San Francisco's
Great Disaster;
From Bulletin, April 19
The third severe shock occurred
at II o’clock lust night causing tin
collapse of all tin- larger standing
buildings like striking an army!
tent. St. Ignatius church and col
lege, costing two millions, was de
-troyed. Golden Gate park is a
wreck. The immense building
covering the children’s play-ground
has collapsed. The Cliff House
was swept into the sea, not it ves
tige is left. The ferry building
at the foot of Market St. is a total
wreck The Occidental and t'alif
ornia hotels are both collapsed.
A mysterious explosion biew the
roof off the Hicks House. It is
feared that that many were killed '
in the basements of the Gall andi
Examiner buildings.
Scenes throughout t..e cttvarc:
heartrending. Brothers, sisters, I
husbands, wives anil parents were j
searching all night long for miss- j
ing relatives at the temporary
morgues. Ovur one hundred and
fifty who have been driven insane
by the horrors nave been taken i
into custody.
A large portion of the dead are
those who rushed into the streets
at the lirst disturbance. They
were crushed by the falling walls.
From here the city is obscured by
-moke and flames which is visible
for fifty miles.
The only hope of saving the city
is hv dynamiting the buildings ami
the supply of explosives is exhaust
vd. The Southern Pacific is run
ning special trains to outside point
to get powder.
The immense Southern Pacific
building has collapsed
This morning people are praying
in the street. All hope of saving:
anv part of the city seems gone, j
All of the theatres are wrecked or!
burned.
The loss to date will foot up at
least $200,000,000
Sacramento—All trains to Oak
iand abandoned. Southern Paci- j
lie track south of city disappeared ]
in fissure. M ore than 1000. feet
gone. Town of Collinsville on the
Sacramento river demolished.
Palo Alto—All but one of the
i.eland Stanford university build
ings including memorial church
the finest structure of its kind in
the world collapsed. Two students
known to bo killed. Many injured.
Washington—On receipt of a
message from Funston calling for
a thousand tents and all rations
that can be sent the war depart
ment ordered the commissary at
Vancouver Barra Us to forward
tents and 200,000 rations to Frisco.
Funston wired that 100,000 ate
homeless in San Francisco.
Oakland—Noon—By courier
from Frisco—The whole city is now
at the mercy of the flames. Half
of the residence district is now con
sumed and the balance will go. All
dynamite of the government and
private parties is gone and there is
no water. New fires have started
tit fifty places in the residence dis
trict bv the wind blowing embers.
The new million dollar Fairmont
hotel is ablaze and the Southern
Pacific mammoth depot at Third
and Townsend » burned. Ti e
city will be entirely obliterated, ns
every section is now catching. The
big city ball has caught fire spread
ing the Humes westward into the
fashionable district where the fine
residences were. All of these have
been deserted though tnanv remain
in the neighborhood and watch
their homes go.
Soldiers have shot four ghouls.
The outlaw element is appearing.
It is bel'oved they are coming from
other parts of the state.
The state university at Bcrkelv
is badly damaged.
Mechanics pavilion where the
wounded were being taken has
burned to the ground. Five hun
dred bodies rescued from tlie debris
in the streets were in the building
and were cremated.
t\ot a street m tne city is sate.
Wall! are falling everywhere.
More than .'>000 are now in the
hospitals injured. The French and
German hospitals are threatened
by the flames and patients are be
ing moved to improvised tents in
(iolden Gate Park.
Ten square miles of the city has
now been devastated. A thousand
city blocks art1 wrecked and l.">0
blocks have been burned. The
Chronicle building is now a heap
of twisted iron and ashes.
Maddened men and women are
running shrieking through the
streets, the terrors of the great de
vastation of their city, driving them
insane. Soldiers and police are
unable to restrain them.
Police Sargeant Steve Brunner
Sr. was killed by the falling wall
of the city hall.
The St. Francis hotel is blazing
fiercely.
mss lira i ice men say iney win
pay losses regardless of the earth
quake clause in the policies.
Seatth—Howard James, vice
president of the Great Northern
steamship line left on a special
train for Frisco. His family is
there ami he fears they are killed.
No word can he got from them.
Steamship officers here have re
ceived messages which cause them
to fear t nat San Francisco harbor
is ruined.
Santa Clara—The court house
and six buildings have been razed
to the ground by the earthquake.
Twenty were killed. Napa is part
ly wiped out. Many were killed.
Los Angeles—Special trains with
75 doctors and four coaches of
trained mines left here last night.
Will arrive at Frisco at ten this
morning. Another train carrying
physicians and extra policemen
will leave this morning.
Seattle—It is impossible to get
a connected story of the disaster
only one wire to the south is work
ing. It is crowded with thousands
of messages, some n day old. The
citizens committee made an appeal
this morning to Seattle citizens to
raise a relief fund. I. Nadeau is
treasurer.
Oakland—1 p. m.—Nob hill is
now all ablaze. It is reported that
*-ix more settlements in the vicinity
of Frisco are wiped out, the major
ity of the inhabitants perishing.
Oakland—3 p. m.—Firemen and
soldiers who have been working in
the city are dropping from exhaus
tion. Many are lying asleep under
the wagons. Flumes are all about,
leaping to almost every house on
Nob Hill, and spreading; to* the out
i
lying districts. Not another stick ■
of dynamite can ho obtained any
where. Gas in many houses is ex
ploding blowing the structures in
the air.
Superintendent Leach of the
mint has wired Washington that
all the money there was saved.
About $100,000,000 was in the
building. The mint building is
standing. It is the only one in
that district. Its safety was due
to the heroic work of Lieut Arm
strong and the men of the fith In
fantry.
The St, Francis Hotel walls
have fallen. Fire Chief Sullivan.'
who was injured yesterday, is dy
ing. More than twenty police-1
men have been injured, some of
them seriously.
A courier arriving ai .» o cjock ;
from Frisco said tiiat not a bidding (
in the city would be saved. 100.-1
0(H) people are trying to leave the ;
city but are unable to get siwoy as
there are no trains running and all j
ferries have stopped. boats can-!
not be hired at any price. Many
deaths are reported from heart fail-;
u re.
Washington—Congress this mor
ning passed resolutions appropria
ting half a million dollars for re
lief of the sufferers at Frisco and
other towns. This afternoon they |
increased it to a million.
Seattle—To date Seattle has j
raised $o<J,U00 for the California j
sufferers.
Indianapolis—Ten thousand dol
lars has been sent to Frisco for
relief already.
San Jose—1ms eitv is practi
cally wiped out. The hospitals arc
crowded with dead and dying.
Martial law iias been declared.
Oakland—Six ghouls have been
shot to date. Criminal element is
increasing rapidly. Two steamers
at the foot of Jackson street are
now loading refugees. Their des
tination is unknown.
Oakland—It is just reported that
Los Angeles has had an earth
quake. The report cannot be con
i firmed.
From Bulletin, April 20
Oakland, April 19, 5 p.m.—At
jfour o’clock the flames in the resi
' dence part of the city had slightly
j subsided. Of tier parts were roar
ing furnaces of flame. A car of dy
! naniitc lias just arrived from Port
j land for blowing up residences
1 east of Van Ness Ave. between Gol
I den Gate and Pacific avenues. Van
! Ness is the most fashionable resi
dence street in the city.
The Hibernian savings bank lias
! been destroyed. The vaults were
' unopened.
Mayor Schmitz has appealed to
! the coast cities for aid, saying ‘‘for
God’s sake send food and shelter”
i It is reported that many people are
imprisoned in burning building.
People are fleeing from town in
I row boats or anything that will
! float. They are carrying nothing
but their blankets.
Last night there were 100,000
homeless. Tonight fully 200,01X)
will be without shelter. The ma
jority will lie on the beach near
the site of the Cliff House.
There is not a drop oi water in
the city except what is sold in bot
tles at 25 cents a drink. In the
whole city there is hardly a days
supply oi food. Steam*'®-sure rush
ing from the coast towns when*
bakeries are working day and
night baking supplies. Police are
stationed at remaining Frisco bak
eries to see that no quantity of
bread is sold to one person. Officers
with drawn pistols are forcing the
cit izens to work at fighting fire and
rescuing bodies. Sailors from the
government vessels were taken
ashore this afternoon to assist.
TheFairiuount hotel, which was
supposed to he absolutely firoprooi
has been consumed. The ruins arc
still burning slowly.
Los Angeles—Two distinct shock
were felt this afternoon. Buildings
rocked like boats but no damage
was done. Citizens are thorough
ly alarmed,
Oakland—At 4: id tne lire was
covering t lie crest of Nob Hill.
The flames are traveling in a north
erly direct’on. New tires have
broken out traveling westward
from Van Ness and unless checked
at once dynamiting will do no
good. Within an hour there will
not be over thirty residences stand
ing in the whole city.
Funston will call more troops
from Vancouver barracks to relieve
those who are worn out. Special
trains with tent and rations are on
the wav from the north and wili
reach Sacramento tomorrow. They
will he transferred to automobiles
where the track is gone.
Salinas—An earthquake here did
some damage. Hollister, near bon
is badly wrecked.
Oakland—Lieut. Charles I’ulis,
of the light artillery was blown up
while dynamiting. He will die.
The list of dead so far is mostly
from the tenement district, being
foreigners and working girls. Only
forty are identified so far. .'>000
are reported to the authorities as
missing. Some are known to have
gone insane. Others have fled.
( lakland—Bulletin—Flames are
breaking out in the residence dis
tricts of Frisco with renewed vigor.
Seattle—Mayor Moore called a
meeting of all commercial bodies
and secret societies at the churches
and organize for relief. Subscrip
tion fund has r.ow reached #4N,(MMl.
It will be forwarded tonight. An
Washington towns are raising mon
ey.
New York—John Rockefeller
has subscribed $100,000 to Frisco
fund. Every large city in I'nited
States is raising subscription.
San Francisco, April ’20.—Sun
Francisco is no more. Three dis
tinct merciless tires are raging,
which have defied all attempts to
stop bv dynamiting and hack tir
ing. Nob Hill is devastated, and
the flame is sweeping in an easterly
direction toward the water trout
and telegraph hill where it will
meet another burned district and
must die out. The second confla
gration is in the Mission, where it
has cleaned everything from the
water front south of Market street.
The fire is now working westward.
The third and most dangerous
fire is now in the western part of
the city beyond Van Ness avenue,
where it is sweeping the remaining
residences in that part of the city.
Firemen are bending every effort,
to save some of the latter section
but it is evident that the flame*
will lick up everything througl*
Richmond until the open space
mile from the Golden Gate ear
trance is reached,
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