New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-04-25
: FRISCO FLAMES
FINALLY placed
UNDER CONTROL I
Fighters Succeed in
Staying March Of
Voracious Fire
Fiend.
Ferry Building Saved After
Heroic Struggle Leaving 4
Way to Escape Open.
People Rushing Across Bay to
Haven of Refuge Few Wis
itorS Dead.
Homeless Victims Of Flames Break
fast in Streets To Build
Camp in Park.

San Francisco, April 23.-Checking
the flames at all points, San Francis
co.'s weary fre-fghters have finally
gained complete mastery OF the disas-
trous contiagration.
After four days of raging the ele-
near the sea wall Before night the
various fire centers will have kecome
comparatively harmless smoking areas,
and the most disastrous fire that ever
visited a city on this continent will
have been deprived of additional mate
rial upon which to geed.
The entire western addition of the
city, lying west of Van Ness avenue,
which escaped the sweep of flames Fri
day, is absolutely safe. No nres are
left in the houses standing, owing to
the chimneys.
The rule of martial law Saturday
morning was not nearly SO rigid, and
in many of the districts had been
withdrawn and only sufficient guards
left to prevent any possibility of theft
or looting.
Ferry-House Is Saved.
Alarm for the safety of thousands
who had gathered at the ferry house
followed a fresh outbreak of the flames
at that point. High winds threat
ened the great docks, and shipping as
well. But heroic efforts put forth by
men too weary to sleep saved the
haven to the survivors gathered there
After licking UP a few small buildings
the flames passed westward toward
Fort Mason
Ferryboats are running on rush
schedules from the big ferry house,
taking thousands to places of comfort
in Oakland and the bay towns. The
authorities forbade the taking away OF
goods. These are piled high in the
ferry terminal, for future delivery.
Dead Scattered Over City.
1T is still difficult to estimate the
number of dead, as bodies are scat
tered all over the city. They are bury
bodies in a DITCH was a message sent
to New York.
A later dispatch read: The ferry
boats are running on schedule time.
There is an immense crowd around the
station here and committees from all
towns across the bay are urging people
to, leave Frisco and go with them
to their homes, but the authorities
won't let them take any baggage with
them 1t looks like an immense sec
ondhand store here. The people
have dragged everything down here,
from pianos to bird cages, and their
goods are all piled up around the sta
ton for long distance. The fire IS
still burning fercely up north, but
the wind has gone down, making it less
dangerous
People Breakfast in Streets.
Every person left in San Francisco
breakfasted on food cooked in the
open streets Saturday, no fires being
allowed in the houses. A few bricks
or stones gathered in a semblance Of
a furnace with a few dry sticks be-
meath cans or kettles was the lmpro-
vised kitchen in which the food Of the
millionaire, as well as the humblest
workman was prepared. All through
the fine resident section of Pacific
Heights people sat on the sidewalks
and took their black coffee, dry bread,
crackers, and, in some cases, eggs and
bacon.
In the parks and along the North
beach, or wherever people were
camped, the relief stations handed out
food sufficient to relieve the situation.
There were probably very few persons
who did not receive some sort Of food
Saturday morning. The grave ques-
ton to be met. is the sanitary situa-
ton. The ferry station is still open
and is not thought to be in any dan
ger from the fire more than a hall
mile north of it.
Coast Trains Enter.
The Southern Pacific company sue
ceeded in getting the first trains
through on the coast division late Fri.
day night. Trains ran into the sta
ton at. Third and Townsend streets
Trains are now running with com
parative regularity. An inspection 81
the line shows number Of water
tanks, stations and frsighthouses de
stroyed, but this does not seriously in,
terfere with traffic. a bridge over the
Pajora river, on the Santa Cruz branch
and a bridge on the Monterey branch
are south Of the main line. so that i
is impossible to get trains over these
branches. Large gangs are working