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Washington, April 18.In a special
message delivered to congress today,
President Boosevelt declares that the
result of the recent trial of the beef
packers in Chicago was a "miscarriage
of justice" and that the interpretation
placed by Judge J. Otis Humphrey on
the will of congress is such as to make
that will absolutely abortive."
The message, which is most sensa
tional in character, is based largely on
a letter to the president from Attor
ney General Moody, in which the at
torney general reviews the proceedings
of the case of the government against
the beef packers. The president says
it is clear that no criticism attaches
to Commissioner Garfield, as what he
did was in pursuance of a duty im
posed on him by congress.
SHpCK IS
HORRO OF
I N SAN
PRESIDENT SCORES
IMMUNITY DECISION
Scores Judge Humphrey.
He refers sharply, however, to the
decision of Judge Humphrey, saying
that congress could not have foreseen
euch a decision and that he can hardly
believe that the ruling of Judge
Humphrey will be followed by other
judges. He declared that such inter
pretation of the law as that placed
on it by Judge Humphrey "comesmeas
urably near making the law a farce,"
and he recommends that congress pass
a declaratory act stating its real in
tention.
The president also requests congress
to confer upon the government, by
statute, the same right of appeal, in
criminal cases which the defendant now
enjoys, where the merits of the case
have not been determined.
The full text of the message follows:
Defends Garfield..
I submit herewith a letter of the attorney
general, enclosing a statement- of the proceed
ings by the United States against the Individuals
and corporations commonly known as the "beef
Washington, April 18.The SanFran
eistfb earthquake has reached across the
entire continent. The seismograph at
the weather bureau here showed such a
violent agitation about 8:30 o'clock this
morning that the pen passed off the
recording sheet. The instrument at 12
o'clock was still under vibration, show
ing that the earthquake has not cease*.
'Miscarriage of Justice," Declares President in
Message Regarding the
Packers' Cases.
Conflagration in Berkeley.
New York, April 18.The Western
Union received a report that a serious
fire is burning in Berkeley, where the
state university is located. The re
port came from Pinola, a station ten
miles out of San Francisco, and the
nearest point to the latter city which
the company has been able to reach up
the time of' this dispatch. Berkeley is
between Pinola and San Francisco.
At the offices of the St. Louis & San
Francisco railroad in this city a mes
sage was received from the company's
agent in Nevada, saying that the earth-
EASTERNERS ARE SAFE
packers," and commenting upon the decision of
District Judge Humphrey. The result has been
a miscarriage of Justice.
It clearly appears from the letter of the
attorney general that no criticism whatever
attaches to Commissioner Garfield what he did
was in strict accordance with the law and in
pursuance of a duty imposed on him by con
gress could not be avoided, and of course con
gress, in passing the Martin resolution, could
not possibly have foreseen the decision of Judge
Humphrey.
But this interpretation by Judge Humphrey flf
the will of the congress, as expressed in legis
lation, is such as to make that will absolutely
abortive. Unfortunately there is grave doubt
whether the government has the right of ap
peal from this decision of the district judge.
The case well illustrates the desirability of
conferring upon the government the same right
of appeal in criminal cases on questions of law
which the defendant now has, In all cases
where the defendant had not been pot in Jeop
ardy by a trial upon the merits of the charge
made against him.
The laws of many of the states', and the law
of the District of Columbia recently enacted by
the congress, give the government the right of
appeal. A general law of the character indi
cated should certainly 1)e enacted/
Wants General Interpretation.
Furthermore it is very desirable to enact a
law declaring the true construction of the ex
isting legislation so far as it affects immunity.
I can hardly believe that the ruling of Judge
Murphy will be followed by other judges, but
If It should be followed the result would be
either completely to nullify very much, and
possibly the major part of the good to be ob
tained from the interstate commerce law and
from the law creating the bureau of corporations
in the department of commerce and labor, or
else frequently to obstruct an appeal to the
criminal laws br the department of Jnstlce.
There #eems to be no good reason why the de
partment of justice, the department of com
merce and labor and the Interstate commerce
commission each should not, for the common
good, proceed within its own powers withont
undue interference with the functions of the
other.
It is of course necessary, under the conatl-
Continued on 2d Page, 6th Column.
San Francisco, April 18.For the benefit of the eastern people who
have friends visiting in San Francisco, it is safe to say that they are not
injured, as the loss of life was confined to the cheap lodginghouses and
the wholesale districts.
All persons in the larger hotels escaped, and most of their effects
have been removed and are out of the way of the fire peril.
quake shock was severely felt thruout
Nevada andfthat all wire's were thrown
down west of Reno.
LATE BULLETINS.
PALACE HOTEL BURNING.
San Francisco, April 18.The Palace hotel is mow on fire. Other buildings
in fire are the Claus Spreckels structure, seventeen stories high the Phelan
tmilding and the O'Farrell store.
The Costly Gity Hall at San Francisco
Which Is Now a Huge Mass of Debris
Shock Severe in Sacramento.
Sacramento, Cal., April 18.The se
verest earthquake felt in this city in
many years occurred at 5:13 o'clock
this morning. Buildings rocked like
cradles. Many clocks stopped.
No serious damage was done. A few
cracks were discovered fin the stone
postoffiee building. Slight damage was
done to some brick buildings
Chimneys and water tanks were
shaken down at Suisan, Solano county,
and at Tracy, San Joaquin county.
Machine Shop Wrecked.
San Francisco, April 18.The Santa
Fe roundhouse and machine shop at
Point Richmond, across the bay, have
collapsed.
The earthquake was not seriously felt
at other points along the coast so far
as can be ascertained.
a?his Beautiful $7,000,000 Building, Razed tar the Earthquake. S&P^"
Til- l"l A*-M^MMfciIMMaBpMBM
CITY HALL, cost $7,000,000, in ruins.
VALENCIA HOTEL, between Seventeenth
and Eighteenth streets, on Valencia, topples
into street. Seventy-five buried.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Eleventh street,
badly damaged.
CALL BUILDING^ Third and Market, prao
tically ruined.
EXAMINER BUILDING, Third and Market,
practically ruined.
WESTERN UNION BUILDING, Kearney
street, badly wrecked.
PALACE HOTELBacUv shaken. Now in
path of flames.
ST. FRANCIS HOTELBadly shaken. In
terior damaged.
EMPIRE BUILDING, Oakland, collapses.
Five dead in ruins.
MANY FROM THIS
CITY IN FRISCO
Anxious Hearts in Minneapolis,
and No One Able to Get
Tidings of Friends.
Great anxiety and extreme nervous
apprehensiveness were evident at the
Chamber of Commerce and in the local
hotels and cafes, where friendsf of Min
neapolis people- now on the Pacific coast
crowded around the bulletin boards and
the tickers, reading with suppressed
emotion the news of the earthquake.
The telegraph offices "were besieged
with inquirers and numerous messages
were filed for San Francisco and other
southern California points despite the
knowledge.of inability to secure prompt
connection.
Call after call came inonThe Jour
nal telephones, and anxious voices
begged information as to the extent
of the catastrophe. The Journal
bore the first news to Minneapolis peo
ple in an early extra, copies of which
were eagerly bought up, nd succeeding
extra editions of The Journal were
in insistent demand.
Minneapolis People There.
Many Minneapolis, people are in the
west but the tide of tourists flows to
southern California rather than to San
Francisco. Still, many of the'-travelers
from this city are known to have in
cluded San Francisco in theii-itinerary.
T. B. Walker's sons and daughters,
Mr. and Mrs. Willis Walker and Mr.
and Mrs. Clinton Walker, and their fam
ilies are near San Francisco. They
live in Piedmont, ai hopes are enter
tained that theirs is one of the districts
which has escaped the ravages of the
earthquake.
Mr. Walker returned only yesterday
from San Francisco. In speaking of
the earthquake he said:
"During my visits in San Francisco
shocks and minor earthquakes' have
been" frequent occurrences, and I re
member one evening, a year ago last
December, when I was giving an ad
dress before the Y. M. C. A., in San
Francisco, we experienced a .^shock
which scattered the furniture about,
the hall and created terrible confusion.
I was obliged to discontinue my ad
dress for almost an hour. *We are in
hopes that the members of our fami
lies are safe, as they are in Piedmont,
MARKET ST, PRINCIPAL TKOR0l|kE,SCENE OF HEAVIEST LOSS
To the Left in the Foreground Is the Palace Hotel, now Intact in the Background Is the Six-
teen-Story Building of the San Francisco Call (Destroyed), and Between the Palace and the Call Build-
ings Is the Examiner Building, also Destroyed. Across the Street from the Call Building Stood the
Home of the Chronicle, While in the Foreground on the right Are the Telegraph Offices and the Asso-
ciated Press Building, Which Were Badly Backed... This View Is Looking Up Market Street from Mont-
gomery Street, Away from the Bay.
The Buildings in San Francisco
That Havc Been"Razed or Racked
:J
SINGfi&EY HOTEL, Seventh street, ,te-
tween Howard' and Mission, collapses, bx
between seventy-five and eighty persons, RuinjM*&r* WFjETpAL LIFE BUILDING, California and
burning. Y".* Sansoine destroyed.
LIPMAN DRY GOODS, Twenty-second and NAIOMA BUILDING, Second and Market
Mission, burned. destroyed.
one of the outlying residential districts,
which was only severely shaken up.''
C. A. Smith, who is traveling on the
coast with Hugh Bellas of New Yprk,
is supposed to have been in San Fran
cisco, but no news has reached ^here
from the two men.
1
E. P. Wells of the Wells & Dickey
company, is one of the Minneapolis
men who was last heard of from San
Francisco. Mr. Wells is accompanied
by Mrs. Wells.
J. H. Queal of the rm of J. H.
Queal & Co., Minneapolis, with offices
in the Sheare building, San Francisco,
is in that city with Mrs. Queal. Mrs.
John Lind and daughter are also in
Berkeley or San Francisco, and former
Governor Lind has received no news
from them. Mrs. Charles Elliott
Thompson, a former Minneapolis girl,
is visiting this month in San Fran
cisco. Mr. Thompson is the son of. B.
N. Thompson of this city, and has
lived on the coast the past year.
Anxiously Awaiting News.
Mrs. W. K. Pennell of 8036 Clinton
avenue is anxiously awaiting news from
her father, M. T. Smith, who resides
on Folsom street, twenty minutes' ride
from the Palace hotel. An aunt of
Mrs. Pennell and a nephew live next
door tocher father.
Dr. and Mrs. F. E. Westbrook of the
University of Minnesota have cousins,
Mr. and Mrs. John Robertson, who make
their home in San Francisco they were
residents of Minneapolis for several
years.
Miss Helen Fifield, formerly of the
South Side high school, is a Minneapo
lis resident now in San Francisco. Miss
Florence Sylvester, a cousin of Mrs.
Frank N. Stacy, Mrs. George M. Eddy,
and Mrs. D. Draper Dayton and a niece
of N. H. Winchell and Mrs. E. D. Brann
of this city, is a student at the medical
college of the state university, Berke
ley, and lives on Washington street,
San Francisco. Her mother, Mrs. A.
H. Sylvester, has been spending the
past two months in Pasadena. Mr.'
and Mrs. L. B. Davenport and Miss
K. Lind, former residents of Minneapo
lis, also live now in- San Francisco.
Miss Rachel Beard is a student at
Leland Stanford university. Mr. and
Mrs* Frank Hamilton are residents of
San Francisco. Mrs. Hamilton was
_KR BLOCK, Market and Pine .burned.
^PACIFIC STATES TELEPHONE COM
PANY'S BUILDING, New Montgomery street
destroyed.
TO BUILDING, Mission and Market
POSTAL BUILDINGDestroyed.
LICK HOUSEBadly damaged.
HOBART BUILDINGDestroyed.
STUDEBAKER BUILDING, Tenth and Mar
ket badly damaged.
HALL OF JUSTICETottering and ex
pected to fall.
MAJESTIC THEATERDestroyed.
POSTOFFICECollapsed.
FISH MARKET, Clay and Merchants
street burning.
GRAND OPERAHOUSETen-story build
ing adjoining Third and Mission streets afire
and doomed.
SEES TIDAL WAVE PERIL
Rochester, N. Y., April 18\"Another and even a~ graver disaster
than the earthquake threatens San Francisco. A tidal wave would not be
an unlooked-for accompaniment to the present seismic disturbances," said
Professor H. L. Fairchild of the University of Rochester today. "Much
of San Francisco is only twelve feet above tidewater, and this fact ren-
ders it particularly liable to destruction in such an event."
WEDNESDAY EVENING^APRIL .18,% 1906. 22 PAGESFIVE O'CLOCK. 3
Miss Pauline Kruger of Minneapolis.
Major John Bigelow of Hennepin
avenue, whose wife a'nd daughter, Mrs.
Bigelow and Mrs. Gardner-Hodson, are
visiting their relative, Mrs. Dodge, at
her home, 2015 Frankpn street, San
Francisco.
Dr. George H. Martin, formerly of
Minneapolis, and brother of Arthur
Martin at the Palace hotel, of the
Chamber of Commerce, has resided at
the Palace hotel in Sail Francisco for
several years past. Nothing has been
heard from him to this time. George
B. Douglas of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, who
is a brother of Walter D. Douglas, the*
Minneapolis capitalist, came up with
Mrs. Douglas from Santa Barbara to
San Francisco- preparatory to starting
east, and they were to have left San
Francisco today.
Mrs. W. H. Chambers, wife of the
manager of the Peavey Elevator com
pany, was to leave San Francisco to
day. With her were J. W. Chambers
and wife of Des Moines, Iowa,'father
and mother of Mr. Chambers. They
were at the Hamilton hotel, which is
on Market street, iust off EUis: and
near the center of destruction W. H.
Chambers left San Francisco a week
ago and is in Minneapolis.
Scores of Messages.
Scores of messages were filed here
for Salt Lake City in hope of inter
cepting travelers or drawing some en
couragement, bu't nothing was obtain
able.
A number of prominent Minneapolis
people were in California until recently,
some in San Francisco. A week ago
there were thirty Minneapolis tran
sients on the hotel registers, but most
of them left and some are already
home. C. M. Harrington and wife,
Dan Raymond, James S. Bell and J. S:
Bell,' Jr., and wife, General George B:
Wilson and S. T.'McKnight were there
recently, but.all are home now. Mrs.
B. H.-Morgan and daughter are at Los
Angeles.
St. Paul people now in San Francisco,
and not heard from to this time are
Charles* Northrop, Mr. and Mrs. George
H. Hailowell, Dr. Frank Carpenter and
wife and Mrs. Pepper, mother of Mrs.
Hailowell and Mrs. Carpenter.
The Misses Susan and Anna Christian
of Minneapolis were in San Francisco
yesterday en route to Honolulu, and
were to have sailed today.
i i
HEART OF CITY
LIES IN RUINS:
LOSS APPALLING
Horror Grows as Fire Continues the* Awful
Work of Destruction Begun by
the Earthquake.
Many Dead and Dying in the Debris
2 Business District a Scene of
Desolation.
1.000 MAT BE DEAD.
San Francisco, April 18.(3 p.m.)At this hoar it is estimated that the
earthquake and ftre have cost 1,000 lives, with twice as many injured. The
financial loss already done will foot into the scores of millions.
The dead are being carted from the destroyed buildings in dozens in the
lodginghouse district. The city is full of injured.
Thousands are fleeing from the city. All means of transportation ara
cut off. ~*i
San Francisco, April 18.By earthquake and by fire San Francisco waff'""
today the scene of most appalling disaster.
Hundreds of lives have been lost and the value of the property destroyed
will mount well up into.the millions.
.With the: terror still gripping the populace, with*bursted gas mains adding
to the fierceness of the fire now raging in the debris and with the water supply
cut off, it is as yet impossible to give an adequate estimate of the calamity.:
But it is one which has set at naught all organized agencies for averting or
minimizing catastrophes to life and property
Thruout the entire business district of the city there is hardly a building
that is not razed or racked almost beyond repair. In the heaya of flaming debris
there axe known to be hnndreds of human bodies. ,'i^
?%$.\.XT MARKET STBBBT ^VASTATED. 'I^C.
Market street, the pride of the eify and its best business thorofare, is the 1
scene of the worst desolation. The iky-scraping- Call building, sixteen stories
high, is racked and burning the city hall is a mass of ruins the great retail
stores are in heaps, or are tottering, while the fear of another shock impels
people.to keep away from that portion of the city where high buildings line
the streets.
Thus has San Francisco paid the penally for forgetting the wisdom of its
founders, who lived in fear of the earthquake and who decreed that in their
time the city should be one of low, light structures.
Heavy as is the loss, of life, it would have been still more heartrending had i
not the disaster come at an early hour when the streets were deserted except 3
by those who had lingered long at their night work or had come down town
early to begin the labor of the day. J"i
WHOLE CITY TBBMBLE8.
It was at 5:10 a.m. that the first sickening tremor came, speedily followed
by the rolling and rocking of the ground.
This shock was felt over a large area and was equally severe thruout the,.
city, but the damage was largely confined to that district where business build*
ings of stone and brick construction lined the streets in heavy masses. The
lower part of Market street is on made ground reclaimed from the bay, and it
was here that the worst effects of the shock were felt, tho the $7,000,000 ctty.
hall, at Sixteenth street, which was razed, w,as fully a mile and a bajf frony
the bay.
As huge masses of masonry crashed down into the streets, yawning chasms
opened in the" ground and chaos came in the twinkling of an eye. Not more
than a minute from the first hard shock the aspect of the stricken distrtot was
changed. But this was not all. The terror of fire was to be added to the horror
of the earthquake. Except along the bay within range of streams from the
firetugs there was no protection against the fire, which was soon raging in the
ruins, for the watermains had been destroyed by the heaving of the ground.
Screams from the wrecked buildings told the awful story of those who had es-
caped death by the shock only to die prisoned by heavy timbers, while those of
their eUowmen who dared to traverse the death-lined streets were powerless
to help. __
Hour by hour the horror grew as the fire worked its way up Market street
and racked buildings toppled over or were blown up with dynamite to stay toe
progress of the flames., ^___ J-:
DETAILS OF THE DISASTER
Bulletins Tell the Story of the Awful Calamity Which Ha Oome
Upon San Francisco.
San Francisco, April 18.The post
office has entirely collapsed.
The fish market at Clay and Mer
chant streets has collapsed.
Chief of Police Sullivan and his wife
have been badly injured..
The Grand operahouse is now aflame
and doomed.
The ten-story building at Third and
Mission streets, adjoining the Grand
operahouse is apparently doomed, as
are other big buildings between the
theater and St. Patrick's church.
Gas Works Blown Up.
The gas 'works, south of Market
steeet, have been blown up and started
another big fire in that section of the
city.
A portion of the Mission, several
miles from the business section of the
city, is in flames.
The fire beran at Twenty-second
street^ and is rapidly'moving eastwards
Should the wind increase, it may sweep
the entire southern section of the city.
Tive Hilled in Oakland.
In Oakland five nersons were killed
by the collapse of the Empire building.
The Gore block, at, the junction of
Market and Pine streets, is in flames
and probably will be a" total loss.
Mayor Schmitz, Chief of Police Dinan
and General Funston, commander of the
department of the Pacific, met this the
3
immediately to take measures f*reltef
and protection of the sufferers by dia-
morning and General Funston called all
the available troops for service if neceB- kj^Altho flames are raging en all sides
sary in the'emergency.
The. board of supervisors will meet .Continued on d Paces. 2d .Column.
li n.-Ji. -1-W. ^tiifa mm*m
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Chief of Fire Department Sullivan Is
lying in a very precarious condition,
Morgue Overfilled.
Twenty-one bodies have been taken
to the morgue, which cannot accommO'
date any more.
Mayof Schmidt established headquar
ters at the hall of justice and has ap
pointed a relief committee of fifty prom
inent .citizens.
The military are patrolling the streets,
guarding the banks and other establish
ments. They have received orders top
shoot anyone on sight detected in theft.'
Fire has started in the sixteen-story
Call building on Third street, and is
now burning fiercely in the interior
the building, but as yet has4
not spreafo
beyond the fourth floor. The building
is also threatened on the Market street
side, only. one structure separating it
from the flames, which swept every
thing on the south side of Market street
from Fourth almost to Third.
The end of the eleven-story Monad
nock building, now Bearing completion,
has fallen out, and the flames threaten
to cause great Are loss. The front of
the Monadnock was badly: cracked by
the earthquake. ...-y. -g |j|
C, iff Palace Hotel S Stands."