ASIATIC QUARTER DESTROYED.
100,000 PEOPLE HOMELESS.
PLEASURE RESORT SWEPT INTO THE SEA.
NEW YORK, April 19. I Tho shipping at San Francisco was ! less damaged than was at first reported. [ Tho Asiatic quarter of the city was i destroyed. I The Jesuit Church and the College of 1 St. Ignatius, which cost two million .'dollars, wero demolished. Tho University of California is safe. Four looters have been shot. The mint is reported to be afire. A hundred thousand people are homeless. Outside help is arriving from all ! directions. ) The Cliff House pleasure resort was | swept into tho sea. j Th© damage to property is estimated at between £30,000,000 and £40,000,000. I 'Hi© fire insurance risks amount to ! fifty millions. British insurance offices ! are th© hardest hit.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12484, 21 April 1906, Page 9
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