The San Francisco Examiner from San Francisco, California • 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1923 1 1 Ciiv JLo 1 roopB l-'f "i tiers, iMimi I I 4 k- 1 5 is 3)1 3 i Mi V- I i v. -1 1 rvi-j i. i-, ti -(V V'1 ft it i if 1 '1 -'5 2 1 fun a A fWf. Women refugees with a few articles of furniture looking down from the heights above Berkeley upon what was once a district of beautiful and costly homes, now smouldering ruins. 1 W.VWfT.-.

-Xf-v STRICT CLOSED 100HURTF18HT1NGBLAZE: 1 ,200 STUDENTS HOiViELESS PUT UNDER MILITARY RUL 1 -tir'' at the northern extremity of the University Campus. Then it goes directly west on Hearst to Walnut street and thence northerly on Walnut to Delaware, where the flames spread along i Shattuck avenue to Virginia street and back to Walnut, thence IP' i 3 111 ijr out to Vine street again. FOREST OF CHIMNEYS TOPS RUINS applicant was Trof. Loren N. Trice of the German department of the University.

He lost a $10,000 house at 150S Hawthorne He will rebuild immediately. As the flames died down yesterday the city began taking stock of its disaster. City Manager Jno. N. Edy issued a statement reiterating the assertion of Mayor Frank Stringham that inadequate water supply for the fire fighters was responsible for the spread of the flames.

He said that at the very moment the fire started he and a committee of Berkeley business men were conferring with the officials of the East Bay Water Company regarding "ways and means of providing more adequate fire protection." Edy has called in experts engineers to make a OF ONCE BEAUTIFUL HOMES A forest of chimneys stood last night where on Monday there had been the beautiful homes of Cragmont and North IS purvey of che city's fire protection needs. A recent report of the Fire Underwriters had pointed out the fire danger that existed in Berkeley and on the day of the holocaust Fire Chief Rose had been asked to study that report with a view of meeting the peril, according to Edy. It was stated in Berkeley yesterday that the fire would prove a strong argument in the hands of a large group of busi i is i i tit 'if Berkeley. At the foot of each chimney lay the ruins burned down to street level; not heaps of timbers and occasional walls still standing, but a clean sweep. Here and there on the streets were the pitiably small bits of furniture saved by some family.

Amazing was the number who had chosen to rescue pianos. There was a piano at every corner. In Greenwood Terrace the mansion of Warren Gregory still stands. The flames leaped directly over the structure, which was located in a hollow against the hill. In like manner a score of other palatial homes were saved.

A half dozen farm houses were wiped out, a short distance farther northeast over the hill in the brush and eucalyptus tree fire. The home of Bernard Maybeck, the designer of the Palace of Fine Arts, at the San Francisco Exposition, was totally destroyed. Directly across the street on the same corner of Buena Vista and LaLoma avenues, two homes, one of Prof. A. C.

Lawson of the University, remains unscathed. CHARRED REMAINS OF AUTOMOBILES STREWN ABOUT BURNED SECTION ness men and residents who have been campaigning for Berke ley's incorporation with San Francisco in the use of the Hetch Hetchy water supply. LOSS OF LIFE IN DISASTER REMAINS UNDETERMINED Loss of life in the disaster remains undetermined. Eerkeley coroner, with a corps of workers, searched 1 INm 1 Of through the ruins all day. They found no bodies and no definite evidence that anybody had been killed.

All that is left of the stately "Grecian temple" home of C. C. Boynton at 2800 La Loma avenue. Only the fluted columns of stone withstood the ravages of the fire. The Boynton family had been noted as exponents of esthetic dancing and practiced their art in the "temple." Reports of fatalities were based entirely upon stories told to the police by persons who claimed to be eyewitnesses of tragedies.

Summarized here are those stories: One man declared to have fallen into the flames from which he was fighting fire at La Loma and Euclid avenues. Police Sergeant Frank D. Swain of Berkeley saw this accident Two men said to have been crushed to death when a house collapsed in Vine street. Three hundred persons have not yet been located by their A reservoir of the East Bay Water close to the intersection of Shasta and Tamalpais avenue, Avas unharmed. The mains coming from the hills burst, but a large repair gang was on hand yesterday to prevent any chance of a water shortage in Berkeley.

Electric light wires, telephone poles and other service equipment were strewn about the devastated area, as were the charred remains of a hundred or more automobiles. Late last night two more small fires started up near the Tunnel road back of the Claremont Hotel. Thirty men were sent to fight them. They quickly brought the flames under control, but remained at the scene throughout the night to watch for further outbreaks that might endanger the Claremont District, relatives, but although their names are listed as "missing," the authorities assert that they are somewhere in the city and safe. Boundaries of the fire-swept areas became definite After working through the brush in a grove of eucalyptus trees the blaze moved down the cr.est of the hill, vaulted a dozen or more homes on the slope and began its destruction on the fest side of Tamalpais avenue.

From there it widened and was not stopped until it reached within a block of the University on the south and had gone as far as Shattuck avenue on the west. The burned district is bounded by Vine street on the north. Tamalpais on the east as far south as Cedar, then down Cedar to Euclid, thence down Euclid until Hearst avenue is reached and says he is certain the victim perished. Two students reported to have fallen through a roof on street. Another student said to have sustained a broken neck when he was hit by a falling rafter in a house in which he was rescu- The fire started in Contra Costa county, just across the hills from Berkelev and reached Berkelev at the head of Tam- irg furniture.

alpais avenue on UiC extreme northern boundary of the city.