The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 18, 1906, Page 7

EARTHQUAKE! ( Continued F age One.) aan MANY DEAD AND MILLIONS LOST Story of San Francisco's Great Calam- iy--Fire Follows Earthquake and Terrible, Havoc Is Wrought. (Scripps News Service) PRANCISCO an carthquake April 8, via Oakland.—San SAN 5 was visited by and as a result fully 1,000 persons are dead and even shock at 5:20 this pee vale of $75,000,000 has been destroyed At noon wl atch was sent to Oakland from t north and south of Market st eapte of burning debris. Four hu reovered and one-half the BRisimpossible to estimate w ty will be. un te Rone thee Sdleve and this figure may be Pyphen some ser smb! ance to order prevail: and seventy f Whale blocks have been wiped out and enormous dred bodies had been istrict remains to be BB BEtet ass Phe t TSP wr ee ere’ oes i cir brer san ms at the loss of life or prop ooo ¢ ncreased to an appalling | That there cad is hard { property is between is is merely a quan Tt? THE SEATTLE STAR—-WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1906. Panoramic View of San Francisco, building, which adjoins it, is on fire and will in all prabability topped Will the entire city be destroyed These are the be consumed questions uppermost in every mind. And no one can answer Mayor Schmidt has established headquarters in the Hall them of Justice. Soldiers are parading the streets and martial law The city can be saved only by dynamite The supply in ts in effect Phe vidiera have orders to shoot on sight any San Francisco has been exhausted. Oakland has sent all that one caught stealing, Guards have been placed around all the Jean be gathered together here. Appeals for more explosives already mut to banks, but marauders are beginning their ghoulish | have ge ther citie If dynamite in sufficient quan work. All saloons have been closed tity can be secured there is some hope, but if the supply Some of the water mains have been repaired, but the fire hab gained such headway that it is almoat impossible to The Star's telegraphic news service suffered early this fight it. The water is coming through the repaired mains with ench-deres that it cannot be. controtied aforning as a result of the destruction of wire connections Fire Chief Sullivan has been killed by falling with the San Francisco office of the Scripps News Associa walls of buildings which were dynamited The city tion. s entire supply of dynamite has been exhaust The office in question is located in the San Francisco 340 Ninth st., and the News building The of the Daily News building, went down in the general crash. manager Scripps News, being unable to use direct wires to Pacific Coast cities, was compelled to send messages to Oakland and other near by points for transmission Despite this great handicap the Scripps News soon after 8 o'clock this morning had the wires hot out of neigh- boring towns, and The Star was enabled to get out the most complete extras which were published in this city. fails, then San Francisco is doomed to be an ash heap before morning and the streets were almost deserted ¢ pt for the ca morning toilers Binlding s ed on the foundations, #ernatio a moment It was only a fe econds before : , ietroved itr ga rock a 1 a n goods i came the horrible crashing of timber ar teel | The city bas come to the reali m of the extent of the ; at noon was beginning te take concerted action CALL AND EXAMINER BUELDINGS, CROWDS POUR INTO STREBRTS. fires are still raging un ked and the fire depart Roth of which were destroyed. The Call building Is the tall oa ies ' i a Pie Baynamiting buildings in the Mission and Western ad one in the foreground, and the Examiner in the seven-story build he crazed lodgers began to pour into the streets, tum The Dames are making rapid progress in the Western | 5 0? opposite corner a g over each other as they fought to get to the street and it docs not seem possible that they can be check j | Shricks and curses filled the air, and the maddened mob c iii reach the waterfront. In the Mission addition | °! and explosives are being sent from Oakland It is now |rushed about. Up and down the streets they fled, only to be idhing bes cicared a large section and there is no | Talized that dynamite is the only means of saving San Frat [turned back by falling buildings. There was no safety any lap of mg the advance of- the fire, unless there is a |? No amount of water could have any effect on the solid | where |} walls of fire that are on all sides. In less time than it takes to tell it the entire city wa Buildings on Sansome, Mission, Battery, Front, Davis wd Dremmond ats. have t on WW those along Fremon:, Hea | Kast South st Sanding. The st ‘Me cachling flames are on all } | ry DEAD ARE EVERYWHERE. | | ; ; | into burning Stuart and ruins as Main, Spear On these thorou ares there is scarcely a choked with debris and sides AE! cobain Edi a & Map tateed into @ morgue, and over yoo bodies have Magi there. The bodies are in many instances fearfully being torn almost fad steel. These What disposition to make of th al question, Burial just now is ; and they may be taken ovt to sea AWSen Francisco is trying to get to Oakland cad tabs are surging about the ferr ‘to be taken wag The Western Union and Postal stoped. The Postal office employes WS etl the flames drove them pavilion has been to shreds by the falling stone can never be identified. se bodies is already a mpexsible Time cannot Mad offices begging and offices have been de stayed at their instru The wrecked The | j away at tt o'clock | t and Chronicle buildi sre which cost $7,000,000, is a monumental Tee Hobart buiiding is burning, and the Gore block is de- | Wloog Pine, Bush pe fell into @illapsed with a deafening crast The Majestic the Aa ollowed in a few minutes, and then came the roof of the | Getental hotel. The Rialto > belidinn was the next to go, | GOR the space of a few minutes there was Ge Mocks long on Market st ‘gs are and Market sts. the front of the | eets At 9 o'clock the dome of the mh —— i a mass of flame eeais “o thes instantly fot) wed by the crumbling of the fi et | ae Wky and Merchant s: i persor a) SR as known. ‘The ga - ith of blew tit MW With a detonation shat j The WB Mae rons that n oun s to al feet how many ere killed b <plosion : niet GAS WORKS EXPOLE a — gas works explosion 1 numerous fires. The ar at Opera house is burning be totally destroyed 1o-story h there is a d MIMS apd Mission sts, there is a hand from this point to St. Pa } MANS Of flare. building on nine ee le st. side of the Palace hotel is burning, and oe appears to be doomed. The Monadnock build oe burning in the rear and t front portion was wrecked Wikeshock. The Pacific Telep peny’s t soldiers ited States J aroused. None knew 1 General Funston has ordered out all the Un what had happene and unreasoning and the eva The artillery will | fear was in every breast. Street cars were rown from the be used to destroy in the path of the Only | tracks and lights went out by clearing a wide strip around the burning ct can the | Phen everybody started for Market st., where the flames city be saved The wind has freshened nisi a since were already vissble son a dense y rh ld tt morning and there are fears that the entire ty may be iburbs that San Francisco was on fire wiped ont NO WATER AVAILABLE. Every ferry coming into Oakland brings new details of the horror, until belief and imagination are staggered ery fire engine house in the city turned out its ap mly to find that there was no water availal The water mains had been broken and mm the n to ep up through the pavement and the realization th hundreds were killed ame over the startled throng ors of all sorts filled the THE STREETS °°!) 28" ild with dread The prospect of another shock lent add } made for tl Those com there was a mad ru ‘Frightened Thousands Gather Pell Me! From) ing down town met those ! ceing from the scenes of the dis ster, and indescribable confusion prevailed. For an hour Every Section---City Has Grown Callous to/*""\" = op ay agen nirvana bag be ce Death and Only Looks Forward to Checking) st» \ tk ime vo grasp she dvcadiul geality, | No one Knew what to do, and all the time the f the Flames. liad weakens’ taiidings. were tush fu “and f rom every quarter, Rescuers ran hither and thither dragging (Sent by Courier to Oakland.) orth bodies © point ran hour 4 and the rool explosion. The Mills OAKLAND, April 18—San Francisco today is ins Pand thus it went on f ferno, the like of which has never been pictured " There was no place to which to take the wounded, and semblance to human beings; fla reaching skyward « 1a they spread out. The breez ew stronger and t a on { women frenzied to 1 escaped the worst of the Fires raged on all sides is the tuation m an Franci today EB ' ! e the eye x 1 there € ! ! n e streets a ating fusior HORROR FOLLOWS HORROR. Fiemh eaten period of Geepelc. When the he" I ight hours men have been shocked limit of ! a wa . which to fight the flames a endurance, and now nothing is t ¢ cnoug ttl groa up f t mbled le. TI acci- The city has sunk its feelings of regret before necessity [dents du the crus forts to save lives and j of self preservation. Today is something horrible t it is ff and mangled bodies began to t every { scores of 1 longer brings gasps of horror Phe J ing nd cor ation th different parts of the city was ad are dead and can suffer no more, The living alone are Out in the residence distr there was the greatest | of interest anxict N what had ened, but there was | De too common. Those who have been killed have | every evidence of a catastrophe. Soon the outlying streets | already become at ¢ to the more fortunate who escaped. | presented the pict f a routed army. Long lines of men | Pheir bodies must be disposed of, but there is no time to dig and women hurried mewhere for news. Everybody asked | graves Minute unnot be spent trying to identify relatives | questions, none answered any, or friends Che fire 1st be stopped. Some remnant of San Every moment the flames gathered energy, and the clouds Francisco must be saved xf smoke over the city grew denser weat buildings, six, There is nv x mourning in San Francisco toda eight and ten stories high, were cruml x to the ground That wil! come later 4; ¢ fire ia the one thought, Can tt be! like houses built of cards, LMxplosions were at ard on every le, and all the time the great rged ba and forth, now drawn to the danger line | I ! as irresistible, and tt panic str is some fresh disaster was added to the already long j Wagons beariug the dead and ‘% uttered through [ the reets, the drivers f{ ng their 1y through the crowds lwhiclr struggled for a glance at the ir bulances lclanged their gongs for the right of way and automobiles |were pressed into x Impro 1 stretchers were in every hand CHICAGO, April 18.—Estimates of the dead vary, the reports from San Francisco being confusing, but it is believed that at least 2,000 are dead Application has been made to the United States govern- | ment for transports to take the bodies out to sea to be buried. | So many are mutilated that it is impossible to care for them ashore. | Cities across the bay suffered severely. Suburban fire de- | partments are fighting many fires Along Pine, Bush and Market sts. the fronts of buildings fell into the street, exposing the interior to view. At 9:30 the dome of the city hall fell, the Majestic theater collapsed and | the Occidental hotel roof fell in. Not a window is left. Four lentire blocks along Market st., from First, Second and Third | aes., are burning fiercely. The Rialto building is wrecked. The supply of dynamite is exhausted, and the mayor has It is feared’ the entire city will be destroyed if the flames cannot be stayed | telephoned to Oakland for more explosives. | quickly General Funston has ordered out the entire force from |the Presidio and Fort Macon to guard property and preserve | order, Fire Chief Sullivan and Policeman Frenner were killed As yet there is little disorder. under falling ruins. 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