21 Apr 1906
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Newspaper
The Pocatello Tribune
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1906
Page
1
Military and civil authorities cooperate to avert chaos. A plan to aid the needy is adopted. Guards report obedience to orders. Two men who insulted women are said to have been shot. Refugees and five attackers at the waterfront sheds are subdued this morning.
The House adopted a resolution to add one million dollars to the existing million for San Francisco relief. The measure moved to the Senate, stalled briefly by eulogies, with Taft awaiting Senate approval to enable immediate extra expenditures.
In San Francisco on April 21 hungry people at Golden Gate Park besieged food stores. Military and civilian authorities distributed bread milk coffee and substantial provisions from Fort Mason and city stations amid guard conflicts. Police aim to withdraw cadets who mishandled weapons. Two men shot in park for insulting women refugees.
Fire on the waterfront near the ferry station burned grain sheds as far south as the Lombard street dock. Fire boats and shore crews kept it under control, using bay salt water to fight the blaze and prevent spread.
Special correspondent reports San Francisco dead 5,000 nameless 300,600 injured 15,096 property loss 300000000 area burned 12 square miles and 150 city blocks burned. adds losses for California towns outside San Francisco.
The ferry depot and nearby docks are safe while North beach fire spared west of Powell street. The water front fire remains the only active blaze. West of Van Ness avenue, the western city addition is safe. Abandoned houses void of inhabitants due to chimney danger. Forty carloads of Belt line supplies near Meigg's wharf reportedly destroyed. Martial law is less strict this morning as militia withdraws with guards kept to deter theft.
San Francisco reports Governor Pardee will immediately convene a special session to craft relief measures for the city. The move aims to address urgent needs following the latest developments.
A San Rafael dispatch reports Tomales left in ruins with flattened streets and a ruined Catholic church. Many ranch houses wrecked and two children of Anita and Peter Couzza killed in a falling house.
A two night patrol by two lieutenants and eight policemen aboard the tug Sea Rover halted several ships in the Golden Gate strait. Barkentines Eureka and Barracuda bound for Portland with large food stocks were forced to anchor or return to dock and unload their cargo for authorities.
Reports allege a foreigner was shot after he refused to chop trees for a soldier and fatally wounded. Rumors persist of two hangings in Jefferson Square and two Japanese men shot in the Western Addition amid widespread theft in the residential district during the night.
The Short Line and Harriman lines will deliver a relief shipment to San Francisco within thirty hours free of charge. The Pocatello city council approved a $1,000 relief grant and arranged three equal bank warrants to fund aid. McCammon mills sent two carloads of flour, with Oregon Short Line Railway offering free transport as Superintendent Olmstead urged rapid action for 250 000 to 300 000 homeless people.
Last night a massive blaze from Nob Hill swept through the north beach and waterfront districts in a gale wind. Firefighters, police and national guard reinforced as five cabins burned, canneries and grain sheds destroyed, ferry building threatened, and water access dwindled as suppliers tried to contain the disaster.
San Francisco endures a night of flames as blocks burn in the business district. Firefighters, hampered by water shortages, fall back toward the residence area fighting every inch. The city’s heart moves to North Beach while residents sleep outdoors amid smoke and shock, many fleeing toward the ferry as chaos spreads.
Blaine Phillips prepares for the Tribune a Coast Review derived table of San Francisco year end 1905 insurance. It lists total insured at 290.915 million, with CaliforniA 149.15 million state and foreign 134 million, average premiums near 1 percent.
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