APPALLING DISASTER.

Lake County Press, Issue 2115, 26 April 1906, Page 5

APPALLING DISASTER.

Disastrous Earthquake. San Francisco Doomed. Tho City iu Flames. The Situation Terrible. Martial Law Proclaimed. Thousands Hurled Into Eternity. Paralysing Scenes. Tho General Manager Pacific Cable Board haw handed Lhu following lelegnuns to the Blonder Advice has boon received of terrible disasters in Han Francisco, through earthquakes. Very little information obtainable. AH harbor cables gone. Magnitude of disaster grows. hires raging in all directions. Water mains burst. Palace Hotel and Bprcckel’s Buildings destroyed. City under martial law ; all troops called out. Short bulletin just through from San Francisco says the whole water front is in flames and the to is no means of arresting

fliovu, Tho Pont Office and Gram) Opeia House are destroyed. Tho gas works :tro blown up starting other fires. It is impossible to estimate tho loss of life, but it is very great. Tho latest build in from San Francisco states that tho firo is still raging, and tho entire city doomed. Every building in the business district, and nearly half the residential section is destroyed. No largo buildings are left standing. Over COO bodies have been recovered, and there has been further apalliug loss of life. The St. Agnes Insane Asylum has boon destroyed with tire majority of its inmates. The reports from tho interior are alarming.. Tho population of San Francisco in about i? 50,000. Tho Now York Journal’s correspondent states that the first shock tossed tho city like a feather In the wind making tho buildings sway like poplars in a storm. In throe minutes tho city was a mass of debris. Later. 200.000 Homeless. 20.000 Casualties, The Firo Beyond Control. General Fnnston telegraphs that 200,000 persons are homeless, and that food and tents arc scarce. All the Government buildings have been destroyed. Though many blocks wore dynamited throughout tho night tho flames overleap!, all obstacles, and tho firemen abandoned all hope of controlling the lire. Tho fashionable suburbs of Mall Park, and Burlinghamo and Nob Hill have been destroyed, and most of tho towns around the bay have suffered. The Chinese got into a fearful panic, rushed into the streets heating gongs, and collided with other foreigners. Fierce lighting ensued, which the troops suppressed at the point of the bayonet. Tho Daily Mail publishes an Oakland despatch which states that 10,000 persons have been killed, and an equal number injured. Two lady millionaires and leaders of Now York society have been ruined, their property being in San Francisco, ami uninsured. Latest. Fire Under Control, Losses, 50 Millions. Latest news states that the tiro is under contol, hut it is likely that the city south of Van Ness will bo destroyed. Tho Now York Times estimates tho total insurance losses at 50 millions. Men collecting the bodies of women cut off their lingers and pocketed their rings. They were caught in the act and shot.