. Review of reviews and world's work. anks,mercantile establishments, theaters, schools, andchurches, and making a desert of practicallyeverything known to the world as San Fran-cisco. There was still Standing a residence sec-tion in the AVestern Addition, but its destructionseemed to be only a matter of a few hours. Tosave it, it was resolved to make a last stand at\an Ness Avenue, the widest street in the all the remaining resources were collected,—all the explosives, and even a battery of was found possible at this point to secure twostreams of water. Between the avenue an
. Review of reviews and world's work. anks,mercantile establishments, theaters, schools, andchurches, and making a desert of practicallyeverything known to the world as San Fran-cisco. There was still Standing a residence sec-tion in the AVestern Addition, but its destructionseemed to be only a matter of a few hours. Tosave it, it was resolved to make a last stand at\an Ness Avenue, the widest street in the all the remaining resources were collected,—all the explosives, and even a battery of was found possible at this point to secure twostreams of water. Between the avenue and thefire a line of mansions three-quarters of a milelong was raked with artillery and blown up withdynamite and barrels of powder. This servedas a glacis in front of the street which was to betho final line of defense. The fight here wasdesperate. The fire flanked the line at both ends,leaping the clearcul space on the north and burningthe five blocks bordering the western side of \anNess .Avenue, from Sutter to (hiv, ;iiid coming. From the Independent. MAP OF THE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO. (The portion within the heavy black line, with small and unimportant exceptions, was destroyed by the fire. Practicallyall of the plotted sections outside of this line are thinly populated or unbuilt.) from the Mission and up JNIarket at the otherend as far as Octavia. But the center held fortjie seven Ijlocks from Golden Gate Avenue toSutter, and with the help of an opportune changeof wind tlie tongues of flame at the ends wereturned l)ack. By the night of the 19th the firewas under control. It dealt one last blow, how-over, by turning with the change of wind andwiping out most of the poor homes on the slopesof Telegraph Hill, which it had missed on itsfirst advance. The whole region destroyed ex-tended about three miles in extreme length andtwo miles in extreme width, covering an area offour square miles. It included alf the businessand almost all the thickly settled residential por-tions o
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