The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1906-04-20

masses or red-nor ruins and It will be
months before the money that was
housed In their valuable vanlts can be
reached
The earthquake caused the partial
wreck Of the California hotel on Bush
and Kearney streets and the falling
chimney and corniee Of the hotel
crashed through the firehouse adjOin-
ing. severely injured Fire Chief Sul-
tivan SO that he was unable to direct
the work Of fire.dghting. He is now
I'm a hospital In a precartoas condition.
Despite this disheartening accident,
the fire department, assisted by part
Of the Oakland department and many
volunteers, did heroic service, many
brave men losing their lines while per
forming works OF succor. The earth
quake. however, had broken most OF
the water mains. Whatever water
was obtained to fight the flames ON the
barber front and IN the factory dis
tricts was pumped from the bay
This compelled dynamiting, as the
only possible method Of saving any of
the city.
WIND CARRIES FLAMES TO
RICHEST PART OF TIE CITY.
The flames were kept confined to the
south Of Market street I'm the business
section until about 3 o'clock i'm the af-
tern0on, when the wind carried sheets
of fame into the richest part OF the
city.
Nearly every factory building has
been wiped out of existence and a
complete enumeration Of them would
look like q copy of the city directory.
Many fine buildings were leveled to
dust by terrific charges OF dynamite In
| the hopeless effort to stay the Are hor-
rcT.. In this work scores Of heroic
soldiers, policemen and firemen were
MANNED or killed outright.
At 10 O'Clock p M, the fire was UNI
abated and thousands of people were
fleeing to the hills and ciamoring for
places on the ferryboats.
| The damage is now believed to have
reached s200.0O00O0, and fifty thou
sand people are thought TO be home
less.
There is neither gas nor electric
light In San Francisco now. The
plant of one OF the gas companies
blew up in the morning, and all the
other gas in the city was turned off.
AT 9 O'Clock p. m. an Associated
Press man who went to high hill
overlooking the city noted that the
sky on the east and south sides was
| Illuminated for distance OF four or
five miles. The illumination on the
southern side was of a duller glow,
showing that the flames were not con
suming property Of such great proror.
tions as was the case on the east side
FLAMES ARE CHECKED
AT WASHINGTON STREET
In the business district toward the
water front the flames were either
checked or blocked at about Washing
ton street and at the corner of kear
ney the Hall OF Justice could be noted
standing, but it was impossible to de
termine what damage had been done
to the interior.
From the Hall of Justice to the
south the FIRE cut it's way through some
of the choicest buildings in the city
the Pacific Mutual and the Italian
American bank being reduced to ashes
Down Kearney street on both sides a.
10 o'clock the confiagration was still
raging with fury but the direction O
the wind prevented it's advance up ths
hills to the west. Yet the greater por
ton OF the structures to the west 0
Kearney up to Dupont were burned a!
far south as California All arount
the new fonrteen-story Merchants
Exchange building the fire burnet
f1erceiy, licking the sides of the stee
giant, but It resisted the influence o