The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-04

SAN FRANCISCO, April 1S.-Nearly
every big factory building has beer
wiped out of existence, and a complete
enumeration of them would look like q
copy of the city directory. Many OF
the finest buildings in the city were
leveled to the dust by the terrific
charges of dynamite in the hopeless eff
fort to stay the horror of fire In this
work many heroic soldiers, policemen
and fremen were manned or killed out
right.
st 10 o clock tonight the fire was I'M
abated and thousands of people are
fleeing to the hills and clamoring for
places on the ferryboats at the ferry
building.
The damage is now believed to have
reached $500, 000,0 600 and $4,000 people
are thought to be homeless.
Under the fierce heat of the MONDAY
sun nineteen dead bodies lay in Wash
ington square, where they were taken
at the order of the mayor when the
morgues and Hall of Justice basement
held all that could be cared for.
For three miles along the waterfront
buildings have been swept clean, and
tonight the blackened beams and great
skeletons of factories and Office build
ings stand silhouetted against back
ground of flame that is slowly spread
ing over the entire city. The whole
commercial section of the city on the
north side of Market street, from the
ferry building to Tenth street, has
been consumed in the flames, while
hardly a building is standing in the
district sonth of Market street.
OF CALIFORNIA
KILLED CHIEF SULLIVAN.
At clock, despite the heroic work
of the fremen and the troops of dyna-
miters, who RACED building after build
ing and blew up property valued at
the flames spread across Mar
let street to the north side and swept
up Montgomery street, practically to
Washington street. Along Montgom-
cry street are some of the richest banks
and commercial houses in San Fran
cisco.
The famous Mills building and the
Merchants Exchange, in which is stu
ated the marine and stock exchanges,
are still standing, but the Mutual Life
Insurance building and scores of bank
and Office buildings are on fire, while
blocks of other houses are in the path
of the flames and nothing seems TO be
at hand to stay their progress. Block
after block of banking houses are now
masses of red-hot ruins and it Will be
months before the money that was
housed in their vaults can be reached. |
The earthquake caused the wreck of /
the California hotel. on Bush and Kear /
ney streets, and the falling chimneys
and cornice of the hotel crashed |
through the frehouse adjoining, severe /
~ injuring + Ire Chief Sullivan so that /
ne was unable to direct the work of /
ire -fghting He is now in hospital in /
A precarious condition.
Despite this disheartening accident /
The entire fire department, assisted by
part of the Oakland department and /
many volunteers from outside districts,
lid heroic service, many brave men los |
ng their lives while performing the /
work OF succor. The earthquake, how
ever. had broken most of the water .
mains and the men were without water .
o Battle with the fire fend. Whatever .
water was obtained TO fight the flames
II the harbor front and in the factory .
districts was pumped from the bay. [
This compelled dynamiting as the only |
possible method of saving any of the
:itr
HOW THE PALACE
HOTEL WAS BURNED. /
The flames were kept confined to the /
:outh of Market street in the business
section until about , clock in the aft
,rnoon, when the wind carried sheets of !
DANES into the richest part of the city /
The Palace Hotel, which has shelter
ID famous people from all parts of the
world, was burned clean. Nothing ex-
.ept the Quilted framework of its 1000 ,
'oOmS now stands.
Among the other notable buildings
destroyed were the Grand Opera House,
III Mission street, where the Conreid
opera Company opened its season Mon
lay night. The members of the troupe
, . Q o
stevenson and Third streets had col
apsed. They Immediately set to work
With axes and anything in the way of
IN implement with which they could
provide themselves to rescue those in
idle