Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-19


buryinE occupants Panic tn downtown
hoteis Lick house was badly damaged, |
but no loss Of life is reported there. The |
Palace and St. francis hotels stood tho
shock People nocked 10 the telegraph Of
fees to send messages to friends and we're !
frantic because there we're no wires The
greatest Damage 70 buildings was done
south Of Market street. where there are
mostly frame buildings and tenement
houses Fires occurred in every block Of
that district.
visitors Are safe.
The loss OF life seems to have been con-
fined to the poorer districts and manufac-
turing territory.
For the beneht OF eastern people who
have friends visiting IN San Francisco Il
is safe to say that they have not been
injured As the hours go by the excite
ment grows more intense. Every few
minutes explosions are heard as buildings
are blown up to stop the progress Of the
flames. The fires are spreading. and II the
wind comes up San Francisco win eX-
perience the greatest counagration Of mod
ern times. On lower Market street, the
main thoroughfare OF the city, block after
block OF substantial buildings have been
destroyed. A big fire is raging on the
II
block from the Associated Press" once
The widest rumors as to loss Of life are
coming into the newspapers, but 1t is i'm
possible TO confirm them. NO reports
have been received outside of San Fran
cisco, but the damage about the bay must
be enormous .... ... -s-.. t-.- ...
oakland is said to have suffered Sc
verelys ,.-.. .-..
Frame Hotel CoIIapses. ..
u'lI a. m.-The Valencia hotel between
Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets on
Valencia street, a HVe-story frame building,
toppled over into the street, burying sew
enty-five people in the debris. only the top
story remains intact. house on Four
teenth street, near Valencia, was wrecked,
killing two people
Many Of the fire houses are damaged 50
badly. that II is impossible to get the fire
apparatus out lodging house on Seventh
street. between Howard and Mission, known
as the Kingsley, entirely collapsed. 81 is
on fire and seventy-nve to eighty people
are believed to be buried i'm the flaming
ruins. At Twenty-second and Mission the
| dry goods store of Lipman is on FIRE. threat
ening destruction to the entire block.
Crevice In streets.
| At Eighteenth and Valencia there is a
crevice in The street six feet wide and en-
| tire sidewalks are torn up. The street car
tracks are badly twisted. all through the
southern section and trafiic is at stand
| still,
! At the Southern Pacific hospital water IS
being carried into the building from out
side sources for the use of the patients
Many people suffering from injuries are
seen on the streets making their way to the
| di Harant hpspftaIc he nj
on Eleventh street is badly damaged and at
the studebaker carriage factory on Tenth
and Market street the top floor caved in,
badly wreckinE the entire building
watching for PhieveS.
SAN FRANCISCO. April 1855 a. m
Twenty-one bodies have been taken to the
mbrgue, which cannot accommodate any
more ...
Mayor SchmitZ has .esta blished eadquar-
ters at the Hall OF Justice and has ar-
pointed relief committee of fifty promi-
nent citizens. The military are patrolling
the streets, guarding the banks and other
establishments. They have received orders
| TO shoot any one on. sight detected in theft.
The burning district at this hour runs
from South street on the west to the wat ter
front on the east south of Market street.
| North of Market street from Sansome to
the wafer front and from Market to Wash.
ingtqn, Thege is also a, block, burning an
Mission, street street between .Twspty=nrst and
Twentysecolid. '''
The newspapers having had their power
cut of have combined and will issue one
paper for all from the office Of the Chron-
icle, which has its own power plant.
Hank Doors Closed.
There was IA great rush at the different
| ~ ,,Iyg t,Ny N.-bp cd dra w
out their deposits. but the banks decided
to keep their doors closed. BY order OF
the chief of police all the saloons have
been closed. The damage already inflicted
is estimated roughly at $4000O,O0O.
The fires are spreading rapidly and un-
less the wind comes up from the west and
blows the flames toward the bay nothinE
can stop the destruction Of the city.
The whole north end of the city is
wrecked and the flames are spreading in
all directions In the absence Of water the
fire department has resorted to the use OF
dynamite and buildings are demolished ia
the hope of staying the confagration.
Call, Bundins Attire.
SAN FRANCISCO April 1s-l0I5-Frc
has taken hold OF the sixteen-story Cal
building on the Third street Side and flame:
are now burning ferceIy In the interior OF
the building, but as yet the flames have
not spread beyond the fourth floor. The
building is also threatened on the Market
street side, only one structure separating
it FROM the flames, which swept every.
thing on the south side OF Market from
Fourth almost to Third.
The back of the eleven-story MQnadnocA
building now nearing completion has falleT
: out and the flames threaten to cause great
/ loss by FIRE. the front OF the, Monadnocl
was badly, cracked by the earthquake.
| Although the fire is raging on all side.
of the Palace hotel it has not yet takef
! fire. The previous report that the Palao,
; hotel had caught IRE is erroneous. -
The flames are rapidly nearing Ine Posta
Telegraph building and are, within a bloch
{ OF the Associated Press and Western Unior
building. The Postal company is preparing
to Nacate and. this will, shut of all tele
, graphic communication with the outsid,
, world. From present indications, the antir,
business district viii likely fall prey TO tn,
flames, which are increasing in intensity
: famed by the stin breeze
= SAN FRANCISCO, April ls.-The Santl
I Fe roundhOuse- and machine shops a
D Point Richmond across the bay. hay,
! collapsed. a-. ... .-.r-.. .
] The earthquake was not seriously fe
: at other points along the. coast so ia