Hundreds Dead!

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EXTRA THE DAILY NEWS EXTRA VOL 7. NO. 25. FOURTH YEAR. SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 18, 1906. INDEPENDENT. 250 MONTH; COPY. HUNDREDS DEAD! Fire Follows Earthquake, Laying Downtown Section in Ruins--City Seems Doomed For Lack of Water KNOWN DEAD AT MECHANICS' PAVILION At 126 Langton, 4 killed; Billy Sheehan, police- Francisco Bay. man, rescued 3 people. Many injured at 117 6th st., Hotel Phillips: A building collapsed at Steiner and Haight sts. No report of loss of life. Along Market st. from 5th toward Castro, the Ban Francisco was practically demolished and totally par- Max Fenner, policeman, killed alyed by the earthquake, which commenced at 5:11 a. m. to- sidewalks are literally strewn with wreckage. In many places the sidewalks have collapsed, falling day and continued with terrific vigor for four minutes Great loss of life was caused by the collapse of buildings; into the basements. and many people met a more cruel death by firg. Flames in collapse Essex Hotel. Niece of Detective Dillon, killed broke out in al parts of the city. in collapse, 6th and Shipley. Unidentified woman, killed at 18 will amount to hundreds of mllione of dollars. 7th st. Two unknown men, brought in woke this moraing practically bankrupt. autos. This is trve on Market between sth and 6th, between 6th and 7th, and bet ween 7th and City. Hall Square, on the west side. There are probably not fifty chimneys standing in the city. This 'means that many more tires are to be expected, as fues are cracked everywhere. A small portion of the front of the West Side Christian Church was shaken out. The monetary loss caused by the earthquake, the fires which followed it and the depreciatiotr in values thạt will result The progress of San Francisco has received a check from which it will probably take many years to recover. Thousands of men who went to bed wealthy last night St. Ignatius' Church was badly shaken but is intaót. Great damage resulted at St. Ignatius college, a portion of the building The fury of the temblor was greater than any that has beon being destroyed. known in the history of the eity. The people are appalled, teraor-stricken. Thousands, fear ful of a recurrence of the dreadful diaaster, with results atill more dire, are hastening out of San Francisco. Many heart-rending scenes have been enacted. totally destroyed. Eamilies are móving their belongings helter-skelțer, A building was burned at the end of California street, in the Richmond. Concordis Club, Van Ness Ave., badly dismantled: At the Coamopolitan Hotel, Fifth and Mission sta., fire is believed to have killed a nuimber of people. The building was OTHER DEAD Five killed, 2 injured, in col- fapse of building at 239 Geary. St. Winifred's hospital, Sutter near Larkin, was injured, but is intact.: Frank Corali, buried, beneath and moving aimlessly about, keeping in the open, The City Hall is a complete wreck.. The walls At 9:30 the following were at Mechanics' Pavilion. basement floor of. burning, lodg- surrounding the grand dome lHave fallen, leaving only But few were dead, althoufih the injuries of many Ing house 6th and Mission.'Heard the skeleton frame work and the top of the dome in were reported as fatul: crying "For God's sake, help me." tact. Around all sides of the building the walls have Seven firemenkilled in collapse erumbled, like 50 many cards. The Receiving Hos- Ness; Wm Casti eoy, 410 -4 Natoma; Bernard At- Mrs Jones, 509 Stevenson; MR D Wells, 314 Van chison; 139 3rd;: of brick power house Valencia and 7th. pital was buried. The surgeons .móved to Mechanics' Pavilion, Kennedy, 771 which today is a combined acspital and morgue. Geo Memworth, 3. est Edner, 1143 Mission; Bert Geo Sullivan, 313 G G ave; h; Philip Hendes, 3 Eddy; Wm John Wheley and son, killed in Dead and dying are brought in by autos. ambulances Gamman, 112 4th, DJ Erchon, 172 7th; ceo Rengone. 94 Folsom; Cornficld, 939 1-2 Folsom; Wm Carr, 1547a falling house, Steiner and Ger- mania ave. and even garbage.carts. Insane patients were taken from the Emergency Ellis; Wm Anderson, 1293 Market; F Butler, 137 6th; Hospital to Mecbanics' Pavilion. Many of them were R Walsworth, 111 Geary; J Justice, Brunswick House; hurt. Some broke loose and ran among the dying, ad-- J Hart, Los Angeles; H Young, 1874 16th ave; Lou wife. Nellie ding horror to the scene.. James Whaley, Vhaley, Marie Whaley, same ad- Vittery, 909 Kearny; V Dedard, 149 Turk: Belle Me- At 8:15 a second sharp quake occurred, accentuat- Donald, 251e Stevenson; Obal Marshall, 149 Turk. in the terror. The fire scenes following the enrthquake, was and are fear. AH Peterson, 234 I-2 Natoma. RH Lander, 7ih and dress, badly injured. Unidentified man, buried in re- ful to behold. Had the earthquake occured an hour later, the Howard, Brunswick House;. mains Valencia-st. Hotel. At 8:40 there were 100 dead and dying at the Pa- vilion, ane more arrivinfi each minute, Miss Katit Brown, a niece of Detective Dillon, wae crufhed to death at her home. Mrs. A. B. Engle, 733 Howard, killed falling roof. Mary Shaw, killed at 7th and Mission. Max Fenner and Percy Smith, two police officers with beats on Mason st., were killed by falling bricks at the first shock. Mrs. McCann was killed on 3d st. entire city would have burst into flames. At least forty buildings were aflage within, ten minutes after the temblor passed. Among the first to go were the big buildings on Market, Battery, Sansonie, First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth streets, followed by a general con end, on the 9th st. side, having fallen out, while the roof caved flagration on Seventh and Eightlh streets, while in the West. into the auditorium of the building. ern Addition many fires were started By 8 clelock it seemed that a large part of the city was doomed. The Fire Department was unable to get anything like an adoquate supply of water, and the raging flames had their THEATER WRECKED The Majestic Theater is aimost a complete wreck, the rear At 3110 California st. a house was shaken from its founda tion and onto the sidewalk. The new Hahnemann Hospital at California and Maple sts. is badly wrecked. The fronts of two wings were shaken out, while the walla of the balance of the building are badly cracked way. All of the city hospitals threw open their doors, and within a short time their wards and hale famg with the agonizing cries The hospital would have been occupied wiihin a few days of scores of crushed and burned victims of the awful catastrophe. An early report is to the effect that in the collapse of the buge plant of the San Francisco Gas and Electric Co. on Bay them, practically, are incapacitated for the. time. street nearly fifty workmen were crushed to death. Oply two men were seen to leave the great brick structure. That more people have not been killed is due to the fact that most of the power and light stations are destroyed. All of INJURED. List of badly injured taken to Pavilion: J. Carr, 1547 Ellis. Dr. Strauss, 111 Geary, very bad. Rosa Shipley, of Seattle, living 6th st., and two children, not fatally. J. H. Rossa, 224 Leavenworth, legs broken. C. C. Perry, Hotel Phillips, 117 6th st. Pete Johnson and wife, Hyde st., crushed badly. Mrs. J. Thomas, 381 6th, hurt badly. Geo. Buckwold, Folsom and 6th. Trabucce family at 157 Turk, rear, wife and baby killed beside husband, whose head is erushed. Bly family, rear 157 Turk, badly hurt. Miss Murray and Miss Harvard, 140 Ohio st., crushed and bruised. Sixteen buried in ruins Uuited States restaurant, BRIEF IDEA OF DISASTER One of the most complete wrecks in the eity is St. Donmino's Church, on Steiner street. The huge pile went down in a crush of ruins, bei ng totally demolished, The framework of the two domes stands. One of the domes fell upon the house aOVupied building wrecked. Dynamite used n blowing up Phillips Hotel by the priests, Iut none, it is said, was killed. At the Protestant Orphan Asylum, on Haight Bre rages. Wellman, Peck and Co. Swift and Co.. Montague street, fearful damage was done; three little children. and Co. among kouses destroyed. Thousands others ruined be are reported killed, while many others were badly yond repair. Fire sweeping whole blocks south of Market. injured. At Eighteenth and Valencia streets an entire block sunk. The Valencia Hotel slid into the mid- dle of the street, and it is thought fully a dozen street from frigbt, 4 actors killed in beds by wall, persons are entoinbed, dead, dying and injured, in the pile of ruins. Across the street from that point a row of flats collapsed. Market st. from Battery to the Ferry building, has sunk seleral feet. The earth there is "6iled" on WHERE COPIES MAY what was in other days a portion of the bed of San BE HAD. Walle new Central Park skating rinik are down. Postoffice at 119 Gih st. Troops. militia and police work side by side as IN OAKLAND Bank at 14th and Broadway demolished, man fell dead on San Joaquin Valley felt it, but little damage. Ninth and Market. Louisa Bourbon, 904 Kearny, badly hurt. Mrs. Geo. Dronels and Lena Hower, 308 Sixth, druised and hurt. THIS EDITION ISSUED FROM 1308 MISSION ST. PHOTO OF THE ONLY PAPER ISSUED IN SAN FRANCISCO ON, APRIL 18, 1906, AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE PRINTIN CHADESHUCOUNCTI E P.CO• SAH FRANCINGS COPYRIGHTED 1906 BY CHAS. A. MC DONALD FOREIGN RIGHTS RESERVED

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