The Daily News
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2019-08-29
issued: 1906-04-20
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/nelsondaily/items/1.0382104/source.json
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note: St6 vm vgg; NEWS i^Sm^ APR 22 190' \- fc- >C VOL. 4 ***£ •~Or w% NELBON, B. 0., FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1906 WHOLE CITY IS MED Fire Still Raging and Nothing Can be Done to Stay Progress Bl-wlni ip of Nile or Bal'dlii* East of Vu No* Avenue Provtd Froi'les lo Sm He-urn Reii-tcRce.DUriU New York, April 19.-The Western Union In in receipt ot a despatch, 5 p.m. Pacific coast time, giving tue area destroyed by lire. It shows that practically all ot San Francisco has been minted or 1s burning. The Information was brought by sergeant Blnkley, U. S. A., who said: "A section bounded by Union and Oc- tavia streets and Golden Gate avenue, and another lying between Market, Hayes and 'Fillmore streets ara about all that Is left of the city north of Market street, whlcn has not yet been burned. The prospects are, however, that It will go because nothing can stop the names until they reach the straggling outskirts of the city." The officials of the Postal Telegraph company In this city at 8.35 p.m., received the . following message from Mr. Storrer, the superintendent ot their service in San Francisco: "The Ire ls still going on and will probably consume the whole city, except those streets situated between the Uolden Gate park and Webster street, In which neighborhood there is water and where the lire department can work wtth some chance of success, San Francisco, April 19.—All efforts to check the flames at Van Ness avenue thy blowing up a mile ot buildings on the least side of the avenue have proved fruitless. The flre has spre'd across the broad thoroughfare and from'present indications the entire western addition, whtch contains the homes of San Francisco's millionaires and people of the ■wealthier data, la now doomed. The destruction of the western addition of the «lty practically completes the work of tbe ravaging flames and marks the devastation of the entire city. San Francisco, April 19.—With each succeeding hour the devaluation of this stricken ruin of a city grows and grows.…
note: The Nelson Daily Miner was purchased by F.J. Deane in April of 1902 and renamed The Daily News. It changed hands again in May 1908 when it began to be printed by the News Publishing Co. managed by W.G. McMorris.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Nelson (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0382104
language: English
lat: 49.493333
long: -117.295833
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Nelson, B.C. : F.J. Deane
rights: Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these images must be obtained from the Touchstones Nelson Museum of Art and History: https://touchstonesnelson.ca
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text