Earthquake and Fire : San Francisco in Ruins

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The Call-Chronicle-Examiner SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1906. EARTHQUAKE AND SAN FRANCISCO IN RUINS FIRE: DEATH AND DESTRUOTION HAVE BEEN THE FATE OF SAN FRANCISCO. SHAKEN BY A TEMBLOR AT 618 O'CLOCK YESTERDAY MORNING H OHOOR BASTINrG SECOND6, AND SCOURGED BY PLAM ES THAT RAGRD DIAaRTRICALLY IN ALL DIRRCTIO NS, THe erTY s A MASS OF SMOULDERING RUINS. AT SIX OCLOCK LAST EVENINO THE FLAMES SEEM- INGLY PLAVING WITH INCREASED VIOOR, THREATENED TO. DESTROY SUCH SECTIONS AS THEIR RURY HAD SPARED DURING THE BARLIER PORTION OF THE DAY. BUILDING THEIR PATH IN A TRIANGUAR CIRCUIT FROM THE START IN THE EARLY MORNING, THEY JOCKEYED AS THE DAY WAND VASTATED, AND SKIPPED IN A DOZEN DIRECTIONS TO THE RESIDENCE PORTIONS AS NI SPRINGING ANgw TO THE SOUTH THEY REACHED OUT ALONG THE SHIPPING SECTION LEF USINESS SECTION, WHICHTHEY HAD ENTIRELY DE VELL THEYH VER INTO THE NORTH BEACH SECTION PACROSC TOWARD THIRD AND TOWNSEND STREETS WAREHOUSES, WHOLESALE HOUSES AND ZONCE AS THE SOUTH OP MARKET STREET. HOW G TO TH ION OF THR ENTIRE DISTRICT KNOWN SAN FRANCISCO PAPERS. OF THE CITY 18 SHUT OFF FROM APTER DARKNEss,THOUSANDS OF PIND SHELEER THOSE IN THE HOMES ONS AND ATOMOBILES WERE HAU S N GATE PARK AND THE BEACH TO NGS TN TREETS AND EXPRESS WAG EAVE THE CITY, FOR THE BELIEF IS FIRM THAT SAN FRANCIS DOWNTOWN EVERYTHING IS R THEIR FORMER SITES. ALL OP T eCehie by a every SMOULDERING TCALL'S ON ROOMS ON STEVENSON STREET BI aying the EDITORIAL IT 18 ESTIMATED THAT THE usiness PARTIAL ACCOUNTING 18 TAKEN. CAN BE TOLD UNTIL ON EVERY SIDE THERE WAS D INGS AND ONE OF TEN DIED WHILE ON BCES FROM THE BUILD- St or DEAL IS ENOW AT NINE O'CLOCK, UNDERR AF AND DROVE THE CROWDS BACK, W REDS OF TROOPS PATROLLED THE STREETS TRICTEST ORDERS WERE TRUE MILTARY SPIRIT THE SOLD ISSUED, AND IN WERE DRIVEN BACK AT THE BRE ring AT WORK IN THE RUINS. pEVEL DISTRICT TO THE HILLY SECTION BE- CURIOUS YOND TO THE NORTH THE WATER SUPPLY WAR.ENTIRELY STAGE ASSISTANT CHIEF DOUOHERTY S MAVE BEEN ABSOLUTELY USELESS AT ANY Y POSSIBLE CHANCE TO SAVE THE CITY LAY WERVALS OF ONLY A FEW MINUTES, AND BUILD- UMPED AND AL UGH THE FAILURES OF THE HEROIC EFFORTS OF THE PO- KAATION THAT WILL LIVE AS ONE OF THE FEATURES OF THE TERRIBLE DISAS IN EFFORT TO CHECK THE PLAMES BY T INGS NOT DESTROYFD BY FIRE WERE I LICE FIREMEN AND SOLDIERS WERE A TER. MEN WORKED LIKE FIENDS To co. T THS el and atgeted by the poaca NO HOPE LEFT FOR SAFETOF ANY BUILD nstchts BLOWCOILOMNCS ESAINT MAYOR CONFERS WITH MILITARY AND CITIZENS San Franciaco seems doomed to entire Francisce a lapse in the mging of che fames just befor At 1 o'clock yeaterday afternoon 50 represents ive eitizens of W.J.KREOZER aland that with the use of the tons of dyna Francisco met the Mayor, the Chief of Police and the United fre might be checked and confined to th acyauthorities in the police office in therbasement of had eut out for its path But on the Ba Justice, They had been summoned thither by May- broke out anew and as night clos arly in the foremoon, the fearful poselbilities of the ing forced themselves upon him immediately after their way inte parts untouched in e California U. S. A. Te the south and the sorch they spre a mate rhquelee in the morning, and the news which at out Into the resident ertiun in and Valley.. By sh o'elock practically ail of the mpleteness of the diaster. He lost no at uld al Alist of citisene from whom to seek advice baildinge ware no more They had boen summoning them to the conférence.It Hall of Justice, ac virtually the first news which heap that marked what was once the metropoll The Sret of the big structares to go to rutn Mayor regarding the extent of the disaster was that of the City Hall. He did not realio that even while Bulding, the famous skyscriper. At eleven o'clock story building was s furnace. Flames leaped was to be going on cornices would be erashing dow and shot skyward from the circular window indows falling in fragments in the Hall of Justice less than ewo hours aothing remalned but the terd The old hos ly turne that before stunset desperate efforts would be made to By five o'clock the Palace Hotel was in ruin Patructure up in the vain endeavor by this means to check elry, lamous the world over, withstood the seige until the Rame. The the ailvance of'the flames in the northern section of the down- Last and althoigh dynamite was used in frequent blasts to drive most ef te the town district. fective in the bu Thars Contaced on Page T lght All, or nearly all of the citizens summoned to the conference est of Koarny street pense in the effort Continued on Page Twt H. G. & Co., Z No. 2985 a. Dép. MADE IN SWITZERLAND Centraly eiz. ammis de ive o'clock

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U VENIA Place Postago Mexican Foreign 20 Earthquake and Fire of San Francisco, April 18th, 1906 IN SPACE BELOW MAY BE WRITTEN SENDER'S NAME AND COPYRIGHT BY VICTOR W. BAUER, SAN FRANCISCO, California. MS the batter 18 Wagtgigt fon ou 110553