Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1906-04-25
IS GONE.
Noted Section OF San Francisco /
Wiprd 0ut. !,
ANOTHER LOCALITY
Hundreds Of Men Are Now Engaged
In Dynamiting Dangerous walls
and Clearing Away Debris
ior Rebuilding.

San Francisco, April f.-The ttr
fire obllterated Chinatown from SAM
Francisco forever. Mayor Schmitz
informed Chief OF Police Linan that
ali Chinese in the city will be col
lected and placed In and near Fon-
tana's warehouses. near Fort Mason.
and the new Chinatown be located nj
Hunters Point. on the southern ex.
tremity OF the county. on the bay
shore II Is several miles distant
from old Chinatown. All Chinese who
left the city and who will return will
be concentrated az the new points.
Refugees are rapidly thinning out
OF Golden Gate park and Preside The
police estimated that 1000 people left
the park Monday and there were
about 1000 left Tuesday.
The Pacific Coast company's steam.
ship City OF Pueblo which was sunk
at the Union Iron works by the
trembler. will be raised In AZ ew days.
The steamer Columbia OF Portland.
which was shaken badly by the earth.
quake. was greatly damaged. The
sailing OF the liner Sonoma for Aus.
tralia and Mongolia for the orient has
been indefinitely postponed.
The total amount OF the relief fund
collected up 20 Tuesday is $S.i70 37O
al ~ t.H Ill
day night and Monday morning. which
greatly intensified the misery and
suffering Of the homeless people In
this stricken city. Monday night was
one OF comparative comfort and OF
generally improved condition. The
night was clear warm and balmy and
there was less suffering among the
thousands OF refugees camping I'M
der the blue canopy OF the sky than AZ
any time since the day OF the terrible
disaster. The condition OF the people
Is constantly growing better Relief
work Is being organized every day and
distribution Of provisions and provid'
ing OF shelter are daily more syste'
matte and methodical.
At 1890 Monday night an earth
quake shock was felt throughout the
city and momentarily created alarm
among the people. still unnerved and
oyerwrought from their recent expe
rience. No damage was caused. but
In some few instances persons Twins
IN houses ran out badly frightened
and called upon sentries and guards
10 help carry out clothing and othel
effects
Shortly after the slight trembling
an unconscious man was found on tbs
sidewalk In front OF a house az Colder
Gate avenue and Buchanan street. HI
had evidently fallen or jumped from
window In his efforts TO get out o
the house when II was shaken.
At O'Farrell and Leavenwortl
streets an unknown man. apparently
demented. was found in the street II
a dying conditions He died before h
could be removed 10 hospital.
The weather Tuesday never wa
better. Hundreds OF men have beef
placed ut work clearing the street
and dynamlting towering walls whicl
were left standing by the fire.
Arrangements for the reconstruc
ton OF a new and greater San Fran
cisco are rapidly crystalizing and sool
the sounds OF building will be hear
in every block OF the devastated dis
tricts
A large squad OF artillerymen as
sisted by the municipal authorities
has been dynamitlng all totterinl
buildings and walls. This work so IA
has been confined TO Market street u
order TO open a safe artery from tn
outlying districts TO the water front
The district north OF Market stree
and the business section will be IN
first TO receive the same treatmen
after Markei street Is clear.
A committee investigated all builc
ings left standing upon the mai
thoroughfares OF the devastated city
II ascertalned that nearly all IN
steel and frame structures withstoo
the earthquake. and although almos
without exception they have bee
Quilted. the loss n most cases i5 col
fined to the contents.
As showing the disposition pre-
vailing among property owners OF IN
. city. the action OF the Humboldt banl
which will al once erect a new built
ing seventeen stories in height. ma
be cited
Embargo on merchant vessels ha
been removed and shipping can no.
be moved as usual.
The big fortificatlon az the entranc
20 Golden Gate did not escape froT
serious injury during the great shak'
\ up The full extent OF the injury 81
sained is as yet unknown. for nothin
but a survey by an engineering corr
can disclose the full extent OF th
damage.
At Lime Point. the emplacement
big guns have been cracked an
twisted. Heavy concrete. both on IN
floor and In the walls Of the emplac'
ment. bear unmistakable violence
having been given a bad shaking al
Conditions are said TO be equal
as bad at the Notifications back {
Old Fort Point. As Il Is now. N
great thirteen-inch guns on both side
j OF the gate, constituting the main d.
fens. are practically useless. The
weigh many tons each. but their az
justment upon the carriage is as del
cate as a watch. The earthquake d.
stroyed this. and though the damag
can be repaired. Il will take consl'
enable time and much labor before IN
big guns are In condition TO do th