The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-04-20
|EFFQRT to- CHECK fire
WITH DYNAMITE FAILS.
Mile Of Residences Blown Up But With.
Qua Effect and Homes OF San Francisco
Millionaires Are Doomed.
POLICE CHIEF SAYS DEAD ONLY $50.
-E CHIEFS SAYS DEAD ONLY $50
.(By Associated Press.)1

the spread Ness Avenue BY blowing Up
ls @ On te eas sd q yan MSS Avsnus
and from indications the addition
the homes Of San Franciscos weather.
doomed The destruction Of the addition
completes the work the raYaging flames marks
Estimates vary. The chief 81 police Of san
Francisco to-day said the casualties this would
SAN FRANCISCO CAL. April Francisco tonight $50
the sly dcsoac Y seemed that tte ii is
reached At dusk when flames burst from all beautiful,
lloe t hat above other
ing fire And surrounding that lofty pinnacle Of fame
Vest y ii erc fantastic heaps carcd and smoking ali that
remained of prosperous city c metropolis Of the Pacific
This has been another day Of struggle 81 against
element cre after acre has been ground into
dust and ashes despite the heroic Of the frcen
PLANN1NG PIE w RE RESTORATION s:ls5
Tonight there q hope that the worst las been nearly
reached and that when dawns The end will have come
but The hope faint tic flames be barred iron, The
addition then the end will be written great
San francisco is discouraged It's best highest
has already M plan plan o q and e
scription OF $4,000 announced tonight Arrangements
$1,000 oavcs bread daily viii begin o-morroy Free transpo
tat will be provided BY the Southern Pacific Railroad destitute
persons desiring to so 70 interior points
Major McKccvcr appointed commandart Of camps
1he homeless was announced tas there would
Tonight tmc direct cesraphie Communication
ecstabiscd between San francisco and the outside world
and this message had the honor Of being the first
ABOUT $50 KILLED.
BY the most energetic efforts i'll the face Of great obstacles
the Postal Telegraph Company succeeded restoring
shattered lines and it's hopeful Of bringing back its
normal conditions in day two The Postal Office
tonight in little wooden structure erected piles the
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Tonight three distinct fires burning. Ono in tile
territory that extends from Mob Hill easter towards the
front It travelling slowly nortey towards the telegraph hill
section and may die from lack Of material sweep
the front The second the
district Here the fire had reached Eighteenth Street but
making little headway towards the hisd to the where
thousands Of people camped, ##
The third and dangerous fire is that threatening the
part Of the city This is really continuation OF the Mob
Hill fire, 1t is wcdgcshaped with the punching forward
This the point against which the remcn are bending their great
efforts Dynamite used for baclrng purposes, with
only fair Tonight many blocks may be blown
Chief of Police Dinan tonight said would fully cover the
About fifty bodies have thus far been found
There considerable shooting OF ooters to-day but the offenders
escaped with wounds
AWFUL DESTRUCTION,
(Va Oakant)-The magnitude Of the calamity that has be-
fallen San apparent this morning when red
above the horizon and dsspaed the pail o darkness
that hung stricken districts Looking eastward from the
heights ii portion OF the city everything attesed to
wrought by earthquake and lane Where once
rose noble buildings stand nothing but tai walls ottcrlng
M I y Y : Z St &