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'- S y N'7 -vJ ROOK AM) ABGU EXTRA EDITION 12 O'CLOCK VOL: LV. XO. 157. THE ARGUS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 190G. PRICE ,TWO CENTS. FRANCISC shock m EARTHQUAKE CAUSES TERRIBLE HAVOC AT SAW 0; STK THREE InlNUTES FOLLOWED BY OS US FIR it- 4 5 " $ Gitv Facing Destruction bv Mains Burst and It is Impossible to Check Their Spread. SINGLE WIRE WORKING BRINGS FEW DETAILS Sacramento and Other Places Suffer Area Affected Said to Have Been Several Hundred Miles in Extent Loss of Life Probably Great. San Francisco, CaL, April 18. Bulletin San Francisco was practically wrecked by an earthquake at 5:10 this morning. The shock lasted three minutes. Thousands of buildings were damaged or destroyed. The loss of life is reported great. There is no water and fires are all over the city. All wires with the exception of one are gone. New York, April 18. (Bulletin.) The Western Un ion Telegraph office at Fresno says it. is the most severe shock ever known. NEW YORK, APRIL 18-feoCLETltfrAT 9:04 THEPOSTAL HAD COMMUNICATION WITH THE SAN FRANCISCO OFFICE, BUT LOST CONNECTION ALMOST IMMEDIATELY. IN A BRIEF PERIOD TrE WIRE WORKING AT THE SAN FRANCISCO OFFICE REPORTED A NUMBER OF BUILDINGS HAD COLLAPSED, THE DEAD AND INJURED BEING TAKEN FROM THE RUINS AS RAPIDLY AS POSSIBLE. THE PRINCIPLE DANGER WAS FROM FIRES, A NUMBER OF WHICH ARE MAKING GREAT HEADWAY OWING TO LACK OF WATER. CITY HAM. IX FI.AMKS. San Francisco, April 18. The city hall,, costing seven millions, is in flames. Wooden buildings suffered less than brick and frame. The terror and excitement are indescribable. Buildings swayed and crashed, burying the occupants. Lick house was badly damaged, but no loss of life occurred there. The Palace and St. Francis stood the shock. The greatest damage was to buildings south of Market street, mostly frame buildings and tenement houses. Fire is raging in every block in the district. BUSINESS SECTION WRECKED. San Francisco, April 18. The business section from Market street to Mission street and from the bay back has been almost completely wrecked. The Call and Examiner buildings and many structures along Market and Mission streets, including the department stores are destroyed. IIl'XDREDS KILLED. Hundreds of people in the cheap tenement district are reported killed. Fires are raging, and owing to the scarcity of water are practically beyond control. The Associated Press building is wrecked. The residence portion is but slightly damaged, although nearly every house is more or less injured. DAMAGE AT SACUAMEXTO. Chicago, April 18. The telegraph companies here are entirely without wires to San Francisco. The Sacramento office reports a heavy earthquake west, and considerable damage is reported in that city. Sacramento, CaL, April 18. A severe earthquake shock occurred here at at early hour this morning. COMMUNICATION WAS LOST. New York, April 18. A report reaches here a severe earthquake wrecked uny buildings and caused loss of life in San Francisco at 5:13 this morn ig. Fire broke out in the Worker buildings. The Postal telegraph office was - .-ecked and communication lost. PEOPLE FLEE FROM DISTRICT. Kansas City, April 18. The Postal Telegraph company here states the .ly information obtainable from the west was that the operators at San "ranciscoi had left the Postal building, and reportmanbuildingswerecollapsing .nd fires breaking out, with no water available to fight the flames. The peo ple are fleeing from the affected district. WATER MAIN BURSTS. San Francisco, Cal. April 18. A disastrous fire broke out at 8:50 on the south side of Market street and is within one block of the Palace hotel. A water main burst and the fire de partment is practically helpless. The utmost confusion exists. All business is suspended. At this moment there is only one wire out of San Francisco, a Postal wire. The Postal building is badly damaged and the operating room a total wreck. Power of every kind is gone, and there are no lights, either gas or electric. HOTELS ARE SAFE. Neither the Palace hotel or St. Francis is gone, that is as far as the outside goes, but inside the plaster ing, etc., is greatly damaged. Be Flames, Water tween the Postal office" ancftne water front there has been great damage by fire which is burning fiercely. Damage by the quake apparently ex tends all over the city. The residence districts are safe so far as heard from. FELT THROUGHOUT NEVADA. New York, April 18. (Bulletin). At 11:05 the Western Union received a report that a serious fire is burning at Berkeley, where the state university is located. At the office of the 'Frisco railroad in this city a message was re ceived from the company's agent in Nevada saying the earthquake was felt throughout Nevada. All wires are thrown down west of Reno. The Postal company received infor mation that the greatest damage from the earthquake was done to property in the following streets: Drumm, Davis, Front, Sansom, Montgomery, Kearney, Spear, Main, Beale, and Fremont. AREA COVERS HUNDREDS OF MILES. Chicago, April 18. The Union Pa cific Railroad company reports its wires working to Reno, but down west of Winnamucca. The area covered by the earthquake seems to have covered several hundred miles. PLACES A $440,000,000 LOAN France Takes Large Share of Bonds Issued by Russia. St. Petersburg,, April 18. It is an nounced here arrangements for a new Russian loan totalling $440,000,000 has been signed in Paris. About half the amount Is taken by France and Austria took the portion originally assigned to Germany. The United States did not participate in the loans. AMUSEMENTS. BOOKINGS AT ILLINOIS. April 16 and week Cradoc-Neville Repertoire Company. April 22 "A Royal Slave." April 25 Howe's Moving Pictures. April 26 Paul Gilmore. 1 April 28 "Hooligan's Troubles." Is an Educational Power. The edu cational value of moving pictures has been nowhere demonstrated more forc ibly than in Lyman H. Howe's new program which will appear at the Illi nois theater on Wednesday, April 25. There is little in the length and breadth of this great world that es capes Mr. Howe's unremitting re searches. He Is an indefatigable in vestigator, a constant observer, and ever alert to the most absorbing events of national and international activities. These traits distinguish this exhibition with an atmosphere Xound in no others and readily explain the success it has achieved. Mr. Howe has compassed heights and depths of difficulties hardly realized by other exhibitors. Making Record Run. "iMe Umpire' the snappy, musical comldy now at the La Salle theater, Chicago, Is mak ing a new record for a run by a play In that city. 1 lie longest run previ ously made was by "The Tenderfoot," 200 nights. "The Umpire" equaled 'that mark April C, and is now in a class by itself as the best drawing at traction ever offered the Chicago pub lic. I Taken from an Actual Occurrence. Harry Gordon, in introducing "A Roy al Slave" to the patrons ofithe Illinois theater, not only promises, but assures, that this production Is a idistinct de parture from all others that have been presented here. "A Royal ;Slave" was taken from an actual occurrence, the scenes being reproduced from photo graphs of old Mexico -around which the play was written. Tha characters of Aguila, EI Capitan, a-n4:ed bandit, and Juan Alvarez, figure in.jmany parts of Mexican history. The ciist has been carefully selected, the meifbers being osncfiallv ensratred for their resnerti ve roles. At the Illinois theater Sunday, April 22, matinee and nighq EPITOME OF DOINGS IN CONGRESS YESTERDAY Washington, D. C, April IS. Follow ing is a brief resume taken from the official records of yesterday's proceed ings in both houses of congress: SENATE In the senate Mr. Tillman railed up his resolution -directing the senate committee on iinance to enter upon an investigation of the question of campaign contributions by -the national bunks. . Mr. Tillman sabl he -wished the inquiry to extend to the democratic as well ns the republican campaign com mittees, and engaged in si sharp con troversy with Mr. Hopkins concerning the Walsh banks in t'hicago. Mr. Fos ter spoke for almost three hours in support of the house railroad rate bill. The house biil providing for the coin age oi minor coins was passed. At 4:.0 p.- m. the senate went Jnto execu tive session, adjourning atj 5:23 p. m. until today. MOi:SK The house clenreif the decks lv passing under suspension ol" the TOTCS ".f'Tlumber of bills i Vrner;il in terest. Among them were the follow ing: Establishing a national quaran tine against epidemics: regulating ap peals in criminal eases by permitting tile government to have a decision re viewed when a demurrer to an indict ment has been sustained: creating n bureau of the reclamation service in the interior department; providing for the entry of agricultural lands within forest reserves. In addition tf7- private pension bills were passed. The meas ure extending the national - irrigation act to the state of Texas Wiis taken up as unfinished business, and at f p. m. the house adjourned until Uylay. Knorkit Out 'Immunity llntlm." Washington, April IS. "Immunity baths" were given a blow yesterdav when the house passed the a 1 1 permit ting the government to api eal to the supreme court when a lowei court sus tains a. demurrer to an indictment. The Chicago "beef trust cases" would have been appealed from Judge Humphrey's decision had such a law been in exist ence a month ago. The ney law, how ever, is not retroactive and will not af fect the Chicago packers. The house also passed the national Quarantine bill. Some of the southern democrats opposed it, fearing it invaded the po lice powers of the states. J Deep Waterway Plan Score. Washington, April 18. Congress will have a thorough investigation made of the feasibility of a canal bo connect the great lakes and the guff. Repre sentatives Ramsdell, Lorimeir, and El lis v.'ill conduct hearings at Kansas City, St. Louis and Chicagfj. the last place on May 1C. Other citfes will be visited. This investigation, Ordered by the house! is preliminary. It is not in tended to press the deep naterways project u-ntil next session. Grand Master Hannahan Weds. St. Paul. Minn., April 18. flohn Han nahan, grand master of the Brother hood of Locomotive Firemen) and Miss Margaret Sullivan of St. Paul were married at noon yesterday in St. Mark's Roman Catholic church. There were about eight hundred guests pres ent. The couple left for a bridal tour to the Pacific coast. Message Traveled 2,080, Miles. New York, April 18. A wireless tel egraph message which traveled a dis tance of 2,080 miles was received at sea by the steamer Moltke. The mes sage was sent last Friday from a stat ion on the English coast and contained 83 words. ' ', Iowa Convention August 1. Des Moines, Iowa, April 18. The re publican state central committee has issued a call for the republican state convention at Des Moines August 1. Devil's island Torture Is no worse than the terrible case of piles that afflicted me 10 years. Then I was advised to apply Bucklen's Ar nica Salve, and less than a box perma nently cured me, writes L. B. Napier of Rugles, Ky. Heals all wounds, burns and sores like magics ? 25 cents, at Ilartz & Ullemeyer'g, druggists. ARE WELL BEGUN Revival Services in Three Dis tricts Are Now Under Way. PREPARE FOR BIG MEETING Rev. D. S. Toy Talks on What Shall Be Done to Be Saved Attend ance Increases. Well attended meetings were held last evening in the three revival districts. The evangelists now working in the city are not making any special effort to secure conversions, but instead are aiming at preparing a foundation for the later meetings and the central ser vices to be held by Dr. Biederwolf at REV. DAVID S. TOY. the conclusion of the two weeks of dis trict meetings. The attendance at the afternoon sermons yesterday was larg er than on Monday, and these promise to be of unusual benefit. The meetings in the western and the eastern district are held at 3 o'clock each afternoon, but hereafter the services in the cen tral district, which are this week be ing held at the First Methodist church will be held at 2:30. this being a more convenient hour. Toy at CliriMtinn Church. The distinction between the law and the gospel was discussed in the ser mon of Rev. D. S. Toy, at the Memorial Christian church last evening, his sub ject being " The Conversion of the Phillippine Jailer.". He told the story of how the jailer, j aroused to the sense of his condition. through the earthquake, asked of Paul "What Must. I Do to Re Saved." The apostle explained that salvation was not doing, but done, and pointed the difference between the law and the gospel: "The law says live and do. The law iays duty or damnation; the gospel says salvation, and duty after wards. The law condemns: the gospel justifies the condemned. The Taw curs es; the gospel redeems from the curse. Under the law he sheep were offered for the shepherd, but under the gospel, the shepherd was offered for the sheep." Wheeler at Spencer .Memorial. . "Channels of Power," was the sub ject of the evening address by Dr. C. T. Wheeler at the Spencer Memorial church last evening, where the service for the eastern district were held. Dr. Wheeler, in his sermon, took the stand that prayer is the main channel of power for man, and that without pray er, life is useless. Dr. Wheeler brought out in his ser mon that the greatest power to be ob tained must be secured through the agency of prayer. In speaking of pray er, he declared that the idea of father hood provides the answer to the Intel lectual objections to the idea of an swered prayers, lie spoke of the con tention of some, that if God is the ruler of the universe, his power is such that the answering of a prayer of a human being, an inOnite part of that universe, becomes incomprehensible, and in re ply he argued that the idea of God as the spiritual and direct father of all people does away with the objection. The evangelist quoted the scriptural verse, "Ye roceive not, because ye ask not." Ho defined the five powers of man as the power of life, the power of speech, the power of action, the power of money, and the power of prayer, and held that the greatest is the power of prayer. He declared life to be use less without prayer, and quoted in sup port of his statements that "prayer will unquestionably be answered If made with faith. HohNon'M Suljeet. Power.' "Power," was the subject or the ad dress by Rev. Tilman Hob son at the Broadway Presbyterian' church last evening, In the central district. His b:' V (P 1 theme was that jower is promised with the coining of the Holy Ghost. "I can not understand how any one in Rock Island can be anything but a Christian." said Mr. Hobson. in refer ing to a visit he made to Rock Island firsenal. He spoke of the beauties A nature to be seen here, and pictured eacti as an l ni k.u o; '. n.irr.l y of the power of the Almighty. He drew many happy illustrations of his ser mon frcm the operation of the arsenal. "Athletes, business men, and politi cians, fndure almost everything in or der to attain the power they desire, and tthv, when spiritual power is prom ised. With the only condition that we lecome filled with the Holy Spirit," should we not take advantage of the promi.-e." With reference to the Bible, the speaker said that to his know ledge not one of them had ever failed of fulfillment, when the conditions had been lnlUlled. and he expressed abso lute confidence that no one could doubt that the promise of power should be fulfilled when the conditions were met. FEES BELONG TO STATE, SAYS COURT Former Treasurer Henry Wulf's Case Decided Affects $631,00 in All. Springfield, III., April 18. Illinois won an important victory yesterday in the case instituted by Governor De neen against former State Treasurer Henry Wulf of Chicago, to recover fees alleged to be due the state for commissions retained by the state treasurers and auditors of public ac counts on Interest on county and muni cipal bonds which they have collected from holders of the bonds. The suit against Wulf was a test case. The amount claimed by the governor, in cluding interest, is $031,000. Accord ing to today's decision the money must be returned or the case taken to the supreme court. WILLIE H0PPE IS BEATEN By George Sutton Who Established a New World's Record. Xew York, April IS. The shortest and most exciting game of the world's championship 1S-2 billiard tournament was played last night and a new world's record established. George Sutton, in defeating Willie Hoppe, the world's champion at 18-1 balk line bll Hards, in the l."th game of the tourna ment made 500 points in five innings, an average of which constitutes a new world's record. The former rec ord was o0. held by Maurice Vignaux of Paris, "who made it in competition four years ago. The highest run of the tournament previous to last night was ICS, and Sut ton made it, but he outclassed this with 2?A unfinished last night. This was the final inning and there is no telling how far he could have gone if opportunity had presented itself, for he had the balls under perfect control. The biggest run of record in 18-2 balk line billiards is 2C5, made by Louis Cure of France, in a match with Jacob Schaefer of Chicago 18 months ago in Paris. Hoppe's score when the game was finished was 118. ABOUT THE COURT HOUSE. Real Estate Transfers. Frank Ohaver to Paul Ohaver, e',4 sw sec. .'. 16. 5w, $1,200. R. I. M. B. & S. association to Robert P. Cowley, part lot 3, block 11, C. T. Edward's sub div., sec. 33, IS, lw, $1,300. .1. B. Oakleaf to Elmer E. Morgan, part assessor's lots 9 and 10, w',4 nw sec. 33, IS, lw, $3,500. E. II. Stafford to Emil Johnson, lot IT. block 11. Sil vis. $223. Georgiana M. Fowler to Cornelia E. Hubbard, undivided 10-27 lot 2. asses sor's plat. sec. 32. IS, lw, $1,100. B. II. H. B. L. & S. association to Al bert C. Woodyatt, part lot 4. block 4, Wood's First add., Moline, $3,200. , Frank H. Miser to Victorine Styvart, lot. 3, block 2, Second Fairmount add., Moline, $900. John Larson to Anthony Larson, part lots 2 and 3, block 3, McCain's add., Moline, $2,000. . Ben Peter Larson to Allen H. Zieg ler, part outlot 2, Ryder & Read's add:, Moline, $2,900. - ' Jackson and Babcock to Drury A. Babcock. lot C, 7, btock 4, Wheelock's Fifteenth street add.; lot 5, block 2, Third Wheelock Fifteenth street add.. Moline, $1. Mary A. Wallick to Lcuie Leverich, lot 12. block 4. College Heights add., Rock Island. $300. William E. Bailor to Harry L. Hud son, part lot 8, block 1, W. E. Bailey's Twelfth street add.. Rock Island, $350. The little folks love Dr. Wood's Nor way Pine Syrup. Pleasant to take; perfectly harmless; positive cure for coughs, colds, bronchitis, asthma. NOTHING TO ARBITRATE Is Reply of Anthracite Operators to Miners. PRINCIPLES SETTLED However, Way is Left Open for Unions to Make New Offer. New York, April IS. Subcommittees of the anthracite coal carrying rail roads and mine operators drew up a letter to President Mitchell in which the operators again declare there Is nothing to arbitrate except the ques tion whether there shall be any arbi tration. This reply is made in response to Mitchell's recent amended proposi tion for arbitration. Not I'olnf lllaok. The operators do not, however, refuse point blank to accept Mitchell's latest plan. They assert all the differences between the miners and employers were decided by the strike commis sion, and there is no reason why an other attempt should be made to arbi trate them. After describing the pre vious steps of the two sides and com menting upon the plans suggested by the miners, the operators aver that the miners have rejected all their proposi tions and that they have nothing fur ther to offer. Principle Settled. "The fundamental principles regard ing the conduct of this business have all been established by the strike com mission." the operators declare. "No reason is suggested why they should be retried. We have no further sug gestions to make than those contained n our former proposition, and we re gret that you have declined both of them. We have nothing further to offer." The operators assert Ihe min ers offer to waive the formal recogni- nwii tji i in- iiuiii'is union is noi ma terial and declate the miners' program would increase the cost of domestic sizes of coal by $1.20 a ton. WITTE REMAINS PREMIER Dumovo Will Be Dismissed Before the New Congress Meets. St. Petersburg, April 18. The Asso ciated Press is in a position to con firm the report that Witte now has definitely got the upper hand of Min ister of the Interior Durnovo. Th downfall of the latter Is a matter only of days, or weeks at most, as Em peror Nicholas has promised to dis miss him before the national parlia ment meets. STATE REGENT REELECTED Illinois Daughters of the Revolution Chcose Officers. Washington. April 18. Mrs. B. A, Fessenden of Highland Park, III., we reelected state regent at a meeting of the Illinois delegation to the Daugh ters of the American Revolution con gress. Mrs. Ireton of Ottawa wax elected vice regent to succeed Mrn. Edwin Sawyer Walker. George W. Perkins Arrested. New York, April 18. George W. Pep- kins, banker and member of Ihe firm of J. Pierpont Morgan & Co., was a prisoner in a west Bide court yeRterday morning, charged with a violation of the rules of the road by driving on the wrong side of the street. After exact ing a promise that he would not again repeat the violation. Magistrate Barlow discharged Mr. Perkins from custody. , Is the Moon Inhabited? 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