The morning call., 1892-07-10
ABOUT THE CITY.
Damage Done on This Sde-Stranse Scenes
and Incidents.

was done in various parts of the
city by the explosion. From the water
front to the Mission and Western Addition
hundreds of windows were broken, and in
cases they were valuable plate-glass affairs
In downtown business houses.
In the First National Bank building. cor
ner of SansOme and Bush streets. heavy
threP-eightbs Of an inch plate glass on the
Bush-street side was shivered into small
pieces. large plate window In the San
Francisco Clearinghouse, at oil Sansome
street, was also blown in and broken.
The office of }. FugaZi. on Montgomery
avenue, which also runs through 10 Wash
ingtoD, was badly damaged. The blast
struck the large Monigomery-avenue
through the office and tore out the Washing
ton-street window with an awful crash.
heavy plate window in II. Lebes e.
Co.'s store On Post street, near Grant ave-
me, was also shattered, as was window
in Davis. Schonwasser 81 Co.'s place, nearly
opposite.
Another flint plate-glass window in the
warero0ms of c. f. Weber & Co., corner of
Stockton and Post streets, was blown into
the street and shattered into the smallest
kind OF fragments.
AT the City OF Paris, corner of Geary
strickland Grant avenue. another large and
valuable window was broken into bits
Although tile damage done in the lower
portion OF the city, from SansOme street
east TO the water front. was comparatively
slight, the excitement for the time being
was intense, and many brave heart weak
ened at the strange and unaccOuntable
reports and strange rumblngs. Scarcely a
block escaped without some damage, and
tie sidewalks were stTewn with broken
glass. In the high buildings were the
shocks especially severe.
The experience OF the clerks in the hard
waTe-stOre Of Baker, Hamilton & Co. was
something that Will long lnger in their
memories. When the first shock was heard
everybody said. What's that?" When the
second shock, every body looked at his
neighbor blankly. Order was about re.
stored when the big magazines went aud
there was wild scramble for the streets
Added 10 the din of the explosion was the
rolling OF heavy iron on the lower floor ana
tie rafting and clanking of steel rails and
bars on the top story, making mimic thun-
der that chilled the most courageous.
The elevators on the top floors were utiI-
lied and down they came as swiftly as pos
sibe, some of the clerks hanging by the
supporting ropes Down the stairs thew
piled at q wild gallOp and out into the streets
they sped, 63 in number, to join hundreds OF
others who bad fled from other buildings in
the neighborhood
Similar scenes were witnessed in the
hardware and iron houses of Holbrook,
Merrill IL Stetson, the Dunham- Carrigan-
Hayden Company and Moore, SlOss e.
Scott In the first named two big lights
were blown out on the Beale-street side,
and some OF the glass fell inside with
crash that knocked the bookkeeper off his
reckoning IN simple interest On the lower
floors of all the houses the mems ears
buZzed with the force OF the shock as if
they were in n sawmill
In the Durham, Carrigan & Hayden store
all the clerks were badly scared with the
possible exception of Ambrose Buckley, the
stole of the institution. He was reading
the paper while an order of his was being
put W, and when the final crash came he
started 10 make out shipping tag under
the impression that his order was coming
down on the elevator.
Windows were smashed In the Arizona
block on Market and Main streets and or
naments were knocked off the roof. Win
COW panes were put out in Hawley Brothers
establishment on Market and Beale streets
and the remains OF large pane of glass
were buried in the Office OF Williams. Di-
mond 81 Co. on Pine street, near Market,
and Lilienthal & CO., the wholesale LIQUOR
men. had two panes shiyered In the upper
story. All the people in their block on Fr MT
street. between Pine and California, were
out in the middle of the street before the
echoes of the last explosion had died away.
Yates Il Co. and Whittier, Fuller x Co. each
lost big pane of glass. Sheldon's block on
First and Market. and Lachman's tall build
ing adjoining, were badly shaken, but no
one ran out.
Berwn q Brothers store at 81 Battery
street parted company with two large panes
and the red-headed boy fell down the first
fight OF stairs. He picked himself up with
out stopping to consider possible injuries
and boted into the street at gallop.
FechhelmeT, G0Odkind 81 Co. had a light
In their ton story shattered.
The Custom-houSe felt the shock as IL it
had been but block away, and Postmaster
Backus thought the building was about TO
move TO the new pOst0fiice site. The pe0-
pie on the Custom-house floor were panic
stricken, and those who went up to make
entries made very sudden exits. Tue clerks
Joined the procession in very short order
and the building was almost deserted. Sew
eTal panes OF glass were blown out and the
glass fell inside with crash that would
have awakened the dead.
The Appraisers building at Washington
and Sansome also came in for its share Of
the shake. Court was not in session IN the
United States Circuit Court luckily. for
there were three windows blown in, the
glass falling about the room with a dreadful
noise. TIE District Courtroom windows
met with a similar fate
The San Francisco and North Pacific
Railway Company's building on Mission
street, near First, was Jared con siderably
and number of windows were smashed
most of them being on the lower floors.
The skylight and windows in Morosco's
Theater were cracked and broken.
Many windows on Third street were
smashed. The Chicago Saloon at 156 Third
street had huge, thick plate-glasS window
blown out, while at 560 S.euart street glass
doors were blown inward.
The window OF a real-estate office at 3O1
Montgomery street was blown out on the
pavement.
The big building at the northwest corner
OF Larkin and McAilister streets. occunIed
by the Supreme Court, was very badly
shaken, and the structure swaved ON its
GafiO In a
damage resulted.
Out in the Mission the women and chill.
dren were greatly frightened and rushed
into the streets with banched faces. IL
was quite while before they knew the
cause of the shock. many believing at first
that an earthquake had occurred.
Police Officer McEnnerny, who lives on
Guerrero street, near Sixteenth, SAYS he had
a hard time In convincing his neighbors that
the city Nas not being bombarded by a for
eign navy.
The Western Addition and Nah Hill resi-
dents suffered many losses Of valuabl. hric
a-brac which was Knocked off mantels and
stands By the explosion. But very few win
dONs were broken.
Other damage done of "A mjnor na,,,ro ,ros
as follows: Mantle building. sevarai Win
dows broken; Cook 81 Co., Kearny street
panos OF glass IN door broken: White
House, panes cracked; Verein Fintracht
window broken; Doane e. HensheIw0od'
@hdo" smashed, William Shew. 523 Kearny
street, skyiight broken; California Fnrni.
ture Company, window smashed Travei-
lers Insurance Company, glass proken.
Wells. Fargo * Co., window broken: i NJ
Bonacina. 622 Washington stree, window
damaged. "'"
st. Brendan's Church, corner of Frsmont
ana Harrison streets sustained severe dam.
age. The handsomely stained glass window
over the altar was completely DESTROYED.
which, with the framework, was valued nj
SGOO me top OF the tabernacle was thrown
Win great force TO the ground, entailing an
additional loss of 500. the whole. howeysr
Deing covered by insurance. The SEXTON.
who al the time Of the exnlosinn MS en-