY ARE BEING DEVOURED IN THE STRICKEN CITY verify the many reports of shooting that are coming to the press representatives. Concerted action of any kind is out of the question and almost every official is acting on his own responsibility, it being a physical impossibility to com- | municate with superior authorities. Yesterday some sort of systematic communication could be had by means of automobiles, but to-day every street is piled high with ruins, and to add to this trouble there is constant danger from falling walls. Explosions Sway Walls. On miles of streets the front walls of ruined buildings} still stand, swaying with the concussions of distant dyna- mite explosions and the rising winds. Frequently a crash) of stones and brick, followed by a cloud of dust, gives) warning to pedestrians of the unsafety of travel, Many of the reports of death and disaster are coming to the temporary headquarters of the authorities, but these | reports are received guardedly, allowance being made tor the likelihood of exaggeration due to the prevails in the stricken city. —_—<—— +4 -______ PALACES OF RICH IN GRIP OT (FLAMES. SAN FRANCISCO, April 1 April 19.—The terrific fire, afer feeding for twenty-four hours on warehouses, business structures and hovels, switched with a change of the wind and attacked Nob Hill to-day. dences of most of the California millionaires, magnificent structures, filled with priceless paintings and furnishings Ithe Nothing short of a miracle will save them. The St. Francis Hotel, facing Union square, which escaped serious damage in the earthquake, has at last suc-| cumbed to the flames, after catching fire a dozen times. | The Merchants’ Exchange has been destroyed, and the James Flood Building, at Market and Powell streets, top- pled and fell this afternoon. A portion of Mark Hopkins Institute of Arts is in ruins. The situation is more terrible, more disheartening to-| day than it was yesterday. The exhausted fire fighters are dropping in their tracks, and the leaders of the move- ment to keep order and save property and lives are almost in despair. It is probably safe to say that upward of 1,000 people are dead and many thousands are injured. Gen Funston, in command of the military, estimates that 200,000 per- sons—one-half of the population of the city—are home- less. A few more hours of the fire and half the population will be without shelter. The property loss now will run over $200,000,000, and imagination palls at the probable total. Famous Hotel Is Doomed. The great Fairmount Hotel, on California street, between Mason and Powell sreets, erected by Mrs.Hermann Oelrichs, at a cost of $2,090,000, is directly in the path of the ad- vancing flames. The Huntington, Crocker and other man- sions, comparatively flimsy structures de spite their great Cost, are as paper in the fierce heat of the wall of flame. From present indications an area of two-thirds of the Jand included in the’ city limits of San Francisco will be swept by the tire before it burns itself out. Already the tuins extend from the China Basin on the Bay, almost two miles southeast of the City Hall to North Beach, two miles north of the business centre. A stretch four miles long and ranging from one to two miles in width has been bitten out of the heart of the city. Water Supply Has Given Out. ‘ The Western Union and Southern Pacific buildings have | been totally destroyed. The fire is burning r rapidly in a diagonal line up the hill, commencing at McAllister and ending at Battery street, and on Main street as far as Six- teenth street. The water supply has given out, the wind is rising and the military authorities have just forbidden any one to e ter the city. They have all they can handle without more The situation has not improved and already there is great suffering for food and water. x2 y m i peed on its seven hundred in- Many of the wickedest men, unhung, see Bhat a iad aie been taken out of the ruins in their criminal inst d harsh been adopted to prevent mates. One hundred and fifty dead bodies ho ‘them. Soldiers and policemen have been ordered to shoot first and then | more are st!l! entombed ask questions. No one will ever know just erancieee N= attempting any Thousands of people line up in the parks awaiting ° soldiers to distribute water. Dozen Fires Raging, This is the big fire. A dozen other conflagrations, each of which would be considered disastrous in magnitude under ordinary circumstances, are raging in widely separ- ated parts of the city. Thus far the only part remaining whole is the extreme southern and southeastern section. If the wind re present quarter for any length of time} the fire will sweep out to h-west until it finds nothing further to 4 confusion that ! On Nob Hill are the resi-! means and probably 95 per cer FLAMES IN SAN FRANCISCO|NO CHANCE TO SAVE PALACES DOOMED BY DEVOURING FLA Me APART OF THE CITY: April 19—A correspondent of the Oakland Tribune, says: OAKLAND, Cal. | writing from San Francisco at 10 o'clock A. M., | “At this writing there seems to be practically no hope lof saving any of the city of San Francisco. Those who | were most sanguine of the ultimate success of the firemen lin controlling the flames have now given up hope and are ifleeing from the flames in despair. “Many people are being burned alive, imprisoned in .|the doomed buildings, where the rescuers could not jreach them, “The last big structure to burst into flames was Grace Church at the corner of California and Stockton streets, “The entire district from Channel to Broadway, and from the water front to Octavia and Golden Gate avenue was a mass of flames. | “The St. Francis Hotel, which hitherto escaped the |breath of the great furnace, was one of the last buildings |to take fire. “The flames seem entirely beyond control. “The fire fighters have destroyed blccs after block of esidences with dynamite in the hope of hemming in the flames, but after each such effort the blaze would leap sacross a seemingly impassable gulf.” | | | (sens SCORES OF TOWNS | ARE BLOTTED OUT. ¥ (Continued from ed from First Page.) feed upon at the borders of the Presi An independent fire some two gle from the main blaze threatens whole Western addition, e surrounding Gol leutitoes portion tumbled into ruins. The main street is piled many feet deep with the fallen buildings. Not one business building is left intact, | This destruction includes all of the county buildings. The four-story court-house with {ts high dome is merely a pile of broken masonry. Nothing {s left. Identification is Impossible. What was not destroyed by the earthquake has been swept by fire. Oscar Lucas arrived last night from Santa Rosa, a of mod It of wood, In trying to e: inter the destruction dow @ in this section i ate, eastward they enc | situation of the p with their goods town. To the He Jeft there at 8 t In addition to the danger from fire famine threatens this afflicted city. | i ¥ o'clock yesterday afternoon. He sald There has been no busin done for two The reserve supply of q ; b “There ls not a brick or a stone bullding left standing in Santa Rosa, foo o city has been de 4 Th | tt if th 7 | and the entire devasted territory has been burned over. the firemen to make a show, to say n : : | “Dead bodies were being taken from the debris of wrecked houses o drinking and cooking purposes, This is tt at Hi i W a | all sides. It 1s estimated that the death roll will foot uD to 200, : z ci ng the authorities the greatest anxic ™ ‘S a | Word comes from San Jose eee the phatase pecs on} 9 Q e city is ib iT | ty | wrecked. ‘The death list has reached fifty, Fifteen persons were killed ta his country + Hoprt ar | the collapse of the Vendome Hotel. The Doherty Block is now in flames. Mr. and Mrs, Degrow are among the dead. INSANE ASYLUM COLLAPSED. At Agnew's Station, a few miles out from San Jose, the State Insane wa approaching this unspeakable horror and misery. riff raff of the world. pr share of the | n opportunity here to revel | policemen and men were ma “d morgue in the Hail of Justice poroached this building, and the work oppo n. While the s were carrying the dead to what red safe places a ned or killed. 000 in in the earthquak fire it passed thr mana dar s men he fot floor we gold an a flames rap! lies to Jackson Sqi the extemport fifty be of nd police shower of bricks y and sent sol- us charge Is prob-| ft THE EASY: OLL; er Scott’s Emulsion is of remoy the bodies stopped and the ri der of the egies Sa aentt srm.| dead were left to possible cremation in the morgue. I" a the easy oil easy e sion ciavectrdlagn 0 saeteile a tun SHOOT GHOULS ON SIGHT. ee ‘ By ey in action. Its CRU MBI ED AWAY. it, eiMayae Schmitz ne Police nae tents, from the griping and CLIFF HOUS 1 kill all who engaged in such work, es were shot in the back and ded {n the burning commercial district. zch as much as unything which determined h quick with the M in Bed. : = ie + nie ans nauseating sensation pe- culiar to the raw oil. Nobody who has any re- »,| gard for the stomach damage by earuhauake thinks of taking cod liver oilin the old way when Scott’s Emulsion is to be had. Itis equally certain on the w to the . gumtored grea: t of looting, and the same Seer ra and fire g the Pacific Ocean, nt, Natinal Guard of California, when they prmpe! both winter and si west veranda and watch the ht hquake has worked havoc in Chinatown. Chinese theatres | houses are In ruins, and rookery after. rookery has collapsed, and joi i t two hu 1 yard At lle the Moreland Academy the waves frequently ept over the allve hundreds of Chinese. Panic relgns among the thousands Ray ces Ay Bre a several that no one whose health HORRORS OF THE DE ORC NES: Pacitie Grove there was @ The Japanese quarter nas been burned, and the people fled in terror, tut caused little daimas is properly regarded will y 2 58 eredib: elmon Hotei three caimn fel. a . 5 z pi story ats esaimeay inte ble Orr eae king on their what household effects they could tle together, | Poumon’, dtesee xing « padl pas] accept a cheap emulsion 2 alic n by a man named Hussey, He din ¢ ars x i Vant and snjurin z poll Hee BES i aa eed acorahedn iy sands of men, nen and children from the Latin quarter marched |! sae (On alcoholic substitute tay Abobo 1 by for relense| toward the hills or to the water front, frantic to get away from the clty. . Grimth was for Scott’s Emulsion. d was crazed by ts misery « 1 | MILLION IN A NIGHTHAWK CAB, Zs , er Hussey took « y in the wrist of the! express wagons and trucks, hired at enormous Piece, oroperty aamage was] It fulfills every mission who bled to death , but the pollce lockad | are the lower city the of cod liver oil and more. nim up nntil they fr Unconfirmed news fr Even the bar ard of half-dress: out their bullion and | m | their » KS, haye sent them to the SCOTT & BOWNE, 409 Pear! Street, New Yor corps got through the ently as ma drown from wind res | about, | thawk cab, driven by a cabman white with terror, carried 1: communica x ss will ag- hundred ‘thousand dol- mor thr first great shake, from the upper th 8, stopped to KreKate several na ine of wagons er of debris where some Men, pulling ¢ Alameda Badly 5: aken. would run again a loss of » lay that the ng had fallen Into the 1 pile up until the guards cleared | s.¢ ate tost, | As Inst nig : through the streets. » m Caligohn's KRU! wna trnc. fro D ed t W a pporte hi a te) orary police hea a ers, vhich was ostab-/ tured by falling bricks. ‘red loehmer, front burned { ened It was reported at the temporary police headgarters, which was estab. | tured by falling bricks. Frat Hoeh by the | This gay Age ished in the basement of the Hall of Justice by Chief of Police Dinan, sk and timbers adjoining the dam- ihe ‘Spuctate were ey Were rescued tony ee IAL for THURSDAY WEIS . baahiy BO. a Low OUND 10c 5c that In a territic explosion which occ Capt, Henry on, of the in charge of the Twenty-seventh Coast Artillery, U, at Seventh and Jessie streets Golden Gate Police Station, and Lieut. Pulis, S.A, htfall the tr order, From the 8 cut off this privilege, proba ly for fear of rioting anni were seriously OUND IAL for FRIDAY injured. shore the whole ¢ n district of the Licut. Pulls was taken to the military hospltal at the Presidio,” He has 0 vounn 10¢ ‘ to be fire and the Mill ¢ a fractured skull and seve ‘oken bones and internal injuries, He had oust se I ees com y report the s are filled with pe placed a heavy chiurge of dynamite in a building on Sixth street. The fuse 7 | sleeping out of doors under guard of the tro | was {mperfect and did not ignite the charga ns woon ne was expected, 4 BARCLAYS * A arr | pulls went to the bullding to relight the fuse and the charge exploded while Oe eET EAN FIRE RAVAGES THROUGH CI Rone then arie 29 CORTLANDTST Rarly to-day ts" Excha fourteen — stories The injured officer {s a graduate of the artillery school at Fortress a 1 most s nts ul edifices tn '{% Mtonroe, Va. He ts thirty years of a @ native of Chicago. MB a xcker-Woolworth Bank Building, ‘Tho Both were taken to the Mechani lion, which has been given GOR: FANGS, ve stories high, of terra cotta and granite, It stood! over to hospital and morgue purposes. The explosion was caused by the | directly opposite Palace Hotel. The immense D, O. Mills Building ts e M ‘Cen setting off of a blast of black powder contrary to the orders of Mayor | surrounded by d will probably burn, ig i Coats onek. 2 Ser fu bene ' Schmitz, | CLUETT, PEABODY & GO, a Many of the finest bufldings in the city were levelled by the terrific Both men -were buried under a falling brick wall and were rescued by | Maders of Civett and Monarch BNirts foreman sampling crews 8 charges of dynamite {n the ineffectual effort to stay the fire, In this work the members of the Fire Department, pemeet é sage ci aa iar f