THE CITY TOSSED LIKE A FEATHER.
GREAT BUILDINGS CRUSHED USE EGG-SHELLS.
MANY MANSIONS OF MILLIONAIRES BURKES.
(Received 5.45 ajn.) LONDON, April 19. The San Francisco correspondent of the "New York Journal" sends a remarkable account of the earthquake. T The first shock, he wires, tossed the city as a feather is tossed by the 1 wind, making the buildings rock like poplars in a storm. I In three minutes the city wa3 one mass of debris,, in which once great i bnHding3 were indistingnishably lost. ' The Grand Opera House and Claus Spreckels' huge office—the finest build- ' ing of its kind in the Western States—were literally crushed like egg-shells. i The Western Union telegraph office was also wrecked, while many of the i mansions of millionaries have been bu; ned. p| ■ 32ie greatest.pa3s3i3e; confusienlstiß-.prevails,'- and a meiho&ifiaj -aoaima- •-'■ Hon of tie area destroyed remains extremely difficult. v
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 94, 20 April 1906, Page 5
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146THE CITY TOSSED LIKE A FEATHER. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 94, 20 April 1906, Page 5
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