Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-19

| portion of goods to be delivered to each
| purchaser, the idea being to prevent a
few persons gathering in large quanti-
| ties of supplies.
| Many Shot.
Reports were received that numerous
in the act of looting The authorities
are unusually strict in observing the
| enforcement of this order. The bodies
of three thieves were lying in the
streets on the south side this fora
noon. Reports of extensive shooting
| came to press representatives from
various quarters, but verification Of
the reports is impossible.
All manner of reports of death and
headquarters, but are received with
due allowance to the excitement Of the
| occasion.
San Francisco, April 19.--Day dawn
L
ed on a scene of death and destruction.
During the night the flames consumed
many of the city's finast structures
and skipped in dozen directions. to
1 the residence portions. They had made
their way over into the North Beach
section. Springing anew to the south.
they reached out along the shipping
section, down the bay shore, over the
hills and across toward Third and
Townsend streets. Warehouses and
manufacturers concerns fell in their
path. This completed the destruction
entirely of the stricken town known
as South of Market street." How far
they are reaching to the south across
the channel cannot be told, as this part
Of the city is shut Off
Down town everything is ruin. Not
a business house is left intact. Cmly
the commission house stands. All the
newspaper plants are rendered useless.
Lieutenant Charles C. Pulls, command
Ing the Twenty-fourth company, light
artillery, was blown up by charge
of dynamite and fatally injured.
Ten square miles of the heart Of the
city have been burned over, the water
supply has been cut off because of the
twisted and broken mains, and the
frantic residents, aided by federal
troops, are fighting the flames with
dynamite in an effort to save the re-
mafnedr of the city from destruction.
The property loss at this hour is esti-
mated at $10o,OOO,OOO, and it is imsos-
sible to estimate how much higher it
may go.
Crowds About the Morgues.
| Meanwhile temporary morgues and
hospitals where the dead and injured
who were saved from the flames which
followed closely on the heels of the in
| itial disaster we're taken, are besieged
! by thousands of weeping men, women
and children, seeking news of relatives
and friends last seen before the earth
quake brought their houses tumhling
down about their heads.
The Western Union and Southern
Pacific buildings have been totally de-
stroyed. The fire is burning rapidly
| in diagonal line up the hill, COM
mencing at McAllister and ending at
Battery street on Main street as far
as Sixteenth street The wind is ris-
| ing and military authorities have for
hidden any one to enter the city. There
is great suffering for food and water.
A thousand people are lined up in the
park awaiting soldiers to distribute
water.
The entire district up as far as the
New Fairmont hotel on the top of Mob
Hill, and California street between
Powell and Mason streets, is all gone
1t is reported 100000 people are home
| less. At $50 (San Francisco time)
the fire is not under control. The wa
ter supply is again cut off.
At 8 the fire began working up to
California street hill, known as Mob
Hill. and has reached Pine and Ma
son streets, and the annex to the. Hop
| kins Art Institute is burning. One, en-
CINE is working at this place, with
limited water supply. Across the
street is the Fairmont hotel, recently