Show EARTHQUAKE 1 i i I Flood F 1 V O ci and a n d Fire Pe F Ire i r e Follow P 0 II 1 ow O s Shock Sh S h OC o c I and Spreading Flames Fumes Great In Terror Eat Buildings Builds Their in Their Way Vay Topple Up Business Most Frightful District Burst i Disaster in in Country s History Horror Excitement the Worst Wor and t Ever Terror Witnessed Contribute by the to People Make Thousands T h a d j of jf f Lives L e A Lost L j t t i e j of oldie the Coast Wires Down and News Information U 5 1 8 0 I 1 yeS y re t 08 Meager Meader t r DENVER April 18 At am Postal Telegraph Company here received the following information from Los Angeles It is reported that thousands of lives have been lost in an earthquake at San Francisco Both the Postal and the Western j Union telegraph buildings in that city are reported to have been destroyed A disastrous fire is eating its way up the south side of 1 Market street and at last accounts was within three blocks of the Palace hotel Water mains were bursting and the fire department was absolutely helpless Business is entirely suspended j 1 Buildings Dynamited To Stop Progress ss Of Fire SACRAMENTO Calif April 18 The correspondent of the Associated Press here has been informed from a reliable source that the earthquake this morning in San Francisco created great destruction of property The loss from the he shock and sub subs subsequent subsequent sequent fires will reach into the millions The fire is still raging covering an anarea area from Montgomery street to the Water front It is said hundreds of buildings in the business section have been ruined The fire started in a dozen different places and is now being fought with dynamite Three miles of the Southern Pacific track near Benicia was sunk down for a depth of about four feet Operators Return to Their ij Posts After an Hours Absence f t fI I SALT LAKE CITY April 19 Reports received by the Salt Lake office of the Postal Telegraph company from San Francisco would indicate that the firt firs repots of the earthquake in San Francisco were exaggerated Supt W We WP WP P S Hawk was in communication with San Francisco office of the Tel graph company after the earthquake He was vas informed that it would be necessary necess necessary sary s ry for f or the operating force to vacate the office This was done and the oper opel operators operators i alors left the building but returned within an hour and business was resumed San Francisco reported that the water mains in Market street et had broken Salt Lake is not now no in communication with San Francisco |