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Special Service.
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i Washington, 'April 20.President
JBoosevelt at 6 o'clock last night signed
congressional joint resolution appro
priating $1,000,000 for the aid of the
destitute people of San Francisco and
^neighboring towns.
The money is immediately available
'^ancl is to be used under the direction of
Secretary' of War Taft. He is to use
his own "discretion in the matter of its
use. He can buy food, clothing or any
thing else he thinks the'-people need.
It is likely that a large amount will
be telegraphed ^est for immediate use.
The greater portion will undoubtedly1
be expended in the cities of the west,
as money is of no use in the stricken
cities and towns of California, where
everything has been destroyed.
Bill Rushed Thru.
The senate was the first to take ac
tion today in giving practical relief to
the distressed people of California. I
quickly passed a noint resolution ap
propriating $500,000 for this purpose.
The iomt resolution was hurriedly
engrossed and before the ink was dry
Vice President Fairbanks had affixed
his signature. It was sent to the house
immediately by a special messenger and
the house immediately took up its con
sideration. Speaker Cannon and Chair
man Tawney of the committee on ap
propriations, after hearing statements
by the members of the 'California dele
gation in the house, decided that $500,-
000 was not sufficient. On motion of
Mr. Tawney the senate resolution was
amended, raising the amount to $1,000,-
000. Without a dissenting vote the
house agreed to the amendment and to
the resolution.
Not a Dissenting Remark.
Again all possible speed was used in
getting the resolution in shape and
Speaker Cannon remained in his room
waiting for it to be brought back to
him for his signature. I was hurried
to him and after he signed it was
rushed over to the senate.
Without deliberation the senate
agreed to the increased appropriation
and Vice President Fairbanks affixed
his signature to the resolution at 5:10
'clock. Because of the urgent need of
the money the joint resolution was sent
at once to the White House. I
reached there after the president had
left the executive offices, but he came
down and signed it, thus making the
money immediately available.
In addition to appropriating $1,000,-
000 the resolution authorizes the sec
letary of the navy to co-operate in
every possible way with the mayors and
other officials of the cities in Califor
nia who have suffered from the earth
quake shocks.
Warships to Aid.
The transports of the army, the war
ships of the navy and the internal rev
enue cutters and those of the fish com
mission can be placed at any service
deemed necessary. It is likely many
of these vessels will be impressed to
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City News
LAUGH AT OFFICER
LEADS TO ARREST
MAN WHO REFUSED POLICEMAN
AID IS HAL ED INTO COURT.
Law Permitting Officers to Appeal to
Bystanders for Aid and Imposing
Penalty for Refusal Will Be Enforced
Hereafter Police Superintendent
Says Law Should Help Toward Good
i Government.
i
i As the result of a hearty laugh, Fred
I Schaffe was arraigned in police court
i todav, charged^ with refusing to aid
Patrolman Thorn in an attempt to ar
rest
BoThorn
McNivens disorderly con
duct says liforstarted to take
McNivens to the station, and that a
iifight followed, in which his own nose
was broken. McNivens being a power
ful man. Thorn then called on Schaffe,
I who was standing near, to help him.
fjlnstead of complying, Thorn says that
the young man laughed as tho the mat
ter was a huge -joke. McNivens was
finally landed and was arraigned in
court yesterday and held for trial to
morrow.
At that time Thorn was instructed in
the law and a warrant was at once
sworn out for Schaffe's arrest. In
court he pleaded not guilty, and his
ease was continued.
Hereafter citizens will be expected to
help officers when it is necessary. Su
I penntendent Doyle says that if the peo
I pie in general were more willing to help
officers than to make trouble when a
man had been arrested, the city could
[be better and more easily governed. I
is not an uncommon thing, he says, for
a crowd to try to take a prisoner away
from a policeman, altho they have no
interest in the case whatever. He
thinks a few lessons under the new law
wil Iremedy this trouble that the police
have struggled against so long.
HEABING MAY 3
The railroad and warehouse commission
has postponed the public hearing pn the
merchandise, rate reduction one week,
from ApriL 26 to May 3.
Commissioner Staples said today that
the commission would invite anyone who
has anything to say on the subject. The
Opening heai ing on May 3 will be more for
shippers and commercial bodies claiming
direct, int&rest in the charges. When they
have finished, any other person who has
opinions or facts bearing on the. proposed
reduction, and wants to present them,
will be given a full hearing.
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*%W?-riJWgiB:' S*R? Friday Evening,''
ALL HASTE MADE'M^1
TO SUCCOR THE HUNGRY
President Signs Bill Giving $1,000,000
to Relieve San Francisco..
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i *j*S5Sflsnt *tfpi**
i^^ iwi
bring food and water into the stricken
city of San Francisco.-
President Roosevelt and members of
his cabinet spent the entire day in tak
ing steps to relieve the distress of the
sufferers. Much progress was made in
the direction of getting supplies to Sail
Francisco to relieve the people, and
tents for shelter.
It was decided by the president to
rush one million army rations to the
stricken city. Two hundred thousand
rounds were ordered from *th& army
barracks at Vancouver to be sent by.
the revenue cutter Perry. Later this
ration was doubled, making 400,000 ra
tions which are now on the way to
San Francisco. Purchasing officers of
the army have been directed to go into
the open market and purchase 600,000
more rations, which will be sent to San
Francisco by express.
Practicallv all the spare rations, all
the available canvas, medical stores
and nurses and surgeons of the army
have been ordered to the Pacific
coast, and never in time of peace has
there been such a general movement
of army supplies.
Fort duelling to Aid.
Four thousand tents have been or
dered shipped by express, the most of
which will be sent from the farge army
warehouses at Philadelphia. Tn* addi
tion to this every piece of canVas not
actually in use by the army will be
hurried to the desolate city.
Tents in addition to the 4,000 will
be sent from Vancouver barracks,
Washington Fort Douglas, Utah Fort
Logan, Colorado Fort D. A. Russell,
Wyo. Fort Sam Houston, Texas the
Presidio of Monterey, Cal. Fort Snell
ing, Minn. Fort Sheridan, 111. Fort
Riley, Kansas, and Fort Leavenworth,
Kansas.
The commanding officers of these
forts have been directed to send all
available tents to San Francisco by ex
piess, together with the necessary
men to place them in position for im
mediate use. Practically every stitch
of canvas owned by the army is now
on its way to the Pacific coast.
Appeals to Nation.
President Roosevelt today issued an
appeal to the American people for the
relief of the stricken people of the Pa
cific coast. He urged that all sub
scriptions be sent to the American Na
tional Red Cross association so that
the funds contributed can be distrib
uted in a systematic manner. The Red
Cross society will have charge of all
the relief funds contributed by private
individuals and chambers 'of com
merce.
General Funston and the army offi
cers under his command will have
charge of the distribution of the aid
given by the federal government.
There will be hearty co-operation be
tween the army and the navy and what
supplies can be spared by the navy
will be turned over to the army for
immediate distribution. All the sup
plies at the Mare Island navy yard
have been turned over to General Fun
ston. RIVAL 'DBESSY GENTS'
HURL MIGHTY DEFIES
"Do I understand you to say that
George Washington Tyle'r says he will
outdress me, me pusunally?" inquired'
Ernest Hogan with an expression of
incredulity as he sat in his dressing
room at the Grand operahouse in, St.
Paul, while waiting for his mule,
Catastrophe," to be hitched up. He
was told that the "ball king of Min
neapolis" had made such a boast
anent the giving of a second ball by
the twin city waiters of color at Union,
temple tonight.
Mr. Hogan reflected a moment, and
then delivered this challenge, weighing
each word carefully as he uttered it:
"If George Washington Tyler thinks
he can outdress me I will makl him
this proposition: I will change clothes
and appear in a different suit each
hour of the day. I will wear a different
suit each hour for two days. I will
wear a different suit each hour for
three daysI have sixty-five suits of
clothes with me. I guess that will hold
your George Washington for a while."
George Washington Tyler did not ap
pear to be dismayed when told of his
rival's resources. "Sixty-five suits of
clothes. That am consid'ble, I'll con-
fess," he admitted, and then added,
Mabbe he's got 'em, but he '11 have to
show me. I can keep him company
changing clothes for a few hours^at
any rate. Tf he thought I was dressed"
up when he saw that green suit of- mine
Monday night, he'd better not form his
opinion until he sees me late*. That's
all I got to say to him for the present,
I didn't see any steam Coming out of
Mistah Hogan's boots Monday night
when he attended our bail. He war'nt
so warm. I call the suit he wore just
ordinary. Fll give him credit for one
thing: He had the biggest diamond I've
seen for a good while. I fairly lit up
the hall like an electric light when he
unbuttoned his coat and filled his chest
out. Mah eyes ache from lookin' at it,
even now."
1 FAY FOSTER COMING.
The Dainty Paree Burlesquers
finish their week's engagement at,t hre
Dewey tomorrow.*' Commencing with
the matinee Sunday, tha^-original I*ay
Foster company will hotd'thd boards?
Thi$ aggregation has a worldwide rep*
utation among all patrons of'burlesque.
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icases.,
Holt--Minor court
Judgen|le..cour.t
__. DickinsonJury, ju
,VC,
.and chamber matters
Judge F. V. BrownWebster vs.
Woodward, suit to colieqt $600
"from attorney, still frial.,,,
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FACE HUNGER
HORROR
Continued From First Page.
sat at the foot of Van Ness avenue on
the hot sands on the hillside overlook
ing the bay east of Fort Mason, with
four little children, the youngest a girl
of 3, the oldest a boy of 10.
They were destitute of water, food
and money. The woman had fled with
the Mission street district and tramped
to the bay in the hope of sighting the
ship which, she said, was about diie,
of which her husband was the captain.
"He would know me anywhere."
She would not move, altho a young fel
low gallantly offered her a tent, back
on a vacant lot, in which to shelter her
children.
FOOD FOB FAMISHING
Los Angelea*Rushes Aid to Frisco
"Bat" Nelson Gives $1,000.
Los Angeles, April 20.-Contribu-
tions to the relief fund have passed the
$100,000 found.
In response to Governor Pardee's urg
ent appeal for food for the famishing
in San Francisco, a train of seventeen
cars was sent north at 7 p.m. laden with
provisions, mostly cooked.
The county of Los Angeles has do
nated $20,000. H. E. Huntington and
H. G. Otis head the list with $10,000
each, and among the contributors are
Battling Nelson and Billy Nolan each
$1,000.
A boat load of provisions went north
last night from San Pedro.
MARK TWAIN URGES AID
Humorist Appeals to New Yorkers to
Help San Francisco.
Journal Specfa'l Service.
New York, April 20.Mark Twain
last night, in Carnegie hall, made what
he said was his last public talk, his
farewell address to the nation. Near
the close of his address he made a pa
thetic appeal for the stricken city of
San Francisco, where he first began to
achieve fame.
"In saying good-by," he said, I
must ask you, in the great name of
humanity, to remember that part of our
nation now so terribly stricken. I ap
peal to you in behalf of that vast mul
titude, sheltered and happy two days
ago, now wandering. homeless,
helpless, thirsty and hungry, vic
tims of an immeasurable disas
ter. I beg you in the name of
sweet charity of our common human na
ture to give freely from your hearts
and your purses to smitten San Fran-
eisco.''
CHICAGO TO GIVE $1,000,000.
Plans for Relief^ Organized by Mayor
Dunne.
Journal Special Service,
Chicago, April 20.Half a thousand
of the most prominent citizens of Chi
cago were appointed bv Mayor Dunne
yesterday at the request of the city
council to take charge of the aid to
be rendered San Francisco and other
cities of California by this municipal
ity. The committee comprised repre
sentatives of all professions, indus
tries, public societies and other organi
zations of the city.
Without a dissenting vote at a meet
ing held yesterday afternoon the city
council pledged to the stricken people
of the Pacific coast the svmpathy and
the material aid of Chicago.
I is planned to raise $1,000,000 for
the relief of the stricken Californians
and as a starter $39,000 was raised by
the members of the Chicago Commer
cial association.
ELKS AND K. P.'S TO AID
Big Fraternal Orders to Collect Funds
for San Francisco.
Louisville, Ky., April 20.Grand Ex
alted Ruler Robert W. Brown, who has
alreadv forwarded $5,000 in the name of
the Oraer of Elks, leaves tonight for
San Francisco to personally direct the
distribution of the relief fund that will
ber raised by Elks. In a signed sta ?s
ment ibsued today Mr. Brown directs
that remittances should be sent by wire
to Fred C. Robinson, grand secretary
_^i B.'P. O. E., Dubuque Iowa, and such
Tr contributions should be specified "emer-
contributions should be speci i
gency charity fund.
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TODAY I N DISTRICT COURT
Judge D. B, SimpsonSecond trial,
of $12,000 alienation of affec
tions case of Thomas Marshall
vs. Henry F. Hodge.
Judge F. C. BrooksTrial of John
Prybula, Mike Pjrybula and
George Davey, indicted for al
leged assault in the Second de
gree, said to have been conv
mfted Sunday upon John Ivan.
The case is the outgrowth of the
mix-up on the flats, and the court
i&ooin. is redolent with iodoform
l^and filled with bandaged war
-fiors, and interpreters.
Jttdge John Day SmithVerdict
for defendants in case of Marie
P. Bond vs. Pike & Cook, direc
tors of Miller Mining company.
'Otto Geisenhyner vs. W. E. Shan
non, suit for $10,000 damages for
injuries alleged to have been re
'feeiVed in" elevator of Windsor
hotel* on trial:'_ 4K\
Juelgev Andrew1
$60 From Every Lodge.
Columbus, Ohio, April 20.Champion
lodge, Knights or Pythias, of this eity
today started to prepare a circular let
ter to be sent to all Pythian lodges of
the United States asking that each lodge
contribute $50 to the San Francisco suf
ferers.'
In case the plan is carried out over
$1,000,000 will .be raised. Champion
lodge wired the mayor of San Francisco
to draw on the lodge for all the funds in
thettreasury.
SACRAMENTO'S DOORS OPEN
Refugees from San Francisco Cared for
at Capital.
Sacramento, April 20.^Refugees
from San Francisco are beginning to ar
rive here in large numbers. Those who
are in need are being eared for by the
l'ocal relief committee, which provides
food and shelter. Many of the ref
ugees refused to sleep in buildings,
preferring to rest in Capitol park. The
Southern Pacific company has placed
orders for the purchase of provisions
from all sections of the Sacramento val
ley and Nevada, to ship to San Francis
co. Several carloads have been sent
ram here by the company Ias*li#ht.
What Butte wat'Do^**-*
Special to The Journal.
Butte, Mont,, April 20.Silver Bow
lod&e. No. 240,* B.. O. E., last night
voted to appropriate $250 to suffering
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THE MINNEAPOLIS ')OfJRNA&
San Francisco's Famous Pleasure Ground
.fPe4-V,v
Where Buildings Were All Destroyed
Golden Gate Park with Its Landscape Improvements and Buildings Representing Millions of Dollars* Suffered the Los,* of
All the Main Buildings. The Park is No the Camping Place of Hundreds of Refugees.
Elks at San Francisco and adjacent
towns. A message to that effect,' signed
by Grand Trustee W. H. Haviland and
Exalted Ruler Kremer, was addressed to
Grand Exalted Ruler Brown. Various
organizations in the city are giving
sums ana a mass meeting has been
culled for Sunday, when it is proposed
to raise $50,000
REFUGEES AT BEBXiiLEY*
Trains from San Francisco Loaded with
Fleeing Thousands.
Berkeley, Cal., April 20.Every train
from San Francisco is bringing hun
dreds of refugees from that city, and
it is estimated that at least 6,000 home
les
ner children from a home names in ^^,4-e ha I. .:_... ii,~ v.
count the largoem influ the city has
practically been placed undedr
law.
A thousand cadets of the University
of California are patrolling the streets,
and a hundred special police officers are
watching homes and stores.
Last night the campus and athletic
fields of the University of California
were converted into a great sleeping
room. Tents were provided for women,
while cots of straw were stretched out
for the men. Under the historic oaks of
the campus is an immense tent where
the cooking is done.
Every church and fraternal hall in
the city has been thrown open and con
verted into bedrooms. The hospitality
of the university and townspeople is
being gratefully accepted bv the weary
homeless, who are in a fairly comfort
able condition.
an
omartial a
ONLY ONE SAVED
FROM BIG HOTEL
Sole Survivor of Santa Rosa Crash
-*SB^B Mly 500 Perished
Oakland, April 20.C. A: Duffy of
Owensboro, Ky., who has been irf Santa
Rosa since last October, was the only
one of several score to escape from the
floor on which he was quartered in the
I was imprisoned five Hours. Three
times I called and the rescuers heard
me, but could not locate nvy position,
and I could hear them going away after
getting close to me.
"Finally I got a lath, poked it thru
a hole left by a falling steam pipe, and
by using it and yelling at the same
time, finally managed to show the peo
ple where I was.
Says 600 Perished.
"There were about 300 people killed
in three hotels and not less than 500 in
the whole town.
"The business section collapsed in
side of five minutes. Then the fire
started and burned Fourth street^ start
ing at each end and meeting the
middle, thus burning the imprisoned
people.
I saw, two arms protruding from
St. Rose hotel at Santa Rosa. He came
here on a motor cycle and tells a thrill
ing story of his rescue and the condi
tion of affairs at Santa Rosa.
Wen thp shock came he rushed for the
stairway, but the building was swaying
and shaking so that he could make no
headway, and he turned back.
Dresser Saves Life.
He threw himself in front of the
dresser in his room, trusting to that ob
ject to protect him from the falling tim
bers. This move saved his life. The
dresser held up the beams and these in
turn protected him from the mass of
debris. one part of the debris and waving fran
tically. There was so much noise, how
ever, that the screams could not be
heard. Just then the .flames cruelly
finished the work of the earthquake.
The sight sickened me, ancT I turned
away.''
Ten Killed in San Jose.
San Jose, Cal., April 20.The latest
reports show that ten People were
killed here in the earthquake. The hall
of records is destroyed, as well as the
hall of justice. All the main buildifcgs
are badly damaged.
None Dead at Brawley.
Los Angeles, April 20.Reports re
ceived tonight show that Brawley suf
fered less by yesterday's earthquake
shock than was originally stated.
About 100 buildings in the town and
the surrounding valley were damaged,
but none of them was wholly destroyed.
There were no fatalities. Brawley was
the only settlement in southern Califor
nia affected by Wednesday's quake.
PIEBHE, S. D.The new railroad transfer
boat W Walden was successfully launched
yesterday. Mr. Walden. for whom the boat is
named, came from Clinton. Iowa, to watch the
launching.
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VAST DISTRICT IS
NOW, DEVASTATED
Panorama, of Ruing Meets Gaze
from San Francisco's
Water Front.
San Francisco, April 20.From the
water front the burned city can be seen
today in all its smoky nakedness. From
the Pacific Mail dock to Vallejo street,
on the west side, a distance of two
miles, wreckage and ruin is the rule.
Altho the fire did not jump East street,
the damage has been enormous. The
filled-in land facing the ferry building
is a succession of gullies from four to
six feet deep. The ferry tower is out
of plumb and the big building is badly
twisted.
Looking up Market street the city is
a smouldering mass of ruins. Great
factories, mercantile houses, banks and
railroad office buildings are gone, and
only in. spots is there a tower, a monu
ment of some burned structure.
San Francisco's municipal "building
had concaved like an eggshell. The
steel dome was still standing, but the
rest of the $3,000,000 structure was a
mass of charred ruins.
Across an alley from the postoffice
stood the Grant building, one of the
headquarters of the army. This was
gutted. Opposite the Grant building,
on Market street, the ruins of the Hi
bernian Savings bank loomed up, its
former beautiful frontage transformed
into hideous ashes. This was the great
bank of the middle and poorer classes
and its loss will cause possibly greater
sorrow south of Market' street than
perhaps the loss of any one institution.
From this point down to the ferry the
samo story could be told of each suc
cessive block.
DENVER TO SEND AID
Denver, April 20.Mayor Speer of
this city today received' the following
telegram from George C. Pardee, gov
ernor of California:
"Three hundred thousand of San
Francisco people are in want of food.
Can your city send supplies? The need
is great.''
Mayor Speer immediately issued a
S
roclamation calling upon the people of
to aid in equipping a relief
train for which the Rocky Mountain
News and Denver Times were already
organizing. Liberal contributions of
food, clothing, blankets, tents, etc..
were made by merchants and the relier
train will be dispatched this afternoon.
AGCDSES D0WM1 TH
FRADD OF $10,000
Chicago, April 20.,T*.mes Surrock
of New Mexico today* made complaint
to the authorities that he had been de
frauded by John Alexander Dowie out
of a sum close to $10,000 and that the
mails had been used in the operation.
Surrock asserted that by means of
letters written to him by Dowie, he was
induced to invest in Zion City and that
now his demands for repayment are
not complied with.
Tho matter was referred to Postoffice
Inspector Stuart for investigation.
TOOK NO CHANCES WITH SCHULL.
Special to The Journal,
Stillwater, Minn., April 20.Albert
Schull, sentenced at Fergus Falls to a
life term in prison for the confessed
murder of Fred Wagner, was brought
here today handcuffed and under a
guard of three men. The Clifton Paper
Box company has been organized and
will soon open a factory in this city.
All the machinerv has been purchased.
Fifty Royal Arch Masons went to St.
Paul last evening to visit a lodge in
that city. The steamer Isaac Staples
cleared this afternoon with a tow of
logs for Fort Madison, Iowa.
68 Killed 120 Injured.
Oakland, April 20.Dr. Clark, sup
erintendent of the San Francisco coun
ty hospital, has telephoned from the
AgnewS insane asylum. He said that
eleven employees and officers of the in
stitution, including Drs. Kelly"and Gell,
were killed and twenty injured. Among
the patients fifty-five were kitted and
120 injured. All the buildings were
completely demolished.
Dr. Clark went to Agnews in an. auto
mobile, taking four nurses with him,
and assisted* the remaining members of
the staff to organize relief measures.
Tents have-been set up in the grounds
and all are oeing cared for. A tempo
rary building is being erected to house
the patients. Dr. Clark said that
there is no confusion and he believed
that all $ patieuts hate been account
ed for^-J
THE SITUATION TODAY
Three-fourths of San Francisco is a heap of ashes.
The property loss is placed at from $250,000,000 to $300,000,000.
A conservative estimate places the loss of life at 1,000 hut this number
may be increased. I act, the present estimate is .mere guess work.
More than 20 cities and towns other than San Francisco have been de-
stroyed in part or in whole.
The property loss in outside places is estimated at $30,000,000.
The loss of life in outside places is estimated at 800, -i'**
The people made homeless exceed 300,000^ && %4^M&J&%&.~.
The only public or semi-public- building, standing in San Francisco is
the United States mint. 7
A slight tremor shook the Pacific coasV Yesterday from San Francisee
to Los Angeles without doing great damage. 44w ^v
Measures for relief were undertaken by $je 1iation? states and cities.
More than $3,000,000 was raisM.
Defective Page
April i3Wn9&&*
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San Franclsto April 20.San Fran
cisco at midnight was the city deso
late.
I seemed that the acme of its mis
ery had been reached at dusk, when
flames burst from all sides of the beau
tiful Hotel Fairmont, the palace that,
above every other structure, was ap
parently mbst -strongly entrenched
against the attack of the aH-consuming
fire,
And surrounding that lofty pinnacle
of flames, aa far as the eyes could see
to the south, to the east and far out
to the west lay in cruel, fantastic heaps
charred and smoking all that remains
of a prosperous city.
Van Ness Avenue
Falls Prey to Flames
ANWHER/AfWFUEjKiGHT^P
'*$ ^Mlri BURNING RUINS
With each succeeding hour yesterday
the devastation and destruction in this
prostrate ruin of a city grew. The
business and wholesale district is now
only a glowing furnace, while the giant
tongnes of fire have reached the west
war ^Jjar beyond Van Ness avenue, are
wi^^ftout buildings and seeking more
to d ifpx.
At 4 p.m. Mayor Schmitz and Chief
of Police Dinan saw that the only hope
of saving the western addition, with its
forest of frame dwellings and the Rich
mond district, with its thousands of
homes, was to check the fire at Van
Ness avenue.
The avenue is ninety feet wide and
the possibilities of halting the flames
looked hopeful. Orders were given to
concentrate all fire engines at the ave
nue, marshal soldiers there, the police
and all the army of workers and make
one last stand for the city.
A Long Day of Fierce
Battle With Flames
This has been another day of uneven
struggle between man and unconquer
able elements. Acre after acre of
buildings have been reduced to embers
and ashes, despite the despairing strug-
agrationthe
les of firemen to limit the eon-
At this hour there is a hope that the
worst has been nearly reached and that
when tomorrow dawns the end will be
in sight. But the hope is faint.
If the flames can be halted in their
devastation of the western addition,
then "finis" will be written to the
great disaster.
Huge Gannon to Wreck
Palaces in Fire's Path
Huge cannons were drawn to the
avenue to aid the dynamiters in blow
ing up mansions on the east side of Van
Ness in order to prevent the flames
from leaping the highway and starting
on an unrestrained sweep of the west*
era addition.
The sight was of stupendous and
appalling havoo as the cannons were
trained on the palaces and the shot
tore into the walls and toppled the
buildings in crushing ruins. At other
points the dynamite was used, and,
house after house was lifted into the
air and dropped to the earth a mass
of dust and debris.
Workers May Have Died
In the Last Battle
The work was necessarily dangerous,
and many of the exhausted workers
may have been killed making this last
desperate stand. The flreline at 6
o'clock extended a mile along the east
side of Van Ness avenue, from Pacific
street to Ellis.
All behind this, except the Russian
hill region and a small district along
the north beach, has been leveled and
from the steel hulks of buildings, pipes
and shafts and spires have dropped into
Oakland
Alameda San Jose
Agnew Palo Alto (Stanford University)
Napa Salinas
Hollister
Vallejo Sacramento Redwood City
Port Richmond (Terminal Santa Fe)
Suisun
Santa Rosa
WatsonviUe
Monterey Loma
Prieta
Stockton Brawley
Sfnt Cruz
*GHlroy
*Healdsburg Cloverdale
HGeyservlile
*Hopland *Ukiah (State Hospital for Insane).
Totals
Ladies' Oxfords
'^.Several very at
tractive Hnei&
fc^adles' Lace? and
Tttwee styles of
ladies' $2 Patent
Colt and Kid Lace
%nd Bluchers -in
sltgtitly broken
sizes to $ 1 A.A
______-________________
Artillery and Dynamite Used to Destroy
Buildings in Path of fire.
the molten debris like so much melted
war.
Artillery and Dynamite
In a Deafening Soar
*The steady "booming of the artillery
and the roar of the dynamite above the
'cracking of the flames continues with
monotonous regularity. Such noise*
have been bombarding the ears since
the earthquake of forty-eight hour*
ago. Thoy have ceased to heed the
sound, afld rush pell mell, drowning
their senses in a bedlam of their owl
creation.
But Flames Defy All
And Whole City Is Gone
But all efforts to check the spread
of the flames at Van Ness avenue by
blowing up a mile of buildings on the
east side of Van Ness avenue have
proved fruitless.
The fire spread across the broad tho
rofare, and from picsent indications the
entire western addition, whieh contains
the homes of San Francisco's million'
aires and people of the wealthier class,
is now doomed.
The destruction of the western addi
tion of the city practically completes
the work of the ravaging flames and
marks the devastation of the entire
eity.
Fire Demon Bages
In Three Districts
Fires at midnight were burning in
three districts. One is in that portion
that extends from Nob Hill easterly
towards the water front. It is travel
ing slowly northward towards the Tele
graph Hill section. It may die out
from lack of material or may again,
sweep towards the extreme water front.
The second center is in the Mission
district. Here the fire has reached
Eighteenth street, but it is making lit
tle headway toward the hills to the
west, where thousands of people are
camped.
Most Dangerous Blaze
In Western Section
The third and most dangerous fire i
that threatening the western section.
This is really a continuation of the Nob
Hill fire. It is wedgeshaped with th
apex pushing forward. Against it the
firemen are bending their greatest ef
forts. Dynamite has been used for
back firing with only fair success. Many
more blocks will be blown up before
dawn.
Chief of Police Dinan estimates the
dead at 250. About fifty corpses have
thus far been found.
There was considerable shooting at
looters today, but the offenders were
fortunate to escape with wounds.
Heroic Fireman
1,485 ARE DEAD AND LOSS
NOW REACHES $283,180,000
I the following list of California cities, towns and villages blighted by earth-
quake and fire, the casualties and damages reported aa to each are estimated
from the most conservative reports:
Town. Population.
San Francisco 345,000
^Reports conflicting.
The last five towns are reported wiped out
property loss in them.
Good Shoes Cheap
V#
Jn Gun Metal, Patent Colt an Kid
Laae and Elucher Ox- ^^kin. Button, Laa and I
fiords nd &a>bo Ties
$198. $160. $1.25
$1.48 and. P****'
Ladies' Shoes s,,
'^yii i^'ag
1! i
Damage.
Men's Oxfords
$3
"Ladies' very pretty aud fashionable
Patent Colt Ribbon Tie $ 1 Oft
Oxfords at....
rMany Styles in Ladies' Oxfords at
in gun
vThe new College Boots
metal, kid and patent
A 'coU at
$3
1 4 M-
Saves a Cathedral
While the firemen were fighting with
dynamite, the steeple of St. Mary's
cathedral, a Roman Catholic edifice,
caught fire. A fireman with a hose tied
to his belt, scaled the steeple and ex
tinguished the blaze. Thousands cheered
the deed and the handsome building
was saved.
At 9 rj.fn. the' fire on tho easterly
slope of Nob Hill was eating its war
toward Telegraph Hill. A stream of
salt water was being pumped from the
bay thru a hose a mile long to quench
the progress of the conflagration, but it
seemed that North Beach, like the
greater portion of the eity, was doomed
to destruction.
Yesterday afternoon, after a riot at
the California street bakery, the police
took possession of the premises and it
will be operated under municipal con
trol. Men battled with women and
children in their efforts to seize tho
loaves. The police used their clubs
freely.
Casualties.
1,000
69
$250,000,000
500,000
400,000
3,000,000
400,000
5,000,000
250,000
2,000,000
200,000
40,000 25,000 30,000
70,000 17,000
85,000
800
5,000 6,500 3,000 1,900
8,000
80,000
1,800
400
1,000
7,000 3,000 2,600
300
18,000
500
7,000 2,500 1,900 1,000
500 600
2,000
50,000
700,000
70,000
25,000
$283,180,000
We have $10,000.00 worth more shoes than we ever had at one time
before. We doubled our orders for spring and summer, expecting the
advances In prices. We- figured rightalmost every pair of shoes in
our possession is worth from 10c to loc per pair more than we paid
and we give you the benefit
Men's Nobby Patent Colt and Gun
Metal Blucher Oxfords
Men's Patent Colt and" 9 eft
Kid Oxfords at
Men's Kid Oxford at $ 1 f&Qw
$1.98 and
1,
Boys' and Girls' Shoes
Boys' and Girls* Box Calf Laea at
26 per cent less than their present
alue
Child's sizes, 6 to 10ft 98c
Misses* sizes, 11 to $1-25
Little Gents' sizes. 9 to 13..il 2 5
Youths' sizes. 12 to 2 $ 1 3 5
Boys' sizes. 2H to 6V 4 8
Boys' All Solid
Satin Calf iAce,
all sizes gg
11 n's and
Misses' Oxfords at
69c 79c 98c
V&..S1.48 5 Boys' Vici Kid Ox*
pfords at $ 1 48.
SM 91.08 'and..8 ftA^IM
t&L
im
500
40,000
100,000
150,000 100,000
1,485
$20,000,000 would not cover
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