Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-24
BURNED DISTRICT
C|RCLED BY AUTO
circumference SHOWN TO
BE TWENTY-SIX MILES
Wine Used In Several Instances, ln-
stead of Water, to Check
Progress of the
Flames
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 23.-The fire
having exhausted itself, with the eX-
ception of still flaming embers in a
thousand places here and there
throughout the burned district, the
Associated Press, for the purpose of
determining the accuracy of the bound
aries of the confagration, sent out an
automobile, which skirted the fire on
it's four sides.
The register of this machine at the
end of the trip showed that it had trav-
eIed twenty-six miles, which, therefore,
may be known as the length of the line
along which the flames travelled
This area includes the financial, COM
mercial and much 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.
Where Fire Swept All
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 it's way to Second where 1t
crossed gthe street and consumed the
warehouse of the great wine firm of
Lachman & Jacobi 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
Only Records Saved
OF it's contents only the records were
saved. But directly in front of the
ruins there were already evidences of
the undaunted spirit that animates
the citizens of San Francisco at this
crisis.
There 100 men were 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.
And 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 fimsy manner and of
the most perlshable materials, were not
so much as scorched.
Catholic Church in Ruins
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 Brannan near Fourth, which some
eight years ago suffered visitation of
fire and had only lately risen from its
ruins in what seemed to be imperish-
able brick and stone.
From Townsend, at the corner of
Seventh, the fire burned along the east
line of Seventh, northerly, half way to
Brannan, where it crossed and burned
half the block on the southerly line of
Brannan, 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 Juniper, a small street
half way distant between Tenth and
Eleventh, sparing the northeast corner
of Eleventh and Bryant.
Juniper to Harrison
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
lp the building at the southeast corner
of Folsom and Fourteenth; thence
half way along the west line of Folsom
to Fifteenth, but leaving intact the
structure at the northwest corner of
Fifteenth and Folsom.
Along the northwest line of Fifteenth
it ate its way to Shotwell and along the
west line of Shotwell to Fifteenth.
Skirting the north line of Fifteenth it
travelled to Howard, and along the west
line of Howard to Eighteenth, where
IL again diverged northerly along the
north line of Eighteenth as far as
Capp, and thence along the west line
of Capp.
Shows Work of Quake
In this immediate district it was
noted that the block bounded by Seven
teenth and Eighteenth and Howard and
Shotwell though spared by the flames,
had been terribly shaken by the quake.
In some instances the houses were a
mass of ruins, it being thought that
of all the buildings in that square
block the only two that might be saved
from the wreck were those of Lawyer
w C. Graves of 21S9 Howard street.
Even the frame Catholic church of
ST. Charles at Shotwell and Eighteenth
appeared to be unsafe. The streets in
this vicinity were sunken from six to
eight feet in places, and the earth
opened in great gaps, while the rails
of the street car system were twisted
and broken.
Row of Residences Left
In it's progress the confagration con-
sumed all the dwellings along the west
line of Capp to a point half way be-
tween Nineteenth and Twentieth, leav-
ing intact row of residences fronting
on the northerly line of Twentieth be-
tween Capp and Mission; thence it
burned along the north line of Twen-
tieth to Dolores, at which point it was
stayed by the great openings which
were formerly the Jewish cemeteries
of this city, but which within a few
years had been purchased by the mu
nicipality and were in process of being
converted into a pleasure ground.
Here are encamped some of the many
thousands who are homeless.
Before leaving this district it may be
mentioned that an independent fire was
started Wednesday morning imme-
djately after the temblor in the dry