Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-04-26
LATEST FROM FRISCO.

Washington, April 21.-The War de-
partment has received a Western
Union dispatch, which says:
"At this hour we have nothing that
can be added to the information al
ready furnished. All efforts are bent
on subduing the flames, and to this
end citizens are being compelled to
assist in the work, which has the ap-
pearanee of a forlorn hope. Good
night
Washington.-The War department
has received the following from Fun
ston:
"Fire crossed Van Ness avenue to
the west. Almost certain now thai
entire city will be destroyed. Have
ordered troops from Monterey and ev-
erything going as well as could be ex-
pected.. On account of confusion, it
has been impossible to locate indi-
viduaIs inquired for, but attention will
be given that matter as soon as prac-
ticabIe.-Funston, Commanding"
Another dispatch from General Fun
ston says: "officiaI report at police
headquarters, this date, states that the
sub-treasury is entirely destroyed by
which contain all the cash on hand
Guards have been ordered to protect
this money.-Funston, commanding"
New York.-The Western Union is
in receipt of a dispatch giving the
area. 1t shows all of San Francisco
has been burned or is burning.
Everything out Market street to
about Twenty-Third street is burning
fierceIy.. Everything is gone except
the mint. The postoffice was injured
only by the earthquake. Only three
or four rooms there are damaged.
every building of any Importance
in the city up to vanness avenue, in
Guiding the entire business section
and all the hotels, has been entirely
destroyed, and the district running
north from Golden Gate avenue and
lying between Vanness avenue and
ostavia street, also has been burned.
chinatown is gone. The fire is
raging on Mob Hill. hear that parts
of Mob Hill are entirely wiped out.
The fire has crossed Vanness avenue
east of Union street and everything
in that district is gone. Certain parts
of Mob Hill are still untouched, though
very seriously threatened. The fire is
raging around Union and Franklin
streets, with every prospect of con-
tinuing.. 1t now looks as if the entire
city will be burned before the fire
stops. A Section bounded by Union
and Octavia streets and Golden Gate
avenue, and another lying between
Market, Hayes and Fillmore streets,
are about all that is left of the city
north of Market street. There is a
section in the Mission district, south
of Market, which has not yet been
burned. The prospects are, however,
that it will go, because nothing can
stop the flames until they reach the
struggling outskirts of the city"
Chicago. - The Postal Telegraph
Company received the following mes
sage from its Oakland office:
1.-The chief fire marshall of San
Francisco advises that more than two
thirds of the area of the city of San
Francisco has been destroyed and
there is no possibility of saving the
balance of the city. The following is
the district north of Market street
now devastated: Sansome to Market
street, to Sacramento, to Buchanan;
thence to California, to Hyde, to Eddy,
to Tarkin, to Cough and to Market.
On the south side of Market street
the fire extends along Market street
to Fourteenth and below the Southern
Pacific tracks to the boundary"