FRAGMENTARY INFORMATION.
FIFTEEN HUNDRED KILLED AND 'A THOUSAND INJURED.
BUSINESS PORTION IN RUINS. CITY SWEPT BY FIRE. (Received ApriflDth, 10.28 p.m.) LONDON, April 19. Information concerning the disaster at San Francisco is fragmentary, owing to the fact that th-o telegraph and newspaper offices have been burnt. It is estimated that in San Francisco alone 1500 persons have perished in the earthquake, and that the injured number 1000. Tho entire business portion oi ban Francisco is in ruins. The latest information states that the fires caused by the earthquake are raging unchecked, and are sweeping through the city. Thousands of homeless people are huddled together in bbc parks and the public squares. Troops are guarding the banks, and cavalry and'infantry are patrolbng the streets. . , The PoldieTS have been instructed to shoot thieves, who have already begun plundering. The rmoment of greatest disturbance was at eighteen minutes past five yesterday morning (the 18th), when the tremor was sufficiently severe to cause the pendulum of a seismograph m JxHidon to swing for nine minutes across the whole width of the photographic roll. . . ~ It is believed that the originating centre of the disturbance is out at sea.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12483, 20 April 1906, Page 7
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