Garland Globe | 1906-04-28 | Page 2 | Forty Bodies Taken from One Building

FORTY BODIES TAKEN FROM ONE BUILDING Many of the Occupants Incinerated, Only a Few Bones Being Left. Snn Francisco. Forty bodies wort -taken from a building at 119 Fifth street Saturday by tho Red Cross service. ser-vice. Tho structure, Which was a four story wooden building containing three flnta of ten rooms each, collapsed dur lng tho earthquake. At tho tlmo sov oral persons were tnken out alive fron tho upper stories, but it wns thought thnt all tho Inmates had escaped. Tin ruins took fire shortly after, nnd nl though efforts wero mndo to oxtlngulsr. tho flames the cntlro building wat consumed. Tho bodies of tho unfortunates unfor-tunates Imprisoned within the mint wcro Incinerated, only tho skulls nnd a fow bones bolng left.