Three hundred thousand for
merly wealthy men, society women,
working men, boys, girls and out
casts slept on the ground in Golden
Gate Park and on the beach near
the site of the Cliff House last
night. Tiie cam]) of the homeless
is in charge of Major McKever.
The Postal telegraph Co. reestab
lished a wire in a tent last night
near the water front over the warm
ashes.
Bakeries are being reestablished.
'>0,000 loaves will he baked today.
After midnight the flames in the
burning residence district traveled
so fast that they licked up the de
bris in the dynamited district
before the thousands of workmen
could clear a space. Nearly all
the homes of the wealthy people
on Van Ness were blown up. The
lire leaped across the wide thor
oughfare as if it were an alley.
The people are becoming calmer
and are beginnig to assist more in
the work of rescue and tire fighting.
- Oakland—Couriers from Santa
Bosa say that the town is entirely
obliterated. Five hundred are
killed. Refugees are arriving here.
The whole business section col
lapsed and many people who were
imprisoned in the burning build
mgs were cremated. At me town
of Brawlevn a hundred buildings
were wrecked and 1000 lives lost.
A limited number of refugees is
being taken care of at the Presidio,
llarriman has wired the Southern
Pacific to place all ferryboats at
the disposal of those who wish to
leave the city. Thousands were
supperless last night, but rations
and tents are expected to-day.
They will be taken to Golden Gate
Park for distribution.
A supply of water is promised
this afternoon. The suffering
from this cause is great, Oakland
is sending water in barrels.
Police have taken charge of the
grocery stores and allow only a
limitel amount to be sold to one
person at a time.
Government tugs ami transports
have started taking refugees to
Oakland. There is not a house in
the city now but what is deserted.
Over eighteen square miles of the
city are completely devasted. All
hope of checking the roaring fur
nace has been abandoned. Fair
mount hotel is a mass of ruins.
Seattle,—The relief fund com
mittee has raised $70,000. Will
send double train load of provis
ions to-day. Governor Pardee has
wired Mayor Moore that people
are nearly starving. The city
council has appropriated $10,000
Oakland—During the night
ghouls and thieves raided the burn
ing district. Two more were shot,
making eight in all. Many escaped
wounded by the soldiers. The
blowing up of Van Ness avenue
millionaires homes sounded like a
cannonade of artillery. This morn
ing bread is selling at $1 a loaf.
San Francisco—(> a. m.—Van
Ness avenue a scorching mass of
dames sweeping toward Russian
hill. Chinatown has been wiped
out entirely.
San Francisco—Noon—‘The fire
is spreading. Everything south of
Market to 27tli street and south to
the foot hills is gone. Flames are
now racing down Broadway to the
-mall business district which was
'eft standing north of Market.
Westward in the residence dis
trict toward Richmond it is a seeth
»ng furnace. Aot a building in thei
whole city will be left.
The Mint has finally suffered
some damage. It has been parti
ally destroyed. Owing to the fact
that it stood in a large open space
it will be the only building left
standing south of Market. The
balance of this district is wiped
out. Dynamiting has ceased, being
of no avail.
The cruisers Marblehead and
Chicago are landing marines to
aid in the protection of lives and
property. Hundreds of corpses
mav be seen lying in tbe streets.
The ferry boats refuse to allow j
anyone to return to Frisco. All
entrances to the city have been1
closed.
me mg Montana warehouse?!
and cannery at Ft. Mason are be-1
ginning to burn. Shrubbery at edge;
of Golden Gate park is afire.
The only casualty in the army
forces was Lieut. Pul is. Mrs Capt;
Nichols is safe All Oakland and
Alameda people are safe.
Washington. April 20 — The
president has issued a proclama-;
tion urging the cities everywhere I
to raise relief and send money to
Charles Hallan. treasurer of the
Red Cross at Washington.
Seattle, April 20—The following
Alaskans are safe: C. B. Phillips,
Grand Artie Chief, is at Oakland;
Judge Haiinum, of Nome, at Fris
co. Ed. R. Dunn contributes $o00 !
His son is safe at Berkley. Local :
Woodmen say the Grand Camp
has raised $100,000. Local Elks
raised $4,000, will add more. All
associations, hanks, churches, etc., j
are contributing to the fund.
The local quartermaster has
been notified from Washington to
purchase 100,000 tons of supplies!
and rush them south on special
trains. All Oriental mail has been
ordered via Seattle.
San r rancisco—p. in., April
20—The fire in the Mission has i
about burned out. The district is
one vast ruin. Thousands of build
ings west of the Van Ness residence
district are ablaze. It looks as!
though only the small settlement
along the coast, and near the shore
at the entrance to the bay will be
saved. The balance of the business
district, north of Market street is
being consumed. Hundreds of
walls in the former business dis
trict, where the structures have
been gutted by the Haines, are fall
ing and endangering the lives of
the soldiers, marines, police and
other workers.
It is impossible to learn any
thing regarding conditions at the
interior of the burned district. It
is reported that several workmen
have been killed, but the report is
uncon firmed.
All the city and countv prison
ers are being carefully guarded
within the burned district by sol
diers.
The ferry docks arc jammed
with women and children refugees
waiting to cross the bay. All arc
destitute.
The total destruction of the city
will be complete to-night. Dead
bodies in the ruins are decompos
ing and the air is foul. The bread
and water supply is improving.
Han Francisco, 6 p.m.—The lire
is dying out in the Mission district
In the western residence district it
lias been extinguished. A gunner
from the-Hare Island navy yard
used gun cotton apd proved him'j
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selt a master in the handling of
explosives. With the aid of two
weak streams of water the fire was
kept under control and the pro
gress of the flames stayed. The
only serious blaze now is extending
from the Nob hill section to the
Northwestern water front. A large
force is working there hoping to
eheck the progress of t^e fire.
The situation in the city is in
describable and it will be several
days before any connected state
ment of the losses can be made or
any list of the dead figured out.
Two more ghouls were shot to
day. Policeman Flood was return
ing home today when he found a
man looting a house, and shot him.
The other was killed by a soldier.
The summary executions art- strik
ing terror to t lie hearts of the crim
inals aim fairly good order is pre
vailing.
lhi* burned area up to last
night as near as can lie given is
from the waterfront uj> Broadway
to Mason, thence south to Califor
nia. thence to Jones, thenee to
Golden Gate Avenue, and west on
Golden Gate to Fihnore, thence
south to Market, thenee on an ir
regular line to Valencia andJtith,
thence irregularly east to the hav,
taking in everything south of Mar
ket. This burned district has been
considerably increased in the .Mis
sion. A number of residences are
still standing.
Tin* Market street bank is the
only bank standing.
Teamsters are charging thirty
dollars an hour foi the use of
teams.
Oakland bakers have met and
decided to ship bread to Frisco to
sell at five cents a loaf, in order to
kill the dollar loaf trade.
The assistant sub-treasurer and
a deputy at the Mint are missing.
It is feared they art: dead. Troops
are guarding the wricked treasury
vaults, which appear to he intact.
Washington, April JO 1 he com
mandant at Mare Island wires that
all war ships are uninjured
Santa Monica, April JO—The
sea is greatly agitated and the peo
ple are fleeing to the liiils fearing
a tidal wave.
Women and children are suffer
ing terribly from thirst and hunger.
Bread from the bakeries is being
distributed.*
Telegraph Hill is in flames. The
household goods which were piled
in the streets are being consumed,
no conveyance being available to
remove them. People are fleeing
by thousands across the bay, with
nothing but the clothes they were
wearing.
Fourteen men were killed last
night by soldiers who were guard
ing the mint. Policeman Joseph
Meyers was bayonetted by a
national guardsmen during a dis
pute over authority of the men
guarding the mint.
From Bulletin, April 2x
San Francisco. April 21—At ten
o’clock .last night the city was
plunged in absolute darkness. All
of the lighting plants were con
sumed. Immediately after a gale
sprung up and the flames fanned
form Nob Hill swept the north
beach section completely and
steered sou‘ii to the immense sea
Wall shells and grain- warehouses.
Tney were licked up .by .-the flames
which then headed for the-big ferry
buildings and Southern Pacific ter *
niinals. A panic ensued as dark
ness fell, ami the authorities found
it necessary to swear in a thousand
special police armed wilh govern
ment rifles. Three more com
panies of national guards have ar
rived.
The flames in the westerly sec
tion of the cit y where the residences
arc still standing broke out anew
Buildings are far apart there and
all forces are being concentrated to
stop at that point. Only about 10<i
were burned at midnight, and fire
is said to he under control at seven
this morning.
It is a raging furnace along the
waterfront bet- eon Bay street and
Mciggs wharf. Wharves for a
quarter of a mile cast, are still safe
In the opposite direct ion they are
all consumed. All t'rui* canneries
have been consumed, tins tanks
are burning, and the gas has been
released. Vessels off shore an
throwing streams into the fin
along the front. Communication
with Oakland is now threatened.
The water front emergency hos
pital is afire and the patients have
been moved across the bay.
•Tile gale is hlnwingfdown the
walls on Market street. The
thoroughfare has nreii closed i>\
the authorities, shutting off tin.
only means of reaching the ferry.
Three men were shot last night
while trying to loot the wreck of
the subtreusurv. At midnight t(i
thieves were killed hy soldiers whiir
trying to enter * In* mint. Twi
Chinese were shot for refusing to
obey orders.
(UK) laborers have arrived to at
tempt to open the sewers. A pesti
lence is feared.
Six babies were horn in the cani|
of th* homeless at (rolden Gati
1 ia rk.
Police have broken open every
saloon in the district and poured
the liquor into the gutters.
Eleven postal clerks were taker,
from the wreck of the postoftiee. It
was thought they* were killed hut
survived though three days without
food or water.
Telegraph companies have aban
doned attempt to deliver messages
and have been forced to leave tern
porarv office on water front.
At midnight bread lines were es
tablished. each applicant being
given a whole loaf. Oakland sent
a supply oi milk, whirl is being
given l*i women and children. Mei
with silk hats are standing in the
bread lines and tit the sonp kitch
ens established in the unburned
district.
200,000 slept in Golden Gate
park last night. Fond trains art
beginning to arrive. Track ha-,
been repaired.
People are almost famished.
50,000 refugees are at the Pre
sidio, 40.000 at. Oakland, They
are being well eared for. In the
latter place there an: no tents, ant*
as a heavv fog is blowing up from
the bay much pneumonia and
other diseases are developing. Pre
sidio and Oakland hotpitals art
overcrowded.' The air is bail with
fetid odors due to cesspools about
the parks. The whole city is-in a
very unsanitary condition.
Washington; April 21—-Secre
tary Taft just received a message
say ing anotler million needed foi
relief. Sent telegram to Ilouwt'*
Ilh*lf million expended already.