HUNDREDS IMPRISONED AND BURNED TO DEATH.
FIRE BRIGADE HAS iIBAWDOJTBD AIX HOPE. NEW YORK, April 20. Xumbers of pteple injured in the "ollapse 91 buildings were imprisoned. Encdreds of them were still there vrheii the fires broke put, and were burned to death. The fire brigade, with the aid of <lyr>amite, have made gaps in the city in the hope of staying the progress of the flames. This work -was continued all Wednesday night, and was then abandoned as being unavailing. The flames orerleapt all obstacles placed in their way. The brigade has lost all hope of saving any part of the city. The fashionable enbnrbs at Wall Park, Burlinghaiae. and Nob Hill have ieen all destroyed. • The havoc caused by the earthquake extends to every place within one hundred miles of San Francisco. Most of the towns aronnd the bay snffered heavily in the earthquake, ■which caused heavy damage at Santa Cruz, Palo Alto, Napa City, Monterey, Giiroy, and Hollister. Kpreckels' sngir factory at Salianas was destroyed, I - :
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 95, 21 April 1906, Page 5
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169HUNDREDS IMPRISONED AND BURNED TO DEATH. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 95, 21 April 1906, Page 5
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