OFFICIAL MESSAGES.
The following messages were received yesterday by the Government:— . Seattle advisee that it is unable to obtain any information through the Commercial Pacific. All the harbour cables are gone, but the Commercial cables are trenched for several miles from the beach to the city. The last report, at 12.30 p.m., etatee that the local magnitude of the disaster grows hourly. Fires are raging in all directions, and water-mains have burst. The authorities are using dynamite to localise the conflagration. The Palace Hotel and SprockWe building were destroyed. The city is under martial law. All the troops have been called out. Xpreckles's building is an erection of nineteen storeys, aiul is perhaps the tallest in the city. The Palace Hotel is a very large and extensive building. A short bulletin just through from San Francieco say.s that the whole of the buildings along the water front are in flames, and there are no moans of arresting tho blaze.
The Post Office and Grand Opera House are destroyed, and the gasworks have blown up, starting other fires. . It is impossible to estimate the loss of life, but it is heaviest in the tenement x - difitrict.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12483, 20 April 1906, Page 7
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