Pittston Gazette

              h- -V WEATHER CONDITIONS. (K&1 THE HOME PAPER on Forecast Until 8 p. m. Tomorrow for Eastern Pennsylvania. I'or tlio People of Pittston nn«l Vicinity. Pair, slig'.itjy cooler tonight;, Saturday fair. C N A.^ I HOME NEWS. —, 56TH YEAR — L.Y B8TABL18UKD 1850. _.l.Y EST. bt Til ICO. 11ABT 1888. j PITTSTON, PA., FRIDAY, IL 20, 19Q6. TWO CENTS A COPY. FORTY CIONTS A MONTH. \ PAGES FIRE NOW UNDER CONTROL GOVERNMENT PROMPT MIGHTY CONFLAGRATION mm mBE/fjMt (m i j| C nV HBltt W fryfFB i|B v « 4 f if «jj J| . ' J .; C M^iV'1"^^ KT wiH |S|L_ i XD» c C9''1 Ar^SI 1MWBHBBW«aW'lrTCttp6*WBBliHi|gKy; ®" :  HAS BURNED ITSELF OUT. IN THE WORK OF RESCUE 1 * When the Flames Reached Octavia Street They Were Congress Voted a Millon Dollars for Immediate Use of Checked, and Thare is Now a Wide Space and Stricken City and Government Officials are Between the Burning Ruins the Sections Untouched. Straining Every Nerve to Give Aid to the Suffering People. NO DANGER OF FAMINE NOW, AS SUPPLIES ARE RUSHING IN LOSS IN FEDERAL PROPERTY LIKELY TO BE ENORMOUS Practically the Entire Wholesale and Retail Business Government Property Holdings in the Danger Zone that are Valued at $7,000,000, but the Officials Have Little Information as to Their Sections Together With Miles of Magnifi- cent Residsnces on Nob Hill, Are in Ashes. Exact Condition. MARKET STREET FROM SECOND STREET WEST. Oakland, Cal.. April 20.—San Francisco's groat Are has practically burn- PIHSTON'S m FRANCISCO FID. Washington, April 20.—The utmost sorrow and horror prevail J" the national capital f»t the appalling' catastrophe which hits visited San Francisco, and every one connected with the federal government Is doing all In his power to render assistance ar d mitigate the iiDf vitable suffering. Secretary Taft anj his assistants worked all last nigl't on the problem of affording the pronptest and most elllclent relief, and, as u result of their labors, orders have gone forth In every direction, the execution of which will doubtless go far to relieve the stricken people rf San Francisco and ttie adjacent c'lies which have been devastated by the earthquake and the resultant fires. the appraisers' warehouse, $945,000; quarantine station, $232,000, and the sub-treasury, $32,000. STANFORD MONEY. It is under partial control because it has little more on which to feed Two Million Dollars in the Vaults of a It was headed off this morning at Octavla street Telegraph Mill. ul I now confined WrerkMl Hank ItMlldliiK I" In addition to these structures, the government owns the old custom house site, upon which a new custom house Is being built. It is said, however, till the construction of the new building has proceeded only as far as the foundation, and it Is not considered at all likely by the supervising architect that these masses of stone and concrete have been Injured either by the earth's tremors or by fire. What Sail KiuiicImi). The magnificent city of San Francisco is alnios was Tuesday a city of 400,000 inhabitants, is now little of asfies and the fire is still burning. maw of ruins. better than a heap The Gazette Will be Glad to Receive Subscriptions in. 1 known that In the vaults of the fouri teenth story building of the Union | Trust Company, of San Francisco, I which was blown up by dynamite in New York, April 20.—It became This morning the authorities are unahie in give any estimate of the number of ilead or the value of property destroyed. Both will be frightful. The city had an assessed valuatioh of $?02.000.0AQ. which will give some Idea of the havoc t"!i« (lames have wrought. The insurance carried is estl- Aid of th3 Sufferers and Forward the Same an effort to retard the progress of the flames that devastated the city, to the Proper Authorities. Last niRlit In the absence (if dynamite, the (Tnitetl States artillery blew Kreat gaps In the blocks of houses with their heavy gulls in a futlh to head off the (lames. $2,000,000, representing the residue i of the estate of Mrs. Iceland Stani ford the widow of Senator Stanford, , founder of the Iceland Stanford, Jr., j University, at Palo Alto. was, in all probability, the sum of The government owns a number of other costly buildings In the earthquake zone. At San Jose, where it is said every brick and stone building has been razed, there was a postotfice costing $165,000. At Sacramento there Is, op was, a $270,000 federal building, and at Oakland one which cost $270,000. attempt Xot n home remains in the peninsula. Besides the Sun Francisco eon- seem insignificant No such calamity as fliat which has befallen tfle city of San Francisco Congress appropriated $1,000,000 to be -expended under the supervision of the -ecretarles of war, the navy and commerce am labor in co-operation with the mayors lit vhe stricken cities, '.""he Preslden approved the uwiIuih n. Tills suir has been made immediately available, and mD D•«; will be provided if the exigencies of the situation show that more is needed. General FuiTston, acting first on his own responsibility, and later under orders *rom the secretary of war, is doing everything pr.st.lhle to maintain order and afford relief, and he has been Informed that more, troops will be placed at his disposal If flagfatfon the fires of Boston, Chicago anil Baltimore More people (lied In the Galveston flood perhaps, but the destruction property was far less. The end came late yesterday afternoon when thC tins ever before occurred in the United States. The Chicago tire. stupendous :ts that was. Is not to lie compared with this latest Horror. Earthquake and fire—Xuture's most destructive agencies—have combined to engulf the metropolis of the Pacific Coast in veritable 'chaos. .\!rle after mile of thi' finest architectural structures in the country have ialien rf .prey ti,D the quakes and the limn. s. Kicli and pCmr alike have su.'erefl. JfTo mi'.Uer The executors of Mrs. Stanford's will recently practically completed the winding up of her estate and, on April G, only thirteen days before the earthquake, they turned over to lire took a new start and the last hope was abandoned Mayor Kchmitz's resilience fell before the onslaught of the James K. Taylor, supervising architect of the treasury department, said: nn«l the executive and General Funston, working In perfect harmony from lhe same offices were forced gradually backward until today, it is expected they will have to move into the' military . reservation Itself. tlCc trust company to hold as trustees for the legatees until n stilt now in the courts, which will decide the amount of Inheritance tax to hp paid, shall have been settled. how much may eventually be hour unlimited need of aid. ' saved from the wreckage, there Is at this "We know next to nothing- about the fate of the government's property in the earthquake district* We have heard nothing from any of the government employes out there, with the exception of Superintendent Leach of the Mint and Postmaster Fiske. Mr. Leach reports that the Mint was saved after a hard fight with fire, and Mr. Fiske wired Postmaster General Cortelyou that the new postofflce had been badly damaged. Although that postofflce cost the government only $2,500,000, it would require nearly $4,000,000 to replace it on account of the higher prices . of lumber and other building material and because the contractor who built it nearly broke himself by taking the Job too cheaply in the first place. There are left standing no hotels or business houses. A few stark steel ruins thrust their mighty beams into the smoke-clouded sky as If In defiance The situation Is beyond the- ability of oven the Commonwealth of California (o cope wltli. Nothing short of a general national response will tie eC|unl to the emergency. The federal government has set a splendid example In appropriating a MILLION DDLLAKS for the relief of the suffered, this amount to [be available immediately This decision was expected early in May.. of the elements that strove to wreck their destruction It is impossible to estimate the number of dead. Five hundred is as near right is fi.OOO. Estimates of ten thousand are common. Two thousand refugees arrived last night at Sacramento and 20,000 more will be Cities There are several heirs, relatives of Mrs. Stanford,- and they are now wondering if their inheritance has been lost to them. The Union Trust throughout the Union are quickly falling into line to swell the relief fund and the generous people of Plttston and West Pittston, we are sure, will bi Through the night outcasts of the earth, hyenas in the Image 'of man. plied their thieving, ghoulish calling in the darkness. Soldiers shot many of to open a fund for the reeeptlun of subscription*. and will be glad to receive and acknowledge In its columns sums largo and small Company intc was on« of the new est iilllcc structures in San Francisco, anil cost $1,200,00,0. Hear Admiral Goodrich, acting under wireless orders from the secretary of the navy, has sailed for San Francisco with the Chicago, the Marblehead, the Boston and two torpedo destroyers. Secretary Metcalf has placed the lighthouse tenders in the harbor at the disposition of the civic authorities; The secretary of war has ordered quantities of tents, lamp stoves and provisions to be purchased and forwarded to San Francisco or to such nearby cities as may have become places of refuge for the homeless citizens of San Francisco and the neighborhood. The proposition to establish a relief camp within, perhaps, 30 miles from San Francisco, at a point that will afford the best transportation facilities, is being considered, and will be adopted if later advices show it to be advisable. The secretary of the navy has ordered that all available naval stores be placed at the disposal of the military authorities. The secretary of the treasury has ordered that $10,000,000 in currency be turned over to the Wells Fargo Express Co. for immediate use, that company having deposited a like amount with the treasury In the east. needed, Wo are xurt River boats are arriving from Sacramento and relief from hunger nnd that there will .hi- a ready response to this appeal, especially when It GREAT ANXIETY. thirst is In si{?ht for ;t limited number of sufferers. understood Hint 110 sum, however small, will be rejected and woman in the community have a share in the work, contributions, whether !t be $1 or $1(10. The Gazette will, be glad to recelvV the money and forward It promptly to the proper authorities. Mayor I-an* gun, of Pittston City, and Burgess Mitten, of West Pittston borough, are heartily In sympathy with this movement and have authorized us to appeal Let every Send In your man Toiling up the steep hillsides, dragging trunks and household goods over piles of debris, their faees bronzed by smoke, lined by suffering and re- Boston Woman Off cm I $2,000 for C able .Mcssiinc Willi News from men followed by dazed families sought from the scenes of horror. It ,1s a cosmopolitan The mournful procession of people of whites, Oriental peoples of all types, wended tragically from the rookerips they called sembling imps from another world all night to find- esCape crowd, a motley crew ICelatlves In Sitii Francisco, Ronton, April 2n.—iOne thousand dollars for a ten-word message from In their names to the people of the community help for stricken "We have wired to Superintendent Roberts, of the new custom house, for facts, but have not received a line from him. I very much doubt that the steel construction of the new postofflce has suffered to any great extent, but am apprehensive that the walls are badly damaged and may have to be replaced. Even if nothing but the walls have to be rebuilt, I do not believe that it can be done at a cost of less than a million, and that on a. much plainer scale than the present structure. * city Kentlemen have honiled their ehecks to the (inzetu With iiiiil tliey head Plttston's San Francisco to Boston was offered by Walter Scott Hale, who fears that his wife and children may be among the many who perished In the earthquake. Hale is at the Hold Thorndike. He is a Haverhill, Mass., maji administering affairs with ail the justice of judges and ail teh devotion of heroes. II was the soldiers who prevented people from robbing the fire fighters of the last bit of water. It is the soldiers who keep up the courage of the refugees, feed the hungry and serve the In- Soldiers are San Francisco Relief Fund A. U. Markus. $25; Win. Whyle Hall, $5; fJe.irRe lD. I„fDIsenrlng, $r,; I \V{. Drown, $rD; .1. YV. Cohen, $!D; A Friend, SI. Jured. Doctors, nurses and policemen ore working without sleep food and all work with patience. The great story of J,he San Francisco disaster Is yet to come. It will never be all totd. There will be sions of thousands of tragedies as there were people in the stricken city without who went to San Francisco when In his twenties and built up a big Interest in a machine shop in the- center Other contributions have been |n'omiked and will he acknowledged a soon us they are handed In. as many ver- A Boston woman offered the Commercial Cable Company's office at Itoekport $.2,000 if it would get wofd lo her daughter-in-law In San Fran- ProgifKs of the I'lames, Small Danger ol' Famine. There will he no famine in San Frnndisco, in inspection of the records in the bureau of supplies New York, April 20.—The Western Union Telegraph iCw. has received the following dispatch from San Francisco: "The fire, which had heretofore crept around the bast of Telegraph Hill, left but few houses standing there and lhas crept back from the west, being now In full possession of the houses on the hill. It will no doubt have everything down to the front on VanNess avenue and west of there. Tht- main tire has reached Octavla street and Is making rapid progress. No one has come in from the fire district since midnight. At that time the flames had started afresh on the southern end of the line and were burning furiously. The streets are filled Washington April1 20 Thls was made sure by which shows that iii the storehouse eisco and answer by way of Guam. The company was unable to till the commission, though in communication with San Francisco by way of "We have not yet heard whether the buildings at Oakland. Sacramento and San Jose have been damaged, but the newspaper reports say that the last place has been completely wiped out, and if that is a fact, of course the postofflce has gone, too." at the Mart thf iiid account* Of the navy department Island navy yard there are tons of things to »-at. Secretary of Navy Bonaparte conferred with the President about distributing these supplies Guam ed by A cable message was reeelv- Following Is a partial list of the supplies at the Marc Island navy yard: Corned beef in tins, 3H.72S pounds; roast beef in tins, 20.300 pounds; salted beef, 51.000 pounds; salted pork, 74,000 pounds; biscuits. 20.S37 pounds; tinned mutton. 17,026 pounds; hams. 11,4 15 poundsicoffee, ground, 10,550 pounds; rice, 5,24 1 pounds; beans.4,700 gallons; tinned tomatoes, 10.237 pounds; other vegetables, tinned, BO,417 pounds; macaroni, 18,300 pounds, and sundries which will probably run up to 100,000 pounds. The above list represents the amount, of supplies at the Mare Island storehouse-on April 7, when the last report wns made to the bureau of supplies and accounts. it is likely that there are more stores there now th-in these The storehouse at the Mare Island yard was not damaged and Mrs. Kinsman, of Gloucester, from Harry Harrington, superintendent of tjie Guam cable olflce, formerly of Rockport. He reported a relative of Mrs. Kinsman alive, but endangered by the fire. If more detailed accounts of the sluatiop show .. methods by which federal assistance can be given to the inhabitants of the afflicted cities, it will be immediately forthcomng, and In the meantime the federal officials will hold themselves In readiness while they await fuller and more accurate accounts. TREASURES LOST. with men, women and children, carrying- the few articles that they have tried to save from their homes. They are trying to get away from the city and will do so by the quickest means at command. The road leading from the ferries northward and around the shore of the bay, as far as Fort Mason, is strewn with all sorts of vehicles that have broken down on account Huntington Paintings, Willed to the FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL McmDiDolitaii Museum, Destroyed New York Stock Markets furnished by M. S. Jordan & Co., stock brokers. Miners' Bank Building. in San Francisco. of the heavy loads placed upon them. The fire came very close to Port Mason last night and the big Fontana warehouses will probably go down before the fury of the 'rolling mass of Are today. It looks as though the fire will make a clean sweep of everything as far as the Golden Gate Park." It is with the utmost satisfaction that the scientific experts of the government report that their most delicate Instruments show no Indications of any seismic disturbances anywhere In this country since three o'clock Thursday morning, the last recorded having been merely the slight waves which invariably follow so severe a disturbance as that which has devastated San Francisco. New York, April 20.—The Metropolitan Museum of Art has lost. In the San Francisco Are, nearly all of the paintings bequeathed to It hy Collis P. Huntington. The fire that swept over Nob Hill early yesterday morning overwhelmed the old ColUs P. Huntington ■house, In California street, between Mason and Taylor streets. Stored In the old house was the greater part of the art treasures collected by the railroad man. In addition to the pictures comprising the Metropolitan legacy were nearly 100 others of lesser note. New York, ftigii . 138% • 43% . 08 .110% . 91 . 84% .111 .161% . rD8% .173% . «0% . 43% .171% 148% 119 April 20. 1 !D06. IJOW. ('lose 136% 138 % 41% 43% lit; 07% 107 110% X9 91 82% 84% 101) % 111 160% 161% 57% 58% 171% 173% 59 60% 41% 43% 170% 171% 146% 148 68% 69 the goods and supplies are intact. The Marc Island navy yard Is 30 miles from the cily up the bay. mere Tie several vessels of the American navy at the Mare Island yard and some 'of these will doubtless be put to immediate use in transporting supplies to the city from Mare Island. It is expected that the supplies will easily meet -.11 needs until the army rations ordered from Vancouver Barrack, reach Am Sugar llamps Partially Under Control. A m On r & K Am Loco . . A mat Copper Atchison com B. n. T. .. . B. & O. . . . New York, April 20;—The Western Union Co. has received the follow'ng bulletin from San Franqlsco: '"The fire has been stopped at Octavia street. It is now confined to Telegraph Hill. There Is a large , burned-over space between the present fire and the section untouched by the flames, and this encourages the hope that the fire is under control. It is believed that the flames will not break out in that portion of tffe city now safe, unless some person deliberately starts q fire in some building, contrary to the positive orders of the city officials. There is not a chimney in the city that is safe to use and the gas pipes are in such shape that no gas will'be turned on." Han Francisco. Can Pacific . Ches & Ohio St Paul . . . C. P. I. . . . It is roughly estimated that the federal government has lost In stores and public buildings not less than $7,000,000 in San Francisco, and approximately J600.000 in nearby towns. If it is determined Immediately to replace the buildings destroyed the money which must be expended therefor will doubtless prove a. godsend to the homeless and Impoverished workmen of California. Washington, D C.. April 20.—Secretary Shaw a telegram this morning from Oakland telling of the complete destruction of the sub-treasury bui bearing the gratifying information that the $30,000,000 contained In the vaults has been saved, and Is now being guarded day and night by .Money in Sub-Treasury SoIV, Erie Mr. Huntington spent years In acquiring this collection. When he died the best pictures In his collection were willed to the Metropolitan Museum. A condition In the will, however, left them in the possession of the family during the lives of Mrs. Huntington and Archer B. Huntington, and not until their death could they be hung In the Museum. III Central L. & X Washington, April 20.—Gefterai Funston wires to the Secretary of War that the fire in San Francisco is now partially under control. a company of soldiers. M. K. & T Washington. April 20.—The war department at noon today received the following from Geheral Funston: "The fire situation at 7 o'clock this morning is better. The fire has been stopped at Franklin street. Hose Is now being stretched from Franklin street and Broadway toward Russian Hill arid Telegraph Hill. It is hoped to stop the fire on that line south of Market street. The fire has pnssfd to the west of Dolores street, but north of Market street the entire line is under control from abhut Filmore ami Market. The region of the city west of this I Hie and north of Market will probably be saved. The weather continues fine. Supplies are arriving. The vituation appear* a little better than anticipated at midnight." Mo. Pacific 95% 94% 24% 142 Sacramento Boats Bring Belief. Oakland, April 20.—River boats are arriving from Sacramento and relief from hunger and . thirst are in sight for a limited number of sufferers. Alex Central N. Y. Central 24% 142 24 140% Am Smelter Norf & West Out & West Pennsylvania Peo Oas ... . . 157% .. 89% .. 49% ..140% . . 93 154% • 87%' 48% 138% 92 157% 89% 49% 140% 93 FEDERAL LOSS GREAT. COOK OBSEQUIES. FOR CLEAN STREETS. lis % Government Buildings in the Danger Some pictures In the legacy Mrs. Huntington brought east, and they now hang In her Fifth avenue house and her house at Throg's Neck, but they form only a fraction of the entire collection left by Mr. Huntington, and the loss to the Museum represented by the destroyed paintings will amount to many thousands. Heading Hock Island So. Pacific 125% 26% 64% 38% 32% 150 41% 107 46% 128% 27 65% 39% 32% 153% 43% 108% 47% Zone are Valued at Over The funeral services of the late Arthur Cook were held this afternoon at the family home, on York avenue. West Side. The Rev. A. H. Wheeler, rector of St. James' Episcopal church, was the officiating clergyman, and the Episcopal burial service was used. Interment was made In West Pittston Cemetery. The pall bearers were Thomas W. Jenkins. David F. Jenkins, Wlllard D. Hopkins, Harry Tompkins, H, U. Keeler and Wilson Berry. The city officials are about to in-* augurate a crusade for cleaner streets. The garbage cans recently placed l» the central city have been taken to the city hall and are being neatly painted. -They will be placed on the corners again and their use will be urged. The posting of notices forbidding expectorating on the sidewalks Is along the same line, and these moves will likely be supplemented by others In a short time. $7,(MM),OOO. So Hwy com . Texas Pacific Union Pacific f. S. Steel . (I. S. Stee'i pfd Wabash . . 39% 32% 153% Washington, April 20.—If the destruction of San Francisco Is complete the government will be one of the heaviest financial losers on the long Jist of unfortunate property owners. In addition to thes.. magnificent new postofllce and court house, which cost *2,500,000, the government owns In Sun Francisco the Mint building, which cost $2,245,000; Washington, April 20.—The navy department has received a dispatch from Admiral MeCalla, at the Mare Island station, San Francisco, that the armored cruisers South Dakota and California, now being constructed at the Union Iron Works, In that city, escaped injury from the earthquake and fire. He adds that he has sent a tugload of provisions to the strlcky en city. Cruisers Kshi|hv1 Damage. 43% 108% 47% Any hour of day or night; hauling of alt kinds; coach hire for weddtngs or funerals, button's livery. Both phones. Cab Service at 'Tour Call. Split Bamboo Hods at Lelbson's. Some good Investments m Real Estate. G. B. Thompson.