Earthquake and Fire : San Francisco in Ruins

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The Call-Chronicle-Examiner SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1906. EARTHQUAKE AND FIRE: SAN FRANCISCO IN RUINS DEATH AND DESTRUCTION HAVE BEEN THE FATE OF SAN FRANCISCO. SHAKEN BY A TEMBLOR AT 518 O'CLOCK YESTER DAY MORNING, THE SHOCK LASTING 48 SECONDS, AND SCOURGED BY FLAM ES THAT RAGED DIAMETRICALLY IN ALL DIRECTIONS, THE CITY YS A MASS OP SMOULDERING RUINS. AT SIX O'CLOCK LAST EVENINO THE FLAMES SEEM- INGLY PLAYING WITH INCREASED VIGOR, THREATENED TO DESTROY SUCH SECTIONS AS THEIR FURY HAD SPARED DURING THE EARLIER PORTION OF THE DAY. BUILDING THEIR PATH IN A TRIANGUAR CIRCUIT FROM THE START IN THE EARLY MORNING, THEY JOCKEYED AS THE DAY WANED, LEFT THE BUSINESS SECTION, WHICH THEY HAD ENTIRELY DE VASTATED, AND SKIPPED IN A DOZEN DIRECTIONS TO THE RESIDENCE PORTIONS AS NIC FELL THEY HAD M HEIR WAY OVER INTO THE NORTH BEACH SECTION SPRINGING ANEW TO THE SOUTH THEY REACHED OUT ALONG THE SHIPPING SECTION STREETS WAREHOUSES, WHOLESALE HOUSE ND MANUEACTURING CONCE THE BAY AS THE "SOUTH OF MARKET STREET." HO SAN FRANCISCO PAPERS. TE HILLS AND ACROSS TOWARD THIRD AND TOWNSEND CHING TO TI HE DESTRUCTION OF THE ENTIRE DISTRICT KNOWN AFTER DARKNESS, THOUSANDS O FIND SHELTER. THOSZ IN THE HOM D AS THIS PART OF THE CITY IS SHUT OFF PROM ONS AND AUTOMOBILES WERE HA" BELIEF IS FIRM THAT SAN FRANC S TO GOLDEN GATE PARK AND THE BEACH TO LOK SIN THE STREETS AND EXPRESS WAO DOWNTOWN EVERYTHING IS THEIR FORMER SITES. ALL O ARED TO LEAVE THE CITY, FOR THE ROOMS ON STEVENSON STREET HOUSES LIK SMOULDERING IT IS ESTIMATED THAT TH PARTIAL ACCOUNTING I8 TAKEN. ON ING THE "CALL'S" EDITORIAL ON EVERY SIDE THERE WAS ANGS AND ONE OF TEN DIED WHILE.ON D NOTHINO CAN BE TOLD UNTIL RCK BY FALLING PIECES FROM THE BUILD- AT NINE O'CLOCK, UNDER A S joxEO AND CAR O2000 QE THE INJUD AND DROVE THE CROWWDS BACK, TRUE MILITARY SPIRIT THE SO thorize REDS OF TROOPS PATROLLED THE STREETS WERE DRIVEN BACK AT THE BRE the fering RICTEST ORDERS WERE YOND TO THE NORTH pus such eh ISSUED, AND IN LE AT WORK IN THE RUINS. THE WATER SUPPLY WAS ENTIRELY STAGE ASSISTANT CHIEF DOUOHERTY S THE CURIOUS EVEL DISTRICT TO THE HILLY SECTION BE- TN EFFORT TO CHECK THE FLAMES BY TH HAVE BEEN ABSOLUTELY USELESS AT ANY INGS NOT DESTROYED BY PIRE WERE B LY POSSIBLE CHANCE TO SAVE THE CITY LAY LICE FIREMEN AND SOLDIERS WERE A Rrer, along ed and atrested by the pouce. forbid INTERVALS OF ONLY A FEW MINUTES, AND BUILD TER. MEN WORKED LIKE FIENDS TO C /v THÌ Aeay Em aH M JUMPED AND AL HE FAILURES OF THE HEROIC EFFORTS OF THE PO- ESPEKATION THAT WILL LIVE AS ONE OF THE FEATURES OF THE TERRIBLE DISAS ciates eirele FIRE DEMON. HAIM Gernta stret NO HOPE LEF FOR SAFETY ANY BUILD get with key-h ick of the BLOW BUILDINGS WLE "P TO C" hwould Tell you checked sttacked the E SAINT MAYOR CONFERS College gemary, Butten Seen WITH MILITARY AND CITIZENS San Franciaco seeme doomed to ea lapse in the ging of the flames just San Francisco, City Hall raised that with the use of the to ns of At 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon 50 representative citizens oi ire might be checked and eonfined to Francisco met the Mayor, the Chief of Police and the United had cut out for its path. But on the Rary broke out anew and as nilght ck- aMilitary authorities in the police office in the basement of sheir way into parts untouched la Bre To the south and the north they apn pns early in the forenoon, the fearful possibilities of the ut into the resident sertion in wing forced themselves upon him immediately atter Jr street repr Valley.. By sle o'clock practically all nd arthquake in the morning, and the news which at form on a mate ouildings were no more. They had bg im of the completeness of the diaster. He lost no experie 000,000. heap that marked whet was once the metrop out a list of citisens from whom to seek advice at buildi The Srat of the big structures to go to d in summoning them to the conference. .It aulding, the famous skyscraper. At eleven Te Hall of Justice, as virtually the first news which t00 ary building was a furnace.. Flames leaped the Mayor regarding the extent of the disaster was that rain of the City Hall. He did not realize that even while and shot skyward from the circuler windo vete ed w we conference was to be going on cornices would be crashing than two hours nothing remained but th op wards the fire tered buildings By five e'clock the Palace Hotel was in rut The old hos- ly turned into releton. and windows falling in fragments in the Hall of Justice the City of Oak-ter e Donsld, are making sullding however Clay, Kearny and that before sunset desperate efforts would be made to amous the world over, withstood the seige until the umed The es ad Stn their way blow the structure up in the vain endeavor by this means to check t and dithough dynamire was used in frequent blasts to drive flame. The work was most ef-weptward in he residence eotion a the advance of the lames in the northern section of the down- far Gough etreet Thers, by dyne foctive in the business blocksmiting blecks after blooka, the iremen Continoed on Page Tm sted in the town district. est of Keamy street evecseded in aheaking the deveurfng efoment Mayor meet any ex All, or nearly all of the citizens summoned to the conference tn the effort. Continued on Page Twe H. G. & Co., Z. No. 2985 a. DépADE IN SWITZERLAND nd thai

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UVENIR sessions 1o Mexican : 0% Earthquake and Fire of San Francisco, April 18th, 1906 vo IN SPACE BELOW MAY BE WRITTEN SENDER'S NAME AND COPYRIGHT BY VICTOR W. BAUER, SAN FRANCISCO, Califórnia. M. 110553