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Full Leased Wire Service of the Associated Press Leads all North Carolina Afternoon Papers in Circulation. LAST EDITION. ALL THE MARKETS.' THE RALEIGH EVENING VOLUME 27. RALEIGH, N. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1906. PRICE 5c. TIMES. THE FIERY BLASTS ARE STILL LAZING HEAT OF FLAMES CUT OFF AVENUE AFTER AVENUE OF ESCAPE Some 200,000 Refugees Are Struggling to Get Oat of San Francisco CROWDS BEG FOOD FERRY FADE Siillcring From Hunger and Thirst Pitiable Women Hushing for the Hills Currying Only a Cat or Bird Cage Householders Jturj'iiiK 1i1-ci-ty Throughout the North Beach. Mob Kohbcd lln-iid Wagon- Fx pressmen Charge .$10 to $50 to Haul u- Load Cadets From Uni versity of Calil'oriiia, Aid in Kn forcing Martial Law. (By the Associated l'ress.) .' Ferry Building, San Francisco, Calif., Airi -UO. -The lire is under control, it having been In-eked at .... . t , ,111 CIIIllf ,V'fc,.,,v. ,ni it having been checked at . . tj i. tho m hi rod. . In Coiaen Gate Park Van -css avenue ami in me .Mission, The tire is still raging north of Jtiissian Hill toward the liay, but will west. Prnluihlv u fourth of the city Is safe. Measures iniv lieiiijj taken for the relief of the destitute. Last night was a horrible one for the refugees. Most of them were without food or water and their sufferings were ter rible, lkikciios are starting today and bread is being sent over from Oakland. Supplies of bread and milk are needed immediately. Swift V Co. have r00,000 pounds of canned beef at South San Francisco. New York, April 20. The West ern I'nioii received the following dc spiiteh from San Francisco shortly before o'clock, Pacific coast time (noon, eastern time) : "The lire in the residence section has been stopped at Octavia street and is now confined to Tclcfiiaph Hill. Inasmuch as there is a large burned area between that part of Teh-Krapli Hill now on lire and the section of the city further west, and since the lire is practically out in this burned area, the flames proba bly will not spread much further in this section. One great danger, which may lead to fresh fires about the city, is likely to be the kindling of lires in stoves by ignorant persons. There is scarcely a chimney in town that is safe to trust to a stove lire." San Francisco, April 'JO. 10 a. in. The lire this morning is burning in the western addition and moving to wards Golden iate ; Park and the Presidio on the west and Telegraph Hill on the north. ,-r San Francisco, Calif., April 20. Probably 200,000 refugees are strug gling to get out of the city, and hourly the task is- becoming more difficult, as the Are and heat cut off avenue after avenue of escape. The streets are filled with : struggling people, some cryjng and weeping and calling for, missing loved ones. Crowding all sidewalks in the threat ened area aro hundreds upon hun dreds, of householders attempting to drag souie of their effects to places of safety. In some 'instances men with ropes aro dragging trunks' tan dem style, others having sewing ma chines strapped to the trunks. Again women are rushing for the hills, car rying on their arms only the family cat or a bird cage. There is no aid for any" one from outside sources. In the awful scrara- ble for safety tho half crazed surviv-1 oi-s. disreeard everything but the thought of thomsclvos- and their property. In every excavation and hole throughout the North Beach householders are .burying household effects, throwing them into ditches AWFUL PATH OF RUIN and covering the holes. Atttempts are made to mark the graves of the property so that It can be recovered after flames are apiioased. Sufferers are invading the few buildings that remain in the hope of finding some thing to eat. They only desist when warned or shot by the soldiers. Beg Food and Transportation. At the ferry building a crowd of a thousand people weer gathered hogging for food and transportation across the bay. Hundreds had not even ten cents ear fare to Oakland Most of the refugees at this point were Chinamen and Italians, who lied from their burned tenements with little or no personal property, The suffering of many from hun ger is pitiful. A niab of a hundred or more rob bed a bread wagon and took the con tents. The police made ah 'attempt to interfere, but were powerless. Bread is arriving from Berkeley and Oakland, and is being distributed in the north end of town by the relief parties organized by Mayor Sclunitz. Thousands Sleep in Hills. Thousands of people slept In the hills last night or stood gazing with grim faces on the lurid scene below. i Women and etuiciren ami mite names il l,,wl.ll,l ,rll,,. itll the people are camping with gnaw ing hunger the companion of all. The wail of the injured and the call of . ''" for friends and iciaiMv;iivi mivt iiimaiuft cut; im-nm. These crowds are constantly increas ing, and the relief committees arc doing all in their power to get bed ding and food for the homeless. .Oakland,- Berkeley and Alameda aro short of food, and in a few days will themselves be facing a serious shortage unless relief comes from the outside. Expressmen ; are. charging from ?10 to $50 to haul a load of baggage or give any aid to refugees. Liquor stores in the .north- end ! were broken into by thieves and hun dreds of men were carrying away bottled liquors when soldiers arrived. Tho men had to be clubbed by the military before they would drop the bottles. ' . Soldiers, smashed the, bottles on the atones and drove thC mob at. tin: i point of the bayonet. Works of Art Pestroyed. When the mansions on Nob Hill, I lie Fairmont Hotel and Mark Hop- ikns Institute wore approached by the flames yesterday many attempts were' made to remove some of the priceless works of art from the buildings. A crowd of soldiers was sent to the Flood and the Hunting ton mansions and thp Hopkins Insti tute to rescue the paintings. From tho Huntington home and the Flood mansion canvasses were cut from the frame-work with knives. The col lections iu the three buildings are valued iu the hundreds of thousands. Few were saved from the ravages of the fire. Yesterday afternoon 500 cadets of . the University, of California en tered tho city to aid in the enforc ing of martial law. The young col legians have orders to shoot without, warning those caught looting. In many parts of the town where the crowds of survivors are the wildest it is almost impossible to get around save at the point of a pistol. Tho soldiers are disarming every person seen with a weapon. ,.: Suffering From Thirst. The greatest suffering among the thousands of homeless people is from thirst. Although the earthquake shocks hud broken water mains in probably hundreds of places, strange to say no water, or very little at least, appeared on tho surface of the ground. Public fountains on Market street gave out no relief to the thirsty thousands. At Powell and Market streets a small stream of water spurted up through the cobble stones and form ed A muddy pool. At this pool hun dreds of pcoplo knelt and drank, women as well as men. The work of the regular soldiers In suppressing order is worthy of tho greatest - praise. Everywhere they showed the highest degree of courage. Shot for Looting. They did not hesitate to shoot whenever they found any one loot ing, and probably twenty victims fell before them today. While firemen were blowing up a cable power house at Sutter and Polk streets and the McNutt Hos pital and the St. Dunstan apartments nearby in a vain effort, to check the flames, tho steeple of St. Mary's Ca thedral, a Roman Catholic edifice which had withstood the earthquake shock, caught fire. A fireman with i a hose tied to his belt scaled the high steeple and played a stream on the burning section, and the blaze was extinguished. Thousands of people cheered the heroic deed and the handsome building was saved. Last night when the fire on the eastern slope, of Nob Hill was eat ing its way toward Telegraph Hill, the- firemen finally managed to get a stream of salt water from the bay, pumped through a hose a mile long. This delayed the progress of the fire, but it seemed that. North Beach, like the greater portion of the city, was doomed to destruction. The report that, the famous Cliff House had toppled into the sea can not be verified and is probably un true. In the confusion it is impos sible to get to it. The care of 300,000 homeless, hungry refugees now gatnered in the city's public squares and parks is now the main problem the local authori ties have to solve. They must be fed. and bread, meat and drink in suffi cient quantities aro lacking. All tho leading cities and towns throughout the country are now exerting them selves to lend 'assistance and provi sions are now headed for them front many points. ' Bread At $1 a Loaf. Bread has already sold as high as one dollar a loaf xtnd two. loaves and a can Of sardines -brought, in one in stance $3.50. But this condition of iffaifs will not be permitted to last. long.,. In towns across the bay the master bakers have met and fixed the price of bread at 0 cents a loaf, with the understanding that they will re fuse to sell to retailers who attempt to charge famine prices. The com mittee of citizens now in -charge of the situation in tho stricken city will uliio use every effort to keep the price of fcod down to tho ordinary price. Three relief stations for the home less have already been established by the general committee. These stations are the temporary homes of the homeless. The stations are at Golden Gale park, Presidio and San Bruno road. By order of the general committee all remaining stores were entered by the police hist night and their goods confiscated. Caravans of provisions are now on their way to the three re lief stations. in the meantime the. hills and beaches of San Francisco look like an immense tented city. For miles "through the park and along tho beaches from Ingleside to the sea wall at north beach the home less are camped in tents, makeshifts rigged up from a few sticks of wood and a blanket or sheet. Some few of the more fortunate secured vehi cles on which they loaded regulation tents and are therefore more comfort ably housed than the great majority. ..-Vast Ciiiiiping Ground.' Golden Gate Park and the Pan handle looks like one vast camping ground. It is said that fully one hundred thousand persons, rich and poor alike, sought refuge iu Golden Gale Park alone, and two hundred thousand more homeless ones located at other places of refuge. Portsmouth Square yesterday be came for a time a public morgue. Between twenty and thirty corpses were laid sido by side upon the trod den grass in the absence of more suitable accommodations.. It is said when the flames threat ened to reach the square the dead, mostly unknown, were removed to Columbia Square, where they were buried when danger threatened that quarter. Crowds Bury the Dead. Out. ut the Presidio soldiers pressed into service all men who came near tho Presidio and forced them to labor at burying the dead. So thick were the corpses piled up that they were becoming a menace and early in the day the order was issued to , bury thorn at any cost. Tho soldiers were needed for '- Her work so, at the point of rifi -he citizens were com pelled to take to the work of burying. (Continued on Page Seven.) THE FIRE HAS CREPT BACK Will Make Clean Sweep to Golden Gate Park GOING AT FAST RATE Dispatch from Francisco to War lie part men t This Morning (jives Gloomy Outlook Flumes iu Full Possession of Houses Left on Tele graph Hill. (By' the Associated Press.) Washington, April 20. The fol lowing Western Union dispatch was received at the war department to day: "San Francisco, April 20. -."..19 a. m. The fire, which heretofore had crept around the base of Tele graph Hill and left the few houses standing there, has crept back from: the west, and is now in full posses sion of the houses on the hill, uml f will no doubt take everything down ! to the water front on Van Ness ave nue and west of there. The main fire has reached' Octavia street, and is ,ii u i.i,v. ,..v. .... V..V- rn j rum mo lire since inuiiuiii. l . that time H had started si fresh on the south end of the line of lire, and was burning fast. ' 'Tho (Wi-c l.uildini's . nresent a1.- .- .-.,1 ; ,,, ,,,,,,. .,,,,1 i,;,n i in , OV.V.UV v.. -. children, and the few articles' they . Another series of fatalities or-. n.Rui:iritv.- Inn this is duV m'uinly to j States against Congressman E. Spen have tried to save. Th -y are all j em-red yesterday, caused Ijy the stain- ih,. ,,sS ;it New York.' totiit exVliuiureH j'cer Blackburn out of the hands ot the here about to leave the city hy. I ho peding of a herd of cattle at, Sixth tor thh;- week at all 'hading eiik-s in jury. first boat they can get awny on. j iuld Folsom streets. Three hundred : tin- 'United 't.it--s in Um S-7s!i,(i7s.-!,r-s, The court room which was crowd- '; '.'Tho road leading from the ferry north and around the shorn of the :k fur :ik Fni-f Allison is strewn with all sorts of vehfcles that, have . . , , broken' down. Baby carriages, wheel narrows, etc., tnat won ut not stana the loads over the roush way have been abandoned, and in mo.-.Io 'cases witli their loads. The fire came very close to Fort Mason last, night, and the big Fon- tiina warehouse and nearby canneries will no doubt go today. I think . the fire will make a cleam sweep of everything as far ; as Golden Gate park. Would nut" be surprised to see it take the Eucalyptus trees that lino the park and burn i lie shrubbery clear to the ocean beach." FAIRLY COMFORTABLE NIGHT FOR HOMELESS : (liy the Associated Press.) New York, April I'd. A Western t'nlon Telegraph operator who made a tour of the city of San Francisco with a military escort last night sent the following dispatch to New York today: . "'the thousands who spent last night out of doors were' fairly com fortable,, most of them being shelter ed by tents. Considerable distress, however, was caused by a heavy fog which came up during the night and also by dew. Chinamen' are in evi dence about the ferry house by the thousands, all of them waiting anxiously to get out. of the city and all of them carrying big bundles. The principal food for those who re main in the city is composed of canned goods and crackers.. Tho ref ugees who succeeded in getting out of San Francisco are met as soon as they enter the neighboring towns by representatives of bakers, who have 1 made large supplies of bread, and who immediately deal litem out to the hungry people." 103 BODIES TAKEN FROM INSANE ASYLUM (By the Aesociated Press.) Oakland. Cal.. April 29. All Associat- ed Press correspondent who arrived , hi-re last night from Hanta Cruz, re- i ports that up to noon Thursday, 103 bod- ... ... . A .....a. ... a C n 1 r. . les naa oeen itisni em m "B""10 Hospital, near Suula Clara. Official es timates place the number of injured in sane patients at 27 and of these thirty were not expected to live. The main building of the hospital collapsed, pin ning many of tho patients under fallen walls and debris. The padded cells had to bo broken open and more Iangerou3 patients were tied to trees out on tho lawn. Very little damage was done to the buildings at Santa Clara college and not one of tho students or priests was injured. GAS EXPLOSIONS STREETS1 A Dozen Killed by 300 Cat tie Amuck BANK GIVES $3,000,000 Immediate Prospect of Large Supply t Av.ii.,1- 11.- .1 i-. MH..... Killed In His Boom At California Hotel. Work of Clearing Up 1 bris Already Begun, (By the Associated Press-.) San Francisco, April 20. Explo sions of sewer gas have wrecked manv streets and caused needless alarm among people who mistook the upheavals for further earthquakes, j J;lCL'nt ..waters....... Yesterday afternoon a Vesuvius iu j The railroad rate bill was laid b.v miniature was created bv such an up-if01'e ,ht! senate and Mr. La Follette heaval at. Bryant' and Eighth streets, j-'"""'"' his. speech on that; measure. Cobble stones were hurled twenty feet upward and a cloud of sand filled the air. There is ;m immediate prospect for a large supply of water. ..Officers-of ! the Spring Valley - Water Company j stated last night that they expect to ' be able to furnish the city with ten; nuIi()1, gaiiouij 0f water today or to morrow. There is water now west of ; Van Ness avenue, and the encines i ; ..,.. .. ni.tln(r th r,,.Q witu frehh'. I water. Tn the Mission dish-ier i here i..., ,i. . . , ... , . , . , , . uie me is uiii miig uninmcnea. 1 of the panic stricken animals n.n! amuck when they saw and felt tin. Haines, and cliarired wildlv down the street, trampling under foot, all who '. h ' 1 '" ' 's .-ii- . ' tirely oiuittvd ironi (he touvl. no fig- . were: in the way. One man vrtwrurtsi . fr ' ,i,;rt .'.citv - -boin.f. hvaiiable- ; rwi iuh6u mm imuugu u.. a , cieneu oun. At least a dozen per sons, it is said, were killed. The death is reported of Dr. J." C. ! Stinson, a well known physician and forme niember of the city board of healthi who w as killed in his room j ' th"' California - hotel - Wednesday morning The Call says this morning that a prominent, "president ..of one of the San Francisco banks has wired di rections to his manager to place $."!. 0(10,000 in Hie hands of the citizens relief and restoration -committee, -io be used at its discretion in the Im mediate work of attending the im mediate wants of the stricken people of San Francisco. Subsequent sub scriptions have added $1111,500 to the fund. - Tho residents of Oakland, Alamo da, and other cities across the bay are extending hospitality to refugees who aro coming in from (lie city by the thousands. In addition, churches j and large halls have been thrown j open for '-their' accommodation, a i privilege of which many of the homo- j less and worn out gladly took ad-1 vantage. . - t The work of clearing up the debris j has already begun at the water front. In t lie business section Ono ! hundred men were employed this I morning under; the direction of the street department. PLANS FOR A BIG LUMBER MERGER (By the; Associated Press.) Norfolk, Va., April 20. The'-. Wiley v.?. ,.,.,. .',,;', cnmmmv. a larce luni ber colpomtioii of New York, several of whose members were formerly in the lumber business here, have acquired the interest of the failed Tunis Lum ber Company in large lumber plants and railroads in and about Mount Airy, N. C. Plans have been completed for the uniting of these varied interests into ono concern, which will be con- trolled by the Wiley Harker a, ,p Corporation I lie properties to be merged will include the Mount. Airy and Eastern Railway Company, Mount Airy I Manufacturing Company, Mount Air; Manufacturing and Lumber Corpora tion and tho Dan Valley Lumber Com- pany . The merger will be completed at a meeting in New York on April 2t. A MILLIONAIRE OF MILWAUKEE SUICIDES i (By the Associated Press.) Mobile, Ala., April 20. William Beck ers, a millionaire of Milwaukee, Wis., committed suicide here today. ! JUDGE GOFF FROM l,N. C. ! GETS PUBLIC BUILDING j ' (Hy the Associated Press.) ' Washington, April 20. ( Senate), j A resolution presented in the senate I today by Mr. Morgan at the request i of the secretary of war making the j money appropriated by the resolution i Passed yesterday for the relief of ! Stun I0t-:i Nciuco nffVir,,,-u n v-i i 1 IV,,' the purchase of medical supplies as well as for substance and quarter masters supplies was passed. The following bills were passed: Authorizing a public building at Washington, X. ('., at a cost of $G0, 000. , Relating to the movement of ves- Mli H'Hton Roads. Va., and ad- ;THE RAPID PROGRESS OF FARM WORK (lly the Ancm,: cl I'rtss.) New Vi n k. A!t-il 11.- Dlnpatehen to ! guilty.' " I.mn's. Kovit-w indicate that tho sen-j . with the above words which, ut eial fit uat lua continues satisfactory In I iorA at' tha elnR of lone indicia! 1 nluKl .'tV( -t '. "'' ,! riiuiUiy, Uy far i 'the nunt encmrilRiinc- rt-suit.-' of" tho , , - week being th.-' r.ifid pro.i-es oi.funii . ,.,,, i ..-.-..i, .... , . decrease of .-1.4 -i--vnt.. ' compared I w till l!o i.o!'.!i:n, wiek i;:st yenr. wi.li-.li he.t.be.':!!. report-.; '- ' 'ul 1 ' '" m '' 1 fur imy part of thewwk this year A. C. L. 8 CONDUCTORS AGREE ON WAGE SCALE (Special to The Ewiiific; Times.) Wilmington, N. ('.. April "!'.- -Alter repeated meetings extending over several weeks, tin- Atlantic Coast Line Railroad 'officials' and the general committee of adjustment of the Order of Railway Conductors, embracing the entire Coast. Line sys tem, have reached an agreement on all points. A new scale of wage.-; has been arranged to go into effect May 1. WINDER'S PROPOSITION REJECTED BY MINERS (By the Associated Press.) Indianapolis. Ind., April L'n. Tin international ex-'cul ive hoard of tin Fnited Mine-Worker's -of America to i day 1 rejected the proposition of the operators of western Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, who are opposing the payment of the 1903 wage scale to coal miners, and who, through' .1. II. Winder, their chair- man, offered to submit the differ iences to arbitration. WORKING HOURS IN READING REDUCED (ISy tho Associated Press.) 'Reading," Pa., April 2U.--NoUccs have been posted in tlie Reading Railway shops announcing a reduction of the working hours from fifty-five, houis to thirty-six hours a week.-"The order in cludes all tho repair shops in Reading', is well as those at Schuylkill Haven, Jum.tlon ad other points. The rt,du(.tion f wol.kIllB lu,ura , attributed . . . .. . .. .., ,.. gions. The order will affect about thir ty-live hundred men in Reading alone. LAUDANUM KILLED HIM. (Special to Th Evening Times.' ' Wilmington,,- N. C, April 20. John S. Piver, aged 55 years, died at the city hospital last night, from tho effects of laudanum. Piver drank three ounces o the drug at his home at. ' o'clock. Ho died soon after being taken to the hospital. Thoi dead man was an employe on the his father's residence here. His re city streets and wharves department. ' mains were taken to Cberaw for bu He leaves a wife and one child. ! rial. TOOK CASE JURY'S HANDS Ordered Verdict of Not Guilty in the Blackburn Case OUTBURST OF CHEERS T A Sudden Ending During the Charge to the Jury Judge Told the Twelve Men If They Should Ke I ui-n a Verdict of Guilty He Would Set It Aside Many Ladies Crowd ed Up and Shook Judge Golf's Hand. (Bv the Associated Prpss.) (ii-eensboi-o, X. ('., April 20 Judge (iolV today took the case against Kepresentative Blackburn from the .jury and ordered a verdict of not guilty. "Gentlemen, if you should bring in ! a verdict of guilty I would promptly i set. it aside. I therefore order you to I write upon each and every one of the I eight indictments the words 'Not ' .,.,;n:,,., mndrerl from Iho . hench. United States Circuit Judge Nathan Goff took the case of the United ed. resounded with cheers when ju,go Guff's decision was announced th.o-., iv.-isno ntleinnt made to quiet the demonstration. Congressman Blackburn who sat with his lawyers within the rail was immediately surrounded by a.i eager crowd of friends of both political parties who warmly congratulated him. Blackburn was charged by the gov ernment with having violated as a congressman section 1782 of the re vised statutes in practicing and re ceiving a fee therefor before the gov ernment departments at Washington. He was brought, to trial on eight In dictments, live of which were secured at. Ashevile, N. ('., and 'three at the federal court of the western district of North Carolina, sitting at Greens boro.: - Another Account. The 'following is ano.iiei- account re ceived this -afternoon f'-om tha coi respondent of The- Evening 'times In Greensboro: The Blackburn case came to a sud den end this morning, practically in the midst of Judge Goff 's, charge to tiu- jury.;: His honor was proceeding as If to deliver quite a lengthy charge, but after Ruing ever and explaining tho ease fully, givinc tho contentions of -boih sides, be stopped and "looking the jury ful! in the face said: ' ; -'"And so should you return' a verdict of guilty ..under t lies." conditions I would t': one- set . it aside. It is there fore useless to have you go through the formality of considering the case or returning a verdict." At this sudden announcement there was -an outburst of applause from all over the packed court room, which the court made no effort to check, and numbers- of ladies who attended the trial regularly crowded up to the bench and shook Judge Goff 's hand. There being no further charges against the defendant, he was order ed discharged and was the recipient of numerous congratulations. The opinion has prevailed through out the trial that the government failed to make out its case and that the jury would acquit tho defendant. NEGRO KILLED TWO IN JEALOUS RAGE (Br the Associated Press.) Philadelphia, Pa., April 20. William Perry, a negro, who, according to the police, says he shot and killed Lewis Williams and Alice ' Merritt, also col ored, at the 110 street elevated railroad station in New York yesterday, gave himself up to the police of Phlladel phta early today. Ferry, wno is anout thirty-five years old, said he objected to attentions Williams paid to tho Mer ritt woman,- and for that reason killed him. He had not Intended killing the woman. Pied At Hninlct. Hamlet, N. C, April 20 Mr. Lee Atkinson died Wednesday morning at 1
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