The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-05-04

A shoemaker named Joseph Lindsay
was four hours in a demolished build
ing, and when dug out it was found that
he had not been hurt.
The entire Larkin street frontage of
the city hall for distance of several
hundred feet was thrown out onto the
street, and that thoroughfare for two
blocks is piled high with masses of NOR
tared brick and twisted iron.
1t will be many days before the COM
plete story of the ruin wrought by the
calamity of earthquake and fire that
visited San Francisco to-day will be
written, and then there will still remain
untold countless tales OF pitiful trag-
edy. The exact loss of life will never
be known, as hundreds of unfortunates
have been incinerated in the flames
which made the rescue of those buried
under topping steeples and falling
walls impossible. Temporary morgues
were improvised at many points only
to be razed by the flames.
Tonight the city resembles one vast
shamble, the fire throwing weird shad-
ows across the worn and panic-stricken
faces of the homeless, who are wander
! my III lut SIIctlS VI SlccpluR pies
of mattresses and clothing in the parks
and on the sidewalks in those districts
not yet reached by the fire.
Forgetting for moment the terrible
suffering, physical and financial loss
that trails in the wake of the disaster,
the scene presented by the flames is
one of unspeakable grandeur. Looking
over the city from a high hill in the
/ Western addition the flames can be
seen for miles and miles, while in the
midst of the spouting tongues of red
/ fire can be seen the black skeletons and
/ falling towers of the doomed buildings.
At regular intervals the booming dyna-
mite tells of the work of the brave
army of men that are attempting ia
save the city from complete annihila-
/ ton.
DEAD ARE CREMATED
IN PUBLIC MORGUE
| A falling wall from one of the dyna
mited buildings crushed out the life OF
Fireman Max Ferren, while countless
others met like fate. Through the
streets automobiles and express wagons
are hurrying, carrying the dead and in
jured to the morgues and the hospitals
At the morgue in the hall of justice
fifty bodies lie on the slabs. The flames
rapidly approached this building anC
the work of removing the bodies t.
jackson square began. While the sol
diers and police were carrying the dea'
to what appeared safe places, Shove
of bricks from building, dynamited t.
check the progress of the sweepin!
flames, injured many of the workmel
and sent soldier after soldier hurryin;
to the hospitals. The work of remov
ing the bodies was stopped and tn
remainder of the dead were left to pos
sible cremation in the morgue.
The city is under stringent MARTA
law and squads of cavalry and troop
: of infantry are patrolling the street
and guarding the sections that have nc
4 yet been visited by the flames. Despit
their efforts to keep the crowds fror
the section now being dynamited man
slipped through the guards and not
few suffered from their temerity.
From the Barbary Coast - the herd
of vicious and criminal persons that il
$ fest that section poured forth an
| started early in the evening to loot tn
= stores and rob the dead. Fearing sue
f fiendish climax to this day of horror
l. Mayor Schmitz and Chief of Polio
t Dinan issued orders for the soldiers I
:. kill outright all who engaged in sue
: work Before the eyes of an Associate
5 Press representative three thieves WEI
), shot in the back and fatally wounde
8 in the burning commercial district.
ASTONISHING HAVOC
q IN ASIAfHIC OLA PIT Err
= The earthquake has worked astons
y ing havoc in San Francisco famol
Chinatown. The Chinese houses IN
: joss houses are in ruins, and rocker
y after rookery has collapsed, GOVERN
alive hundreds of the Celestials. Pan
y reigns among the thousands of the Cl
= nese, and they fill the streets draggiI
whatever they could save from Il
wrecks.
= The japanese quarter has been part
y burned, and from the part not Il
strOyed they have fled 10 the mteri,
packing on their backs what househo
X effects they could tie together,
When darkness began % fall, tho
sands OF men aud women and ehildr
N' from the Latin quarter marched IN an
re- less procession toward the hills, or
Il tbs waterfront, frantic o. gel awi
Is, from tho city, lest other earlhquah
vi follow aud ilHnes he Wrapi aronnd thi
le hefore lhey could make their escape.
is Arlillerymea from tho fTosidio, W
~ supply Wagons aRd She sfmy cnmu
sh safy Nagnns, are aiding IN gelling I
~ neeing inhabitants and ihflT hagga
opi ~ ihp Threatened quarters