Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-20
ALL FRISCO GONE
Chief City of Pacific Coast
 Destroyed by Fire.
APPALLING OTHER CITIES
San Jose. Santa Cruz and Mon.
 terey Devastated.
THREE THOUSAND REPORTED DEAD

THREE THOUSAND REPORTED DEAD General Commanding Troops and
 Fire Chief Report That Beautiful
 City on Pacific Shore Cannot Be
 Saved = All Human Means of No
 AvaiI-Water, Dynamite, Gunpowder
 ana Artillery Were Tried In Vain.
 4 Mile of Buildings Blown Up With
 cut Stepping Onward Sweep of the
 Ruanous Fiery Nlement--Nob Hill,
 With Homes of Milnonaires, Swept
 Away "A Score of Cities Report
 Dread Calamities.
 ,DAiKLAND, Cal, April 20.-With the almost total destruction of San Fran cisco. the partial ruin of more than fourteen smaller cities and towns, the Pacific slope is now face to face with the nest appalling series of disasters that have ever happened in the United 0tetes.
 Msss than twenty cities and towns outsids of San Francisco have been de- stroysd in part or in whole.
 The property loss in outside places is sstinatsA at S20, ,o00,O00. r., +.av.,.
 The loss of hfe in outside places is said to b 500
 Tne people made homeless exceed ooo,0oe.
 The only public or semipublic build ing standing in San Francisco is the United States mfnt
 Measures for relief have been under taken by the nation, states and cities. More than $8,0o0,0 900 has been raised.
 For six hours soldiers, police and flremen demolished the splendid homes on the easterly side of Van Ness ave nue by dynamite and black powder. They carried the devastation for dis tance of one mile under orders from Mayor Schmlts and the council and General Funston.
 Buildings were still toppling under the dynamite when the flames leaped across the area of destruction, and the Mob hill district, that $1,000,000 worth of property had been destroyed to save, was doomed.
 This eminence had been selected years ago by the multimillionaires of the "Bonanza days upon which to erect their mansions.
 The hill is surmourted by the Hotel Fairmount, just finished at cost of over S1,000,000. It was a beautiful structure of white stone, visible from almost every point of the city, and the horror was universal when its destruc- tion became complete. Steadily but surely the fire ate its way up the slope, consuming the homes of the late Mrs. Jane Stanford and the Hopkins Art in- stitute, built by Mark Hopkins of Cen tral Pacific fame. On either side was ruin, nothing but ruin.
 In hundreds of blocks hardly a build ing remains whole. The United States mint escaped almost unscathed on ac- count of its isolated environment and It's peculiar fireproof construction.
 Lieutenant Charles c. Pulls. com manding the Twenty-fourth company or light artillery, was blown up by a cy, n ruo ,f Ivno,,ita at Giytb apd Ios.o streets and was probably fatally in- tured.
 Mayor Schmitz and the members of his cabinet have abandoned hope of more than a few scattered structures escaping the flames.
 General Funston. commanding the troops in the ruined city. in an official says:
 ''The fire has crossed Van Ness ave- nus to the west, and 1t is almost cer- tain now that the entire city will be On account of confusion 1t has been impossible to locate individ- uals inquired for. but attention will be given that matter a. soon as practics- ble. There is no decrease in the prog Eess of the fire. It Is SO dark one can see during the day.
 'rhe subtressJry is entirely destroy ed. with the exception of the vaults, which contain all the cash on hand. Suitable guards have been ordered to protect them.
 ''Thc fire marshal of San Francisco reports that more than tvo-thirds of he area of the city of san Francisco las been destroyed and there is no pos. ability of saving the rest of the city"
 The following Is the district north of Market street now devastated: Sansom 0 Market street. to Sacramento. to thence to California. to Hyde. to Eddy, to Larkin. to Cough md to Market. On the south side of Market street the fire extends along street 10 Fourteenth and be ow the southern Pacific tracks to the boundary. All of San Francisco has been burn .d or is burning. The information was 'rought Ia by Sergeant Binkley. |. s. l.. who said: Everything out Market treet so shout Twsaty-thirti street is turning tercely. Everythiug is zone iKcspt the mint. The Posto1ce vas ajursd oaly by the earthauake--
 A detschusezt of sailors from one of hs wersbIps assisted the hrenen at his point o5csrs. with drawn pistols. iOrcsd citi1ens 10 work People lef. heir houes szd Jed 10 Colder Gate 'srk and the Preside. All nixht long l constant stream of humanity vslked hs streets t0 the west Two hundred housand peoPss slept cut of doov~.
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