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Companies Accept Messages at
New York for Delivery in
San Francisco.
journal Special Servioe.
New York, April 20.Angered by the
martial rule of General Funston in San
Francisco, and the reported mal-hand
ling of its employees and messengers by
the regular troops, the estern Union
Telegraph company late yesterday af
ternoon asked President Koosev^lt to
kave orders, sent to Funston defining his
duties with respect to the conduct of
the telegraph business. The presi
answer was prompt. It ran:
"Funston making all arrange
ments.
As interpreted by Vice President
Barclay of the Western Union it means
that the company would no longer be
molested in transmitting to and from
the stricken city, messages of its inhab
itants and of those anxious as to their
safety.
An hour later word came from the
[Western Union's representatives in
Ban Francisco that the military tele
graph to the Preskleo had been connect
ed with the Western Union's wires, and
that there would be no more trouble
about getting messages thru to Funston
and his staff.
Messages Accepted.
At both the offices of the Western
(Union and Postal Telegraph, compa
nies messages were accepted today
"subject to indefinite delay in de
livery." The files for San Francisco
and Oakland were described as "some
thing unheard of" but telegrams were
kept going westward to rrile up at the
Pacific end and there await delivery.
The offices of the Western Union and
Postal Telegraph were crowded all day
by anxious relatives and friends of San
Francisco people. Men were not
strongei than women in keeping back
the tears.
Appealed to Court.
CRUEL FATE FOR
HALL OF MERC
Flames Pursue Rescue Workers
and Snatch Wounded from
Their Hands.
Journal Special Service,
Oakland, Cal., April 20.Pitiful is
the story of the destruction of Me
chanics pavilion. It seemed as if fate
dealt the worst card when it invaded
the hall of mercy, the temporary hos
pital. In the pavilion had been gath
ered all those whose injuries were such
that they could not flee to safety.
It was supposed that the fire would
Boon be extinguished and that the build
ing, the largest in the city, could be
used for a temporary morgue and hos
pital, and there the "dead were carried
for identification or burial and the
maimed and bleeding for surgical at
tention. Fully fifty physicians were
working over the more severely in
jured when a policeman rushed into the
building and said:
"Carry them all out again. The fire
will be here in ten minutes."
All had been working in a murky
gloom and none had thought of dan
ger. Hardly had the word been given
when the crackling of flames was
heard and some one yelled that the
roof was on fire.
Even then the brave physicians and
nurses would not desert their posts un
til a cohoit of police came thru the
building and drove everyone out. Men
spread their coats over the women's
heads, as all had to flee thru almost a
xing of flames.
Hardly ten of the hundred or more
were saved: and another hecatomb of
victims were sacrificed. Even the po
licemen wept as the cries of the aban
doned injured rang in their ears, but
there was no time for anything but to
clear that portion of the city before
the flames caught those who persisted
in trying to save their household goods
from the flames.
Chicago, April 20.A mandamus to
compel the Postal Telegraph company cate and registers the vibration of a
to take a message to his invalid wife footfall, but the impression made is
in San Francisco was asked bv Colonel unlike the motion wave from an earth-
George Kimball of the postofflce in- quake.
Bpector 's department yesterday when The mechanical principles involved
that company refused to accept a tele- of the seismograph of this type were
gram to the stricken city. first developed and applied to the
Our wires are leased and we no measurements of earthquakes in 1880
longer have the right to send messages by James A. Ewing, then professor of
over them,'' was the reply of the com 1 mechanism and applied mechanics at
pany when the telegram was handed
them for transmission.
My wife is in San Francisco for her
health," replied Kimball. "She is an
Invalid and hardly able to take care of
herself. I have heard nothing from her,
do not know whether she is dead or
alive, and now I am denied a chance to
communicate with her." He begged to
be allowed to send the message, but the
company was obdurate.
Colonel Kimball then made informal
application for a writ of mandamus, ap
pearing before Judge Bethea. He did
Hot file written application and his in
formal motion was denied.
COLLEGE CADETS
ORDERED TO SHOOT
Five Hundred California "XT'
Boys Armed and Stationed
as Guards^
San Francisco, April 20.Five hun
dred cadets of the University of Cali
fornia have entered the city to aid in
the work of enforcing martial law. The
young collegians have orders to shoot
without warning those caught looting.
In many parts of the town where the
crowds of survivors are the wildest it is
almost jmpossible*to get around save at
the point of a pistol. The troops are
disarming every person seen with a
weapon.
ODD EPITAPHS.
London Sketch.
At Worcester, England, the slab
erected over a departed auctioneer is!
inscribed with a single word, "Gone."
In Sussex the initials and date of the
death of the deceased are followed by
two words, "He was." The most re
markable inscription is at Gane Hill
cemetery, Belfast, where the inscrip
tion Ittys, "Left till eaHed foR"
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SHAKEN DISTRICT! i,
StOKE A BOG
Why a Part of Frisco Suffered
Most from the Earth-
quake.
Journal Special Service.
New York, April 20.Scientists ex
plain the disastrous effects of the
earthquake shock in one section of San
Francisco and the comparative immun
ity from damage in other sections of,
the city by the varying nature of the
ground on which the city is built. The
devastated section was built upon a
bog. This accounts for the great dam
age from seismic disturbances. A quake
as violent as that which visited San
Francisco would have done minor dam
age in New York city? which is built
on a foundation of solid rock.
The hills of San Francisco, which
mark the outer coastline, are of sedi
mentary rock or clay. Extending
around the city from Telegraph hill,
which is composed of trap rock sedi
mentary upheaval to ihe line of Mar
ket street, from the line of Montgomery
street and Van Ness avenue, immedi
ately south and east, is the flat *round
known as South of Market sfljWt."
From the water front to Montgomery
street and all south of Market street,
was origmallv a bog.
The greatest part of it was a bog in
1849, but has since been filled in by
the drifting sand from the ocean side
blown down by the prevailing winds
and by earth being dumped in it.
Nearly all of the large buildings in this
section are either built on piles driven
into the sand and mud or on wooden
foundations.
HOW QUAKES ABE RECORDED
Some as Violent as San Francisco's Can
Never Be Located,
Journal Special Service.
Washington, April 20.There is no
special seismological observatory in the
United States, but in almost every im
portant weather bureau there is a seis
mograph. The instrument is very deli-
the University of Cambridge
At this time the study of earthquakes
was taken up and scientific researches
made. Within a few years of this pe
riod there were nearly 40,000 people
killed at several catastrophes in the
far east, and the probe of the scien
tist was delving far into the mysteries
of the great rumblings" of the interior
earth to define the cause.
As a result, theories were expanded
and instruments invented. Ewing's
machine, however, was modified by
Omori, a Japanese whose invention is
installed in most of the seismological
observatories in the world, the most
prominent of which are in Europe. The
observatory at Strasburg, Germany, is
an international one and is supported
by all nations interested in science.
Professor C. S. Marvin, in charge of
this department at the United States
weather bureau here, says shocks have
been registered on several occasions of
as great magnitude as the one in San
Francisco, but have caused no disturb
ances. These shocks were probably felt
on the bottom of the ocean or some
remote part of the world, such as in the
heart of Africa.
Professor Marvin says a great shock
was recorded April 10, but no damage
was reported from any section. He also
stated that an earthquake had occurred
at Formosa recently with heavy losses,
but was not recorded on the seismo
graph here. When Vesuvius exploded
the seismographs in Italy made records,
but the instruments here failed to regis
ter.
California Not So Large.
Journal Special Service.
London, April 20.Sir Hiram Maxim,
in an inerview on the cause of the San
Francisco catastrophe, says: "The
earth is constantly losing its heat and
growing colder and smaller. Ever since
the solid crust of the earth has been
formed there have been certain lines of
least strength and as the earth shrinks
the solid crust yields in these weakest
spots. It will now be found that Cali
fornia is not so large as it was before
the earthquake, but- the" difference will
not be great."
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HARRIMAN SPEEDS
WEST BY SPECIAL
He Fears That Southern Pacific
Property Has Been Badly
Damaged.
New York, April 20.Because of the
immense railroad interests which are in
volved in the earthquake disaster, E. H.
Harriman left for Chicago en route to
San Francisco today. From Chicago he
will take a special train west. Orders
have been given to have the line
cleared for his special.
All yesterday Mr. Harriman was wor
rted over the appalling news. In his
offices of the Union Pacific railroad he
wa,s in instant communication with
bankers interested in the company and to go below again
witfi associates in the road's manage
ment, regarding damage to the South
ern Pacific.
The reports continued disquieting all
day, but the greatest concern was felt
over a message, which arrived in the
afternoon from the officers at San Pue
blo. This message which was sent to
the Santa Fe offices in this city is be
lieved to be directly responsible for Mr.
Harriman's hurried trip west. It
read as follows:
"The indications are that the earth
quake extended northeast thru Sacra
mento and Reno to San Francisco. The
affected district in Sail Francisco is
fifty blockB, between Kearney street
and Bay, Market street being the cen-
ter."
The alarming feature of this dispatch
to Mr. Harriman was its reference to
the course of the. earthquake, as much
of the property of the Southern Pacific
is in this territory.
From Sacramento thru Reno to San
Francisco is the line followed by the
Southern Pacific and the news that the
earthquake extended along this line, in
dicated that in all probability many
bridges and tunnels were destroyed.
Crossed U. S. in Nineteen Minutes.
Journal Special Service.
New York, April 20.The earth
quake shock in San Francisco was dis
tinctly recorded in this city by a crude
seismograph located at the Thirty-third
street station of the subway by Divis
ion Engineer Duncan to record the vi
brations from blasts in the Pennsyl
vania tunnel.
The chart showed that the seismograph
began' to record the"-trembling of the
earth just after 8:31 o'clock Wednesday
morning and that it continued until 8:44
a.m. This showed that the tremor had
occupied about nineteen minutes in
traveling across the continent. The
most violent vibration was recorded
at 8:32.
STOKER LEAVES FOB FSANCE.
Vienna, April 20.Bellamy Storer, the re
tiring American ambassador, and Mrs. Storer
left Vienna for France today. Secietary George
B. Rives of the American embassy, who i9
acting as charge d'affaires, has resumed direct
communication with the foreign office here.
STREET HILL, FROM KEAftNEY STREET. &d% 'l
This Is on* of the steepest Inclines In a city famous for Its hills, Its height Being*
338 feet. Grace Episcopal church appears on the left against the, sky, while
on the right Tn the middle distance is St Paul's Catholic church, -Sju,^ ^^.h
A NeW**Yorl WomafeVFortune Was Lost
When This Building Went Up in Smoke
THE FAIRMONT HOTEL ON NOB HILL.
Whose Owner, Mrs. Herman Oelrlchs, Has Suffered a Loss of $3,000,000.
UPPER MICHIGAN
FEELS A MOCK
Earth Tremors Cause the Death
of a Miner and Injuries
to Pour More.
Clumet, Mich,, April 20. An
earthquake shock was felt distinctly
thruout Hancock yesterday and was
where it killed one man and injured
four others who were working one mile
below the earth's surface.
In numerous instances buildings
rocked, chimneys fell 'and dishes rat
tled, terrifying the citizens and caus
ing scores to rush from their homes.
Many miners on the day sh.ift refused
Timothy Leary was the man who met
death. He was working at the bottom
of the Quincy mine when a large block
of gTound was shaken loose, crushing
him to a pulp and burying him under
tons of earth. Four other miners were
seriously injured, but were brought to
the surface and conveyed to their
homes, where medical assistance was
given. It is thought that all will live.
Eminent mining men and professors
at the Michigan college of mines at
tribute the earth's tremor to a slipping
of bearing surfaces on the fault be
tween the eastern sandstone and the
Keweenaw series of cupriferous rocks.
Numerous earth tremors have been
felt in the last two years, and these
probably resulted from the same cause,
as the fault fa the,weakest poin^in the
structure of the Keweenaw peninsula.
most pronounced in the Quincy mine, give the bankers of San Francisco time
GREETTERIBLE
NEWS WITH BAND!
'Plying Rollers" Snout with
Fiendish Glee When They
Hear of Disaster.
Journal Speoial Service,
Benton Harbor Mich., April 20.The
Flying Boilers or the House of David,
a clan of people who reside in this
city and who number 500 here, greeted
the news of the San Francisco dis
aster with a band of music. The Israel
ites have been predicting such a visi
tation upon the people of San Fran
cosco, and they claim that this great
disaster is to be followed by many more
of its kind.
It was their missionary, Mary Mc
Dermitt, who stood up among the peo
ple of San Francisco a few days ago
and, after she had been reviled. and
persecuted, called down judgment upon
their heads and told them that they
would be visited by fire and earth
quake in" a few days and that the dis
aster should be one of the greatest in
the history of the world.
The Israelites gave biblical citations
to show that the earth is to come to
an end in 1916, and that the years be
tween that day and the present time
will be filled with many disasters which
will overshadow the present one. They
claim that the wrath of God will de
scend upon the people of this earth,
and that it will be visited by every
manner of horror. They believe that
144,000 people who accept their faith
will be saved and that all the rest will
perish. They themselves will never die,
and Benjamin, the leader of the tribe,
said today, in an interview, that the
disaster at San Francisco was only the
beginning.
BRAVE SOLDIERS
ENFORCE ORDER
'Regulars" Deserve Praise for
Preventing Looting in the
Stricken Oity.
San Francisco, April 20.The work
of the regular soldiers in suppressing
disorder and preventing looting is
worthy of the greatest praise. Every
where they showed the highest degree
of, courage- They did not hesitate to
shoot when they discovered looters,
and probably twenty victims fell be
fore them by night.
When the mansions on Nob Rill, the
Fail-mount and Mark Hopkins institute
were approached by the flames today,
many attempts were made to remove
some of the priceless works of art.
Soldiers were sent to the Flood and
Huntington mansions and Hopkins in
stitute to rescue the paintings,' which
were valued in the hundreds of thou
sands. Caarvases were cut from the
frames with sharp knives, but compara
tively few were saved.
Oharlestown, W. Va., April 20,-The joint
scale cemmittee ot the Kan,.'walia*miners and
operators today unanimously agreed on the scale
of 1903 for the two years ending 09 the second
Tuesday of April, 1808. There It to ha no
ehejjk off.
SIOUX FALLS WORRIED
Freudenfelds, Father and Son, Among
Those in Frisco.
Bpooial to The Journal,
Sioux Falls, S. D., April 20.Sioux
Falls citizens who have relatives and
friends at San Francisco are becoming
very anxious.
Fred Hollister and his brother, Will
C, bankers, have heard nothing from
their mother and sisters. Mrs. Hollister
and her daughters, it is known, were
due to reach the stricken city on Easter
morning.
George Baker, who has a son in
Frisco, left Thursday afternoon for
that citv.
Lee F"reudenfeld of this city was in
charge of the offices of the Queen City
Insurance company at San Francisco.
Nothing has been heard from him or
his father, who reached the city on the
morning of the disaster.
John Zentle, Jr., son of John Zentle,
was also a resident of San Francisco.
Not a word has been received by his
parents from him.
Frank McOarrier, a Sioux Falls
pioneer, who was widely known
thruout eastern South Dakota, was
conducting a cigar store only three
blocks from the city hall. Not a word
has been heard from him.
Fred De Armond was another Sioux
Falls man who was in the stricken city
a,t the time of the disaster.
A!pr!f 20,', 1906",
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SEEK TO AVERT A
FINANCIAL CRASH
Legal Holidays Declared
Give Bankers Chance to Get
on Feet.
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San Francisco, April 20.Today has
been declared a legal holiday and to
morrow also. This it is believed, will
to be in a position to meet the demands
of the depositors, and the danger of a
financial crisis will be averted.
Outside banks in general, have tele
graphed* guarantees of support to the
local financial institutions and arrange
ments already have been made ty
which every depositor will be paid in
full.
Insurance Companies to Pay.
The insurance companies have al
ready taken up the question of the
losses. It was stated yesterday that
the companies have decided to pay dol
lar for dollar on all the losses, whether
by fire or earthquake. This will mean,
if the loss totals $200,000,000, as it is
believed it will, that $110,000,000 will
be paid San Francisco Tealty owners.
With this as a start, new structures, it
is expected, will soon be in course of
erection on the site of the old.
The Firemen's Fund and the Home
and Marine, both local corporations
will, it is said, be the- principal .suffer
ers. The losses are divided among
eighty insurance companies, and it is
stated authoritatively, all claims will
be satisfactorily adjusted and that no
company will be so weakened that it
will be forced to suspend.
FIR E WORS fcM
WORLD'S HISTORY
Chicago and All Other Fires Out
done by That of San
Francisco.
Journal Speoial Serrioe,
Chicago, April 20.If the" published
reports as it now seems
grobableartheconfirmed,,
AN ALLEY IN FRISCO'S CHINATOWN.
This shows en* of the narrow passageways Into which terror-stricken
.rushed, only to be crushed by the falling wafle.
will be the calamity in
an Francisco will exceed in magnitude
and horror that which occurred Chi
cago, Oct. 8 and 9, 1871. At the time
of the great fire this city had a popu
lation of about 820,000", while San
Francisco now has nearly 375.000. The
loss of life in Chicago was compara
tively small. The number of dead was
never definitely ascertained. In the
California metropolis it is believed
that upward of 1,000 persons have per
ished and it is known that thousands
have been injured.
In the matter of property destroyed
the figures are more equal. The loss in
Chicago amounted to $200,000,000 that
in San Francisco is estimated at the
same figure. Here 37,450 buildings were
burned and 70,000 persons made home
less. In San Francisco the buildings
ruined are said to be 30,000
and the number of homeless is reported
to be 150,000.
How much assistance will be re
quired by the victims of tho Pacific
coast disaster may be estimated from
the-fact that it took nearly $7,000,000
in contributions from the outside world
to tide the people of Chicago over
the period of distress.
The Galveston calamity surpassed
thatc in San Francisco in the number
of lives lost, the dead numbering more
than 6,000, but the property loss was
only about $13,000,000.
Other Great Fires.
Journal Special Service.
New York, April 20.No fire in the
history* of the world has equaled that
which followed in the wake of the San
Francisco earthquake. In loss of life
and destruction of property it surpasses
even the great fire of Chicago, which
always has been ranked as first among
conflagrations in America.
Boston Fire.
Boston suffered from one of the* great
est conflagrations in the nation's his
tory, beginning on Nov. 9, 1872, and
continuing for three days. Sixty-five
acres in this cityjwere wiped out and
property valued at $80,000,000 was de
stroyed.
Fresh in the memory of the American
public is the fire which ate out the heart
of Baltimoro, beginning on Feb. 7. 1905,
and continuing its career of ruin for
forty-eight hours. The finest buildings
in the monumental city fell before its
almost unchecked onslaught and prop
erty worth $100,000,000 was destroyed.
On a bitter cold day, Dec. 16, 1835,
New York city suffered the greatest loss
from fire in her history. A large sec
tion of the shipping and wholesale dis
trict, including i00 buildings below
Wall street, was burned, and the prop
erty loss was $20,000,000.
In midsummer of 1845, on July 19.
a large part of the business section or
the same district of the city was de
stroyed by fire. The loss was several
millions of dollars and 345 buildings
were demolished.
Great London Fire.
Altho the "great fire of London,"
which raged for five days from Sept.
to 6, 1666, blotted out 486 acres of the
city and destroyed 13,200 buildings, the
loss on cash value was not so great as
some of the American disasters of a
similar nature. The damage amounted
to $58,000,000. Six persons were burned
to death.
Constantinople has passed thru more
scourges by fire than any surviving city
in the world. Twenty-one times since
1729 she has almost been wiped off the
map.
The worst fire in the annals of Paris
took place in 1871. It was started by
the communists and resulted in the de
struction of property worth $160,-
RED WING REASSURED
Mr. and Mrs. Withee and Others in
Frisco Axe Safe.
Speoial to The Journal.
Bed Wing, Minn., April 20.A tele
gram received announces that Miss
Rose Hemberson of this city and Mr.
and Mrs. W. H. Withee, who were in
San Francisco, are safe. Mr. Withee
was ill at the San Francisco hotel at
the time of the earthquake. No de
tails of their escape are given. Altho
there are many Red Wing people in
San Francisco, this is the first message
received.
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BETTER CITY WILL
RISE FROM RUINS
Wm. H. Crocker Says San Fran
cisco Will Be Rebuilt on a
More Splendid Scale, i
Journal Special Serrice.
New York, April J20.San Francisco
within five years will be greater, fine Ik
and more beautiful than ever. Thi IV
calamity will only give the opportunity
to make a more splendid city than
people have ever dreamed of."^
The speaker was William H. Croekerl
of San Francisco, one of the heaviest
losers by the awful earthquake anc
fire. He was sad, greatly depressed by
the news of the disaster, yet with un
crushed courage. This calm man was
typical of the spirit that Californijtns
are showing under one of the most
awful visitations known.
Mr\ Crocker was at the Hotel St.
Regis, where he arrived only a few
days ago from the Pacific coast. Mr.
Crocker owned the Crocker-Woolworth
bank, the burned Crocker building and
much more N property in San Francisco.
"With modern steel construction,"
said Mr. Crocker, I feel sure than
many of the big buildings of San Fran
cisco will be found uninjured, except
by the loss of windows, plastering and
ornamental stone work."
"What of the talk of abandoning
San Francisco 1" was asked.
"Preposterous. San Francisco by
reason of its location and its harbor
is the natural metropolis of the Pacific
coast. God made it this. Yon will soon
see a finer and better city than ever.
D. O. Mills, the Spreckels family
everybody I knowis determined to
rebuild at once, to rebuild San Fran?
cisco stronger, Detter and finer than
ever.
"Burnett of Chicago has been at
work for two" years on plans for the
improvement of San Francisco, to
broaden some streets, straighten out
others and carry out a general har
monious scheme of fireproof buildings
of uniform height and style. The pres
ent calamity, frightful as it is, only i
clears the way for this plan to be car
ried out."
BUILDERS ABE ACTIVE
New York Construction Men
Effects of Earthquake.
Study
Journal Speoial Serrice.
New York, April 20.The big con
struction companies in this city are
taking a great interest in the San Fran
cisco disaster. Every particle of news
dispatches relating to the manner in
which the modern buildings there with
stood the shock of the earthquake and
the condition they were in afterwards
was scrutinized eagerly by building en
gineers.
Paul Starret of the George A. Fuller
company said that he would start an
engineer for San Francisco at once. Mr.
Starret said that this move was not
being made in the hope of securing new
business as much as it was to get a
thoro line on just what condition the
buildings, especially the steel frames,
were in after the shocks.
Theodore Starret of the Thompson
Starret company is due to arrive in this
city from Chicago today. There will
be a meeting of the heads of the con
cern then, and it was stated that in all
probability one of the firm's best en
gineers would be hurried to the stricken
city to take observations on the condi
tions of the buildings.
Alf of# the building engineers are of
the opinion that a careful examination
of the damaged steel structures in San
Francisco may lead to some discovery
whereby_ steel frame buildings may be
put up in the future with new devices
that will make them proof against
earthquake shocks.
Great satisfaction W expressed at
the offices of the Thompson-Starret
company over the fact that the San
Francisco Chronicle building had with
stood the shocks in good shape, and
was practically uninjured until assailed
on all side by flames. Theodore Star
ret drew the plans for the steel con
struction of this building.
"George Simpson, the chief engineer
of the Thompson-Starret company, is
of the opinion that the big modern
buildings in this city would withstand
such earthquake shocks as those felt
in San Francisco.
"The east, and especially New York
city," said Mr. Simpson, "is far ahead
of the far west in the matter of thoro
building construction. In the case of
our modern buildings, the steel frame
work sets on a bed of concrete that has
been built on top of solid rock, and the
walls are anchored to the steel frame
work, which was not the' case in San
Francisco, .apparently."
D. O. Mills Will Rebuild.
Journal Bpooial feorrioe. if
New York, April 20.D. O. Mills
said today that it was his intention to
begin as soon as possible the rebuild
ing of the Mills building in San Fran-'
cisco. He hod no doubt there would
be a quick revival of hope and confi
dence, and that the city would be rap
idly rebuilt.
FORCES RESCUE AT
POINT OF REVOLVER
Artillery Officer Compels Passers^
by to Help Save Art
Treasures.
San Francisco, April 20.Of the wajt'
in which the military officials acted te1
save property there was a striking ex-.*
ample at the Mark Hopkins I&sfotutP
of Art on California street.
A young lieutenant of artillery took'
his stand in front of that building wheij|
the fire first broke out, commandeereP
every vehicle that came near, and:
pressed into service every able-bodied
man in the vicinity to remove paintings
and sculpture from the institute. When
anyone demurred the officer drew a re
volver and forced obedience to his or
ders.
Paintings were removed by hundreds
and plated in the broad lawn of the
Sanford mansion next to the institute
on the east. As the Stanford mansion
was later destroyed by fire, the fate edf
the art treasures is unknown at this
hour, but they presumably fell a prey to
the flames.
^TORKBDO BOAT 8TTNX OWE BEAD.
Valetta, Island ot Malta, April 20.It
learned that during the naval maneu
Wednesday night, the torpedo boat. No. 84,
rammed and rank by the torpedo boat destrore
Ardent. A gunner who was injured at
time of the collision died later. OUienrise sji
were so fatalities.
f 8PAI TO COHT&OX. 1NSUBAKCE.
.Madrid, April 20.The minister ot Una
yssterday proposed to the ministerial conn
that foreign Insurance companies operating
3tai_nissued
celestials
fOrnish monetary guarantees for the 11
_w and that the government also
asst teie control orer such