The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-20

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aware that the Western Union rae doing
business ttere. Very few tHTpte mes
sages we're sent out from tie Office at the
ferry and no newspaper. messa ges what
ever. Mr.. Barclay gave TIE reporters
good night at 1870 o'clock, remarking:
II guess that is the last OF it."
usH NEW EQUIPMENT.
Supt. Jaynes Of the Western Union In
San Francisco will start for home probably
tomorrow. He spent most of the day
yesterday in arranging to forward supplies
of wire, dynamos and other instruments
needed in telegraphing so as to set up a
complete new plant in San Francisco and
elsewhere in the n~eighboring districts.
Part of the material was forwarded yes
terday from Chicago and Fart from this
city. Mr.. Jaynes said:
we shall probably be compelled to in
stall an entire new outfit in San Francisco.
Evidently everything lie gone. We shall
have to reopen conduits and to lay wires
and in fact go through the entire business
Of starting in the telegraph business afresh.
We are leaving nothing undone to accom-
plish it in the shortest space of time. II
there is an open space in San Francisco
NiFCIc NO III o UP q a We oiN' ~ ~
and we hope to make record time in getting
to work again and restoring so far as we
are able complete and quick transaction
Of all kinds Of business
The Western Union announced yesterday
that it will transmit free domestic mes
sages relating to the relief Of sufferers at San
Francisco when offered by duly constituted
relief organizations or public officers in
their official capacity
News the Postal Got.
The Postal Telegraph was cut OF from
San Francisco all day yesterday. Its
wires running east from Oakland we're all
working, but were so choked with business
that the company did not maintain much
Of a bulletin service of its own. Late yes
terday afternoon the manager OF the Oak
land office reported that there was a crowd
irving to net into the Office, that the authori-
ties were endeavoring to keep the people
in a line which then stretched for several
blocks. The people. he said, were almost
frantic. Most of them were DESTROYS OF
sending MESA ges TO Ea stern friends letting
them know they we're safe. Al the same
time in the Office at Oakland we're thousands
of messages indelivered.
According to the Postal people. the mill
tar- we're in charge az Oakland. and we're
almost as strict as in San Francisco, with
the result that it vas very difficult for any
body to get near the telegraph Office or to
move through the town itself. r
Postal officials here announced In the
afternoon that the amount Of messages
fled at their Oakland Office was simply un-
p~recedented, and that they had decided
=. -,.a oro Hraoa1apna to nri[atp mes
saees. even il newspaper despatc he's had
been filed ahead of them.
we are doing this out of humanitarian
motives" said an official of the company.
There are people standing for blocks
in front of the Office at Oakland trying to
send word to their friends, and in an ener-
'gency like this it seems cruel not to do
what We can to help them
HuSpRED WIRE "~E p SAFE"
As a result of this rule hundreds Of pri-
vate messages came over the wires to this
CITY Q terday. They told practically
nothing Of the disaster. Al the request
Of the company the messages we're limited
to as few words as possible. I'VE are all
safe" or we have escaped was what
most of the messages said.
While these messages were coming in
here people were besieging the Offices of the
company here and even the executive
Offices begging that messages be sent to
friends out there. The reply was always
the same:
We cannot deliver them. We will try
to get them TO the Oakland end of the wire,
and if your friends can get to the Office they
will propsbly get them. That is all we
can do. The military won't let us look for
people. nor cross the bay TO the burning
city"
The Postal received several messages
from its force at Oakland during the day
telling of the fire. but no message came
from the city across the bay to show that
its operators had been able to get the wire
which they had to abandon when they were
ordered out Of the Offices on Market street
on Wednesday afternoon.
The last word from Postal operators in
San Francisco came about , o'clock yester-
day morning when some of the electrical
force got back into the Postal building for
a minute and for the last time. apparently.
The Postal officials had no doubt yesterday
that the building was subsequently dyna-
mited or consumed by the flames, but they
we're somewhat anxious about the little
force of operators that had made such
desperate efforts to keep open the Postal
wires from the city, A despatch received
by vice-President Edgar c. Bradley from
| Oakland at 1ll5 yesterday morning, or
| about 8 O'Clock San Francisco time, shovel
that some we're still missing. This message
read;
THE FIRE OF BE CHECKED,
Fire is still raging and the entire city is
doomed. They have no water except
along the bay shore and are dyna hitting
buildings in an efort to check the fire.
The powder supply lie nearly exhausted
even to the powder in the Government
arsenal. which has been emptied. The
fire cannot be checked until il burns out.
Every building in the bushes section
and nearly one-half the residence section
destroyed now. Not a large building left.
So far as we can learn our force is unhurt,
but two or three are not heard Of yet
About 2:3o o'clock Mr.. Bradley said that
he had received a MESA &c that the tire
was reported to be under control, The
MESA ge came from Oakland and was sent
about 2 o'clock. At 1854 this messag e was
raociyed from ia kland.