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ESTABLISHED EST If AWFUL CALAMITY. San Francisco Destroyed by an Earthquake. AND THE SIRE FIEND. Without tbe Slightest Warning the Peo .ple Are Forced to Pace an Awful Death in The Streets or Their Wrecked Homes, Fire Adds to Horror. Earthquake and Are on Wednesday '?caused the greatest calamity Califor nia has ever known. San Francisco was almost destroyed and thousands -of people in tbat elty were killed or hurt. A dispatch from Sac Francisco ?-says the dreadful earthquake shock -came without warning at precisely 5.13 o'clock, its motion apparently being from east to west. At first the upheaval of the earth was gradual, "tout in a few seconds it increased in intensity. Ohimcevs began to fall, and buildings to crack, tottering on their foundations. The people be came panio sticken and rushed into the. streets- most of them In their night attire. They were met by showers of falling buildings, cornices, bricks and walls. Many were instant ly crushed to death, while others were ?dreadfully margied. Those who re mained indoors generally escaped with their lives, though scores were hit by "detached plastor, pictures and articles thrown to the fljor by the shock. It is believed that more or less less was -sustained by nearly every family in the city. The tall' steel frame structures - .stood the strain better than brick buildings, few of them being badly -damaged. The big eleven story Mo nado office building, in course of con ?struct!on, adjoining the Palace Hotel, was an exception, however, its rear wail collapsing, many cracks being made across its front. Some of tbe <djcks and freight sheds aioog the wa ter fi out slid into the bay. Deep Ss-.u es opened In the filled-in ground near the shore and the Union ferry ?depot was injured. Its high tower -still stands, but will have to be torn ?down. A portion of the new City Hull, which cost over seven million dollars, collepied, the roof sliding into the court yard and smaller towers tumbling down. The great dome was moved but did not fail Tbe ne* pom . -tffioe, one of the flue-t in the United States, was badly shattered. Tae "Valencia Hotel, a four story wooden building, sank into the basement a .pileof splintered timbers, under which were pinned many dead and dying oc cupants of tbe house. The basemeLt was full of. water and some of the helpless victims were drowned. Scarcely had the earth ceased to shake when fires broke out simultane ously in many places. The lire de partment promptly responded to the :hrst call for aid, but it was found taat tbe water mains j bad been rendered useless by tbe underground move ment. Fanned by a light bret za, tbe ?imes.qulckly spread and soon many blocks were seen to be doomed. Tuen dynamite was resorted to and the sound of frequent exploions added to the terror of the population. All eflorts to stay the progress of the fire, however, proved futile. The south side of Market street from Ninth street to Bay was soon ablazj, the Are ?covering a belt two blocks wide. On this, the main thoroughfare of trie city, are located many of the finest edifiios In tho city, including the "Grant, Parroit, Fiood, "Call" "Ex aminer," and Monadncck buildings, the Palace and Grand Hotels, and numerous wholesale bouses. At tue same time the c jmmeroial establish ments and banks north of Market street were burning. Tne burning district in this section of the oity ex . tended from Sansome street to the water front, and from Market street to Broadway " Fires also broke out In the Mission and the entire city seemed to be in fltmes. The flames, fanned by the rising bre i:, swept down the main streets until within a few hundred feet of tbe Jerry depot, the high tower of which stooo at a dangerous angle. The big wholesale grocery establishment of Weelman, Peck & Oo., was on fire from celler to roof, a-d the heat was so oppressive that passengers from the ferry boats were obliged to keep olose to the water's edge in order to get past tbe burning structure. It was Impossible to reach the center of the city from the bay without skirting the shore for a long distance so as to get entirely around the burning dis trict. Ac 8 o'clock the Southern Pacific efflj als refused to allow any more passengers from Trans bay points to land and sent back those already on the boats. Toe ferry and train ser vice of the Kay route was entirely abandoned, owing to damage done the power house by the earthquake at Emeryville. ! At 9 o'clock Wednesday morning a I thousand men from the Presidio ai-1 lived down town to patrol tne city streets. The Thirteenth infantry, 1,000 ?tren^ arrived frcrn Angel Is land, a little later, and went on pat rol duty. Tbe soldiers haye been or dered to shoot down thieves caught in the act of rob Die g the dead and to guard with their lives the millions of aollars' worth of property whiob has ?been placed in the streets that it may escape from the ravages of the flames. Mayor Schmitz, who has established 569. his cfflce at polios headquarters, has named a committee of safety, com prising man? prominent citizens Mayor Schmitz sent out word to the bakeries and milk stations through out the city tbat their food supplies must be harbored for the homeless. Tents have been placed in every park in the city, and those?who have lost their homes will be given food: and shelter. Thousands of people are homeless and many are huddled into the parks and public squares beside the household goods 'they were able to save. The city is under martial law, and all the down town streets are pat rolled by cavalry and infantry. De tails of troops are also guarding the banks. Most of tbe principal build ings have already been destroyed and others are in imminent dargar. Over all the scene of desolation hangs a cense pall of smoke, j It will be many days before tbe complete story of tbe ruin wrought I by tbe double calamity of earthquake and fire that visited San Francisco will be written and then there will remain untold countless tales of woe. The exact loss of life will never be kaowo, as hundreds of unfortunates have been Incinerated In the flames, which made tbe rescue of those bur ied under the toppling steeples and falling walls impossible. Temporary morgues were improvised at many points only to be razed by the flames/ Tbe olty resembles one vast shambles with the red glare of fire throwing weird shadows across the worn and panic stricken faces of the homeless who are wandering tbe streets or sleep ing on piles of matresses and clothing in tbe parks and on the sidewalks in those districts not yet reached by the fire. Thousands have fled the cit?. Forgetting for a moment the terrible sufferings, physical and financial, that trails iu the wake of the disaster, the scene presented by the flames is one of unspeakable grandeur. The scene at the Mechanics' pavil ion during the early hours and until noon, when the injured and dead were removed because of the threatened de struction of the building by fire, was one of indescribable sadness. Sisters, brothers, wives and sweethearts searched eagerly for some missing dear one. Thousands of persons hurriedly went through the building inspecting the cots on which the sufferers lay, in the hope tbat they would find som? loved one that was missing. The dead were placed in one portion of the building and tbe remainder was dtv. ted to hospitr.l purposes. After tbe tire forced the nurses and physicians to desert the building, the eager crowds followed them to the presidio and the children's hospital where they renewed their eeaioh for mis-dng rela tlves. Up ito a late hour Thursday af ternoon more than 750 persons who who were seriously injured by the eartl q lake jand tne fire had been treated at the various hospitals LhrougiiOut the city. A falling wall f yom one of the dyna mlted buildings on Mission stre-.t eruehed out th* life of Fin-man M *x Fenner, while many otl:.er fire fighter* mit a like fate. Through ail toe streets automobiles aid express wa gons are hurrying, carrying dead and injured to morgues and hospitals At the morgue in the hall of justice, fifty bodies lie Tne flames rapidly ai prOiched this building and the work of removing the bodies to Jack:on square began. While tbe soldiers ai<d police were carrying the dead to what appeared safe places, a shower of bricks from a building dynamited to check the flimes, Injured many of the workmen, and sent soldiers In procession hurrying to hospitals. Tue wurk of removing the bodies shopped and the remainder cf the dwd were left to possible cremation in the mor gue. The debris killed and buried hundreds of horses* hitched to vegeta ble wagons wnich were ready to re ceive the day's supplies. The dead nbnes were piled high and the wreck age blrckfd Y.he streets uutil the ad vancing colAigration turned all thai motion of the town into a vast funer al pyre. From the Barbary coast, the hord of viel ms and criminal thao infe.it tbat quarter peured forth and started sarly in the evening to loot streets ?*nd rob the de^d. Fearing sucht fiendish climax to this day of horrors, J Mayor Schmilz and Police Chief D.rtan i issued orders for the soldiers to kill all who engaged in such work. Be fore the eyes of an Associated Press representative, tkree thieves were shot In the back and fatally wounded j in the burning comm-.rc'.d district. D ..spite tbe vlgilac.ca of police and soldiers, many places were pillaged in the wholesale regions. Liquor stores were broken into and vagabonds are lying in the streets. Toe ruin in the commission and the wholesale q tr iers is c jrcplaie, the tlxmes W?uues day night having completed the par alyzing work of the morning. Grt mailon Ol l'Oe D -sd. At San Francisco two hundred bod ies found in the Ptorera district, south of Shannon street, In the /lem ity of the Union Works, were crema ted at the Six-mile House Saturday \y order of Coroner Walsh. Cremation was deemed absolutely necessary to prevent disease. Ia the majority o; cases identification was impossible owing to the mutilation of the fea tures. The city has been devided into ??anitary districts and t quads of search ers for bodies of victims have been sent out to every quarter. The ruins of the bumed buildings in the busi ness and the old residence seotion have sufflji entHy cooled to make the search possible. Cadet Ship Hinko. The Oo"r!t' de Smefc de Naever, a OVJet Bftlf?g "hip uued by the B3!r'an government for training officers"for the ?cvernment servlc, foundered in the B iy of Biscay April 18, with a loss of 35 lives, including the captain and tbe t.-Uoer commanding tbe cadets. The cadets included the sons of many prominent Belgians. Twenty-six sur vivors ';f the wreck were rescued by the French bark Dunkerque. v OBANGhEBiniG, A CITY IN RUINS. Beautiful Santa Rosa Has Not a Building Left ONE THOUSAND DEAD. As La^t Great Seismic Tremor Spent Its Force the City Toppled to the Ground. Many Other Towns and Hamlets Badly Shak en Up. Reports from the interior of Gal-' Ifornia are moat alarming, Santa Rosa, one of the prettiest cities of the state, in the prosperous county of Sonoma, is a total wreck. There are 10,000 homeless men, women and children, huddled together. The loss of life is not to be estimated. It will probably reach one thousand. As the last great seismic tremor spent its force in the earth, the whole badness portion tumbled into ruins. The mam street is piled many feet deep with the fallen buildings. Not one business building is left intact The destruction Includes all the coun ty buildings. The four story court house, witia its high dome, is merely a pile of broken masonry. Nothing is left. Identification is impossible. What was not destroyed by th earthquake has been swept by fire Until the flames started there wa bope of saving the residence dis trict. It was soon apparent that any such idea that might have been en tertained was to be abandoned. Tnis was aprehended by the citi zens and they prepared to desert their homes. Not even their house hold goods w?re taken. They made for the fields and hills to watch the destruction of one of the most beau tiful oitles of the West. Mesiengers bring the saddest tld b:gs of tbe destruction of Healdsburg, G.-.iseiJrtlle, Oolvardale, Hopland and Ualah. Tbis report takes in the courtry as far north as Mendocino and Lake counties, and as far west as the Pacific Ocean. These are frontier counties and nave not as laige towns as farther south. In every casr the loss of life and property U shocking. KILLED IN A HOTEL. A report from Sao Jose, 50 mile* '.' U'r< of San Francisa\ says that thp Vcndome hotel annex was wrrcksd, 10 or 15 persons being killed. Tne Dj herty block was burned and one wo man was killed. Dr. M'iGrow was killed and his wife Injured. The mayor deput'zfd 500 men to war.oh property. It is estimated that 50 p rs " s were killed in San Jose. The poscoffice1 w*8 half wrecked. Tbe First Presbyterian church was de molished and the court house Is a wreck. Passengers arriving from many other cit ies in California, bring talrs of d ath ann dlsas*f r, Santa Cruz Monterey, Gilroy and H 'lister are fatally wrecked. The death list at Santa Ooz is reported to he large. A reporo say tba' Santa R *a Is a vr? ck, ten tbou-and being homelsss Tile loss will probably reach into the t.oou-ands. Main street is piltd many feet deKp witn fallen buildings. Not ?.me bu>tn:.'trs building is intact. Th four story ouurt hou^e is a pile of broken masonry. I entification' of the dead is Impossibl*. What wa* not destroyed by earthquake wa^ swept by lire. Citizens fljd to tbe Qins atd tieid^ to waccn the re>truc tlon of Santa Rva Toe water sys tem was de*troved by tne earl! qutke. BUKIED IN THE RUINS. News c mos from N les, a small town in tbe Santa Clara valley, about 15 miles from San Jose, stating that 5?ie eartl q'iake nem"llB!:ed the sf-atv insane asylum at Agoews, near Sin Jose, burying many of tr-.e inmates in ;-hP ruins. It is stated chat S in Jo^e sufl. r.d severely. Tjis news wa; bought by an automobile from Sar J se to points wiiic'\ c tnomuQlcatioo :.ad been established to L^s Angrles temporal ily. i Mayor McAler, of Los A nereis, ha? flled ro'-ssages to Miy.r Scimltz, of San Frant-ciso.'i; (ffrriog to render any assistance p- s Ne and asking for Advice as to tbe situation, and whav aid may be needed. President Sum merland of the city council, called a upeclsl meeting of that body, and forwarded a telrgram to the mayor of San Francisco, off-ring in tbe nanc of Los Angeles to render any aid possible. B)th the mayor of Lo Angeles and the president of the city council request the Associated Press -,o communicate, If possible, their tenders of assistance, as they do not expsct to be able to roach them through the ordinary channels of communication. SHOCKS AT SALINAS. At 5.15 o'clock Wednesday morning three shecks of earthauake sh^ok Salinas, lasting respectively 5, 3 and 42 seconds. They came from the northeast and sou'1.west. The dam age is 82,500,000. No lives were lost in Salinas. Am ing the bulldlng3 destroyed in Sail 3 a." arc the Fjrd and Stanbury T7m.? rr?nr u. -J ?-*-?O I - -J (?fciWUJ, ? ? "--I ?J. sonic building, the K lights of Pythian building, Port and Irvings etort. Lj g;i.n C-olery, Odd Fellows building, City Hall and several smaller build ings. Every window In the city was broken. Ohimneys toppled over and crashed through roofi. Sprecales Sugar Factory.! three miles from town, was destroyed, causing damage i S. C, THURSDAY, APR of $1,500. Too high sohools batldlDg was wrecked. Several stores lost their entire stocks. At 2.25 o'clock this afternoon, another shook was ex perienced but no lives were lost. Several men, women and children were cut about the face by flying glass. There is Intense excitement. SWEPT INTO THE SEA. From the Cliff House oomes word that the great pleasure resort and show place of tbe San Francisco which stood on a foundation of solid rock has been swept Into the sea. Not a thing stands to tell where the monster stone building once stood. It has been leveled to the foundation and only the rock lining'Jibe seacoast remains intact. ' Twenty towns have reported loss of life of from five to one hundred each. Outside of San Francisco the death list will run high into the thousands. As reports come in from the country about tbe already intense horror be comes even more intense, if that were possible. Yet there aro but few who have folded their hands. There is too much to do?too much; suffering to fight and too many bodies to bury. KILLED BY THE GUARDS. Prominent member of the Kallef Committee Shot Down. At San Francisco H. C. Tilden, one of the most prominent members of the general relief committee, was shot and almost Instantly killed in his automobile\early this morning at Twenty-second and Guerrero streets while returning from Menlo Park. He was shot by men supposed to be members of the citizens' patrol. Hugo Alltschul, a coachman who was In tbe automobile, was cut in the face by a bullet and another ball pierced the seat and struck in the oack of R. G. Seaman, acting lieuten ant of tbe second company of the signal oorp8.. The fore? of the bullet was spent and Seaman suffered no in jury. Tilden was a prominent commission merchant, a member of Pardee's staff, and was one of the foremost workers in the general relief work. He bad taken his three children and a nufte from the Fourteen Mile house, where they had been since the earth quake, to Menlo Park, where ha has a summer cottage. His automobile had been used as an ambulance in convey ing sick and wounded to the hospitals and the Red Cross flig -was displayed on his car. Besides this he had the Red Cross Insignia on his right arm. According to Seaman, six men stood in the middle of tbe road at Twenty second and Guerrero streets, seperat ing when the car got within 50 feet of them. When the car was within 10 .'eet of the guard, Seaman claims, the guard began spooling without warning or challenge and kept up firing af &er the car had passed them uTue machine bad gone about 50 feet past tbe patrol," said Seam*:., ''when the car stopped suddenly. Til den, who was operating the car. feli t'vtardme, saying. 'Well, they got me?ubey killed me.' Ha then drop ped back in the seat and rolled our- of toe car. I sprang up aud fired five shots inq.iiok succession at those who were stln shooting behind us. A doc tor came running from a house near by and af ler cxamiulcg Tilden said he was dead. ' Several policemen came running up and arrested three of the m. u who did tne shooting. Tney were turned over to Gm Funstcn." The r.hrte men under arrest are E. S. Biyneton, a telephone in-pector in bhe employ cf the PiClfic States Tele pnone company; George W. S.mmons aiid Malcolm Vance. They are all young men and members of the citi 7?n'* patrol. Boyneton declares thai he did not s e the R d Cross flag on Tildcn's car and when the latter die mtitip when chslbnged he fired Thecoaohman in tbe car t hen began Shooting and Simmons and Vanca re plied. Ti e killing of TJlden has ere aitd the greatest indignation. Gov. U..-J w*r<l't> McBBjtres. Gov. Hoy^a'd Friday sent these telrgramg ;.f Kyrrpi hy: "Ma;or Scnmuz, San Francisco, Cal. "W.-rdn ein not express tbe- sympa thy wiiic.i the people of my State fee: for your surely stnckeu cl y. It witi be fnar.ed a labor oi love for us to aid y.ju in all that lies In nur no*er. "D. C. Heyward, 1 GjVcruor." "Hon. George C. Pardee, Governor, Sa raixiento, Cal. "The appalling disaster which has befallen your State to..ches our hearts .'teply. Accept our slncsrest sympa thy In the tcrible ordeal wblo.i is yours. We are now taking strps to givo practloal expression to the heart felt sympathy which we f*H for you. "D. C. Heywaud. '"Governor." A White Klend. Evan Waters, a white man 20 years of age, an employe of a shovel gang working on the outskirts of Allan*.a, has beea locked In the Tower charged with criminally assaulting Miss Ruoh Weaver, the fifteen year-old daugh ter of O. O. Weaver, a well known tinner oi Atlanta The father of the young girl found Waters when a posse jf clt!zin8 of the Grant Park neigh borhood were scouring the woods looking for h.'m and out for their prompt action and strong persuasion with roughly. Waters denied tbe c-harge. Seventy Drowned. Dlspatcdes received from R\vjivik, Icvland, state that three Iceland fisherman boats sank during the re cut storm and seventy of the crew were drowned. EL 26* 1906. FIRE BURNED OUT And Stricken City Sees One Ray of Hope. LOSES VEBY HEAVY. Thirty Thousand Houses Are Destroyed in San Francisco Alone and One Thonsand More in Balance of the State. Loss of Life Two Thousand. A dispatch- Friday night said San Francisco's darkest hour has dawned into a day of hope. Its time of over whelming disaster and peril has ended and Its future is now a subject of gen eral consideration. The fire is practically under oontrol. A clear sky over the mission district shows that the fire there has been ex tingulshed. The snread of the flames toward the western addition, the best part of the city remaining, has been stayed, and the only portion of tbe conflagration that demands the atten tion of the firemen is that extending from the Nob Hill section down to tbe north-western part of the water front. The western addition danger was averted at 2.30 o'clock Friday morn ing by the use of gun cotton, dyna mite and two streams of water. The explosives were handled by the chief gunner of of the Mare Island navy yard and his accomplishments proved him to be a master of his profession. The fire at San Franolsco was stop pad, oi practically burnt Itself out on Friday afternoon, and for tbe first time since the first earthquake shocks at half-past five o'clock on Wednesday morning, tbe people of the stricken city had a breathing spell, and some sort of estimate of the disaster. Oae thing is certain the oity of San Fran Cisco is practically destroyed, and will have to be rebuilt. It is estimated that at least three fourths of the oity has been wiped out by the earthquake and Are together. Tbere is ten square miles of ruins and fully thirty thousand h >uses of various kinds have been destroyed in thecitj of San Franolsoo alone. 0;h-?r olties and towns have a'so suffered severely. The entire loss in the State will amount to ?300 000.000 In money and the houses destroyed will number at least forty thousand. The money loss in San Francisco Is something like 8200,000,000. The city is no* under martial law, 3,000 regular troops from the Presidio acting as policemen, stop ping thievery and doing all sorts of rescue and relief work. It'ls estimated that tbe loss of life in San Francisco will reaoh at least one thousand when all the returns are In. At this time tbe people are so badly soattered that it Is almost im possible to get any where near the correct figures. Tbe loss of life In the rest of the State will reach a thousand more, whic'i will make the total loss of life two thousand. Hcs p tal and improvised asylums are able, with difficulty, to care for the injur ed, of whom hundreds have been treated. Gen. Fanston, who is in command of tbe United States troops in that district, sent tbe following telegram to the war department on Friday: "We need thousands of tents a id all the rations that can be sent. Busi ness portion of city is destroyed and about one hundred thousand people are homeless. Loss of life probably one thousand. Best part cf the resi dent district not vet burned." After dark on Friday thousands of persons were maklDg tbler way wltb olankets and scanty provision to the Goldeu Gate park for shelter. Those in homes In Mayes valley piled house hold goods In the street from where thoy were carted by trucks and aut:> mobiles to the outskirts of the city E?erybody In San Francisco who can is prepared to leave the city, bellev i g the town will be totally destroyed D)wn town everything is in ruins. Not a business huuse is left standing. Theaters haveba.inorumbled. News paper p ants are unless. Oa every side 11 death and suffjrlng. The country between M.mtrey, Ci3 vrovllle and Tajaro shows unmistak ?b!e Blims of the terrible wrencalog yesterday in upheaval of earth. Great ?dnkd extending along railroad tracks tts far as Dae eye can reaoh, running from four to six feet In depth, have been left on tbe surface of tue eartn, mute testimony of the power of the internal forces. For a distance of nearly a mile, the road has sank Into the earth. Between?Castroviile and Monro mud geysers have been in cited into action, showing a hot blu Ish colored mud to the height of from ten to fifteen feet. Between Seaside and Belmont railroad tracks are twisted until all resemblance to tracks have disappeared. The destitution and suffering is lndetcrlbable. Women ana children ?ho bad comfortable homes a few days ago slept several nights?if sleep came at all?on hay on the wharveB, on the Baud lot3 near North Beach, some of them under the little tents made of sheeting which poorly protected them from the chilling ocean winds. The people in the parks are posdbly better off in the matter of shelter, fur they left their homes better pro pared. Instruction? were inaueu u> Mayor Schmitz Friday to break opau e?ery store containing provisions and to distribute them to the thousands u.ider police supervlson. Toe work of relief was started ear 1/ Friday. A big bakery in the saved district started Its ovens and arrang ed to bake 50,000 loav-s of bread be fore night. Thousands of people were In line Friday morning before tbe California street bakery. Tbe police and mlli-arv were present in force and each person was allowed only one loaf. Tbe homeless people in tha parks and vacant lots were provided. For as l?oeedllv as possible. All the stores containing provisions bas been seizsd by the authorities. In no other way could the distressed peo ple been fed. # Three relief stations for tbe home less have already been established by the general committee. The stations are temporary home of homeless. Car avans of provisions are now on their way to the three relief stations. In the meantime the hills and beaches of San Francisco look like an Immense tented oity. Not alone are the parks the places of refugees, but every large vacant lot in the safe zones bas been preempted and even the cemeteries are crowded. A well known young lady of social position, when asked Friday where Bbe bad spent the night, replied: 1 'On a grave.1' A few of tne families who could se cure willing expressmen are possessors of cooking stoves,' but over 95 per cent, of the refugees are doing their cooking on little camo tires made out of briez or stone. Kirchen utensil* tbat last week wou>d have been re garded with centeocpt are today ar ticles of high value. Many of the homeless people are in posses sion of comfortable clothing and bed-covering j but the great bulk of them are in i need. The grass Is their bed and their daily clothing their only protection against the penetrating fog of the ocean or tbe chilling dew of the morning. Fresh meat disappeared Wednesday morning aud canned goods and breadstuff's are the only vlccuals in evidence. The common destitution and suffer ing have wiped out all social, financial and racial distinctions. The man who last Tuesday was a prosperous mer chant is occupying with his family a little plot of ground tbat adjoins the open air homes of a laborer. The white man of California bas forgotten his antipathy to the Asiatic race and is maintaining friendly relations jg-th his new Ohintse and Japanese noftbors. The sooiety belle who, Tuesday night was a butterfly of fashion at tbe Grand Opera performance, was assisting some factory girl inlihe preparation of hum ble daily meals. The family who bad had foresight to lay in the largest st( ck of foodstuffs on the first day of the disaster Is rated highest in the scale of wealth. Next to viewing the many pquare mile3 of ruins that only made Sin Franoisoo a oity, no better realm tlon of the ruin tbat has come to that place oan be gained than by visiting the refugee camps located in the dls trlcts whloh were untouched by tbe dimes. G?lden Gate park was the. mecca of the destitute. This Im mense playground of the municipality has been converted lnt ) a vast mush room city tbat hears striking resem bianco to the fleeting towns located on the border of a government reser vation about to be opened to pubil: settlement. THROWN a CROSS ROOM. ______ Gives His Expeirlonco in tbe San Franoisoo Earthquake. Albert H. Gould of Chioago, was one of three persons to arrive in Los Angeles on the first train from Sin Francisco after the earthquake. "I was asleep oa the seventh floor of the Palace hotel," he said, "at the time of the flrat earthquak. I was thrown out of bed and half way across the room, Immediately realiz ing the import of the occurrence and fearing that the building was about to collapse, I made my way down six flights of stairs and into tbe main corridor. 1 was the first guest to ap pear. The clerks and hotel empluy es were running like mad men. With in two minutes after I had reached ??.he corridor, other guests hr-gaa to fl jck into the court. Most all wore night clothing only. Men, women a d children stood as tnough fixed. Children and wom?.n cried. Tue men .vere hardly less aft cted. "I returned to my room and got ray clothing; then walked to the offices of tne Western Union in my paj-ima and bare feeti to telegr.apb to my wife IuLjs Augeies. 1 found the teh grapbers ou outy, but all the wires were down. I sat down on the side walk and picked the broken glas3 cut if the soles cf my feet, and put on my clothes. All this, I suppose, took -wenty minutes. Within tbat time, below the Pala;e hotel, buildings for more than three blocks were a ma-.s of flames, which spread to other build ings. " People by the thousands were cowded around the ferry station, fhey olawed at the iroa gates like io many maniac i. Tney "OL.'ht to oreak the bars and failing in that, turned on each other. After a mad dening delay, we got aboard the boat and crossed the bav." Florence Wins. The board of dlreotors of the re formatory school for Juvenile effand ers met in Columbia on Tuesday and received bids for the location of I the institution. Several localities made offers, but that of Florence appeared to be the best. That was fifty acres of land in suburbs of tbe city and 04, 000 cash, and this wa3 accepted, pro vided the boird, after a visit, scould Had tbe location suitable. SaaFafx.-f a Duo tor. Dr. Charles F. Tagga.t, of Los ? ? mflra ?u " 1? J .v- . -? ,. , ..... . ? .,5k_.3 .ilw i.^.^uj.,(v. Qi aCoipSui. nurses at the Hearst Relief Hospital In the Crocker Grammar School, on Page 8tr- et, near Baker, San Francis co, was instantly killed Sunday. An autcmitic revolver dropped out of nis pocket, was discharged and the bullet p.sscd through his heart. Dr. Taggart'was one of California's prom inent physicians. $1.00 PER ANNUM. SPLITS STATES. Prohibition a Warm Political Is sue in Maine and Texas. TRYING TO DODGE IT. Representatives of These States at Washington Are Not Inclined to Discuss the Question. People Divided on the Efficiency of Prohibition. The prohibition question appears to be cutting curious capers in different parts of the country, judging from the stories told by the statesmen of the respective states says a dispatch from Washington. Now, there's good Maine. With the exception of Rs presentative Littlefleld, you couldn't get a senator or representative from that state to express his views for nubllcatlon for lovo, or money. Why? Because the question is loaded. Then there's grand old Texas, at the other end of the country. Her statesman in congress avoid the question the same as they would a mad dog. Of course it is just as bad among the South Carolina representatives. The only man from thr ^te who will talk at aU is "Pitch Ben Tiil man. He gives voice to his convic tions regardless of how they harmon-,, ize with public opinion. Ia the recent spring election in Maine, according to the statements of politicians of that state here, a number of Republican cities went Democratic because the Democrats openly opposed prohibition and de nounced it as a fake and as producing mere - hypocritical violations of law and evasions of 'truth than anything ever known. Governor Cobb himself has come out against prohibition a? operated in that state, and it is said to be quite certain that Demccrats in state convention will make the fight on the issue of turning to the license plan of selling whiskey. They claim to have the sympathy of the maj irity of the cities and towns, althougn the cuntry districts may be against them. The claim is boldly made that under the present laws the state is drluged with blind tiger wbJakey from Canada and elsewhere and that there has not been the slightest de crease In drunkenness. The people, it is asserted, pay out large sums of money for whiskey and sirung drinlc brought in by express and freight, -Mile the ligut drinks are shut out. Propositions are pending to put out a plxtform showing wide discrimination in future laws In favor, of beer and wines and making the tax on the strictly ardent spirits heavy, the belief being that this will encourage one class of drink in a legitimate way at the expanse of the other. Down in Texas the Democrats are terribly split up over whether the question of prohibition for the entire state is to be made an issue in the coming campaign or whe ther the ex isting local option laws ehalt be allow ed to stand as they are. A f?Ctiou of Democrats has r.rgan.'zsd to demand prohibition in the party p'atform, while others say that this must not be allowed. Tneantl-prohlbltloidsts de clare that the teetotalers and the whiskey Interest are working togeth er againt the brewers and wine.?pro ducers. "The whiskey people," said a Texas congressman here a day or two ago, "are selling about as much whiskey in the dry counties of the state as they evsr did ty means of express and freight, while the men who make beer and wine fiud their products shut out by reason of the fact that these drinks are too bulky '.0 be handled by the blind tigers. There is a genuine sentiment spring ing up in toe state to change this and give the light d rinks the advantage in law over the others, as it is con tended this would n-duce druukun sess a great deal." Tae prohibition ists deciare they have notning to do with the attitude of the v-hlbksy peo ple and that caey are saUstkd with cho way thirgs are going. The whole ; hi; g is sucn a delicate one every Texas politician Is holding off as long as he can before getting into the 'ray on cne side or another. In South Carolina, as known, Sen ator Till man ia seeking to retain the state dispensary as the nest Solution of the whiskey problem an j charge that the liquor pe.ople *nd prohibi tionists arc working together to abol ish it, the former with the belief they can bring about prohibition and the latter believing they can bring about a retrrn of the license system or local option. In his recent hot address to the state, Senator TUlmun emphasized the heavy foreign ship ments of whiskey Into the dry conn lies and declared that drunkenne&a was as widespread as pvt. Congress Votco a Million. On Thursday Congress appropriated 81,000,000 fo r the suffering and home less In San Francisco and and other California towns, and gave the secre tary of war, the secretaries of the treasury, navy and commerce, power to co; perate with the mayors of the ?trinken cities, that the very best re onlts might be obtained In affording relief Prrsldent Roosevelt signed the bill st otw?, Jba?ly Needed. The State Medical Society at its annual meeting at Columbia last week unanimously adopted a resolu tion offered by Dr. A. S. Hydrlck, ' f OraDgeb?rg, calling upon the next Legislature to establish a home for inebriates and victims or the drug; habit. Such an institution is badly needed.