' SAYRE, FA, San Jose, Samta Cruz and Mon- terey Devastated. AVE THOUSAND REPORTED DEAD i ——— Fire Chief Report That Beautiful City on Faglfie Shore Camnmnet He Saved — All Human Means of No Avali=Water, Dynamite, Gunpowder and Artillery Were Tried In Vais. A Mile of Buildings Blown Up With. out Stepping Onward Sweep of the Ruinens Fiery Element—Nob Mill, With Hewes of Millionaires, Swept Away~Feurteea Cities Ropert Dread Calamities. OAKLAND, Qual, April 20—~With the almest total destruction of Sas Fran- ¢lsco, the partial ruin of mere than fourtees smaller cities and towns, the Pacific slope Is now face to face with the most appalling series of disasters that have ever happened io the United States. Qenersl Funstou, commanding the troops in the ruined city, in an official message says: “The fire has crossed Van Ness ave noe to the west, and It Is almost cer- talu now that the eutire city will be For male in Athens, Sayre and Waverly. —— ‘Bhrest Yard Phone, 186d & y Haupt's Store, Sayre ER A. WILBER, * Wholesaler of , Beer and Ales. has been !mpossible to locate Iudivid- uals inquired for, bur attention will be given that matter as soon as practics- ble. There is no decrease In the prog ress of the fire. It i= so dark one can soarcely see during the day. “The subtreasury Is entirely destroy: with the exception of the vaults, eh contain all the cash ou hand. BSultable guards have been ordered to protect them. “The fire marshal of San Frauclsco reports that more thas two-thirds of the area of the city of San Francisco The puniler of dead cannot be roufh- have been recoversd. bul hundreds perished miserably In the broken down wooden houses along the water front in the Mission and along Market street. Falllog walls pinned down many vie- fer untold agony while the dames crept toward them. It is believed that from 2,000 to 5.000 lives bave been lost. The number can- not fall far short of that and may prove to be much greater. Fire and flaties have added to the destruction, the ruin and despair. The material losses are beyond com- putation. Wounded and burt inex- pressibly, the chief city of (he west lies at this bour humbled to the dust, blackened, battered and charred. Tlgq earthquake worked astonishing havoc In San Francisco's famous Chi natown. The Chinese thesters and josa houses are In rults, and rookery after rookery collapsed, covering alive hum- dreds of the Celestials. Panic reigns among the thousands of Chinese, and they fill the streets. dragging whatever they can save from the wrecks. The Japanese quarter has been partly burned. sud from the part not de stroyed the people have fled in fervor, packing on their backs what house bold effects they could tie together. When darkoess fell thousands of men, women and children from the Latin quarter marched in endless pro- cession toward the hills or to the water front, frantic to get away from the city lest other earthquakes follow and the Sames trap them before they could make their escape. Artillerymen from the Presidio with their supply wagons and the army com- missary wagous aided in getting the fleeing Inhabitants and thelr baggage out of threatened quarters. Despite the vigilance of police and soldiers, many places were pillaged in the wholesale district. Liquor stores were broken Into and stripped clean. As a result scores of vagabonds were lying drunk in the streets. Fourteen cities besides Sau Fran- cisco are in ruins, Here are the sum- maries: Palo Alto—Leland Stanford, Jr., uni- versity Is practically destroyed. One report says only ene bullding Is left standing; loss, many millions; several lives lost. Ban Jose—Many buildings wrecked: sixty-five killed. St Agnes’ Insane asylum wrecked and subsequently burned; 276 inmates killed: others roaming around country. Balinas—Spreckels Sugar factory de- stroyed; loss, $1,500,000; High school The following is the district north of Market street now devastated: Sansom te Market street, to Sacrameato, te Buchanan, theuce to California, to Hyde, to Bddy, to Larkin, to Gough apd to Market. On the south side of Market street the fire extends along Market street to Fourteenth and be low the southern Pacific tracks to the Bas Francisco has been burn- burning. The information was t in by Sergeant Binkley, U. B. sald: “Everything out Market t to abeut Twenty-third street Is fiercely. Everything is gone mint. The postoffice was by the earthquake.” bas worked up Nob hill te streets, and the annex Art Institute took fire. One working at this place, with water supply. Across the the Fairmount betel, recent. by Mrs. Oeirichs. Adjoining Hopkins institute is the Stanford mansion. To the west the flames spread te Fillmere and Golden Gate avenues and north to Butter and Leavenworth. The art treasures were removed from the Hopkins Institute. A detachment of sallors from one of i] of i Hill ES3RS uli: a constant stream of humanity walked the streets to the west. Two hundred thousand people slept out of doors. Already there Is suffering from lack of food and water. San Francisco needs belp and needs It quick. One train got In over the valley route from Los Angeles with the supreme court on board. No trains are runuing on the coast route, Every man who ventured near the soené of the fire was impressed by Lisutenant McMillan of the Bear. This young officer had a cool eye and a wicked looking pistol, and the way the wen jumped when Lis gun was point: od was interesting. McMillan was ev- erywhere directing operations, and his anergy earned the admiration of even those whom be forced to work. Fully three-fourths of all the build. ings In the city will be destroyed. It is impossible to estimate accurate ly the number of people killed or the property loss, A noticeable feature of the past two days is the calinness-of the people, a calmpess that, under the circum. stances, is remarkavie, From Market ‘street to Washington Was another mass of fame to the vorth ward, The sweep of the winds carried bursing brands into the outlying dis trict, and soon a block an Mission street, between Twenty-first and Twen: CHRONICLE BUILDING. armory, city hall, Knights of Pythias bullding and Odd Fellows bullding gone. Napa — Many bulldiogs shattered; property loss, $800,000, Hollister — Grangers' Union ware house destroyed. Vallejo-Damage to property, Bacramento—-Bulldings were rocked like cradles: postofiice aud brick bulld- lugs damaged. Redwood — Courthouse and other bulidings collapsed. Satsun-—-Mile and a half of railroad track sunk three to six feet; loaded passenger train pearly enguifed. Santa Rosa—Courthouse reported de- molished and 300 persons killed; city in flames; loss, $1,000,000, Watsonville—Moreland academy de stroyed by fire; several bulldings col- lapsed. Mouterey — Chimney fell through roof of Delinonte hotel; eight lives lost. Santa Cruz-Twelve bulldiugs de stroyed; couflictiog reports as (0 Joss of lite. Gllroy—Heavy damage. Berkeley Five llves lost, The city of Santa Rosa, which only a few hours 1go was one of the ost beau- tiful spots in Sonoma county aud vane of the sliow places of the Pacific slope, Is in ruins. Its destruction is complete, The cosmic forces Lroughit sunibila. tion. Jumwbled and hideous plies of and beautiful structures stood Ten thousand persous are homeless Fire Is sweeplug through the devastated city. Oue thousand people buve per ished. AR the great seismic tremor spent its force the eutire busineas section of the city swaysl and toppled over with a great crash. just ax though the Land fo an oi # = FRIDAY deep With the debris of fallen bulld- ings. thus far recovered is impossible. The destruction Includes all of the bouse, with its magnificent dome, Is an unsightly pile of broken masonry and gusaried and twisted steel. Bluultaneous with the last great shock ese the bursting of the water walns. Only a few woments later flames broke forth [u & score of places. Within au hour the city ‘was doomed. What was uot destroyed by the earth- quake was cousulued by the fire. At Los Angeles shortly after midday an earthquake disturbioce was felt, and in the vielnity two distinct shocks were felt, beginning at 12:35 and the office fron which this message was sent rocked like a bost. About the same time news came over the wire from Sauts Barbara that an- other earthquake shock had been felt thers. While efforts were Lelug made to obialu more details communication was suddenly broken off. : Like & toy puszie ralircad, the tracks from Mouterey, Castroville and Pajaro are twisted and distoried. The country is literally torn wide open. Great de- pressions from which mud geysers spout shale colored slime are frequent. For balf mile stretches the roadbed bas dropped four to six feet. Oue hundred and twenty bodies have been taken out of Bt. Agnes’ Insane asylum pear Banta Clara, and there are probably 130 more corpses in the rulns. The magnificent structure was demolished. Eight dead Italians were taken out of the Italian hotel at Ban Jose. At that place the Presbyterian church, St. Patrick's cathedral and the High school were destroyed. The new Hall of Justice at Ban Jose, Just completed at a cost of $300,000, was demolished, On the Pacific ocean shore the Cliff House, at the western end of Golden Gate park, the famous San Francisco resort, has been swept into the sea. It is understood that the botel has been completely demolished and that not a stick or a stone has been Jeft standing. There is no knowledge to be bad here of the number of guests In the Lotel at the time, but the loss of life must necessarily have besn heavy. The Cliff Houss was one of the show places of Ban Francisco. It was a long, four story bulldicg, built of red- wood, and stood upon a high cliff over- looking the Pacific ocean. The eatire building was painted white and was surrounded by wide verandas. Because of its unique location it was Invariably visited by all the tourists who came to San Francisco. Within a short distance of the elif on which the hots! stood are the famous Beal rocks, where at certain seasons of the year hundreds of seals cau be seen Ingily sunning themselves. On the beach near by were the Butro baths, which are reported also to have been destroyed. These baths were the largest in the world. They were own od by the Sutro estate and were pat- terned on the old Roman style of arehl- tecture. J. B. Le Compte, the Western Union telegraph operator who was forced to abandon his post at Pine and Mont gomery streets, sent a message here saying: “The Western Uplon and Southern Paeific are all gone. Fire Is burning rapidly Ia a diagonal line up the hill, commencing at McAllister street and ending at Battery street, and In the Mission as far as Sixteenth. The wa- ; ter supply has given out, the dynamite . is exhausted. The wind is rising. Pan- (Jc reigns. The military authorities ,bave forbidden auy ome entering the , city. The military have all they can : bandie without admitting auy more people. There Is great suffering and want of food and water. Thousands of people lined one of the parks waiting : for the soldiers to distribute food and water The Western Union got this message from Oakland Point: “Seven fire en- , Klnes from the east golug past on fat cars over Southern Pacific to San Frauelsco." Later this message was received from the same source: "Fire engiues returniog from Frisco. City practically { doowed. No water." The entire city of San Fraucisco is likely to be cousumed by the fawes which bave followed the earthquake. ¢ blaze raged unchecked all night. | Nou hill, the finest resident section of ; the Pacific coast, and the Mission quar- ter, the wlddie class resident section, are in ruins. Nob bill is porth of Mar- | ket street, ou the other side of Chiua- towu, from where the Sawes started { The Mission quarter Is south of Mar. Met street, some three mlles from the : water front, | To the borror of the earthquake apd fire is now added the fear of famine. The Loweless are numbered by the scores of thousands. Oakland aud oth er towus on this side of the Lay are full of refugees, Thousands upon thousands of people are fleelug from Sau Francisco, the fire stricken. They are Socking to the ferries, to the parks, to the military reservations and to the suburbs. Resi. dents of the hLillisides In the central portion of the city seemingly were safe frow the roaring furnace that was cousuming the business sectiou. They witchied the towering mounds of flames aud speculated as to the exteut of the terrifory that was doomed Suddenly thers wus whispered alarm up and down the long llne of watchers. aud they hurried away to drag clothing, cooking utensils and scaut provisions the streets, From Grsut ave “the procession ‘moved westward. ged trunks, i are calm. stunned They seem pot to realize the extent of the calamity. They Lear that the ity is destroyed In They tell each other in the wost natural tone that thelr fesideuces were no hysteria, uo outcry, no criticism. Mayor Schwits and Chief of Police Diugu have been forced from place to place by the Hames Daybreak fouud them directing the wunitipal councll, which is s commit: tee of safely, from the Falrmount hg SAN FRANCISCO CALL BUILDING. tel, the beautiful structure that stood on the top of Nob hill. But that caught fire, and they retreated to the Cushing at Larkiu and Sutter streets, then to the north end police station lan Sacra- mento street. Here the council, com posed of the Huancial leaders of the city, met afd decided to resott to the most heroic weasures yet undertaken since the city has been in the path of devastation. The decision was to bowm- bard the entire section of the city ly ing aloug the east side of Van Nees avenue from Golden Gate aveuuve to Pacific avenue, sixteen blocks iu all, coutaining the homes of wany wililon- aires and apartment houses Tue military was potified of this ac- tion, and barrels of gunpowder, the only remaining explosive iu the city, were taken from the Presidio, Fort McDowell, Alcatraz aud other nearby posts. Hundreds of police, regiments of soldiers and scores of volunteers were sent into the doowed district to warn the people to flee. These heroic ally responded to the demand of law and went bravely on their way, trudg ing painfully over the pavements with the little they could get together. Ev- ery avallable wagon was takeu by the military to carry the powder General Funston Is co-operating with Mayor Schmitz, who orders all officers to kill without warning all malefac- tors. When men have beeu needed to carry out the plans of rescue they have Leen pressed into service. In a few lustances !t was necessary to re sort to the cocked revolver aud drawn sword, after which there was no hesl tancy The Presidio reservation, the vast Richmond district of thousands of acres, Golden Gate park and the sur rounding Lills resewble one vast plenlc ground. Teots and Lwprovised cover ings have been erected everywhere, fireplaces bullt in the streets, beds and mattresses thrown down all over the section. The people thus situated are philosophical Une great danger Is that the food supply will rus out. Every grocery in San Fraocisco bas Leen taken by the authorities, aud each family Is belug sold only one article at a time. In many places the police and wllitary probibit overcharging. General Fuu- stou anuouuced that ratious would soon reach the city, aud theu the peo- ple will be supplied frown the Presidio Bakeries have already beeu bullt with. in the reservation, and the bread sup ply therefore has not falled complete ly. The government also Lins begun to ald lo the progress of the people out of the city to Oakland, Berkeley and Ala- meds, Tugboats and steamers are be lug pressed lito service for this pur pose, and there is a vast army ou the way to the ferries, From the water frout the burned city can be seen lu all its smoky naked uess. Frow the Pacide Mall dock to Vallejo street on the west side, a dls- tfuce of two wiles, wreckage and ruln are the rule. Although the fire did not Jump East strect, the damage Las been enormous. The tlled tu land faclog the ferry bullding is a succession of little valleys, some four, olbers six feet deep. The ferry tower itself is out of plumb, snd the big building is much twisted by the earthguake Looking up Market street from the ferry bullding, the city Is a smoldering migss of ruins. Great manufactories, wercantile bouses, Lauks aud office bulldings are nowhere to be seen, and only lu spots Ix there 80 mych as a tower, the woutment of the burped structure, The day was bright and warm sun beat down on the tired workers and rescuers. ‘There is scarcely any water to relieve the thirst of the suf- fering. The dead In many lastances ying ln the streets aud the rule uthierities are doing all In The bad sought refuge, for the fire kept iu creasing with alarmiug rapidity Wa ter Is the incessant cry of the Oremen and the people: one wants It to fight, the others to driuk, Lut there is ouly a scaul drinkiug supply The ruin In the commissiou and the Wholesale district is complete Under the fateful shock’all the rookeries used = ds commission bouses, many of them relics of the days of 1540, collapsed The worgues of the city are so over crowded thgt the pavy department at Washington was appealed 10 to send thie Pacific squadron from the harbor of San Diego to assist the city nu thorities In burying the dead af sea, thus striving to prevent plague, which is deemed luevitable unless outside help is obtained. The tower of the Hall of Justice was badly damaged. In the basement of the building Mayor Bchimitz establish- ed his béadquarters. There was nel ther gas nor electric light in San Fran cisco, and the people used candles The plaut of one of the gas companies blew up, and ss a weasure of precan tiou all the other gas in the city was turned off. ‘ The exact loss of life will never be known, as scores of unfortunates Lave been incinerated in the flames which made the rescue of those buried under toppling steeples and falling walls im- possible. Temporary morgues were improvised at many points, ouly to be razed by the flames The fire has reached the western ad dition, four miles westward from the bay frout, “where Goldeu Gate park, known as the most beautiful park In the world, lies. In the western addl- tion are the cottages of the well to do business wen, long rows of three and four story redwood buildings. On a bilitop near the park stand the clus- tered buildings of the affiliated col leges of the University of California The Park Emergency hospital, which was burned. was located at the east. ern entrance to the park, and iu the western addition there were also many large asylums and lostitutions. They were crowded with hundreds of in- ates. There were the Freuch hos pital, the largest hospital iu San Frau cisco; the Hebrew Orphan asylum, the Uld People’s home and many others A Washington dispatch says that President Roosevelt has issued an off cial appeal for aid for the earthquake suffercrs, the distribution to be made through the American Red Cross The president sigued the joint reso lution appropriating $1,000,000 for the relief of the San Frauclsco earthquake sufferers, the money to be available at once, Clarence H. Mackay, president of the Postal Telegraph company, bas tele graphed to President Wheeler of the University of California at Berkeley saying be will contribute $100,000 to ward the erection of a new bullding fur the university Portland, Ore, has sent $125,000 for the rellef of the San Fraucisco suffer ers. The calamity bas called forth univer sal offers of ald from ull cities and states of the widdie west. Mouey was offered from all directions, and rail roads agreed to carry all supplies free to the coast Chicago sent $75,000, and the work has barely begun there. The Chicago Commercial association gave $25,000 in five minutes. The Chicago Clearing House association subscribed $50,000, Adolf Kraus, president of the B'Nal B'rith, bas issued a general order to the Jewish organizations to give freely for the relief of San Francisco Oakland last pight housed and fed probably 50,000 refugees of the strick- en city across the bay. All day the stream of bumanity has poured from the ferries, every one carrying person Al baggage and articles saved from the conflagration. Thousands of Chinese— Se CLIFF HOUSE men, women and children—all carrylog luggage to the limit of their strength, poured into the Hmited Chinatown of Oakland Thousands of persons besieged the telegraph offices, aud the cfush became $0 great that soldiers were stationed at the doors to keep them iu live and al low as many as possible to find stand- lug room at the counters ' Every oat from San brings hundreds of refugees. Many women are barcheaded, and all of their sbow fatigue as the result of sleeplessness and exposure to the chill alr. Restauraut prices bave lucreased 25 to 100 per cent There is still much coufusiou con cernlog the loss of life In Sau Fran cisco. Que estimate Is 5,000, There were twenty-seven corpses lying in Portsmouth square gathered from va rious sections. It Is sald that else where bodies are lylug ln the streets there being no means avallable to re. move them. Three bodies were seen Iylug across the debris on Market street, some tude covering haviug been thrown over them, War department officials report the loss lu goods stored at the gquarterwnas ter's departinent at about $3,300 1x Thirty #ix properties fo San Frau cisco oceupled by the Ralvation Army were destroyed. They include provin. clal_ headquarters, public halls, indus. tein] Institntions and officers’ quar ters. The loss Is great, Commander Aisa Booth, in charge of vation Army work In America, has ‘ § telegram to Colonel is.” Fraucisco FRICE ONE CE disaster. My heart 15 tern row. Deepest and tenderest a) with ail sullerers. Will do all to help. God will mot fall” All efforts to check 2he the Bawes st Var Ness Llowlig up » mile of buildings vast side of Van Ness aw proved fruitless. The fire across that broad thoroug from present indications the western addition, which oo x homes of San Francisco's wesithis tion of the western addition of completes the work of the fr flames apd marks the d : the eutire city. . irish Send Their Sympathy. LONDON, April 20.-Jobu E. Hed- woud has telegraphed to May Z Schultz of Bau Francisco, on Debalf of the Irish party and pation, all ex pressiou of sympathy and mourning. SATURDAY White India Linen One case 20¢ kind width and every piece gn anteed perfect. Satin and Monday 12ic. Dress Goods Black Panama 58in. usual price $1.25 width) new summer chiffon finish. and Monday $1.00, 3 or ————— Pekin Panama 52 in. wide, good ran staple shades incl black 52 in wide, all woo this is worth 75c. ‘‘Sataf day and Monday &fc. —————————— Danish Cloth 5 Full range ol colors in that marvelous value; 24+in, wide and one-half wel The cloth the magazines talk about. See them. «= Wash Goods We have added severs very, pretty lines. of sheer plain colors and figured ma terials, every one sparkling with frechness. All prices and our values are nev beaten. : 45¢ ruffled swiss 65¢ a“ wh 790 $1.00 1.25 1.35 50c 2} yds Nottingh toc 21 i“ i“ $1.25 31 yds 1 a5 “" i“ 1.50 1.0S 1.75 1.85 2.00 2.25 2.50 2.85 3.00 3.50 3.75 4.50 5.00 Globe Warehe Talmadge Block, Elmer VALLEY "PHONE, TOUHEY'S HOTEL eragg toga e ie b- 4 “" n net “ “ i" LL] i “" “ “ “ “" BH Thomas Ave, Opposite L. V, Rates $1.50 Por Dav,
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