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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1906-04-27

measures were necessary and gave Or
ders that looters were to be shot at
sight. -Four men were summarily exc
cuted before o'clock yesterday after
noon. At a meeting of fifty citizens
called by the mayor it was announced
that 1,400 tents will be pitched in
Golden Gate Park and arrangements
have been made to feed the destitute
in the public squares.
One of the first orders issued by
Chief Of Police Oman was to close
every saloon in the city, to prevent
drink-crazed men from rioting.
Sweeps Everything In Path.
The fire swept the streets so rapidly
that it was practically impossible to
save anything in its path.
The dense smoke that arose from
the entire business district spread out
like an immense funnel and could
have been seen for miles out at sea.
Occasionally, as some drug house or
place stored with chemicals was
reached. most fantastic effects were
produced by the colored flames and
smoke which rolled out against the
darker background.
Other Places Suffer.
Reports from outside districts indt-
cate widespread damage. San Jose.
fifty miles south, lost many buildings.
and between fifteen and twenty Der.
sons were killed. The annex Of the
vendome hotel collapsed and fires
broke out Stanford university and
Palo Alto suffered. At Stanford many
of the handsome buildings were de.
molished. and two people were killed.
Suburbs In Ruins.
The court house at Redwood City
and other buildings collapsed. Menle
Park, Burlingame and other fashion
able suburban towns suffered. Santa
Rosa. to the north; Napa, Vallejo and
all towns around the bay were dam
aged. These reports. alarming. as.
they were. created little interest in
San Francisco. where the people we're
% frantic that they rushed Into the
streets 81 night garments.
/ Y scliM House eildes Into sea. II n
sss From the Cli& houas comesS word
TINT IT, grsat pleasure resort and
sh0w paace @ the city. which stood
Il :
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and renewed the search for missing
relatives.
Fire Damage the Greatest.
Up to a late hour yesterday after
noon more than $50 persons, seriously
injured by the earthquake and the fire,
had been treated at the various hos
pitfalls.
looters summariIy Shot.
Mayor Schmitz took prompt meas
ures for the relief and protection of
the city. Gen. Funston was communi-
Gated with at once. and by 9 o'clock
1000 federal soldiers were guarding
the streets and assisting the fremen
in dynamiting buildings.
Gen. Funston realized that stern
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east side of Van Ness avenue have
proved fruitless. The fire has spread
across the broad thoroughfare, and
from present indications the entire
western addition, which contains the
homes of San Francisco's millionaires
and people Of the weather. class, is
now doomed. The destruction of the
Western addition of the city practical
ly completes the work of the ravaging
names and marks the devastation Of
the entire city.
Relief Work Begun.
But San Francisco Is not discour.
aged. Its best and highest citizens
have already begun to plan restora-
ton and to care for the stricken ones,
and the relief will be immediate and
effective. Total subscriptions of $780,
600 were announced and arrange.
ments made for the immediate succor
OF the needy. The baking of $4,000
loayes of bread daily will begin to-
day. Free transportation will be pro-
vided by the Southern Pacific to desti-
tute persons desiring to go to interior
points.
Maj. McKeever was appointed COM
mandant OF the camps Of the home
less. It was announced that to-day
daily delivery into the city of 10000
600 gallons of water will begin.
Telegraph Reopened.
Last night for the first time direct
telegraphfc communication was re-
established with the outside world,
and this message is the first to be
sent. BY energetic efforts the Postal
Telegraph company succeeded in re-
storing one Of its lines, and its man
ayers hope to bring its service back
to normal in day or two. The Postal
Office is In 9. little wooden structure
erected on piles at the water front.
Fires are now burning in three dis
tricts. One Is In that portion that ex-
tends from Mob Hill easterly toward
the water front. y III
n. Flames May Die Out.
It II travelling slowly northward to-.
ward the Telegraph Hill. section. sIt
may die out Tor lack OF material or
may again sweep toward the extreme
water. front. Tho second center u III
the Mission district. Here tho ne has.
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reached Eighteenth street, but It 10
making little headway toward the
hills to the west, where thousands Of
people are camped.
The third and most dangerous IRE
is that threatening the western Sec
ton. This is really continuation of
the Mob Hill fire. It is wedge-shaped,
with the apex pushing forward.
Awful Havoc Wrought.
The magnitude Of the calamity that
has befallen San Francisco became ap-
parent yesterday morning when a red
sun arose above the horizon and dis
sipated the pail Of darkness that hung
over the stricken districts.
Looking eastward from the heights
I in the central portion of the metropo-
lis, everything attested to the awful
havoc wrought by earthquake and
flame.
Where once rose noble buildings in
serried column now stand nothing but
frail walls, isolated, tottering chin
neys, heaps Of twisted iron and huge
piles of brick and mortar.
Death and Disaster.
On miles of streets the front walls
of ruined buildings still stand, sway
ing with the conclusions of distant
dynamite explosions and the rising
winds. Frequently a crash Of stone
and brick, followed by cloud of dust.
gave warning to pedestrians of the
unsafety of travel.
All manners of reports of death and
disaster are coming to the temporary
headquarters of the authorities, but
they are received with dut allowance
for the excitement Of the occasion.
Fleeing by Thousands.
Thousands upon thousands Of peo-
pie are fleeing from the fire. They
are flocking to the ferries, to the
parks, to the military reservation
and to the suburbs. Residents of the
hillsides in the central portion of the
city seemingly were safe from the
roaring furnace that was consuming
the business section. They watched
the towering mounds of flames and
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speculated as to the extent of the ter
ritory that was doomed. Suddenly
there was whispered alarm up and
down the long line of watchers and
they hurried away to drag clothing,
cooking utensils and scant provisions
through the streets. From Grant
avenue the procession moved west
ward. Men and women dragged
trunks, packed huge bundles of blan-
kets, boxes Of provisions-everything.
Wagons could not be hired except by
paying the most exorbitant rates. But
there is no panic.
People Are Stunned.
The people are calm, stunned. They
seem not to realize the extent Of the
calamity. They hear that the city is
destroyed in so far as business plants
are concerned; they tell each other
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Most Appalling Disaster of Modern Times
Waste the Metropolis of the Pacific Coast
Hundreds of Lives LOSt-PrOperty
Loss Beyond Calculation.
Earthquake Topples Over Big Buildings and Fire
Completes Work of Observation-Disclosures
Structures Dynamited I'm Futile Attempt
to Stay Progress of the Flames.

chimney and cornice Of the hotel
crashed through the fire house ad-
Joining, severely injuring Fire Chief
Sullivan SO that he was unable to d.
rect the work of fire-fighting. He is
now in a hospital in a precarious con-
dition,
All Of San Francisco's best play
houses, including the Majestic, Column
bia, Orpheum and Grand opera house,
are a mass Of ruins. The earthquake
demolished them for all practical pur-
poses and the fire completed the work
OF destruction. The handsome Rialto
and Casserly buildings were burned to
the ground. as was everything in that
district.
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Wind Spreads Fire.

Wind Spreads Fire.
The flames were kept confined to the
south of Market street in the business
section until about 3 O'clock in the
afternoon, when the wind carried
sheets of flame into the richest part
of the city.
Sisters, brothers. wives and sweet
hearts searched eagerly for some miss
ing dear one. Thousands of persons
hurriedly went through the building,
inspecting the cots on which the suf-
ferers lay, in the hope that they would
find some loved one that was missing.
The dead were placed in one portion
Of the building, and the rest of 1t was
used as hospital. After the fire
forced the nurses from the building,
the eager crowds followed them to the
Preside and the Children's hospital
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San Francisco, April 20.-This city
yesterday was visited by one Of the
most terrible calamities that has be-
fallen any city in modern times.
It was 5:13 o'clock yesterday morn
ing when a terrific earthquake shook
the whole city and surrounding coun-
try. One shock lasted two minutes
and there was an almost immediate
collapse Of flimsy structures in all
parts of San Francisco. The water
supply was cut of and when fires
broke out there was nothing to do but
to let the buildings burn. Telegraph
and telephone communication was
shut of for a time. The Western
Union was put out Of business COM
pletely and the Postal was the only
company that managed to get wire
out of the city. At 10 o'clock the
Postal, too, was forced to suspend in
San Francisco. Electric power was
stopped and street cars could not run.
Railroads and ferryboats also ceased
operations.
Leveled With Dynamite.
The various fires ragged all day and
many fine buildings were leveled to
dust by terrific charges of dynamite
in the hopeless effort to stay the fire
horror. In this work scores of heroic
soldiers, policemen and firemen were
MANNED or killed outright.
The explosions shook the city and
added to the terror of the Inhabitants.
Following the first shock there was
another within thirty minutes, but not
so severe. Three hours later there
was another short quake.
Never Was Fate So Disastrous.
Nearly every landmark that has
made San Francisco famous has been
laid in ruins or burned to the ground.
Never has the fate of city been more
disastrous.
For three miles along the water
front buildings have been swept clean
and the blackened beams and great
skeletons of factories and fices
stand silhouetted against back
ground of flame that is slowly spread
ing over the entire city. The whole
commercial and office section of the
city on the north side of Market street
from the ferry building to Tenth
street, has been consumed in the rag
ing hell, while hardly a building is
standing In the district south of Mar
ket street.
Block After Block Licked Up.
Block after block of banking houses
are now masses of red-hot ruins, and
it will be months before the money
that was housed in their valuable
vaults can be reached.
Factories, hotels, wholesale houses
and residences, comprising the princi.
pal part Of the business section, have
been destroyed. The city hall,
structure costing 100000, was first
wrecked by the earthquake and then
destroyed by fire. The Palace hotel,
value estimated at 100000, also
burned. The beautiful Claus Spreckles
building. at Third and Market streets,
was Quilted. The Rialto building and
dozens of other costly structures, were
also destroyed. The Hall of Justice is
threatened and will undoubtedly go.
The Examiner and the Call buildings
are gone and the Croker building,
across the street from the Palace no.
tel. Is destroyed.
Brave Men Lose Their Lives.
The earthquake caused the partial
wreck Of the California hotel on Bush
and Kearney streets, and the falling
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Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-19

cued in time Mrs. Lawson and Mrs.
Lloyd We're taken out an upper story
in a semi-conscious condition
The fire communicated with the
rooming house belonging to Mrs. F. f..
Hughes at 1924 South Los Angeles
street and badly scorched the back of
the building. All the occupants were
easily taken out of the place. except
Miss Anabel McKernan, who is an in
valid. She was removed by Patrolman
Story.
Mrs. Beulah Wiends' apartment
house at 1912 South Los Angeles street
was also damaged slightly. The
flames leaped over to the building oc-
cupied by the standardization auto
mobile company and damaged the out
side a trihe.
The Keno stables were covered by
insurance, as also was the apartment
house run by Mrs. Thompson.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-19
INCORP0RATIONS

Venice Mojave Mining company-Di-
rectors: George +. Gerow. l.. Blum, G..
Il. Moskimen, C. P. Williams, r. Fl.
Blakesley, George P. Cook and Force
Parker Capital stock, $1,00O,OOO, of
which 81 has been subscribed.
Coachella Valley Health Farm-Di-
rectors: A. p. Green, j. II. Best Ar
thur Veitch. j. G. Frankland and G. B.
Young. Capital stock $5O0,00O, of which
$l0O has been subscribed.
Forest Grove Land company-Direct-
ors: Thomas Vigus, George Murdock,
G. F, Conant, p. II, Bernays and j. A.
Pirtle. Capital stock, $250,00O, of which
$4,000 has been subscribed.
University Club Holding company
Directors: F. j. Stilson. Robert n
Bula, w. G. Patterson, w. II. Jamlson
Charles f. Edison, West Hughes and r
l.. Horton. Capital stock. 100000, OF
which $40 has been subscribed.
Citizens Bank of Sa awtelle-DirectorS
r. F. McClelland, w. e. Sawtelle, II, NJ
Crane, G.. F. Bahrenbrg and Nat S
Head. Capital stock, $25,O00, of which
the full amount has been subscribed,
Alhambra Savings bank-Directors:
II. d. Mcdonald. j, II. Green, W. f.
lawson. Elmer e. Bailey, S. c. Crown.
and r. r. Bishop. Capital Stock, $25,000
of which the full amount has been
subscribed.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-19
WILL HEAR DAMAGE CLAIMS
Board of Public Works to Consider
Seventh Street Assessment
Question

The second blanket hearing that has
ever been held in the history of the city
when the board of public works will
hear claims for damages, benefits, as
sessments and everything connected
with the cutting down of the hill on
Seventh street, between Francisco and
BiXel.
This improvement was first agitated
q bout two years ago by property own
ers living on Seventh street who are
anxious to be relieved of the steep grade
on that street. When the grade is low
cred it is expected that Seventh street
will be one of the best traffic strets in
Los Angeles, as it is one of the longest,
When the grade is reduced other i'm
provements, among them the paving
with asphalt, will be considered.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-19
HORSES PERISH
AMID FLAMES
CARELESSLY THROWN MATCH
CAUSES FIRE
Believed Unidentified Man Was Also
Burned to Death-Residents in
Nearby Houses Have Sew
eral Narrow Escapes

Fire destroyed the Keno saddle and
livery stables at 1907 South Los Ange-
les street, owned by John Miller.
burning to death ten horses and pos
sibly causing the death of an unidenti-
fled man, a $ well dis badly burning Lem
Myer, a ranchman, yesterday after
noon at 2 O'Clock. Besides destroying
the barn, four buildings adjacent were
damaged TO a consldera bic extent by
the fire
A lighted match thrown in some dry
grass in the rear of the stables started
the blaze yesterday afternoon Before
the attendants at the livery stable
We're aware that the place was in dam
ger the fire had begun burning the
cast off hay in the back yards, and
there was no way of stopping the pro-
gress of the flames.
Before the fire department arrived
OH the scene the barn was in a mass
of flames and most of the attention
was given to the surrounding buildings,
which were in imminent danger. AS
1t was, the rooming houses We're badly
damaged and some of the occupants
narrowly escaped being incinerated.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-19
EVERY SCHOOL
IS OVERCROWDED

Overcrowding to point almost of de-
moralization is the rule at practically
every school building in Los Angeles.
This is the condition as disclosed on
the second day of the fall term of the
public schools.
At half dozen of the large buildings
halliday sessions were instituted on
the opening day, and it Is the expec-
tation that the situation will become
worse each succeeding day during the
next two or three months.
IF the conditions are as bad as re-
ported now, what will they be when
the flood of easterners has arrived?'
was the query of an educator yesterday.
Many Due From the East
With the capacity of the schools
overtaxed by the natural increase in
the school population during the past
spring and summer, the outlook for
the schools during the fall and winter,
when hundreds of children will come
with their parents from the eastern
states. some to remain permanently
and Others to stay during the winter,
is rather discouraging to school Off
cials and the teachers.
1t will be months before number
of the buildings now in process of
construction will be completed, and
even with the addition of score of
new buildings and extensive additions
to many old structures. it is expected
that facilities Will be inadequate even
for the children of actual residents.
City Superintendent Moore says that
every child which applies for admission
will be received, but that it may be-
come necessary to reduce many more
rooms to halliday sessions in order to
accommodate all the pupils.
County superintendent Keppel re-
ports the condition in the country as
fairly satisfactory, and owing to the
numerous new buildings provided for
country districts there is little over
crowding.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-19
COL. GEORGE FRENCH
Salvation Army Officers Come to Los
Angeles to Inspect Work and
Install Recently Appointed
General Secretary

Col. French. who is head of the Sal
walton Army on the Pacific coast, will
visit the local headquarters to inspect
the work ana to introduce Brigadier
Fred Dublin. who has been appointed
general secretary for the coast. The
officers win arrive Saturday and on
Saturday evening will hold a united
meeting at corps No. 2, San Pedro
street. Sunday morning and evening
united meetings. will be held at this
corps and in the afternoon at No. l at
Seventh street and Grand avenue.
on Monday officers councils will be
held and in the evening united dem
onstration will be held at No. 2, at
which the officers of the nearby dis
tricts will take part.
The visit of the officers win follow the
inspection tour of Col. French to the
Hawaiian islands, and will close the
harvest festival season.
Major Morton, the local provincial
officer, has rented the church formerly
occupied by the Swedish Christian
congregation ON Eighth street near
Olive, which will be occupied by No l
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-19
SAYS WOMAN
STOLE JEWELS
DETECTIVE FOLLOWS HER TO
STOCKTON
Pasadena officer Charges Emma How
ard With Taking Mrs. Briggs
Diamonds While Latter
Was Dying

Charged with the theft of jewels
valued at $4,000 and which virtually
were taken from the body of her dead
friend, Emma Howard, alias Emma
Stokes. of Pasadena, was arrested in
Stockton yesterday and the jewels were
recovered
She is now on her way to Pasa dena
in custody of Detective W. w. Free
man of Pasadena, who effected the ar
rest after search lasting nearly a
month.
The alleged robbery occurred at
Santa Monica August 20, but the af-
fair was kept from the public until the
arrest was made in Stockton yesterday.
Belonged to Dead Friend
The jewelry was the property of Mrs.
Henry Briggs of Pasadena.
Mrs. Briggs had been in falling health
for some time and finally her husband
decided to take her to Santa Monica i'm
the hope that the sea air would save
her life This hopes proved to be poor
ly founded and after an illness of many
weeks the woman died.
Mr.. Briggs was not in condition at
the time of his wife's death TO pay
much attention to worldly matters, and
when Mrs Howard with whom Mr..
and Mrs. Briggs We're living and in
whose Santa Monica boarding house
Mrs. Briggs died, offered to care for
the jewels belonging to the dead wo-
man, the bereaVed husband readily
consented.
Woman and Jewels Disappear
In few hours after the gems had
been intrusted to her care Mrs How
ard took them to a Santa Monica
jeweer and had them valued. She evil
IDENTITY had some doubts as to the value
but the jeweler told her that they
were worth over $4,000,
She only had the jewels In her pos
session short time when she disap-
peared. Mr. Briggs would not at first
believe that the Howard woman had
stolen the valuables. but finally he gave
the case to Detective Freeman.
Much valuable time nad been lost,
for the woman had been absent from
Santa Monica for several days when
the case was given to Detective Free
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-19
New Skating Rink

The Harriet Washington roller skat-
ing rink and amusement hall, in course
of erection on the southwest corner OF
Twelfth and Ivy streets, will be dedi-
Gated in the near future. The con-
tractor will have the building COM
pleted within two weeks.
The steel work ON the Tehama block
and the Mai j. IL. Norton building on
South Broadway is about completed.
Rapid progress now will be made on
the exterior and interior work
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-19

Suddenly the trail abruptly termi-
mated and no trace of Mrs. Howard
could be found. Freeman, however,
persisted and on Monday of this week
he succeeded in finding that a woman
answering to the description of the
one he was searching for had been seen
m Stockton. Monday evening he took
the Owl for Stockton. reaching there
at O'Clock Tuesday morning.
For a time it appeared as though
the Pasadena detective was again to
be disappointed, for track of the wo-
man had been again lost. However,
Freeman found the woman in Stock
ton and Immediately he had her placed
under arrest.
Freeman left Stockton last night with
his prisoner for Pasadena. She will be
placed in Jail in Los Angeles pending Il
preliminary hearing.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-19
New $3.50, 900 Building

Bids for early work ON the new
Young Mems Christian association
building to be erected at 717-729 South
Hope street at cost of $35OOOO will be
received up to noon tomorrow at the
office of the building committee in the
Laughlin building. The structure will
be one of the handsomest and most
complete association buildings in the
country, and will not only be the pride
and boast of the membership but will
be one of the show places of Los An
geleS.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-19
GEN. WILDER'S MEN REUNITE
Brigade Veterans Meet Again on
Chicamauga Battlefield to Eight
the Battles over"
BY Associated Press


CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. Sept 49,
Members of Wilder's brigade, famous
organization in the army OF the Cum
berland, are arriving in large numbers
to attend the annual reunion which be-
gins tomorrow, the forty-third ami
Versary of the battle of Chickamagua.
The brigade was made up of infant
ry regiments from Indiana and Illi-
nois, was armed with breech-loading
rifles. then very rare in the field, The
celebration was to have begun today
at Hoover's Gap. where the brigade
was hotly engaged in the battle OF
Chickamauga, but the program was
changed and a business session win be
held first at the Wilder monument, on
Chickamauga battlefield.
There will be joint campfire of the
blue and the gray tomorrow night al
the auditorium in Chattanooga.
Although ill. General Wilder is ex.
pected to be present at the reunion.
Everything you want you will find In
the (laQsiffed mage. One cant xgord
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-19
Lot for New Block

A. e. Jones IN Tuesday sold to John
Luckenbach, the jeWeler, through the
agency of Colson. Bryon & Donnell, Il
lot on the west side of Hill street, be-
tween Third and Fourth streets. 3I1aX
6S feet, improved with four-story
frame rooming house. Consideration,
$780, 900. Mr.. Luckenbach purchased the
property as an investment and con-
templates the erection of a seven ory
store and Office building as soon s he
can find tenants for portion of the
building.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-19
THREE CH1RoPop1sTs

The business OF a really good corn doctor
is sure to grow, and Doctor BAH, who has
been with us for the past seven years,
now finds II necessary to engage another
assistant in addition to the services of
his wife DR.. Leggett Is the new chropo-
dist and Is well known locally. No more
delay in our waiting rooms. Prices re-
main the sane. Fourth Floor