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dence district of San Francisco were slightly subsiding. In other localities they were blazing like a roaring furnace. A car of dynamite which had just arrived from Portland was to be used in blowing up residences east of Van Ness avenue between Golden Gate avenue and Pacific avenue. Van Ness avenue is the most fashionable residence street in the city and has many costly houses. The Hibernian Savings bank has been destroyed with its vaults unopened. Gen. Funston is considering the advisability of calling for more troops from Vancouver Barracks to relieve those now working, who are almost worn out by continuous labor without Special trains from Vancouver to arrive in are rest. expected Sacramento rations. in the morning with tents and The supplies will be brought from there in automobiles as no trains are running because of the breakage in tracks. Many persons have dropped dead from heart disease. Fire Chief Sullivan. who was injured by falling walls yesterday, is dying. More than twenty policemen have been injured, some of them fatally. Firemen and soldiers are falling from exhaustion and many are lying under wagons asleep with flames leaping all about them. Mechanics' pavilion, which was converted into a temporary morgue for the reception of 500 corpses which were rescued from the debris of the first ruined buildings. is now in ashes and more than 100 bodies were cremated in its flame. Not a street in the city is safe for walls are falling everywhere. More than 3000 injured persons are now in hospitals and at this hour the big French and German hospitals are threatened by approaching flames. Attendants are moving the patients into improvised tents in Golden Gate park. Saves $100,000,000 From Mint Superintendent Leach of the U. S. wired to mint has just Washington the treasury that all department at the money in the mint was saved. The amount was abont $100,000,000. Leach says the rescue of the money and bullion was due to the efforts of Lieut. Armstrong of the Sixth infantry and his men, who worked heroically at the peril of their lives until all was saved. The walls of the St. Francis hotel have just collapsed. The criminal element is increasing in numbers and six shouls have been shot up to this hour. Two steamers are now loading with at the foot refugees of unknown. Jackson street. Their destination is Fifty new fissures have opened today in as many new localities and tremors are almost constant. A high wind is blowing towards the residence district carrying the fire embers that way, while the flames continue to devour remaining buildings in the business portion. The new $5,000,000 Fairmount hotel is ablaze and the mammoth Southern Pacific passenger depot at Third and Townsend has burned to the ground. The panic among the people is indescribable and uncontrollable. Groups of maddened men and women run shrieking through the streets and the soldiers and police can do nothing to restrain them. Many millionaires are penniless and almost the whole population will be reduced to beggary. Many Killed at Napa Napa was partly wiped out and it
