The evening world. Newspaper, April 18, 1906, Page 3

UTHE WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENING, | AREA OF SEVERAL HUNDRED MILES DEVASTATED BY THE EART THREE MILES OF RAILROAD SUNK QUT OF SIGHT AND STATE Some of the Buildings Along Market Street. Which Were Badly Damaged by the a APRIL 18, 1906. ‘ {E Na a z Fs & p fe LICH VOW Mornexr Seorecel RSET TSS = CHRONICLE BUILDING. —_—_— WEATHER FORECAST. 4OOKING UE WOonrEe + Forecast for the thirty-six hours a fra MDA LS = ending at 8 P. M. Thursday for ond ' { a New York City and vicinity: Fair conics: Sree ; see . PNR ETT 7 SPRECKLES BUILDING and slightly warmer to-night and | 499 KING DOWN KEARNEY CaR 359 Ang MfaRnEr Thursday; winds becoming south- { th | 5 3 meat | y minute, being recorded only on the sels-| i =| The evidences of geologic Ing are , especially | most, if not fore n0re or lese 1900. Prior to jocks wer ——————— fault of re iegram to the Mayor of San7/ ae Caan eae POST The city of New York ¢ s its horror and profound grief at the calamity that has fallen upon San Francisco. If New York can give aid! A FIRE TH a | - in any m to your ken city command me. i * TNews Paner Row. | he follow! | » years prec obthe | Tis2, Sat shocks wer in the earthquake of came ea FRANCI a) “TO THE MAYOR OF the morr of buile nz and caused the clty, The St ¢ butidi: oe a Vand the fur- < “GEORGE B, M'CLELLAN.” BUILDING troyed, Patrons we NATIO? section dead and wounded are being carried out by survivors and volunteers Quivering, Tilting, [ 41, AID FOR ’FRISCO, e Sitting in the abandoned offices of the Postal Telegraph Com WASHINGTON, April 18, —Upon hearing the news of the San Fran-/ san rrancisco, with he fire advancing on him from two direct of War Oliver, In the absence of ate leaps, the local superintendent, L. W. phed #lajor-Gen. Greely, com- ae) Sent this message direct to Vice from the more fortunate parts of the city. M. ( “The damaged area 1s largely covered by manufacturing establish- » at New/ ments and homes. ¢ Mark there are not many larg: Shaky Eyeglasses do more harm thai your eyes as you v BEST lasses are a sistant S! Storer, at 1 00' President Bradle at the Capitol, te rei : manding th n, with headq 3 at San Francisco, instruct- busin houses. Our offices the Hobart Building were in what might F they tUt out of He ius ‘and ever! r 4 ae IRSAT ae ‘d use source: i e@ northwestern « » zone of d ar e Hc southern Callfoer be SROUL OF LOCUS ROG: eyere ‘ dng DU tO, Cooperate rhs tne Peay AULnOrs Lega. Une, AlL teepureeei Ne ec (Tha, fre "le" still com{ng uneMarkat attests Ones Dlodk trom us, now. |(maiealleas ine nan niostfen weiner of. the edna of dlaaster sat Hes ouarE soutbein Calteriled orca ie cae y_slip or pinch, The “Harris his command to assist in alleviating the situalon there. Back of the Palace Hotel it is a furnace. I am afraid the Grand and Palace| down, 2 : esate eae . Suey wal keep them in place— RED CROSS SOCIETY ACTS. hotels will get it soon. Southern Pacific uffices on Market street are safe mar ROUTE OF THE SHOCK Iaig ta Heese MIE The Red Cross Soviety has taken steps to relleve the destitutjon and | so far, but cannot tell what will happon. California street 1s all ablaze, Theaeiearauihasate Mone mahichailanibestanpeacs to Rnaval teen Hes ye) ae a ‘Eyes and Their Care” is a booklet misery that must follow the earthquake in San Francisco, William H./ Everything east of Montgomery and north of Market street is burning greatest: North from Montgomery street toward the b a AR aCAA STG which every eyeglass wearer should ‘ t , earthquake which mal 1 a R Taft, Secr y of War, is the head of the Red Cross Society and will super- Storor added that he would stick to his desk and send bulletins with! t from Montgomery street toward the bay—Sansome, Battery, ! Sioy the elt jread. Vil mail it FREE if you can't call intend the work of relief. i his own hand until he had to flee. : | iad vas end DE uas ne October eee é ; : “North and west of Montgomery and Marke aka es an “Our offices are besteged with people filing messages. No street cars! S ed which 9 » THY FROM BOSTON, | shaken, lights went out, water 1 SYMPA iS are running, and communication with various parts of the city is slow | Maan en Geno tT 4 Bast 20d St, near 4th Ay, BOSTON, April 1 cisco Mayor John F. F “HON. EUGENE E. 8 “Boston extends §' your city, Can we help y -As soon as he learned of the disaster in San Fran- | 1 of this city sent the following telegram: ‘HMIDT, MAYOR, SAN FR. SCO, CAL.: | pute neere sympathy in the calamity that has befallen mu? JOUN ¥. FITZ and difficult. The fires are spreading rapldl Even as Storer filed his messages a force of Mnemen fnvaded the ng and began disconnecting the instruments and packing them up tory to flight. By that time the flames practically flanked the! ERALD.” | offices on two sides, and every second brought the fire nearer, On) zEe {00 Hast 125th St, seat” ao 442 Columbus A “sk blocks nearer the b » big Crocke: of th age in the rest of Building lost its windows, but earthquake, Inj of the i y torn out of the earth | San Francisco was t not fall, being out ated area the wi he force of the shock.” fling ter and gas the Mayor Fitzgerald called a meeting of business men, which was attended | fact that the wires in the city proper w by Gov. Curtis Guild, jr. It was voted that a relief committee of fifteen | Postal to keep up communication as long as it had. Mr. Sto: A ) > U1 sit had, Mr. Storer fashed | | WILL PAY $3,675,000 IN ME Specialist be appointed and 00 raised by subscription to aid San Francisco, word that he was afraid it would be necessary to go somewhere outside. > ee Telegrams were sent by Goy. Guild to Gov. Pardee, of California, and | of the town and fit up a temporary office by disinterring the buried wire ENT IN 21 YEARS, | a? to Mayor Schmidt, of San Francisco. To Gov. Pardee he said: “Deepest| Oakland is the nearest telegraph office to the Bust, but there was no} sympathy for your people. Invite suggestions as to which localities are| 0 of crossing the bay to Oakland because of the fires among the pee Merrall most in need of aid. Massachusetts wishes not merely to sympathize, but. ferry slips. yi » underground enabled the} a te nets to Occ s Old Site | |Latest Style Skirts! to hele.” | Af noon to-day (Eastern time) private messages from eurvivore to MADE Wy) vob MEASURE. \ To the Mayor he telegraphed: “How can Massachusetts best aid yon?) friends and relatives in New York began to arrive here. Nearly all of in | Avenue, | a i Decpest sympathy of all our peonle.” | them, aft announcing that the sender had escaped injury, added that TON, aif. property-owners to-d: President Morris K, Jesup, of the Chamber of Commerce, had n con-| the entire city seemed doomed, ations Co mmmittee, is 1 w ference this afternoon with Col. R. C, Clowry, President of the Western It was 10.55 (Pacific ume) when the last remaining wire leading from] Cannon, for immediate the President to ths atest great usin egrap y. This message w avant Gr Gani the doo city went out of commission and the operators fled for thetr| e Te CAN PYAR Sra ore ap {thon ! : Unton Telegraph Company, This message was sent to the Mayor of San {i\\,,! from the collapsing, fire-surrounded Postal Building, But at 1L05| tee Hae r 0 | Acker, Me Francisco: Mice across the bay at Oakland took up the broken thread of | /au'* story : nd the Navy, wh “Morris K, Jesup, President of the Chamber of Commerce of tho City of New York, has just called and desires to know !f his assoclation can of destruction. The following message promptly reached New He ts to work th ‘om Oakland: to get nto imme a The message was signed by Col. Clowry as President of the Westena! Hotel and the Erieeiwerarunculagre Dena iil ine eevee eee es i Settee Deion bere that Oras cla Wil Jet Union Telegraph Company, and was given the right of way over the wires, Grand Hotel had begun. No present means of getting b ss into San STL RU SO aT the 1 ubeh for its between here and San Francisco. Francisco. Boats not allowed to take people there; nobody allowed to 50 | ' treet Mia a A etd in. Foats and trains coming out are crowded with refug: ANXI FTY OUT FATE OF zs es soe _ NO CONNECTION WITH THE FINEST SECTION OF THE GRAND OPERA SINGERS j < __ OUTBREAK OF VESUVIUS| CITY HAS BEEN WRECKED 2x due= = een 2 ee a ede ete a Prof. Charles P. Berkey, the assistant professor of geology at Columbia University, sald after learning of the earthquake at San Francisco, that he Vice-President Edgar C. Bradiey, at the New York: office of the Postal| did not believe that It could be in any way connected with-the recent erup-| Telegraph Cable Company, at noon, made the following s uvius, reporter for The Byening World; TAIL ORING CO., ement to a Mt SKIRT tion in Ve "I do not believe that the disturbance was volcanic,” he sald. “It was “The despatches I havo recelved thus far from our San Francisco| Qncs qt tho Cirund, Operi-tTouss ; nly the result of what in geology is called a ‘fa The earth's sur- | superintendent, My, L. W. Storror, while fragmentary, indicate a very great | Monda pers . fac often subsides as {t cools and this subsidence is called a ‘fault,’ disaster. Involving heavy lass to Ife and tremendous loss to property. | d j a: “‘Faults’ have been common during certain periods along the Pacific | Naturally in the excitement Mr, Storror has been unable to get anything eA , coast and throughout the coast range of Reign faataiee the Sierra | !ilke complete reports, but I gather the followlng facts from his messages: biti Eat Mi BRAIN WORKS ’ Nevada. This country is what is called in geology new formation, and all| FIFTY BLOCKS WRECKED. thal g ti rite bf new golcgical formations are subject to ‘faults.’ It is true that Mount “Th 1 of destruction extends east and south from Montgomery street) P#! e vleee and Clean Tacoma has been smoking lately, but I still do not believe that this earth-| to the b overing about fifty blocks, In this zOne most of the buildings | 70. } nic character.” : appear to have be April 18.—Director Walcott, of the Geologteal Survey, | the water mains, » thrown down almost instantly, The shock tore. apart ) that there quake was cf a vole PaueEnstale ho means of checking the fires which} At the ‘ sald t) net the least probability of any conncetion between the San| almost immediately sprang wp in dozens of places in the ruins, Metropol ‘f Fran o earthquake the eruption at Vesuvius, “At 10 o'cle (New York time) the firemen and police, having no other >, “Phe Vesuvius ption,” he added, “is a purely voleanic phenomenon, | means of checking the flames, began blowing up wrecked structures in the i but the Sin Francisco earthquake is much like that of Charleston, S. C.,| path,of the fire with dynamite, . A Carenanher “There's a Reason’ Si in 1886; that ig, it occurred in a district that is more or loss faulted, and] DEAD AND WOUNDED EVERYWHERE. Gathered about the oor He Bans | che Toad to Wel Ban Franclaco is in a region that has been visited by earthquake shocks, “Mr, Storror says in his despatches that everywhere in the devastated Seer Penatus or ie aaa Mextras eolutet ‘UnknowD, ,