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in chain 1 lllSlSTEit A Scene of Desolation and Ruin in San Francisco. A despaich from San Francisco says: 0f the scenes that marked the trans- formation of this, the gayest, the most 031151053 City 0“ “19 comment into, a (t the hotels, which saw their (loom in WTCCI" and ‘1 tie“: it is hm'd ‘0 ‘Vn'e- the tires which were breaking out cvrry- “lat “10 (my Started With 11 blind flcnyec and the spurts of the gas mains. drivers of express wagons and trucks, hired at enormous prices, began carting away from the lower city the valuables “"11 Panic 13095 WNHOUL saying. Pco‘ [Even the banks began to take out their F19 Woke up With a Start to find them“ bullion and securities, and, under guard solves floundering on the n001‘. In 511?“ of half-dressed clerks. Sent them to the all earthquake as this it is human m' hills, whence came to-day the salvation stinct to get. out of doors, away from (.0 San Francisco, One old nighthawk falling walls. Thcy stumbled across cab driven by a cuhman mad with (or. the floors of their heaving houses to rm. cam-ed more than 31900000 in mm find that even the good earth upon “my and securities_ which they placed thgirI rleliance 3108t Men pulling corpses or broken pm swaying and “Sing “'1 ‘11 mg‘ 50 a ie from fallen buildin s 510, ed l.) the S‘dewalks CraCked and great rams gorse these processions €13 thegppaswi opened in the ground. The three min- Time and again a line of wagons and lites which followed were an eternity cubs would run on to [m impassflfle félotergor'} Y: 31%;.“ fhcfsmofirimhtlcais: barrier of debris. where some builiing that Ithigee n‘tirliutege(wttenl there 1rdeemed had taller.) mm the sulcet‘ and mm” no help on camh’ or Heaven The“ pile up till the guards cleared a way was a roar like a great burst of than. through the St‘md‘q' tier, and from all about came the crash of falling walls. it died down at last. leaving the earth quaking and quhficr- ing like jelly. Men would run or- V ‘ ward, stop as another shock, which dens 010118 the Whanes- the 1'3“ “ might be greater any moment, scedht, San Francisco water front, the | SHOT DOWN TlllEVES. And then the went to work. vandals formed and Routed out from the to take the earth from under their feet, dimers ‘Yho have ,1‘9‘?Che.d “’9 bad‘" and throw memgelves {ace downward eddy of buropean Civilization, crawled - ‘ out and bevan to plunder. Early in girth?” 'glound m a parka agony 0f the day a pdliceman caught one oithcse men dropping through the window -.f a small bank on Montgomery street, and shot him dead. But the police were keeping fire lines, beating back over- zealous rescuers from the fallen houses and the burning blocks. and for a time these men plundered at will. News -:-f this development was carried early to iayor Schmitz, and it was this as much as anything which determined him and Gen. Funston came over from the Piesidio on the double quick with the whole garrison of United States troops (2 put the city under martial law. Or- ders were issued to the troops to shoot anyone caught in the act of looting. and the some orders were issued to the First Regiment, NationalGuard of Cali- fornia, when they were mustered and called out later in the day. And all this time, and clear up until noon, the earth was shaking with little tremors, many of which brought down walls and chimneys. At each of these the res- cuers, even the firemen, would stop for a moment. paralyzed. The 8 o’clock, the heaviest after the big one, drove even those who had determined to stay by the stricken city to look for means of escape by water. A SAFETY COMMITTEE. There was an open park opposite the City Hall. Here, in default of a build- ing, the Board of Supervisors met and formed, together with 50 citizens whom they had gathered, a committee of safety. They also set- FOUND THEIR VOICES. it seemed to be two or three minutes after the great shock was over before people found their voices, There follow- ed the screaming of women. besid» themselves with terror, and the cries cl men. With one impulse people made for the parks as far as possible from falling walls. These speedily became packed with people in their night clothes, who screamed and moaned at the. little shocks which followed evpry few minutes. The dawn was justbreak- ing, but there was no other light, as the gas and electric mains were gone. and the street lamps were all out. But before the dawn was white there camr a light mom the east, the burning war.» house district. Thebraver men, with no families to watch over, struck out. to help. They were in the early morn- ing light able to see the'busincss di - trict of the city burning befor» lhem. From every direction came the tire en- gines, called from the outlying district- t-y the general alarm rung in by the as sistants oi the dead chief CHINESE IN A FRIGHI‘ The spur of the quake ran up the hill Ch which Chinatown is situated, and shook down part of the crazy little buildings on the southern edge. lt tore down, too, some of the ltalian ten- ements. The rush to Portsmouth Square what on almost unchecked by the po- lice, who had more business elsewhere. “.18 Chums? Cilmgom ‘01 “101111 themselves to the problem of providimy fifountiebfigfig “15:31:12 {flickugongsiquarters for‘thc dying and dead. Me”â€" 33 rating rich, 201a legitimize: illitt‘cittasg‘él‘iit‘d titties thigh ey 13(Snt1Cle ip. 7 'e‘ i_ a is. . ‘ .t v ,, on the othert side by the refugees of the]12331)?”13;[fiénorpceéd'léifiqigfiice’32? I ltable malts? Sailfiizmgmm u madness_ At passed the word that the dead (Sid in: leastdtwo Chimmen were taken to the lured ShOUId 13“ bl‘Ought there, since "{0ng dead ‘of “knife vwmndss givemthe hospitals and morgucs had become for no other reason, it seems, than the ChOkeda “0‘1 toward that POint. in the madness of the panic. There are ten “my {0"91‘00“; “teal‘a‘l's- (“DIES wag;- thousand Chinese din tlfieugparter,‘ ans; $n§avfmngulggcclgi 101135105503]??? 13$??? ‘ ‘ tl san s o tans _- -'-.- u x‘ M . . 31%st $133 biggicans on the other??? ‘i What‘s were perhaps too injured people. It seemed as though evegyigngf:m§@§g}‘.;yui§yiy oil them terribly mangled, laid together with the rift-'raffgckthWar‘baiy-5 ~ on t 0 floor before noon. . euneonroi '~ . . ' H _ . ' ‘- ' ‘ Ever hysiCian in the cut volunteer- ... centre otthe square and piled tipon my alr’ldp they got togemser enough trained nurses to do the work. There .ifere»*.ttiey fought all the , fir-the troops restored or- I garbayoncis. were fewer corpses, too busy were the r forces of order in stopping the coniia. gi'ation and caring for the living to care for the «dead. The first wagons '{S'VREMOVE GOLD. zs'z-‘tiie dawn broke and the 1 began to be overhung with brought a whole familyâ€"father, mother Hi “i e“oi burning buildings, there and three childrenâ€"ail dead except cam’a backâ€"eddy. Cabnien, hackineii,-the baby, who had a terrible cut 'DEL MONTE HOTEL AT MONTERE‘T. ‘ 1 Where three chimney: fell through the roof, killing a bridal couple and ricken District Showing Towns Badly Wrecked by the Earthquake. _J. across the itu-chcad and a broken unintsmrd" “Wt tldil't“! (“it by “"3 S'll'ti“F-“ These had been dragged out from lhe‘lnt, “’0 “'htflWillC IMP-$95 m'f.‘ Et'tnM‘I‘tth ruins of their house, on the watm' front. ‘ “1“” 5‘9"“. "f l'l‘0V1~Ԥl‘lnS 3W1 Still'Wl' As the day were on, and the wind]"",") is W‘lnlnt‘llt- . changed. the fire along the water front: tho?" 1“ l'tm‘iy "t HWI‘IV in SHIN it"? burned itself out. and mu on {In-'h(,rll'f‘tict. The Government has appropriat- down South Market shwm Emwt Pt.“ a million dollars and at. least half a for the fire the city is in darkness. The ,".“”’0” ‘5 awa'tm’q 0mm: “1 New ‘n'k' “4,,ng mmng mm. mm row,” that the problem, however, is not so much the parks 3,. mm] with people Show «inept money as of ways and means of in: out of doors, under guard of the tt‘ul'1'73,s"t‘t’t“‘s "’ro‘mh Q‘I‘Ckly' _ troops, ‘ This is absolutely the greatest disas- ‘ , ‘ tcr that ever overcame an American SAN FRANCISCO IS GONE city, and one of the great tires of his- Map of the St Unless all information is greatly tory. Beside it the Chicago, Boston. and aggcrated there remains nothing left Baltimore tires are almost unimport- ot' the city except outlying suburbs, ti flllt. Tilli FIRE IS CHECKED. San Francisco, April 2Lâ€"The tire is probably checked. A turn of the wind, narrow district of iuidt'lle-class resi- dences lying.r along Golden Gate Park. is an unconfirmed report that se‘Vcral men were killed while trying to rob the vaults of the Mint, which hold 3300000000 in treasure. There were several other instanCcS of shooting for robbery. Mayor Schmitz, Gen. Funston and the operators of the telegraph companies all agree in saying that the fire. whit! still burning. will probably spread no farther. but will burn itself out. COMMONS VOTES $00,000. Ottawa, April 20. â€"â€" A vote of $100.- (:0b was passed in the Commons to-day fer the relief of the sufferers in San Francisco. lion. Mr. Fielding, Minister ct Finance. in announcing the Govern- inent's intention, said: “i have a mat- tet of urgency to bring up. with refer- encc to the disaster which has come up- Oil one of the great cities of the neigh- boring Republic. 1 think the informa- tion which has now reached us through the press is sullicicnt to give assurance that the disasteris of a very widespread character, and there will be need of gen- erous assistance from the liberal-mindâ€" ed people of the United States and other parts of the world. At all events. 1 am sure that this Parliament. representing the people who inhabit the northern half of the continent, will be glad to share in the opportunity of ministering- to the assistunCe of our fellow-men .n San Francisco. I propose. therefore to piesent a message from his Excellency recommending a grant of $100,000 as a contribution from the people of Canada to the: unlit-ted people of San Francis- co." (Applause) Mr. Borden, on behalf of the Opposi- tion, said: “I do not think there are any members of the House who will not cordially support the Government in this proposal. The disaster to the City of San Francisco is one which almost staggers our l'artlly able to understand. We have bad substantial proofs in the past of thr. sympathy oi the people of the Unit- ed Statesin times of disaster to Cana- dian citizens. i wish merely to add that. in the presence of an appealing disaster such its thit. and for the pur- pose of 1-.~iidr,-ring aid on such occasions plaust The inrssagc was received and ferred to the Committee of Supply. illittONSTllijil'l‘lON NOW THE WORD San Fr‘anciscm April 23.â€"â€"The great fire is no longer a. menace. its ashes will smouldwr for weeks. but as (in ac- tive. force it ended on Saturday morn- ing. The last stroke‘was the destruc- T8< of docks and whariage warehouses on the northeastern waterfront. it is known that the loss of life will be heavier and that of property some- what less than in the hasty ixstiinatrs Sent out while the fire raged. The son- itary parties now systematically search- the the ruins come across scores (,1 bodies in unsuspected places. The,‘ chief loss of life seems to have been beliefâ€"one which we '1“? a: this. the two nations are one.” (Apr lien on Friday night of almost a little substaiitiah Nc American city was ever so nearly destroyed as this. and outside of the earthquake the fire is probably the gleatest in American history. The city has a population of more than 400,000 people. Not more than one-fourth of these can have escaped to Oakland or few blocks on the water front and a the peninsula. and at least 300,000 people hospitals except the free City Hospital have been destroyed, and they have been dragging the injured, sick and dy- ing from place to place of safety at] day Thursday. A late report by a West- eru Union wire direct from San Fran- cisco confirms the despatch which Gen. Funston sent to the War Department which came late Friday night, blew it lack from the. residence district, after it had leaped the gap which the soldirrs had made with dynzuuite to save that part of the town. The steady western trade wind has set in. Telegraph Hill and the territory about it, a region cf poor dwellings, had been passed by the main tire. This shaft of the wind blew [the flames in that direction. and Tele- tflnptl iiill burned all day Friday. lttis- siaii llili is also burned over, cxz-ept for ’tht- small area on the sea slope; but it the trade wind continues strong. as it probably will, the. fire will be turned back entirely on the area already burn- ed over. There is every hope that the news that mite. It passed from mouth to mouth. “NO MORE DYNAMITE!" 3 improvements ruins will be cooling in a day or two. Report: about. the actual art-a of dam- agc are contlicting. it is probable, how~ ever, that about three-quarters of the improvements on real estate is destroy- early on Thursday cvt'ining. He said then that the flames had crossed \‘an‘ Ness Avenue, the «bidding line between the better residence district and the rest of the City, and that the town wasim. The, mngps hr the my” Shane“, 1 i t 3 r, v, . ._ _ (“OOmCd' As a "mm or {mt “‘5 'suburban residences, stand. Outside (I; ‘ t "’ ,iuinty c'c ). ‘s "-1‘ ., . thing worth mento h \ “it U“ " ittiat no considerable area is saved, ex- jcuit the better residence district of the awestern addition and Pacific Heights. lixecpt for a few mansions oi the rich. some churches. and probably some su- sidence district was burned over or on fire by the afternoon. The tluiues tin- ishcd with the district down-town, ran sttitii through what remained of the tenement district, extended out through , , . . _1_ . . r . the mission, a region of cheap res.ittltghfiflcgozl:lnffiee"‘y “mmm‘o 1” 5"“ 0““005- and ‘Cflppd ‘0 NOb “mi “’“m'e' not; [than {Samoa people slcbl last :1 a ."ions t i ,. - . . , (51"??dc'ittlllt0l'irtfla:ntttt(?lltlil‘Pq orpotfgrfiq,‘r:;‘n tntght: in the. concentration camps oi the (y ' “ ’ " l‘rcsxdio, (ioldcli Gate. l‘ark and Fort rater .“ll i' but l)L“l . “me me V 5 m” t ” Wh‘my 1 Mason. There. was a shortage of water, . . , . . . Etettvo‘tiltclofit: Yvomitood was scarce and poorly distributed , ie fitment. d . . , I I ,. , ~. , with Pitt?"..tt‘if$titieé“ttit{ i513? iti‘“‘t" , i , t . z” _ \ t c o more “as “0 mom dy'm‘ get at the water mains, and hope to have. drinking water by this morning. The troops are preparing another con- centration camp in the hills of the Po: tiero, south of the city, where there is accoss to a natural water supply. It is now possible to reach the ferry build- ing by a route running around the edge exhausted. sucked dry. must he homeless in the parks or the l‘residio military reservation. All the trought to the volunteer helpers This cry was the doom of San Fran. cisco. As a last resort, Gen. Funston emp- tied the artillery magazines of the Pre- sidio, and the troops and tii‘cmcn tried to make a last stand at Van Ness Av- enue, west of which lie the homes of». the refugees went to Oakland. where the rich and well-to-do. li‘unslon's tclc- rthere was at least a water supply. But gram at 8 o’elOck on Thursday nightt. . , _ showed that they had failed, and tiieim ont‘t‘jnd‘ ‘00’ ill?” “W’mm '0 be a shortage of prowsmiis. While some late news over the direct wire contirui- . supplies nmst have reached the, city ct this. H H . fl ‘ Many must have died in the fire. At 3‘*l"‘d.“3' and um united Hates GOVcrn- the,incnt is doing everything to rush m_ least four men were shot during V ._ day for looting. The unburied dead, t‘ms‘ (‘m' thsmn “’15 10m “10 WRI‘ many of them half burned in thc I‘lllllS,lD(DaHnmnt that more is “1100110111 It, may },0_111tlntlt‘l‘ obtaiinne. This stands to rea- nmnv humps .son. for hon Franeisco has nmw- 1mm ‘ more than three days ahead with {1st PTOVib't‘m supply. and ranch of that must.1 have been destroyed in the firm Oakland is choked with refugees, whot it is hard to estiiuale the loss of mon- 0“? Flopping in, the MEMO!“ PUbiJCt It mav be said that practically all ‘ mlmmé’syfll‘ being acc’fijlglgodated by ‘ a I private Citizens. » w ’ V. general exodus to the ferries yesterday. are becoming a problem. come necessary to sink in the bay or ocean. Owing to the fire, which caught many structures before- the dead could be taken out of them.‘ the real mortality will never be known.t ey. on real estate and "t‘uittling’s and in the large boarding houses and cheap hotels lying south of Market street. in the Union iron Works 200 bodies have iecn cremated by the otticials for sani- tary reasons. Burial parties are wortb ing steadily. and it SPOlllS likely that the death list will be far above the fig- ure of 230 set by the acting chief of the MT brigade, may indeed be twice that t1 Hit. The property loss is still a matter of the wildest gucsswork, figures ranging from 3200000000 as a minimum to $500.- tzowotlt) as a maximum. The great t!t~\‘v’tl-tt'l\‘~.‘ll buildings. while injured badly by lire, seem to have stood the earthquake rcnuirkahly well. The steel frame skyscrapers can be repaired and fitted for use in a week or two, and hotels like the St. Francis and Fairinont ate in the same position. The utter lo<s has been in the case of flimsy brick of wooden structures, which were swept out of existence in thousands. The plans for rebuilding clicady under cuiisidcrtitit‘ui look to guarding against both earthquake and‘ two by sit-ct conâ€".truction. and it is es- tgieat part of the personal property are: Admiral Goodrich inn. . I all his ,ponc. The loss will certainly be n‘tore‘mmlamc {Owes .VPSt-OY‘dEY?7 $1?th will 1than 8200000000. The last assessment he]? 0‘“ "19 “hamth If?) -' rho- roll gives the value of land and improve. ' “WVCFSIW Of California, it“ ' .~,_j5 gem. ‘ interns in San Francisco at $t02.000.000_ l-‘al'flriiy closed, has sent‘ n,” if‘its ca- 'l'he insurance held in San Francisco’det hattflllon. The Corfu’ 1, 301.. 531'. is estimated in New Yory at from $3.30,. ctr has taken up the Workb~stipplying (00,000 to $300,000,000. This estiniateis'f‘"3d Station-T Mill'OI‘ 7‘12. 5318s re- iascd on the payment of premiums-Wilma his l‘1’001flm11li0n. my ciri. The housing of the homeless people who 2009.001 to Wild firesgsn" and are sleeping in the parks and the mili-‘CF-Otimg IS Still _ - ‘95-puppc tary reservation is going to be a greatfsquares. Chimneys ’ problem. So, indeed, is their feeding. house fires would ceflfinl a" No supplies can come into the town hie. at present. The people have been liv-I The troops, tired of; ii [a hotel servant, and Injurtng several other persons. mfiviflmlrwfl :_ , ing on the supplies taken from grocery had many conflicts " that troubles. I . trou- that passed his lips. limitth that 250,000 tons of steel frames will be put into the downâ€"town section 01' the new Sun Mar isco. There will be privation. but no star- vation in the. destroyed city. Train‘ loads of food supplies are arriving from north. south and east. and Con. Fun- ston and the. Mayor are organizing effec- tive agencies for distribution. There will will be no lack of money for this work. Already S11.Rt30.000 have been contri- tuted. a sum large enough to feed the entire. population for at. least two ntttnths, while thousands of tons of land, clothing, tents and medical supplies are being sent fort-.100. President Roost» \elt has intimah‘d in very courteous cf the bay. Ovcrthis route there mm “tutti-its. but quite firmly. that the United Steins- can take care of the problem in San Francisco and will not need aid' from abroad. it is probable that as this intimation was made. on Saturday after thi- Dominion Parliament took action toward grunting $100.0“) the f‘anmlian donation will be accepted. FANTA ltOSA’S DISASTER. Sacrtuiiento, (tab. April 23. â€" Santa Rosa. in preportion to its size, has suf- fered worse than San Francisco. The hit of item] numbers about sixty, but 123m persons are missing and a still “miter number seriously Wounded. lv‘orty sailors from Marc island. fully equipped with apparatus, are working while voliii'tteer aid has been unslintcd. Santa llosu. has suffered the greatest disaster in her history. but the indomit- able spirit of her petu‘ile has been shown all alonng the line. §-â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"- Benjamin F. Esbcnshadc. of Lancaster” Pa.. ang sixty years. a civil war vei- eran, has just ended a forty days‘ last made with the design of curing stomach A pint of water daily was all From 164 pounds his weight dropped to 110. pounds. and , have he is weak as a child, but he believes «There himself cured. a, single section of the city adjacent to- \4