The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-20
When the Dynamite Gave
Out A0peVas Given Up
and Despair Arose.
ARMY EXPLOSIVES USED
Vain EfforttO Check the Flames
When They Began to Jump
Wide Streets.
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FIREMEh GAVE UP THE FIGHT.
Engines Sucked Some Of the Sew.
:" ers Dry Before Quitting.
BUSINESS DISTRICT A BLOT.
Property Loss Is Now Estimated at
More Than $20O,000,OO0.
Engines Sucked Some Of the Sew.
)" ers Dry Before Quitting.
BUSINESS DISTRICT A BLOT.
Property Loss Is Now Estimated at
More Than $2O0,00O,O00.

h Inhabitants Yesterday Understood
Fully That the Old San Francisco Wa
Gone Utteriy-Exhaust1on Of the Dyna.
mite supply sealed the Deem OF the
PIace-Word Was Passed Along From
Mouth to Mouth in the Night and the
People Thereafter Stood Dumb-No
Longer Apy Business Quarter or Down.
town DIstrict-Black Ruin Has Swept
Them Out or Existence-A New City
Must BE Built IL There IL to he a Me.
trOpolIs at the Golden Gate-The
Terror OF the Nlsht-Rulns Tangled.
SAN FRANCISCO, April Ia, s P. MAJ this
hour San Francisco sits in the waste Of her
ruins awaiting the time when the flames
that Rave already taken out her vitais shall
have worn themselves out through the very
lack of that fuel. Hope has gone. The
whole city seems doomed.
With black ryin covering more than
seven square miles in lis very heart the
city now waits in a stupor the inevitable
reign OF starvation and possible anarchy
that must crowd close upon the disaster.
The flames are now eating out the central
residence portion about the Western ADJ
cition and fashionable Pacific Heights.
After sucking dry even the sewers, the fire
engines have either been abandoned or
moved to the outlying districts in the vain
hope that the water mains broken by the
earthquake may be repaired in time to permit
Of a final stand being made against the whirl-
wind march Of the flames.
mo more dynamitel No more dynamitel' q
fireman ran shriekiHg up Ellis street past
the doomed Flood building at 2 O'Clock this
morning, and as he ran tears sprang from
his, smoke smirohed eyes" No more dyna.
mitei" moaned the crowd that stood list
leesly In the glare of approaching flames.
"No more dynamite, and We are lostl"
SO at 2 O'Clock, with the explosive ex-
hausted and not a dozen streams OF water
being thrown in the entire fire zone, the
stunned fire fighters and the stupid people
sat still to watch the remnant OF the city
burn.
There is no help. Water gone. powder
gone, hope even now a fiction. the fair
city by the Golden Gate lie doomed to be
blotted from the sight Of man.
The stricken people, who wander through
the streets in pathetic hopelessness and cit
upon their scattered belongings, have
reached the stage Of dumb. uncaring de-
spair. A city dissolving before their eyes
has no significance longer.
Marius sitting among the ruins Of Car.
thage sew not such a sight as presents itself
in the dim haze OF the smoke pail across
the bay. Ruins, stark naked. yawning at
fearful angles and ~ptnnacled into a thou
sand fearsome shapes, mark the site Of
what was three-fourths Of the total area
Of the city.
There is no business auartsr-it is zone.
There is no longer a hotel district, a theatre;
a place where night beckoned to pleasure.
Everything gone. Only q part OF the resi-
denoe domain fof the city remains, and