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FIRE 15 CHECKED
[Sn Francisco's Darkest
Hour Past.
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WATER FRONT YET THREATENED
A ———
fire Fighters’ Stand Saved a Quar-
ter of the City.
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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
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