The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1906-04-27


tnI Ruin at Van Ness Avenue WnS
ucceSsfuI-Tunston's Soldiers Jsing
stern Measures With Iootcrs-NnnS
ChouIS Intent ON Robbery Shot.
Eleven Postal clerks Taken From
Living Tomb After Long Impri>on-
ment.
SAN FRANCISCO. April 21-Gcncral
Funston's report 20 the war depart
mcut at Washington says.
The IRE has been checked. and
there has been no renewal of it west
Of Octavia street or south OF Market
street but it Is not under control at
the water front. and It is creeping to.
ward our telegraph headquarters 40 the
ferry house. through which this mes
sage is sent.
Sun Fruucisco's darkest hour seems
10 have passed and the fire which has
been raging since Wednesday morning
Immediately after the earthquake. has
in a great measure burned itself ont
The fire fighters are stin using dyua
mite. and one-quarter of the city will
probably be saved
The stand made at Van Ness avenue.
Nineteenth and Mission streets was
generally successful. and the district
from Post to Union street and from
Ocnvia street 10 the Ocean shorcway
is stlll intact and viii probably re-
main so.
II Is now reported that the 1ro has
broken out in the Wharfs north of
Market street. and 1t IS feared thnt
unless soon checked it may reach the
Oakland ferry building where the
Western Union has established the only
wire out of the city The fire is prac-
tically under control On the western
addition. and the property west of
Octavla street stands a good chance of
being saved but the fire is spreading
toward the north beach. around the
east side of Telegraph hill
From three story lodging house at
Fifth and Minna streets. which col
lapsed Wednesday morning, more than
seventy five bodies were taken out
There are ffty other dead bodies in
sight in the ruins. This building was
one Of the first 20 take fire on Fifth
street At least 100 persons were Kill
ed IN the Cosmopolitan
Many persons dropped deod Of heat
and suffocation.
More than 80 persons are reported
dead In the Brunswick hotel.
Five fremen were crushed 20 death
Wednesday night while fighting the
flames. They were caught beneath the
debris Of building which collapsed
At midnight Wednesday thirty per
sons were imprisoned in an apartment
house. The fremen cut through the
walls with their axes. determined If
possible to rescue the imprisoned peo-
pie. A hole big enough 20 permit the
passage of man was made in the
wall, and r. G.. Durie, q fireman.
thrust through his arm aud was as
slstlng a young girl 70 safety when The
roof OF the structure collapsed
Durie escaped with his life, but the
thirty imprisoned lodgers were killed.
Fire Chief Sullivan. who was injured
Wednesday morning is still alive. His
wife died yesterday afternoon.
A dozen men have been shot by sol
diers for loOting. and in two eases
thieves were run through with bayo-
nets and their bodies left lying where
they had fallen to become food for the
oncOning flames.
At one place on Thursday Eve men
we're shot two killed and three badly
wounded.
Money counts for nothing. The food
supplies are as free FOR the paupor as
for the Croesus. There Is nothing for
the one that the other could not have.
Throughout it all the best of com
radeshlp prevailed. For The time class
lines were blotted ont.
The mayor says San Francisco VIII
without doubt reconstruct It's public
buildings without delay and on a scale
Of magnifccnce hitherto unknown. He
has called on President Roosevelt and
congress to do the same with the fed
eral buildings. More than Sl00Oo0O0o
Of insurance will be available.
On the hills IN the western part of
the city last night thousands gathered
to witness the completion Of the de
structiOn between briof intervals of
sleep. Throughout Golden Gate park
10000 bivouac arcs cloamed In front
Of every remaining residence impromp
tn hreplaces were doing duty as stoves
and for the first time since the earth
quake shock the people sat down ON
grass plots or curbstoncs 10 enjoy q /
warm meal
Chinatown was destroyed complete
". II is said that many Chinese stupc- /
fed with opium or drink were blown |
up with dynamite Several manglod |
bodies have been found Lieutenant F /
VI Freeman states that IN one build |
Ing five or six bodies were thrown tif- /
" feet Into the air and back Into tho /
flames.
Not less than fifty men have paid /
with their lives the penalty either Of /
their cupldlty or their lndiscretIon. One /
was shot 10y guard for washing his ]
hands In drinking water. commodity /
that is being husbanded as sacrcdly as .
though Il were molten gold
Extra guards have been placed /
around the ruins Of the subtroasury.
the banks and the safe deposit vaults /
in the financial district in anticipation
OF raids by thieves.
Policeman Flood on entering his .
homo after a long tour Of duty en-.
eouutered q stranger who attack