The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-04-19
De TAILS ADD TO
GREAT DISASTER
Every Fresh Report Augments
the AWfulness of the
Catastrophe.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 1s,-8:40 a. m.
AS reports come In the magnitude OF
the disnster grows. Fire has been rag
Ing In all directions and people are NOV
Ing out of the downtown sections. The
loss OF life may reach into the hundreds.
and millions of dollars worth OF prop
erty has been destroyed
Big Hotel Falls.
The Valencia hotel between Seven
teenth and Eighteenth streets. on Valen-
ella street, II hve-story frame building,
toppled over into tho street. buryIng
seVenty-fVe people in the debris Only
the top story remains intact, a house
on Fourteenth street. near Valencia,
was wrecked. killing two people.
Many OF the houses arc damaged so
badly that 1t Is impossible to get the fire
Burned In Ruins.
A lodging-house on Seventh street. be-
tween Howard and Mission, known as
the Kingsley. entirely collapsed. II is on
fire and seventy-five to eighty people are
believed 10 be buried in the flaming ruins.
At Twenty-second and Mission the dry
goods store Of Lipman is on fire, threat
enins the destruction OF the entire block.
Traffic at Standstill.
At Eleventh and Valencia there Is a
creYice In the street six feet wide, and
entire sidewalks are torn up. The street
cs- tracks arc badly twisted, and trafilc
ie at a staudstill-
IS bolnG carried into the building from
outside sources Tor the use OF the pa
TENTS.
Many people suffering from injuries are
seen on the streets making their way to
tho different hospitals
Churches Fall in Shock.
The Episcopal church on Eleventh
street Is badly damaged, and at the
Studebaker carriage factory, on Tenth
and Market streets. the top story caved
in, badly wrecking the entire building
Fire which has been raging In the vi
clnity OF Fourth and Stevenson streets
has got beyond the control of the fire
men and the flames have leaped to the
side OF Third street Unless the flames
can be checked here the Palace hotel
one block distant, Will be endangered
Powder to Check Flames.
The water supply Is entirely inadequate
and powder Is being used TO check the
were vacated early in the morning and
guests are now returning to gather up
their effects. All sorts of vehicles are
being used TO carry out OF the danger
zone everything OF value.
The loss OF life seems TO have been
confined to the poorer districts.
For the benefit OF Eastern people who
have friends visiting in San Francisco,
1t liz safe to say they have not been in
jured.
Excitement Growing.
As the hours go by tho excitement
grows more intense Every few minutes
explosions beard as buildings are
blown up To stop the progress of the
flames
The fire has spread. and II the wind
comes up San Francisco vii experience
the greatest connagration OF modern
times.
Block After Block Gone.
on lower Market street the main
thoroughfare OF the city, block after
block OF substantial buildings have been
destroyed.
A big fire is raging on the corner Of
Sansome and Pine streets one block
from the Associated Press.
The widest Iumors as to loss Of life
are coming into the newspapers, but IL
is impossible to confirm them. No re-
ports have been received outside Of San
Francisco, but the damage about the bay
must be enormous. Oakland Is said to
have suffered severely,
The Santa Fe roundhouse and machine
shops at Point Richmond, across the
bay. have collapsed.
The earthquake was not seriously felt
at other points along the coast. so far
as can be aScertalned.