The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-05-05
EARTHQUAKE AND FIRE
CONTINUED from poge one.)

words can tell of the misery. destitu-
ton and destruction that followed in
the wake of the terrible flames In
brief space of time $4,000 people were
made homeless: bcreft of an their be-
longings; q loss to business men and
others to an amount exceeding $3.50. OOO,-
OOO with insurance of about 5000, 0OO.-
600 Not quite four-ifths Of the city
is destroyed. The fire was stopped on
the northeast by the water front, on
the southeast by Townsend street, on
the south by Bryant and Twenty-hrst
streets, on the southwest by Dolores
| and the west by Franklin. The area
| devastated approximate 10000 acres
/ or about fifteen square miles. There
are few cities in the world where SO
much valuable property is contained
3 In an equal territorial area. Within this
fifteen square miles were nearly 100
manufacturing establishments and
more than 100000 inhabitants, besides
some 10000 transients. These brief
facts serve to convey faint idea OF
the magnitude of the losses sustained
and the vast extent of the ruin. They
also serve to sharply emphasize the
comparatively small loss of life from
all causes-earthquake, fire accident
and shooting.
The aggregate Of fatalities is esti-
mated at 700, but the real number of
deaths will never be known. Secretary
Metcalf in his report to the President
, places the number of deaths at 800.
with 1000 injured i'm local hospitals, but
l adds. an my Judgment it will be inn
r. possible to determine the exact num-
Der of deaths"
- OF all the handsome buildings in San
| Francisco but few withstood the on
= slaughts of the flames. The st. Fran
els Hotel stands erect in a district
= that was otherwise totally destroyed,
v The woodwork and everything contain
. ed inside was buried; it is claimed
4 that the walls are secure and that the
6 building can be put i'm order by June
q LIST coming, The Call building is gut
o ted, but can be repaired, it Is claimed
- The Chronicle and Manodnock build
ings are I'm fair condition the FLOOD
NJ, building likewise: the Kohl or Hay
, ward building and the Merchants Elk
y change stand and will be made ready
for occupancy. The few buildings nam
. ed are all that is left of San francisco
i' business district. All others were de
> stroyed by fire or dynamite.
lie With the exception of the st. Francis
and the new Fairmonte all the hotels
IL are gone The famous Palace is burn
'r ed beyond repair; the four walls arr
'e standing and that is all; the familiar
p Occidental furnished food for tn
ID flames: the old Lick House. a Landmark
lie of Pioneer days, is a thing of the past
s. The California Hotel is but pile o
f. ruins. A wall of this hotel went dow
Df under the shock. falling on the hous
st of Engine Co. No. 2, on Bush street
T. The pile of brick crashed through tn
a. roof of the fire house and fatally in
m jured Chief Sullivan of the San Fran
rs cisco Fire Department.
sh With the exception of Mission Dolo
No res not church in the devastated dis
,t trict was left standing. The theater
n were all destroyed. The Grand Oper
20 House and Columbia Theater collapse
10 the remaining places of amusemen
went down before the flames. TIL
y. large modern buildings stood the shoe
- of earthquake, but later were destroy
ed by fire. In many instances thei
walls remained standing and had to b
dynamited