Yukon Valley news., 1906-04-25
NIUkY UF RUIN and Was Sent From the Stricken Districts BY IELEGRAP

At o'clock this morning raging furnace covered the water front between Bay street and Meiggs wharf. Wharves a quarter of a mile east are still safe. In the opposite direction all has been consumed.
 All the fruit canneries were consumed.
 Gas has been released
 Vessels off shore are said to smoke, but are throwing streams into the blaze.
 Communication with Oakland is threatened.
 The water front emergency hospital is afire Patients were moved across the bay.
 Wind is blowing down walls on Mar ket street. The thoroughfare has been closed by the authorities, thus shutting off the only means of reaching the ferry
 Three men were shot trying to loot the wreck of the sub-treasury at mid night.
 Sixteen were killed by soldiers Thurs day night trying to enter the mint.
 Two Chinese killed by soldiers for re- fusing to obey orders.
 Six hundred laborers have arrived to attempt to open sewers. Pestilence is feared.
 Six babies were born in the camp of of the homeless at Golden Gate park
 The police have broken open every saloon in the unconsumed districk and poured the liquor into the gutters.
 Eleven postal clerks taken from the wrecked postoffice-whom it was sup posed were dead-are all alive, thoug gh three days without food and water.
 Telegraph companies abandoned the attempt to deliver messages. The Pos tai was forced to abandon its temporary office on the water front at midnight
 Bread lines have been established, each person being given a whole loaf Oakland sends a supply of milk, which is being given women and children.
 Men in silk hats are in the bread line and at soup kitchens established in the unburned districts.
 Two hundred thousand slept at Col den Gate park last night.
 Food trains are beginning to arrive. Southern Pacific repaired its track. People almost famished.
 Fifty thousand refugees at Presidio and fifty thousand at Oakland are being well cared for. At the latter place there are no tents yet.
 A heavy fog is sweeping from the bay and much pneumonia and other diseases is developing.
 Presidio and Oakland hospitals are overcrowded. There is a fetid odor due to cesspools about the park, and it is unsanitary everywhere. 1 SEATTLE.-Forty-one tons of food left here by special train last night The Steamer Buchanan was chartered and leaves tonight loaded with food stuffs and clothing, manned by volun- teer crew from the sailors union. 1 Washington lumbermen raised fifty thousand dollars; Seattle so far eighty | five thousand.
 The Buchman will probably bring a boat load of refugees here. ! SAN FRANCISCO.-Lodging house at Fifth and Minna streets has just col lapsed; seventy-five killed Cosmopol tan collapsed; a hundred bodies in the ruins. Brunswick hotel collapsed; hun dred and fifty dead.
 Bank vaults have been examined and all contents found safe.
 Hartman has just wired two hun dred thousand dollars Relief trains are beginning tO arrive at Oakland. WASilINGTON.- N.-Secretarv Taft has just received telegram saving another million k needed, and has sent the tcle- gram tu the house. The government has already expended million anl a half
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