The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-04-19
WHOLE STORY WILL
NEVER Be TOLD
Many All Unknown Life Has
Gone Out in the Terri
BILE Disaster.
BODIES OF VICTIMS
COMPLETELY CONSUMED
Lives of Those Fleeing From
Danger Crushed Out in
Streets.

SAN FRANCISCO. April 1s.-It Will be
many days before the complete story of
the ruin wrought by the calamity of
earthquake and fire that visited San Fran
cisco today VIII be written. and then
there Will still remain untold countless
tales of pltiful tragedy. The exact loss of
life Will never be known, as hundreds OF
unfortunates have been incinerated In the
flames which made the rescue of those
buried under topping steeples and falling
walls impossible.
Morgues Are Burned.
Temporary morgues were improvised at
many points, only to be raZed by the
names. Tonight the city resembles one
shadows across the worn and panic
stricken faces OF the homeless who are
wandering the streets or sleeping on piles
OF mattresses and clothing in the parks
and on the sidewalks In those districts
not yet reached by the fire.
Unspeakable Scene.
Forgetting for moment the terrible
suffering, physical and financial loss that
trails In the wake of the disaster, the
scene presented by the flames is one OF
city from high hill In the western addi
ton. the flames can be seen rolling sky
ward for miles and miles, while I'm the
midst of the spouting and belching
tongues of red fire can be Seen the black
skeletons and falling towers OF tho
doomed buildings. At regular intervals
the booming of dynamite tells OF the work
of the brave army Of men that are at
tempting to save the city from complete
annihilation.
Lives Crushed Out
a falling wall from one OF the dyna-
rnited buildings on Mission street crushed
out the life OF Fireman Max Fenner'
while countless others met a like fate.
Through all the streets automobiles and
express wagons are hurrying. carrying
the dead and injured to the moreues and
the hospitals. At the morgue in the Hall
OF Justice tift" bodies lie on the slabs.
The flames rapidly approached this build
ing and the work Of removing the bodies
to Jackson square, opposite, began.
Flying Bricks Injure.
While the soldiers and police were car
rying the dead to what appeared safe
places a shower of bricks from q build
Ing dynamited to check the progress OF
the sweeping flames Injured many OF the
workmen and sent soldier after soldier
removing the bodies was stopped, and
the remainder OF the dead were left to
possible cremation in the morguc
Criminals Come Forth.
From the .Barbary Coast" the horde
OF vicious and criminal persons that N
fest that section poured forth and started
early in the evening to loot the stores
and rob the dead. Fearing such nend
ish climax to this day of horrors Mayor
Schmitz and Police Chief Dinan issued
orders for the soldiers TO Kill outright
all who engaged I'm such work. Before
the eyes OF an Associated Press repre-
sentative three thieves were shot In the
back and fatally wounded In the burning
commercial district
Havoc in Chinatown.
The earthquake has worked astonishing
havoc I'm San Franc!sco's famous China
town, The Chinese thcaterS and joss
houses are In ruins. and rookery after
rookery has collapsed covering alive hun
dreds of the Celestials Panic reiGnS
among the thousands of the Chinese, and
they finl the streets, dragging whatever
they could save from the wrecks
japanese Quarter Burned
The Japanese quarter has been partly
burned, and from the part not destroyed
they have fled TO the interior, packing on
their backs what household effects thy
could tie together
When darkness began to fall thousands
OF men and women and children from tho
Latin quarter marched In endless process
sion toward the hills or To the water
front frantic to get away from the cIty.
lest other earthquakes follow and the
flames trap them before they could make
their escape.
Artillery men from the Preside. with
their supply wagons and the army com
the fleeing Inhabitants and their baggage
out of the threatened quarters
Robbers Ply Trade.
Despite the vigilance OF the police and
soldiers many places were plllaeed in
the wholesale district. Liquor stores were
broken into and stripped clean As a re-
suit scores of vagabonds were lying dead
drunk in the streets The ruin in tho com
mission and wholesale district is com
plete, the flames tonight having com
pleted the paralysis OF the early morning.
Under the fatcful shock all the rookerIes
used as houses. many OF them
relics of the days OF '49, collapsed