The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-20
HE SALT LAKE HERALD: FRIDAY. APRIL 20 1905

LII Ai1iJs ( hEDA / y. III
| ing them hsd heen ave-red ~ 90 noon.
In the Hayes valley Cistric-i south o.
/ McAitister and pprEh OF 1AarAet eii9
fire was confined GA the v-est by ocla-
via street and or the north BY Mc-AiaiS-
ter street. Ia. these efenes the ae-.
strus tiQfs4 was. COMP te,c Therein ,Ee's
| located ST iS1fatius school and 1fVrFie I
of which only the side walls rc1afn.
Not Timber Renal +
OF the Mechanirs. Pan MS scene
of haudresds of grest p9i iai
and sporting events
main Opposite III Wa-ySlle
las hotel and Il IS nov simps,
OF ruined Bricls. rUlR among Hae
q similar nature. From thisr point q, IN /
ID the oakland ferry an Associated /
Pres man made his way through tn +
mer 1g wall frontages. ciim bling
over Jocks Or masonry and sunk OF.
~ s, in the middle - the rty'S
Eroe moron EhfaTe. The jOI -~#-
v-3s udinE the scene app. ag.
o. 5e was ruin. rothin- but
ruiz -a south. ia hundreds or
cIoc a .sUildmg remained
who Ole among these rev
were Office and the United
stat tier escaped almost
u0>i a-ss-0t Of it's isolated
eDNl Tar hreprOOf con
sTru Of the rendiug
paw ~ -t--a could be seen
ARD "a Front o. il "a Sev~uth and Mis-
sion streets TNe. grt Eud rad sunk for
several feet
Hiberaiaa Barn Wreo&ed.
Across ar zuev IRON the tffice
stood the Grant build of the
headquartefs Ae avs This was
Quilted, Oppos.te ,-- mt building
on Market stre ms of the Hi
bernfan Saving. sI-- komed up, its
into hideous aspect. This was the great
bank of the middle and poorer. classes.
and it's loss will cause possibly greater
sorrow south of Market street than
perhaps the loss of any one institution.
From this point down to the ferry the
same story could be told of each sue
ceeding block.
Last night at II o'clock the north
side of the street had been untouched,
and hope had been expressed that the
great Flood, Croker, Phelan and other
buildings would be spared, but they to-
day are included in the list of de-
stroyed property. The Palace hotel
still stands, a huge monument to the
awful disaster of yesterday. its black
ened walls and empty interior bearing
little resemblance to the huge hostelry
of a day ago
Only Ruined Sheif Remains. 3d..
The handsome. gigantic st. Francis
hotel. on Powell street, fronting on
Union square. is a ruined she'll This
was one of the high steel structures
that had defied the terrible trembIer of
yesterday, but this morning it is an
other sad tribute to the. completeness
Of the devastation that has visited San
Francisco. Among the other skyscrap-
ers in the section north of Market
street that fell prey to the flames were
the fourteen-story Merchants Elk
change and the Mills building, occu-
plying almost an entire block.
Chinatown at noon today was fur
mace, and the denisons of that quarter
earlier in the day had their simple pos
sessions bundled for departure On the
farther western side the flames cut a
wide path to Van Ness avenue, but
here, owing to the width of that thor
oughfare and to the additional fact
that there was a weak water supply in
the mains, it was hoped to check the
ruin at this line.
Loss of Life Unknown.
There is still much confusion con-
corning the loss of life. This forenoon
there were twenty-seven cOrpses lying
in Portsmouth square, gathered from
various sections. 1t is said that else |
where bodies are lying in the streets, /
there being no means available to re-
move them. In his travels down Mar |
ket street the Associated Press repre-
sentative saw three bodies lying in the |
debris. some rude covering having been
thrown over to protect them from the |
heat and glare of the sun.
At 1890 o'clock the flames were
sweeping up Russian hill, famed by a |
brisk wind.
Water Mains Destroyed.
The most IamentabIe feature of the /
conflagration is the utter absence of /
means to stay its progress. There is !
not a sound water main east of Van
Ness avenue, and west of that street |
the supply has been made scanty by /
numerous breaks in the continuity of /
the pipes due to the earthquake. Yet |
at Van Ness avenue the fremen, /
though practically exhausted from over
twenty-fOur hours work and lack of
food are determined to make their
most determined stand. Should the
fire cross Van Ness avenue and the
wind continue in its earlier direction
toward the west, the destruction of
San Francisco will practically be COM
plete. West Van Ness and north of
McAllister constitute the finest part of
the metropolis Here are located all of
the finer homes of the well-to-do and
weather. classes and if it should fall
before the confiagration there would be
little left of the city except a few scat
tered suburbs. 1t Is to these latter
places, and especially the ones bearer
the ocean beach, that the bulk Of the
homeless are seeking safety, although
the rush to the ferries, too was IN the
nature Of a panic.
RICH AND F0OR alike