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1* ll 5P I P4, i- i _r i *.*A p. m1 -1 I E i. i-\ 4 5r S Anthony Hope WM Starts a new story"Sophy of ^Kravonia''in The Journal'''f next Sunday. PRICE TWO CENTS. Earthquake That Wrecked San Fran cisco Leveled Santa Rosa in Dust. Fire Follows Shock. This destruction includes all of the county buildings. The four-story court house, with its high dome, is merely 5i pile of broken masonry. Nothing is eft. Identification is impossible. Wh at was not destroyed by the earthquake has been swept away by fire. Until the flames started there was hope of saving the residence dis trict. I was soon apparent that any Buch idea that might have been enter tained was to be abandoned. Homes Deserted. End tifty Killed by Crashing Buildings in San Jose-Insane Asylum De stroyed at Agnew. Ban Francisco, April 19.Reports S from the interior are most alarming. Santa Rosa, one of the prettiest eities of the state, in the prosperous county ovf Sonoma, is a total wreck. ,There are 10,000 homeless men, women and children huddled together. Loss of Life Appalling. The loss of life is not tfi be esti mated. I will probably reach the ithousands. i A the last great seismic tremor spent its force in the earth the whole business portion tumbled into ruins. The main street is piled ma ny feet ideep with the fallen buildings. No one business building is left intact. This was appreciated by the citizens i they prepared to desert their omes. Not even their hoia^hold goods jlwere taken. 'They made for the fields find hills to watch the destruction of W of the most- beautiful tities of the !rest Destruction Elsewhere. Messengers bring the saddest tidings f the destruction of Healdsburg, Gey sea-ville, Cloverdale. Hopland and iTkiah. This report takes the coun try as far north as Mendocino and Lake counties and as far west as the Pacific i ocean. These are frontier counties and ihave not as large .towns as farther south. In every case the loss of life and property is as shocking as here. SAYS HUNDREDS PERISHED Traveler Brings News of Awful, De i struction in Santa Rosa. Sacramento, April 19.Oscar Lucas arrived here last night from Santa ,Rosa. left there at 3 o'clock p.m. yesterdav. says: "There is not a briek or stone build ing standing in Santa Rosa, and the en Itire devastated territory has been burned over. "Dead bodies are being taken from jthe debris of wrecked houses on all sides. I is estimated that the death roll will total from 200 to 500." Big Loss at Napa. A Napa ma ny buildings were shat tered, and the loss will amount to $300,- 000. N loss of life is reported. Valle-jo the damage was slight in com .parison with that suffered in other 1 eities. The loss will be about $10,000. FIFTY DIE I N SAN JOSE ^Every Business Building Reported De molished in Flourishing City. Oakland, Cal., April 19.At San Jose he Vendome hotel and annex were wrecked and ten or fifteen persons .killed. The Doherty block was com ipletely burned and one woman killed there. Dr. Grow was killed, and bis wife badly injured. 1 Every business building is demol ished, martial law has been proclaimed, |End 500 deputies and the militia are [patrolling the town. I is estimated that fifty were killed. The postoffice was half wrecked. The (First Presbyterian church was totally demolished, and the courthouse ruined. Passengers from other cities bring itales of death and disaster at Santa iCruz, Monterey, Gilroy and Hollister. .The death list at Santa Cruz is report led large. BRAWLEY WIPED OUT ffown of 500 Inhabitants Practically Destroyed by Tornado Los Angeles, April 19.Eeports from tTJrawley, a small town on the Southern fPacific 120 miles north of Lo Angeles, state that the town was practically wiped out by the earthquake of yester tdav. This is the only town in southern .-California known to have suffered from the shock. Southern Pacific officials here today say the following buildings, .all brick structures were destroyed: Braylew bank building, Paulin build ling and the principal merchandise Ibuildings of the town. I addition doz rens of adobe houses were razed. S :far as known there were no fatalities. Brawley is about two years old and had 'a population of about 500. ASYLUM WRECKEDMAN DEAD hundreds of Insane Meet Dea th or Escape to the Woods. Los Angeles, April 19.One hundred and twenty bodies have been taken out of the Agnew insane asylum near Santa Clara, and there are probably 150 more corpses in the ruins. The magnificent structure was demolished. It is reported that the attaches of he institution who -were about at the time were saved.. The building is a total wreck. The ruins took fire shortly after the FRISCO HORROmilNAR HUNDREDS MM, $ MA^V DEAD IN NEAR-BY CITIES LOSSES I N OTHER CITIES SANTA ROSA Practically wrecked from 200 to 300 killed. SAN JOSE Many buildings wrecked fifty killed. AGNEWMagnificent insane asy lum wrecked 120 corpses already removed from ruins 150 more are buried. SALINAS Property damage in and near city, $4,000,000. WATSONVILLE Academy and several buildings demolished. DEL MONTE HOTEL (near Sa linas) Three chimneys crash thru roof, killing bride and bride groom. HOLLISTERBig warehouse de stroyed woman killed husband insane. OAKLANDHeavy property loss five killed. ALAMEDALoss $200,000 several seriously injured. BERKELYExtensive damage, tho university buildings are un scathed. PALO ALTOLeland Stanford buildings all racked several magnificent structures ruined. Other losses not given. MARTINEZBig bank building, destroyed other damage none killed. SAN USATEOBursted watermaft floods place exte nt damage not reported. HEALDSBURGBadly damaged no definite reports. GEYSERVILLEDeath and disas ter no definite news. OLOVERDALEDestroyed noth ing definite. HOPLANDProbably badly dam aged nothing definite. UKIAHDestruction reported nothing definite.' NAPAMany buildings shattered loss $300,000 none killed. VALLEJOLoss of $10,000. SANTA CRUZGreat calamity death list large. MONTEREYDeath and disaster. GILROYTravelers report heavy losses. BRAWLEYPractically wiped out. LOS BANOSHeavy damage. collapse. There "were about 700 per sons in the building. The above report has been officially confirmed, and ttCis added scores of the inmates who -escaped death are roaming about the country in a state of panic. FIVE KILLED I N OAKLAND Lodgers Crushed When Hotel Collapses Many Buildings Condemned. Oakland, Cal., April 19.Thee_ uak wh Fra nc ^^^&kk^^&^MkMikiM^^^^ such il i!5* ^L 's\r:,Ji'- 'l.-*" i?* 8 da a *havoearth- citv. Many chimneys in privates houses, mercantile establishments and manufacturing institutions were knocked down. I some cases holes were torn in the walls of business Continued on 2d Page, 1st Column 3 Conflagration still rages, and destruction of every building of value in tie city appears inevitable. Flames invade the fashionable Nob Hill residence section, destroying mansions of rich. Every business building is totally ruined, eight square miles being fire-swept, The lowest estimate of the number killed today is placed at 1,000. Some reputable California papers place the death loss as high as 2,500. Many of the dead will never be found, as many bodies were incinerated. Famine now threatens the city, as scarce as food. MAYOR E. SCHMITZ, Head of the Civic Relief Work. c*K*!e*XKKK*3eKa**WKE**KXX*K***3ex* RATIONS OBDffl N. FOR THEIOMELESS rf^V a large number of tents from Vancou- be at the disposition of the authorities asked whether he needs additional troops to assist him^ in his work and if so Secretary Taft will give orders EXAMINER BUILDING, T^IRD ANP MARKET STREETS BESJROYEDg^ Thz Situation Mihi^ricMnQM *v War Dejjarteflaent Iffakes. ..Evfry Effort to Relieve Suffer mg in Frisco. tW Washington, April 19."Prompt.,. ac tion has been taken by the war depart ment in extending to the earthquake sufferers of San Francisco all the avail able- resources at its command/* relieve i if vide shelter for the homeless. Two hundred thousand rations have movement in Denver. been directed to be sent from Van-! *n,i-. +fQi\t couver Barracks to San Francisco and at the earliest date practicable. I that they be sent to him. Secretary Taft was awakened af ter midnight to receive General Fun ston's first report, and then held an early morning conference with General Bell, the chief of staff and Commissary General Sharpe. General Bell remained on duty all night, making his head quarters at the White House offices and sending orders in various directions for dispatch of supplies to San Fran cisco. For the present it is the hope of the "officials at Washington that the sup plies to be sent to General Funston will relieve all immediate necessities. ri 'Si---* Drinking water is The minimum estimate of financial loss in "San mwnwMwwMwmMmtmMMwHMirtimMmmni CITIZEN S OBI AIOMSKliS Country, Aroused, Pledges Relief Fuofe for ^sm of Catastrophe. thel ban ll an cc .^KANSAS ciTy^Matt On S General Funston, who is command presene neceesi- of the army at San Francisco, has been thruou th calanilt IRraneisco alone is placed at $200,000,000 today. -JO BS is growing constantly. %V -San Francisco at 5 p.m. yesterday was completely cut off from communication by telegraph. Messages now received are taken to Oakland by boat and relayed from there. ^Heroic efforts being mader$b relieve the suffering. Th war department is rushing tents and hundreds of 'thousand rounds of rations to the city. Governors and mayors of several states are offering aid. Congress is -rushing thru bill appropriating $500,000 for immediate ^relief.. f. Governor Pardee has ^proclafmod 4he day a state Tfholiday. -.-Railroads, express and-telegraph companies will carry all relief articles and messages pertaining to Relief free of charge. booksa withf them for ther*o purposde ohfe starting relie fund for the California earthquake suf 'ferers. Appeals of the same nature were also made by the mayors of--Allegheny and McKeasport. BURLINGTON, IOWAA ftthd for the relieft of San,. Francisco ^sufferersJ. wast |tarted last' aight, oag, ct*|^en heading the| [subscription with$iW -*.:'%o 15 i tda 01! Bea San Francisco sufferer?. dsle issued a prdclamatior caMing^ a mass^ci^** T*aJteik meeting tonfght to aifange relieHfor the i** DBNVBRAnticipating the suffering that will follow the earthquake and fire disaster in San Francisco yesterday and the need of outside help, Governor Jesse H. McDonald will appoint a committee today to start a relief fund on b&half of Colorado in behalf of the. sufferers in the stricken city. The governor telegraphed Governor Pardee of California to that e Mayof Speer^and A. J. n)s*}- Wants of the distressedlandWpro-!Spengel of the chamber of wi co-operate wKh the governor the Sch fl ,f n, l_t raT ver Sad other military points.. The |Francisco by the, relief committee of this supplies will be forwarded with all the committee of Los An- expedmon POS9ibl ttat they ,es, realizing the severity of the disas- tcommerce, f 1 a ^SKL.JSSr was wWc ha befaUe tn m6 0 gta hereW polis of ith pledges thr sum of trustIn that this-action will stir a re onsiv chor eer & communitye country, av we realize th othernea tiionaly character.- Kindly adviseb if an other meth od by which we can co-operate, as we stand ready and anxious to respond to every call made upon us." 30LiDPIELD NEV.Goldfleld, in the heart of the southern Nevada gold min ing district, yesterday raised $4,300 for the California sufferers. It is expected that the fund will amount to $10,000 by night. Twice that amount is promised if the need requires. NEW YORKM. Guggenheims Sons to day notified General Funston that they had contributed $50,000 for the relief of the San Francisco sufferers. STOCKTON, CAL..Failing to reach San Francisco authorities by wire, Mayor Gardner of Stockton left here for San Francisco this morning personally to offer Stockton's aid. Little or no damage was done here. PHILADELPHIAThe citizens' per manent relief association met today and decided to send $25,000 to- San Francisco for the relief of the earthquake sufferers. Barclay H. Warburton, publisher of the Evening Telegraph, today sent a telegram to Mayor Schmitz of San Francisco, that he is preparing a relief train and that he would notify the mayor when the train would leave Philadelphia, NEW YORKPresident M. K. Jessup of the chamber of commerce has called a meeting of that body for tomorrow afternoon, when plans would be formu lated for the relief of San Francisco. N action can be taken in such matters with out the sanction- of the fulT organization. Madison, Wis.Mayor, Schubert today called a mass-meeting of citizens and Issued a proclamation in aid of the San Francisco sufferers. Lincoln, Neb.Governor Mickey today* issued a call to the people jpf Nebraska to contribute to a fund for tne benefit of the sufferers in San Francisco. The governor sent a message to Governor Pardee offering a fund. Madison, Wis., April 19.Madison, is going to the assistance of the San Francisco sufferers! Mayor Schubert appointed a committee today to solicit money. P. Spooner, a brother of Senator John C. Spooner, contributed $100, and the Madison Gas & Electric company the same amount.- ^Vf-5* NEW YORKPresident Clowhy of the Western Union Telegraph company made the following announcement today: "The Western Union company will transmit free domestic messages relating to the relief of sufferers at San Fran cisco when offered by duly constituted relief organizations or public, officers in .their official capacity. When destined to San Francisco messages W'.U be subject to. such delay as tlie conditions at that point impose," I n*f*rtiv* Paae THURSDAY EV^ENING^ ^AFRH- 19,^1906. 20 PAGESFIVE ^O'CLOCK. gtg|. #*ww--ew*r^*--^^ $y*. Thruout the United States, governors i i of states, mayors of cities and various commercial organizations^ are offering jj i aid for the sufferers in California, as indicated by the following dispatches I received by The Journal today: j' MARRISBURG, PA.Governor Penny Is packer today sent the following, telegram to Governor Pardee of California: "If i any help is needed- In San Francisco that Pennsylvania can render, let m& know." a i 3 PITTSBURGMayor Guthrie, has is sued a call to citizens for a mass meet ing this evening and told them to bring GEN. FBEDEBICK FTJNSTON, Who Has Declared Military Law in San Franciico, CONGRESS HASTENS i !0 OFFER BELIEF ._.-. IrStfrn.' a 21 Washington. April 19.Soon after the sena te was called to order today Mr. Perkins- introduced a joint resolution authorizing-the secretary of war to use rations and quartermaster supplies for the relief of destitute persons in the region devastated by earthquake and fire in California and making an appro priation of $500,000 to relieve the suf ferers. The secretary of war is authorized to use the steamers and other boats and vessels belonging or now employed by the government upon San Francisco bay or adjacent water in the distribution of supplies-furnished by the United States or individuals to and among such desti tute and suffering people. The reading of the journal was dis pensed with, to'permit the earliest pos sible presentation of the resolution. I offering it Mr. Perkins asked for imme diate consideration, dispensing with the formality of reference to a commit tee. N objection was made and the resolution was passed without comment. On requestof Mr. Perkins an order was passed ....directing the immediate tran mittal-of the resolution to the house of representatives. :i,' 4 i ::::::*::*:::::::::*:v.:*. *$' An. -faSfie S KeSOlXTClOll V0 Ap- propriate $500,000 and Offer" Other Aid to Frisco. Washington", April 19.The senate resolution appropriating $500,000 for the relief of the San Francisco earth-, quake sufferers was amended by the house committee on appropriations, the amount being increased to $1,000,000. HALL 6 jOSTfCE, KEARNEY AND WASHINGTON 9TOEETS, RUINED r*3 6Y0NO REPAIR. ^M PAIR .TONIgfHT AND FpAYCNWLEB TONIGHT. THE NUMBER KILLED WILL NEVER BE KNOWN San Franeisco,. April 19.It will be ma ny days before the complete story can be,to ld of the ruin wrought by the fire in Sa Francisco. The loss of life will never be known as ma ny bodies have been incinerated. Many corpses taken from ruins and placed in other buildings, have had to be abandoned to total destruction by fire, as the flames swept on, consuming the bouses in whi ch the dead lay. MANY BURNED ALIVE. Octavia and Golden Gate avenue" was a mass of flames. FIREMEN REPORT CITY DOOMED. Washington, April 19.-The war de partment has received the following bulletin from San Francisco: "Outside cities have been sending fire engines to Sa Francisco to assist in subduing flames, but it was found useless on account of there being no water, and they are now returning to -Oakland and other points. The fire men report the city doomed." Oakland, Cal., April 19.The fire is still raging thruout Sa Franciseo, and there is no possibility of stopping it until it exhausts itself for want of ma terial. The city is doomed. The authorities are still dynamiting buildings in the vain hope of checking the progress of the flames, but a new misfortune has befallen the place. The explosives for blowing up build ings are becoming exhausted, even the powder of the government arsenal* is all gone. Every business building and half of the residence portion of the city is destroyed. NOB HILL FERE SWEPT San Francisco's Fine Residence Section Devastated. New York, April 19.The Western Union received a report that early this morning the fire spread into the Nob Hill section of San Francisco. This is the section in which are located ma ny fine residences, including the Crocker and Huntington homes. There is no water and the march of the devastating conflagration continues unabated. Only a change of wind that MINNESOTA Rfead the Wants State I are many opportunities ICnflfflyou on Today's Want Every Downtown Building and Many Homes Destroyed- Conflagra- ij| tion Is Unchecked. /J Destructive Flames Invade Fashion* able Nob Hill DistrictMartial 1 Law Is Declared. i. Oakland, Cal., April 19.The corre spondent of the Oakland Tribune in San Francisco says: A 10 a.m. there seems to be prac tically no hope of saving any of the city. Those who were sanguine of the success of the firemen in controlling the flames have now given up hope and are now fleeing from the flames in despair. Many people are being burned alive, imprisoned in the doomed buildings, where the rescuers could not reach the&v -i The last bife structure to buVsl! into flames was Grace church, at the corner of California and Stockton streets. The entire district from Channel to Broadway and from the water? front to terrible Scene of Death and Destruc AREA WHAT DA*^L ~-**i* will drive the fire back upon its path of ruin can save the destruction of practically the whole of the city. This morning the magnificent Fir-' mont hotel, recently erected by Mrs. Oelrichs, was totally destroyed at a: loss of $2,000,000. THTBST FOLLOWS FAMINE 1 Thoooisands Lined Tip in Single Park^J Clamoring for Water. Washington, April 19.A Western Union bulletin to the war department^ from San Francisco says: '-J& "The Western Union and Southern" Pacific buildings have been totally de-/ stroyed. The fire is burning rapidly in' a diagonal line up the hill, commencing at McAllister and ending at battery street and on Main street as far as Sixteenth street. The water supply has given out, the wind-is rising and the military authori ties have just forbidden anyone to en ter the 'city. They have all they can handle without attempting any imore. The situation has not improved and already there is great suffering for food and water. "I saw a'line of thousands of people^ lined up in a park awaiting soldiers to, distribute water. V.' REVEALED tion at Daybreak. San Francisco, A^prii 19.rDay, dawned., on a scene of death and-' destruction. During the night the flames had con sumed many of the city's finest struc tures and skipped in a dozen directions to the residence portions. They had made their way over into the North Beach section and, springing anew to the south, reached out along the ship ping section, down the bay shore, over the hills and across toward Third and Townsend streets. Warehouses and manufacturing con cerns fell in th6 path. This completed the destruction, of the entire district known as the "south of Market street.'' How far they are reaching to the south across the channel cannot be told% as this part of the city is shut off. Thousands Homeless. After darkness thousands of the homeless were making their way with their blankets and scant provisions to Golden Gate park and the beach to find shelter. Those in the homes on the hills just north of the Hayes Valley wrecked section piled their belongings in the streets, and express wagons and automobiles were hauling the things away to the sparsely settled regions. Not a Business House Stands. Downtown everything is ruin. Not a business house stands. Theaters are crumbled into heaps. Factories and commission houses lie smouldering on their former sites. All of the news- {ess. ape plants have been rendered use- I is estimated that the loss in San Francisco will reach from $150,000,000 to $200,000,000. These figures are in the rough, and nothing can be told un til partial accounting is taken. Dea th and Suffering. On every side there was death and suffering. Hundreds were injured either burned, crushed or struck by falling pieces from the buildings. The number of dead is not known, but it is estimated that at least five hundred met their death in the horror. Martial Law Declared. A 9 o'clock, under a special message" from President Roosevelt, the city was placed under martial law. Hundreds of troops patrolled the streets and drove the crowds back, while hundreds more were set at work assisting the fire and police depart ments. The strictest orders were issued and in true military spirit the soldiers obeyed. I the afternoon three thieves met their death by rifle bullets while at work in the ruins. A rsa i Curious Driven Back. The curious were driven back at the breasts of the horses that the cavalry men rode, and all the crowds were forced from the level district to the hilly section beyond to the north. The water supply was entirely cut off, and it may be it was just as well, for the lines of the fire department would have been absolutely useless at any stage. \':"f- Dynamite Only Weapon. Assistant Chief Dougherty supervised the work of his men, and early in the morning it was seen that the only pos sible chance to save the city lay in an effort to check the flames by the ^nae. of dynamite. **j During the day a blast Could be heard in any section at intervals of only a few minutes, and buildings not de stroyed by fire were blown to atoms. Flames Le ap Thru Oaps. Bu thru the gaps made the flames jumped, and altho the failures of the heroic efforts of the people, firemen and soldiers were at times sickening,' the Continued on 2d Page, 6th Column. 1