The Honolulu Advertiser from Honolulu, Hawaii • 1

U. S. WEATHER BUREAU, APKIL 18. Last 21 botu-s' rainfall, trace. Temperature, Max.

80; Min. 70. Weather, fair; mountain showers. SUQAE-96 Degree Test Centrifugals, 3.42c; Per To'n, $68.40. 83 Analysis Beets, 8s 6d; Per Ton, $76.40.

ESTABLISHED JULV 2. VOL. XLIIL, NO. 7393. L2A HONOLULU, HAWAII TERRITORY, THURSDAY, APRIL i9, i9C6.

PRICE FIVE CENTS. ECTI01M OF SAN BUSINESS SCO ED DESTROY AIM EARTHQUAK Following are all the authentic bulletins received by the Cable (3) Expect to be ordered out any minute. City on fire all (6) Preparing to move. Street looks doomed. Have all small company yesterday from the operator in San Francisco: around us.

Nearest approach a block away. stuff loose, ready to move but unable to get a team. 1 wimt cwuudKc 5:15 mis morning, enormous amount K) wu ounaing is wrappca up in. names, livervtruns (n "Prio v. Ur 1 oriorn nope.

We are forced to close down now. Electric damage. Land line system demoralized. burning. Palace hotel burning.

liht an "gnt and gas have failed. Plaster falling in office. Water main (2) Call building is now on fire. The fire is only one block (5) You may lose us any minute. Constant quakes.

Martial destroyed at first but supply obtained i I I away from us in each direction. law declared Water coming up Market street. Later Abandon office now. Good bye. APPALLED BY .1 pnnncnnn THE DISASTER 1 illllLA I i (ill Business Receives a Sharp Check, and the Town Waits Anxiously for Sure News Mr.

Phillips Receives Word From Port From San Francisco. land Oregon. 1 1 A i I -S A was thrilled, yesterday communication at the other end, was Honolulu morning .1 3 1 The following cablegram from wnen tne news was not Known. That was all that came, all through one of the leading firms of Port flashed under the sea that sa. Fran-jt-isco had been stricken down by earthquake was thrilled, and then the life -fi i 1 fl 1 a 4 the day, and In the meantime the anxiety grew, and business in Hono- land, Oregon, was received in of this little city stood still while men iuju was at a standstill.

The people gathered in all public places to dis-twaited, hoping and fearing. At ten I 1 I i i i J'1 w. 2 5 ri Honolulu, via New York and Manila, at 12:30 this morning: o'clock in the morning," there was no ticed in the waters about this island a slight tidal flutter but so slight-that "Manny Phillips. Honolulu: 4 i v. -v.

4 1 itwas deemed that the tidal disturb ance at San Francisco, at least, had been merely local No private messages. Business district destroyed. Residences reported safe. Will wire." The request for information as Actually what had occurred on the -l I I tf.c., l.fli,. 1 (J) i-il VI kl 'f x.

1 rii VII IA "iS .1 cuss the disaster, to go over and over Its meager details, to hope against hope that cable communication would be re-etablihed and that word might be had of loved ones known to have teen in the vicinity of the disturbed region. Sure word it was that was want, ed. Not at such times does idle rumor satisfy the deep anxiety that preys upon the human heart. The news of the disaster came to Honolulu in the dispatches received at the cable office here by Superintendent Gaines and summarized as follows. The news was received between the hours of three mainland, no man could say.

But it was evident to those who know San Francisco that a cataclysm had oc I I) curred there, that the made land which. to the San Francisco disaster was sent by Mr. Phillips to his Port is between Montgomery street and the land correspondent at 8:30 Wed- .1 waterfront had been dislodged by an earthquake shock or a series of them heavier than usual, and that the whole (2) nesday morning. V.V.V.V.V.V.V-V.-.V.V.W.V. i business district of the city or rather 'i i iii in it I i i and seven-thirty in the morning, Ho- the busineS3 district had THE DESTROYED CALL BUILDING.

hours later, in the rush of business sure news. A little before midnight, the It was stated by another gentleman hours, there would have been two hun- cable office announced that messages that the vibrations of the seismograph dred thousand people exoosed to dan- would vni.n continued very hard for six minutes. the lines running from side to side of the tane. In swift lerks. and that after ger of death.

Many must have been via New Tork at sender's risk. exposed, as it was. in the hotels that The underworld, it is true, had sent the first neayy the uneaslnes3 of the fire following the earthquake and lts message of disaster, recorded in tn surface Cf the earth continued for nolulu time, which would be between the hours of five and ten in the morning, San Francisco time: "The district from Montgomery street south (this probably should read east, as Montgomery street runs north and south) is destroyed. "From cable office, both sides of buildings on fire and destroyed. "Call building on fire and destroyed.

"Palace and Grand Hotels both burned down. "Martial law declared. "The water coming up Market street. gone down in ruin. The loss of life must have been large in any event.

The loss of" property will inevitably reach into the millions. In that part of the city, at the early hour at which the disaster came, there were still hundreds of people, night workers who had not yet gone home, watchmen, commission merchants and their employes getting ready to feed the city, clerks and messengers, market men and peddlers, fishermen and gardeners, rattling in their wagons through the streets to meet death in the tumble of tall buildings down up- of the names of their loved ones. There will be material aid for San Francisco from all parts of America and the civilized world. In this work Honolulu will do its share, more than gladly. Honolulu has always been close to the great California seaport, and will be drawn closer by this awful calamity.

In the business community yesterday all work ceased, virtually, and public and private business was at a standstill. The steamer Alameda, booked to leave for the mainland early, was delayed until nine o'clock this morning, and merchants who had made order of goods by her duplicated their orders to Seattle. That was a precautionary-measure. It was not desired that there should be a shortage of provisions In Honolulu, which draws its supplies In large measure from San Francisco. the seismograph at Sisal.

"The rec- at least one hour. ord showed vibrations this morning "There have been no more vibrations lasting six minutes, which Is unusual- of the earth's surface observed after ly long." said R. E. Tyswander. clerk tne first heavy one this morning," said in the U.

S. Magnetic Station at Ewa, prof. D. Alexander last night, last night, "I did not note the time, for That is the one bit of good news landslide destroyed. And, in the cities about the bay, the bedrooms for the workers of San Francisco, In the ships at anchor and lying at the docks, the loss of life can not but have, been appalling.

It may take I was leaving when I read it, but I years, indeed, to learn the names oC umupairsvmnuis "Cable office closed at 7:30 on ac all those who have perished. a that the long day carried. It means that after the first shock of the disaster, its intensity was in lessening force. Those in Honolulu who have relatives or friends in the danger zone can but hope and pray, now, when they think All this Honolulu felt, and, feeling and they did not vary more than a count of fire. i on thf m.

"Water mains destroyed at first, but If tne disaster had occurred a few suffered in its anguish at the lack of i minute or two." MANILA HEARD FR0A AT A LATE HOUR LAST NIGH supply of water has been obtained." Interpolated in this, following the paragraph stating that the cable of- fice had closed at 7:30, are the words: (2) "And do not expect to have any com- i) munication with the San Francisco of- flee until 11 o'clock. Honolulu time." () That was all that came from San Francisco direct all day long. At a ite hour last night, the cable to San Francisco was tested, and it was found that it was unbroken to a point close to the landing place on the beach be- 5 The Advertiser sent a message to New Tork last night, via Europe, asking for facts about the earthquake Up to the hour of going present be ascertained, amounts to three hundred. Thousands have been injured. The city hall collapsed during the first shock of the earthquake.

Most of the great public buildings of 7- no reply had been the city have been destroyed. to press, 3 a It -l: 'X i Kl i 1 I I I it'! i e- i 1 Market street, with all its buildings, is doomed. The cable building was abandoned by the operators at 10:25 o'clock this morning. low the Cliff House. Whether the land station had been destroyed, or whether the operators were unable to establish The message was addressed to the Associated Press.

This journal did not care to depend on Manila, which is a recognized fake center, for cablegrams, and so it gives the following specials from there with reserva-tions: MANILA, P. April 18. Earthquake shocks are continuing in San- TEST THE CABLE If San Francisco is "utterly isolated" it is singular how Manila could have secured so many details of the losses from the earthquake. i hill rAn; '-n yfMJ ovu Francisco and the greatest panic pre- Franc I Jf vails. it (1) 1 Thousands are fleeing the city.

Tests; made of the cable last night show that the line reaches the Cliff House beach but that beyond there the con- -i nection is broken. Fear is ex- pressed that the beach station tof-the cable company has been washed away and that the ex- Fire is completing the awful devas- tation. The Fire Depigment will 0 blow five whistles as soon 2 ts cable connection is re- 1 -VJ rt.M 1 1., April 13. J.IJC tnj of San Francisco is cut off from the i A pert who repairs broken connec- tions has lost his life. stored with San Francisco.

0 rest of the world, utterly isolated. The loss of property amounts to over one hundred million dollars. The los? of life, so far as can at the NOW DESTROYED. THE PALACE HOTEL, i.