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Show Other Losses. Other cities suffered as greatly In proportion, as did San Francisco. Santa Rosa, reported to bo the most beautiful city In California, a city of twelve or fifteen thousand, was shaken to Its very foundations by the earthquake earth-quake and then destroyed by tire. Not less than 500 people were killed there by the collapse of big hotels, and ten thousand are reported to be homeless. Hrawley, a town of WW, quite a distance dis-tance below Los Angeles was destroyed. de-stroyed. San Jose, about 7.1 miles south of San Francisco sulTcred terrible destruction, de-struction, all the big buildings being leveled to the ground. It is indeed pleasant to contemplate that several of the first reports proved ty be unfounded. No ships went down, Oakley and Berkeley were little damaged and the great CHIT house was not destroyed. |