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THE BUTTE INTER MOUNTAIN. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1906. up. The residence districts are safe, so far as heard from. BUTTE PEOPLE III EXTENT OF DISORDER STORY TOLD Bf THE BULLETINS FRANCISCO UNKNOWN the first tremors.

The recording pen was carried entirely off the record sheet by the violence of the motion from 8:32 to 8 a. m. "After the latter time the motion gradually diminished over a longer period of time, but did not entirely cease until about 12 p. m. "The vibratory motion of the ground at Washington was really a (comparatively slow and motion, each back and forth movement taking fifteen to twenty seconds of time.

"The largest movement of the ground registered before the pen went off the 6heet amounted to about four-tenths of an inch, or a to and from move of half an inch on the surface. "WILLIS MOORE, "Chief of Bureau." Supply company has been unable to get word from hi mother and brother who reside in San Francisco. Mr. and Charles Morris of Pony, who are well known in Butte are presumed1 to be in San Francisco as they were due there on a visit. M.

Keith, cashier of the First National bank' of Missoula, and C. II. Mc-Leod, general manager of the Missoula Mercantile company, left Missoula Sunday night and are supposed to be in San Francisco now. C. E.

Ellis, in the employ of Mendel-son Brothers, importers of Japanese silks, San Francisco, with offices at 7 and 9 Battery street, has been trying to ascertain today whether or not his firm has been put out of business by the earthquake. The offices are located right in the heart of the devastated area. Mr. Ellis' father, who formerly resided in Montana, and was a member of the first legislature, is interested in the firm of Mendelson Brothers. Mr.

Ellis' parents reside at 2902 California street, which is at considerable' distance from the business section. Mr. Ellis, Sr. is troubled with heart disease, and his son is fearful that the shock of the disaster may result seriously with him. Among the former Butte people in San Francisco are Will Gunn, son of Dr.

Gunn of this city, Walter Sherlock, Tom Grannon, George Bush. Charles Clark and wife are reported to be at San Mateo. Mrs. David Carson, mother of Arthur Carson of Butte is at the Roanoke in San Francisco. Mr.

Henry Morse, formerly an employe of the Boston Montana company, is reported to be in Berkeley at present. MAYOR WILL ACT "I have not sent any telegram yet to the mayor of San Francisco," said Mayor MacGinniss, "because I think it is a little too soon. Everything is in an upset state and the confusion there must be so great that I don't believe it could even receive attention. The wires are all destroyed. Just as soon as the proper time arrives I will wire the sympathies of the citizens of Butte and tender an offer of substantial assistance should it be required." MINUTE-TO-MINUTE ACCOUNT OF 'FRISCO DISASTER.

PROPERTY LOSS VERY HIGH Estimate of Dead in Debris Is Difficult to Make. San Francisco, i8, 8 a. m. In the confusion which reigns everywhere here it is almost impossible to learn details of the catastrophe. In general it may be said that the district lying between Market and Howard streets from the bay as far west as the hall, has been badly wrecked.

The hotels near Third and Market streets were badly shaken up, but there seems to have been no loss of life. The Call and Examiner buildings, as well as the Western Union buildings have been badly wrecked. The large department stores in this neighborhood were also ruined, but the earthquake occurred at an hour when they were empty and no loss of life is reported. TENEMENTS SUFFER WORST Farther east on Market, toward the ferry, is a section occupied by cheap lodging houses and. hotels, and here the loss of life is reported to be very great, thought the extent of it could not be ascertained at this hour.

Fires are burning in a number of places along Market street and the water mains having bursted, the authorities have resorted to dynamite to check the flames. The residence section of the city, while badly shaken, reports no loss of life or serious damage. GREAT PROPERTY LOSS Sacramento, April 18. The respondent of The Associated Press here has been informed from a reliable source that the earthquake this morning in San Francisco created great destruction of pioperty. The loss from the shock and subsequent fires will reach into the millions.

The fire is still raging, covering an area from Montgomery-street to water front. It is said hundreds of buildings in the business district have been ruined. The fire started in a dozen different places and is now being fought with dynamite. SACRAMENTO SUFFERS The severest earthquake shock felt in this city in many years occurred at 5:13 o'clock this morning. Buildings rocked like cradles.

Many clocks stopped. No serious damage was done. A few cracks were discovered in stone postoffice building. Slight damage was done to some brick buildings. Telegraph and telephone wires were prostrated between Sacramento and San Francisco and no communication could be had with the latter city this morning.

Chimneys and water tanks were shaken down at Suisun, Solano and at Tracy, San Joaquin county. DETAILS MAKE IT WORSE Survivors Are Moving Out of the Downtown Section. San Francisco, April 18. 8:40 As reports come in the magnitude of the disaster grows. Fire has been raging in all directions and people are moving out of the down-town section.

The loss of life may reach into the hundreds, and millions of dollars worth of property has been destroyed. The Valencia hotel, between Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets on Valencia street, a five-story frame building, toppled over into the street, burying seventy-five people in debris. Only the top story remains intact. A house on Fourteenth street, near Valencia was wrecked, killing two people. Many of these houses are damaged so badly that it is impossible to get the fire apparatus out.

A lodging house on Seventh street between Howard and Mission, known as the Kingsley, entirely collapsed. It is on fire and seventy-five people are believed to be buried in the flaming ruins. At Twenty-second and Mission, the dry goods store of Lipman is on fire, threatening the destruction of the entire block. At Eighteenth and Valencia streets there is a crevice in the street six feet wide and the entire sidewalks are torn up with the street car tracks badly twisted and traffic is at a standstill. At the Southern Pacific hospital, water is being carried into the building from outside sources for the use of the patients.

Many people are suffering from injuries and are seen on the streets. Some buildings on Eleventh street are badly damaged, and at the Studebaker carriage factory on Tenth and Market streets the top story caved in, badly wrecking the entire building. Fire which has been raging in the vicinity of Fourth and Stevenson streets has got beyond the control of the firemen and the flames have leaped to the Winchester rooming house, on the west side cf the street. PRACTICALLY WRECKED San Francisco, April :8. San Francisco was practically wrecked by an earthquake at 5:10 this morning.

The shock lasted three minutes. Thousands of buildings were damaged and destroyed. The loss of life is reported to be great. There is no water and fire rages all over the city. All wires with the exception of one are gone.

The city hall, costing $7,000,000, is in ruins. Modern buildings suffered less than brick and frame. Terror and excitement are indiscribable. Most of the people, asleep, were suddenly aroused and rushed into the streets, undressed. Buildings swayed and crashed, burying occupants.

Panic in the hotels. Lick house was badly damaged, but no loss of life is reported there. The Palace and St. Francis hotels stood the shock. People flocked to the telegraph offices to send messages to friends and were frantic because there were no wires.

The greatest damage to buildings was done south of Market street, where they are mostly frame buildings and tenement houses. Fire broke out in every block of that district. RAILROAD DISAPPEARS Three Mile of Track, With Telegraph, Sinks Into Earth. New York, April 18. The Postal Telegraph offices at San Francisco are wrecked and' 'communication! interrupted.

At 9 140 the Postal Telegraph (had communication with its San Francisco office, but lost the connection again almost immediately. In the brief period that the wire was working the San Francisco office reported that a number of had collapsed and that the dead and injured were being taken from 'the ruins as rapidly as possible. At the time this message came through the principal danger was from the fires, a number of which had started and were making great headway owing to the lack of water. The electric lighting plant of the city has failed and gas mains are disrupted. The damage extends through the entire city.

The Western Union Telegraph office at Fresno says that it is the most severe shock ever known. A telegram from Sacramento to the Western Union Telegraph company reports that three miles of railroad sank out of sight as a result of the eathquake (between Suisun and Benicia, and all wires were taken with it. At Pleasar.ton there were several cars burned on the main line, blocking trains. DYNAMITE BUILDINGS At 10:40 o'clock this morning the Postal company received the following message: "At 5:15 this morning a terrific earthquake shock at San Francisco, doing much damage to the district east of Market street, practically destroyed six or eight blocks in the manufacturing and wholesale districts. The banking district was not seriously damaged, although small damage had been done over the whole town.

Many persons have been killed and injured and a portion of the town is on fire, the water supply being shut off. At this moment they are dynamiting some of the buildings." The Associated Press office also badly damaged. At 11:05 the Western Union received a report that a serious fire is buring at Berkeley, where the state finiversity is located. The report came from Pinole, a station ten miles out of San Francisco, and the nearest point to the latter city, which the company had been able to raise up to the time of this dispatch. Berkeley is between Pinole and San Francisco.

NEVADA STRICKEN It is also reported that the earthquake shock was severely felt throughout Nevada. The Postal Telegraph company received information that the greatest damage from the earthquake was done to property on the following streets Dunn, Davis, Front, Battery, Sansom, Montgomery, Kearney, Spear, Main, Beal and Fremont. The Western Union received a report from Sacramento that the Southern Pacific Railroad will attempt to get a train into San Francisco, starting from Sacramento and taking a roundabout route to Vallejo. From that place passengers will be taken by boat. This course was made necessary by the sinking of a three-mile section of the railroad tracks to Suisun and Benicia, which are on the direct line between Sacramento and San Francisco.

The road ciosses the lowlands. The location of this reported sinking of the earth is about thirty miles from San Francisco. A NEW STRIKE. The Senior So your old man has struck? The Sophomore Yen when I asked him to dig up he said he guessed he'd go out with the rest of the miners. New York Sun.

GOES ELSEWHERE TO LIVE. Clerk Let me see, New York is your state, I believe. Guest Well, no; I only have a residence there. CAREFUL. He And if you come to Boston, will you er take a flat? She Are you proposing to me, sir? Boston Transcript.

CONSIDERATE PAPA. "Ethel," the sweet girl's father called gently from above stairs. "Yes, father. What is it?" she answered through the midnight stillness. "Just tell your young man to be careful and not trip over the morning's milk when he goes out." Catholic Standard and Times.

Impure breath arising from the use of liquor or tobacco is completely neutralized by daily use of Liquid, Powder or Paste ASK YOUR DENTIST MANY HERE AND THROUGHOUT THE STATE ANXIOUSLY AWAIT. NEWS OF DEAR ONES. IMPOSSIBLE TO LEARN THE FATE OF MANY Judge Dixon, James S. Casey and Many Others Are Known to Be There. (Continued from Page One.) usually three.

It was because it was feared that some great shock might tie experienced that the buildings in former years were constructed for the most part of frame." MANY. MQNTANANS THERE Butte Has a Special interest in the Disaster. A. 'II. Dutton, the well known cartoonist, is in the ill-fated city with his wife and son.

lie was on his way back to Goldfield after a pleasure trip up and down the coast. Ed Clarke, a former newspaper man of Butte, is at present connected with one of the San Francisco papers. Edward L. Lovey, brother of The Inter Mountain cartoonist, is in San Francisco, having missed coining to Butte by one day, as he anissed a letter from his toother that would have brought him here instead of to the coast. lie was located in a hotel in the wrecked district.

John Gaff, a miner living on South Arizona street, has a father, mother and four brothers and sisters living in the heart of San Francisco. Among Butte people at present in Berkeley are former Governor J. E. Rick-ards and wife. Homer Riekards, a Son living in this city, has been making an endeavor to secure some information as to their safety, but up to a late hour had been unable to secure any information, as all wires are reported down.

W. W. Dixon and Mrs. Dixon are living at the Palace hotel, being located on the top floor. Montana friends of Mr.

Dixon are very much concerned oyer the fact that he is in ill health and fear that the shock may result seriously for him. HIS FAMILY IN BERKELEY Dr. J. F. Allen, the Butte representative of the Union Pacific Coal company, owns a residence in Berkeley, where the members of his family are at the present time.

He has been unable to establish telegraphic communication with them and is inclined to think that the damage reported in Berkeley is exaggerated. The fact that no reports had been received from there early in the day he attributes to the batteries of the telegraph companies being in San Francisco. Mr. and Mrs. James D.

Mendenhall are much worried about their daughter and her husband, who reside in San Francisco. The office of the husband is located in the heart of the district reported destroyed. The residence of the couple, however, is several miles distant from there and they have no fear as to the personal safety of the two, owing to the distance from the collapsed area and the fact that the earthquake occurred before business hours. Mr. Mendenhall is the commissioner of the Butte Terminal association and the agent for the Western Railway Weighing association.

Ed Murphy, a salesman well known in Butte and making his headquarters here, has a sister residing in San Francisco from whom he has been unable to hear. Mr. Murphy also owns property which may be included in that destroyed by fire and shock. ARTIST TERRY THERE Jack Terry, the artist employed by The Anaconda Standard, is in San Francisco at the present time, having left here only a few days ago. Owing to the fact that none of the first class hotels are reported as having collapsed, no fears are entertained as to his safety.

A. L. Lovey, the cartoonist on The Inter Mountain, fears for the safety of Mrs. K. A.

Henderson, his aunt, and two cousins, who reside on Eighth street in San Francisco. The parents of Mrs. Rose Nichols of Butte, her brother and sister, all reside in San Francisco. Mrs. Nichols has so far been unable to send or to receive a telegram assuring her of their safety.

The many friends of W. O. Forsyth, formerly manr'er of the Butte branch of Armour now manager of their San Francisco plant, are anxious to hear that he is safe. Mr. Forsyth's office is in the heart of the city and he lived down town as well.

Another person who formerly resided in Butte and who is well known here is Jack Lindsay, a newspaper reporter now employed on The San Francisco News. WERE AT PALACE HOTEL James S. Casey, manager of the Butte Wholesale Grocery company, and Charles Virden, manager of the Butte thouse of Ryan Newton, are in San Francisco and it is supposed slept in the Palace hotel last night. The two men left here last week for the coast and stopped in Sacramento, and if they followed the plans they formed before leaving, arrived in San Francisco yesterday afternoon. The two always stopped at the Palace when ir! San Francisco.

William C. Buskett, secretary of the O'Brien store on Park street, has a brother, Louis Buskett, residing in San Francisco. He is a married man and has several children. Ned Jacco and wife, formerly of Butte, are in San Francisco. Attorney J.

N. Kirk has been trying to get into communication with them, but has not been able to get a message over the wire. Mr. Jacco is connected with the Cordez Furniture company, whose office is situated in the midst of the wrecked district. A.

B. Hammond, president of the Missoula Mercantile company and head of the largest lumber company in San Francisco, is in that city, and his friends here have heard nothing about him. His home is well out of the wrecked district, however, and he is probably safe. Manager Scheiber of the Butte Electric ESTIMATE OF LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY IMPOSSIBLE. BUSINESS DISTRICT DOOMED City Fire Department Concedes Victory of Flames.

(Continued from Page One.) and blows the flames toward the bay, nothing can stop the destruction of the city. The whole north end of the city is wrecked and the flames are spreading in all directions. In the absence of water, the fire department has resorted to the use of dynamite and buildings are being demolished in the hope of staying the conflagration. The block bounded by Sansome, California and Battery streets is doomed, the flames sweeping clear across it in great sheets from Pine street, with no apparent apparatus available for its salvation. The back of the eleven-story Monadnock building now nearing completion has fallen out and the flames threaten to cause great fire loss.

The front of the Monadnock was badly cracked by the earthquake. Present indications are the entire business district, both wholesale and retail, will likely fall a prey to the flames, which are fanned by a stiff breeze. TRAINS CUT OFF Southern Pacific "Unable to Operate Its Lines. Sacramento, April 18. All the plans for running trains on the western division of the Southern Pacific railroad between this city and Oakland were knocked out this morning by the terrific earthquake shock.

No connection could be had by telephone. A short time after the big shock came a message from Suisun, Solano county, saying that a long section of railroad track had disappeared from view. It was learned later that at one place between Sprig and Teal stations, in the Suisun marshes, for a distance of one mile and a half the track had sunk down three to six feet and at another point near by 1,000 feet of track went out. Trains which should be dispatched for San Francisco early this morning had to be brought back and then sent to the bay city by the Lathrop route. The.

track sunk by the earthquake is near the place where a loaded passenger train came near going out of sight. It is feared it will take several weeks to repair the present collapses and in 'the meantime all trains will be sent by the Stockton route. LOWLANDS FLOODED There are great crevices on each side of the track through the Suisun marshes and it is reported that a great ocean has flowed over the lowlands between Suisun and Benicia. A short distance below Suisun a Southern Pacific switch engine sank into the ground for a distance of three feet, not far from where the track disappeared. Reports received at the train dispatcher's office tell of minor earthquake damages at Suisun and Tracy, San Joaquin county.

Freight cars in the railroad yard at Tracy were started to rolling and had to have blocks placed under them. A report came from Woodland station which states that chimneys were knocked down at that place. Word came from Napa that there was scarcely a whole pane of window glass left in that place. MANY REPORTED DEAD At 9 o'clock word came to the railroad office that the county court house at Santa Rosa had fallen and that a number of people had been killed, but that story was not confirmed. The shock was felt as far east as Hazen, about fifty miles beyond Wadsworth.

A hotel in the town of Collinsville, on the Sacramento river, was wrecked by the earthquake shock. No one was injured there. SHOCK IS GENERAL Earthquake May Be the Result of Vesuvius Eruption. Washington, April 18. The Saw Francisco earthquake has reached across the continent.

"She seismograph at the weather bureau here showed a violent agitation about 8 130 this morning. The pen passed off the record sheet at that time. The instrument at 12 o'clock was still under vibration, showing that the earthquake had not ceased. In connection with the vibrations in this city, Prof. Willis Moore of the weather bureau, said' today that the eruption of Vesuvius was recorded dining its entire period on the magnetic instruments a few from, this city in Virginia.

Prof. Moore stated, however, that this was not an earthquake record, but rather that Vesuvius acted like a powerful wireless transmitter, Vesuvius with its eruptions disturbing the electrical potentials, which disturbances sent out electromagnetic waves that encircle the earth. The record's at Mount Weather were clear and disinct. Prof. Moore was not prepared, to say whether the eruption of Vestivius had anything to do with present records.

The seismograph at the weather bureau here at was still recording violent vibrations. The second 'shock felt in San Francisco at 8:15 this morning was clearly indicated by the, weather bureau's instruments, this showing that the entire continent still is affected. OFFICIAL STATEMENT The weather bureau this afternoon issued the report regarding the San Francisco earthquake: "The great San Francisco earthquake of April 18, 1906, was registered upon the Boesdoneri seismograph at the weather bureau office at Washington, beginning at 8 houre, 19 minutes, 20 sfc-onds, 75th meridian time. The record shows a disturbance 'of considerable! magnitude at although not severe enough to be felt by individuate. "The stronger wave motion began at 8 125 a.

that is about five minutes after HUNDREDS OF CORPSES Mechanics Pavilion Is Being Used as City Morge. Los Angeles, April 18. Information from San Francisco is that Mechanics' pavilion is being used as a morgue. Three hundred bodies are reported already gath ered at that place. The wind is blowing a gale and the flames are said to be making headway.

The shock of the earthquake was felt as far south as Santa Barbara. The fact that Oakland and San Jose and other bay cities have not been able to communicate with Los Angeles would indicate that they too have suffered from the shock. A special train carrying the supreme court, now in session at Los Angeles, will leave here in a few hours. There is a jam of panic stricken people at the ferry in San Francisco, seeking to cross the bay to Oakland. Fires are raging everywhere and the firemen are using dynamite.

The Palace and the Grand hotels have been destroyed. Mayor Schmitz has sent to Oakland for more dynamite. Fires are reported at Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley. The Call and Rialto buildings are ablaze. The lofty Call building is swaying, and expected to topple over.

The Southern Pacific building next door to The Call is afire. The Postal building is almost an entire wreck, but communication is maintained with Los Angeles on a single wire. 1 The Sunset Telephone building on Bush street and the Western Union at Pine and Montgomery streets are entirely destroyed. BRINGING IN DEAD Up to 1 oclock about 100 dead bodies had been brought to the hospital and others were coming in all the time. The soldiers are maintaining order as far as is possible, but the population has no thought of anything but escape from the city.

SHIPS IN BAY SUNK Los Angeles, April 18. It is reported that two ships at anchor in Sara Francisco (bay were sunk. THOUSANDS DEAD Chicago, April 18. The federal authorities in this city stated today that they have information indicating that the reports of the disaster in Sam Francisco have fallen short of the actual facts. Superintendent of Mails West declared he had heen informed officials of the railroads carrying the mails to the Pacific coast that the loss of property will be immense, and that it is certain the death list will run into the thousands.

I Superintendent West said "The mail service in California will be hampered almost beyond description. Incoming mails from across the Pacific ocean must be landed somewhere else than San Francisco, and! this will cause great delay in the arrival of the mails at eastern points." SHOCK AT LOS ANGELES Los Angeles, April 18. There was a slight shock of earthquake felt at Los Angeles, the clocks, in the general offices of the Santa Fe stopped'. SHOCK IN OREGON Marshfield, April 18. An earthquake shock was experienced here at 5 130 this morning.

No damage done. FUNSTON TO ACT Washington, April 18. Assistant secretary of war has telegraphed Major General Funston, commanding the Pacific division, with headquarters at San Francisco, instructing him to co-operate with the local authorities and use all resources at his command to assist in alleviating the suffering. WRONG IN HIS HEAD. A Yorkshire rnillworker charged with' having set fire to a large hayrick was defended on the ground that he was not altogether responsible for his actions.

One of the witnesses, a typical Yorkshire man, testified to the 'belief that the prisonei was "wrang in his heid." "Can you mention any occasion on which the prisoner behaved in a manner to warrant your statement?" he "wS asked by the prosecuting counsel. "Yes," answered witness "Ah mind once 'at he got half a crown too much for his wage, an' "Well," said counsel, as the witness hesitated. "He took it back to t' manager!" concluded the witness amidst a roar of laughter. Exchange. THE OBLIGING COUNCILMAN.

A member of the city council of Baltimore, well known for his geniality and wit, recently had business in the tax department of the city hall. He had gone from' the council rooms to that depart-, nient without his hat. As he was waiting' for the return of the employe who was searching for a document, an extremely sour visaged lady of uncertain age approached him. It was evident that she took him to be a clerk. She beckoned to him in a peremptory manner.

"I want a license," said she. 'Certainly madam," replied the councilman, bowing politely, "dog or man." Harper's Weekly. THE GLAD REFRAIN. "Hullo, old Haven't seen you for an age. Where have you been?" "Away in the country, electioneering." "Making speeches?" "Yes, I was frequently called on to respond." "What did you mostly say?" "Thank you.

I don't mind if I do." Sporting Times. OTHER DISASTERS OF HISTORY Mt. Pele'e's Destruction Recalled by Today's Catastrophe. The eruption of Mount Pelee on May 8, 1902, was t'he worst catastrophe in history. Thirty thousand' persons were killed, millions of property destroyed1, the physical structure of the entire island of Martinique changed', and the top of the mountain blown off.

The eruption was caused by water getting into the heart of the mountain through a vent or crack and there forming steam', bringing about a tremendous explosion. The same day Mount in St. Vincent, also erupted, killing 2,000 people. The volcanic dust from Pelee was carried thousands of miles and two million tons of it are 'said to 'fallen on Barbados, no piles away. Another great disaster was the earthquake of 1755 at Lisbon when 30,000 people were killed.

MR. NEVIN A SUFFERER He Has Many Friends in the Destroyed City. W. G. Nevin of Los Angeles, who will marry Miss Hattie Sanders of this city this evening, has business interests in San Francisco.

He heard the first news of the disaster -this morning at the Finlen hotel from The Inter Mountain. "I have' scores of friends in San Francisco," said Mr. 'Nevin. "I also have a business on the water front. I am more interested in my friends than in anything else just now." Mr.

Nevin and his bride expect to go to the coast from Butte and will probably reach San Francisco in a few days unless they change their plans. When Mr. Nevin first heard the news of the disaster he was inclined to believe that his interests along the water front would not be affected, but later in the day the news indicated that everything in that portion of the city was destroyed. AN AC ON DANS THERE Smelter City People May Have Perished by Earthquake. Anaconda, April 18.

The disaster at San Francisco has awakened intense interest here and the windows of the newspaper offices where bulletins have been posted were besieged by hundreds during the morning. Even early in the day when the news was meager and consisted almost wholly of rumors, there was anxiety in many faces, for a large number of Anaconda people have friends or relatives in the Golden Gate city. James Couzens, for many years connected with the A. C. M.

company here, is now in 'Frisco, where he is employed in the office of the California Smelting company. Mrs. J. J. McCafTery's mother and entire family, the Riordans, live in San Francisco.

Jimmy McIIale, the well known ball player of this city, is supposed to be in 'Frisco, playing with the Portland baseball team. Mrs. James Chamber's father and family live in San Francisco also. The family name is De Lury. Lieutenant Arthur O'Leary, an Anaconda boy is stationed at Mare Island, near San Francisco.

Neal McGinty, formerly a boilermaker here, is located in 'Frisco. O. B. O'Bannon of Deer Lodge, a pioneer of Montana, is supposed to be visiting in Berkeley, while Walter Clark, son of Ross Clark, is a student at the university there. PORTER WAS THERE.

Chevrolet, the automobilist, was talking at Ormond about American railways. "Your railways are superb," he said. "Abroad we have nothing like them. In speed, in comfort, in luxury, American railways lead the world." "But the expense "On my way down to Florida, I said to the porter, as the drew near for us to part: 'Porter, you have been very attentive and I want to give you something, but I have no change." "Then I took a twenty-dollar bill from my wallet. you change this for I asked.

'Certainly, sir, the porter answered, pulling out a large roll of money. 'How will you have it, 'In New York Telegraph. RESIDENT DISTRICT SAFE Business District of 'Frisco Alone Said to Have Suffered. San Francisco, April 18. 9:00 a.

m. A disastrous fire has broken out on the south side of Market street and is within one block of the Palace 'hotel. The water mains have bursted and 'the fire department is practically The utmost confusion exists. All business is suspended. Power of every kind is gone and there ere no lig'hts, either gas or electric.

Neither the Palace hotel nor the St. Francis is gone, that is so far as the outside goes, but the inside plastering, is greatly damaged. Between the Postal office and the water front there has been great damage by fire, which is turning fiercely, and there is little or no water. The fire is burning both on the tast and south sides of the Postal building. The damage by the earthquake apparently extends all over the city.

The shock) cccured at 5:15 this morning and lasted three minutes. The streets are blockaded with debris. Buildings are being blown.