The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1906-04-28

been seized by the authorities and
each family is being sold only one
article at time The police and mil
itary prohibit overcharging Gen.
Funston announced yesterday morning
that rations would soon reach the city
and then the people would be supplied
from the Preside. Bakeries have al
ready been built within the reserva-
ton and the bread supply, therefore,
has not failed completely The gov
ernor also has been asked to aid in
getting refugees to Oakland, Berkeley
and Alameda.
In Smoky Nakedness.
Tug boats and steamers are being
| pressed into service for this purpose
and thousands are on the way to the
ferries. From the water front the
burned city can be seen in all its
smoky nakedness.
| From the Pacific Mail docks to Val
Ieio street on the West side, a dis
lance Of two miles, wreckage and ruin
| is the rule Although the fire did not
| lump East street, the damage has
been enormous. The filled-in land
| facing the ferry building is a success
| sion of gullies from four to six feet
deep.
City Is Mass of Ruins.
Looking up Market street, the city
is a smouldering mass of ruins. Great
| factories, mercantile houses, banks
and railroad Office buildings are gone
| and only in spots is there tower,
monument of some burned structure.
/ There is scarcely any water to relieve
the thirst Of the suffering.
| The heat is threatening danger, for
| the dead in many instances are lying
in the streets and ruins.
In Fear of PestIence.
The authorities are doing all in their
| nover to remove the corpses before
pestilence appears. 1t has been neces-
sary repeatedly to move the injured
from places where they had sought
refuge, for the fire spread with alarm
! ing rapidity Water is the incessant
cry of the fremen and the people"
one wants it to fight with, the other to
| drink-but there is only a scant drink
ing supply.
Under Martial Law.
! At 9 o'clock, under a special mes
] sage from President Roosevelt, the
! city was placed under martial law.
<Hundreds of troops patrolled the
! streets and drove the crowds back,
/ while hundreds more were set at work
! assisting the fire and police depart
! ments. The strictest orders were is
j sued and in true military spirit the
1 soldiers obeyed During the afternoon
three thieves met their death by rifle
! bullets while at work in the ruins.
/ The curious were driven back at the
! breasts Of the horses that the cavalry
/ men rode and all the crowds were
! forced from the level district to the
! hilly section of the north.
Water Supply Cut OFF.
/ The most lamentable feature Of the
conlagration is the utter absence OF
means to stay it's progress. There is
/ not sound water main east Of Van
Ness avenue, and west of that street
the supply has been made scanty by
numerous breaks in the pipes, due Il
earthquake.
A few scattered suburbs is about
aIIthat remains of San Francisco. II
is to these latter places, and especiaN
ly the ones nearer the ocean beach,
that the bulk of the homeless ara
seeking safety, although the rush for
The ferries, too, was in the nature OF
! panic.
Everything Wiped Out.
\ In the fire zones the destruction waI
complete. Therein were locate ST
i Ignace's school and church, of whtcl
! only the walls remain. Mechanics
! Pavilion, the scene of hundreds Of
great political, social and sporting
events, is in ruins. Opposite it was
the st. Nicholas hotel, and it is now
simply a pile of ruined bricks, ruin
among many of similar nature.
I From this point down to the Oak
land ferry an Associated Press man
made his way through the menacing
wall frontages and climbing over
hillocks of masonry and junk OF all
sorts in the middle of the city's great
est thoroughfare.
Appalling Scene.
The journey was heartrending,-
the scene appalling. On either side
was ruins, nothing but ruins South
ward, in hundreds of blocks, hardly a
building remained.
The United States mine escaped all
most unscathed on account of its lso-
lated environments and the fireproof
construction, but the force Of the rend'
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