The evening world. Newspaper, April 19, 1906, Page 1

ee ol ar evinak rast" ialiecin Eee eee (eee ieee eke ee a patentable A WEATHER Pate te-ttenti Primee pattie etn ae: s } ! — | “ Cirenlation Rooks Open to All.”? \__ : PRICE ONE CENT. ——— OS ANGELES SH + Shocks Continue for Nearly an Hour in City Which Has Been Working Hard for Relief of San Fran- cisco--= Telegraph Operators Send Only Meagre Detaiis to Home Office, LOS ANGELES, Cal., April 19.--A series of earthquake shocks, extending over a period of fifty-one minutes, rocked buildings in Los Angeles this afternoon and threw the city into a terrible panic. The first shock, at 12.34 o'clock, coast time, was not severe, Another followed at 12.40 o’clock so sharp and violent as to create the fear that this city was to repeat the experience of San Francisco. = As it was the noon hour, the stores and office buildings were pretty well deserted, but there were enormous crowds about the newspaper bulletin boards and teleoraph offices weiting tor the latest earthquake news. The sudden rocking of the cround rendered everybody speechless for a moment. Then the overwrought nerves of the populace had an inning. RUSHED TO STREET IN PANIC, Thousands of people poured out of their houses through doors and windows in- diseriminately. Clerks rushed out of stcres and proprietors followed them, manufac- turing plants sussended. Teleoraph operators in both offices deserted ‘their instruments after sending preliminary word of the visitation to the outside world. For a time it appeared as though every building in the city would be shaken to the ground. The shocks diminished in intensity until 1.45 o’clock, when the telegraph operators went back to their keys. But business in general was not resumed for the rest of the day. The city is in a panic of terror, fearing a recurrence of the earth tremors to-night. The duration of the second and severest shock was seven seconds, Had it continued a minute the damage would have been : NEW YORK JOINS SCORES OF TOWNS OUTSIDE OF ‘FRISCO NATION IN PLANS ARE BLOTTED OUT TO AID VICTIMS OAKLAND, Cal, +109,000) 3, 11 mile radius of San Francisco have been completely destroyed and the loss of life probably will exceed that in San Francisco itself. Property worth more than $50,000,000 has been wiped out. | , ‘ | and Ford, Bacon & Davia. 875.000 The death roll at Santa Rosa may reach 500. In the collapse of the) 1. Guawenheim sonn.. State Insane Asylum at Agnews 300 perished. San Jose reports 50 dead. Napa and Salinas are almost obliterated. Santa Cruz, Monterey, Gilroy and Hollister are wrecked. The loss of life at Santa Cruz was large. Terminal Island, a beach resort twenty miles from here, is reported April 19.—Scores of towns within a hundred-| John p. noo United Ratlw New York Nado. Bank ... Steinway & Cale y Shepard mann & Co + 1,009 Sta houn, ©, ce 1,000 1.000 1,009 m0 Carnegte Hero Fund 4,0. Morgan & Co. 10,000 | 7 1! rdt Day lasbers 1 Cammann & Co J. Menry | Laxard F Morrin K tidal wave. in Messengers bring tidings of the destruction of Healdsburg, Gerser-| A¢#""* ikand | ENGLISH SCIENTIST ville, Cloverdale, Nopland and Ukiah. This report takes in the country | ,, PREDICTS MOKLRb us far north as Mendocino and Lake Counties, These are frontier counties In every case the loss of life and property is shocking. 10,000 Homeless in Santa Rosa. Santa Rosa, one of the prettiest cities in the State, is the seat of Sonoma County. There are 10,000 homeless men, women and children iu arms a Goran huddled together. [inigronce sor f As the last great seismic tremor spent Its force in the earth the whole oe N. Satan | i | SHOCKS AL’PRISCO. | | aoe 5,000 Bape 5,000 2.500 | th Th . 1,000 | ifr but , 2,000 than’ those Fabyan & Co, Wolf Brothers & Co, (Continued on Second Page.) ~~ EVENING: SEDI NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL AKEN: SAN FRANCISCO'S AWFUL LOSS “point of a pistol. Wwrertenarete tentahe, TRA PRICK ONE CENT. —e Frifimy partty clewtr — ama BESS EOCy, | “ Circulation Books Open to ATI | eel rtp) 1oF 106. { = DETAILS O F THE HORROR The latest news from San Fra-cisco is that a new earthquake shock was felt this afternoon. The fire is still unchecked. Some reports place the loss of life at 5,000, other estimates put it nearer 1,000. It és believed the total of killed and injured will reach 10,000. SAN FRANCISCO, April 19, 3 P.M., 6 P. M. New York time. ~The fire It has keen coursing up To Shoot All Looters. The military is unusually strict in the enforcement of the order to shoot all looters. One man on Market street /Nours. |who was found digging in the ruins of a jewelry shop was | tee +. discovered by a naval reserve man and fired upon three The authorities have set about making times. The fellow sought safety in flight, but the reserve ‘a systematic effort to discover the number man brought him down by runninga bayonet “throvgh { £ . him. of persons Killed in the disaster. From) The bodies of three thieves were found lying in the preliminary reports by investigators it AP- streets on the south side this forenoon. It is impossible to pears that the fatalities have been woefully ‘underestimated. | | At Least 1,000 Dead. | Certainly more than 1,000 perished in ithe earthquake. Many have lost their lives lin the firee The area of destruction is much wider than was originally believed, Some The general opinion of those who are in a position to form a coherent }judgment of the destruction of property ts 1S that it will mean a loss of $300,000,000. still progressing. |Nob Hill from the southeast for several (Continued on Second Page.) At top of iret Column. BASEBALL ‘estimators place the number of killed and CHICAGO AT DETROIT (A. L.). lini SHIDAGO) ese eteeees 0099000010—1 injured at 10,000. OEIRO Meee cece 02000100 —8 | There are 200,000 residents of San Francisco, t oneeray aTietarElena Ge |homeless and shelterless and thousands are starv-| yjovcton .... ... Gee qOLera 6 O0mIe=T1 jing. Transportation facilities. are utterly inade-| pu ADELPHIA... -.-. 30151000 0 0-19 |quate to take the people out of town. Every APEVEUAND AT ST LCS lavailable boat is conveying passengers across the} CLEVELAND 01010 0-5 |bay to Oakland and Alameda, but the Southern} st. Louis 00000 o-1 |Pacific is unable to get trains to the south. i | Every building in the business section has been} gy j gyjg ot destroyed with the exception of the Mint. The} cHicaco ..... ...------ onal Chronicle office, from which the newspapers have |published sporadic issues of a combination sheet,| became untenable last night, andis to-day a worth-| LATE RACING RESULTS less ruin. The Fairmount Hotel, on Nob Hill, is threatened by fire on three sides, and a lone fire | engine with a puny stream of water is keeping the | blaze from a part of Mark Hopkins’s Art Institute, while the treasures are being removed to a place of safety. |Measures to Keep Order. Gen. Funston and Mayor Schmitz have} given orders that men must work or keep off the Lieut. McMillan, of the Revenue Cutter |Bear, at the head of a squad of sailors from a battleship, compelled loafers to pitch in at the LATE NASHVILLE WINNERS. Fiftk—Bell the Cal 4-1, Longbright 5-1 place, Rian, AT MEMPHIS. Sixth—Dolinda 7-10. Legatee 1-2 place, Odd Ella. AT PIMLICO. i} Sixth—Thomond 5-1. Arby Van 10-1 pl.. Pleasant Days. |streets. Ses eR Oe a TE F OR SFORTING NEWS SEE PAGE 12. Uncle Sam’s soldiers and sailors are doing fine work, and it is expected that they will be able lo maintain order in the city after nightfall.