■ ■■ Berkeley. While FRANCISCO—SHOWING and buildings Alameda DESTRUCTION FIRE. land, BY SAN number and dwellings, OF of office MAP SAN FRANCISCO FIRE, FANNED with lodging found have hundreds ' dependent thousands of people were countless the there friends, poor wells, be are and these not upon may charity. dependent who full of months. upon water again for several are for of evolving system The work Reports the of babes a being born in RACING BY RIGR ACAIN WIND, the immediate wants of the supplying refuge received. frequently camps were the is in that Five people is matter became Golden now mothers in a women organization. To get Gate of park. some process need in Plan whereby those Rebuild City. sort of scheme to a Oakland, is the life Cdl., necessities of April 21. —Oakland the is get can Mayor city his staff, vast of refuge and intelligence aim of Gov. Pardee, a office for the government innumerable thousands of local city and the Mott Been Had That Hopes the Conflagration survivors who have organizations. managed to and civic escape from San of Francisco. A section Checked great Arising Dashed by the Relief Work. Organize of the w'orld-famous cosmopolitan population relief of the headquarters At the Velocity. Gale Great of of the metropolis has taken detail the actual of committee the available that itself offers every space by committees handled work is being in the city and shelter and food are branches various of who have charge being provided for all, though the relief registration is the work. There of a FORTITUDE UTMOST THE SUFFERING WITH committee is IS of BORNE taxed the limit to register asked to bureau, where all are its powers. of those wishing for the their use names The tremendous and almost hopeless friends. Hundreds find families to or task has been begun of trying to reunite received been inquiries have of scattered families, of getting Situation—Food Best of the the regard the People Making in Unanimous for information to in people. of lost of determining trace ones, t families In hurried flight many whether the missing still dead are or Sufficient Quantity in Supply Scanty, but to loss separated and at to a were were somewhere the safe in and great look know in what direction to for stricken Absolute Famine. tangled of refugees that Prevent mass each other. itself the spreads all country over committee There is provision a through thousand highways this on a the provisions which takes charge of the bay in the Mateo side of and San which they fast stored are as are as south the of San Francisco. county to Friday 21. —Late district April fitful San Francisco. wind received warehouse the likely in grain seemed to at a a stacked yards high in all Messages are raging fire night the over spread the flames was and of Thirteenth Franklin hills and to the corner offices waiting telegraph to be sent the front between water of the fifty acres cacti sand heaps. From here the provisions streets. are throughout the end of ihe and street Bay But when the various despair and sent to depots where deepest people was Metropolis. To Place of wharf.. Takes Fisherman’s Meiggs and refugees being throughout from fed the city. the remaining of part are the down to temporarily taken eastward it extended the This city has the the residence churches the district The city taking began of to drag are the reached wall, but had not Francisco the of San metropolis place sea as their effects into charge of the work of ministering sand hollow's, Octavia io mile of piers, which lie quarter a a and here Pacific coasL the of the Approximate] the It In iy District Burned Over. Show The Black Lines street the the of the hungry. joyful needy and sent “Fire wants toward the message east. the bankers and kings, finance C d-jsely merchants All the Settled of the City. Part Practically eludes view stopped!” Artillery had hid from roared and Flames and smoke Chinatown Laid Bare. Francisco the San of of yesterday No shore.. dynamite the lay off vessels that made holes without avail I into Owing hospital, the harbor avail. temporary ing flames, without but Angeles, Cal., April 21.—“ Strange a Los gathering and conferring and are the from available water except where stood the beautiful was most once hospital for accommodate being unable structures to heat the to tremendous is the where San Francisco’s plans for shape the first getting into scene until it side, not and water was homes of Nob Hill. But great hopes all brought dry the injured who fire distance from the as were are some department fire almost dark the that centered in the efficacy of intervening were AND VICINITY. FRANCISCO SAN an there. disappear they to tinder and this seem attention its to as abie to turn was burned area. stretched flames About minute the 100 patients the like flash were point. a Desolation Market Street. on Thursday the dock time. at reach them. on one Not 21. April —From the desolation Francisco, San of Market confidence Goat even beaches of San Francisco evening them to conveyed hills and tugs The which the fire and the that street banking in the belief and business island, in the tented city. lodged like immense w'here they look were an will worked its district 7(1 hours had seemed terrible that of for on Howard hospital. as and along from as park The docks For miles through the the checked, the roads leading fair city had been from the north their ferry been the street have Ingleside to Folsom street the beaches from to sea Francisco plunged and around the people San shore of of the bay point were as homeless saved, this and fire wall North Beach the the at at are was afternoon far Fort Vehicles all into despair yesterday Mason. of east rigged farther as makeshifts permitted new in not camped tents, to up creep velocity, kinds, including carriages high when wind of baby that coming and than Main sticks wood a from few of street. a a the blew broke down weights, from northwest, under abnormal the over of the blanket sheet. A few situation To of the more add the horrors to or a by thp Driven along Household fire-stricken district. strewn the transportation are way. with better explosions fortunate, general alarm and the all neared the effects, clothing valuables of wind flames quickly and the the facilities afforded than A streets. of shook were majority many sewer gas off kinds terror-stricken front, threatening to cut abandoned by the water victims of the of the catastrophe, by created Vesuvius in minature was communication with Oakland and left them. where they owners are pile vehicles managed tents and to upheaval Bryant such at on an Some day the claim them. Berkeley. owners may comfortably therefore and eighth Cobblestones more streets. were are squadron looting. ordered soldiers permit Gen. Custer at The no once a housed. dirt blew and hurled 20 feet upward back McCalla, keep Rear Admiral commandant of endeavor to to Like Ground. Looks Camp men the out of ground. w’hich, spreading in this di- the Mare Island yard, the fire at report- navy Golden Panhandle Gate Park and the ruined huge The only bank in the like look camping vast destruction one district that escaped was UNITED ST. TES MINT. is said fully 100,000 ground. It that the the Market Street bank, at corner rich refuge and sought It is persons, poor, of Seventh and Market streets. Golden Gate park alone. Fully in but the in the Grand building, gutted 200,000 homeless located at floor. It more ones ground firemen saved the the other places of refuge. it will just out as soon as pay money Portsmouth has served officials. square many hears Clearing house the from notable and sensational uses, some but probably, than that none more so, the Pacific of the city A corner near it which it put when became to was Second and Brannan mail wharves at for the time being public morgue. a ruined, and the streets, not was corpses 20 30 laid Between and were Postal is The sailors’ home intact. side by side the trodden upon grass has restored Telegraph its company suitable for lack of place. a more with the orient by cable connection establishing the It is said that when flames station Ocean Beach, at a threatened reach the to the square is service yet for delivering but there no dead, mostly unknown, removed were there. messages Columbia they where to square, were Cattle. Killed by Crazed Many buried threatened when danger that of fatalities took place A series quarter. of the stampeding Thursday the result Or.e of the Few Structures in the Business Section of the City Reported Forced Bury Dead. to as Sixth and of herd of cattle at Saved. a Out Presidio soldiers pressed at the Folsom hundred of the streets. Thre into service all who men came near bid the Union ed that the fair Tection, to destroy ships under animals they panic-stricken when construction war ran force'd and them labor at burying to the only of at the Union Iron ferry depot, works charged flames and and felt the egress means were saw So thick the dead. the were corpses damaged. In his from the city. not Washington report to the trampling wildly down street, under piled that they becoming —; were a up - L u the admiral said the One loss of life all who in the foot The Postal Telegraph way. company was were and the issued order to menace, was through* had been exaggerated. offices through and its gored forced abandon to temporary was man bury them soldiers The at cost. any “No estimate of the loss life of building, already is bull. At least dozen in the Ferry at by maddened a a needed for work, and the other at w’ere hand,’’ said of the committee killed. flames. of is said, scorched by the it one were persons, rifles citizens compelled point of were safety. “We hope it is not hospital, as The front some Empties Wells. water Shock emergency take the task of burial. Some objected to to have feared. The fire practically now believed be place of confidently to a stood first, but the at troops San Francisco no of the A feature was is under control, having been checked danger, and the safety, in gravest in was trifling, and who came and cisterns every man wells which upon many A ffected by the Earthquake. Map Showing Towns and Country of Van Ness west and in the avenue the officers in charge made hasty preparations labor least reach forced to at one thousands residents was of depended for Mission. North of Russian Hill it is their from to quarters move Rich who had done hour. drinking and cooking. Every men never for water stood,” W. W. Overton, the city Chinatown rebuilding of the ourned and says raging toward the bay, but it will side workmen by the of much work stood affected these cisterns earthquake has Angeles preventing widespread financial panic who reached Los among a spread not west. The destitute need wind such that The of velocity digging in the sand for trenches was wells. Water in and of them that, of the awful the refugees. ‘‘No heap of smoking many in the first part relief. After the living cared for are brick granite walls, already weakened and calamity. fell awful in the those who did disappeared and not return for of the catastrophe, seemed certain. In the ruins marks the site wooden the dead will be ennumerated.” subsequent by the earthquake and remain writing the At present earthquake Wednesday months. The of many of face of loss and the complete where the slant-eyed enormous warrens men Hungry People Aid Firemen. fire, falling into the still soldiers were unburied, and the effect, are the and this had same accounts, commercial the Orient dwelt in thousands. The wiping of the life of out Thousands of refugees without were streets. The fear that gravest into service. was pressing in for part at least, the men holes and scarcity the empire city of the Pacific, the place is pitted with deep leaders food and water. In sheer desperation principal Market street, the of avenue Hospital. Docks Used of after the shocks. While water as of trade and here seared with dark from commerce passageways, are they aided the fire and dynamite city from the ferry, the to escape turned the Folsom dock city pipe system suplied large The street was a cheerful and confident that all will be whose depths smoke wreaths. All come Van at Ness men until they avenue would ending all possibility be blocked up, well the end. The the the has and the winds in wood are governor, gone fell in their tracks from exhaustion. THE VIEW OF MARKET STREET, CENTRAL POINT OF THE DIS- of egress. the architects, bank commissioners, streaking ashes. the Finally they cheered by military ASTER. were standing between building The only and the offices the insurance “Men, white knew representatives the regulations for men, never their Bakeries snccor. and Stewart Mission, How’ard, East large of the of commercial depth of Chinatown’s underground many in started the ruins, were great which masses Pablo hotel, is the streets San city in the enterprises city,” Mr. Overtown. ‘‘They often of half-charred are now says wood from the homes running. is occupied and clearing the offices and arranging way talked subterranean of millionaires of these being runw’ays. used heat to the The shot First and Howard at tower affairs smooth of the adjustment for had beneath Oakland And of them bakeries many gone ovens. worked were is This landmark streets was gone. of lighten the heavy hand will that the levels, three stories. overtime street two and available or boat every was built 40 years ago. leveled everything in that has disaster But that Chinatown has been pressed into service bring now unmasked, to the supplies Thought Conflagration Ended. ruin. for the destroyed buildings common the bay. More bread over and When daylight appeared the ruins only from the hillside on plenty of milk Vaults. mask, for Bank the Safe in weak and were a men sickly Money Friday hope of saving anything from have looked where its inner children and refugees on of the here state women big The are was men Telegraph Hill Golden Gate to lay. In places they secrets the reorganization. work of can see cry. the in assisting 100 feet deep. Five hundred thousand in the vaults pounds of passages the that The money news beef in canned the ‘‘The fire is this Mongolian warehouses Francisco safe of San swept banks the section of in Swift & Co. South at San Francisco will full clean. It left shred banks in of the the all that no and pay moved into the refugee the place the painted wooden fabric. It down of ate were takes calm to camps. as soon as Face the bare ground this lies has done and Horror with Fortitude. the present, stark, of tor disorder the breezes The big have taken panic. the light Homeless prevent starving much to construction awaj' and the people of Joss companies here have opened ashes. houses and mission San Francisco facing the awful are calamity hundreds schools, offices and of stores and opium dens, .with employment grocery spirit of fortitude which a up hells been employed gambling and theaters —all of be have to must command survivors the admiration of the them The buildings the quarries, that blazed world. immediately went. There to evidences sent of up are no lack of building like tissue lanterns weakness be and when the there paper the crowds moving no among may back candles touch reluctantly material. Already of the sputtering their sides. repair many each advance of upon the flames, this I, by the earthquake ‘‘From place following the damaged fire, which buildings continue to sweep toward of fright-crazed the being hundreds Wednesday morning yellow Conquered of saw ocean. for are the repaired moment, but their healthy flee. In they and activity of and bore undaunted,' their the men arms bravery a exhibited by stirring opium pipes, their is all about. bags, reassuring their sort men. and children money women in the face their of relief trains and silks and children. Beside overwhelming Should the. them to disaster money is that of arrive quickly, homeless the baggy-trousered the and destined aid a race ran to arise poor women, stronger than and pestilence and wretchedness of them hobbled famine painfully. out of that ever the some ruins which it. surround add their horrors not to ‘‘These the and of may were men women is sufficient There little calamity, with the left present the one surface. Far of a beneath the the street great American of fortitude look metropolis by the amount may on levels in those cellars and Golden pasasgeways Gate. Shorn plight of the city without of the its not present glories, other lives. Women who many its were never confidence in the palaces and future. vast commercial strong the day their a from darkened prisons emporiums saw disaster leveled all of the the splendid, the Through to earth, its wide and blinking jailors caught like area were of of homes in ashes, it will indomitable, spirit rise courageous again in huge rats Their trap. bones a very Chronicle Building. The the asserted itself. still magnificence, in greater has west b.y the flames. eaten a monument were the and indomitable to courage Caring for Refugees. Oakland park slight. Fringes of houses “And there remain only the was now spirit shown by its inhabitants in the about the base of the hill, left April 21. —To feed holes. the standing. Oakland, Cal., and They pit hillside like multitude a awful present emergency. by the attacked conflagration. people unfortunate of San of ground swallow the were house nests. They Can’t Save Residence District. which driven back by suddenly been have which who bereft show depths the police Francisco was a veering never wind. Everything Van Ness There little hope livelihood of of saving and knew. The secrets of those of homes burrows on seems means ’’section, seemed doomed, while and west residence the choicest avenue lying forth the best effort of the will be The known, for into tall, is calling them building the Spreckels building, the ight Claus is the never square r on main the fire Octavia with at street, west and north of Van Ness in city. It is calculated which hungry fire first sifted the plant people of this its red of the Francisco located; the building avenue. San Call is next coats its destroying advance wedges, seemed The of the fire department, who beyond is 200,000 people have the Examiner least and then licked eagerly men that in building and large building the right at tongues of the last come on formidable too be stopped. done to At the have splendid work, making lis the Palace bay and hotel. of the creeping flames, buildin this side finally obliterating The tall sky are left is to the are now gon new scraper, erected a farthermost south lime of burned the strenuous efforts to check the devour- the old homes Baldwin the of Oak- everything hotel site. distributed the earth itself.” except on among