The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-20

Oakland. Cal, April 10s-(Midnlsht.) At midnight the fire in San Francisco does not appear to have diminisned. The entire sky is il1uminated by the glare of the unchecked connagratiOn. There is no wind and only the fasntest suspicion of breese tosight. but it is said that there is stin breese blow ing over San Francisco.
 A gigantic column of smoke hangs over desolated Sun Francisco, the apex forming fantastic shapes thousands Of feet in the air and slowiy drifting to the northwest. Although teIeGraphic communication was established this evening with the ferry building on the san Francisco side, only a very limited amount of matter could he handled.
 The telegraph companies would re- ceiye but n few hundred words of press matter, giving the wires to pressing commercial business. It ts probable that by tomorrow morning additional < faciIiffes will have been provided and detailed stories of the city's destruction can he handled from that side of the hay.
 The telegraph companies arc com pIetely swamped by the enormous vol- ume of messages reaching nere as we. as those filed for the outside world. It is unlikely that there will he any fur ther news matter from San Francisco before morning.
 Chicawo, April 19.-The Postal Tele- graph Company at c p. m. received the following messages from It's Oakiana'
 .sTbe Fire Chief Marshal of San Fran cisco advises that more than two-thfrds of the area of the city of San Francisco has been destroyed and there is no pos sibiIIty of saving the balance of the city.6 The following Is the district north of Market Street now devastateds
 sssanseme to Market, te Sacramento, to Buehanau, thence to California to Hyde, to, Eddy, to Larhin, to Gough and to Market. The north aide of Mar ket Street is afire and extends along Market to Fourteenth and below the seuthcrn Pacific tracks tp the bound- nfy.s
 san Francisco, April 18.--All efforts to cheek the spread of the flames sit Van Ness Avenue by blowing m q miie of buildings on the east side of yan Ness Avenue have proved fruitless. The fire has spread, across the broad thor oughfare and from present indications the entire western addition, which con- taIns the homes of San Francisco's mill Ifonafres and people of the wealthier class are now doomed. The destruc- ton of the western addition practically completes the work of the raging flames anu lmAEA1 thG u%N1ot@ssVAA VA sAAG S-<" tire city.
 New York, April I0.-WiIliam H. Dn- ker, Vice-President and General Man. oger of the Postal Telegraph Company nt IOs3O tonight received the following from the Deputy Chief of the San Fran cisco Fire Departments
 .sFire heading Ivr residential district. Efforts to fight flames futile. Three hundred thousand will be homeless to- night. By Saturday San Francisco will be an ash heap."
 New York, April 19.--The omciais of the Postal Telegraph Company ip this city at s.35 received the following message from MT. Storer, superintend- ent of their service in Sam Francisco,
 "The fire is still going on and will probably consume the whole city ex- cept those streets situated between the Golden Gate Park and Webster Street, fin which neighbOrhOod there ts water and where the fire department can work with some chance of success" Chicago, April f9.-The Western Un- ion Telegraph Company at p. m., received the following dispatch from San Franciscos
 "Eyerything south of Market Street to Twenty-third gone except the mint and fire Is still burning. The postofice was damaged by the earthquake, also slightly by fire. Everything south of Mission Street is entirely gone up to Van Ness Avenue and past Van Ness west of Golden Gate Avenue up to Oc- tavia street. Chinatown and Mob Hill have been wiped out. The fire has crossed Van Ness Avenue east of Un- t0n Street, leaving only ruin in its wake. Nothing Is left In the business district. The fire Is burning now about Union and Franklin Streets with prospects of continuing. All that .is left how is bounded by Union, Van Ness, Golden Gate Avenue to Octayia, Hayes and FilIriore Streets over to Market Street."