Bisbee daily review., 1906-04-28

burnt business district, to the west Mob Hill with the ruins of the magnif icent Flood and Crocker residences To the east the devasted sections of Chinatown and the red light district which are completely razed to the ground, not yestige of habitation meeting the eye; to the north the Latin Quarter has met the fate of the Chinatown district.
 Another magnificent panoramic view was had from the corner of Jones and Sacramento streets. Here again could be seen the devastated business sections, the big newspaper buildings standing out in relief at ont point of the compass only shattered ruins being visible from there to where the cupola of the $7,000,0 900 City Hall stands on pins.
 Within the shadow of the Fairmount Hotel, your correspondent, B. J. O'Reil. ly, w E. Bayless and c. P. Hart, came very nearly getting their last view of the devastated city. Four blocks away immense charges of dynamite were being used to destroy some of the standing ruins; one of these shocks tore out the heavy plate glass win. dows of the hotel and had it not been that We were warned by the chatter of the glass, all of us would have met death, as only few seconds after we left the spot on which we were standing, more than a half a ton of plate glass fell from five stories above and occupied the spot where we had been standing. It was a close call
 On Van Ness Avenue. the beautiful residence section of San Francisco, and the point at which the fire was stopped, ruin meets the gaze every where, on the east side of the street On the west side of the avenue many of the palatial residences were dyna- mited and destroyed by fire. On this street is the St Francis Cathedral, which is intact and the relief. work of the district is being prosecuted there in charge of Gus Heyman, who is well known to AriZonians. More than 5000 people are being fed there daily
 The scenes in Golden Gate park and at other points where the people are being taken care of, are impossible to describe. While the facilities for taking care of the homeless are the best that could possibly be secured at short notice, there is naturally much suffering, but this is being alleyiated as fast as possible and within a few days temporary. board structures will be erected in which to house the ref ugeeS.
 Splendid Relief Work.
 SAN FRANCISCO, April 2G.-An- other trip to Frisco yesterday does not show any special improvement in conditions. The one thing that re- fieves the situation is the splendid system of relief work-it is as per feet as conditions will allow and no one is suffering for the necessities of life. Rich and poor are all alike and especially is this true in Frisco. You find men in the lines waiting to get their daily portion, who are still worth thousands of dollars, but nothing can be bought there, and all are given the same privileges by the committees in charge of the relief work. No fires are allowed and at meal time you will find even the millionaire families on Van Ness Avenue cooking on the curb in front of their residences. The peo- pie are still widely scattered and the work of finding Bisbee people is more difficult than can be imagined, bu; there is but little cause for alarm.
 
 what I am trying to alleviate Here the conditions are awful. Mothers are separated from children, fathers from wives and the piteous and heart-renG- ing tales that are heard every day at the headquarters are beyond all com prehension. It will be many a day before the scenes that even I, a late conner have witnessed, will be plotted from the tabiatc If Yop
 There are four kinds of guards on duty here and there has been a clash between them and it threatens to be- come serious. The Regulars. Militia, Police and Citizens patrol, or vigi- lantes are working at cross purposes and the worst is to be feared. Gener- al Funston defends the regulars, the Governor the militia, the Chief and Mayor the police. while the citizens say they are doing the work. The thing most to be dreaded is a clash between the heads of the authorities. Martial law has never been proclaim ed, but 1t is practically in force even here in Oakland, where you must be off the streets by g o'clock at night.
 The telegraph offices are congested, and to give you an idea of the congeS- tion, 10000 messages which had been filed at Chicago for delivery at San Francisco came in by special messen- ger on the Oakland train last night Here, messages are being accepted subject to indefinite delay Mir Hum bert received messages today which l sent the day before I left Bisbee.
 KIRK.