FIREMEN POWERLESS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1728, 20 April 1906, Page 2

FIREMEN POWERLESS.

WHOLE DISTRICT CLEAN SWEPT BY FIRE. M»«B| CREVICES OPEN UP IN STREETS' SHIPS BUNK IN BAY. TWO HUNDRED PEOPLE KILLED IN LODOING-HOUSE. THE FLAMES LEAP ALL BARBIERS. rirrairia Bj telegraph, Freeo Aas’n, Copyright Recoived 11.9 p.m., April 19. London, April 19. Further details to hand state : Many buildings withstanding the shooks sucoumbed to fires. EIGHT MILES OF FIRE.

Up to 8 o’clook lasi night the fires extended for eight square miles, involving eeveral hundred oity blocks. I The damage is at least one hundred I million dollars. Tho district surrounded by Vallego, Howard East, an! Sansome streets, embracing almost the entire whole district, has been clean swept by fire. The district bounded by Market, Eighth, and Faison streets has also been devastated. The iatter iooludos a majority of the finest and most substantial buildings. CREVICES IN STREETS. Crevices six feet wide opened in several streets. Eotiro side-walks have been torn up. Tram tracks havo strangely twi-ted. The Palace Hotel has b:on burnt. SHIPS SUNK.

Two ships anchored in the bay wore sunk

FLIGHT FROM CITY. Continuation of tho shocks in the afternoon oaused a flight from the city. Thousands of buildings have been destroyed.

The greatest loss of life was ia the cheap tenements, n;ar the water front. The gas and water supply have been wrecked

SPREAD OF FIRE. The firemen are powerless to> check th* Ikes. The flames are lecp-ng barriers all in block after block. Li , street and the main thoroughfares have boon destroyed. HUGE BUILDINGS COLLAPSE. Huge buildings in Eddy street collapsed, one lodging-house killing two bun “H i , ~„j Tho chief ol tbo fire brigades was kill beneath the ruins.

BUILDINGS DESTROYED. Tho offices of tho newspapers >l, Examiner, and Chronicle have be stroyed, also the Western Uruon Q a Postal and Telegraph officep, the Gr Opera House, Pacific States Excbango, Rialto Btoro, Mutual Li offico, Anglo-Califoruian Bank, and fie market. DAMAGE IN OTHER PARTS.

THE SEA OVERFLOWS. PORTION OF RAILWAY TRACK DISAPPEARS. HALF AN INCH MOVEMENT OF EARTH’S SURFACE.

By telegraph. Press Ass’n, Copyright Received 11.30 p.m., April 19. LondoD, April 19. Many of the principal buildings in Oakland, across the bay, were injured. The eea oveifiowed between Suisan ana Beneoia. . , . , . A m'le and a half of the track of the Southern Pacific railway has disappeared ; under water. ESCAPE OF TRAIN. A crowded passenger train barely Qjpnnpn. CATHEDRAL ABLAZE. A Saint Ignace Cathedial is ablaze.~~‘ v 4-||| GREAT UNIVERSITY DEMOLISH^,' Stanford University has been predion demolished. SEVERE SUFFERINGS. There was much lobb of life and damsge at Santa Rosa, Salines suffered considerably. The earthquake was severely felt at Nevada and Fresno. The telegraph oompanieß’ offioes weny forced open at Oakland. Half an inoh movement of the earth’s autfaoe was recorded on the Washington instruments. The Bhook was not felt southward of Santa Barbara.

DESPERATE SITUATION. TROOPS GUARDING PROPERTY PLACED IN STREETS. FOOD FOR HOMELESS, By telegraph, Pres# 'Am'Ui Coßytigfrt Received 11.30 p.m., April 19. LondoD, April 19. Late New York telegrams state the allowing for hysterical reports it is ap parent that the situation in San Franciso is becoming desperate. The fire is burning furiously in a quarters. GUARDING WEALTH. Two regiments of regulars guard mi lions worth of property, whioh has bei placed in the streetß to avoid the flames. MAYOR’S COMMITTEE. The Mayor has appointed a commitl of safety, and has ordered the baker and milk stations to supply the home! with break and milk. THE INSURANCES. Eighty Insurance Oompanieß have solved Dot to discriminate between ear quake losses. The Oonried Opera Company lost their scenery and personal baggage. BURIED IN RUINS. Many inmates of the asylum of i Jose were buried in the ruins,