Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-04-21

clear of human habitstions. To save
the water front and shipping the large
Henry machine works were dynamited.
After determined fight the appraisers
building and sub-postoffice station we're
saved. The near approach of the IRE to
the ferry building caused report that
the structure wss a6re. Heroic work
of the FIRE tugs. however, stopped
the progress of the flames in that direc-
ton. II looks no as if the hre on the
water front will be checked at Lombard
street wharf. Il is estimated that fully
one-haIf of the population OF san Fran
cisco slept in Golden Gate Park, Pre-
sidio and other open places in the west
end last night.
DR.. Voorhanger, chairman of the
committee TO feed the hungry, reported
that everything possible had been done
TO give immediate relief to all VINO
needed it, and that not a hungry soul
existed in San Francisco last night. Ac-
coidng to those in charge there was
no trouble in securing a sufficient
quantity of food and no trouble in its
distribution. Aside from the FIRE which
was creeping along the water front,
from the north beach, all the situations
are in control 10 that part of the Mission
district and those not touched by flames
are no longer 10 danger The westward
sweep of flames was checked at Van
| Ness and Qctavia streets. Out from these
streets eastward to the bay the de-
struclion is complete.
Should the fire succeed in reaching
the ferry building, which is the only re-
naming landmark fronting the bay, it
will undoubtedly sweep on to the Union
Iron Works. One half million dollars
worth of buildings were destroyed on the
water front between midnight aud 7
O'Clock this morning.
Fire on the water front has got past
the barriers and is threatening the ferry
building which is the only means OF
communication across the bay. The
building has already caught in several
places and those remaining occupants
are preparing to make rapid exit to the
ferry boat which is waiting 10 back into
the stream. During the early part OF
the night fresh wind from The south
east blew smoke and vapors back and
down Upon the city, completely shutting
il from The view OF the spectators acrOs:
the bay, thousands of when were watch.
ing the magnificent spectacle. 10 these
it appeared that the great conaagratior
had ended. By midnight, however, The
smoke and fog lifted and it became ap
parent that the fire by no means haC
burned itself out. Ia dozen places
the flames still shot upward, marking thu
passage of the work of destruction il
new sections,
To save the ferry building, the South
ern Pacific at Z a. m. rushed car o
dynamite across the bay, the supply hav
ing been exhausted. On four sides o
the Holy Cross Cemetery the fire burned
freely all night on the fine residence
which mark that section. There is NJ
probability that tue FIRE 10 this lOcalit.
will be checked until it has burned itsel
out. In the business district the fiIe wa
checked only when the re was nothini
left to burn.
, While the fire was raging today tn
J particular danger was in well tille'
powder magazine. A fortunate chang
of wind then sent the flames lOwar'
, Meigs Wharf, and put the fort an,
) magazine out of danger.
, II is now believed that the loss OF lif
will be between FIVE and seven hundred
New York, April 2l.-The Western
Union Telegraph Company received tn
, following bulletin from IAN Francisco a
2:l5 this afternoon.
"The fire which was menacing tn
water front is now under control but tb'
situation in the West end district of tn
city is still dangerous"
Oakland, Cal April 2l.-Water has beef
restored at several paints. The refugees 4
Golden Gate Park suffered from the cold las
night Considered all. they Jared very vel
The San Francisco pOstofice, although nc
, burned, is in a dangerous condition, Pos
master Fisk will transfer the postofice
Oakland,