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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
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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,
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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 '
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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
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