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Leland Stanford University Is in Ruins Qun Cotton
and Even Field Guns Being Used to Blow Up Whole
Blocks at a Time No Mercy Shown to Looters-Fire
Threatens Property Which Escaped Earthquake.
FAMINE AMD THIRST DANGERS
The Insane Asylum Destroyed and the Inmates Killed Spreckel Sugar Fac
tory 4s in Ruins Martial Law Declared in the Stricken City Fifty Millions
in Property Has Been Destroyed Four Hundred Thousand Army Rations
Being Rushed ThroughA General Appeal for Relief Has Been Issued.
(From this morning's Extra Edition.)
San Francisco, Cal., April 18.-2:30 p. m. The fires
are still raging, and the supply of dynamite '.s about ex
hausted. The worst damage is over, however. Genera!
Fred Funston has marched practically his entire garrison
' from Presidio into the town and his soldiers are keeping
1 the people out of dangerous districts and from the totter
j ing buildings. The dome of the city hall fell in with a
' terrific crash. The Majestic theatre is a mass of ruins.
The Studebaker block has collapsed. The largest section
that has been destroyed by fire is four blocks Uong Mar
ket street between First and Third streets. Four more
blocks between Sansoime front and Fine and Sacramento
streets are also burned. The Rialto building, a steel
structure, is destroyed by the fire. Most of the big : firms
along Battery street areburned out The greatest loss
of life is in the section in which th eolw priced lodging
houses prevail. A general exodus to Oakland continues.
The Scripps-McRae Press building is destroyed.
Oakland, Cal., The best information at three o'clock
is that a score of city blocks are demolished. Seventeen
hundred people are dead and seven thousand injured. The
whole north end of San Francisco is wiped out, and the
fire is still in progress. All the newspaper plants are
burned. The confusion is still so great that no accurate
information is obtainable. Telegraph communication is
restricted to only the most important matter.
Oakland 11:15 P. M. There are reports of vandal
ism in San Francisco. The soldiers attacked the looters,
killing several and injuring others. The ferries are refus
ing passengers and taking refugees. There is nocommu
v nication with the city other than the stories of the refu
gees. The damage at Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley is
extensive. The wires are all down and there are no
cars.
San Francisco is dark tonight save for the flames.
The government tugs and torpedo boats from Mare Island,
now in the bay, are rendering assistance. The loss in
San Francisco is estimated at forty millions, and prob
ably will reach at least three times that figure.
Oakland, Cal. 5:00 A. M. It is impossible to ex
aggerate the horror of the situation in San Francisco.
There is not a building west of Montgomery and Second
streets that has not been razed either by fire or dynamite,
although the Chronicle building is still standing, but is
badly damaged by fire. The flames at this "hour are past
Dirisidero Street, one mile from the water front. All
the business portion and half of the residence portion,
covering a space of more than ten square miles, has been
destroyed by dynamite. Gun cotton and even field guns
are being used to blow up whole blocks at a time. Thou
sands of people are sleeping out under the trees in Golden
Gate Park. From Oakland the sight is an awful one, and
there seems to be no hope for the doomed city.
San Francisco 5 A. M It looks now as though the
entire city would be consumed in the flames. The fire is
sweeping towards the residence districts, and threatens
to destroy all property which escaped the earthquake.
The latest report is that five thousand persons are dead
or injured and 150,000 made homeless by the frightful
holacaust. United States soldiers are shooting down many
ghouls caught robbing the dead, or looting wreckage. The
loss as nearly as can be ascertained exceeds $200,000,000.
Early reports of the slain which , were thought to be
greatly exaggerated, now seem to be sadly underestimated.
It is now believed the roll of dead and injured may reach
ten thousand.
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Oakland, CaL 8 A. M. The fire has spread to the
residence district, and if raging, unchecked, this morning.
The entire city seems doomed. There is nothing to eat
except in outlying districts. Not a wire connects San
. Francisco directly with the continent The United St&tee
mint is ablate.
Los Angeles 8 A. M. The Santa Fe officials here
have received a bulletin saying that the earthquake at
San Francisco at 7 o 'clock last night was the worst yet.
Oakland 8 A. M Details of the horror in San
Francisco at midnight: The estimated dead in the city,
1,000; inmates St. John's insane asylum, 175; San Jose,
85; Santa Rosa, 300; other points, 150; injured, 3,000;
homeless in San Francisco, 10,000; property loss in San
Francisco is estimated at two hundred million dollars.
The area burned in San Francisco covers ten square miles,
comprising 130 city blocks.
San Francisco 8 A. M. The fire is still raging this
morning and reaching eastward. . The residents are Btrick
en with terror, and dreading the tidal wave which follows
earthquakes. .Thousands on the coast fere fleeing to the
hills. Twenty-five fires are now raging and a high wind
from the west is sweeping the flames aaosa the dry., -The
supply of drinking water is exhausted and actual hunger
has overtaken the people, so that a famine prevails.
Palo Alto 10 A. M. The Leland Stanford Univer
sity has been practically destroyed, only one building be
ing left standing. The loss covers many millions, and
several lives have been lost
Agnew 10 A. M. The insane asylum has been wrcck
and the 275 inmates are killed. The others aer roaming
around the country.
Salina 10 A. M. Spreckel's sugar factory has been
destroyed loss, one million, five hundred thousand; hi&h
Bchool, Elks' hall, Masonic Temple, Armory, E. of P.
building, Odd Fellows' building, and many other business
houses are completely destroyed.
San Jose 10 A. M. Many buildings here are wreck
ed and 65 persons have been killed.
Washington, 10 A M. The following dispatch was
received from General Fred Funston this morning:
San Francisco To the Military Secretary, Washington
Your dispatches received and have already been filed.
Have already sent several to you. It is impossible to in
form you now as to the full extent of the disaster. The
city is practically destroyed. The troops have been aiding
the police in patroling, and maintaining order. Martial
law has been declared, working in conjunction with the
civil authorities. Have not intereferd with the sending
of any messages. You cannot send too many tents or ra
tions. There are about two hundred thousand people
homeless. Food is very scarce, and the provision houses
are all destroyed. All government buildings in the city
gone." (Signed by Funston.)
LAST BULLETIN.
San Francisco 11:00 A. M. hTe fires have assumed
such proportions that the dynamite, gun cotton and even
field guns cannot stop them. The flames are rushing thru
the fine residence section. The fires are still spreading and
the panic in the city is increasing. Owing to the traffic
facilities, it is impossible for but few to get away at a
time. The number of persons killed by falling buildings
during the earthquake has been doubled by the number
killed by the fire.
THE LATEST DISPATCHES
Waahington Two smaller earthquakes have been re
corded here at 8:46 p, m. and 2:30 a. m.
Lincoln, Neb. Governor Mickey wired Governor Par
dee asking what the people in Nebraska can do.
Kansas City, Mo. There will be a mass meeting of
citizens here tonight to act in regard to the San Francisco
catastrophe.
Washington 2:11 P. M The Commissary General
has ordered four hundred thousand army rations there
within ten days.
Washington A telegram from General Funston
reads thus; "San Francisco, 9:15 a. m. The city is still
burning and matters could not be worse."
Washington Cablegrams of sympathy have been re
ceived from King Edward, President Fallieres of France,
and Emperor William. The Serate has appropriated half
a million dollars for San Francihio sufferors, to be expend
ed under the direction of the Secretary of War.
New York The National Park Bank has transferred
through the subtreasury three millions in gold to San
Francisco. Pierpont Morgan has subscribed twenty-five
thousand to the relief fund.
Oakland Many of the injured wore burned to death
as they lay helpless in the Mechanics' Pavillion, which
had been converted into a temporay morgue. Over a
hundred were killed by the fire as the urses were forced
to dcseit them to flee for their lives.
Washington Western Union Bulletin "The West
ern Union and Southern Pacific buildings at San Francisco
are totally destroyed. The fire is burning a diagonal line
up the hill, commencing at McAllister street and ending
ft Bnttery street,, and on MtasiooreeA aefsrag Sixteenth
street. There is np.watcr.and. the -wind is rising. The
military authorities have forbidden anyone to enter the
city. The situation is unimproved. Thousands are lined
up awaiting the distribution of food by the soldiers."
Oakland, Cal. At 8 a. m. the fire had swept over
Nob Hill, the center of the finest residence section of the
city. The fire was still beyond control. ( In Santa Rosa
not a single building escaped destruction or damage. The
loss of life in that city is now estimated at over five hun
dred. All but two of the Stanford University buildings
are reported to be down. Every business block in San
Jose is destroyed. Martial law has been declared there.
Santa Cruz, Monterey and Hollister also have suffered
heavily K
Washington Superintendent Leach of the United
States mint in San Francisco, in a telegram sent at nine
o'clock last night, reports the buildings, with three hun
dred and nine million dollars saved. His report states
that the mint is the only place standing for blocks around
The building was but slightly damaged by the earthquake.
The treasury officials here are not convinced but that the
mint was destroyed since Superintendent Leach reported.
Oakland 9-10 A. M. The fire on the northwest sids
of Market street is spreading south and west against the
wind through the residence sections, and north towards
tho water front. The town is already a mass of ruins, and
may be wiped off tho map altogether. The worn ont fire
men and volunteers no longer maLe serious efforts to stop
the conflagration, realizing its futility. The Hopkins Art
Institute and the Stanford residence are burned. Half
of tho town is camped out over night by necessity. The
parks, open lots and sandy stretches along the ocean are
rilled with refugees. Soldiers continue to shoot down
ghouls.
THE PEOPLE OF TULSA.
Those who have friends in the stricken city of San
Francisco should remember that to try and get there now
is an impossibility. Still more to find relatives if they
were to get there. Time alone will reveal who are taken
and who are left The history of all such calamities
teaches the value of patient waiting, even though the
waiting means days and nights of anguish. Amidst such
horrors only those in authority can work successfully,
and they are to be depended on to do, as they always have
done, the best possible for the anxious ones in every cor
ner of the land. Besides, marial law has declared that
no one shall enter the city.
A COMPARISON.
In the dispatches yesterday from Washington, I). C,
it was reported thnt the pendulum of the Seismograph was
disturbed so violently that it swung over nn lire of HO de
crees. The distance from Washington to Sun Francisco is
about twenty-five hundred miles, in a straight line.
The Seisnioinetre, or Seismograph, is un instrument
designed for the purpose of recording the period, extent
and direction of the disturbance, caused by an earthuake.
So that, even before the telegraph could Hash the news,
the olticialK at the headquarters of the Weather lUirvau
knew that there was a great earthquake, somewhere to the
west, taking place.
The earthquake which occurred in Charleston on
August .'list, ISSti, was up, to the present time, the most
violent that had taken place in the United States. The
shocks continued for three days, and some of t he most
violent toi k place on the third day. $8,000,000 worth of
property was destroyed, most of which was caused by the
earth's agitation, which tumbled the buildigns to the
irround. Charleston at that time had a population of about
.10.000, hardly one-sixth of the number living in San Fran
cisco at the present time,
The writer of this article arrived in Charleston on
the second of September, while shocks were still being felt.
Coming as he did from the outside,, with evidence on nil
sides of the terrible experiences under which the people
had labored, he still fnilied to realize a condition which
could bring such a look to the face of every orsun he met.
The shouts of the negroes had sunk to moans; men moved
about with ghastly faces, and had the appearance of those
who had just risen from beds of sickness. The eyes of
the women contained such a look of terror and despair
that it made one's heart ache. On the square hundreds
of delicately nurtured ladies were gathered close together,
seemingly for mutual protection, many of them with in
fants by their sides, which the arms of their trembling
mothers refused any longer to support.
Charleston was fortunate because fire did not break
out among the ruins to any grvat extent, and for the fur
ther reason that it did not contain any skyscrapers such
as exist today in the cities of the country.
The horrible disaster which has overtaken San Fran
cisco can lM be realized when it is considered that a city
which contains nearly four hundred thousand inhabitants
has been practically destroyed by earthquake and tire; hun
dreds of millions of property destroyed, and the number
of lives which will he lost has already reached such appal
ling numbers that at the present time no estimate can be
made. Hut among such a mass of people it cannot help be
ing so great that it will horrify the world and go on record
as the worst that has happened in centuries and the end
i not vet.
LAST BULLETIN.
A private wire report says the Den
ver office reports that a Postal oper
ator at Los Angles confirms the re
port of an earthquake at Los Angeles,
a Bilght shock being felt there a few
minutes ago. Filed 3:25 p. m.
WESTERN UNION ALSO.
New York 11:16 A. M. The Postal Telegraph Co.
received the following direct from San Francisco by way
of Oakland:
"The fire is still raging and the tnire city is doomed.
There is no water except along the bay and the shore, and
the authorities are dynamiting the buildings to check the
flames. The powder supply is exhausted, even the powder
in the government arsenal ii gone. The fire cannot he check
ed until it burns itself ont Every building in the business
section and onehalf of the residential section has been
destroyed now. Not a tingle large building remains."
Wasington, 2:30 P. M. A telegTam
at the Navy Department says that
the squadron is alright and is now
enroute to San Francisco.
The Western Union Telegraph com
pany will transmit free domestic mes
sages relating to the relief of suffer
ers at San Francisco when offered by
duly instituted organizations or pub
lic officers in their official capacity
when destined to San Francisco. Such
messages will be subject to such de
. lays as the conditions at that point
impose.
i O. J. FRANKEL.
St Louis, 3:06 P. M. A bulletin
to the effect that Los Angeles has also
been visited by an earthquake and
communication has been shut off from
that place.
A POOL EXHIBITION.
GERONIMO NEAR DEATH.
Washington, 3:00 P. M. Congress
has raised the San Francisco appro
priation to fl,000,000.
There is only one wire now between
Oakland and St Louis.
The Ifobinson Hotel management
has arranged with Perry and Mrown,
the expert pool players, now touring
the South, to give an exhibition on
Saturday evening next. The games
will be played in the large dining
room, and ladies as well an gentlemen
will form the audience. The Grand
orchestra will furnish music.
lwton, Okla., April 19. !or ni
tno, chief of the Apache Indians, is
critically ill at his home on Fort Sill
military reservation, and tho tribe
has decided that be can last but a
few days. Wlwn his biographer call
ed up on him, (leronimo said:
"1 am praying to tho white man's
(iod who has made me a man fit for
heaven, to spare my life for a few
years longer, to spare it until I am
freed from custody and see my jwople
in free homes.
"(!od knows my heart is good, but
I am telling Him my people need roe
here more than I am needed in the
better world."
(Jemnimo is 70 years of age, and ill
living with his eighth wife, whom he
married on last Christmas day.
Mrs. Emma Harford of Bartlesvillt
is in the city stopping at the New
State hotel.