Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-04-24
FRISCO FLAMES
FINALLY Placed
UNDER CONTROL
Fighters Succeed in
Staying March of
Voracious Fire
! Fiend.
Ferry Building Saved After
Heroic Struggle Leaving
Way to Escape Open.
People Rushing Across Bay to
Haven of Refuge Few Wis.,
itors Dead.
Homeless Victims of Flames Break
fast in Streets-To Build
Camp in Park.

Camp in Park.
San Francisco, April 23.-Checking
the flames at all points, San Francis
cos weary fire-hghters have finally
gained complete mastery of the disas-
trous contiagration.
After four days Of raging the ele-
ments were confined to small area
near the sea wall. Before night the
various fire centers will have become
comparatively harmless smoking areas,
and the most disastrous fire that ever
visited city on this continent will
have been deprived of additional mate
rial upon which to geed.
The entire western addition of the
city, lying west of Van. Ness avenue,
which escaped the sweep of flames Fri
day, is absolutely safe. No nres are
left in the houses standing, owing to
the chimneys.
The rule of martial law Saturday
morning was not nearly so rigid, and
in many of the districts had been
Withdrawn and only sufficient guards
left to prevent any possibility Of theft
or looting.
Ferry House Is Saved.
Alarm for the safety of thousands
who had gathered at the ferry-house
followed fresh outbreak of the flames
at that point. High winds threat
ened the great docks, and shipping as
well. But heroic efforts put forth by
men too weary to sleep saved the
haven to the survivors gathered there.
After licking up q few small buildings
the flames passed westward toward
Fort Mason.
Yerryboats are running Oh rush
schedules from the big ferry-house,
taking thousands to places of comfort
in Oakland and the bay towns. The
authorities forbade the taking away of
goods. These arg piled high in the
ferry terminal, for future delivery.
Dead Scattered Over City.
1T is still difficult to estimate the
numberg6r dead, as bodies are scat
tered all over the city. They are bury
ing them in trenches, and putting Is
bodies in ditch" was message sent
to New York.
"A later dispatch read: THE ferry
boats are running on schedule time.
There is an immense crowd around the
station here and committees from all
towns across the bay are ufglRg people
to leaye Frisco and go with them
to their homes, but the authorities
won't let them take any baggage with
them. 1t looks like an immense sec
ont. -hand store here. The people
have dragged everything down here,
from pianos to bird cages. and theif
goods are all piled up around the sta
ton for a long distance. The fire is
still burning fercsly up north, but
the wind has gone down, making it less
dangerous
People Breakfast in Streets.
EVERY person left in San Francisco
breakfastea on food cooked in the
open streets Saturday, no fires being
allowed in the houses. A few bricks
or stones gathered liz q semblance OF
inrnaee with few dry sticks be-
meath cans or kettles was the i@pro-
yised kitchen in which the food Of the
millionaire, as we'll as the humblest
workman was prepared. AL through
the fac resident section Of Pacific
Heights people sat OF the sidewalks
and took their black coffee, dry bread,
crackers, and, in some cases, EGGS and
bacon.
III the parks and along the North
beach, or wherever people were
camped, me relief stations handed out
food sufficient 70 relieve the situation.
There were probably very few persons
who did not receive SOFAS sort of food
Saturday morning The grays cues
ton 10 be met Is the sanitary situa-
ton. The ferry station is still open.
and is not thought to be in any dan
ger from the fire more than q half
mile north of it.
Coast Trains Enter.
The ssGthern Pacific company sue
ceeded Ia getting the first trains
through on the s9ast division late Fri
day night. Trains ran into the sta
tiop at Third and Townsend streets
Trains are now running with com
parative regularity. An inspection OF
the line shows number of water
tanks, stations and freighthouses de-
stroyed, but this does not seriously in
terfere with traffic. A bridge over the
Pajora river, on the Santa Cruz branch
and a bridge on the Monterey branch
are south OF the main line, SO that 1t
is impossible to get trains over these
branches, Large games are Worklc2
constantly and it is hoped to open up
the whole division soon.
Few Visitors Killed,
Eastern people need have littls So
Iicitude for their friends who were
here as tourists at the time OF the
earthquake 1t may safely be asserted
that few If any such persons have been
killed or injured The casualties with
few exceptions were confined to the oc-
cupants of cheap lodging houses.
AS an inevitable result of the catas-
Itrophe people are scattered far and
wide, and the destruction OF tele-
Sraph facilities renders 1t impossible
81 end thsna, Or u gontaunscats WIZ