Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-21
FIRE BURNING OUT San frdncisCo's Darkest Hour Past. WATERFRONT YET THREATENED Fire Fighters Stand Saved 3 Guar.
 ter of the City.
WATER FRONT YET THREATENED
DETAILS OF DEATHS COMING IN

quake, Destruction Abatcs and Gold
 en Gate City once More Hopes For
 Bare Exintence-Fight Against To-
 tal Ruin at Van Ness Avenue Was
 successful-Funston's Soldiers Using
 Stern Measures With Looters-Many
 GhouIs Intent on Robbery shot.
 Eleven Postal Clerks Taken From
 Living Tomb After Long Imprison-
 ment.
 SAN FRANCISCO, April 21-General Funston'A report to the war depart ment at Washington says:
 "The fire has been checked, and there has been no renewal of 1t west of Octavia street or south of Market street. but it is not under control at the water front, and it is creeping to- ward our telegraph hea dquarters at the ferry house, through which this mes sage is sent.'
 San Francisco's darkest hour seems to have passed, and the fire, which has been raging since Wednesday morning immediately after the earthquake, has in a great measure burned itself out. , The fire fighters are still using dyna- mite, and one-quarter of the city will proba bly, be saved.
 The stand made at Van Ness avenue. Nineteenth and Mission streets was generally successful, and the district from Post to Union street and from Octavia street to the Ocean shoreway is still intact and will probably re- main so.
 It is now reported that the fire has broken out in the wharfs north of Market street, and it is feared that unless soon checked it may reach the Oakland ferry building. where the Western Union has established the only wire out of the city. The fire is prac- tically under control in the western addition, and the property west of Octavia street stands good chance of being saved, but the fire is spreading toward the north beach. around the east side of Telegraph hill. | From e three story lodging house at Fifth and Minna streets, which col IIapsed Wednesday morning, more than seventy-flve bodies were taken out. There are fifty other dead bodies in sight in the ruins. This building was one of the first to take fire on Fifth street. At least 100 persons were kill ed in the Cosmopolitan.
 Many persons dropped dead of heat ara suffocation. More than 150 persons are reported I dead in the Brunswick hotel. i Five firemen were crushed to death Wednesday night while fighting the flames. They were caught beneath the debris of a building which collapsed.
 At midnight Wednesday thirty per sons were imprisoned in an apartment house. The firemen cut through the walls with their axes. determined if possible to rescue the imprisoned peo- {; pie. A hole big enough to permit the passage of a man was made in the wall. and K. c. Durie. a fireman. ! thrust through his arm and was as- sisting young girl to safety when the roof of the structure collapsed. f Durie escaped with his life. but the thirty imprisoned lodgers were killed.
 Fire Chief Sullivan. who was injured Wednesday morning, is still alive. His wife died yesterday afternoon.
 A dozen men have been shot by sol diers for footing. and in two cases thieves were run through with bayo- nets and their bodies left lying where i they had fallen to become food for the oncoming flames.
 At one place on Thursday five men were shot. two killed and three badly wounded.
 Money counts for nothing. The food supplies are as free for the pauper as for the Croesus There is nothing for the one that the other could not have.
 Throughout It all the best of com sradcship prevailed. For the time class lines were plotted out.
 I The mayor says San Francisco will without doub; reconstruct it's public buildings without delay and oa scale of maguiievnce hitherto unknown. He has called on President Roosevelt and congress ie do the same with the fed eral buildings. More than stol0a0o0 of insurance will br available. On the hills In the western part of the city last night thousands gathered to witness the completion of the de- struction between brief intervals of sleep. Throughout Colder Gate park en0on bivouac fires giesmed- In front of every remaining residence imprcmp- tu ereplaces uere doing duty ss stoves and for the first time since the earth quake shock the people sat down on grass plots or curhstcnes to enjoy s warm neal
 Chinatown vss destroyed complete ly. ft Is sssd ti,t many Cain>se s;upe- fed with cpsuIa or drink were blown ID with dynamite. sererrI nsneied bodies have hesn found Lieutenant F M Freeman ssrfes thsf Ia one baild- .zg eve or six bodies were thrown if b feet into the air and back into ire flames
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