Show The Oakland Blaze San Francisco 9The Grand Central Cen-tral Hotel Oakland and other buildings build-ings on the same block burned early this morning The fire in the Grand Central Hotel l broke out in the rear of the dining room near the centre of the building build-ing It burned slowly at first and the occupants of the house about seventyfive in number had time to dress and t save most ol their persona l effecte Though there was necessarily neces-sarily much confusion thero was no panic and eyewitnesses say it was the quietest scene of the kind ever witnessed The guests were busy packing their property while many stood about the halls watching the slow progress of the flames After the fire bad fairly gained access to the open air the destruction was rapid owing to the high wind Firebrands were carried by the gale and set several sev-eral fires at a distance to the leeward of the hotel Most of the furniture on the first and second floors was saved |