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TE UMBI Earthquake a tKe Gretes! D THIEVES ARE { The Dawn of Hope-1 Purpose of Carin be Bettere? LOSS OF LIFE RONS ABOVE SAN FRANCISCO Y General Government Has1 Issues Rations and Oakland, April 18.-Earthquake and fire to-day caused the greatest calamity California has ever known. In San Francisco alone, estimates on the loss of life vary from two hun dred to twenty-live hundred. The entire business portion of the city is in ruins, and the llames which, owing to lack of water, cannot be checked except by blowing up with dynamite buildings in their path, are still ?weeping through the city. It is utterly impossible to estimate the property loss accurately, though conservative estim?tes place the loss at over two hundred millions. Thou sands of people are homeless and many are huddled in thu parks and public squares, beside the household goods they were able to save. Thc city is under martial law and all downtown streets are patrolled by cavalry and infantry. Gen. Frede rick Foriston is in command. De tails of troops are guarding the banks. Most of the principal buildings have already been destroyed. Over thc scene of desolation hangs a dense pall of smoko. Fire burnt over an area of eight square miles, equal to ouc hundred city blocks. The first shook put the entire waterworks sys tem practically ?mt of commission. This added to thc horror of the situ ation. The dreadful earthquake shock came at precisely 5.18 o'clock this morning, the motion, apparently being from Fast lo West. Thc first upheave! of the earth was gradual, but in a few seconds it increased in intensity. Chimneys began to fall and buildings lo crai k, tottering on their foundations. People became panic-stricken and rushed into the streets, most of them in their night attire. They were met by showers of falling buildings, bricks, cornices and walls. Many were instantly crushed to death, others horribly mangled. Those who remained in doors generally escaped with their lives. It is believed more or less every family in the city sustained some loss. Tall steel frame structures stood the strain bette) ..ban biick buildings. Some of the ?locks and freight sheds along the water front slid into deep fissures which opened in fi I led-in ground near thc shore and the Union Ferry depot is irreparably injured. A portion of thc new city hall, which coat more than seven million, collapsed. Scarcely had the cartu ceased to shake when the fierce tires broke out simultaneously in many plaies. The tire department responded promptly, but found itself helpless, as the watermains had bien rendered useless by an underground movement. Firemen hilve resorted to dynamite. In an amazing short time fire swept the territory for two miles, consuming blocks of business houses, newspaper ?fricos, churches and hotels. Ky the latest information thc buildings of the California Examiner and The Chronicle, tho Merchants' Exchange, Palace and Valencia ho tels and other largo structures were destroyed by tire. Everything south of Market street, from Eighth street to the water front, and north of Market street from Sansome to Broadway is gone. Thc Western Union and Postal telegraph build? inga arc completely wrecked. To check the spread of the Hames LE EART nd Fire Comb estruciliorx of M ?HOT FOR ROBB he City is Being Clea ig for the Suffering, am d as Rapidly as the ? can Handle the Wot-H. THREE THOUSAND-PROPEF WRECKED FROM CENTER TO tens to Aid the Stricken Ci Supplies Army Tents and T a number of buildings are being de stroyed by dynamite. Practically all the wholesale district is bumed and tbe flames are spreading to the Hayes Valley district, thc residence portion of San Francisco. Fire Chief Sullivan is reported in a dangerous condition, both legs be ing broken. Ile is not expected to live. Reports from the cities near San Francisco show the destruction is general. Sauta Uosn, sixty miles north, is in flames, tho estimated damage being over a million dollars. The loss of life there is not known. At Napa many buildings are gone, tho scattered loss being over three hundred thousand dollars. The latest report from police head quarters shows the entire district, surrounded by Vallejo, Howard, Fast and Sansome streets, embracing practically the entire wholesale dis trict in San Francisco, has been swept by fire. The district bounded by Market, Eighth and Folsom streets has been devastated. In the latter district is included most of the city's finest and most substantial buildings. The area covered by the tl.ttnes to the present time is about eight square miles. Most ot the buildings untouched by llames had been greatly damaged by earthquake shei ks. The pecuniary l??vs .it thy* i hour ( I p. m., Pacific tune) is con servatively estimated :it two hundred million dollars. Oakland, April 18.- Reports from San Jose iiidiente the shock was severe there, buildings being demol ished. Much loss of life is reported. Reports received at 2.15 p, m., from Palo Alto say Stanford Uni versity is practically demolished. One student is reported to be killed. The telegraph companies have been forced to leave San Francisco and have established offices here. The Associated Press has arranged a messenger service across the bay. LOB Angeles, April 18.-An extra issued here at ft.30 this afternoon ; estimates the number of deaths in San Francisco at 2,500 persons. The ; magnificent new Union Trust Com ; pany building, eleven stories high, has been dynamited, i--?-, Throat Coughs i A tickling in the throat; hoarseness at times; a deep breath irritates it;-these are features of a throat cough. They're very de ceptive and a cough mix ? ture won't cure them. You want something that will heal the ir Parried membranes, enrica the blood ard tone up the system Scott's Emulsion is just such a remedy. It has wonderful healing and nourishing power. Removes the cause of j the cough and the whole system is given new strength and vigor .'. ,\ i StnJ fer frit ?amp't SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemist, ! 409-415 Pearl Street, New York jot. and ft.OO. A'.l druggtttt iiied to WorK [odern Times. ING THE DEAD. ired in Places for the i Conditions will \tttnorities ty with $1,000,000 Cash, Junks for Homeless. Oakland, April 18.-(C.45 p. m.) Another sharp earthquake shock has just been felt this side of the bay. lt lasted about five seoonds. A San Joe railroad man reports the insane asylum at Agnews is a total wreck, many inmates being killed. The ruins took fire soon after the collapse. Seven hundred per sons were in the building. This re port has been officially confirmed and it is added that scores of the 'ul ulates who escaped are roaming the country in a state of panic. The loss at Salinas is one million dollars. I Shocks are reported as far east as Hflzen, Nevada. There has been no earthquake in Southern California, and the shocks that caused the dam age in San Francisco were not felt south of Santa Barbara. Considerable damage from the earthquake is reported as having 00- 1 curred in Sacramento as well as in San Francisco. REVELATIONS OF SECOND DAY I San francisco, April i'd.-Every thing south of Market street to Twenty-third is gone, except the Mint nud the fire is still burning. Post office damaged by shock ami slightly by tire. Kverything north ol' .Mission street is entirely gone np to \*an Ness avenue, and past Van Ness west ot' Golden (-inte avenue up to Octavia street. Chinatown is wiped out, also Nob Hil!. Fire has crossed Van Ness avenue east of I nion, leaving only ruin in Us wake, i Nothing is left in the business dis I trict. Fire is now burning about Union ami Franklin, with prospects of continuing, with doubtful results. All thal is left now is bounded by Union, Van Ness, Golden Gale ave nue to Octavia, Hays and Filmore, over to Market. The S.tu Francisco mint, contain ing *3,0UO,U00 in coin and bullion, was saved only after heroic effort. The building is the only structure of like size that remains standing in the city. The total number of dead in all the California cities visited by the I catastrophe will probably reach ' 3,KOO, and the improvised hospitals j are unable to care for tho injured. If food supplies do not arrive from I outside within a few hours starva tion will adi! many victims to the al? 1 ready horrible death list of the earth quake and flames. In brief : City of San Francisco destroyed ; 'JU0,00U homeless ; not a . business building left standing. Firemen who go to San Francisco aro returned to their homes, being unable to render any assistance 011 account of lack of water. FURTHER PARTICULARS. San Francisco, April 19.-Despite the vigilance of police and soldiers many places were pillaged in the wholesale region. The liquor stores were broken into and vagabonds are lying in the streets. The ruin :r. the commission and the wholesale quaiters is complete, the flames of last night having com pleted the paralyzing work of the morning. Under the debris were killed and buried hundreds of horses hitched to vegetable wagons, which wero ready to receive the day's supplies. The dead horses were piled high and the wreokage blocked the streets until the advancing eon tl igration turned all that section of the town into a vast funeral |>yre. The new ferry building is shat tered. At the corner of Seventh and Howard streets a great lodging house took tire after the first shook, before the guests had escaped. There were few exits and nearly all the lodgers perished. To-day hundreds of firemen and rescuers are prostrated by the strain of the continual fight since early morning. In the crowds at many points people fainted and in some instances dropped dead of shook. The Mechanics' Pavilion was turned into a hospital with a corps nf one hundred physicians. It was later destroyed by the fire, but not until all the patients had been removed. Down on the harbor front the earth seems to have sunk from 6 to 8 inches and great cracks appear in the streets. The car tracks wete twisted into all shapes and the build ings before they were destroyed by fire, were seen to be out of plumb. The Hames swept in sheets across From street and the street cars and Southern Pacific rolling Btock, to gether with mail cars, were burned 1 to their truck wheels. Artillerymen from the Presido, with their supply wagons and the army commissary wagons, are aiding in getting the fleeing inhabitants and their baggage out of threatened quarte rs. All of San Francisco's best play houses, including the Majestic, Co lumbia, Orpheum and Grand Opera i Hou%o are a mass of ruins. The ' earthquake demolished them for all practical purposes and the fire com plated the work of demolition. The 1 handsome Rialto and Casserty build ings were bumed to the ground, as was everything in that district. The scene at the Mechanics' Pa- ; villon during the early hours and ; until noon, when the injured and dead were removed because of the threatened destruction of the build ing by fire, was ono of indescribable sadness. Sisters, brothers, wives and sweethearts searched eagerly for BOm6 missing dear one. Thousands of persons hurriedly went through 1 the building, inspecting the cots ou which the sufferers lay, in thc Rope thal they would Hud some loved ono that was missing. The dead were placed in one por- 1 lion of the building and the remain der was de voted to hospital purposes. After the li* . forced the nurses and physicians le ' sert the building the eager crowds I ..lowed them to tho Presidio and the children's hospitals, whore they renewed their search for missing relatives. Up to a lute hour moro than 750 ' persons who were seriously injured by the earthquake and the fire had been treated at the various hospitals throughout the city. Thc stereotyp ^rs and the pressmen ( of The Examiner and The Call, as '' soon as the shock was felt, rushed out of the buildings and found that ' the coffee house at Stephenson and (Concluded on Page 3 ) Head Ache Sometimes? 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NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to an order of the County Hoard of Eduoation of Oconee County, South Ca rolina, an election will be held at tho sclnnd house in Ebonczor School District, No. 69, on SATURDAY, thc 28th day of April, 1906, on tho question of levying an annual tax of four mills for school purposes on the real and personal pro perty within the said Ebenezer School District, No. 0i), in audition to the taxes collected for school purposes now au thorized by law; that said election shall be conducted as provided by law for tho oonduct of general elections; that at said election eaoh elector in favor of said proposed levy shall cast a ballot containing the word '"Yes" printed or written thereon, and each electoi opposed to said levy shall cast a ballot containing the word "No" printed or written thereon. C. II. WH?TMIRE, J. C. MULKEY, J. C. CHANDLER, Board of Trustees of Ebenezer School District, No. Oft. April 10, 1?00. 15-17 MASTER'S SALES. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, I COUNTY OF OCONKE. > In tho Court of Common Pleas. PURSUANT TO DECREES OK THE ABOVE NAMED COURT, in tho case named below, 1 will oller for sale, to the highest bidder, iu front of tho Court House, at Walhalla, S. C., on MONDAY, tho seventh day of MAY, 1906, between tho legal hours of sale, the ?racts of land below described: Campbell Courtenay, Plaintiff, against Esther Morgan ot al., Defendants. All that certain piece, parcel or tract of laud, situate, lyiug and being in Oconee county, State of South Carolina, on the west sido of Little River, beginning ou a rock in tho west bank ol' Little River, running np said river to rock X:'. on W. Pondley's line, thence S. W. to post oak 3X, thence X. W. to oak .".X, thence south to rock .SX, thoncu west to white oak on Perry's line, thence S. to .spanish oak :iX. at the head of branch, thenee down said braned to the beginning corner, con taining twenty-live acres, more or less, adjoining lauds of Sarah M. Morgan. Win. Eendley and others. ALSO, Ail that piece, parcel or tract of ?and, situate, lying and hoing in tho county and state aforesaid, on branches n( Lit tle river, beginning on h H. tr. 3X and runniug south so, west 7_' p. to P. < ?. :;x. thence down S. -J.? K, 140 p. to white oak ;>X, thence X. 50 E. down the branch .', ) p. to mouth of line branch, thei.ee up .said branch M. 80, W. p. to poplar on side ot branch ;iX. thence X. 4.1 W, to rock :JX. thence X. 40 W. to beginning corner, containing forty-live acres, more or loss, adjoining lands of X. M. Crain, Perry and others, being the same body nf laud deedod to Sarah M. Morgau by A. H. Kelley. Torms of Salo: CASH. That in thc ovent of tin; purchaser or purchasers to comply with the terms of sale within five days from day of sale, the Master is to ro advertise and re-sell said premises on tho following salesday or some conven ient salesday thereafter, at tho samo place aud on tho same terms as hereto fore set out, at tho risk of tho former purchaser or purchasers, and that ho continue so to do until ho has found a purchaser or purchasers who will com ply with tho terms of sale. Purchasers to pay extra for papers. Sold at risk of W. G. Perry, former purchaser. W. O. WHITE, Master Oconee County, S. C. April ll, 1900. 15-18 NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT AND DISCHARGE.--NOTICE IS hereby given that thc undersigned will make application to D. A. Smith, Esq., Judge of Prohato for Goonoo county, in the State of South Carolina, at his office at Walhalla Court House, on Friday, the 4th day of May, 1006, at ll o'clock In thc forenoon, or as soon thereafter as said application eau be heard, for leave to make final settlement of the estate of K. M. Prince, deceased, and obtain lina! discharge as Adminis tratrix of saitl estate. MHS. S. C. PRINCE, (.Qualified Administratrix of tho Estato of E. M. Prince, deceased. April 4, 1U06. 14-17 INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, DISTRICT OF SOUTH CAROLINA, j Deputy Collector's Ollioo, i Greenville, S. C., April 14, 1000, "VTOTICE is hereby given that tho fol Ul lowing described property, having boon sei/cd eu tho 18th nay of April, 1900, near Walhalla, South Carolina, for viola tion of Section ;?2fl0 R. S. U. S., parties claiming tho same must filo bond in tho Collector's Office within thirty days from the date hereof or the same will be de clared forfeited to tho United Statos: Ono black horse molo, ono mouse-col ored horse mule, ono 2-horso wagon, ono set double harness, ono lantern, one cup, ono funnel, ono hammer, two chairs, fifty gallons of corn "vhiskoy. Seized from Willi? id B. Whitworth. JOHN P. SCRUGGS, Deputy Collector, 3d Division, District of South Carolina. April IS, 1906. 16-18 flOlEYSKlDNEYCURE Makes Kidneys and Bladder Right