The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-18
HEART OF CITY
LIES In |. RUINS
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Of the Palace hotel, that structure has
not yet caught fire. sEa
The flames are rapidly nearing the
Postal Telegraph company's buildingl
and are within block Of the ASCOT
ated Press and Western Union building.
The Postal company Is preparing to
vacate and this will shut off all tele-
graphic communication with the outside
werld. s 81 "a. $fssa
Whole District Doomed.
From present indications the entire
business district, both wholesale and
retail, will likely fall prey to the
flames, which are increasing in intens-
I ity, famed by the stiff breeze.
The burning district runs from South
street tosthe waterfront, south Of Mar
ket.s North of Market street, from San
some, to the waterfront, and from Mar
ket to Washington. There is also g.
block burning on Mission street, be-
tween Twenty first and Twenty-second.I
The newspapers having had their
power cut off, have combined and will
issue one paper for all from the office
of the Chronicle, which has its own
power plant. &,
There was a great rush at the differ
rent banks by depositors who wanted to
sdraw out their deposits, but the banks
+ decided to keep their doors closed.
By order Of the chief of police, all
the saloons have been closed. IL :, :. -
L The damage already inflicted is esti-
mated roughly at $40,000,000. 49, ~
=, Il, North Side Wrecked. =
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wrecked, and the flames are, spreading
in all directions. In the absence Of
water the fire department. has resorted
to the use Of dynamite, and buildings
are being demolished in the hope Of
staying the confagration
The block bounded by Sansome, Cal
| ifornia. Pine and Battery streets is
practically doomed, the flames sweep
ing clear across it in great sheets from
! Pine street, with no apparatus avail
,s~.~>a~Fire's March Continues. :
The fire. has reached Market street,
near Third. The building next to the
Claus Spreckles building, at Third and
Market, is in flames, and the fire ex-
! tends along the south side of Market
to Fourth.
The following buildings on New
Montgomery street, between Market
and Mission, have been entirely de-
stroyed:
Pacific States Telephone company,
Rialto building, Mission and Market;
the Natoma building on Second and
Market; the twelve-story Mutual Life
4 building on California and Sansome has
beer! entirely ~, DESTROYED. >,-~. 80. 49,.
+ Vast District Ruined.
l. In general it may be said that the
l.district lying between Market and
Howard streets, from the bay as. fa1
west as the city hall, has been badly
wrecked.
The hotels in the. vicinity of Third
and Market street were badly shaker
up, but there seems to have been ne
loss Of life there. w..
! The Call and Examiner buildings, al
well as the Western Union building
have been badly wrecked. The large
| department stores in this neighborhoot
9 were also ruined, but the earthquake
S occurred at on hour >whensotheyy were
: empty andsno loss of aelife.is reported
J, Farther $, east, asen Market street
+ toward the ferry slips, is section oc
:, cupied by Icheap lodging houses AM
o hotels and here the loss of life is yer yer!
great, tho the extent of it could not b.
ascertained at this hour. r
Hotels Fall, Bury1ng Many.
The Valencia hotel, between Seven
\ teenth and Eighteenth streets, on Va
/ lencia street, a fve-story frame build
ing, toppled over into the street, bury
ing seventy-fve people in the debris.
A house on Fourteenth street, nea
Valencia, was wrecked, killing tw
! persons. .,. ~~ >. III --~..-s :.
r Many of the fire houses were dam
aged so badly that it was 'simpessihl
7 to get the fire apparatus OUT! E
! IA lodging house on Seventh stree
lbetween;: Howard and Mission, know
as the Kingsley, entirely collapsed.
:. is on fire and seventyfvee to eight
'e people are believed to be buried in tn
- flaming ruins. :,
i drygoods store of Lipman is on fir
Is threatening the destruction of the e,
tire block. ~,
Big Fissure In Street. =.
At Eighteenth and Valencia there
a. crevice in the street six feet vic
or and entire sidewalks are torn up. TT
I'm streetcar tracks are badly twisted a
ng thru the southern section of the cit
s en and traffic is at q standstill. 4
-. 5 Injured Walk to Hospitals.
ed s. Many N.Y. people suffering from injurii
*; are seen on the streets making the
by way to hospitals. - ~" =
I'D { The: Episcopal church. on, Eleven,
lin street. is badly damaged and at Il
az. Studebaker carriage factory on Ten
nd and Market streets, the top story cave
Of lin, badly wrecking the entire buildin
10 Waterfront AAane. ~:
lila A fire which broke out in the MAJ
.es Wholesale Drug company, - and r.:
[ha Fremont street, threatens to destroy t
- entire block. -, =, =
Of Practically the entire waterfront
suit on fire. 20 j :; r.,
his On California and: Pine streets t
- fire has reached to Sansome stree
h nt From Pine and Dupont streets fires G;
the be seen raging in the whole downtoV
md districts. - (
&c A brisk westerly. wind is coming
ue- and the destruction Of the entire bu
rad ness district is threatened.
con Burned in Wreckage. E. x e
the ~ Several persons are thought to
zen . pinioned under the wreckage of t
lie fish market streets, between Sacramer
{ and Clay and Commercial streets,
) On Fourth and Tebu and Tehal
streets an entire family was caught