The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-04-19
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Market street and west to Eleventh street, north of Market. The fire ex- tends out Hayes and McAllister streets nearly to Fillmore, and from the wa terfront along Market to Montgomery, and north from the waterfront to Mont gomery street.
 Manufactories, hotels, wholesale houses and residences, comprising the principal part of the business quarter, have been destroyed.
 The city hall, structure costing ST. 000,000, was first wrecked by the earth quake and then destroyed by fire. The Palace hotel, value estimated at $3,000,- 900, also burned. The beautiful Claus Spreckels building at Third and Mar ket streets was gutted. The Rialto building, with dozens of other costly structures, was also destroyed. The Hall of Justice is threatened and will the Call buildings are gone, and the Crocker building, across the street from the Palace hotel, is on fire.
 No afternoon papers were issued, and 1t is doubtful if the morning papers will appear. The Southern Pacific tracks are In such condition that only crip- pied train service has been possible.
 The Chronicle building and it's new annex are still standing.
 The freaks of the earthquake were many. Wide Assures were made in the streets, street railways were twisted o,IF rf lipa sayyay op1 vvo +ar pipac tuera burst, and it is feared that there will be an epidemic of disease. Provisions are sold at fancy prices, and even water is vended by the glass. It is impossible to give list of the dead and wounded, or even a list of the principal buildings.
 At a meeting of the committee of safety to-day Mayor schmitz issued the following proclamation:
 ITO the Citizens of San Francisco:
 The federal troops, which are now policing a portion of the city, as well as the regular and special members of the police force, have been authorized 1 by me to kill any persons whomsoever found engaged in footing the effects of any citizens, or otherwise engaged in the commission of crime.
 Under these circumstances they re- quest that all citizens whose business does not imperatively require their ab- sence from home after dark remain at home during the nighttime until order shall have been restored.
 T beg to warn all citizens of the danger from fire on account of defective or destroyed chimneys, gas pipes, gas fixtures, and the like.
 ''E. E. Schmitz, Mayor. 1 At 5 p. m. the flremen were as far as ever from checking the progress of the flames. In the northern section of the downtown section the fire swept around | the Hall of Justice and communicated to Chinatown, thence proceeding west ward into the heart of that colony. It then began rapidly eating it's way southward on both sides of Kearny street, and at D. m. was within block of the California hotel. This point is near the plant of the Evening Bulletin, in which the three morning papers had agreed to join to issue a four-sheet pa- per tomorrow. That plan was aban- doned. as the Bulletin lies directly in the path of the flames.
 At 6 o'clock tonight the world fam ous Palace hotel, built at cost of millions, fell prey to the contiagra- tion, and the Crooker building across the street began to emit smoke. | Nf Ter NP tY vun c the destruction of St. Ignatius church and college at Hayes and Van Allen streets. This was the greatest Jesuitic- al institution in the world and was built at a cost of a couple of millions.
 At o'clock tonight the fire had swept from the south side of the town across Market street into the western addition, and was burning houses at | Golden Gate avenue and Octatvia street. This result was reached after almost the entire southern district from Ninth street to the eastern water front had been converted into a blackened waste. In this quarter were hundreds of factories, wholesale houses and many business firms, in addition to thous- ands of homes.
 On the north side the fire tonight was not making such rapid headway as in the western addition, where there is limited water supply available The #fremen are making desperate efforts to l prevent the encroachment of the devas- tation. Temporary headquarters were established in tents in Portsmouth square this evening for Mayor Schmitz, Chief of Police Dinnan and General Funstan, but this site became too dan gerous about 6 o'clock and was aban- doned. Later the flames swept the square.
 In the south side district on Rlncon hill St. Mary's hospital, conducted by the Sisters of Mercy, was reduced to ashes.
 Throughout the city wherever there is a, public square a scene of desola- ton is presented. Tents have been pitched by fortunate possessors of can vas, but most of the homeless people are huddled in frightened groups about the household belongings they manag- ed to save from the general ruin. Ness avenue, badly damaged.
 All efforts to prevent the fire iron reaching the Palace and Grand hotels were unsuccessful, and both were com pletely destroyed, together with al their contents.
 All of San Francisco's best play houses, including the Majestic, Colum bia, Orpheum and Grand Opera house are in ruins The earthquake demolish ed them for all practical purposes, ant | 4to sra ooroDlefad the wnrk of dayooU