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

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shoemaker named Joseph Lindsay
was four hours in demolished build
Ing, and when dug out it was found that
he had not been hurt.
/ The entire Larkin street frontage of
the city hall for distance of several
hundred feet was thrown out onto the
street, and that thoroughfare for two
blocks is piled high with masses of NOR
tared brick and twisted iron.
1t will be many days before the com
plete story of the ruin wrought by the
! calamity of earthquake and fire that
visited San Francisco today will be
written, and then there will still remain
untold countless tales OF pitifuI trag
/ edy. The exact loss of life viii never
! be known, as hundreds of unfortunates
have been incinerated in the flames
which made the rescue of those buried
under topping steeples and falling
i walls impossible. Temporary morgues
were improvised at many points only
/ to be RACED by the flames.
Tonight the city resembles one vast
shamble, the fire throwing weird shad-
ows across the worn and panic-strcken
faces of the homeless, who are wander
ing in the streets OF sleeping on piles
of mattresses and clothing in the parks
and on the sidewalks in those districts
not yet reached by the fire.
Forgetting for a moment the terrible |
suffering, physical and financial loss !
that trails in the wake of the disaster, |
the scene presented by the flames is !
one of unspeakable grandeur. Looking |
over the city from a high hill in the |
Western addition the flames can be
seen for miles and miles, while in the !
midst of the spOuting tongues of red !
fire can be seen the black skeletons and /
falling towers of the doomed buildings.
At regular intervals the booming dyna-
mite tells of the work of the brave
army of men that are attempting to
save the city from complete annihila-
ton
DEAD ARE CREMATED
IN PUBLIC MORGUE.
A falling wall from one of the dyna-
mited buildings crushed out the life of
Fireman Max Ferren, while countless
others met a like fate. Through the +.
streets automobiles and express wagons
are hurrylng, carrying the dead and in
Jured to the morgues and the hospitals
At the morgue III the hall of justice
fifty bodies lie on the slabs. The flames
rapidly approached this building and
the work of removing the bodies to
jackson square began. While the sol
diers and police were carving the dead
to what appeared safe places a shower
of bricks from building, dynamited TO
check the progress OF the sweeping
flames, injured many of the wOrkmen
and sent soldier after soldier hurrying
to the hospitals. The work OF remov-
ing the bodies was stopped and the
remainder of the dead were left to pos
sible cremation in the mOrgue
The city is under stringent martial
law and squads of cavalry and troops
of infantry are patrolling the streets
and guarding the sections that have not
yet been visited by the flames Despite
their efforts to keep the crowds from
the section now being dynamited many
slipped through the guards and not !,
few suffered from their temerity.
From the Barbary Coast the herds
Of vicious and criminal persons that in
fest that section poured forth and
started early in the evening to loot the
stores and rob the dead. Fearing such
a fiendish climax to this day of horrors,
Mayor Schmitz and Chief of Police
Oman issued orders for the soldiers to
kill outright all who engaged in such
work. Before the eyes of an Associated
Press representative three thieves were
shot in the back and fatally wounded
N the burning commercial district.
ASTONISHING HAVOC
IN ASIATIC QUARTERS.
The earthquake has worked astonish-
ng havoc in San Francisco s famous
chinatown. The Chinese houses and
Joss houses are in ruins, and rookerv
after rookery has collapsed, covering
alive hundreds of the Celestials Panic
-elgns among the thousands of the Chi
lese, and they fill the streets, dragging
whatever they could save from the
wrecks.
The Japanese quarter has been partly
burned, and from the part not de-
stroyed they have fed to tine interior,
packing on their backs what household
effects they could tie together.
When darkness began to fall. thou
sands of men and women and children
rom the Latin quarter marched in end
ess procession toward the hills, or to
he waterfront, frantic to get away
rom the city, lest other earthquakes
'ollow and flames be wrapt around them =
before they could make their escape
Artillerymen from the Presidio. with
upply wagons and the army commits
AIRY wagons, are aiding in getting the {
leeino inha bitants and their hapoaua :