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BAYRE. ced by connoisseurs 8 choicest and must y infusion of hops that séientific brew- FIRE 15 CHECKED [Sn Francisco's Darkest Hour Past. ————————— WATER FRONT YET THREATENED A ——— fire Fighters’ Stand Saved a Quar- ter of the City. —— DETAILS OF DEATHS COMING IN After Three Days, With Miles of Con= suming Flames Following Earth. quake, Destrection Abates and Gold em Gate Clty Ouce More Hopes For Bare Bslstence—Fight Against To- tal Hain at Yan Sess Avenue Was Sucevsafuni-—Funston's Soldiers L sing Stern Mensures With Leoters—~Four- teen Sheet Fer Atinck on Mist Eleven Postal Clerks Taken From Living Tomb After Long Imprisoa- ment, SAN FRANCISCO, April 21 — General Fuuston's report to the war depart: ment at Washlugton says “The Ore has been checked and there bins been no renewal of It west of Octavia street or south of Market street, but it |# vot noder coutrol at the water froat, sud it ix creeplug to wand our telegraph headquarters at the ferry house, through which this mes sage is sent Sap Fraucisco's darkest! hour seeins to bave passed, aud the tire, which bas been raging since Wednesday morning immediately after the carthyguake, has la a great wensure buried itself out The fire Bgliters are still usiug dyua mite, and one quarter of the city will probably be The stand made ut Vay Ness avenue Ninsteeuth 0d Mission streets was generally spccessful, ail the district from Post tu Culon street and from Octavia street to the Ocean shareway is still intact apd will probably re nail so It is now reported that the fire has brokem out lu the wharf: uoith of Market street, and it Is feared that paless soon checked It may reach the Oakland ferry bLullding, where the Western Union bas established the only wire out of the city, The lire Is prac tically under coutrol iu the western addition, and the property west of Octavia street stands a goud chance of being saved, Lut the fire is spreadiug toward the oorth Leach, around the east side of Telegraph bill Frou a three story lodging bouse at Fifth and Migna streets, which col lapsed Wednesday moruing, more thau seveuty-five bodies were taken out There ure fAfty other dead bodies io sight in the ruins. Thix building was oue of the first to take fire on Fifth street, Af leas( 100 persous were kill ed ln the Cotwopolitan Many petsous dropped dead of heat and suffocation More than IU persous are reported dead Iu the Brunswick Liotel A report to General Funston from the commander of the troops guarding the United States mint states that fourteen members of a gang that tried to steal the E44000 000 stored (on that structure were killed Ly the soldiers The desperadoes uttempted to over power the guards by concentried ae sault and were shot dowu. Clashies as 10 authority between the police amd the military are frequent A national guardsiman ren Lis bayonet . | through the body of a policeman iu a * | 0ght over jurisdiotion. Extra guards bhave beeu placed sronud the rulus of the subtreasury the banks and the safe deposit vaults ia the financial district lo anticipation of ralds Ly thieves Policsinan Flood ou entering uls bome after a long teur of Auty 90 colttered a stranger, who attacked bim Flood shot blu dead. Special Policeman Snyder also reported that be had killed a wan, but offered uo detalls Eleveu postal clérks, all alive, were taken from the debris of the postoffice fast plight. All at first were thought to be dead, but It was found that, al though they were buried (no the stope butldiog, every oue was alive. ‘They had eeu for three days without food or witer, All the mail In the post office was saved Guvernor Panles has wired Pres) dent Roosevelt usking him to send the Pacific squadron to San Francisca in order that the marines juny bel the unfortunate sufferers and nlso that thie supplies of the squadron way be used for the relief of the needy Thousands of people who have lost thelr homes aud ofl thelr belongings are gathered at concentration camps at the Presidio, Golden Gate park and other places on the outskirts of the city and are receiving food and wa ter. About 30000 are homeless, and saved rarily The New York operu stars, after two days In the ruined city, are starting the cabinet decided to send Mr. Met calf. secreiary of commence nud la- bor, to the scene of the disaster, Bee retary Taft bas =ent $1500.08 worth , of rations to feed the refugees but guesswork as yet ar from 30 fo 5000 [He says sve insurance men say the financial loss may aggregate £500 000 000, but this Is believed too large. Four thousand infantry soldiers un der General Funston's command now guard the ruins of the city. The fire in the Mission district has been practically extinguished, and the spread of the flames toward the west ern addition, the best part of the city remaining. bas been stiyed The only portions of the conflagintion that de mauds the attetition of the firemen Is that extending from the Nob hill sec- tiou down tou the northwestern part of the water frout. The western addition dauger was averted by the use of gun cotton. dyuauiite apd two streams of water. The explosives were Lundled by the chief gunner of the Mare Island pavy yard and bis accomplishments proved bim to Le a master of Lis pro fenslon Tle work of relief has been started, and a big bakery in the saved district has jncreased its ovens and arranged to bake S000 loaves of bread a night With thousands of people in llue be fore the California street bakery. the police and military were preseut to én force order and to see that each persou wus nllowed ouly one leaf The bouicless people In the parks aud vacant Jots have Leen provided for as speedily das possible The destitution and suffering are in- describable. Women and children who had comfortable homes a few days ago slept ali night-1f sleep cane at all—on hiny ou the wharfs, on the saud lots near the north beach, sowe of them un- der the little tents made of sheeting which poorly protected then from the chillling ocean winds, The people lu the parks are possibly better off lu the matter of shelter, for they left thelr homes better prepared lustructious were issued Ly Mayor Schmitz to break open every store containiug pro visions and to distribute them to the starving people The problem now confronting the city goverunwent! aud federal authori ties 1s how to feed the multitude of destitute. Supplies are couiug In by the train load. Lut as yet the system of distribution Is not fn complete working order At the Presidio wilitary reservation where probably 308 persols are duped, affairs are conducted with mil itary precision. Water is plentiful, and rations are dealt out all day long. The refugees stand patiently lo line, aod there Is uot @ wurmur. This character istic Is observable all over the city. The people are brave and patient, and the wouderful order preserved by then bas been of great assistance In Golden Gate park are encamped <UL persous. A huge supply station has been established Uiviv, aud provi sions ure dealt out Muauy dre camped fn vn caut lots and squares scattered about the city, aud these are the tates that are hard to reach Six hundred wen frown the Ocean Shore rallway, with wagous aud luiple wens, are working on the sewer sys tein. luspectors are golug from hous to house examining chlmueys aud sem lng peruits to build tres Owiog to the short supplies of provi sions General Manager Calvin of the Southern Pacific rallroad Las arrauged to take all destitute people possible on ferries to Vakland spd send then out ou local trains to poluts ln Californian without charge. He also Is sendiug steapiers to take off the people on the wharfs between the ferry bulldiog aud Port Mason and carry them to Onkland without fare The Southern Pacific is running Its through truius aud suburban tralus on schedule thine The Wells-Fargko Ex press company horses and wagons were saved, aud these are distributing relief supplies The only bank in the huge ruined district that escaped destruction was the Market Street bank, st the corner of Seventh snd Market streets It is in the gntted Grand bulldiug, but the fireinen saved the ground oor. [tt will pay out motiey Just ue soon as It bears from the cleariug house officials A cortuer of the city near the Pacific Mall wharfs at Second aud Braouau streets was wot ruined, and the Ballors' Lote is lutact The fire now burning is all east of Van Ness aveuue and uorth of Call fornia street. It oust burn itself out thousands unforty UNITED STATES MINT. down to the North Beach water front {The Postal Telegenph company lins restored [te cable connection with the torent Ly estalbilisbiog a station wt Ocean Beach, but there Is no service yet for deliveriug messages there, ifnre separited and with uo weans of jearnfug one another's wheéred bouts The police have opened bp a bareau "gether. It i impossible to secure a vebicle A at exorbitant being enforced at revolver poiat if the , owner proves indisposed to comply "with the demands Mayor Schmitz looks weary, but is energetically at work, though he has had Httle or no sleep. A policeman re ported that two grocery stores iu a certain neighborhood were closed al though the clerks were present. “Smash the stores open” the mayor, “and guard them.” At a weeting of bankers liek] In Oak land, across the bay, Mr. Lynch of the First National bapk reported that a committee had examine! all the bank and safe deposit vaults in Ran Fran cisco sid found then all Intact. This funkes it certaln that the money and | ) ordered DEWEY MONUMENT papers ou deposit are ail safe. It was also reported that the books and rec ords in the San Francisco Hall of Rec ords also escaped serious injury Unlou square, the prettiest of all the city squares, on which faced the St Francis hotel and wany big stores, is as irretrievably ruined as Babylou or Troy I'he 8t Francis, which with stood the earthquake, succumbed to the fire. It is a blackened shell The great Dewey monument, a tall marble shaft, crovwoped with a two tou bronze statue of Victory, was shifted from its base and leans at an angle which threatens its lumediate fall All along Market street the scene |s the salue—blackeued walls, skeletons of steel, wreck and rule Ihe Palace hotel still stands, a huge wonumeut to the awful disaster, Lear ing little resemblance to the huge Los telry of three days ago Of the Mechaules' pavilion, the scene of hundreds of great political. soclal and sportiug events, uot a thwher re mnins, Opposite it was the St. Nicho las hotel, now siwply a plle of bricks lhe United States wint escaped al ost unscathed ou secouut of its iso Fated envy iroument aud ite peculiar fire proof coustructiou, but the force of rending power of the sarthguake cau be seen lu the racked walls of the uew postuttice building Shoek Felt In Moseow, MOSCOW, April 21 Practically sl wullaneously with the Sau Fraucisco earthquake a slight here. The selsmograph university shock was felt in the Moscow registered the disturbance sluwoest to tie Lbour of its occurrence lu Cailforuia Thousands of Tents Go West, JUNCTION CITY, Kan. April 21 Three express cars loaded with a thou sand teuts and wore than Me cots left Fort Riley on the Unlou Pacific for Bau Francisco BASEBALL SCORES, Uames Played Yesterday by the Na- tional aud American Leagues. NATIONAL LEAGUE At New Yoik Brooklyn v v 2 Vv 0 8-2 New York 2 i vo 01 0 *-3 Hits—Brookiyn, 4 York. M4 Er €or Brooklyn, 3 New York, 0 Hatteries Mclutyre., Dorsclier Hergen sud But ler mee and Bresnahan At Boston Philadelphia UUVvu dee Boston [UB I NY I Hite Philadelphia, 7. Boston rors—Philadelphta. 1; Basten terton—- Kane and Doolin, Young and Need ham At Pittsburg Anciunatl ¢$ 00 20 2 Pittabur ¢ 1 voo0s Hits-Cincinnatt, 3 Pittsburg, 7 Er rors—Clocinnatl, 1; Pittsburg, 3 Hat terion Hurper, Overnll and Bchiel; Lynch and Pietz TABLE OF PERCENTAGES Ww Boston Pitteb urg New York Philadelphia ‘hicago Incinnatl 3t. Louis . Brookivn : 1 AMERICAN LEAGUE At Philladdiphla— New York 0 000 30 dd 0-3 Philadelphia 1 91902 40-8 Hite New York, 5; Philadelphia, 18 Er rors—New York, |, Philadelphia, & Hat terfee—Orth and Kilelnow; Coakley und Powers At Washington Boston ¢ 01000900 0-1 Washington 1321011 30 Hite oston, 5. Washington. 16 Er rors—Hoston, 1, Washingtun, 1 Batteries Winters, Gibson and Graham. Falken berg and Heydon At Detroit Petrol Go 81000 ¢ 0-1 Chicago :T 00 G 6G aa) 3-4 Hits Detroit, 8, Chicago. 8 Errors - De- Re. $4: Onloago. 2. Bateeries Mullen and Warner: Altrock aud sullivan TABLE OF PERCERTAQHS sveland | Shanda Biden Ra Aah aad d AID FOR PERISHING Measures of Relief. MILLIONS IN CASH AND FOOD GO WEST Carnegie, Rockefeller, Mackay and Lulted States Steel Send $100,000 Each=Frisce Banker Gives 83,600,000, ~~ WASHINGTON, April 21 brauch of the goverune the president down, IF bLeudiug every effort to Lriug to the carthguake suf [erers speedy relief The cabluet Las cousidered the San Francisco situatien, and it was decided that Secretary Met calf should procead to that city representative of the patioual govern went aud to consult with the authori tiles as to what is ueeded to alleviate distress It is realized bere LY ote aud all that independently of outside ald the fed erul authorities Lave a duly to per form which to wake It count must Le performed with all possible dispatch Every avallable vessel in the vicinity of San Francisco. whether It belongs to the mavy., army, revenue cutler serv ice, fish commission or lighthouse serv- ice, has been directed to carry supplies of every description to the stricken city of Sau Francisco aud reuder oth or assistance, while officers of the ar my ou the Pacific coast and elsewhere have fwen given lwperative lonstruc tious to ship teuts, rations and other rellef supplies. Co-uperation with the local authorities of San Fran cisco and the state officials to the com won eud I= the oficial command, and reports received Liere are all to the ef- fect that the onder Is bhelng obeyed with chiverfuluess and alacrity Offers of assistance frow abroad Lave been very gratifying to the president, but he feels the United states ix able to care for the San Francisco suffer ov, apd contributions from foreign countries will be declined Mr. Ballin of the Hamburg American Hoe offered $25.08 for the Califoruia sufferers, and the following Jdeclina tion forwarded to Mr. Ballin by As sistant Secrelary Bacon of the state department shows the president's ap preciation of the friendiinvas shown by Europeans “The president deeply appreciates jour message of sympathy and desirgs we to thank you beartlly for the Kind offer of outside ald. Although declin Ing, the president earnestly wishes you to understand how much he Every it service, froin as the npre clates your cordial aud generous sv pathy” President Roosevelt Las personally coutributed $1000 and S Kuox EWU through the Red Cross, aud the work of rellef in behalf of stricken California rolls ouward throughout the collutry With the federmnl government heading the lst of subscriptions with $1000 nM nd every Land of red tape severed in the utilization, the states and municipal ties Kept their shonlders to the wheel Already over S2Udiax) Las Leen rilsed lu New York city, Some of the big subwcriptions there are: Chamber 200mm); Nick Ex $10.01; Jolin DD Rockefeller Clarence Mackay, $1ooo Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co SIS. An United States Slain wtol watter of Its justant of Comuerce change, S100 LYRE M. Guggeubelm's Sons drew Caruegle, $100 000 Steel corporation Governor Higgins Las lssued a proc lumation calllug on the people of the stite to contribute to the rellef of the earthquake victitus through Jacob H Schiff, treasurer of the Natloun! Hed L ross Nothilug uiore striking (no the work of rescite has cote to light thay was rv Hected ln an Issue of the Nau Fraucls co Call, this newspaper, with others being produced for the present across the bay lu Oakland Fhe Call sunounces that the pres! dent of a prumiuent San Frauocisco bank bas wired directions to lis man ager to place $8000,000 (uu the of the citizens’ Colltuittee Liinds rellefl and restoration to be used at lts discretion for the imuediate needs of San Fran Subiseqguent subscriptious added £191.000 to this fund It is aunounced this worning that the wat departuwivut bas forwarded to San Limb rations, sulue of which Les already uiost of Cisco Francisco arrhved there aud which is due tonight 134.000 peuple Las also there Tentage for teen pros ded The Frateruul Order of Eagles Las tithorized a per capita tax of 20 celts United States aud Consda for the relief of distress in California. It is esthonated that this tax will nmonnt to $a on Juncksouville, Fla, after 4 weeting of Citizens bas forwarded $7,000 Hesponding to the spirit of Goverum Gulld's forall gives fwiloe vi wach member in te sUkkestion that Lie Gui hiy epi. sentative citizens of Boston aud Mus sichiusetts huve pledged $5300 000 to the sufferers of the California earthyuake and conflagrmtion, and practical ald In the forw of food aud other uecessitios is belug rushed fo the stricken district The comwmonwesith ins arranged for a steamer to leave Tacos, Wash | with $25,000 worth of food supplies. A train from Kausus City will carry the necessities of life of the same aggre gate value lu addition Governor Gulld and Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston bad slready telegrnplied the use of | $100.00 Tn money, and they followed later by telegraphiug a pledge of $500, who gives The New Eugland Telephone aml Telegraph company has transmitted the governor's message to cach of the 834 cities and towns in the state with. " Fraucisco has sent eight cars of meats Presideut thuries A Pealuxly of the Iusturance company Las been directed by William Waldorf As relief of the earthquake sufferers At New York a middie aged man of businesslike appedtance and wearing a brown tweed salt walked into the mavoer's offic * I should like to speak with the may r.” he sald fe caller was turned over to Pri vale Secretary O'Brien Without auy preliminary remarks the caller laid down on Mr O'Brien's desk twenty. five $1,000 Lills and said “Add this to the fund for the assist alice of the Nan Francisco sufferers, crediting the same to “A ilend of Ha niAnily.’ and let me have a receipt He did not give his use and did pot say whether the mousey was from him personally or from others OPERA SINGERS SUFFER. World Famous Stars In Midst of Fris- co Earthguake Huin, OAKLAND, April 21 — A landslide on Loma Prieta mountniu lins buried uine wen alive io their cablus at the Hinck iey Creek wlll of the Loma Prieta Lumber company. The slide buried the sawing will and the cablus in 100 fect of earth. Auother fatal landsible « curred at Deer Creek mill Jolin Han nal and James Franklin were caught in their cabins and Killed Of the large New York opera com pany who were victims of the carth quake snd fire in Rap Francisco bat very few saved anything except what they had stood in Severe] of those stopping lu the Uaks hotel were awnk ened by plaster from the owiliug falllug ou thelr beds awd had barely tue to fee frow thelr lives. Que singer was seent standing In the ind clad ouly 1a his underwear, but clutching a favorite violin which he had carried with hiw iu his dight The frst lwpulse of mauy was to rush for their trains, which Lowever, happened to be moross the bay a favorite though slwost Iu fears, was lieard trying Lis volce on a oruer near the Palace hotel. Grad ually caliu wus restored, aud, taking the coolness of the Call street luarefool Rossi Lasso lesson from furufaus. the their plight as Jess sericus artists began to regard than it wight have wen As au ludicatiou of the oplin Mr. Goerlitz, general manager of the cotnpany, It may be stated that uatil the Grand Operas House was actually reached Ly the gawes Le had hoped to give the proposed matinee f “The Marriage of Figaro He aud few others thought the was Hreproof, and not ten minutes be fore the building ome of the musicians were Jdissuanded from frying to save thelr lustmments AMfred Iertz, the well known Wag nerian conductor, was oue of ist: of perforusince play bouse went up in siaoke those puartersd at the Chutes, He was giv #1 a place to sleep uear the Zoo He sald To wy dying day 1 will uever forget my experience when 1 was Uy the roaring of Hous. | knew uot Lut that I was fu a jungle or den of wild bensts Mr. Campanurl, the baritone bled an lmmigrant when he boarded the overland train. He carried Lis Kit tied In u gay colored blanket ou his shoulder, It is such a awakened Fesull but was in goud spirits change was< all he said Auother one of the party wore the fowing garb of an Arab chief, aud all were more or less picturesqguely cos futied. It was at this period that a harming coutralto bad been compel led to don sole very unecessary articles which Lad origlually been designed for a gentleman AM. Parvie, AM. Dufriche dud stage weuager. and fricke, the Larplst, uarronly escaped death wheu the Oaks collapsed Mune Dufrichie lost her precious Arard Larp in the Bre at the opera house P'aroll. one of the teuurs lug, but uo auxiety is felt regarding lls (ute. He was seen after the earth quake, nud it was supposed hie becca coulused and falled to dud Lis tral The Courage displayed by sve of the artists, notably Mise Walker and Miss Bassle Abbott, helped lurgely to quiet the fears of their comrades, and their kinduess to the chorus was Liglly appreciated After the earthgbake Muwe Eawes ind Mwe Newmbrich found refuge at the Lome of Dr Harry Tevis, bul this later wus burned. nud they were theu cared for by other fricuds Miss Fremstad, who had at the BU Dunstiu, was fortunate to excape with ber life, the buildiug being badly shattered by the warthiguake. The guests at thie Palace hotel, nmong thew Lelng Miss Walker aud Miss Abbott when the the Laritone Mme Da Wus Wiss tpartiuents who were ou the top foot great shock occurred, took it for inn! ed that death was inevitable Speaking of the disaster, Siguor Ca rusu, the world fawous teaor, sald It tustautly recalled the wy native Naples, of which | have been reading 1 huve no doubt that the earthquake here hiss sowie relation to the eruption of Vesuvius” Miss Walker said “We are too happy to have saved oun Ives 10 think of our dresses Dippel spoke In the sae though Le lost costumes valUed at $10 U0 "ress Represcutative H sald “The members of the sire to express thelr gratitude to the people of San Francisco, whe, although themselves wholly or partially ruined, seemed to furget thelr uwa troubles, Speaking for the artists, 1 will say that nothing could Late beeu wore ‘sensible or level headed than the con: of Chara Wt Beha and acl horrors in strain Meltzer cotapany de ATURDAY SPEGH White India Linen One case 20c kind “fu width and every piece guar- anteed perfect. Saturday aud Monday 12le. Dress Goods Black Panama 58 in. wi usual price $1.25 hots width) new summer wei chiffon finish. Satur and Monday $1.00, me ——— Pekin Panama 02 in. wide, good range of staple shades includin black 52 in wide, all wi this is worth 75e. Satur- day and Monday 59. Danish Cloth Full rapge of colors that marvelous value, 24 wide and one-half ~ wi The cloth the maga talk about. See them. Wash Goods We have addcd sey very pretty lines of sh plain colors and figured ma: terials, every one sparklin with freshness. All prices and our values are neve beaten. Curtain Sale Contin oe ruflled swiss Hoe M u ae $100 © 125 135 * Sle 2) yds Nottingbams, 38¢ S8c 65c 24 * " $1.25 31 yds 350th 1.50: 1.05 2 1.75 ‘ 1.85 2.00 2.25 dc 285 3.00 2. tw 3.75 1.50 5.00 Carpenter and Builde 7 Pleasant St. Waverly, R. H. 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