| Show DAY y OF DOOM NO DISASTER Frightful Calamity Comes to San Francisco in the Early Morning Hours HUNDREDS GO TO THEIR DEATH All Wires But One Went Down and Particulars Come Coyne C Slowly Wi From Froni Scene of the Disaster EXCITEMENT AND CONFUSION These ll lh ri Contribute to I 1111 Iny ny rho Worst of the tIle Kind HIllel In III All tI II the Ihl of The greatest and most deso desolating rating lating of all earthquakes in the history of modern America oc occurred occurred occurred in San Francisco i this morning The first news of the dreadful calamity came to Salt Lake in the form of the follow following following ing lug dispatch over the one re remaining remaining remaining wire out cut of that calam and unfortunate city city Denver April 18 At a am am am m Postal Telegraph Company here received the following in information information information formation from Los Angeles It Itis Itis Itis is reported that thousands of lives have been lost in an earth earthy earthquake earthquake quake at San Francisco FraAcisco Fra cisco Both the Postal and the Western Union telegraph buildings in that city are reported to have been destroyed A disastrous fire is eating its way up the south side of Market street and at last ac accounts accounts accounts counts was within three blocks of the Palace hotel Water mains were we bursting and the th a fire de do department department was absolutely help helpless helpless helpless less Business is entirely sus suspended suspended suspended Horin nUlI I G Tie 1110 lintel hotel Is I now Jill on fire Other s on un urn lire the tho Clans C 1149 bI 1 structure II 11 stories storie s Url es high hl m h tle tho Phelan building the Moie The south i lle of Market Markel street be he between bey tween fourth mid and Fifth Firth beets IH Is I now on nn ami tho Ile s arc III In nil directions CITY HM LAW The Thc Ih city elty elt In Ix tar now under martini law InV lawIt It seems Hint that tho 1111 entire s C clion lion Hon of San Sull Francisco must lie ed nh Mayor Major S hay hM called for Cor tho thon n of Ir the thc entire Oakland tire lira department and hns ordered that nil all n ho lio u used mcd cd to blow blo up tip building In order to 10 stay sIn tho progress pro proof of It Iho the themes flames S nn In Francl r t eo tO April l 18 Sa Sou u IVan IVanel Y y el Ci I eo lf O oar BM wrecked by nn an ot nt 10 thus thin morning Tire The thock la three minutes of ot buildings were cre damaged and aad do da 1 JC f LAST WIRE DOWN 1 k San c Cut Off OfT Prom ll e t t t jj The Iw This J I V Vi i The Tito Ini IIII In i wire Iro San Sant t with the Ih amid J Jj t ty tt ti y j t went nt down this Ihl X XV 1 y V Iho Ile wor wort l IN Is feared i iv 1 s v 1 Just before Hie Ihl 1111 nn i ij j k I h following III IIII J X l I d from Kew XI York 1 t I cw York April IS I he X 1 Western tern that It j jy y hns tins an In III Kan J 1 jC q o In III the Ihl ferry building 00 Y x nt at Iho tho foot of Market street amp J Hint It Il has wires running Into Y t 1 this building anti In lit working or OJ order i 1 der 1111 The following wits was wn X t tt t i rr IrU here from frum the Ihu th Ferr 4 X r building X t J tIYe If IYe i li ri l l hS hairs i 1 t but hilt the tho lire Uro cannot touch this X 1 building y y a It II 1 ns 11 b II by Western X f t Union t officials II In this city Ill that the Ilie Perry ferry being I on oil the tho X X f front IH is separated 1 from ml joining j property by h n II court lUU OU t j l feet ft wide hll Y 1 t t v oo w The lo loss s of lIfo life Is IN reported lo Ir U ho great greatt Tine There Is I no 1111 water tire lira rages nil all OUT tho Iho city AH II wires hj with tho Ili Ih of ono rare 1110 gone The city hall costing co Is In III ruins rains Modern buildings suffered d Ic less s than brick aul triune Terror Perron and excitement are Indescribable Most Mo t of tho ilia people leople asleep worn wen suddenly aroused 1111 rushed Into 1110 Hut tho streets undressed s anti trashed lr bur j Ing occupants occupant In tho Iho hotels hotel Lick house was n badly lint hilt no nn lo loss s of nf lIfo Is Ii report reported ed lid tI there here llio Thu std and San cisco hotels stoHl the tho shock flocked tk eked to the tho telegraph office to In scud Fend mc aJI to tn friends unit were rrt there w no Wll The Tie greatest to buildings hull win was lIS south of street where they thoy lire mostly tI frame buildings mid and tent tene tenement meat ment houses Fire broke broko out hi lu every block of or that v Oil Cn April 18 Tho severest shock felt In this city chi In III ninny mil II cars lIr occurred nt tit 1113 I dOlk this lids morning rock rocked rocked ed II like cradles docks clocks Moppet No o serious salons damage O was lone done A 1 few rew j were discovered III in tho till Mono Slone building Slight Sll ht tats done dono to omo brick buildings telephone wires were ro prostrated between Sacramento and Sun Slin Francisco std no communication could be hind with tho Iho hotter city this morning and water tanks talks were wro shaken down II at lit Suisun SIlI Solano Monty county and 1111 nt lit Tracy Still SlIn county San n Francisco April 18 The so o 0 far as II known nt lit this hour may he be us ns II follow Hi I I Hundreds of people killed 1000 r e 1 I The Tho Ivllon has hns been com cited Into n R temporary hospital and already ahead hundred I of nr tho the disaster are e treated there thereby by hy n ft corps of nC volunteer surgeons lIIl Tile Tho entire water front Is I Tho rho po Will was badly shaken cm i ila l 1 la entirely coll The Tho fish Ush lI h nt lit the corner of Clay and Merchant streets street hen has enl col collapsed 01 lapsed killing six II people Chief his Ills wife here hn o becu very Injured HOUS Thin Ihn Grand Orand Opera TIou m Is burning fiercely A 1 story building nt lit Tenth II lon streets Iho tho O Opera ern houw hou rouse J Is apparently doomed other big bl buildings u s 1 between c the he theater St Patricks church many people are fleeing from tho Iho Palace hotel taking Inking their effects Tiro Kill R a r works Iv orL s south 1 of J Market t street horn havn been blown up III started on p v 2 3 iA OA Of DOOM AND NO OI ASTER Continued from f O page age 1 big hll lIre Ir In Imi II that ItOI of the time theIl city Il v I n I fl m It F nun I I f A of mit If tIme tho Ml miles mil in I It from mom Ihl I I i sect tl 1111 of II f tho thoI t ho city I II I li In II Thu Tim In 1111 nt ot S I reel and ii nil l I Ii rum thu i y too t i nI na ru I II Should I iii ho thu I wind Itle hur I It I t may ho I in en I lie I her mm n of Ir the Il lly It Itt In II t II nil SI i lr l II hilled lu bV h b the Hit t Iii lii of t the til I ii m re IJ Time Tho Gorc Goe block nt at lt tho time junction of or Market and 1111 I In I i 1 Iii be lit a U I total I mute I lo lu OF Ir mH A lira I which broke out In the tue Muck Mack wholesale drug company company 13 15 Fre Fremont mont mOlt street IreI threatens to 10 destroy th the i entire block hork On California and lill Pine hue i streets tho ho Iro has hums reached leached to Sin San Sansome some street From Irom Pine Itne 1110 and Dupont streets ll the has hru to street tret From Pine anti Dupont streets lire lime II ran can be he bl seen semmi leil raging In II iiI all 11 down town town 1011 I districts tl A brisk westerly wind wn Is I I coming up Ut and anul the tue n of ot time the entire business bu ln 11 district Is IR threatened Several persons are thought to In J 1 ji pinned under the wreckage kl e of n the tho fish n h hm market m streets between and In Irmy and amid commercial streets On Fourth Tehlma streets nn en en entire entire tire lre family was wan Wil caught In the collapse of a I building The he hall hail hal of et Justice Is b momentarily ex expected to 0 fall rAhl The he city hall hal Is almost an nn entire 1 wreck The damage hero hee Is s estimated nt at half n a million dollars n H S rAHn The tire lire In huts has hll reached rochel Market arket street near Third The building next to the Iaus building at Third Mark Markt irk I Is II In names and ant the tire fire ex cx extends tends along the youth routh Hide of Market arket to Fourth The ri fh following buildings on rn n New Nett Montgomery street between Market 1111 Mission have been beet entirely de tie destroyed I Pacific Telephone company Rialto building Mission MI ul Market tho the Nn Na Ni toma building on imn 1 Second and Market the Iho 1 llory Mutual Life tIte LII building on Oi California street flint lias hiA been entirely destroyed HIO 1110 10 HOTEL IJ The Flu TIl lire 1 Js is II coming ro 1 I I I up lp Market street end 11 Is I now louis less than one niI block from the Postal lo Telegraph building The flie Palace anti 0 id hotels are 11 mm ru hi iii I danger of n the tn The llie Postal 10 Telegraph h raph cc it flit i Cable com company pany 1110 will wi open a it I at nt Oakland us as I soon 1001 us 1114 iK II u bout boa t can cnn be hf procured to carry cany time the th across the time baj The Tho tire lire Irl however Is IK so o between Market t street timid and 1111 the Ih ferry Cell PET as IH to make It Impossible In tm o reach Iho Iha heat boat hOlt nt itt lt present MACHINE SHOPS COI H Hh Time The h Santa Fc Fe and ma machine 11 chine rhin shops hoPI at Point across the bay bl have collapsed The earthquake was not lo felt at lt other points point along the tue coast so W tat fm as us vail can lal bt be ascertained AS TO Tim TIlE TlE DEI mI At 1053 10 n Li I in t the lire lre from front IViry PIr r to Front street on aim ni ono one UIO skin and alli pretty much luch nil ni south of ot Market street anti and LI to In about Seventh street with sporadic radic tires In the park section and time the western division There Them I II no way WI of ot estimating the number of iKid It I may be hi bl hundreds It IL J may ml he thousand There Is 18 unruly hardly harily any In water vater timid and 11 It I IH I Impossible to say when the tho lire will wi stop stO People euple arc aro muting moving out Olt of the time Illare lintel hotel The he Postal telegraph operators who timo ate II at lt their posts paste are Iro taking their hUes lles lpH In their hands ns as nl the building IH is I collapsing ing and the tho lire lre Is IK within half a I block Tho Vito Call 11 mind and Ind buildings 1 are liable I to go at a t a moment HODIES E It ED EDi D DI I Ti Ii I n A m ont bOIl I have taken to 10 the th morgue which can cannot eln not ant any al mote more moll established head headquarters Mayor layor hod quarters at Ut hall hail of justice and amid has Immis his ap appointed pointed a ut 1 committee of 21 o prominent nent citizens The military Is iii patrol the timi streets tH guarding the banks other establishments They 11 have I 1 1 received orders to tn anyone on tight sight detected iii 11 theft ther HOTEL IO I The Time Jessie street side lle of oC tho the hotel h 1 Is iii I burning 1 Il 1 g The burning district at ut thin hour runs IUIS from frol rem South street on th the west wel to mo II the water front on 01 time east rn l south of lt Market street Itrel North of ft Market street front from Crol to the wilier water rout front and Ild from room Market arlt to Wash Washington ington There her Is tim also al o a I block blok burning on nn Mission 11 on treet between betseen het I WITHOUT POWER The newspapers hail had their power powel cut lUt Ut off mitt If have hate combined and will wi Issue one paper from frol the he th ome of If the time Chronicle which has uris Its 11 own power There here was IA is a n great rush at nl the hi lifter differ different emit ent banks by imy ly depositors who wanted to In out their deposits hut but hit the tho banks to 10 keep kell their doors 1001 closed fly lly order of the tho chief of ut police nil all 11 saloons have been bemi coed The rime already Inflicted Is 15 estimated roughly rURh at lt Mo HO 40 MTV IT The thc lire tn are spreading rapidly and Inh H tIt 11 wind comos lOle up tip front from the thi est mind and blows the flumes flames lumes toward the buy nothing can enn toll stop the thC destruction II of the Tho Tue whole ly lyTh north end 01 of ot the tho city la Is Th and Ih homes are lire In II nil 11 mu I I 1 In II the absence of 0 t water r time the th lire department lumP has 1111 resorted rH to ll the th use u e Iro of dynamite thy it C ii nil buildings logs tire are being demolished In II the hope of ot Flaying g the mImi un gimm t iou The block 1 bounded by h California mid Ild streets Is ts pric Ir doomed 1 cd tho tue tl sweeping clear cleM across It I sheets front from Pine street with no Apparatus available for tor Its It I salvation ALL 1 H III I D DHan Han San Francisco April Apri IS 1015 a I m mit Fire 1110 huts has hll taken hold of c the thu Call al au build hulid building Jag ing Jl on In Third street tr t tide side anti ameS are now 10 hunting burning fiercely in the Interior of i the time building hut but n 11 aim yet ot the lames liames Ilme have hae not spread beyond the fourth floor The building Is I also threatened on the tue street side IIII only one OlO structure separating it I from front the time which swept everything on the south southside southside side Ide of from front Fourth al ul almost most to 10 Third FALLS The Th back bacle of if he h I 1 building now nearing completion has ins fallen fhlen out olt 1111 the tho threaten n to 10 cause calico caHil great Krent time lite Ile loss los time the front of ot time tho tracked cracked by b the ck was 11 badly irth imke Although time tho lire Iho Is II raging ln on till all ll 1118 of if the Iho Palace hotel It has hal not luot nott lot taken lire The report lt et t taki 11 i Previous that the Palace hotel haul had caUght first Is erroneous Tho The lames alit aie rapidly Hearing the th Postal Telegraph Tele mph Ind are within n it 1 block of the tue Associated Press and amid Western Wester building The rime Postal company nj Is II tu 11 It vacate anti and then wIll wIM shut off Iff nil all 11 communication lh the outside ull llo world From present Indication entire hum bus business hl laces iness district both hoth wholesale mimi retail rell will wi likely fall a I prey ey to the th flames which are Oll fanned by 11 u it I stiff breeze ble 1 |
