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Show I ONE HUNDRED DEAD 8ANTA ROSA'8 LIST. Ruin of Beautiful Town by Earthquake And Fire Is Almost Complete. Business Section Wiped Out. Santa Itosa, Cal. Tho list of known dead now totals fifty-eight and It Is bolloved that 100 Is a vory conservative conserva-tive ostlmato of tho number of people who lost their lives In tho awful catastrophe ca-tastrophe which visited this city on Wednesday morning April 18. Tho entire business section Is In ruins nnd practically ovory residence In town Is moro or less damaged, flf-toon flf-toon or twenty being badly wrecked. Tho damago to residences, however, --was caused principally from tho dam-y dam-y ngo to tho foundations, which lot many structures down Into tho ground. Tho ! brick nnd stono business blocks, to-gothor to-gothor with tho public buildings, wero nil thrown flat. Tho court house, hall of records, tho Occldontnl and Santa Rosa hotels, tho Athonnouin thentro, now Masonic tomplo, Odd Fellows i block, nil banks ovcrythlng wont, and In nil tho city not ono brick or stono building Is standing oxcopt tho California Cali-fornia Northwestern depot. Bankers and millionaires arc going about with only tho fow dollars they happened to havo In their pockets when tho crnsli camo, nnd nro llttlo hotter off than tho laborers who aro digging through tho dobrls. Money has practically no vnluo horo now, for thoro Is no plnco to spond It, nnd this phnnu of tho situation prcsonts Its own remedy. Almost ovory ono hero is sleoplng out of doors, bolng nfrnld to onter their homes oxcopt for a short whllo nt a tlmo until repairs havo been mado. Thcro nro plenty of provisions. Somo havo been suppllod by . other towns nnd much hns boon brought In from tho Biirroundlng country. Two ontlro blocks of buildings nlso escnpeu bolng swept by tho llnmes which im-mediately im-mediately broke- out In n dozen places at onco ns soon ns tho shock was over, nnd from tho tangled ruins of these buildings comploto stocks of groceries, clothing, otc, nro bolng dug out and added to tho common atoro. |
