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Show 9 - -riisr th E"- TM fou w? !! aoinfl - 1,1 TOE "T? rBl JdM ' pf thwto ft11 on cumIMt ns FP "2 YOU ID. NO. EXAMINE Utah Weather forecast (RECEIVES FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES) no OGDEN CITY, UTAH. FRIDAY APRIL MORNING, 20, Fair Friday and Saturday. 1906. PRICE FIVE CENTS FRISCO COMPLETE oo DETAILS only ado to AWFUL SAN FRANCISCO Has Swept (Into Residence District and Saturday Will See Gty But An Ash Homelap Three Hundred Thousand Little br ess People Facing Starvation Nothing Has Escaped Ravages of Flames Fire is Supreme. April 19. (Midnight). At this , hour the Francisco does nota appear to have .jidit from burning San diminished, and is almost, ifnot quite,' aa brilliant as last flames have swept their waj three Bight Although the water front, the entire sky is the from Bile westward unchecked conflagration. There of the by the glare faintest the wind and suspicion of a breeze here it d only a breeze blowing over San stiff is said there is it but tonight, Fnnriwo. A gigantic column of smoke hangs over deso Idled San Francisco, the apex forming fantastic shapes in the air and slowly drifting away to the northward. . FIRE ON TELEGRAPH HILL. Oakland illu-ainate- d flan Francisco,. April 19. At 9 o'clock tonight the Are nithe easterly slope of Nob hill was eating its way toward Telegraph hill. A stream of salt water was being pumped from the bay through a hose one mile long, to quench the of the conflagration, but it seemed that north ptngree to-hlike the greater portion of the city, was doomed to tatruction. reached Eighteenth street, but was making little headway to the hillside, when thousand a cf people were camped. Fire on Nob Hill. Tba third and moat dangerous lire ie that threatening the western aec-tiaThla if really a continual tun ot the Nob bill Are. It ia wedge-thaped- , with the apex pushing forward. This the point against which the firemen are bending theTr greatest efforts. Dynamite was used for back firing purpose, with oiily fair success. To night many blocks may be blown up. Chief of Police Dinan said he thought 250 would fully cover the number of dead. He fauad it Impoeaible to secure details. About fifty bodies have thus fa rbeen fraud. There was much shooting of looters today, but the offenders were fortusate enough to escape with alight wounds. n. SURVIVORS TELL OF , :'''!7V7!1 Is a groat shortage of the bread supply in the afternoon, after a panic .at the- - California street ,Merr, the police took iNissession of the premises, and it will he operate under municipal control. At thiif place men battled with women and children in their efforts to each iie four and five loaves of bread. The police! used their elnbifor the purpose of bringing about an equitable distribution of the loaves. , r PASSES VAN NESS AVENUE. Men,- - Women Children There vtty.-T- President Appes's tu American People to A,d In Work. Washington, April 19. President Rooaevelt, after a conference with Miss Mabel Hoard-maof the American National Red Croa, today issued, in the form of a proclamation, an appeal to the American people for aid for the people of San Franciaco. He asked that all contributions through the officials of the National Red Cross, who have effected systematic arrangements tor the needed assistance. The full text of the president's proclamation follows: In the face of so terrible and appalling a national calamity a that which ha befallen Baa Francisco, the out puou ring of the nation's aid should, as far aa possible, be entrusted to the American Red Cros. the national organisation best fitted to undertake snch relief work. A specially appointed Red Cross Divine, agent. Dr. Edward atari today from New York for California to cooperate there with the Red Cross branch in the work of relief. In order that thla work may be wcl systematised and in order that the cor.trlbutiona I am sure will flow in with lavish generosity may he wisely administered, I appeal te the people of of the United Slates of all cities, chambers of commerce, boards of trade, relief committees and individuals, to express their sympathy and render thein aid by contributions to the American National Red Cross. They can be sent to Charles Hallam Keep. Red Cross treasurer, Wsshlngton; w York Red Jscoh 11. 8chlff. Cross treasurer, or other local Red Cross treasurers, to be forwarded. by telegraph from Washington to the Red Cross agents and officers in CaliforO nia. Theodore Roosevelt. HEROIC EFFORT TO CHECK FLAMES; n t BREAD BIOTS. o RED CROSS TO ASSIST. and Were Driven Insane. bi t Lob Angelas, April 9. Egbert IL Gould, president of ho Chicago Car Heating company, of Chicago, waa one of the three persona to arrive In Loa Angeles on the first train from- Ban Francisco, which reached here at 11 i o'clock today. I was asleep og the seventh floor of the Palaoe hotel, at time of Art quake. I was thrown Sn Franrineo, April 19. All effort to check the the out of any bed end half way across preai of flames at Van Newt avenue by blowing up a mile the room Immediately realising the f buildings on the east ride of Van of the occurrence and fearing Ness, have proved fruit- - lmort the that building was about to colThe fire has spread across the road and from 1 made by way down the six present lapse, indications the entire western addition, which contains the flights of tairs and into the main corbnuiM of Han Francisco's millionairesand people of the we ridor. 1 Waa the first guest to appear. The elerka and hotel employes were aithier class, is now doonied.The destruction of the western running about e a if they were mad. addition of the Within two minutes after I had apcity practically completes the work of peared, other guests began to flock into . Wvaging flames and markstbe devastation of the entire the corridor. uFow, if any, of them oty. wore other than their night clothing. were Men, women and children blanched faces stood as If dar.cd. The FiMcifro. April 15. San Fran-tonig- weatern finis will be children and women then addition, l cried, the men t.S city desolate. It written to the dlaaster. But were hardly. 4n affected. the acme of mlfery waf San Franciaco la great not ita discouraged. t dmk, when flamei buret beat and highest daft Returned for Cloflias. ami already 1 returned ' to my room and got t, of the hotel 2? begun to plan for reatoration and to "M. rtove j atructuse, vu ap-n- care for thertrlckcn one a and the re- my clothing, then walked to the of. flora of the Weatern Union In my etrongly entrenched lief will be Immediate. Total to of the of 1180,000, were announced pajamas and bare feet to telegraph 1 found Angeles. surrounding that lofty today. Arrangement were made for my wife in tar aa Hhe eyea the Immediate relief of the needy. the telegraphers there, but all the mh r wires were down. I sat down on the the and Tltowt,e fait hr Water for Sufferers. the went lay in cruel, fan- sidewalk, pieked the broken glass out I brred ,nd smoking, all Major McKeevcr was appointed com- of the soles of my feet and put my 01 Prosperous city. mander. of the cam pa of the homeleaa. clothing on. Alt this, I suppose, took Ti iZU?'!! r ,be weBtern slop It waa announce! that tomorrow then a little mor than twenty minutes. sm would begin a daily delivery into the Within that time below the Palace the of ten1 million gallon! of water. buildings for more than three blocks city An Unequal Struggle, Tonight direct communication waa be- were a mass of flames, which quickly another day of an gun with the outside by telegraph. By communicated to other buildings. The m, 01 mutt- sgsinat the overeming great obstacles, the Postal : scene was a terrible one. Billows of JJWfMiaWe alementa of nature. Telegraph company managed to regain Are seemed to roil from the business hM ,rr ground into one of !ta shattered lines. The Postal blocks soon half consumed to other fait sehea, deeplte the heroic office tonight la located in a little , blocks in the vicinity, only to climb to limit the wooden structure, erected on the hills and loom again. on the water front. The Are waa travelTerrible Sight at Ferry. b,f bcen ncsrly reached ing slowly toward the Telegraph hill Call uirtlding, at the corner of The M en tomorrow dawn., the section Market streets, us I passed, and and Third out from lack of die til may bve e. hut th. hope if material, or til,, may gain sweep toward I saw to he more thin a foot out ot "sme. can be the extreme water front. The center n fr d 'natation of the Are was in the Mission. The lire had (Continued on Page Six.) . lie-sa- id, k. t ht tt Fail-moun- 1-er- 3ck Ts hT" r tT-- OOOOOOOOOOOOCIOO ENTIRE CITY DOOMED Flew Hie Crqsaed Van Neaa and la. Spreading. BUILDINGS Market, Iiayea and Fillmore street! are about all tfcat is left of the city north of Market street. There ia a section m the Mivsiun district, south of Market street which has not yet been burned. The prospect are, however, that it will go, because nothing can stop the flumes until they leach the straggling ouisklnt of the city," Los Angeles. April 19 At 12:53 this afternoon 1.0 Angeles experienced a distinct earthquake shock of short duration. Absolutely no damage waa done, but thousands of )eople were badly frightened. Tall office buildings and many ktores were hurriedly deserted. Tbe hbock, however, passed off In few minutes and moat of those who had fled returned presently. Tbe San Francisco horror has strung the popnlae here to a high tension. A serves to in pell of sultry wrath crease the general nervousness. A MlSSO E BY ARTILLERY Terrible Battle Fought Against Flames on Van Ness Avenue But Man Was Unequal to the Task Fire Swept Into Western Addition and Residence Portion Scenes of Unspeakable Horror Doomed on Every Hand. Ban Francisco, April 19. With each succeeding hour the devastation and doatruetloii in this stricken and prostrate ruin of a city prows and grows. At o'clock tonight it saemsd sa If nothing could save the comparatively small portion of the city that yet remains unburned. Tbe entire bualneea and wlutleHils district Is now only while the giant glowing furnace, tongue, of flame have reached westward far beyond Van N avenue, are wiping out building and seeking mors to devour. At 4 o'clock Mayor Rchmits and Chief Dinan aaw that the only hope of A Newspaper Mans Graphic Decryption .. .of Horror. Streat . New York, April 19. The Western Union Is in receipt of a 'dispatch timed 5 p. m. Fuciflc roust time, giving. the area destroyed by fire, it shows that practically all of Ban Francisco has been burned or is burning. The information was brought in by Bergesnt Binkley, U. 8. A., who said: Everything out Market at reel to street is burning about Twenty-thirfiercely. Everything Js gone except the mint. The posiofflre was injured only by the earthquake. Only three or four rooms there are damaged. Every building of any. importance, in the city up to Van Nesa avenue, including the entire business section and all the hotel, has been entirely destroyed, and the district running north from Golden Gale avenue and lying between Van Ness avenue and yOctavia street also has been burned. Chinatown la gone. The fire is raging in Nob H11L 1 hear that parts of Nob Hill ace entinfly wiped out. Thp fire has crossed Van Ness avenue east of Union street and everything in that direction Is goes.; Certain parts of Nob Hill are still untouched, though The fire very seriously threatened. is raging around Union and JTrsnklla streets, with every prospect' of continuing. It now looks as if the entire city will be burned before tbe fire stops. A section bounded by Union and Octarla streets and Golden Gate avenue and another lying between UED Oakland, April 19. A min who rrossed the lw y bits ibis evening gives tbs following graphic description of the destruction of fin Frsnclsrh: Ban Francisco is n city iff ruins. There ia no pen that ran describe ths scene at desolation left in the wmk of tbe terrible disaster that has over taken it. Wknt made San Francisco famous Is nothing but beeps of amid dering bricks. Its magnlffcrnt buildings, its Market street and Its gay and happy throngs are no more. Its Inhabitants are fleeing from it as though from a dread pestilence. The ferries are taking Its thousands at .very trip. The boats running In every direction are loaded to the water line with fleeing people. East street presents a scene the rout of an army never equaled for Ita disorder. Extending along the water front it la ths only means of arms to the ferries. It is the one highway along which the rich and ioor, old and young, with their bedding and worldly possessions tied up In every sort of odd package, are making their way The scene beggars description and ths pen of a Hugo or Tolstoi will lie unequal to give an adequate ides of It. And. oh, the loss of it! Th. awful desolation and waste of what men In this world set great store by! The loss ia untold and the effects will be o far eaching. The insuance eoniiMnles loss probably O are threatened with $1,000,000 FOR SUFFERERS. equaled only by the great fire it Chicago Washington, April 19. The And the Are Is still raging. At II bouse today appropriated Hr o'clock It Is burning with unrestrained 000.000 for tba suffering and fury. .The entire western addition is homeless in Ban Francisco threatened. One final stand is being and other California towns, and made at Van Nesa avenue and O'Farrel of secretaries war, tbe gave street. commerce and nary treasury, with the , power to cooperate Chicago, April 18. Chicago packer mayor of the stricken cities may enffer s property loss of approxithat the very best results might mately 8200.1100 in the Ban Francisco be obtained in affording relief. lire. The Armour, Bwift and Morris The resolution later passed the firms have branches there from which senate and wan signed by Presths export trade in tbe Orient Is ident Roosevelt - d . ooooooooooooo o o o o o o oooooooooo be an irrnalatible power behind tha t flam that even the desperately hernia measure being taken nt Van Neat' avenue could not stay. Bleeping In Open Air. Thousands of people are sleeping on the hill tonight or standing gaslag with grim faces on the lurid soene be low them. Women and children and little babes in arms are huddled togeibr with the injured, la Golden Gain park the peopl are huddled together with gnawing hunger tha rompanioa of all. Tha wall of the injured and the calls of frantic survivors for friends and relatives who am missing are moat pitiful. These crowds are constantly Increasing and th relief committee ait doing all la their power to got bed ding and food for the homeleaa. Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda art abort of fimd and in a few day will themselves be facing a serious aborts aae an lea relief cornea from the out saving the weatern nddltton, with its forest of frame dwelling, and tbs Richmond district, with Its thousands of homes, was to rbsck iha cruel march of the wall of fire at Van Ness avsane, which croaaes the city from north te aouth, where the retail store and fine apartment house district end, and aide. where the residence begin. Tbit aveBxpseasmea are charging from (10 nue ia 9i feet wide, and the ponslbll!' ties of checking the march of the to 850 to haul g load of baggage or flames here looked hopeful to those giro any aid at all to refugees. who were figuring ways and means in Loot Liquor Stare. tha hoar of awful horoor. The orders atorcs in the north end wore' liquor were given to con centra Is every fire broken into by ihlevoa and hsndred engine in the city at this avenusi to of men were carrying sway tha bottled marshal troopa of aoldlera them, the liquors when the soldiers arrived. Ths police and all the army pf worker and men had to be dabbed by the militia make ons iaat d.inrm!aed .land to save before they would drop the bo the remainder of Jhe eily, tlM. Soldiers smashed bottles on the tones and drove be mob at tho point Blewn Down by Artillery, of the bayonet. Ths (Ksoperation of tbe artillery waa When Ihe mansions on Nob hill, the secured, and huge cannon were drawn Falrmount and Mark institute to ths avenue by madly dashing horse were approached by Hvpklas flames today to aid the dynamiters in blowing up many attempt were th mad, to remove the mansions of tha millionaire on the some of hs prioeli works of art from west aide of Van Ness avenue In order the buildings. A crowd of soldiers to preveul the flames Ire ping across waa M-- to the Flood and Huntington the highway and starting on their un- mansion and Mark' Hupfcln institute restrained sweep across the western of art to rescue the paintings. From addition. tbe Huntington home and tho Flood Every available pound iff dynamite mansion canvases were cut' from tho was hauled tv th. spot, and the alaht frame with knives. Ths collection ill was one of atiipendoua aud appalling the three buildings are valued In th havoc, aa the cannon wore trained on hundreds of thousands. Very few were th palaces, and the shot tore into the saved from the savages of tbe fir walls and toppled the buildings In fiend. malting ruin. In other points today Collage Man Assist Soldiers. dynamite was used and hone, after This afternoon at 4 o'rlork Gie rihouae, worth millions, waa lifted into the air by the power of the tallowing dels of the University of California to blast end dropp'd to tbe earth a mas th number of son entered the city to of dust and debris. Tbe work waa aid the militia and regular soldiers In necessarily dangerous, and ninny of flirlr work of enforcing martial law. the exhausted workers, who kept, work- .The young college men have orders to ing through a stretch of 48 hours with- .hoot without warning those caught out sleep and scarcely any fond, l'wtlng. In many par's of town where through force of instinctive heroism the crowds of survivors are the wildalone, ntaV have been killed while mak- cat, It. Is almost Impossible io get ing this last desperate stand. Many of round save at pistol point. The Mil the workers in placing the blasts look dirs are disarming every perron seen with weapon. chances that spelled injury or death. Thn only institution on Market Fire Mile in Extent. street able to do business, according The Are line at 6 o'rlork extends a to report of men who reached the ferry mile along the end side of Van Ness tonight, is the Market street hank, ocavenue, from rarifle street to , Ellis. cupying th ground floor of the Grant All behind this, excepting the Russian block, at MsrkcL and Grant aireets. hill addition 4nd a small district a king Although riie upper part of this buildthe north bench, has been awept clean ing and every building nur ia wiped by th flame ami from the steel pi ties out, I lie space occupied by tbe bank and shafts and spires have been drop- was practically undamaged. A Sign ped Into tbe molten mass of debris like posted In the a Inflow stated that the so much melted wax. bank would be open for business Th steady booming of the artillery soon as it h considered safe. and the roar of the dynsmFe above the Great Suffering from Thirst howl and cracking of the flames conThs greatest fuffering among the and monotonous dazing tinues with have been thousands of homeless people today regularity. Such mibombarding the ears of the panic was from thirst. Although the earth stricken populace since ths earthquake quake shock had broken water mains 4K hours ago. They have ceased to in probably hundreds of places, strange heed the sound, and rush pell mell. to say, no water, or very little at least. drowning their senses in a bedlam of (Continued on Pngs Eight.) their own creation. There seemed to .... are RAILROADS TO CARRY IT FREE ARE FACING STARVATION food supply in the stricken city of San Francisco is limited-Ma- yor Schmit? has made an appeal for bread The Examiner and Mayor . Conroy appeal tb the people of Ogden, the womep especially, to buy or bake bread for the sufferers Let evevy individual assist Let it to the baggage room TODAY beti Ogden do itself proud for there are human beings homeless and hungry-DeliP ni. The railroads have offered ten cars for free transportation of the food to Oakland ver MAYORS PROCLAMATION Francisco. 1 now rail upon tveiyone to hake as Governor of California has issued a call for bread fo te sent to San U Manson W 3 and 6 ododr Pv , any, loaves of bread asthey can and deliver same to the baggage room.'between E. M. CONROY. MAYOR pped fonight. ' . HE CITIZENS OF OGDEN The .... . |