The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-04
Story of the Third Day

SAN FRANCISCO, April Zu--1 ne III
having exhausted itself, with the e&-
csptfon of the still flaming eTnbers IN
Thousand places here and there
through the burned district, the Asso-
rated Press, for the purpose of deter
mining with accuracy the boundaries
of the co1lfiae.re:son, sent out an auto
mobile today. which skirted the fire on
its four sides.
The register of this machine at the
end of the trip showed that it had
travelled twenty-six miles, which there
fore may be taken as the length of the
line along which the flames Travelled.
This area included the financial. COM
nereial and most of the densely popu-
lated portion of the residence district.
with all the splendid institutions and
great mansions that had grown up with
the progress of the city.
The start of the tour was made from
the Pacific Mail dock. at the corner OF
First and Brannan streets. Travelling
along the north line of Brannan, the
fire ate its way to Second, where II
crossed the street and consumed the
warehouse of the great wine firm OF
Iachman & Jacobs, at the southeast
corner of Brannan and Second.
Thence it moved along the west side
Of Second to Townsend and along the
north line of Townsend to Seventh.
On this particular front it licked up
the great building of the Southern Pa
cific at the corner of Fourth and Town.
send streets.
This building was formerly the main
offices of the system under the Hunt
ington regime, but of late years had
been used by the auditors of the
freight and passenger departments.
OF its contents, only the records were
saved. Directly in front of the ruins
there We're already evidence of the un-
daunted spirit that animates the citi-
zens of San Francisco in this crisis,
for 100 men We're at work clearing the
debris from Fourth street in order that
the Southern Pacific might run spur
tracks northerly along the line of
Fourth to Market for the purpose of
carrying away the immense masses of
brick and ruined material littering the
streets and the sites of the business
houses that SO lately crowded that
area
FREIGHT SHEDS WERE
NOT SCORCHED.
In this connection it is noted that the
freight and passenger depots along the
southerly side of Townsend street as
far east as Third though built in the
most part of the most perishable ma
terials were not so much as scorched.
Standing at the corner of Fourth and |
Townsend streets, ones eye caught the
ruins of the great brick Catholic church
Of St Rose, one block distant on Bran
nan, near Fourth, which some eight
years ago suffered a visitation of fire, |
and had only lately risen on its ruins
in what seemed to be imperishable I
brick and store.
From Townsend, at the corner of !
Seventh, the fire burned along the east
line of Seventh northerly half way to I
Brannan, where it crossed between
Seventh and Eighth, thence crossing /
Brannan, still in a northerly direction
it burned along the east line of Eighth
to Bryant; thence along the south line
of Bryant half way to Ninth, thence
along the north line of Bryant to Juni-
per, a small street half way distant
b tween Tenth and Eleventh, sparing
the northwest corner of Eleventh and
Bryant.
Thence along the east line of Juni-
per TO Harrison: thence along the east
line of Harrison to Fourteenth and
along the north line of Fourteenth to
Folsom. jumping the street at this
point to lick up the building at the
southeast corner of Folsom and Four
teenth; thence half way along the west
line of Folsom to Fifteenth. but leav-
ing intact the structure at the north
west corner of Fifteenth and Folsom.
Along the north line of Fourteenth it
al. tn0i
west line of ShotwelI to Fifteenth, 6
skfrting the north line of Fifteenth it
travelled to Howard and along the west c
inc of Howard to Eighteenth. where
t again diverged northerly along the I
north line of Eighteenth, as far as Y
capp and thence along the west line
II Capp.
DISTRICT SOUTH
OF MARKET STREET, :
In this immediate district it was not n
d that the block bounded by Seven y
zenith and Eighteenth and Howard and Il
hotwell, though spared by the flames. I
ad been terribly shaken by the quake. |,
n some instances the houses were Il
nass of ruins it being thought that ii
f all of the buildings in that square S,
lock the only two that might be saw "
awyer w c. Graves, at 21S9 Howard. "
wen the frame Catholic church of st. 81
narles at Shotwell and Eighteenth ir
ppeared to be unsafe. III
The streets in this vicinity were sunk 81
,om six to eight feet in places, and w
lie earth opened in great gaps, while cl
he rails of the car system were twist OF
and broken. as
In its proeress the cOnfa grafton con- r,
imed all the dwellings along the west d
ne of Capp TO a point half way be- tr
yeen Nineteenth and Twentieth, leav- al
g intact the row OF residences 'front.' dc
g on the northerly line of Twentieth
etween Capp and the Mission; thence
burned along the north line of
wentieth to Dolores, at which point
was stayed by the great openings -
hich were formerly the Jewish ceme- NJ
,ries of this city but which within a tn
w wears have been purchased by thei =