The evening world. Newspaper, April 18, 1906, Page 1

MBRATHORAP ats) warmer to-nfehtand Thursday, ¢ Open to All.” ] a : j | | | “ Circulation Books RESULTS EDITION PRIC!) ONE CEN = FA l Le. Citizens Are Fleeing in Pa nic from the Stricken City--- Communication by Wire Is Practically Cut Off-- City Is Placed Under Martial Law and Armed - Troops Parade the Streets, BY L. E. STOVER, WORLD STAFF CORRESPONDENT AT SAN FRANCISCO. SAN: FRANCISCO, April 18,---More than 400 bodies of victims of the earthquake and the succeeding fire have been received at the temporary morgue in Me- chanics’ Pavilion. There are upwards of 50 bodies at the morgue, Hundreds of bodies in the lodging house section have been cremated. The death list is growing every minute, and some estimates go as far as to say 3,000 lives were lost. The Palace Hotel has been destroyed, and everything south of Market street from Eighth street to the water front and north of Market street from Sansome to Broadway is gone. The wrecked city is now in imminent The water supply system of San Francisco was wrecked by the earthquake. Not only is there no water with which to fight the flames, but there is no water to drink. As the flames advance from the bay, licking up whole blocks of buildings, n and volunteers are blowing up buildings in danger of complete destruction by fire. RESULTS OF OTHER SPORTS WILL BE FOU i an awful panic spreads. Brave fireme REPORT IS CURRENT THAT U, S. SQUADRON IN PACIFIC IS LOST is after- i VO NEWS IN WASHINGTON OF THE ACCIDENT TO FLEET AT SAN if FRANCISCO. ST. LOUIS, April 18—An unconfirmed rumor reacherl here th’ WASHINGTON: April 18.—Admiral Converse. Chief of 1 °! Bureau of Navigation, says he had a report at noon that n Mile vessels at San Francisco had suffered no damage. He : aes t Siecle aurey pry he would have known it immediately had any warship he Nothing to support this rumor was recelyed, Z | Reriotely damaged. Bake ade to-day to g¢ that the Pactfle squadron was wrecked tn San Fra / noon to the effoct Bay. t WASHGINTON, D. C., April 18—An attempt was bd {nto communication with the Navy-Yard in San Francisco by telegraph, Then the wireless apparatus was tried, and this also failed ST. LOUIS AT CHICAGO—(N. L.) but failed | | The probability is a this report got abroad and led to the rumor ST. LOUIS 0 O— 7 that the warships were lost. CHICAGO 1 A The Pacific Squadron, according to Government assienments, was dis-| (A. 1 tributed at the following of the Pacific € on last Saturday CIEVELANDicseceeccs ace 0000001 0— 4 Rear-Admiral C. F. rich, flagship Chicago, oCimmander C. J.) §T, LOUIS ..------------ 00000000 0—C Dadger, at San D 2 | ; ay ee Commander D. W, Coffin, San Diego. \ CHICAGO AT DETROIT—(A. L. ° Marblehead, Commander R. I, Mulligan, an Diego. | GHIEAC eon adeccene 2 Oe 3 eis : eda natant ash ren ‘ | DETROIT .------ - ras Paul Jones, Lieut. J.’ F. Marshall, jr, San Diego. | Scare eran aaa Perry, Lieut. F, N. Freeman, San Diego. LATE WINNERS AT NASHVILLE. Princeton, Commander F, H. Sh¥rman, San Diego. | ' + Sonpay io Saturn, collier, Mare Island, San Francisco Harbor, \ Sixth—J. Ed Grillo 6-1, St. Noel 8-5 place, Magic. Independence, receiving ship, Capt. B, Haber, Mare Island. AT MEMPHIS. Oregon, Capt. J. P. Merrill, Bremerton, Wash, _!__Fifth—Deutschland 4-5, Burleigh 7-10 place, invinelales.s Sixth—Los Angeleno 2-1, Lemow Girt1-4 pl., Gtad MYA. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1906. , imagined from the fact that a me S| There are other big fires b ‘WEATHER—Fatr; warmer to-night ond Thuradmy, FINAL RESULTS EDITION i PRICE ONE CENT. EDITION “ Circulation Books Open to All.’”’ | Nothing to Stop the Sweep of the Flames, and Aid is Asked from Outside— One Thousand Lives Believed to Have Been Lost— Palace Hotel and Other Famous Structures Doomed. the path of the conflagration, but the flames thus far have succeeded in leaping all the barriers. a ais Because of the fire along the waterfront the ferryboat servicz to Oakland is crippled. The Southern Pacific Railroad has placed all its tugs and large steamers at the dis- 'posal of persons desiring to leave the doomed city. NO TREMOR OF WARNING. Without preliminary tremor of warning the earthquake visited the city at 5:15 o’clock this morning. The district most seriously affected was the area extending east and south of Montgomery street to the bay. The whole city was shaken, and every person able to walk hastened to the open air. Fires sprang’ up in the ruins and spread rapidly. Chief Sullivan was killed in an engine house upon which the tower of the California Hotel dropped. The gravity of the situation cannot be exaggerated. The fire has proved almost as destructive as the earthquake, and we will be lucky if it does not utterly destroy us. that will leave San Francisco until the worst is over. ers ers This is probably the last message The Western Union office has been destroyed, and the Postal is going. The operators are sticking to their posts in the face of death, Arrangements are being made to transfer the entire staffs of the Western Union and Postal across the Bay to Oakland as soon as a boat can be secured. IMPOSSIBLE TO COUNT THE DEAD. | All estimates as to the loss of life must be guesswork. work. The community iscompletely demoralized. | The fire is eating up the ruins, incinerating the bodies of hundreds who were buried in the There is absolutely no svsiem in relief wreckage. Noman can tell how many wounded, pinned down, have been burned to death. There was a second shock at 8 o'clock, just as the people were beginning to recover their jsenses and organize for search of the ruins. This shock served to inspire absolute terror. Then ‘came a stiff breeze—almost a half gale—from off the Bay, and the march of the flames through the city began. - | Nothing can be written to give an idea of the situation in its entirety. The extent of the conflagration may te re from San Jose, twenty-five miles away, says that the pple of that city are }watching San Francisco burn, An idea of the horrors of the cirthquake alone may be gained fro% one isolated case, iIn Eddy strect, near Taylor, a big building dropped on a lodging-house next door. There were two hundred peosle in Not one of taem escaped, and the buildings are lying as they fell (at noon), es the one in the heart of the city, Out on Mission street, be jand T wenty-second strests, the block is ablaze. | Among the buildings destroyed are the $7,000,000 City Hall and the pos Opera House, a ten-story building next door, the Pacific States Telephone Company, the Rialto Bui \the lodging-house. n Twenty-first b Fire has eaten up tic Grand ing, the Natoma office. Building, the twelve-story Mutual Life Building and many other notable structures, The offices of the Examiner and Call were gutted by the flames. Gen. Funston, Commander of the Department of the Pacific, has called out his at the request of eround the dep dsitors is have t Gua opened, although |Mayor Schmitz, and San Francisco is practically under martial law. banks, No business houses were opened to-day and no banks were bessezed the doors and clamored for their money. A night of horror is anticipated. There is no gas and no electricity. advancing flames, The gas w ‘s south of Market Street have blown up, All saloons have bee sed and guards have teen stationed to prevent any one Tens of thousands are pouring cut of town on fost, in boats across the Bay kind of vehicle. y Mayor Schmitz has called for the assistance of the entire Oakland Fire Department, and has ordered that all dynamite available be used to blow up buildings in order to stay the progress of the flames, For light the city must depe 1d upon the o from coming into n cle