Show I RUIN WROUGHT AT STANFORD STAI BY EARTHQUAKE I Republican Rp c il I Service Serice S S Los LOR Angeles cles April 25 Arrivals I Arrivals from tram Stanford university ll tell lell a pitiful story ton of ot the havoc wrought ht by bv the I I earthquake upon the beautiful buildings of that great t Institution h s itu lon What want was wag ono one week ago considered 11 one Uric of or J S i. tJI r r 3 ft I I t r 1 i T I II I lie lineaL linest universities Un In the country with the most picturesque campus to be seen anywhere hero west of th the Mississippi lit itt I toda today a n complete wreck a conCu confused ma mass of stones and timbers limbers shaken down by the upheaval al of ot I 11 last Wednesday 1 morning n the shock came the tho students were awakened from sleep by the I Ihl hl breaking of ot the pictures and decorations in iii their rooms and anti when tull fully arou ed they startled stai I by h the crash claRh of falling ailing buildings around them I Immediately after Ih the shock which lasted tl forty eight seconds the students began to ho pour lour out from th the dormitory arid and fraternity houses es The Tho sight which met mel th their lr eyes etH will never nevel h be hll 0 forgotten Ign te n On every Vf ry hand where whre hut hUl a few f minutes before had been th the most beautiful structures appeared desolation antI and ruin The magnificent memorial arch at the c entrance to the campus was Wag a huge hinge pile of stones tonel and nothing else Ilse seemingly tos tossed toed Nl Into Inlo the air ah anti and allowed t tn to fall where It iu might The Th new nev library erected at an expense of ot and the tho great gnat gymnasium lum both hOlh of or which were to have ha be been n dedicated f at commencement time were a tumbled mass maxs t of ot ruins So complete was the de destruction that scarcely c. one stone was wa left upon another Robley Hoble hall th the home of ot the thc girls was so shaken that two stories tolles In Inthe Inthe inthe the front part fell foil Into the lower lowel floors completely wrecking r all that part of or th the hall ball The rest of the dormitory was so cracked and twisted that thal It was considered unsafe for the girls to remain there ther after afler the shock It happened that the part of the building which fell cli was taken talen up by bylie bythe bythe the lie parlors of ot the he house home so that none of nC the girls was wan Injured The Flie massive mas nuns sl sive chimneys which occupied the entire center r of ot the building building- were shaken from their and fell ell on the roof Toof Their great weight weigh I carried down with the them m the entire central portion of or the hall hail which felt fell to the cellar beneath The ThC university will open next fall tall at the usual time and anti It Is hoped that most of the tho buildings s will be he f restored ane and read ready for use ue b by that time lime cr 5 r S v r r I S 'S S 4 I NL I These showing the Ihl Stanford Stantonl Memorial chapel before and after r the earthquake anti and the present condition of the flue Stanford gymnasium building illustrate the thc havoc oc done at the noted university The chapel chapal built af at a n cost of mute more than hiatt was ivas completed a little more than two tso years earl ago It was the lie wl wish h of ot Mrs Mis II Stanford that lint this memorial to her hu husband band should rank runk among the most beautiful and costly structures of th the world The front of the building wo-s wo a great greatt piece Ic of oC Italian mosaic The g gymnasium lum was still In course CoUIe of ot construction con when the earthquake demolished It it It was to 10 have been of or solid sandstone nd lone and would ha have lave w cost lt about I Work on It began about four years a ago o and lund had almost been lJean finished |