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STATION EH V • -MININC LOCATION NOTICES
Age'nte ®rCig C©. Ph4°0ne
Notice.
Bills will Ik* received for the' <’•011
«truetion of an office building up
to April 15th.
Particulars, plans and specifica
tions at the residence of L. \)
Flynn, Architect.
For Sale.—> in small monthly
payments Cottage and lot House
and two lots close iti Cabin and
lot-on Broadway Cahin and threw
lots on weft Sherman St. We haw
tenants for three furnished cabins
Aha v.' HK.M/rr •'<>.
Have You Seen
The new Edison “Home” Phono
graph, with repeating attachment,
just r< eivt d at the Bowling Alley?
They are jnst the thing. We also
have the largest stock of Flower
Horns ever carried in Valdez, and
(Jfiid Moulded Records galore.
Before you huv tiiat Phonograph
see us It will pay you.
The council held a special meet
ing Monday to canvass the returns
of the election. The final meeting
f the old hoard wi 1 lie Monday
night:
Bankers
Valdez, Alaska
We Do A General Banking Business
Huv and Hell Exchange, Buvand Ship Gold Dust, Accept Deposit*
Make Collections and Loan Money on approved security at Low Rater
of I interest
Drowned Near.Discum
Liscum, April 14—Private Har
ter, clerk in the adjutant’s office,
who has been missing for several
days, has been found near Solomon
gulch on the beach, drowned. He
was coming around from town and
fell or became exhausted and was
caught by the tide.
Busy At Orca
Arrivals on the Farallon state
that things are booming at Orca,
that boat taking in a large consign
ment of lumber, some wagons,
stock and a -number of men. The
Jeanie is now enroule to Orca,
stopping at Skagwav to pick up a
a load of construction material
from the White Pass outfit. It is
stated that there is some doubt as
to whether it is the White Pass
people or the large smelter interest*
which are doing the work on the
railroad at Orca.
Seattle, April 18.—Ih a fight
between Lundte and Krant, the
latter was knocked out in the third
round by a blow on the jaw. Krant
broke two hones in his hand in the
first round but fought on gamely,
thornth he was outclassed.
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San frin;isco
Entirely Demolished
.San Francisco, April 18.—The
greatest catastrophe in the history
of the city occured at six o’clock
thk morning, when a severe earth
quake occured causing the collapse
of hundreds of buildings all over
the city. The number of deaths
exceed one thousand.
To add to the horror fire ha?
broken out in every part of the
city. The telephone building was
• destroyed and only one telegraph
| wire is up, so that it is impossible
to get details.
Pandemonium reigns.
10;U0—All the district south of
j Market street is burning. The
[earthquake destroyed the water
mains, and the firemen are help
less to stay the flames. It is prob
able that the city is doomed to to
tal destruction. The Palace hotel
is biasing and the St. Francis is
threatened.
i rum a thousand octet les oi me
dead are piled in the streets, anil
it is known that there are many
I more under the.ruins of the many
j collapsed buildings and tenements,
i A number of office buildings and
department stores have been razed
j to the ground.
A fissure opened in Market street
which is twenty feet wide and ex
tends nearly three blocks.
Firemen have started wrecking
buildings as the omv means of
checking the flames, which are
spreading with great rapidity.
Appeals have b ;en sent to other
I cities for aid in fighting the fire,
and departments from neighboring
i towns are being rushed to the city
on special trains.
Thousands of men are at work
repairing the broken water mains
that the water may be available
upon the arrival of assistance.
Both telegraph offices have been
wrecked and messages arc beipg
tiied m temporary office ill the
s reel. The line is crowded with
messages inquiring for friends and
it is hard to gel press details,
hr mgh.
: .oiises are ablaze in all arts of
y, ami here is t o safety in
lit- sweets as walls art* falling in
all directions. All usiness is sus
pended and pandemonium reigns
nil over the city. Unless the flames
are stopped soon tin* entire busi
ness part of the city will bo des
troyed.
'i wen y blocks south of Market
street has been consumed alrendv.
10;.JO—The Palace hotel is
uooimd and the St. Francis will he
destroyed.
10:35—A second slock struck
the city at 10:30 this morning. The
Call and Examiner buildings w.-re
entire! wrecked and have been
consumed by the flames.
The Palace Hotel is. entirely de
stroyed. Over one hundred man
gled dead have been taken from
the ruins.
All south of Market is ablaze.
Many hotels collapsed but were
mostly deserted before the walls
fell.
The Pacific States Telephone
building is aflame. The Mills
building is burning. The fire is
spreading in all directions.
The fire department is helpless,
the only water available being
from the bay. ^Relays of engines
are pumping from the bay hut are
of no avail to cheek the flames.
Flames are increasing in the
residence district and the whole
city seems to :be doomed.
Sacramento—The earthquake
shock was felt here but no damage
was done. Relief in the way of
fire engines and men are being
rushed to the city.
Reports from Oakland, Alameda
and outlaying towns say that the
shock has Legu felt hut no damage
•done.
The police are dynamiting build
ings in the endeavor to stop the
spread of the flames, but :t!l at
tempts to save the city appear to
he without avail.
San Francisco. 12 M., April 18—
Summit rising the disaster here as
far as is new known there are
hundreds of people killed and thou
Issmds are injured. The^morgtie is
i filled and the Mechanic’s Pavilion
I has been turned into a hospital.
The entire water front is abla/.e.
The nostoftice building has been
shaken, down entirely. The fish
market has collapsed and the Grand
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Opera House is a tire and several
ten s’ory buildings in the vicinity
are burning. Tiie gas works have
' blown up, starting another blaze
| south of Market. The Empire
| building at Oakland has collapsed,
killing a score of people. A hund
red hig buildings in the business
'district are burning fiercely. The
mayor has appointed a relief com
mittee. A run on the hanks start
slid these institution have all
1 closed. The militia-i on guard
j with instructions to shoot to kill
i unyonX caught stealing.
All the newspapers have com
bined to issue one paper from the
i < Chronicle building.
The sixteen story Call building,
I which partially collapsed, is still
burning. Tie large Monadnoc
building, nearly completed, lias
i also collapsed. Palace hotel is
still burning and the flames con
tinue to spread. The indications
| arc that the entire wholesale ami
i retail districts will fall a prey to
i the fllame.
The postal telegraph company
I operators have deserted their pus's
after endangering their lives for
hours. The Western Union buiid
: ing is threatened.
! shock tliis morning lasted
'three minutes and the one at poon
was one minute.
The loss already is $60,000,000
j The governor has called out the
{militia to protest tlie citizens from
robbery and help in the work of
fighting (lire.
, The diama of the last day of
; Pompeii is being enacted here wilh
; horrible realism. ft is impossible
to describe the terror that reigns.
' Manv are being driven insane by
j 'In terrors of fire and * reck.
At four o’clock this afternoon
! the heart of the city was complete
ly wiped out and the people are
fleeing across the liny. Police,
; firemen, soldiers and volunteers
an- dynamiting the buildings to
prevent the spread of tne lire.
I'lie streets are tilled with debris.
The number of dead reaches
I fully a thousand. Fire is still
'spreading. No water is available
to extinguish it. Only one wire is
working to the outside world and
brief press mes.-ages are all that
can get through.
The (Jail, Examiner, Palace and
Grand hotel, Spreekles, llialto,
Phelan buildings and hundreds of
other skv scrapers are nothing but
charred skeletons. People are
being he ! back from the streets to
prevent further casualties from
falling walls.
The Examiner buihlingcollapsed
like an egg shell without warning.
Il is believed that at least 20 lanlics
arc in the ruins.
The huge city hall costing $7,
000.000 and occupying two block
collapsed and i- now a mass of
ruin-.
Four miles of track between
Suisun anil Benicia was destroyed
by tiie iast shock, which caused
the sinking of the right of way.
Oakland—A telephone message
states that the Stanford Universi
iv at l'aio Alto has been destroyed
Telegraph companies have been
f,.r< d to leave Frisco and liave es
tablished their headquarters lure.
The ferry landings are jammed
i with people trying to get passage
| on h nit:. The earth is still trem
litii. ;. [t is said now that over
I two hundred residences have col
lapsed, and many of the ruin
j iiav> burned. The city to-night
will he practically deserted ex
cept by the worker?.
Four hundred bodies are lying
in the Mechanics Pavilion and the
|c.itv morgue is dosed an it cannot
| hold any more.
The city is under martial law
i (deneral Funston and regulars be
I :ng in command.
Hundreds who arc sic- ping in
i lodging houses south of .Market
j street are dead.
Washington—Chairman 1 awney
j of the House appropriation < om
: mitteo has presented a resolution
' authorizing the |>r* ident to extend
| all possible aid to Frisco through
! die war and navy departments,
j and gel in touch with the situation
| so as to distribute food and tenth
■ All available ships will he placed
c.t the disposal of the city utithori
, iie.s.
A Seattle Times special rays
that the tire extend.- from the h-try
! to Front street on one side and
so far as Market and Seventh west,
i Sporadic . fires are of frequent
j occurrence in the park section and
the western division. There is
no wav of estimating tlm number
of dead. It may bo hundreds and
it may he thousands. There is
hardly any water and it is irnpos
i sihle to say when tlie fire w il l stop.
The big section of city from
Market street to Mission and from
bay hack has been almost com
pletely wrecked a wide crevasse has
; opened and engulfed whole lover
| portion of city it is expected that
about ">000 people have dropped in
the cravasse lies idee the buildings
' and animals.
Everybody is going or a TV about
things in Frisco. Tito tire alarm
has been ringing for thirty miir
ut< s. The poor and uneducated
iliink that the end of the world
l.as come. They -sav that Frisco
is gone from the map. and that
i he Pacific ocean extends now to
i Nevada. They think the whole
state of Culiioinia has sunk iik-e
Atlantis of ofd
It is reported that all of Herkely
! is gone. A recent shock engulfed
the city. In Oakland the after
noon shock did considerable dam
age No details.
;-uti .lost—A severe earthquake
| here this afternoon demolished
many buildings. Hundreds of
1 lives are reported lost.
Oakland, A prim*—From Frisco
| by courier—The entire business
portion of the city is in ruins, and
owing to the lack of water it is im
possible to cheek the flames, which
continue to spread. The firemen
ai' powerless. General Funalou
.-ays that the number of homeless
persons lias already reached twen
ty thousand. White the better
part of the residential district is
stili stan ling, the fie lies are
s| reading in that direction.
The number of dead will reach
fully two thousand. Many of
them arc crushed and mangled be
yond recognition Workcrsjcannot
quit fighting the lire long enough
to bury the dead. An appeal was
sent to the navy department for
the use of the government vessels
to earrv the bodies of the unidenti
fied dead to sea for burial before
decomposition sets in. The de
partment has placen all the ves
sel.- at the disposal of the city for
any purpose needed.
The Valencia Hotel has collapsed
killing seventy people.
The fiissurc m Market street is
widening with each succeeding
shock. New fissures are opening
n Valencia and 'idth St. No lives
lost in tin* Palace or Grand hotels,
i'h St. Francis Hotel is still stand
ing, hut is hadlv cracked, and even
if it should escape the flames it
will have to he razed.
E* cry saloon in the city lias
been elos>‘d by the police.
Firr chief Sullivan was caught
by fnllig walls and probably fatal
ly injured.
The Chronicle building is totter
ing nnd will probably soon collapse
soon. 1 he elegant Chilis Spreefc
e!s building went down, killing
two Chinns* servants.
Santa Cnira—Magnificent state
insane asylum totally destroved.
Over four hundred of the initiate*
killed two hundred twenty-five
hoilics already recovered. More
than a hundred and fifty still in
ruins, over a hundred escaped now
roaming about country.
hail .lost—Half of the buildings
of this city have collapsed. The
.lead reach hundreds. New hall of
■ justice, costing halt a million has
I collapsed. Presbyterian church,
St. Patrick’s cathedral and high
school arc in ruins.
Santa Hosa—Not a brick or stone
building left standing in this city.
All demolished. More than 500
killed.
Oakland—Sacramento, Berkelv,
Alcimda and many other places
hadlv wrecked. Impossible to get
reports. Wires down.
Oakland—Army depot cemmis
isary totally destroyed by fire.
Nothing saved. J-arge stock await
ing shipment to Manilla.
Salmas—Earthquake recorded ye.<*
• erday coming from northwest.
Half of city destroyed. No lives
lost. Damage $2.tXjO,000.
Washington, April 18.—Roose
velt nas told warm friends of his
tha hi i*sires to enter the Senate
a,-, a successor to Platt at the end
of his administration. It is pre
dicted that he will l»e a candidate
'or the presidency again in 1912.
Washington, April 18.—The
Senate has confirmed the nomina
I lion of .fudge Moore of Xoinc