Yukon Valley News
VOL. II.
RAMPART, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1!KX>.
No. 35
STORY OF RUIN
As It Became More Complete Day by Day
and Was Sent From the Stricken Districts
BY TELEGRAPH
Thursday’s Dispatches.
OAKLAND.—A courier from Sail
Francisco this morning brought con
firmation of all that has been told of
the great catastrophe.
The work of the flames is complete in
central part of the city. The flames
swept from the water front to Mission.
The Cliff House fell into the sea at
the first shock in the morning, and no
vestige of the great resort remains.
New fissures are opening in the outer
districts. Great crevices appear in Va
lencia street two miles from the scene
of the opening in market street.
General Funston says the dead w 11
number two thousand. Many are man
gled beyond recognition. Workers can
not leave the fire to bury the dead.
An appeal has been made to the navy
department for leave to bury the uni
dentified dead in the sea liefore decom
position takes place.
A new fissure has broken open in
Twenty-sixth street. Valencia hotel
gone with opening of the earth. Sev
enty lives lost. St. Francis hotel badly
cracked and ruined.
Fire Chief Sullivan buried under fall
ing walls.
The (. hromele mnkling tottering and
will fall.
Sprockets building collapsed.
St. Ignatius church and college ru
ined.
Golden Gate Park is wrecked. The
building covering the children’s play
ground has collapsed.
No vestige left of the big ferry at foot
of Market street.
The Occidental hotel anil California
hotel have collapsed. Hoof blown off
the Lick house bv explosion.
The earth is still trembling.
Reports come of destruction in many
of the smaller settlements about San
Francisco. No details. It is said a ma
jority of the inhabitants have been
killed.
The only hope of saving the city is by
dynamite. Supply is exhausted.
Southern Pacific building has col
lapsed.
All hope of saving the city is gone.
Theaters are wrecked or burned.
Loss to this time is two hundred
millions.
PALO ALTO.— Hut one of the build
ings of the great Leland Stanford Uni
versity remains standing. Two students
killed and many injured.
SANTA CLARA.—State asylum to
tally destroyer I. hour hiinurcil inmates
killed. Over one hundred and fifty
escaped and are now roamin'; the coun
try.
SAN JOSK.—Fully half the buildings
collapsed. Number of dead one hun
dred. People |ianie stricken and fleeing.
SANTA KOSA.—Not a brick or stone
building in the city standing. More
than five hundred killed.
OAKI.ANIh—Berkeley, Alameda and
many other places throughout the state
are trelieved to Is- badly wrecked.
SACRAMENTO.—By the oiiening "f
a huge fissure just south of the citv all
trains and traffic to San Francisco have
lieen abandoned. Southern Pacific tracks
completely disapjs-ared.
Friday's Dispatches.
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Art'4 *in*l iiiiimI «ti«* out.
A second conflagration in Mission has
cleaned everything from the water front
south of Market street to Eighteenth
street and is now working westward.
The third and most dangerous now is
in the western section of the city be
yond Van Ness avenue, where it is
sweeping the residences of that part of
the city.
Firemen are bending every effort in
the latter section. Apparently every
thing will he licked up through Kieli
mond until the open space a mile from
Golden (date entrance is reached.
Three hundred thousand formerly
wealthy men, society women, working
men, boys, girls and outcasts slept on
the ground at Golden Gate Park and on
the beach near the site of the Cliff
House last night. The camp of the
homeless is in charge of Major McKee
ver.
The Postal last night re-established a
wire on the water front.
Over the warm ashes bakeries are be
ing established. Fifty thousand loaves
will he baked today.
After midnight the flames among the
inflammable residences traveled so fast
they licked up the debris of the dyna
mite before the thousands of workers
could clear an open space.
Nearly all the homes of the wealthy
in Van Ness avenue were blown up.
Fire leaiied across the wide thorough
as it it were an alley.
A limited number of refugees are be
ing taken care of at Presidio.
Harriman wires the Southern Pacific
to place ferry boats at the disposal of
those who want to leave the city.
Thousands are hungry and support
less. Tents are expected today. They
will be taken to Golden Gate park and
distributed.
Watery supply is promised this after
noon. Suffering from this cause is
great. Oakland is sending water bar
rels.
Police have taken charge of all gro
cerv stores. One person is sold only
article of food at a time.
Government transports and tugs are
beginning to take refugees to Oakland.
Sot a house in the city but is de
serted .
Over eighty square miles are now
completely devastated. All hope of
checking the roaring furnace has been
abandoned. People are becoming calm.
Fairmount hotel is a mass of ruins.
SEATTLE.—The relief fund commit
tee raised seventy thousand dollars yes
terday. Will double that amount to
day. A train load of provisions leaves
here tonight. Governor Pardee wired
Mayor Moore the people are almost
starving. The city council appropriated
ten thousand dollars.
\> amii .mi iu.\.— i hf president huh
indued a proclamation urging cities ev
erywhere to raise relief fund and send
inonev t«» Charles Italian Keep, treas
urer Ked Cross S«K-iety, Washington.
OAKLANlh—A courier from Santa
Kosa savH the town is obliterated. Five
hundred dead.
Refugees arriving here. Whole busi
ness seeii hi collapsed. Many were im
prisoffed in building- and cremated.
At the town of 1'rawlev or Craw lev
a hundred buildings were wrecked. No
lives lost.
SKATTLE.—Following Alaskans are
safe: C. It I'hilltps. grand arctic chief,
at i Oakland: Judge llaikiiuine, Nome, at
San Francisco.
I d It hunn contribute- live hundred
llis son at lU rkelev is safe.
laical W oodmeti say III* grand camp
raised a hundred thoti-and l.«*al Flks
raised f. air thousand and will add more.
Ml a-s««datioi»s, churches, bank- ami
municipal department* are contribu
ting the l«n al ipiwrtermuster was noti
fied from Washington to purchase a
hundred thousand tent* t?) ami sup*
plies and rush south on -|«-cial trains
AIM Mental mail ordered \u\ S uttk
OAKLAND.—During the night ghouls
and thieves were raiding the burnt dis
trict. Two more, making eight, were
killed. Many escaped wounded by sol
diers.
Blowing up Van Ness avenue homes
of millionaires sounded like artillery
cannonade.
This morning bread was selling at a
dollar a loaf.
SAN FltANCISCO.—At (1 o’clock this
morning flames were sweeping toward
Mission hill. Chinatown wiped out.
SAN FRANCISCO.—The United
States mint was partly destroyed. Ow
ing to the large grounds around it is the
only structure left standing south of
Market street. District completely
wiped out.
Dynamiting has ceased. It proved of
no avail.
Cruisers Marblehead and Chicago are
landing marines for protection of prop
erty and lives.
Hundreds of corpses are seen lying in
the streeets.
Ferries refuse to allow any one to re
turn from Oakland. All entrance into
the city are stop|>ed.
Women and children are suffering
terribly from thirst and hunger.
Bread from bakeries is being distrib- i
u ted.
telegraph lull is ■ 11 names.
Household goods piled in the streets
everywhere are being consumed, there
being no conveyances to move them.
People are fleeing by thousands across
the bay with only the clothing on their
backs.
The Mission fire is about burned out.
The district is a vast ruin.
A thousand buildings west of the Van
Ness residence district are aflame.
It looks as though only a small settle
ment along the coast shore near the
Golden Gate entrance to the bay will be
saved.
The balance of the business district |
north of Market street is being con
sumed.
Hundreds of walls of former business
districts where buildings have been
gutted by flames are now falling, men
acing soldiers, marines, police and other
workers.
Vnable to learn the condition in the
interior of the burned district. It is
reported several workers were killed;
unconfirmed.
All city and county prisoners are be
ing guarded within the burned district
by soldiers.
Kerry desks jammed with women and
children refugees waiting to get across
the bay.
All are destitute. Total destruction
of the city is complete tonight.
The dead in the ruins are in a state of
decomposition and the air is foul.
bread ami water condition improved.
Saturday’s Dispatches.
SAN FRANriSCO.— At 10 o'clock
last night tin* city was plunged in abso
lute darkness, all lighting plants l**ing
consumed.
Immediately a gait* sprang up ami
Maims fanmil from Nob hill swept tin*
North IUatch srlimi completely. steered
south to tht* immense sea-wall sheds
ami grain warehouses, licked these up,
ami thfii headed for the immense ferr\
buildings ami Southern Pacific terminal.
There was panie in the darkness.
The authorities swore in a thousand
special. |**liee armed with government
rifles, am! three more National Ouard
companies arrived.
The Maim s in the westerly part of the
citv among tlie owlv residents * standing
broke tail anew Kuilding were so far
a|*irt ami all the force eoneentratetl and
fighting there only alMMit a hundred
lairnetl to midnight, when it wa* said
to Is* 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.
(•as has been released.
Vessels off shore are said to smoke,
hut are throwing streams into the blaze.
Communication with Oakland is
threatened.
Tlie water front emergency hospital is
afire. Patients were moved across the
hay.
Wind is blowing down walls on Mar
ket street. The thoroughfare has heen
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
day night trying to enter the mint.
Two Chinese killed by soldiers for re
fusing to obey orders.
Six hundred laborers have arrived to
attempt to open sewers. Pestilence is
fea red.
Six babies were born in the camp of
of the homeless at Golden Gate park.
Ihe ponce nave broken open every
saloon in the unconsumed distriek and
poured the liquor into the gutters.
Eleven postal clerks taken from the
wrecked postoffiet—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 jterson 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.
Fond 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 Buchmun was chartered
and leaves tonight loaded with food
stuns aim clothing, maunni by a volun
teer crew from the sailors* union.
Washington lumbermen raised fifty
thousand dollars; Seattle so far eighty
five thousand.
The Htichinaii will probabiv bring a
boat load of refugees here.
SAN F K A NCISl't >.— Lodging house
at Fifth ami Minna streets has just col
lated; seventy-five killed. («»smopoh
tan collapsed; a hundred Inalies in tin
ruins. Ilrunsu iek hotel collapsed ; hun
dred and fifty dead.
Hank vaults have l*een examined and
all contents found safe.
Ilarriinan has just wired two bun
died thousand dollars.
Relief trains are U ginning to arrive
at Oakland.
\N \'*■*III V *Tt >N S-cretarv Taft Ini'*
jtlst received a telegram saying another
million needed, and has sent the tele
gram to tin* house The government
Im* alreadv rsN-Rilel a million and a
half.
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