Show I f t 4 t c 1 1 tW rt tf f f f t i 13 r I 10 I r I 1 i IJ b it itc c c 0 i X 3 1 t tf f FIRE i if I 1 L Lc r I c f t Ii j 4 j t f r i ti f li lir lif r Jr t f IR IRIl R i j jf f I f r i t f fI J 1 Il 1 31 1 1 4 1 y yi yIn It i t t i In H Hea I t tj ea i j j jie he ie 1 et t r rL 1 r t f I 1 Lf t tan an 11 I j I Ti 1 h t I I d e ni III II j 4 I t I W t p KIne iu u uIa Ii Ia I bit tomorrow Free Freet I t J I 4 be bi provided by the theIn Afifi In to destitute person T 11 go ii points Major ajor M 1 wa il I tod command commando commande o 14 e a w 2 of the homeless It ItI i I rie that tomorrow there S I 1 f I Jaily lil LIS delivery into the they 1 y gallons of water waters wat r ir s gain Jain Working I I or r first time tune dir t tele I I nl was to I p San Franci the theand 1 and and this message m t had hadIng 5 Ing j the first to tobe be sent I effort in ill the theS S f f 1 gnat groat the Postal Tele I i t I Company succeeded in restoring rt e C cf r its shattered lines Jines and its man manI f rs I 8 are ale hopeful of bringing back its to o the normal plane in a day or orf orS f f wo S o 0 The Postal Pm tal office e tonight is 10 lo ted S in I a little wooden structure erect l I i on i j Is at the water front shore ahne Three Fires Burning l ht three distinct fires fired were l S One I was on oi that portion that fends from Nob Hill down easterly 5 the water front It was wa as trav traY ng slowly 1 northerly towards the graI h hill lull section n and may die diey y k for f la Tt k c of material or may again I crp t nard the extreme water WaLer 10 second r II ii center Ilter was WUI in the th Mission tl tI It d t III 10 the tire fire had reached ren thu street but was making lit Ht toward the w hillsides ides yo the 1 j uh wh h n H r thousands of people a e eI 5 JJ I 1 TUP Tuf third and most dd nger ngern n lJ IH I rr i L 1 at it th wistern t H H 4 n 11 Ti fis is ig really a R to cr aa t Nob Nb lUll Hill fire It is i Wed I S 11 i the th apex pushing push Ing t tint i S int t against which the tire lire ding their greatest great t ef ci mitt mite nit was used for fOl back f KB Fi with ith only fair success i iv r r v blocks blk 1 may be blown blon up upS fe S of Life i ii i i ic t c said he thought f fy y V cover the tile numby of t f frd rd 1 it impossible ible to se f About fifty bodies bodie lava lav f found found 4 I l ii f P Ii t r t r i i S f 1 t 1 i 11 I U Jl tt f 4 r t i i rr t IL ir r rit Ai Air r t 1 1 it f r t I II Ii of 1 S jt If to t tot r f L LI I I i i ii 5 i fj i 5 l li I It t i t i iS f fd S k d d L Li i 1 I I F Fj j t c 1 d 1 j jr I l I Ire r re e i 4 t t S i ii St t i H t l lv tI r v e I 0 v vJ b bS J je jt iM i S t I 1 I 5 I r i I I to toch toI Fl I r ri i ch 11 nd d 5 J JS S f S f S VS S 4 S 4 f 5 f yet et re rf reh reS 1 S S t ti h t 0 h v t i ft b f lire l 1 j i YOu yoi i ij S 1 j J i 5 out oui outa a h J I our ourde de c i nd S or of orIta f fitz Its Ita r he heis heS S i S SS is roh b S S Ut Uti to b toS S i S t S ul uliC iC r 5 5 I 1 I V VS thE S tt I IT q r e h Il IlI of I look tp fuu u t th ng n ways and means nHI in ful rut horror The f orrs r i ra were We le B oJ Concentrate every In e engIne in the city at this avenue to o marshal marthal troops of soldiers there the IM police lice and all the army of workers worker and make one last determined stand to save the remainder of the city The cooperation of the artillery was secured and huge cannon annon were drawn dran to the avenue by the madly dashing horses to aid the tile dynamiters in blow blowing blowing ing ins up the mansions of the millionaires on the west side of Vanness avenue in inor order or er to prevent the flames leaping across the highway and starting mire unrestrained unrestrained strained sweep across the western ad addition addition addition v Cannon and Dynamite Every E f available pound of dynamite d was hauled to the spot and aud the tile sight was one OUE of stupendous and appalling havoc 0 as the tile cannon annon were trained on the palaces arId and and the shot tore into the walls and toppled the buildings In crashing ruin At other points th the dynamite was and house after house dwellings worth millions I were lifted into the air ajr by the power of the bellowing blast and dropped to the earth ea rth a mass of dust and debris The work was necessarily dangerous and anti many of the exhausted workers kept going and working through a stretch of hours hOUTS without sleep and scarcely any food through force fOlce of In cU heroism alone may have J 1 1 dle ie making this last lust dos dosI 1 I si I i Many flany of the workers in 1 fi tat t 1 took chances that L I irv 1 death The fire line at atc J r c 5 if tf r ds cIs a mile mn along the th east si sa avenue a from Pacific t tet t l fili 1 a All AIl behind this except ne n ni th it l i hn m hill ni region and a small d td t t Uong lolog mg he north beach has been 18 jet v i t f SI et n ly y the names flames and great grent te l t i of buildings and pipes and andi i 1 d Id 41 ii ires have been dropped ut nt i h Kuofen JU mass of debris like so 80 soT T rr ITH u i h 1 n i 1 h t 1 wax ax axT T t acy booming Of the artillery Bud nd ud hc n f r if Hf f the dynamite above the er nH racking of the Humes con v Jh lii and dazing reg i no have been born bom bomin in f on Page 2 Ti If 1 1 t SUN UN WENT DOWN UN ON SCENE L OF WOE AND nESO DESOLATION f I I Continued From Page 1 Harding Ja the ears rn of the s the earthquake forty eight hours ago go Thy Th y have ceased ce sed to heed tho the sound arid and rush drowning their senses in a bedlam of their own wit creation There seemed to tobe tobo tobe be bo an Irresistible power Jower behind the flames that even the desperately heroic measures being taken at Vanness ave aye avenue avenue nue could not stay Scores Become Frantic Fran lc While the heroic fire tire fighters were making their lac I stand at the fire line lineon lineon lineon on Vanness ave ue panic reigned among the survivors rp in lu other ether parts parth of the city Tho The intense heat he t and the ab absence pence sence of ot water have added to the hor horror horror horror and und the strain since the beginning of qt the terrible calamity has been so un terrible that scores have be conic and others have dropped exhaustion in the streets The streets are still choked with refugees hurrying hither and thither l ing nij wildly for tor an avenue of escape Since e early morning when the great rUsh of ot flame doomed the hotel and house h districts along Ellis EUls OFarrell and Sutter streets men wo women women women men and children have been rushing or Staggering under heavy loads of ot luggage e some to the ferries at the wa water water ter for front in the tile hope pf getting to the theOr Or and the east side of ot the br b by y others to the hills Golden Gate park the ocean beach bench the Presidio Pr and San Mateo way The trip to the hills and andt to tl t the uie water front was as one of terrible hardship Famishing F ing women and chil ren men imm were com corn to walk seven seen miles around the Perth north shore in order to avoid the flames and reach the ferries May Many dropped to the street under the weight of their loads ocd and gf fathers and an l hus bus husbands bands their strength almost gone trove strove to pick them up and urge them forward or again ng I V r i i t 0 Rush to Their Doom Tn the panic m n mad things are arebe being be big done lo the soldiers in many in trying to pi prevent event men and wo women men mp me made e insane in ane from the misfortune them m from rushing l ito doomed buildings In the hope of ofF rivIng F valuables from the ruins In arh every everY instance ii tance such sUh action aion n tion has hasin r rf in the death of those who tri tried d it ItAf At Af and streets ts two men and a woman broke from the po polke police lice and rushed into a burning apart apartment ment rient Pt house never neer to reappear Probably two hundred thousand ref reft rees t ts are struggling gling to get et out of the rHy and hourly the task Is becoming nore IH ore difficult as the firt and heat bOat h at out cut ut off on of avenue after avenue of escape The streets are filled with struggling peo pee people pie some pome Om crying and weeping and call caU callin in fn fg K for missing ones Crowding all in the threatened area are hundreds upon hundreds of house householders holders Jers attempting to drag some of j their personal effects to places plaes of safe safety safety safety I ty In some instances two men with ropes are dragging trunks tandem style others have sewing machines strapped to the trunks and other arti articles artiel des cles el s equally ridiculous Again Ag ln women are rushing for the hills carrying In their arms only the family cat or a abird abird bird cage Refuge on the Hills Hilts Thousands of people are sleeping on the hills hUls tonight or standing gazing with grim faces on the lurid scene be below belon low lon 0 them Women Tomen and children and little babes in arms are huddled to together together together gether with the Injured In Golden Gate park the people are huddled to together together together gether with gnawing hunger the com corn companion companion panion of all The wail of the injured and the calls of frantic survivors for friends and relatives who are missing are most pitifuL These crowds are con constantly constantly constantly increasing and the relief com corn comm comm m are doing all aU In their POW r to get bedding and food for the homeless Oakland Berkeley and Alameda are short of food and in a few days will themselves be facing a serious short shortage shortage shortage age unless relief comes from the out outside side sid Guilty of Extortion are charging from 10 to 60 50 to haul laul a load of 01 baggage or give aid at all to refugees Liquor stores in the north end were broken into by thieves and hundreds of ot men Were carrying away the bottled liquors when the soldiers arrived The Themen Themen men had to be bc clubbed by the militia militiamen militiamen I men before they would drop the bottles 1 Soldiers smashed tho the bottles on the stones and drove the mob at the point of ot the bayonet When the mansions on Nob Hill the and Mark Hopkins Institute wore were approached by the flaw flair oday today many Attempts were mad madr to t ove some of the priceless works or ot art from the buildings A crowd of soldiers were sent to tho the Flood and Huntington mansions and Mark Hopkins Institute of Art to rescue the paintings From the Huntington home and the Flood mansion canvases were cut front from frame with knives The collections in inthe Inthe inthe the three buildings are valued d in the hundreds of thousands Very few ew were saved aved from the ravages of the fire fiend Enforcing Martial Law This afternoon at 4 the cadets of the University of ot California to the th number of entered the city to aid the militia and regular soldiers in their work of ot enforcing martial law The young oung college men havo h vo ve orders to shoot hoot without warning those caught looting In many parts of ot town where crowds of ot survivors are the wildest It Itis ItIs itIs is almost impossible to get around save at pistol point The soldiers are dis disarming disarmIng disarming arming every person p seen with a weapon capon The only Institution on Market able to do business Is according to u n reputable business man who reachel the ferry late tonight the Marke Street bank occupying the floor of 01 the j Grant building at Seventh and Market Marke Ii streets st Although the upper part of or this building and d every e ery building n J it was wiped out o t the space by the bank wag Vas a practically aged A sign posted p sted In the window windoN stated that the bank ba would w be open c for business as Soon 00 oon 1 as it was w const ered safe sare r t r 4 From Thirst r t The greatest re est ng 1 he be thousands of homeless ho ele s p people popI pIEl today tO 7 was as from froin thirst Although tha tl th earth PArth earthquake quake shock had broken water main maln in probably hundred rj of places j strange 5 tr to say no water or t ry little at i appeared on the surface of the un J PUljU r ns located d ted on oi o ket t street stroet gave out no relief to th the i thousands At the corne Corner of Powell P and market arket streets a small or r water spurted up the cobble cobblestones I stones and formed a muddy mudd po 1061 l From th s pool hundreds Of 01 f people and drank women as well ar a m men n In man places men took as m rn ny fly of liquor as they the could carry out ot ef gro grocery grocery gt cery stores store but few of f th tt them rr m si ed in getting away with them W Yel the soldiers saw sa aw a man vit a I of liquor they th y forc d him to 10 give ve it u I I j at the point of the tho bayonet and ind frame smashed it o 01 th Xh ground I Soldiers Showed Courage The Tho work of oJ o f the he i u ar rs it n suppressing disorder er Jr e b loot I ing and in persons pron t dan dangerous I positions i irthy the greatest praise 1 Tw showed the hig higi ft t J le r ura P They did not hesitate to tn 8 ott ever they found any one looting ai probably twenty victims fell tell b them during the day At 1130 tonight the names flames were slowly but steadily moving on to the sections s of the city still un untouched untouched Untouched touched The sky In all directions pre presented presented presented a lurid picture The strongest fire tire tonight seemed to tG be in the west western western ern em end of the city while the volume of flame in the Mission district would indicate that the conflagration was less severe than during the day 1 Trying to Save Something There is no aid for tor any anyone one from outside out id sources In the awful scram scramble scramble scramble ble for safety the halt half crazed survivors ors disregard gard everything but thought of themselves In every excavation and hole bole throughout the north beach householders rs are burying household ef effects effects effects throwing them into the ditches and covering the holes Attempts are made to the graves gt gr ves of the prop property property property erty so that It can be recovered after the flames are appeased The lack of water throughout the burned area together with the intense heat hat and the total absence of food tood has driven people desperate and innocent victims of the catastrophe that has visited the once great city are at places invading what few buildings re remain remain remain main in the hope of finding something to eat They only desist when warned or shot by soldiers Begging for Morsel of Food At the tho ferry building a crowd of a thousand people gathered begging for food and transportation across the bay Hundreds had not even the ten cents fare to Oakland Most Io t of the refugees at this were Chinese and Ital Italians ItalIans ians lana who fled from their burned tene tenements tenements tenements ments with little or no personalS personal prop property property property erty Tonight the suffering to many from hunger is extreme On the water front what bread that Is js to be had is being sold for a dollar r a 3 loaf and In some In Instances stances at a much higher price At 5 a mob of a hundred or more mobbed a bread wagon and took the contents The police made an at tempt to Interfere but were powerless Bread is beginning to arrive from Ber B r J keley and f Oakland and arid is being dis In the north end of town by the relief parties organized by br b Mayor L |