The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 19, 1906, Page 5

THE SEATTLE STAR..THURSD. Se ee There is no need for alarm SPEND NIGHT IN in Seattle, or the Puget Sound urrence of an earthquake tn this region. ‘The crust of the earth here is thick and a rigid, and of any co — mquence are therefore un known. wo in California the Crazed With Fear Carry Their Belong- ings to Open Spaces, While Their Homes Go Up in Smoke. oe? eee eee ees (Special to The Star.) qual and which do so lamage There ia a well defin belt all around the w tract of the within this LOS ANGELES, April 19.—San FYancisco has spent a in darkness Both electric lights and gas were cut off the only light that illumined the scenes of desolation nt by the earthquake was the blaze of the ruined city, re news only has come from the stricken city, It known how many persons are dead and only the wildest : we gaates of the extent of the money damage can be had ; Since the first shock at 5:15 Wednesday morning, which ; to the co nd Ca elt ornia Hes SESS SSSR ERE Ee RR Ee RR eR ee eee setae Oo el H, Yous has sued Forumander d quickly by two more, still others have visited FAIRMONT HOTEL Foos for a divorce and asks the we apeedy demolished city and surrounding cities, each re- ise . court to change her name back to - trembler adding to the panic of the fright-crazed in Three-miltion dollar San Francisco Hotel now at the mercy of the flames, | Harris, her maiden name ee —_ ents and hurling more of the stately business blocks, jotels and public buildings into the debris, MECHANICS’ PAVILION BURNS, with Sacramento, which city also suffered from the quakings of the earth. Fresno was shaken up and in Hollister and Visalia dam- age was done to buildings, and landslides blocked the railroad The Palace hotel is in ruins Last night Mechanics’ Pa tracks. gearcely less well known than the famous hostelry, and in a few minutes was reduced to ashes, making a | for fully 200 dead and injured that had been car- fied there by the rescuers, ONE TOWN DESTROYED, Further south slight shocks were felt during yesterday and last night. A tremor was reported by the Los Angeles wea- SLEEP IN THE PARKS. ther bureau and San Diego felt a — shake, while the re “otis 3 " | port has come that Browley, in the Imperial Valley was d- Thousands of persons spent the night in Golden and other |stroyed by an earthquake duriug Wednesday afternoon. to which they fled during the day, leaving their homes | r } * ‘oa | they were afraid to remain. All who can, are leaving | wo relief trains have been dispatched Angeles jto San Francisco, but it is not probable that either wilh get rs ol = f | PY he city, but owe dhergaadbeyf er and the ferries ceased |‘*TOURH on account of the tracks having been destroyed in heart ios bon ' | places in San joaquin valley yen hem Gate ia patrolled by soldiers from the Presidio and | The Southern Pacific coast line is considered unsafe, © eiesanets there being a great many channels north of San Louis Obispo gate troops anc Ff | through which the railroad officials are afraid to send trains VANDALS ARE SHOT. ing the disturbances of the earth, and that line is blocked 4 = also at Visalia, where the side of a mountain slid down on the Yet vandals are not wholly suppressed. The soldiers have | tracks. ‘ shot four ghouls so far as known, Martial law prevails. | None other can cope with the panic and hold in check the wuthw element Stanford University at Palo Alto is in ruins, the state uni at Berkeley suffered severe damage. Agnew insane asylum was demolished ; many persons were killed by falling buildings at Santa Rosa. Chimneys fell wo the great Delmonte hotel at Monterey, crashing through | tereol and killing two guests and an employe of the house OTHER CITIES SUFFER The court house and six buildings were rared at Santa Gres, great damage was done and severe! persons killed at San rR, SAN FRANCISCO. Dead Injured City blocks wrecked City blocks burned Homeless Destitute Area of devastation Buildings in ruins Property loss Hotels destroyed Newspaper offices destroyed : Telegraph and telephone offices destroyed OAKLAND. 10 square miles 30,000 «++ $100,000,000 miles of Southern Pacific track were engulfed be- green Suisun and Benicia, cutting off rail communications \[Economy in Garden Hose FOR EVERYBODY mao Feet Cotton Hose Remnants, worth up to 12 cents a foot, in lengths 10 feet to 24 feet— 4c Per Foot $10,000,000 Dead .. Sereen Doors, hardwood, |. $4.00 Toga varnished, any size, with Beautiful J) Dead ..........- PORE ois 000 ccc vttece 7-Piece |] Property loss ....... Stein Set, 83c with large Tankard anc Sherman Celebrated Sv GEMS TE Dit ter serseserseessencnesceseseneo reasons Lawn Sprinkler 29c Fancy Flow Blue Gold Decorated Whale Oil Soap, for spray- poorieienie |) Bo. Me ing, 25¢ can for Plate, IN DUE bid escodvcctcseshedennescessutesse 15 worth up $1.00 Mauser Alarm Clocks, 5O¢ oe ped ps warranted < soc Genuine roperty loss . 59c _ “s OTHER TOWNS AND VILLAGES. ha ng Cia tr ; ME OOD bib ad bdo bo .s-cneecndh beh sercsconsened arpet Tax, in large papers, * Gort i ’ z Pot 29e Fire Proof 1c Brown | a and W en Hammocks, beau tana B 19 tiful assorted colors, with pill and vase valance soc Dozen r $1.39 Kestner Celebrat D 1 ch tern, + night of infernal horrors daylight dawned on a city of smolder- worth | ing ruins, Torn and shattered by the earthquake, which was followed by the devastating fire, San Francisco this morning presents a picture of desolation beyond words to tell. Swiftly the earthquake came and swiftly did it go, but behind it left a trail of dead, dying and destruction such as this country has never seen. A thousand lives have been snuffed out in San Francisco alone and there is not even now any means of deter- mining the number of dead and dying Days and perhaps weeks may eiapse before any compre- hensive list can be prepared and this list will never be com- Itc 15c ing in All Directions. o Bras BR iene P | Pe < ce mbir wow 4) | SAN FRANCISCO, via Oakland, April 19.-—After a plete. Since the first tremor at 5:20 Wednesday morning, every minute that has clicked off has added horror upon horror until the people are satiated and stunned. Since the first sinall blaze sprang up at Twenty-second street, each hour has added millions of dollars of property as food for the flames, until it is impossible to give any adequate idea of the destruc- tion wrought, TOO BIG TO UNDERSTAND. Even those who gaze upon the ruins of the once great city cannot comprehend the extent of the disaster, It is one of | thoge great calamities, too big, too horrible, too unreal to be | intelligently grasped in the human mind. | When darkness fell upon the stricken city, hope died out | of every breast and it was then realized that the brighest pros- | pect for San Francisco was the final dying out of the flames which would leave only a barren sand dunne dotted here and oo) with the charred smoking embers of what were once 1 world-famous buildings. TRY TO SAVE PORTABLES. | With the energy born of despair, people set to work trying bro save what portables they could take with them. During the | night there was a succession of slight shocks, which in them- | selves did little damage, but each one served to throw the peo- | ple into a panic. Death was on al! sides and there was no place to seck saftey. The parks were crowded with men and women, jwhile the soldiers with Mausers on their shoulders paraded i the streets enforcing martial law, GHOULS ARE SHOT. Four ghouls caught in the act of robbing the dead, were | summarily shot, but even this did not serve to preserve order. | The riotous element broke into the ruined saloon and whole- sale liquor houses and the streets were filled with drunken men, mad with whisky, excitement and terror And all through the night the flames from a thousand buildings lit up the skies, There was no other light, but the hideous glare made every detail of destruction only too visible to the terrified and helpless inhabitants. There was no rest for the homeless and those who have homes are few and fearful of remaining in them. CROWDS SURGE IN STREETS. Through the long hours of impotent anxiety the crowds surged back and forth, drawn here and there by the news of some fresh disaster or hurried frantically f-om one spot to another to escape a real or an imaginary danger. Every few minutes came the boom of exploding dynamite ad the crash of demolished buildings, and the rattle of the wagons bearing away the dead beat incessantly upon the ears of the watchers. A hundred thousand persons would have left San Fran- cisco last night if there had been any means of getting out. No trains are running and the ferries have stopped, Penned in a _ city of destruction thousands are waiting numbed and stoic- ally for they know not what. | FORTUNES HAVE VANISHED. Class distinctions have been levelled. The highest and the lowest are on the same level. Men, who Tuesday night were worth hundreds of thousands of dollars are this morning | penniless, many of them with insufficient clothing. Women with a lift of wealth and luxury behind them, last night shiv- ered on the cold ground, vainly seeking a short respits in slumber ARE DRIVEN INSANE. Maddened men and women at intervals ran shrieking through the streets in their delirium. Insanity claimed its victims from among those who had gazed on scenes too dread- ful for reason to withstand Thousands of persons are missing and thousands are searching for them. When the flames licked up Mechanics’ avilion the streets were packed with an appealing multitude king its dead, the dead that will never be known. It was only another horror, one in the sickening sequence of a hun- , dred that have occurred in the past eighteen hours. OAKLAND, April jthousand people are homeless and the dead will be numbered 19.—Santa Rosa is wrecked. Ten iby the hundreds. There is not a building standing in the ] FE] / OF HORROR business district of the city and the flames are sweeping over | the residence section. The people have fled from the city and are watching the Daylight Dawns in San Francisco on a Mass df jjsestruction of their homes from the fields. Smoldering Ruins and Flames Still Spread- The first shock threw the business blocks to the ground, piling up the streets with heaps of rubbish. The residences | | withstood the shock, but were soon engulfed in the flames ' which swept out in all directions from the center of the city. j Reports of destruction are being received by couriers from Healdsburg, Geyserville, Cloverdale, Hopland and Ukiah CALIFORNIA! — ‘ands me Now| DANCE TONIGHT soll first class roun The second of the popular Thur » I Angeles a jay night dances at Leech! park 1 it May 10th, return} be given tor M ovat yunt meeting | party of the week o t "@t| Latest spring mil ***| Fraser's new store, to be an unusually active “busy Friday’’-- 2,000 of these Flemish Jugs for our “busy Friday 13e each special This ts w splendid article, having secured large quantity just for thie one day, “busy Friday,” special selling. 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