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BLAZE ALONG VAN NESS AVENUE
UNDER CONTROL
WIND FANS FIRE INTO ACTIVITY
Flames Are Sweeping Along Water
Front and Ferry Depot Is Threat
ened Destitution and Suffering of
Homeless People Indescribable
San Francisco April 21 San Fran
cisco has noj yet seen the conclusion
of the devastating work of the con
flagration The latest report how
ever is that the Are in the neighbor
hood of the ferry building has been
checked
The fire that started at Nob hill
and worked its way to the North
Beach section sweeping that section
clean of buildings was later veered
around by a fierce wind and made its
way southerly to the immense sea wall
sheds and grain warehouses The
flames were heading directly for the
Immense ferry building the terminal
point of all trains of the Southern
Pacific road The wind which at
times amounted to a gale adds fresh
terrors to the situation The author
ities considered conditions so grave
that it was decided to swear in imme
diately 10000 special policemen
anried with rifles furnished by the fed-
I eral government In addition to this
force companies of National Guards
arrived from many interior points It
was reported that 35 men had been
shot and killed while trying to work
their way into the ruins of the sub
treasury on Commercial street Two
Chinese were shot and killed on Mar
ket street for refusing to obey orders
of the soldiery
Hundreds Buried In Ruins
The three story lodging house at
Fifth and Minna streets collapsed and
over seventy five bodies have been
taken out There are at least fifty
other dead bodies exposed This build
ing was one of the first to take fire on
Fifth street At least 100 people were
lost In the Cosmopolitan on Fourth
street Many are dropping dead from
the heat and from suffocation Over
150 people are reported lost in the
Brunswick hotel Seventh and Mission
streets
Six hundred laborers from the ocean
shore arrived to look after the citys
sewers to prevent an epidemic and
the united railways commenced its
efforts to clean up some of the streets
Reports of babes being borne in the
refugee camps were frequently re
ceived Five women became mothers
in Golden Gate park
The police broke open every saloon
and corner grocery in the saved dis
tricts and poured all malt and spiritu
ous liquors into the gutters
The main remaining fire is confined
to east of Van Ness avenue and north
of- Union street but is burning its way
to the shore
Fire Raging Along Water Front
At 7 oclock the fire was raging over
fifty acres of the water front lying
between Bay street and the end of
Meiggs and Fishermans wharf To
the eastward it extended down to the
sea wall
The cannery and warehouses of the
Central California Canneries company
together with 20000 cases of canned
was the Impson and other lumber com
panies yards
The flames reached the tanks of
the San Francisco Gas company
which had previously oeen pumped
out and were burning the ends of the
grain sheds five in number which ex
tend farther out toward the point
Flame and smoke hid from view the
vessels that lay off shore vainly at
tempting to check the fire No water
was available except from the water
side
At 6 oclock it was believed the fire
had been checked at Van Ness avenue
and Gilbert streets The buildings
on a high slope between Van Ness and
Polk Union and Filbert streets were
blazing fiercely fanned by a high
wind but the blocks were so sparsely
settled that the fire appeared to have
but a slender chance of crossing Van
Ness at this point
Mayor Schmitz who directed opera
tions at this point conferred with the
military authorities and decided that
it was not necessary to dynamite the
buildings on the west side of Van
Ness This would seem to assure the
safety of what remains of the West
ern addition It is the only point of
exposure to which this section of the
city was subjected As much of the
fire department as could be collected
was assembled to make a stand at this
point
Feeding the Destitute
Although every effort of the various
relief committees was bent to appease
the gnawing hunger of the destitute
thousands efforts that were in a
large measure entirely successful
there are in this city many persons
either without sufficient food or en
tirely without it The government of
ficials took charge of every grocery
store in that part of the city still
standing and gave out foodstuffs to all
those who were hungry Bread lines
were established at Fillmore and Turk
streets at Golden Gate park and at
the Presidio and every person who
stood in line was given a whole loaf
The line at Fillmore and Turk was
four blocks long and those at the
parks were even longer There was
no disorder when the hungry thou
sands were told to form a line and
receive their bread and canned goods
All were content to wait their turn
Silk hatted men of affairs followed
good naturedly behind Chinese and
took their loaves from the same hand
Soup kitchens were established in
the streets of the unburned section
no fires whatever being allowed In
doors and many hungry persons wero
fed by these individual efforts Bread
and such other foodstuffs as may ba
at hand will be distributed at the va
rious stations twice a day
At several places along Market
street scores of men were digging
with their hands among the still
smoking debris of some large grocery
house for canned goods Wh u they
secured It which they did without mo
lestation from anybody they broke
the tins and drank the contents
Exodus of Population
Twenty five thousand persons left
devastated San Francisco during the
day and as many as could be carried
by the ferries and probably twice as
many more are seeking to depart All
those who seek to cross the bay are
given to understand that they may go
to any point in the state on any trans
portation line free of charge but that
lhey may not return This condition
is imposed to relieve the food situa
tion and is cheerfully complied with
by the fleeing people It is anything
to get away anything but the sight of
the blackened walls and smoking
ruins of the city Oakland received
the greatest number of refugees
though Alameda and every other bay
point is crowded to the limit
A late estimate places the number
of refugees camping in Golden Gate
park at 15000 men women and chil
dren So far their provisions have
been comparatively insignificant It
is feared by the health authorities
however that great suffering will re
sult unless shelter can be found in the
near future for these thousands The
most unsanitary conditions prevail
Refuse will it is declared in feet the
water supply seeping into the Lroken
mains breeding pestilence
Chinatowns Underground City
Los Angeles April 21 Strange is
the sceua where San Franciscos
Chinatow fitood says W W Over
ton who reached Los Angeles among
the refugees No heap of smoking
ruins marks the site of the wooden
warrens where the Chinese dwelt in
thousands The place is pitted with
deep holes and seared with dark pas
sageways from whose depths come
smoke wreaths White men never
knew the depth of Chinatowns under
ground city says Mr Overton
They often talked of these subterra
nean runways and many of them had
gone beneath the street levels two
and three stories But now that China
town has been unmasKed for the de
stroyed buildings were only a mask
men from the hillside have looked on
its inner secrets In places they can
see passages 100 feet deep I saw
hundreds of fright crazed yellow men
flee In their arms they bore their
cpium pipes their money bags their
silks and their children Besides them
ran the baggy trousered women and
some of them hobbled painfully But
these were the men and women of the
surface Far beneath the street levels
in those cellars and passageways
were other lives Women who never
saw the day from their darkened pris
ons and blinking jailors were caught
like rats in a huge trap Their very
bones were eaten by the flames
And now there remain only the holes
They pit the hillside like a multitude
of ground swallow nests They show
ths whIch the Plice never knew-
fruit was totally destroyed as also
The secret of those burrows will never
be known for into them the hungry
fire first sifted its red coals and then
licked eagerly in tongues of creeping
flames finally obliterating everything
except the earth itself
Oakland a Vast City of Refuge
Oakland April 21 Oakland is a
vast city of refuge and an intelligence
office for the innumerable thousands
of refugees from San Francisco A
great section of the population of that
stricken city has taken every available
space that offers itself in Oakland and
shelter and food are being provided
for all though the relief committee is
taxed to the limit of its powers The
tremendous and almost hopeless task
has been begun of trying to reunite
scattered families of getting trace of
lost ones of determining whether the
missing are dead or still safe some
where in the great and tangled mass
of stricken refugees that spreads
Itself over all the country through a
thousand highways on this side of the
bay and in the San Mateo country to
the south of San Francisco Messages
are stacked yards high in all the tele
graph offices waiting to be sent
throughout the world
Havoc in Other Cities
San Jose Cal April 21 Nineteen
people were killed in San Jose and
the entire business section wrecked
damage 5000000 One hundred and
ten killed and seventy injured most
ly patients at Agnews asylum build
ing completely ruined Stanford uni
versity memorial church and other
buildings wrecked damage 3000000
One student named Hanna and one
other man killed there At Salinas
the Spreckles sugar refinery valued
at 1500000 was completely de
stroyed Reports from Del Monte
Hollister Watsonville Monterey Pa
cific Grove Santa Cruz and other
southern coast points show slight
damage in comparison
Estimates of Property Loss
New York April 21 Fire insurance
underwriters in this city variously estimated-
the insurance companies
losses in the San Francisco fire at
between 15000000 and 200000000
The property loss in the great Chi
cago fire was between 165000000
and 170000OCO
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