Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-04-26

Inero nave OF course been several
cases of pneumonia reported, and
colds are quite common, but there is
nothing like an epidemic of pulmonary
troubles. An interesting item from
the Golden Gate park district was the
report Of the birth OF eighteen babies
These cases have received prompt
and eNicient attention and the moth
ers and children removed to the vari.
Gus maternity hospitals.
The turning on of water in the resi-.
dence district will relieve the mind of
all those living in houses of the fear
OF disease; it is those thousands
camped in the parks and on every bit
of open ground that must receive
prompt attention. The work in these
places is in the hands of the engineer
ing officers of the United States army
and is progressing satisfactorily.
Eight temporary structures, $50 feet
in length by % feet wide and 10 feet
high, have been erected in the Golden
Gate park, and in these sheds thou.
sands found fairly comfortable shelter
last night. AS lumber and worlmen
to put it in place are on hand, more
OF these buildings will be ready to-
night. The buildings have been d..
vlded into compartments
Extent of Burned District.
The fire having exhausted itself,
with the exception of the still flaming
embers in thousand places here and
there through the burned district, the
Associated Press, for the purpose of
determining with accuracy the boun-
diaries OF the conflagration, sent out
an automobile, which skirted the fire
on all sides. The register of the ma.
chine showed it had travelled twenty
six miles, which, therefore, may be
taken as the length of the lines on
which the flames travelled The extent
of the area is seven square miles.
This area included the com.
mercial, financial and most Of
the densely packed residence
mansions which had grown up with
the progress of the city. Within this
vast waste of smouldering embers
were found three GASES, where human
beings still have their habitats as be-
fore the great conf1agration. One of
| these was to be seen on the very sum
nit of Telegraph HILL where perhaps
| score of homes still stand. At the
northwest corner of Jones and Green
the residence of o. d. Baldwin, the
real estate dealer in the Mills build.
| ing, is still habitable. Across the way,
| at the northwest, Mrs. Edward Huber
has preserved her home On south.
erly line of Greene, at 1909 to 1017,
are to be found the residences of Mr..
klrkharris, George j. Phillips, B. j.
Birdsall, William Hanke, Charles
OBrien and Martin Fussier. There
are also six sets of flats in this vi
entity which remain intact
Some three hundred houses lying on
the south and east slopes of Telegraph
hlll remain to attest the efficacy of
the juice Of the grape in quenching
the flames when water failed for in
this quarter the householders, many of
whom are Italians, saved their abodes
by free use OF the red wine stored
in their cellars. The red walls of the
houses show the stains where the
claret soaked sacks had been used to
cool the heated walls of the buildings
The one remaining spot unburned
within the district is bounded by
Montgomery, Battery, jackson and
Washington.
Loss $3oO,oo0,ooo Insurance 175,oOo,ooo
1t was estimated Fly competent in
surance authorities that the loss will
aggregate $300,000,000, and on this
vast amount of property the insul-
ance companies carried approximately
$175, 100000 insurance
Property owners have had an op-
portunity to inspect some OF their
holdings and in a measure to ascertain
what damage had been done The
new. modern steel buildings were
found to be almost intact. In every
instance it seemed that the earth.
quake had not damaged them The
steel frames We're in perfect plumb
and as strong as ever. Cornices and
fancy trimmings fell, but that was all
Even when the fire swept through
them, only the woodwork was dam
aged. The Fairmont hotel on Mob hill
will be rushed to completion, the Claus
Spreckles building, on Market and
Third streets. will be occupied in a
few days; the Union Trust building
on Montgomery and Market streets
has only lost the interior woodwork
and as soon as the men can put in the
lumber it will be ready for occupation
The st. Francis hotel is in the same
category and the work of renovating
the interior will soon be commenced
An inspection of the CAL building dis
closed the fact that several floors Of
the building We're in good condition
and could, after slight repairs, be uset
as formerly.