Yukon Valley News
Rampart, Alaska, Saturday, April 21
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Today’s Dispatches.
SAN FRANCISCO.—At 10 o’clock
last night the city was plunged in abso
lute darkness, all lighting plants being
consumed.
Immediately a gale sprang up and
flames fanned from Nob hill swept the
North Beach section completely, steered
south to the immense sea-wall sheds
and grain warehouses, licked these up,
and then headed for the immense ferry
buildings and Southern Pacific terminal.
There was panic in the darkness.
The authorities swore in a thousand
special, police armed with government
rifles, and three more National Guard
companies arrived.
The flames in the westerly part of the
city among the only residences standing
broke out anew. Building were so far
apart and all the force concentrated and
fighting there only about a hundred
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burned to midnight, when it was said
to be again under control there.
At 7 o’clock this morning a raging
furnace covered the water front between
Bay street and Meiggs wharf. Wharves
a quarter of a mile east are still safe.
In the opposite direction all has been
consumed.
All the fruit canneries were consumed.
Gas has been released.
Vessels off shore are said to smoke,
but are throwing streams into the blaze.
Communication with Oakland is
threatened.
The water front emergency hospital is
afire. Patients were moved ? cross the
bay.
Wind is blowing down walls on Mar
[ ket street. The thoroughfare lias been
closed by the authorities, thus shutting
: off the only means of reaching the ferry.
Three men were shot trying to loot
the wreck of the sub-treasury at mid
night.
Sixteen were killed by soldiers Thurs- ^
dav night trying to enter the mint.
Two Chinese killed by soldiers for re
fusing to obey orders.
Six hundred laborers haye arrived to
attempt to open sewers. Pestilence is
feared.
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Six babies were born in the camp of
of the homeless at Golden Gate park.
The police have broken open every
saloon in the unconsumed distriek and
poured the liquor into the gutters.
Eleven postal clerks taken from the
wrecked postoffice—whom it was sup
posed were dead—are all alive, though
three days without food and water.
Telegraph companies abandoned the,
attempt to deliver messages. The Pos
tal was forced to abandon its temporary
office on the water front at midnight.
Bread lines have been established,
each person being given a whole loaf.
Oakland sends a supply of milk, which
is being given women and children.
Men in silk hats are in the bread line
and at soup kitchens established in the
unburned districts.
Two hundred thousand slept at Gol
den Gate park last night.
Food trains are beginning to arrive.
Southern Pacific repaired its track.
People almost famished.
Fifty thousand refugees at Presidio
and fifty thousand at Oakland are being
well cared for. At the latter place there
are no tents yet.
A heavy fog is sweeping from the bay
and much pneumonia and other diseases
is developing.
Presidio and Oakland hospitals are
overcrowded.
There is a fetid odor due to cesspools
about the park, and it is unsanitary
everywhere*
SEATTLE.—Forty-one tons of food
left here by special train last night.
The Steamer Buchman was chartered
and leaves tonight loaded with food
stuffs and clothing, manned by a volun
teer crew from the sailors’ union.
Washington lumbermen raised fifty
thousand dollars; Seattle so far eighty
five thousand.
The Buchman will probabiy bring a
boat load of refugees here.
SAN FRANCISCO.—Lodging house
at Fifth and Minna streets has just col
lapsed; seventy-five killed. Cosmopoli
tan collapsed; a hundred bodies in the
ruins. Brunswick hotel collapsed; hun
dred and fifty dead.
Bank vaults have been examined and
all contents found safe.
Harriman has just wired two hun
dred thousand dollars.
Relief trains are beginning to arrive
at Oakland.
WASHINGTON.—Secretary Taft has
just received a telegram saying another
million is needed, and has sent the tele
gram to the house. The government
has already expended a million and a
half.
SAN FRANCISCO.—At noon all
south of Van Ness west to Bay is de
stroyed.
It is impossible to establish sanitary j
conditions. Much sickness is expected. !
Many residences west of Van Ness are
being used as hospitals. Fighting hard
to save west residence district.
Supplies are arriving.
Apprehension is felt for Fort Mason,
hope to save it.
Ipentified dead to date: John Pear
son, W. King, Harriet Chistbrough, X.
J. Haven, Annie Webster, John Day,
I William Ware Stevens, George Wilkin,
I Dr. J. G. Stinson, Marion Konny, Her
man Meyers, Miss Kattner.
Hundreds are too badly decomposed
or burned to be identified.
Flames on the water front are lessen
ing. Thousands fighting the fire.
SAN JOSE.—It is officially stated
that 110 persons at Agnew’s asylum and
nineteen in the city are dead.
Stanford University loss three million.
Spreckles refinery, costing a million
and a half, destroyed.
Martial law proclaimed.
SAN FRANCISCO.—Two million dol
lars belonging to the Lelaml Stanford
estate was deposited in the Trust Com
pany’s vaults till the heirs could fight
out Its ownership in the courts. The
building was dynamited and the money
blown into the air.
The N. C. Co.
G. II. Wand, local representative of
the N. C. Co., today got a message that
the officials of the company at San
Francisco are safe, that their records
were all saved, and that all requisitions
will be filled. Communications for the
present are to be directed to Alameda.
No further communication was
expected from San Francisco till
after 6 o’clock. Whatever comes
will be printed tomorrow.