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COMMUNITY ONCE **$• 4 •i DEATH y'J ETROPOLI3, NOW WRECK—THIS IS SAN FRANCISCO* AN LAMES COMPLETE RUIN [Fire Leaps From Block* to Block, De vouring Everything In Its Path— The Whole City Is Doomed to Abso lute Destruction—Dynamite Fails to Check the Fire. San Francisco, April 19.—Day dawn ed on a scene of death and destruc k.tlon. During the night the flames con sumed many of the city's finest struc fyres and leaped in a dozen directions the residence portions. They had nade their way over into the north each section, when, springing anew the south, they reached out along he shipping section down the bay ^lore over the bills and across toward Ihlrd and To\jrnsend streets. Ware ^jpuses and manufactories fell in their This completed €he- destruction of he entire district known as "South of Market street." How far they are reaching to the souttv across the channel cannot be told, as this part of the city Is shut Qff from communication with the re mainder. Down Town District Wrecked. Down town everything is In ruins Not a business house, a theatre, a fac tory or a commission house Is stand ing. All the newspaper plants have bteen rendered useless. Most Sanguine Lose Hope, At 30 o^clock there seems to be prac tically no hope of saving any of the city. Those who were the most san guine of the ultimate success of the. firemen contrblllng the flames have nbw given up hope and are fleeing from the .flames In. despair-. Many peo ple are being burned alive and impris op6d\ In' doomed buildings where the r&scnafs caMot 'rEadh'tTiettl.t' Grace church, at the corner of Cali fornia and Stockton streets, is now burning. The entire district from Chan nel to Broadway and from the water front to Octavia and Golden Gate av enue is a mass of flames. Dynamite is Useless. The St. Francis was one of the last Df thfcybig buildings to take fire. The workers have destroyed block after block of residences with dyna mite in the hope of hemming In the flames, but after each sjjch effort, the blaze would leap across"^ seemingly impossible gulf. 300,000 Homeless. Officers with drawn revolvers are forcing-the citizens to work. People are leaving their homes and fleeing to Golden Gate park and the Presidio. All night long a constant stream of humanity walked the streets to the west. A hundred thousand people slept out of doors last night and by tonight the number of homeless will reach 300,000. It is impossible to estimate accu rately the number of people killed tir the property loss. People Are Calm. A noticeable feature of the past two days is the calmness of most of the people. Perhaps they are dazed, but In amy event they show little emotion. 'Many Offers of Aid.J l^ayor Schmitz is overwhelmed with telegrams- from all over the country proffering sympathy and-aid. The fol lowing appeal for aid has been sfent by Schmitz to Governor Pardee: "Send all supplies and tents possible to Golden Gate park. Have the baker les in the small towns bake all the bread they can. We want bedding, food and tents." Homeless People Desert City. Homeless people are flocking with blankets and such baggage as they can carry in their arms to refuge across- the bay. All traffic towards this city has been stopped by the military authorities and every means of travel has been made available to the dis tressed, homeless people. The Oakland hospitals are filled with Injured and dying people and others A lost Whole City is Doomed Oakland (9 a. m)—Fire Is stiu raging throughout San Francisco and there Is no possibility of stopping it until it exhausts itself for want of material. The whole city is doomed. The authorities are still dynamiting the buildings in a vain hope of check ing the progress of the flames, but a new misfortune has befallen the place. The explosives for blowing up the buildings are becoming exhausted and even the powder at the government arsenal is all gone. Every business building and half of the residence por tion of the city are now destroyed. In the Monster's Path. NOTABLE EARTAQUAKES IN HISTORY T' MANY WHOLE CITIES DESTROYED.! IN ASIA—Pontius and Macedonia, 150 elties ami towns ds stroyed CONSTANTINOPLE—Its principal buildings destroyedi tlieu •ands perished SYRIA, PALESTINE AND A8IA—more than 600 tewns de stroyed loss of life surpassed all calculation 742 CONSTANTINOPLE overturned and all Greece shaken 936 CATANIA—Sicily, demolished and 16000 persons buried ih»* t\ ruins ffs7 SYRIA—Hundreds of towns destroyed 20,000 persons per ished 1168 CALABRIA—Italy, terribly shaken one of its cities with all' the inhabitants swallowed up by the Adriatie 8ea 1186 CILICIA—Destroyed and 60,000 persons perished ... 1268 LISBON—1,600 houses demolished 30,000 persons burled In the ruins several neighboring towns engulfed Feb.26,1531 NAPLES—Partly destroyed 40,000 perished Dec. 6, 1466 CONSTANTINOPLE—Partly destroyed* thousands buried In ruins ..8ept.14,1509 NAPLES—Partly destroyed 30 towns and villages demol* ished 70,000 lives lost .. July30,1636. SCHAMAKI—Visited by succession of earthquake fer period ... of three months hundreds of towns destroyed) 90,000 persons perished ... CITY OF PORT ROYAL, JAMAICA—Destroyed town en-,,. gulfed 40 fathoms deep 300,000 persons perished .. .." June 7,1692 SICILY—Devastated 54 cities and towns, and 300 villages destroyed. Of City of Catania and its 18,000 inhabitants not a trace remained more than 100,000 lives lost .... Sept., 1693 JEDDO (Tokio)—Destroyed and practically every building demolished 200,000 persons perished Feb.2,1703 AQU I LA—Italy, demolished, 5,000 killed Feb. 2,1793 ABRUZZI—Italy, 15,000 perished Nov.3*. 1706 ALGIERS—Visited by succession of shocks for two .months 20,000 lives lost 1716 PALERMO—Partly destroyed nearly 6,000 persons killed Septn, 1726 PEKING—China, destroyed and 100,000 persons swallowed up LIMA AND CALLAO—Peru destroyed 18,000 persons bur ied in ruins ... Oct. 28,1746 GRAND CAIRO—Epypt partly demolished and 4O,O0O persons killed 1764 QUITO—Ecuador destroyed no estimate of loss of life, but was enormous 1755 LISBON'S great earthouake—In eight minutes most of Its houses and upwards of 50,000 inhabitants were swallow de up and whole streets buried eities\of Crimbra, Oporto, and Braga suffered greatly 8t. Ubes wholly destroyed. In Spain a large part of Malaga was ruined. One naif of Fez, Morocco, destroyed island of Maderia affeoted 2,000 houses demolished in island of Mitylen this earth quake extended 5,000 miles, reaohing even to Scotland... Nov. 1,1755 SYRIAN earthquake covered area of 10,000 square miles 20,000 perished in city of Baalbec Oct. 30,1759 CITY OF SANTIAGO—Guatemala, completely engulfed .... June7,1773 TAUniS—Asia Minor, 15,000 houses demolished multitudes of people buried in ruins 1780 MESSINA—and other large towns in Italy thousands perished "WHOLE COUNTRY between Santa Fe and Panama de-.' stroyed, including Cuzco and Quito 40,000 persons buried in one second VILLAGE OF ST. MICHAEL—Azores swallowed up and lake of boiling water appeared in its plaoe Aug. 11,1810 CARACAS—Venezuela, destroyed 12,000 persons killed ... .March 26,1812 ALEPPO—Spain, destroyed, 20,000 persons killed '... Aug. 10,1822 MACRI—Greece, crushed under mountains overturned by earthquake MELFI—South Italy, laid in ruins 14,000 lives lost Aug. 14,1851 MANILA—Philippines partly destroyed Sept. 16,1852 JEDDO—(Tokio) nearly destroyed Nov. 11,1855 rCALABRIA—Devastated. many towns destroyed 10,000 lives QUITO—Ecuador, again destroyed .6,000 perished Maroh 22,1859 MENDOZA—S. A. two thirds of city destroyed and 7,000 lives lost MANILA—Philipines immense destruction of property 1, 000 persons killed July2,1863 AREQUIPA, IQUIQUE, TACNA, CHENCHA and many small* towns in Peru and Ecuador destroyed about 26,000 lives lost 30,000 homeless property loss estimated at $300,000,000 SAN JOSE DE CUCUTA and other towns, in Colombia, 8. A., destroyed 14,000 lives lost May 18,1875 MANILA—Philipines badly damaged cathedral destroyed July24,1880 SCIO—Italy, and many villages destroyed- 4,000 perished .. April 3,1881 ANATOLIA—Asia Minor, and thirty towns destroyed loss of life heavy bRINAGUR—Cashmere and many villaqes deetroyed 70,000 homes demolished .... July 8,1885 CHARLESTON, S. C.—Visited by suocession of shocks three-fourths of city destroyed 98 persons perished .. Aug.31,1886 ENTIRE COAST from Island of Corsica to Lyons, France and Geneva, Switzerland, and from Milan, Italyi beyond1, Marseilles France severely shaken in center point, Nice", and neighborhood many buildings demolished 2,000 "L deaths in Italian territory Feb. 24,1887 HAWAII—167 persons killed May 5,1887 YUNNAN—China, partly destroyed 4,000 persons killed .. ..March, 1888 COSTA RICO—severely shaken loss of life not estimated cathedral' and palace destroyed V.... Dec.30,1888 SAN CRISTOBAL—Mexico every building destroyed .. .. .July 30,1892 PARAMYTHIA—in Epirus, destroyed great loss of life .... May 24,1895 are being conveyed there rapidly as chant's Exchange are gone and the possible. Fairmont hotel is a mass of smoking Prices of Food Trebled. ruins. A portion of the Mark Hopkins The prices of food and drink are be- institute of art has been destroyed and ing trebled today. Policemen are the Chronicle building Is a skeleton, guarding the retail stores to prevent The James Flood building is leaning. a few people from purchasing food supplies in„ large quantities.. Consid erable, looting, is reported aqd three,, thieves haye been shot dead by sol diers today. The St. Francis hotel and the Mer- to*** 1 48 167 567 v-v' 1667 Nov.30,1731 Feb. 5,1783 Feb. 4,1797 Feb. 28,1851 Deo. 16,1857 March 26,1860 Aug. 15,1868 Oct. 16,1883 The .Wind is Rising. /San Francisco, April 19.—The *SV«ist ern Unio^ anil Southern Pacific bulld ln£sf. has ,be6n totally destroyed and the' fire is burning rapidly in a diag onal line up the hill, commencing at McAllister street and ending at Bat tery street and on Main street as far as Sixteenth strtet. The wind is rising. Suffering Is Intense. The military authorities have for bidden anyone to enter the city. There is great suffering for food and water. A thousand people are lined up in the park awaiting soldiers to. distribute w&tcr Military Aids Police. The fire is still raging and the city is sure to be entirely destroyed. Boats and suburban trains ar$ running on schedule time except to and from Alameda. The military is doing po lice duty, but the city is not ifnder martial law. 100,000 People Homeless. The entire residence district up as far as the Fairmount hotel on the top of Nob Hill, on California street, be tween Powell and Mason streets, is all gone. It is reported that 100,000 people are homeless. Citizens Help In Rescue. V' Citizens have formed themselves into rescuing parties. They block the streets to incoming persons. The trains leaving ifrom across the bay 'are thronged. All ferry boats are us ing heavy steam to get the panic stricken people put of the city. Wealthy taenj poor men, the sick and the hctnele|»s are fleeing, leaving all they pdBseut behind them. They have fled to the hills away from the trees and houses. All the coast is crazed from fright. Half-dressed men and women, terror-stricken, have flung themselves into the sea. San Francisio is as if the fury of all the avenging fates had been pre paring for weeks to throw, at one time, in one phalanx, form in one swift terrific line, all their seat-no hatred and anger and, armed with deadly, though Invisible weapons, plunge that which was left in a cruel baptism of lire to eat unhaltlngly until there was no more. Bodies Piled In Mangled 8treets. No human mind can portray the awfulness of the day's happenings. Bodies are piled up in the mangled streets. Every heart that is living in or near this stricken city today is chilled be cause of the carnage. One's pen halts lana- feebly proceeds in an attempted ecltal of the cruel story. That which the earth refused to hwallow and wreck, the flres have con fcumed. All, or mostly all, of San Francisco that last week stood proud ly, almost haughtily, against the wind? the sea Is prostrate, shattered, help less. It all is very black and deso ta|«. Powerless to Help Each Other.fM ^Neighbors, kinsmen, friends sfirad powerless to help each other. No h&me or place of business has been scared. The living have gone two dftys without food. Many ran about at the hour of midnight, as if pursued by remorseless fiends. They have eaten of^he wild leaves. lready holes have been dug in the nd and bodies thrust, half uncov ered!, into them. Others have been sunk unceremoniously Into the caverns of thei deep. There have been no barriers the earthquake^/ have not broken down no fortress they have not lev eled no walls so thick as to arrest their penetration. Men, Women, and Children Crushed. Man, women and children have been CruslKd by falling walls. Others have been Fburned. Still others, wounded and half I conscious, have crawled Into places that looked like safety—some to die in the sunshine, between rows of burning buildings, by the side of ffcenfiad cattle others to suffer until daftness shall come to have, their faces moljttened by dew, to see their homes lit as a funeral pyre, to shiver as the star^ looked down on them, to cry vainly for aid, to hold the hands of strangers in death, to pass away amid the shrieks of the living and the glare of an inferno throwing garish lights squarely in their ghostly faces. Another Victim of an accident, Bdltor Scheule of Co lumbus, Ohio, was cored of his wounds by Buck!en's Arnica Salve. Try it. 25c. V. B. Clark, Druggist CHARITON, Chariton, April 19.—Mr. and Mrs. Harry White are spending a few days with relatives in Russell. Olen Curtis has his eye poisoned from working with broom corn in his father's factory. E. Whltten and daughter came up from Russell yesterday for a visit with hiB brother, Clark Whitfen, who is seriously sick with pneumonia. Dr. Croston, of Lucas, was a busi ness Caller In the city 'Wednesday^ Jerome Oppenhefmer returned yes terday from a visit in Centervllle. Miss Cora Loeb came up from Al bla Wednesday morning to attend the ball last evening given by the Charlton orchestra. 5" Relief In Six Hours Distressing Kidney and Bladder Dis ease relieved In six hours by "New^ Great South American Kidney Cure." It is a great surprise on account of its exceeding promptness in relieving pain in bladder, kidneys and back, in male or female. Relieves, retention of water almost immediately. If you want quick relief and cure this is the remedy., Sold by W. L. Sargent, drug gist, Ottumwa, Iowa. a Qiij Do? can earn money, and f! have lots of time left for all you want to do, by taking charge of the sales department branch in your town of THE LADIES* HOME JOURHAL and THE SATURDAY EVEN ING POST. Hundreds of nice girls and good women are everywhere doing this pleasant and well-paid work. They are every where respected and courteously 'treated. Were this not so we would not allow them to engage in it. V'i Some of our most suc cessful representatives and largest prize win ners-—some as high as $500.00—are girls. We are proud of "our girls." Will you be one of them? Write for story of one girl's sc rfjSE THS CUITII PDSUSHINO CO Mr ANT I737-E Cherry St., Philadelphia, Pa. STORY OF DISASTER 1 A*- PEOPLE IN 8AN FRANCISCO DRIV EN WH»P WITH TERROR BY EARTHQUAKE if SCENES ALMOST 1 N INDESCRIBABLE .„r^ 'S -V -v Men and Women Rush Through the Streets Half Clad and Almost Insane From Fear, Seeking Places of Safety When There la No Safety—A Day of T9rr9r^mmm San Francisco, April 19.—Of the scenes which marked the transforma tion of this ,the gayest, most careless city on the continent into a wreck and a hell, it is hard to write. That the day started with a blind general panic goeB without saying. People woke with a start to find themselves flound ering on the floor. In such an earthquake as this it is the human instinct to get out of doors, away from falling walls. They stum bled across the floors of their heaving houses to fliyl that even the good earth upon which they had plaoed their reliance was swaying and rising and falling, so that the sidewalks cracked and great,rents opened in the ground. f, The three minutes which followed were an eternity of terror. At least two people died of pure fright in that three minutes when there seemed no help in earth or heaven. Awful Stampede for Safety. There was a roar in the air like a "great burst of thunder, and from all about came the crash of falling walls It died down at last leaving the earth quaking and quivering like Jelly. Men would run forward, stop as an other shock, which might be greater any moment, seemed to take the earth from under their feet, and throw them selves face downward on the ground in a perfect agony of fear. It seemed to be two or three minutes after the great shock was over before people found their voices. There followed the screaming of women, beside themselves with terror, and the cries of men. With one im pulse, people made for the parks, as far as possible from falling walls. The parks speedily became packed with people in their night clothes, who screamed and moaned at the little shocks which followed every few min utes. »j, FlamesNRace With Dawn. The dawn was just breaking but there was no other light, for the gas and electric mains were gone and the street lamps were all out. But before the dawn was white there came a light from the east—the burning of the warehouse district The braver men and those without families to watch over, struck owt half dressed, as they were. In the early morning light they could see the busi ness district below them, all ruins and burning in five o.* six places. Through the Btreets from every di rection came the fire engines, called from all the outlying districts by the general alarm rung in by the assist ants of the dead chief. Chinese In Delirium of Fright. On Portsmouth square the panic was beyond description. This, the old plaza, about which the early city was built Is bordered now by Chinatown, by the Italian district and byj the Barb'ary boast, slower tenderloin.. A spur of the quake ran up the hill upon which Chinatown is situated and shook down part of the crazy little buildings on the southern edge. It tore down, too, some of the Italian1 tenements. The rush to Portsmouth square went on almost un checked by the police, who had more business elsewhere. The Chinese came out of the under ground burrows like, rats and tumbled Into the square, bekting such gongs and playing such noise instruments as they had snatched up. They were met on the other side by the refugees 6t the Italian quarter. The panic became a madness. At least two Chinamen were taken to the morgue dead of knife wounds given for no other reason, it seems than the madness of panic. L.."~ Four Races In Mad Panic. fc'C There were 10,000 Chinese in the quarter and there were thousands of Italians, Spaniards and Mexicans on the other side. It seemed as though every one of these, together with the riffraff of the Baroary coast, made for that one block open land. The two uiyjhtrolled streams met in the center' the square and piled up against tb edges. There they fought all the inornlng until some reg ulars restored order with their bayo nets. Then, as the dawn broke and the lower city began to be overhung with smoke of burning buildings, there came a back eddy. Cabmen, hackmen, drivers of express wagons and trucks, hired at enormous prices, began cart ing away from the lower city the valu ables of the hotels, which saw their doom in the fires which were breaking out everywhere and the spurts of the malice. Banks Remove Their Bullion. Even the banks began to take out their bullion and securities, and, under guard of half dressed clerks, to send them to the hills., whence came yester day the salvation of San Franolftc6v One old night hawk cab, driven by a oabman white with terror, carried more than a million dollars in ourren cy and securities. Human Rata Begin Work. Men, pulling corpses or broken peo ple yfronj fallen hnildiaga, stopped to ourie these jktocfcs&lona as they paased. Matty tlmee a line ot wagons and cabs would run oh to an impassa ble barrier oi debHd, where some building had fallen into the street and Would pile uf until the guards bleared a way through the: streets. And then the vandals formed and went to w'o'rlc.' Rduted out from the dens along the Wharves, the rats of the San Francisco' water front, the drifters who have reached the back eddy of European tilvilizatlon, crawled out and began to plunder. Early in the day a policeman caught one of these men creeping through the window of a small bank on Montgom ery street and shot him dead. But the police were keeping fire lines, beating back oversealous rescuers from .the fallen houses and the burn ing blocks, and tor a time these men plundered at will. Troops Ordered to Kill Thieves. News of this development was car ried ekrly to Mayor Schmitz, and it waB this as much as anything which determined htm. when General Fun ston came over on the double quick with the whole garrison of the Pre sidio to put the city under martial law. Orders were Issued to the troops to shoot anyone caught lh the ait of loot ing, and the same orders were iesued to the First regiment, national guard, of California when they were mustered and called out later in the day. And all this time, and clear up until noon, the earth, was shaking with lit tle tremors, many of which brought down walls and chimneys. At each of these tremors rescuers, and even the firemen, would stop for a moment paralyzed. The 8 o'clock shock, the heaviest after the big one, drove even those who had determined .to stay by the stricken city to look for a means of escape by water. Wild Rush for Ferries. There are only two ways out of San Francisco, one is by rail to the south and down the Santa Clara valley the other is by water to Oakland, the over land terminal. Most of the Californl ans trying to get out of the quaking, dangerous city, made by instinct for the ferry, since they knew that the shocks always travel heavily to the south, down the Santa Clara valley. As fpr the easterners, they had come by ferry and they started to get out by ferry. But when the half dressed people, carrying the ridicu lous bundles snatched up in time of panic, reached Montgomery street, they found their way blocked by ten blocks of fire. They piled up on the edge of thiB district fighting with the police, who held them back and turned them back again toward the hills. They must stay In the city. If It went they went with 1L The troops ended their last hop9 of getting out of town. So great had been the disorder that, as afternoon crme on and the earth seemed to be quieting down, they enforced strioK laws against movement. Troops 8top Run on Banks. This /stopped a strange feature of the disaster—a run on the banks by people who wanted to get out their money and go. All the morning lines of disheveled men had been standing in line before the banks on Montgom ery and Sansome street, Ignoring the smoke and flying brands and beating at the doors. The troops drove these away and the banks "went on with their work of getting out the valuables, There Is an open park opposite the city hall. Here, in default of a build ing, the board of supervisors met and formed, together with fifty substantial citizens whom they had gathered to gether, a committee of safety: The police qnd the troops, working admirably together, parsed the word that the dead and injured should be brought to Mechanics' pavilion, since the hospitals and morgue had become choked and toward that point, in the early forenoon, the drays, express wa gons, and hacks impressed as tempor ary ambulances, took their course. There were perhaps 400 Injured peo 5l^)many of them terribly mangled, laid out on the floor before noon. Near ly every physician in the city volun teered, and they got together enough trained nurses to do the work. No Time to Care For Dead. There were fewer corpses too busy were the forces of order in stopping the conflagration and caring for the living to care for the dead. One of the first wagons to arrive, however, brought a whole family— father, mother, and three children all dead except the baby, who had a terrible cut across its forehead and a broken arm. These had been dragged out from the ruins of their home on the water front A large consignment of bodies, most ly of workingmen, came from a small hotel on Eddy street, through whose roof there fell the entire upper struc ture of a tall building next door. It made kindling wood of the two upper floors of the lodging house, which It self stood. Men from neighboring houses, running along the streets, heard the cries and groans from this house and ran in. They reached the second floor, and through a hole in the eeiling there tumbled a man horribly dangled about the head, who lay where he had fallen and died at their "r** HAIR BAL8AM and IxantlflM the hal* hmcrimnt growth. Tails to Battore Atray 40e»«ndtUK)ac RUINED AREA A WIDE ONE If1 »Ui- OTHER AND SMALLER CITIES SUFFER, IN COMPARISON, AS MUCH AS FRI8CO ,, .mi-- SANTA ROSA LAID LOW Are Ten Thousand Homeless People Said tp Be Roaming the 8treeta of that City and Many Deaths Are Re ported.—Universities Utterly De stroyed ,, San Francisco, April 19.—Reports from the Interior of the state are moBt alarming. Santa Rosa is a total wreck and contains 10,000 homeless people., The loss of life will probably reach into the thousands. Not one business building is left Intact, and the greater portion ot the residence section is destroyed. Other Cities Affected. Messengers bring the saddest tid ings of destruction from Healdsburg, Geyservllle, Cloverdale, Hopeland and Uklah. This report takes in the country aa far north as Mendocino and Lake counties, and as far west as the Pa cific ocean. In every case the loss of life and property IS shocking. Town of Bradley Wiped Out. Los Angeles, April 19.—Reports from Bradley, a town of 500 population, 120 miles south of here, state that the town Is practically wiped out by three earthquakes yesterday. This is the only town lh southern California known to have suffered from the shock. So far as known there were no- fatalities. Los Angeles escaped damage entirely. 'c- Stockton Escapes Damage. Stockton, April 19.—Little,^ or no damage was done here. Los Banos 8utfers.~ Fresno, April 19.—The earthquake did no damage' here, although the shock was the heaviest ever felt at Fresno." At Los Bappe, on the border line of the cpxintyrheavyMkuur^ done and the loss 1b 9? were no fatalities. Awful Ruin at Santa Rosa. Sianta Rosa, Cal„ April 19, via Los Angeles.—Santa Rosa is a total wreck. Ten thousand people are homeless, and the loss of life will probably reach hundreds. The whole business portion of the city is tumbled Into ruins. The main street is pile,d either side many feet deep, with fallen buildings. Not one business building is left in tact. The four story court house Is a pile of broken masonry. Nothing is left. Identification is impossible. That which is destroyed by the earthquake is swept by fire. The citizens fled to the fields and hills'to watch the de struction of the chy. The water sys* tem yas destroyed by the earthquake. San Jose Fares Badly. Oakland, Cal., April 19.—At San Jose the Vendome hotel annex is badly wrecked and ten or fifteen are killed. The Doherty block Is completely burn* ed and ond woman was killed.' Dr. De grow was killed and, his wife is badly) injured. Every business building is de molished. The militia are out and martial law has been proclaimed. The estimate Is fifty killed. The postofilca Is half Wrecked. The First Presbyter Ian church 1B totally demolished, and the court house is a wreck. da&ramento Little, Damaged. Sacramento, Cal., Aprir 19.-^-Yester day's shock was the severest one felt In this city in many years. No seri ous damage was done. A few cracks were discovered in the postofflca building. Slight damage was done to some brick buildings. State Hospital Wrecked. Sacramento, April 19. Governor Pardee has received a dispatch from Milpitas that the state hospital la damaged and useless and Dr. Kelly killed. The number of Injured is un known. Inaane People at Large. San Jose, April 19.—The Agnews fn-*^ sane,asylum is a total wreck. Many Inmates are killed an'd the remainder are running around IOOBC, terrorizing the community. The superintendent of the institution and his wife were •, both killed. Universities Are Destroyed. Oakland, April 19.—The University of California at Berkeley and Stanford University at Palo Alto—California's two great Institutions of learning have been destroyed. At Berkeley the Institution which was progressing toward the eminence enjoyed by the most famous universi ties of the world is a mass of ruins. At Palo Alto the earthquake dam aged Stanford University. AH but one of the magnificent group of building* there have been wrecked. Including the famous memorial churcta, which cost $1,000,000 and was onje of the handsomest structures of its kind In the world. Dispatches from Pinola, mear Berke ley, last night said that /When th« earthquake struck Berkeley yester day the shock seemed to go directly? tftPAllO'h ffia A# 4-1- through the qtf'® of the/ group of uui« Greaft rents were opened sides of. versity buij/^ 'jf.'sides of the marble structures $*id they loppled over/ Shortly thereafter flames burst from the ruins and at a latelhour last night the Are waj^lll raging, V. 1