Show V THREE SOLDIERS CAUGHT IN RUINS Work of Dynamiting Walls in Tn San Francisco Attended With Some Risk OPEN AIR SERVICES SUNDAY CURIOUS CROWDS THRONG THE BURNED CITY Cl Y San Francisco May 6 The fIrst accI accident dent dont in connection with the dynamiting of dangerous d tm rous walls by the engineers of the army took place today Smaller quantities of o explosives than were used last week are now being toeing fired tired and this necessitates two or more charges char es of or dy dynamite dynamite being exploded before the desired result Is attained This morning the en engineers engineers engineers were working in the downtown district Twice had dynamite been ex ox exploded exploded under the facade Cf a tall taU ruin and nd a third charge was being inserted when the wall fell feU Three soldiers were hurled buried but a mass of twisted Iron part partly partly partly ly shielded them and only one was se seriously hurt A Day of Rest riIs ha been the first day of official rest that the city has had since the be beginning beginning ginning inning of Its distress All the municipal departments were closed with the exception exception exception tion of the police stations and hospitals a nd Franklin hall haJJ the seat of San Fran isCos government was deserted The police ponce have had little or nothing to en engage engage gage gge their attention Among mon the churches the same condi conditions prevailed as upon the preceding Sunday open air services being the rule even where the buildings were unharmed At Golden Gate park parI the usual Sunday afternoon concert was given and was at attended attended attended tended by b thousands That the people as a a whole are beginning to look for yome ome diversion was shown last night when a i great crowd assembled to witness a 1 vaudeville show in a hall on Fillmore I street The authorities however at the thelast thelast thelast last moment refused to permit the per performance performa f forma orma nee Arrests for Selling Liquor Two i lg for selling sellin liquor were made today to a v andas and as an indication of the determination to suppress the traffic in intoxicants until the saloons are allowed to reopen one of the offenders was re refused refused fused bail and the others bond was fixed at t Coroner Walsh after re rev ling v his list of victims of fire and ke informed formed In General Greely that hat t the total number of cases handled l lii In v bin hift office oalee was ns of which 34 were identified and 18 unidentified This re rel report l 1 port tOrt ort shows nin less lees than given by b a II previous count coust Crowds of the Curious rhe The streets of the burned districts dl were re thronged thron ed today with sightseers Every J very train for nearby towns on the peninsula and every cery ferry boat in la the thel l hay av counties untie was packed with people k a iger r to JU get et t their first glimpse of the itys its devastation and almost every ever t third person carried a camera or kodak in Tn expectation of the tIle crush of people booths of street fakers falters sprung up over overnight overnight night along the curbs oh on on the cleared streets tt prepared to furnish refreshments 8 and most moet mo t of them enjoyed a profitable trade t In Tn many mam instances the booths were labeled with the names of former famous hostelries and the incongruity incon of hot bot frankfurters five cents beneath the Palace Hotel provoked a smile from each i passerbY I Work of Tearing Down The Thc work of or construction and tearing down continued today toda on all sides not notwithstanding notwithstanding withstanding the th Sabbath Several hun hundred dred frame buildings now appear along the destroyed structures and foundations re being prepared pared for as many more The slow process of taking down stand standing lug inK walls alls with pick and shovel shoel is being bein employed by b many man merchants who are im to resume business but the 1 hulk luIk of this work is being done by bj steve stevedores dores lo who are art using donkey donke engine l power to tn raze the walls HIS INJURIES SERIOUS r Quartermaster Sergeant Robbins Is Caught Under Falling Walls San Francisco FranchKO May lra 6 Quartermaster Sergeant S r nt Charles Charlt g H TI Robbins attached to the First t battery lattery of engineers cn sta stationed stationed honed at Fort Mason is the latest victim IcUm of the recent calamity Today Toda in charge charger f r a It quad of engineers he was detailed to 10 raze the dangerous dun erous walls In the vicinity tv ty t y of Turk and Mason Iason streets with dyna dynamite dynamite i mite and shortly before 12 IZ with two Iwo men he entered the ruins of the th old McCormick hotel at M 10 O Turk street Two charges charge had bad been boe exploded t and the throe three men ulen were at work placing the third charge huKe under the ruins of or the hotel when suddenly the walls wails began to top topple tope Ie e Robbins companions pot got clear of the falling failing wall wAil and escaped with a few ft w bruis but Robbins was caught under un lr tons of d bris In some miraculous man manner ncr ner an iron b beam tm fell over oer him in such sucha a position as to act as a shield and a portion of the railing of the fire escape dropped as a sort of protection protection tion lion over him For fully fun one ont hour and ud a half the police QUe and soldiers in the vicin vicinity vicinity vicinity ity labored labor d In order to release ase the Im int Imprisoned 1 and mangled soldier He was hurriedly taken n to the general genera hospital at the Presidio Pre idio where his wounds were pronounced dangerous danger us but not nece sari J lv h fatal |