The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1906-04-18
MANY KILLED IN TENEMENTS.

$50 n. MAS reports come in the mag
ntude OF the disaster grows Fires are
raging in all directions and people NOV
Ing out Of the down town sections The
loss of life may reach into the hundreds
Millions OF dollars worth OF property has
been destroyed
ANOTHER SHOCK.
Sl5 a m.-There has just been another
shock with intensified panic People have
started 10 rush into the streets but the
shock was OF short duration and alarm
subsded
70 PEOPLE BURIED UNDER HOTEL.
The Valencia hotel between 18th AMI
18th streets on Valencia street, nve
story frame building toppled into the
street burying rs people. A house on l4tn
street was wrecked killing two people
Many OF the Are houses are damaged so
badly that II Is impossible to get n,e
apparatus out. A lodging house on Sew
enth street known az the Kingsley. en-
tIrely collapsed
ROASTING ALIVE.
II is on fire and 70 to 80 people are be-
leved 20 be buried in the flaming ruins.
Al I'D and Mission streets the dry goods
store OF Isipman Is on fire. threatening the
destruction OF the entire block At 18th
and Valencia streets there is a crevice I'm
the street sx feet wide and entire side
walks are torn up. The street car tracks
are badly twisted.
In the southern sections OF the city traf-
&c IL al n standstill
At the Southern Pacific hotel water is
being carried into the building for the use
OF the patients. Many injured persons are
making their way TO the hospitals The
Episcopal. church on Eleventh-street is
badly damaged and at the Studebaker
carriage factory on Tenth and Market
streets the top story caved In badly
wrecking the entire building.
PALACE HOTEL MENAcED.
Fire. which has been raging In tho
vicinity OF Fourth and Stevenson streets.
has gotten beyond control and the flames
have leaped 10 the Winchester rooming
House on Third street Unless the flames
can be checked here the Palace hotel, one
block distant, viii he endangered.
The water supply IL inadequate and
powder is being used 10 check the flames.
The rooms in the Palace hotel were va
Gated early in the morning and guests are
gathering up their effects. All sorts OF
vehicles are being used to carry out OF
the danger zone everything OF value.
VISITORS NOT AMONG DEAD.
The loss OF life seems TO have been con
fined To the poorer districts and manu-
N
Eastern people who have friends visiting
here. II is safe 10 say that they have not
been injured. Every few minutes explo-
sions are heard as buildings are blow up
10 stop the progress OF the flames
The fires are spreading. and II the wind
comes up San Francisco will experience
tho greatest conhagration OF modern
times
on lower Market street. the main
49,
substantial buildings have been destroyed
A big fire is raging on the corner of Han
some and Prince streets, one block from
the Associated Press office.
OAKLAND SUFFERS SEVERELY.
The widest rumors as 10 loss OF life
are coming 20 the newspapers. but 81 Is
impossible 10 confirm them. No reports
have been received outside OF San Fran
cisco. but the damage about the bay must
be enormous. Oakland r. said 10 have suf-
1ered severely.
WHOLE WATER FRONT ABLAZE.
A Are which broke out IN the Mack
wholesale drug company In Fremont street
threatens 10 destroy the entire block
Practically the entire water front Is on
fire.
From Pine and Dupont streets fires can
be seen raging I'm all down town districts
y pIlSk westerly Nlnd u coming up ana
the destruction Of the entire business
district Is threatened.
The Hall ~ Justice Is momentarIly ex-
pected to fall.
CITY HALL A WRECK.
The city hall r. almost an entire wreck
The damage here is estimated n half a
million dollars.
The Mechanics pavilion has been con
verted into an emergency hospital Tho
Grand Opera house has been much dam
aged -.-
Al a.is the hre I'm the vicinity of the
Palace and Grand hotels was rapidly ap-
preaching the buildings and from pres
Ell indications they VIII fall prey 10 tho
flames within hslf an hour
The Examiner and Call buildings are
also In imminent danger The Santa Re
roundhouse and machine shops AZ Point
Richmond across the bay. have coll
bpsed
i0:ib-Coast Time-The IRE extends
from Ferry 20 Front streets on one side
and pretty much all south of Market
street, and out 20 about Seventh street
with sporadic fires IN the Park section
and the western division
TAKING LIVES IN THEIR HANDS.
There Is no way Of estimating the
number % the dead. The Postal Telo-
graph operators who are AZ their posts
ere taking uheir lives IN their hands as
the building is collspslng and the FIRE