Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-05-31

before, the Palace hotel, which also
had seen burning, and others. There
were three fierce fires burning in the
Mission and had to 90 beyond and
around them to get to HIS house, and
when there found that the block had
been consumed since the day before;
but it had been stopped at the next
street. There were hills near by at
this point and they were covered with
people and their belongings. l had
an Oakland Herald extra and some
asked me where I got the paper, and,
when they found I was from Oakland,
wanted to get the news. They didn't
pened across the bay-didn't know
whether the ferries were running, or
that any one could get to the city
front; in fact, as the city papsrS had
all been burned out and were not "
suing extras, the peopls wsCe b %,
ter ignorance of what was going on,
aside from the fires in their section.
gave the extra finally to a lady who
took me for a newspaper man. I
found she had had nothing to eat that
day, and gave most Of the lunch
had brought along to her. The ex-
plosions Of dynamite were frequent
out here, as it was being used at all
three fires. Some people were NOV
ing only as fast as the fire compelled
them to. They were kept about two
blocks ahead of the fire and when
compelled to move, would move into
the next block, or the next open
space, and there await the advance of
the flames.
| Some Of the soldiers had strenu-
Gus time. watched one at the inter
section of two streets for quite a
while. The people and teams, of
which there were great many, came
down one street, and had to turn the
corner one way, not being allowed to
go the other or to cross. A policeman,
who was also stationed on the farther
side, generally had his back toward
the crowd, and didn't see anything, so
the soldier had the brunt Of it. Some
of the soldiers were ugly, probably
being tired from their exertions. I
got around those fires again and over
to Market. The fire was then climb
ing the hill beyond Valencia and
looked as though 1t couldn't go much
farther that way for lack of material.
There was large fire burning north
Of Market and / started In that direc-
ton. AS came up Market in the
morning could see that the Hop
kins academy of science building was
burning, and now had good view of
the slope from Market up to Califor-
mia. The whole hill as far as l could
see was burning at once. The south
end OF Van Ness avenue had burned
Wednesday; but the fire mentioned
above was approaching the better
part of the avenue, being within half
a block at one point, and came along
| just in time to see about half dozen
| blocks set on fire by the soldiers,
back-firing to prevent the flames
crossing to the west side. There were
many nice residences. church and a
stone apartment house seven or
eight stories high. They blew up sew
eral of the buildings while burning,
and when l left a house on the west
side had caught fire on the front, and
the attempt appeared to have been a
failure, but, somehow, 1t did not go
much farther at that. point. There
didn't seem to be any water here at
all. had previously seen number
of engines waiting for the fire to get
within reach. They had water but
there was none at the fire line. Aunt
M. was still about eight blocks from
, the nearest fire, so didn't go there,
and started for home,-only I had a
much longer detour to make than the
day before to get around the burnt
district.
Chinatown and the Italian quarter
had been burned and had to climb
Telegraph hill to get through. There
was quite procession vending its
way down to the city front, a large
exodus having set in, and people were
tramping slowly down to the ferry,
carrying such OF their belongings as
they could. and occasionally among