| Show O DEEDS fOS Of THE DYNAMITE SQUAD Their Work During Terrible Friday Night Meant Saving of People STAND AT VAN NESS AVENUE I I S At t A ii 11 Oilier her Point And So Ho It WillS V s Made Suit Bun Francisco April 1111 24 lie he rots roes raved caved Bm Sari Ic Iii II left of It II They were the d that Ihal threw back the Ito flue file demon nt lit Van VanNess Ness X avenue When the burning city cli seemed doomed and amid ho lit III the sky fur further furher her ther and further to lu the tho west sept II n trio 1110 of ot his most trusted men front from Mare Mure Island with orders to check the conflagration at nt any an cost coat of life or property With them they brought n a ton Ion and a n half hult of oC Tho The terrific power of o time the th explosive WAS Aas equal to 10 the tue maniac of or orthe the lire fire Capt apt was In charge ot of the tho Chief Gunner Gunnel on time tho charges charIs and the gunner cunner s set t them off ort The thunderous Intonations to 10 1 which thin the terrified city listened all that Ihal dreadful FrIday night meant the tite salvation of oC liven lives A million worth ot property noble reel lesl antI and esl shacks wore eie blown blon to 10 driftIng dust but that de ule destruction broke the lie lire hire alit sent ent lie i aging lames over Oer their own chimed path Time The whole cast east side aide of oC Van Ness Ncsa ac aye mm title from Jolden into Gate to Greenwich vas waH ux dynamited a block bluck deep deell though most of the structures stood untouched ed Ill by b spark or cinder Not 01 one e failed ailed II erl Not one building stood upon Its lis foundation nome COllIC malicious mir mil miracle tide acle of ot nature reversed tho Ito direction of ot the west wind the whole populous district to 10 the wet west est blocker blocked with Heel HeelIng log Ing refugees and except by h the tue glare on the water waterfront front seemed safe by b 9 S Van Ne Ness NeM avenue Is that Hat as tIC the earth on the east sloe Elite l er pound or 01 gun guncotton cotton colton did Its lis work ork and though tIm Iho ruins ruin burned bunted It tt was but feebly From Golden Goiden Gate north the Iho fire crossed the wide street In hut but one place That was the Clans Chatta Spreckels place on the corner of ot California street There time the homes wore were up the time walls before the tile dynamiters could 1 leach aeh It II Yet they made their way was to 10 tho time foundations carrying their explosives Ies th Ih heat beat Tho rIme charge hilt had to In t be he p placed po so swiftly and 1111 II 1110 Iii lit Ill I I t In III I a such su a hu that I time the explosion wag Willi not nol quite tub fill from the Ihl trained l viewpoint of nt time tho gunners Hut though time the walls still stood Flood It wan IM only an all empty victory for Cor or time the lire as tie bare barn brick and smoking are art poor 1001 food tood for llames Capt apt 1111 McBrides dynamiting realized that a stand was teas hopeless ex et except on Van an Ness Nesa They Tiie rhe could l limn forced their explosIves further In III Inthe inthe the burning s hilt but not ilot a I pound of or gun guit cotton could ho bo or 01 was wasted The lIte ruined block blok that met the lie wide willI thoroughfare formed a it trench through ohm the clustered that the ton wild OH UI It was sac could NJ II 1 1 not mint leap lea p J ln gi nes pumping html IC PI It g Unite brine tim m digIt Kort Vort Mason from rota Ito tho bay ha completed the Ut little work ork that lint the gun cotton colton hud hll left hut hilt for three days the fIremen guarded time the ruin The desolate waste straight through brought the heart of oC the time city Is a n mute mute witness to tho the roost most heroic and effective work of at atthe the Ihl whole calamity Three men mell Old lilt 1 this and when ahten their work was Ins over oer and what stood of ot the time citY rested resle quietly for time the first time they departed as ns modestly as ai they I the he had hail come They The vera werl ordered to 10 save III f San Francisco and they obeyed orders and anul Capt and his hIli two 10 gunners Runners made history on omi that dreadful night |
