Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1906-04-26

clamoring fog places On The fsrfybOa
Ct the fairy building
The damage is now believed to be,
reached s9OO,0OO.0OO and $1,000 %
pie are thought to b homeless.
For three miles along the wate
front buildings have bean swept olas
and Wednesday night the blacksne
beams and great skeletons Of factorie
and oflces stand silhouetted agntnl
q background Of flame that IL SLOW
~ spreading over the entire city. IN
whole commercial and once section 0
the city on the north side Of Marie
street from the ferry building to Tent
street has been consumed In the hel
Of fame, while hardly a building
is standing in the district south o
Market street.
Block after block OF banking houses
are now masses Of red hot ruin, anf
It will be months before the money
that was housed In their valuable
| VuulLS CHI w Ttacnou.
There was neither gas nor electric
light in San Francisco Wednesday
night. The plant of one Of the gas
companies blew up Wednesday morn
ing, and as measure Of precaution
all the other gas In the city was
turned of.
The burned district extends from
the water front south Of Market street
to Market street and west to Eleventh
street, north Of Market. The fire ex-
tends out Hayes and McAllister streets
nearly to Fillmore and from tho water
front along Market to Montgomery
and north from the water to Mont
gomery street.
The city hall, a structure costing, 81,
The city hall. O structure costing 81,
100000, was first wrecked by the
earthquake and then destroyed by fire.
The Palace hotel, value estimated at
100000. also burned. The beauti-
full Claus Spreckels building OF Third
and Market streets, was Quilted The
Rialto building and dozens Of other
costly structures were destroyed The
Hall Of Justice Is threatened and will
undoubtedly go, The Examiner and
Call buildings are gone and the Crock
err building across the street from the
Palace hotel Is on FIRE.
No afternoon papers were issued
and II is doubtful If the morning pa
pers will appear. The Southern Paci-
&c tracks are In such condition that
only crippled train service has been
possible.
The freaks Of the earthquake were
many. Wide assures were made in
the streets, street railways were twist
ed out Of line, sewers and water pipes
wre burst and 1t is feared that there
will be an epidemic Of disease. Pro-
visiGs are being sold at fancy prices |
and even water is being vended by |
the glass.
The damage by earthquake does not |
begin to compare with the loss by |
fire. The heart Of the business sec
ton Of San Francisco has been de-
stroyed by fire. An area Of thickly |
covered ground Of eight square miles
has been burned over and there is no
telling when the fire will be under
control
Up to a late hour Wednesday after
noon more than $50 persons who were
injured BY the earthquake
and the fire had been treated at the
various hospitals throughout the city.
All efforts to prevent the fire from
the Palace and Grand hotels
we're unsuccessful and both were COM
'letely destroyed, together with all
heir contents.
All Of San Francisco's best play
louses, including the Majestic, Colum-
ia, orpheum and Grand Opera house,
re a mass Of ruins The earthquake
emolished them for all practical pur-
oses and the fire completed the work
{ destruction.