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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (April 19, 1906)
niF, OMATTA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, ArRIL IP,. 1006. TMf. ltT About 100 separate skirts, mostly in black, at to $10.00. All the rain coats at $).00each. All the colored waists at 29c each. All the cloth suits at $5.00 each. All the wash petticoats at 69c and 98c each. Th.se arc all new, desirable spring, garments-nut nti old styli-or undesirable value in the assortment. "We want vou to know the great savings our basement department holds lor you, and these very great prioe reductions will be the magnet that should bring you here, lhursday. Surpassing Exhibition of Neg ligee House Gowns. Resutlful creation fn silk, white" swh, white and flsrired Invn and other dainty. tnat"t Inls, everything new. White Dresses. ' Now In a good lime to see ttic pretty things in white froi ks, either for street or graduation, we have very choke styles; prices from i'.y up to $w.no. Special Suit Sale. All our finest 'lolli suil at specially re duced - prices Thursday. Special Sale of 25c and 35c Rib bons, 15c Yard. sod rr.o Fancy Ullirxin.a. Thursday lfie pcryd Fliif all silk quality In desirable nlors and patterns; floral designs, aqilarcs ind embroidered figures. Seldom are values like these offered at such a tow price Thursday, or.!y 1.1c per yd. Oil sale In F.conOmy Base-iurt. Bungalow Silks Are the Top Wave of Fashion for Silk Coats and Gowns. Tic and $1.00 a yd. 71 Is the rough weave that Is all the rage this scnaim, aud It Is so stylish when msde. up. In exquisite colors of cream, while, natural, navy, brown and black, (let what, you need now, before the color I Huge is broken. At 10:40 o'clock this morning the Postal Telegraph company . 'rtCelved the following telegram: "At B:i;t this morning a Urllllc earth nuake shook. . San Francisco, doing par ticular damage x the district cast und south of Market, street, practically destroy ing six or eight blocks' In the manufac turing and wholesale districts. The banking district wan not seriously damaged, al though small damag has been done over the whole town. Many persona have been killed and wounded and a portion of the clly is on fire, the water supply being shut ff. At this moment tlley are dynamiting several of the buildings.". The Associated lres office' waa also UHdly damaged, - t -i n. . A telegram from Bacramcnto to the West ern t'nlon Telegraphy company reports tint three ndlea of railroad sank out of sight M . a result of . tlvft' aiirthquake between Suisuan and Bcnlclu-aqd, all wires taken with It. At ,Blea.iS'nt6ri . there were several cars burned'on the main' tine, blocking the trains. Up' lo the time Of receiving this dispatch the Western Vhlon hud been un ahltf to get- coiumitntcatlnn with Ban Francisco. The Postal Telegraph company received Information that the greatest damage from the earthquake was dene toproperty in the . following streets.:;-. Drumm, Davla, Frorit,, -Battery, Sanson., Montgomery, Kearny, tpear,.,Main. Boale and Fremont. At ll:flS the Western Vnlon received a re port that a serious fir is burning at Berkeley, where the state university la lo outrdi The report came from Pinota, a station ten miles out of Sun Francleco and the nearest point to the latter city which the company has been ahle to reach up to tho time of thla dispatch. Berkeley Is be tween Pinota and Ban Francisco. - At the offices of the St. Louis, A San Francisco Ju this city a message was re ceived from the company's' agent In Ne vada saying that the earthquake shock was severely felt throughout Nevada and that all wires were thrown down west of IJeno. ' WIH Tpr to Ha Train. 11:02 a.' m-r-TJ Western I'nlon has re ceived a report from Sacramento that tlie flouthern Pacific railroad will attempt to get g train into San . Francisco, ' starting from Sacramento and. taking a roundabout route to Vallejo, which 1 on the Bay of Ban Publo. From that place the passen rs will he taken' by bQat to San Fran.' Oiano. Thla course waa made necessary by the ainklng of a three-mile section of the railroad company's track ( between Bulauan and Banecia,, which, arc on the direct line between Sacramento and San Franclscx The toad crosses some low land at the point where its tracks are reported sunk by the earthquake shock. Trie location of this reported sinking of the earth is about thirty miles from Bun Francisco. At 11 oclqck In the morning,, Sqn Fran cisco time the employes of the, . Postal Teh-graph company had to leave their of fice on account of the fire. At the time they left the Palace hotel and the Urand hotel, were not yet on fire, but wre (n Unuiedlate danger. The militia, is in charge of the town. "We are surrounded by flames, but the fire cannot touch this building." It was explained by Western I'nion offi Charleston Earthquake of 1886 . The Charleston earthquake of August Jl. ISM, was recorded by historians as one of the world's great seismic disturbances. For two centuries, at least, the state of South Carolina had not been visited by any earth quakes of any moment. The dlsturlamce of lXM had a mean radius of Soo miles and covered t.fc'O.UW) square miles. It was felt in Boston. S"0 miles from the epicentre; La Crosse on the upper Misniysippi, s5o miles to the northwest; Cuba, 70 miles distant, and Bermuda, Ko milea away. The property loss was extlmated at lo.it'iw. while twenty-seven irsons Imt their lives at the time of the dtstjrbunce. Most of the buildings lit Charleston were either totally destroyed or rendered unfit for occupancy. The shock tame at K 11 p. in., after a series of tremors and slight shocks extending over a period -of three months previous. A few days be- 1 fore the Charleston uaribquake the town of Suininerville, twenty-two miles away, was slHMik several lime. . . : ', . The Charleston earthquake win deerlbed aa a long roll ul sound which spread into an aw-ful ror. "that seioed'to p''r at mice tlie trouhlrd earth and the still alt above and around." The tremor would In I r. then aubaid and increase -asiii, iMusiug suddeu bewlhlerment and confu Bee, April II. 1I0. ' Great SpcciaJ Sale iiy Our Economy , Basement Cloak Dept., Thursday, j Wash Goods Dept. Basement. Choicest styles hT now Materials at low est prices. AT 10c FEB YARD: Aberfoyle Ginghams, ' ' A. F. CV Ginghams, ' Beautiful Lawn, Crystal Batiste,. AT lie FER YARD. 8EF. HOWARD STREET WINDOWS. New Batistes. New Organiieg, New Checked' Oigandles. ' Galatea Cloths.- Wash Tissues. - Barnshy Stepriyr. ' ' Imperial Chambray. ' Japanese Kinoni Crepes. Mercerized Frtnted Taffetas- for K1mono and hundreds of other cholo materials -at lxc, 2oc and 25c per yd. - Handsome New Cream Novelty Dress Goods Just Received. The New English Pflk Ulster Mohair Chock In th soft chiffon finish, whl.-h renders them more beautiful than ever In rosieet to fineness and - newness of weave. A fabric of great beauty, wovon In a broken check effort of different slae.s. They make their first appearance In Omaha Thursday- morning at our dress yoods department.' No silk was ever more beautiful than ape 'tliete chiffon mohairs. Note the extra, u Ida width, 4S-ln., only 11.50 yd.. In h beautiful- silk finish. Note Samples w'm be mnlled our out- of-town customers on request. Howard Corner Sixteenth Street. cials In this city that the Ferry building Is tm the Tfater front and 1h separated from ad.lolnlng properly by a court about So0 feet wide. , ' . ' F.very Hulldlns Affected. The following mesHage from Ban Fran cisco was I'eoelved by tine Western Uolo.i Telegraph company at . 3:30 o'clock. New York time: . . . We are having a succession -of .slight earthquake shocks. Heavy southwest wind has sprung tip within the last half hour. A section of tho -ity south ot Market street, bounded by Tnlrd -and Sanson and Ninth streets. In a mas of flames. The 'Call building, at the comer of Third and Market et roots, has Just burned, and the Anglo-California hank has also been destroyed. Every building In the city has been, uioie or. lea..danuiged by. , the eathquake. ' " ' ' The Southern Pacific Railway company has brought a ton of dynamite Into the VIclrifty1 of tlie burning sectlotr oiV Market wtreet. lo be. used If possible , In blowing up property, to prevent vUe gpread of the Are. ' , . , .... The above message was- received' from the main office of the Western Inlon In Ban Francisco, which the company was able to get Into communication with after it had established a ternporary office In the Ferry building. After sending the dispatch j the operator announced that a building ad joining me western i nion neanquaricrs had Just taken fire and that there waa a possibility that the operators would all be driven out and would have to go back to the Ferry building. LIST OF ntILDIG DKKTROYKII Hotel, Newspaper, Church and The- ater Ktrnrtarea Damnaed. SAN FRANCISCO, April 1$. The fol lowing (s an incomplete list -of tho prin cipal buildings destroyed, or damaged: Call building, entirely destroyed. Clans Bpreckles' building, ' gutted by flames. . . Hearst building, collapsed. New. Chronicle lu,i,ldliig, hardly, dam used at all. . . The White house,; walls badly Vrackert. all plate glass windows gone; every piece of stock In, building removed ' before :30 a. m. " Winchester. Jiptel, Third street, totally destroyed. Grand, opera, .house, entirely destroyed. Claiis Spreckles' house and stables In Van Ness Avenue,, badly damaged. ' St. Luke's Episcopal church. Van. Ness avenue, will have to be pulled down. . Mechanics library building. Post street, cornices fell, building slightly dam aged. Crocker building. Market and ; Post streets, slightly damaged. Lick house,' walls' and ' roof, large cave in. " " Vpham building. Pine "and 'Battery, totally destroyed, loss $560,000. Fire house adjoining California hottl dn Bush street; Chief Sullivan and wife, sleeping In engine house, severely In jured by bricks crashing through tho roof from hotel. California, hotel. Bush street, upper walla collapsed and upper floors wrecked. The building in course of construction to be occupied by the Hamman . hatha will have to be rebuilt. The walla are badly warped nd twisted am the roof haa fallen, liu . .v ; San Francisco Ua and Electric com- sion in the stricken city. The prclluiuiaiy tieiuora and murmuring sound laated twelve seconds, the next three phases'' fifty sec onds and, the fifth ; phase, eight seconds, milking the toul duratiou of tu earth quake seventy seconds. The second and fourth were the more Intense of the five phases. The scientific investigation made of the Charleston earthquake brought to light the fact that some, noticed earth-waves, the height from crest to trough being estimated at not less than two feet. One feature In comiet-tion with the Charleston earthquake waa that the double maximum or double shock of the disturb ance was felt in no less than -fourteen states. "Tito duplication of the-shock can not have'b.-fi .merely a local I'bcuouimou. nor can it have reoulteJ from the separa tion into two parts of tine earth-waves,' pro ceedinn" fro'ui av elugle (HsturtMuiue,' ,a une wriwr. it wwa caiculaiJ the earth waves traveled at a rule of three mile a tutui. . ,. . ..' . - ,'. , tMiarleaion a afrexicd by a- number of after-steokt. CbA last one ' be(ng during March uf ISM. AutUorliiea f ntyred no the ories as to-. Un uaune . ut ifce .Char krs tun earthuuake. ' . . ' ' $3,75 each, worth up We Have Never Presented So Many Pretty Gray Dress Goods as Now. Ladle who have seen our showing of gray dress goods are . enthusiastic over the wonderful variety and diversity of designs and weaves. And it is Just this wide range to select from which Is of greatest Importance to you. They are the much desired superior shades, excelling 111 the stylo and quality essential neces sary to give the grace and charm desired In your new spring gown, 60c, 75c, $1.00 td $2.50 per yd. ' Our Sixteenth street window exhibits a large assortment of these gray gooJs at 70c a yd. You attention Is called to It TODAY. Our Customers' Deposit count Department. Ac- A convenience for those who want purchases in tills store charged, make a deposit of any- sum that your convenlunce. We allow 4 per thlr Yon suits cent interest compounded every three months on the dally balance. Thus your money is earning for yOu dally. You may with draw any part or all of it at any time. You do not need to trade it all out. Statements are mailed each month. You buy your gooda here in the usual way and have them charged In the unusual way. Th,s not a bttnK- pany"s Tost damaged. St. Francis cracked and street plant, only slightly hotel, seamed, exterior but not slightly seriously damaged. Faclflo I'nlon club, Post ami Stockton streets, front damaged and - fissures -n rear wall. St. Dominic's church on Pierce street total loss. The Interior of this church Is wrecked anf there are large fissures in the walls. The structure will have to be pulled down. The parochial house In the same block, is a partial wreck. Loss to the pariah is about $300,000. The ornamental top of St. Dunatana. the apartment house at Sutter street and 'an Ness avenue, fell into the atreot. " The Cohc.ordla cluU bttjldlng.-otx y,n Ness avenue has several flssurca in . the aide and rebuilding will be necessary. - The hotel Grlnado is badly damagud. PARTIAL LIST OF THE DEAD Thirty Bodies Recovered, Only Part of Which Are Identified.. SAN FRANCISCO, April 18.-The follow ing is a partial list of the dead: ANNIE WHEELAN. killed while asleep In her bed at home, 27S2 Sacramento street. I'MDENTIFIED FATHER AND SON, living at 167 Langdon street, killed under a falling wall. MYRTLE MINZE. Langdon street, killed under falling wall. BAKER, Second and Stevenson streets. W. KORNFELDT, 12 years old, 9.14V4 Fol soin street. WILLIAM VAIL, 4 years old, 2S0 Steven son street. ANNA WEBSTER. 14 Williams street. WILLIAM OI'ELLIMAN, 110 Eddy street. JOHN TH RAP Y, fish market, Montgom ery and Sacramento street. OERONIMO 8TAG.MAN, 618 Merchant street. PHILIP BCSALACCHI. fish market, Sev ern n una annua. l.Ol IS HAlADINI, Montgomery and Aieri nant streets. MRS. HART imi:MM. MAX KKNNEK, policeman, killed at en trance of city hall. STEVE H1NNER. SR., sergeant of po lice, killed at city hall. KINO. : Mission street. SAK1E 1BHIDO, 420 Stevenson street. TI.ACKAMA NIVA, 427 Stevenson street. F. MYLAL1KA. 4?S Stevenson street. MRS. IDA HESTEP, Oeary and Stockton Streets. DR. STINSON. well known vouim Dhvsl clan, killed In his room on the eighth floor ui ine . anrornia notei. THREE CHINESE, unidentified. TWO WHITE WOMEN, unidentified. WHITE MAN. unidentified. Bailor. MAN, unidentified, Hayes und Polk streets. MAN. unidentified, Wilcox house, second ami Jessie streets FRANK BTROE, native of England. li years old. killed by walls falling upon him at ueary street. MRS. McCANN, Third street. ADOLPH AND AMELIA SCHWINNA, husband and wife, Oeary and Howard. WILLIE CARR. Iu4" Ellis street. PATRICK BRODERK'K. Valencia hotel MRS. LENA C. POWDER, 14 Seventh street, relative of Policeman Mclntyre. McKENZlE. 115 Height street. M. A. HI'SKTEL. 267J Sutter aireet. GETZ. Sixteenth and Folsoin streets WILLIAM KNOWK, injured by falling walls and died at Mechanic a pavilion. PETER Ll'ND. Western Meat company f N I D ENTI FI ED BABY, died at Me chanics' pavilion. I'NIDENTIFI ED WHITE MAN, Front and Valleto streets TWO L'N IDENTIFIED MEN. Valencia hotel. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN, 35 years old Sixth and FoIkoiii streeis. UNIDENTIFIED MAN. 272? Bacraniento street. UNIDENTIFIED MAN, Sixth and Bhip- ley streets. Aid eat from l.os tsgrlri. IX)8 ANGELES. April 18 7 p. m.-A spe cial train of four coaches with about seventy-flv doctor and nurses on board left Los Angeles for San Francisco over the Southern Pacific Valley line at 6:45 p. i.i. They are due to arrive In Ban Ftancisco at about 10 a in. tomorrow. About an equal number of doctors and nurses who tendered their services were turned away on account of lack of accom modation on the train. Another special is due to leave between 7 and 8 o'clock. Nurses and dot-tors and police help will be on board this train. I.oi Anaeles .Not Affected. LOS ANGELES. April 18 From inquiries received in thla city from points in the east it appeara that tlie impression has gone out that the earthquake which caused such devastation In San Franc-laco this morning also affected Ixa Angeles and other California points. This is entirely er roneous. There has been no earthquake m southern California and the thocks that caused the damage In San FranolMco were not - felt farther south than f.inta Bar bara. ' " - - j -The Assot la ted Press is requeued by the commercial Interests nf this city to correct Ihia Juiprtsslon. ttllU It Lit IS SMOKING RULNS (Continued from First Page.) person footing rsons whomsoever, found engaged In fC the effect if iinv citizen or othcr- . lee engnaed tn th fimmlin of crime I'nlfT those circumstances I request that II rltliens whose business does not Imper atively require their alrnc from home after dark to remain at home during the night time until order shall have been re stored. I bog to warn nil ritlxcn of the Hunger of fire on account of defective or destroyed chlmnevs, gin fixtures and tho light. E. E. W'HMITZ. Mayor. At 5 o'clock tonight the firemen were as far a ever from chocking th progress nf the flame. In the northern section of the down town bualtiPHa section the fire swept 'T S LemvtM into .th heart. f that coionv. It then began rapidly eating l's way south ward on both sides of Kearney street and at this w riting (7 p.. m.) was - within, a block of the, California hotel. This point Is In the direct vicinity of the plant nf the Bulletin, an evening publication In which tlie three morning papers had agreed to issue Jointly a four sheet paper tomorrow morning., but that plaiv was abandoned. Ahout 6 o"clock tonight the world's famous Palace hotel fell a prey to the conflagration and the Crocker building across the. at reel began spitting smoke. St. lanatlns t'olleare- Destroyed. One of the big losses of tjie day waa the destruction of 8t. Ignatius church and col lege at VanNess avenue and Hayes street. This was tlie greatest Jesuitical institu tion in the west and was built nt a cost of a couple of million dollars. At 7 o'clock tonight the fire had swept from the south side of, town across Market street into tho disttUt galled the Western addition and was burning houses at Golden Gate avenue and Octavla. This result was reached after almost the southern district from Ninth street , to. the eastern water front had been converted Into a blackened waste. In this section were hundredH of factories, wholesale houses and many busi ness firms in addition to thousands of homes. On the north side the fire tonight win not making such rapid headway In the western addition. where there Is a limited water supply available and the firemen are making desperate efforts to prevent encroachments of the devastation. Temporary headquarters were established lii tents In Portsmouth Bquiire this' evening for Mayor Bchmlt; "Chief of Police Plneett and General Funston, but this site became too dangerous about t o'clock and was abandoned. Later fhe' flames swept the square. In the-snuth side district -on Rlcon hill, fit. Mary's liostiltal, a landmark, con structed by the Sisters of Mercy; was i-e-duced to ashes. Thonsnnda . Are Homeless. Throughout the city Wherever there is a public square a scene of desolation Is pre sented.' Tehts have' been pitched by for tunate possessors of canvas, but tlie ma jority of the homeless eople are huddled In frightened groups about the household belongings they niunaged to save from the general ruin. From Golden Gate park conies news of the total destruction of the Immense build ing covering a pqrilcm of the children's playground. The WaHsu re battered beyond repair and the ro0f as , fallen in. The pillars of the new stone gates at the park entrances ar6 'twisted, and torn from their rounamions. come. or. them, weighing nearly four to'riH" 'eai(h: wore aliifu-d us though they were' cofi'structed of chaff.,,, "In L'nfmrsfmre ftvyk, where a'tiundM-V'tf the homele-'ari4'htiig given "terfihoraiy Shelter,' the mighty tWw'ey nio'nunierit -has been shifted from Itat fiuse.' It now stands leaning at an angle of ten ' degrees and thero is danger of the Immense 'stone struc ture falling. i Ferry' Service Resumed. This afternoon the ferryboats resumed running from Oakland and tonight thou sands of homelesa and panic-stricken peo pie are leaving the1 city and lire seeking shelter In Oakland - and other suburban towns. The suffering and hardship beg gars description. Countless numbers of residents of the crry. Including the Chinese Japanese and Italian quarters, have been rendered homeless and unless supplies and aid reach the city within twenty-four hours starvation will add to the awful calamity Nearly every famous landmark that has made San Francisco famous over the world has been laid In ruins or burned to the ground in the dire catastrophe. Never has the fate of a city been more dlsas trous. For three miles along the water front buildings have been ' swept clean and to night the blackened beams and great skele tons of factories and offices stand ' fall houetted against' a background of flame that is slowly spreading over the entire city. The whole commercial and office sec tion on the north side of Market street to the ferry building on Tenth street, lias been consumed in tli hell of flames, while hardly a building is standing In the dis trict south of Market street. Bfaajr Buildings Are Blown li At 2 o'clock, despite the heroic work of the firemen und the troops of dynuiulters who razed building after building and blew up property valued at million, the flames spread across Market street to the north side und swept up Montgomery to Wash ington street. Among Montgomery street are some of the richest banks and commer cial houses In Ban Francisco. The famous Mills building and the new Merchants' ex change, in which is . situated the marine and stock exchanges, are still standing but the Mutual Lite Insurance building and scores ot bank und office buildings are on fire, while blocks of other houses are In the path of the flames and nothing seems to be at hand to stay their, progress. Block after block of banking houses are now musses of redhot ruin, and It will be months before the money that was houaed in their valuable vaults can be reached. Fire - t hief Injured The earthquake caused the partial wreck of the California hotel on Bush und Kear ney streets and the falling chimney and cornice of the hotel crashed through tho i fire house adjoining, severely Injuring Fire Chief Sullivan, so that he was unable to direct the work of fire fighting. He Is now In a hospital In a precarious condition. Despite the disheartening accident, the entire fire department, assisted by part of tlie Oakland department and many volun teers from outnlde districts, did heroic ser vice, many brave men losing their lives while performing the work of succor. The earthquake, however, had broken most , of the water mains and the men were with out water to battle with the fire fiend. DRAIN WORKS Clear and Clean Grape -Nuts "There's a Reaaon" Get "The Road to Wellville.1 afiaSSUSaCSSBBaBaV 8 i on t n pkgs. Whatever wiiter was obtained to fight the flame In h har'xir fruit and In the fac tory districts was pumped from the bny. This compelling dynamiting as the only possible method of saving any of the city. Flames spread I n Town. The flames were kept confined to the south of Market street. In the business sec tion, until about o'clock in the after noon, when the wind carried sheets of fame into the richest part of the city. The Palace hotel, a caravansary that ha sheltered famous people from all parts of the world, was burned clean. Nothing ex cept the framework of its 1,i rooms now stand. Among the other notable buildings destroyed were the Grand Opera bouse on Mission street, where the Conreid Opera company opened up Its season Monday night. The nieinbeis of the troupe are now at the St. Francis hotel, one of the few bl hotels that are still standing. The Majestic theater at Market and Eighth streets was burned, the Columbia wrecked by tlw tremor and the Central raxed bv the flames. The $2,K0.i Fairmont hit', is still standing and suffered little dam age. The. Odd Fellows' tomple on Market street, the St. Nicholas hotel and the Call and the Examiner buildings and the Fr rott building are gone, while the big city hall caved In completely when the earthquake- shook the city. Firemen and Soldiers Killed. Nearly every big factory 'building has been wiped out of existence and n com plete enumeration of them would look like a copy of the city directory. Many of the finest buildings In the city were leveled to dust by terrHIc charges of dynamite In the. hopeloss"c-ffoi t to stay the horror of fire. In this work many heroic soldier, pollco.' liien und firemen were mnlined or killed outright. At 1 o'clock tonight the lire was unabated and thousands of people are fleeing to the hills and cliimornig for place on the ferry boats at the ferry bulltliiiK. The damage is now believed to have reached $2'.issi.ss und 5t,ti people are thought to be homeless. Inrur Area In llulns. OAKLAND, Cal., April 1. Earthquake and fire today caused the greatest calamity California has ever known. In San Fran- isco nlone It Is estimated that persons have perished, while as many more ure suffering front Injuries. The entire business poition ot the city is in ruins and the flames Which, owing to the lack of water, cannot be checked except by the blowing up With dynamite of buildings in their path, are still sweeping through the city. It Is utterly Impossible at present to es timate the property loss, for the extent ot the conflagration cannot be told until the fire ha burned itself out. Thousands of people are homeless and many are hud dled in tho parks and public squares, be side the household goods they were uble to save. The city is under martial law and all the downtown atreets ure patrolled by-cavalry and infantry. Details of troops, are lso guarding tlie banks. Most ot the principal buildings have already been de stroyed and others are In imminent danger, Over alt tlie scene of desolation hangs- a great pall of smoke. Stanford t'nlversity Touched. Communication wltn outside tow ns is al most entirely cut of. but the report comes from- Palo Alto that all but one of the buildings of the Leland Stanford, Jr.. uni versity have been wrecked and the splen did Memorial church, one of the finest structures of its kind In the world, is a mass of ruins. - One student is known to have lost hla life. In Oakland five persons were killed. Sart Jose, Sacramento, Berk eley, Alameda and other places heard from snffered" severely, but report no loss of life. 'The dreadful- earthquake i sfcoclt, .came wrt)Vot,--vuriilng at precisely 5:14 o'clo.ok this morning, Its motion apparently being from c-ust to west. At first the upheaval of the earth waa gradual, but la a few seconds It Increased in intensity. Chim ney begun to fall and buildings to crack, tottering on their foundations. People be came panic-stricken and rushed Into the streets, most ot them in their night attire. They were met by shower of falling build ings, bricks, cornices aud 'walla. Many Crushed to Death. ' Many were Instantly crushed to death. while others were dreadfully mangled. Thne who remained indoors generally es caped with their lives, though scores were hit by detached plaster, pictures and ar ticles thrown to the floor by the shock. It Is believed that more or loss loss waa sustained by nearly every family In the city. The tali steel structures stood the strain better than brick buildings, few ot them being badly damaged. The big eleven story Monadnock uffu-e building. In course of cDTistrtlctlnn, adjoining the Palace hotel, was an exception, however. Its rear wan collapsing and many cracks being made across its front. Some of the docks and freight sheds along the water front slid Into tho hay. Deep fissures opened In the filled ground near the ahore and thel'iilon ferry depot was damaged. Ita high tower still stands, but will have to be .tovii down. City Hall Wrecked. A portion of the new clly hall, which cost ..more than $7.000,000,. collapsed, the roof sliding into the courtyard and the smaller towers tumbling down, the great dome being moved, but not falling. The new postofflce, one of the finest in the United States, was badly shattered. The Valencia hotel, a fuur-atoiy wooden building, sank Into the basement a pile of splintered timbers, under which were pinhed many dead and dying occupants of the house. The basement was full of water and eome of the helpless victims were drowned. Scarcely had the earth censed to aluike when fires broke out simultaneously . . in many' places. The fire department promptly responded to the first calls for aid, but it was found that the water mains had been rendered useless by the under ground movement. Fanned by a light breeie, the flames quickly spread and soon many blocks were seen to be doomed. Then dynamite was resorted to. and the sound of frequent explosions added to the terror of the people. All efforts to stay the progress of the fire, however, proved futile. The south side of Market from Ninth street to the hay was soon ablaxe, the fire covering a belt two blocks wide. At this point ' are located many of the finest edifices In the city, Including the Grant, Parrott. Flood, Call, Examiner and Monadnock buildings, the Palace and Grand hotels and numer ous wholesale houses. At the same time tlie commercial estab lishments and bunks north of. Market street were burning. The burning district In this section extended from Sansome street to tlie water front snd from Mar ket street to Broadway. Flies also broke out .In tlie Mission and the entire city seemed to be In flames. gome Details of the Day. BAN FRANC1HOO, April ! -San Fran cisco waa practically wrecked by earth quake at 5:10 thla morning. The shock laated thret minutes, thousands of build ings were damaged and destroyed. The loss at life ; reported to be great. There 1 no ater, and- fire ragea all over the city. Ail wires with the exception of one, axe ok. - The ci'y hull, costing 7,0u0,UxX la in ruing. Modem buiiomgs suffered lesa than brick mid frame. Terror and excltamcnc is hidcbcrlbable Most of the people, asleep, were suddenly aroused and rushed -Into the ' streets, un dressed. Buildings yd and craahad, - . -1 . burylrg ocrupnnt. Parle tn downtown hrnel.: Uck house was badly dantared. but no loss of llfo is reported there. The Palace 'and ft.' Francis 1 hotels slrlott the shock. People flocked to the telegraph of fices to 'send message to friends and wer frantic: because ther were no wires. The greatest 'flatting to bulklings 1 Was x d"ne south of Market street; where there f mostly frame buildings and tenement houses. Fires occurred in every block of that district. ' Visitor Are safe. The loss of life seems to have been con fined to the poorer districts and manufac turing territory. For the benefit of eastern people who have friends visiting In Hun Francisco It is safe to ay that they have not been Injured. A the hours go by the excite ment grows mote intense. Every few minutes explosions are heard as buildings are blown up to stop the progress of the flames. The fires are spreading, and If the wind comes up San Francisco will ex perience the greatest conflagration of mod ern time, on lower Market street, the main thoroughfare Of the rity, block after block of substantial buildings have been destroyed. A big fire Is raging on the corner of Sansome and Pine streets, one block' from the Associated Tress ' office. The wildest rumors' as to loss of life are coming Into the newspapers, but It is Im possible to confirm them. No reports have been received outside of San Fran cisco, biK the damage about tho bay must he. enormous. Oakland js said to have suffered se verely, - -. Frame Hotel Colin U:17 ti. niTlie Valencia hotel, between Seventeenth and Eighteenth - streets, on Valencia street, a five-story frame building, toppled over Into the street, burying seventy-five people In the debris; only the top story remains intact. A house on Four teenth street, near-Valencia, waa wrecked, killing two people Many of the fire houses are damAged ft) badly, that It Is Impossible to gee the lire apparatus out. A lodRing house on Seventh street, between Howard and Mission, known as the Klngslcy, entirely collapsed. ' It Is on fire and seventy-five to eighty people are believed to be burled In thfl flaming ruins. At Twenty-second and Mission the dry goods store of Lipimin Is on fire, threat ening destmcttoh to the entire block. t'revlce In Htreeta.' At Eighteenth and Valencia there is a crevice in fhe street' six feet wide and en tire sidewalks arV torn up." The street car tracks are badly twisted, all through the southern section, and traffic' 1s at a stand still, '- ;. ' ' At the Southern PacIHe hospital water IS being carried Into "the building from out side source for tlie use of the -patients. Many people suffering from . Injuries are seen on t he street making .their way to the different hospitals. The Episcopal -church on Eleventh street la badly damaged and at the Studehuker carriage factory on Tenth and Market street the top floor -caved In, hadjy wrecking th entire building. Watchlna for Thieves. PAN FRANCISCO. April 18.-0:45 a. m.-Twenty-on bodies have been taken to the morgue, wlik-li cannot accommodate anj more. Mayor Schmitx has .established headquar ters at the Hall of Justice and has ap pointed a rnllof committee of fifty promi. nent citixens. The military are patrolling the t-treeta, guarding the banks and other establishments. - They have received orders to slioot any one on. sight detected in theft. The burning district at. this haur runs from South street on the. west to theter trout on the. east,, south oX Market strdct. North of Market street from Sansome to tho water font and-from Market fo .Wusb ltiKttm. ..Thorp istiacx,a,!,blckr.b,uriihig hj Mission, street .between Twenty-first., ,o j Twenty-secolid. The newspapers having had their power rut off have combined and ll Issue one paper for all from the office of the Chron iclet which has II own power plant. Hank, poors C losed. There was u great rush at 'the different banks by depositors 'who", wanted to draw out their deposits, but the bank decided to keep their . doorg. closed. By order .of the chief of police all the ttaloons have been closed. The damage already Inflicted Is estimated roughly at $40,ft,000. Th flies are' spreading rapidly and un less the wind come up from th west end blows the flump toward the bay nothing can stop the. destruction of the city. The whole north .nd of the city la wrecked and the flame are spreading in all direction, In the absence of- water the fire department has resorted to the use of d?naui!e and- buildings are demolished in the hope of staying the conflagration. Call Rntldlna- Afire, BAN FRANCISCO, ' April 18.- -10:15 Fire has taken hold of the slxleen-slory Call building on the Third atreet side and fltinei are now burning fiercely 'in the Interior of the building', Wt as yet 'the' flames nave not spread beyond the folrrth floor., Th'e building is also' threatened on the Market street side, qrily one structure separating It from he flafiies, ' which swept every thing on the south slde of Market from Fourth almost to Third.. r' . The back of the elevn-story. Mmadnnck building now nearlng completion has fallen out and tije .flatties, threaten' to cause groat loss by fire, the front of the tMonudnock waa badly, cracked by the earthquake. Although .(ha fire .is raging on. all sides of the Palace hotel It has nut yet taken tire.. The previous report. that the Falaoe hotel .had caught fire la erroneous. The flames art rapidly nearlng the Postal Telegraph building and are, within, a block of the Associated Press and Western Union building. The Postal company la preparing to vacate and. this -will, aliut oft all tele graphic cqinmunicatioa with' the outulde world. . From present indications,, the entire business district will likely (ail prey to th flame. . which are Increasing in intensity, fanned by the stiff breese. SAN FRANCISCO, April IS. The Santa Fa roundhouse- and machine shop at Point Richmond,. . aoros the bay. have collapued. , . . i . The eartbituak. was uot seriously fall at. other points along, the-coast a far as can bp ascertained. Wholesale. District Burned Over. BAN FRANCISCO. April 18. -The ftaines. fanied by tlie rising breeie. swept down Terrible Calamity Th Ischia Catastrophe of July 211, 1M3, was another ' notable " earthquake. The havoc wrought on that beautiful island was the more-appalling through the suddenness of it. Part of an account of that disturb ance slated: "Tho deadly stillness; the suu a broad, rtionn-llke globe setting in a sea of blood! the moaning liolses heard afar. a though the Imprisoned spirit that was to rena tne soua rsrtn nua muttering to lteelf ere It put forth It incalculable power; the strange rushing sounds, like the voice of the wind'among tree; the stupefaction of bird and bees arid" Insect; the sliddon coming and "gnnf of natural spring and fountulh. denoting th Internal throe, 'all these1 hint of the approuehlhg devastation --related In past visitation of the kind, wer wanting on the orcaskin of thi raiua trophe. On- this' occasion the night wss cloudless arid' beautiful; t He sun hart sunk behind In 'a 1n summer splendor. There Va no hint in the heen to indicate' a enlarged or sinister atmosphere!" " "' Th fseMa 'rtfiqusk Of 13 oerurre'd at a tfrhe-wheti thi Island" was being visited NEBRASKA .WEATHER FORECAST , , , .til . . hnwtrra Thnraria? -nnrt 4nlr In F.aa Portion. Friday Fair anal tmfi la West, I Irarlngf in F.ast rortlon. Temperature at hn eterdayi llnnr. Ilea.' Hoar. Ilea. a. ., I T a. ; .. it a. in a. II a. 1J m. "T Ml ft ftM i H. ! ItH T . Til Tl TB Tl Tr ml . i . , . , . tie f p. nl ttt n. m ...... 1T . m 411 the main wholesale business sjreets i. within one hundred feet of the Union Fefiy depot, the high lower of which, stood at a dangerous angle. i tie tug wnniesaie grocery establishment- of 'Wellman, Peck A company was on fire from -ellar to roof and the. heat was so oppressive that pas sengers fronr-the ferry boat wer obllgi-J -. 10 keep close to tne water eoge in urrtr to $ct past the burning structure. It waa ; impossible lo reach-111, center of the city from the bay without skirting the ehore for long distance so as to get entirely around the burning district. At bImiui $ o'clock ' the Southern Pacific official refused to allow any more passengers from the tiBtis-lwy points 40 land and eent back those already on Lho boats. The ferry aud trail) set-vice of the Key route wa entirely abandoned owing to rlanvaM done to the power house by Wie earthquake gt Emeryville. - - - . i Troop I'ati-ol the t it.', At 9 o'clock this morning n toousaml ' men from the Presidio arrived In town lV patrol the city streets. 1 he ' Thirtcento infantry, l.m strong, .arrived from ' .Arifcel ' Island a little lsjer stid -went on patio! duty at once. The oldf-rs have been or dered to shoot down thieves caught In the act bf .robbing llm dead and to stand guartl with their lives the millions of 'doll.iin worth of property which has been placed In the streets that, it,-may eacape the ravages of the flames. Th .First Culitor-. ilia artillery, two hundred strong. Iwoj companies, have. boen. detailed to pnttol duty on Ellis street. Two more companies are iatrolllng Broadway- in the Italian section. ! ' At an early hour this morning Mayor Schmltt, who. has established his office at police headquarters, named" 'the following citizen as a committee xtt natHy- James D. Phelan, Herbert I .aw', Thomas Magee, Charles Fee. W. I. Herrlrf, Thorn-" well Mully. Carrett McKnerney' W. H.' McCleary, John I. Harvey, Jeremiah 'DJnaiiA John J.. Mnhoney, Henry T.' Bcott, I W. Hellmnn. George A. Knight. I. O.' Stcxin hart. 8. G. Murnhv. '-lamer Klruc Fra.k Anderson, W. J. Lnrinett. John Martin,. Allan Pollock. Mark Oerstle. H. V. Ttams- dell. W. G. Hafrlaon. R: A. Crofhers, Paul Cowles. M. H. De Young. Clans Spreckels, Rudolph Hnreckels. t;. W. Fay, John MC Naiight, Dent RobeK. Tholnns Garrett. Frank She.- James Reed, Robert -Pisis.. T. P. Woodward. Howard Holmes, Georg" Dillman, J. B. Rogers. David Rich. H. T. Cresswell. J. A. Howfl, Frank Maegtretti. Clem Tobln, George Toumevj E. B. ,Fond, George A. Newhall and Wllllapv Wot son. Food Mnpplr Conserved. -. . Mayor Bchinlt 'sent out word to tl bakeries and milk stations throughout the city' that their food luipply must.be oii served for the homele. Provisions have . already been made to pine tents in every park In the clly and in these tho who have lost all -will be given food and. .shelter. Etirly In the morning the prisoner, con fined In the city prison on the fifth floor of the' hall of Juath-e' were transferred to th basement of the truetur. Later they were removed to the Broadway Jail and., If neoesslty arise -tliey will be taken tu the brunch county Jail on the Mission . road.' .... -. Commissioner E. Myron Wolfe announced ; at noon ihat the eighty., odd) flra Insurance, yompatile interested- had,, dpcjded, , tojpi;j dollar for dollar-to every ;one insured JyU'i'.J them. - The companies will not discriminate . between fire and earthquake, and every, one Insured will be raid to the extent of the loss. But two of th companies af fected re Pacific coaat concerns, the othpraj having prinolpal office in the east or in Europe and will stand the loss , without danger of failure. ,. One or the first orders Issued by Chief Of Police Dlnan this morning was the closing of every saloon In the city. This step was taken to prevent drink craxed men from rioting In the city street. TnT Nent for Dynamite. There was little dynamite available (n th city. At 8 o'clock Mayor Sclimlt sent a tug to Pinole for several cans of -the ex plosive. He also sent a telegram to Mayor Mott of -Oakland. At 10:30 he received this reply to h Oakland message: .' ; "Three engine . and hose companies Jav here Immediately, Will forward dynamll I oon a obtained." ' ' ' ' A. w. Husey came to toe station x the hall of justice shortly before 10 o'clock this morning and told Kpw, af fhe direc tion of a policeman whom he did not know, but whose star number lie gave a Oa aa had out th arteries In. the wrist of a man- pinioned under timber at tb - 81. Catherine hotel. According to the tat ment made by Hussey, the man waa beg ging to' be killed' and the boltcemart 'hot at him, but his aim was defective and the bullet -went wide of th mark.' The officer then handed Hussey a knife 'with instruc tion to cut theveina.iln the suffering man's .wrist nd Husy, obeyed. prders to the letter. ",' ... " .'. Chief of Police Dlnan directed that Hus sey be locked up. There haa bee,n no. op portunity to investigate hla atory. but , the police believe the awful calamity rend end. him insane and thai the. incident reported to them has no existence except tn - th imagination of the niahJwho mad th re port. Mayor Schmitg sends out order Uiai physical necessities of tho sufferer, - bo first attended to. Goldberg,' Bo.wen' fc ,V. end word that, they have placed ajl t,he(r tore at the disposal of th oily. Includ ing the provision contained therein. 1 " ' aork Felt at Hasea. riis. WASHINGTON, April 18.-A Western Union dispatch received late thj ..'after noon says that eurthquake shocks are re ported as far east' as Hxn,' Nev. Tile Southern Pacific tallrotid has brought 'Into San Francisco ton of dynamite JIQ use if necessary in destroying buildings to pre. (Continued on Third Page.) ' at Ischia in 1883 by many travelers. That shook 1astU thirty seconds. Tne island became wiupped in dark clouds und the surrounding water were whipped into a fury. The ineopl thought the. island would be swallowed; up by the sea. The populAllop fld lu terror for (he water's edge. as In th daa of Pompeii. The Utile town of CaaaiHic clola con.pletely disappeared with Jl Lk visitor and 4,'l rgular luhubilant,. At Iacco-Aiiieuo fie out of !,5i3 j'fupl aoet reported us having ecaped. Many tj.a house were jiwalluWd. up. by ih.tvr awr4ug earth. ,. . , ,- ., , That ..disaster was . hjtitii.Utd U4,.aii caflhijuMki t pf, dm,, t rye. Volcanic , .typ. Ja lu, is. twenty. two. yiiiloa . fboii Jioum ywwviu. .. ,. .... ,i ,., .... In a sense the lochia taUatroplu? .wag a, -uond Pompeii ,4 WJthlu a few .awonds f,nK p-opl were culled, froui theli-, Uoiii, and reveling to deaLh...aid .Ui'iusanda tt" baiUl)ngi wfeiluiil as iiauat fit cards. u The. 1m1ii4 wag vvajted by other, vluiet.1 disturbaiaes lu th y4r of l,A aad " i ' r.'-r .;'.; tt