The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-04

Despite the vigilance of the por;a.
and soldiers. many places were piil,oag
III the wholesale district. Iiouor 80
We're broken into ana stripped ctsas
As result scores Of vagabonds v.o..
lying dead drunk in the streets ~.
ruin in the commission and wholassio
district is complete. flames TONIGHT ~,
ing completed the paralysis of the n,
morning. Under the Hateful shock III
the rookeries used as commissioa
houses, many of them relics of the days
OF '49. collapsed. Under the debris
were killed and buried hundreds a.
horses hitehed to the vegetable wagons
which were drawn Up 10 receive their
day 5 supply. The dead horses we{
piled high and the wreckage blocked
the streets until the advancing conF5S
grafton turned all that section of tbs
town into a vast funeral pyre.
BURNED TO DEATH
IN LODGING HOUSES
The new Ferry building did not es.
cape the wrath of the temblor and tina
tower of this California landmark is
badly shattered.
AT the corner of Seventh and Howard
streets a great lodging house took fire
after the first shock and before the
guests had a chance to escape. There
We're hardly any exits. and it is believed
nearly all the dodgers persisted Mrs. /
J. Nilsson, one of those in the building.
leaped, with her child in her arms from
the second floor to the pavement below
and escaped unhurt. She says she is
confident she was the only one who
escaped. Such incidents as this were
repeated at many points.
In the commission store of c. Bunker
a rescuer named Baker was killed Wnne
trying to get dead bodies from the,
ruins. Other rescuers heard the pitifrl
wall of little child, but were uuabra
TO get near the point from where the
cries issued. Soon the onrushing firg
other :, tasks 'aS -'.'' - ''e' ID
Tonight hundreds Of fremen a1aa
other rescuers are Frustrated. the rtra
of the continual fighting in the face Of
the awful calamity since early morning
hours proving more than any one can
stand. In the crowds at many points
people tainted and ia some instances
dropped dead as the result of the reac-
ton following the unprecedented shock.
FLEE WITH WOUNDED
IN FIRES PATH.
At Mechanics pavilion scenes of hero.
ism and later of panic were enacted.
The great frame building was turned,
into a hospital for the care of the inA
jured, and here corps of fifty physiI
clans, under the direction of Drs. Mil-
Ter and Herzog, rendered aid. Nurses
their services and girls
from the Red Cross ship that steamed
in from the government yards at Mare
Island contributed doctors and supplies.
Later in the afternoon, while the
and automobiles were UNI
loading their manned and wounded at
the building, the march of the confla-
grafton up Market street gave warning
that the injured would have to be re-
moved at once. This work was under
aiken and every available vehicle was
pressed into service to get the stricken
nto hospitals and private houses Of the
Western addition. A few minutes after
he last of the wounded had been ear
led through the door, some on cots,
thers in strong arms and on stretchers,
hafts of fire shot from the roof and the
tructure burst into whirlwind of
James. q
HE MADE LAND
SINKS SEVERAL. INCHES&
Down on the harbor front the earthly
eemed to have sunk from six to eight
inches and great cracks appeared in the
treets. Car tracks were twisted into
ii shapes and bindings before they
.ere destroyed by fire were seen to be
out OF plumb. The flames
wept in sheets across Front street and
treet cars and Southern Pacific rolling
took together with the mail cars were
urned to their truck wheels.
Tonight the first relief boat loaded
18th groceries and provisions reached
he Ferry building from Oakland, and
Their boats are reported to have started
rom Sacramento. The Berkeley Cham
er of Commerce has sent word that
ne town hall and all public buildings
lere have been turned into lodging
ouses for the refugees. The homeless
i'll be fed and housed until they are
BILE to find shelter.
At Midnight the fire still roars. Flee
X inha bitants can see for miles
round the pillars of fire towering sky
ard. The crash of falling buildings
nd the mufiied reports Of the exploding
ynamite reach the ear ut regular in
rivals. A disaster that staggers COM
rehension and in point Of damage is
lprecedented on the Pacific coast has
Dt yet reached its elimination.