The Mena weekly star., 1906-04-26

in Ashes.
 San Francisco, April 22.-Again came the assurance Saturday morning that the fire had burned itself out. Friday night the flames came from NoD Hill ridge northerly and easterly to the big sea wall sheds, docks and gray warehouses but the reports of the damage done are conflicting. One statement is that most of the valuable property on the extreme shore line escaped. A Bulletin reporter who had skirted the water front in tug Saturday morning says that everything clean from fisherman's wharf at the foot of Powell street to point around Westerly, almost to the ferry build ing. This means that nearly mile of grain sheds, docks and wharves have been added to the general de- struction The reporter also declared that he saw fire blazing in south San Francisco Friday night and that spots in the suburb were smouldering Saturday forenoon. According to his account fire was still burning at the foot of Powell street early Saturday but there was no possibility of its going into the Presidio district.
 Fire broke out in the south ferry building Friday night but fire thugs did effective work and saved the build ing from danger in that direction.
 In the section north of Market street the ruined district is practically bound on the west by Van Ness avenue al- though in many blocks flames de- stroyed squares to the west of that thoroughfare. The Van Ness avenue burned line runs northerly to Green from the bay. Then the boundary goes up over Telegraph Hill and down to that portion of the shore that faces Oakland. Practically everything in- cluded between Market, Van Ness av- enue, Greenwich and the bay is in ashes. On the east side of Hyde street hill the fire burned down to Bay street and Montgomery avenue and stopped at that intersection. All south of Market street with perhaps some ex- captions in the vicinity of the Pacific Mail dock is gone. This section is bounded on the north by Market street and runs out to Guerrero street, goes out that street two blocks, turns t, n<I< C; lrC to Twenty taking in four blocks on the other side of Dolores. The fire then took an irregular course southward, spreading out as far as Twenty fifth street and going down that way to the southerly bay shore.
 Rolla V. Watt, western manager of the Royal and Queen Insurance com panies and one of the most prominent insurance men on the coast, was ask ed Saturday if he would hazard an es- timate on the financial loss. He said:
 My idea is something like $200,- 000,000. l have heard other insurance men place the figure at $500, ,00O. We do not know. It is simply too big for any human head to figure out at this time"
 Dissatisfaction is being expressed at the conduct of some of the soldiers. Many of those doing guard and patrol duty are little more than mere boys who are wrought up to a high pitch of excitement by their position and have been shooting at pedestrians in circumstances where milder orders would have answered just as well. Chief of Police Dinan has asked the military authorities to withdraw many of these companies from the city.
 Despite the exodus of thousands of homeless from San Francisco, multi tude of destitute people remain and reports of suffering for want of food and shelter come in from all sides.
 Mission Dolores. church, the oldest building in the city, erected 130 years ago, by the Spanish missionaries, sur vived the earthquake shocks and was saved from the fire. It is constructed of abode blocks. The newer church, built of brick alongside of the old building suffered from the earthquake.