Chicago Tribune from Chicago, Illinois • 1

FUNSTON REPORTS THAT 1,000 ARE DEAD; 100,000 HOAIELESS. DETAILS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO HORROR. ROLL OF THE Most of the Victims Are Vnidentified at Morgues. Hospitals. etc.

or Are Yet, in the Ruins of the Burned Buildings. PRICE TWO CENTS. 1 Jcp, 4: 1 .4, i 2 '1i, '40 Ian- 49 4- VOLUME LXV.NO. 94. THURSDAY.

APRIL PRICE TWO CENTS. 1 I FUNSTON REPORTS DETAILS OF THE SAN FltikNCISCO HORROR ROLL OF THE 61- rt 'MAT 1,000 ARE DEAD; LI Most of the Victim. Ae Vnidenti i OF DEATH 100,000 HOMELESS. fied at Morgues. Hompitals.

etc. or Are Yet in the Ruins of the Burned Buildings. i ri I I The dead in San Francisco (estimated) The dead, inmates of Insane asylum at The dead in San. Jose The dead in San Francisco estimated) The dead, inmates of Insane asylum at Agnews rrge I I lie ueaa in ban. Jose 1 I 11 1 I one 1,000 275 65 300 150 3,000 100,000 $200,000,000 comprising 130 city blocks 000 275 1 tr tiJ 300 150 $200,000,000 comprising 130 city blocks The dead in Santa Rosa The dead at other points The injured The homeless in San Francisco OP The dead in Santa Rosa The dead at other points The inJured ek irk 0.11..Ale.

1 0. AIS Aft it 0 a 9- A zav LivilICLUb3 111 oar'. tiraricisco FIRE SPREADS; CITY DOOMED? iEDt? F1REspREA I filTlf nnnlinrnta Washington, D. April first message received from Gen. Funston arrived here at 11:40 o'clock tonight.

It was addressed to Secretary Taft, who had already retired. The message follows: "Secretary of War, Washington: "We need thousands of tents and all the rations that can be sent, The business portion of the city destroyed and about people homeless. Fire still raging. Troops all on duty assisting the police. Loss of life probably 1,000.

Best part of residence district not yet burned. "FUNSTON." hi gto A 1118 asmessan gen! rec. eivedPrfrom.GeTh: Funston arrived here at 11:40 o'clock tonicrht it aa diAAnm-ZA- agAsaa GA. tary Taft. who had already retired.

The message follows: "Secretary of War. Washington: "We need thousands of tents and all the rations that can be sent, The poruon tne city de- etroyed and about 100 000 people homoneless. Fire still raging. Troops duty assisting the police. Loss of life probably 1,000.

Beet part of residence district not yet burned. rT Tvvrt.im "Er It Ong Thousand Slain, While Property Worth S2001- 0001000 Is Destroyed, 1 Thousand Slam, libile Prnnort Wrirlh R9nn I 111 in ill VLAIOVI 000 000 Is Destroyed, 1 1 I II I I Property loss (estimated) in San Francisco Area burned in San Francisco Ten square miles rOv.a.,s-4- I 1 'r' A kopva zusN (esumatea) an rrancisco Area burned in San Francisco Ten square miles, I I I BUILDINGS CALI02317.AL MOTEL. Bush street. between Kearny and Grant avenues; upper wells collapsed and upper floors wrecked. Waal Third and Market streets.

in rear of Spreckels building and used as publication office of Call. whose business office was 1.11 Spreckels building; gutted by lira, CENTRAL Market. near Eighth street; burned. BUILDINGS CAZArr IPIMIA. Inn.

atramt ikgrbIntAnarm en mo. Sal alai avenues; upper walls collapsed end upper Boors wrecked. and CIAZrs BVITADESiG. Third and Market streets. in rear of Spreck- els building and used as publication office of Call.

whose business, office was in Sprockets building; gutted by fire. CENTRAL Market. near Eighth street; burned. Flames Sweep On and Threaten to Destroy All Which Escape Quake4 )11 an art, A itireaten to Destroy li 12' 11 1h i Escape ua Es 1 crrr ILLIAZio southeast corner McAllister" to Market" to Lackin. to Jones streets; collapsed; cost $7,000.000.

exruncit or ADVENT, Episcopal. Eleventh street. near Market; damaged by earthquake. CEILDBEWS PLAY BUILDING' Gtolden Gate park; destroyed Tr corner McAllister. to Market.

to Lackin. to Jones streets collapsed; cost 000.000 I exrcrucit op TILE ADVENT, Episcopal. Eleventh street. near Market; damaged by earthquake. CILELDREN'S PLAY 21711DnIlG Golden Gate park; deetrelred lire Sweeping In All Directions, Threatening Total De- struction of City.

lire Susping In All Directions I- TL.Atanniner TAIRI 11A Threatening Total De- structin of City' WS IOW SIVII IP JO BIG BUILDINGS III REIS! 1 I 1 I was destroyed by the seismic shock. One report from Palo Alto says that only one of the malortificent buildings remains standIrtir. while another report says that Conditions are not quite as bad. 1 275 Lunatics Slain. At Agnew.

an insane asylum, containing nearly TOO patients, collapsed at the tirst shock. At 9 o'clock 1 dead bad been re. vioved from the ruins, leaving 150 still burled. Two hundred lunatics are roaming the country At San Jostl the Vendome hotet emit Its annex were bad17 wrecked. Ten or Etteen persons were killed In the wreck.

rifty others Were killed In the general wreckage of the town, which Includes all the public issikitAl. 41' son. Was destroyed by the seismic shook. One report from Palo Alto says that only one of ft magnificent buildings remains stand- irtir. while another report says that Conditions are not quite as bad: MALL, southeast 275 Lunatics Slain.

Aame.1,1. At Agnew' an insane asylum, containing early 700 patients. collapsed at the fret chock At 2 o'clock 1 dead bad been re- Moved from the ruins leavisr 13Att1I moved from ths runa, leaving 150 still bur- I i leo. wwo hundred lunatics are roaming the country At San Jostl the Vendome hotel aelt Its anneZ Were badly Wrecked. Te Or Efteen persons 'Were killed In the wreck.

Tifty other' were killed in the gen eral wreckage of the town, which Includes all the public by shock. czErr Notrsri most famous pleasure toppled Into sea by shock. by shock by shock. cmxpll itousri most famous pleasure toppled Into sea by shock. BAICER, Second and Stevenson streets.

u)rJrzz STEVE, sergeant of police; killed at city hall BURGE, PRANK, native of England, 05 years old; killed by walls falling upon him, at Geary street. BRODERICK. PATRICK. Valencia hotel. BITSALACCHI, PHILEP, Ash market, Seventh and Minna.

CARR, WELL1E, 1547A Ellis street. CROWDER, MRS. LENA. 14 Seventh street, relative of Policeman McIntyre. DRITXE.

MRS. MART. rENNzat MAX, policeman; killed at entrance of city ball. GUELLIMAII, VILLIAM, 110 Eddy street GETZ, Sixteenth and Folsom streets. EISLIP, MRS.

IDA, Geary and Stockton streets. HITSTEE, IL 2527 Sutter street ISHIDO. SAKEE, 420 Stevenson street 1r210WE. V7ILLIAM, injured br Panne w0.11 and died at Mechanics' pavilion. MORNTELD, 12 years old; 931 Poisons street.

xis 020 Mission street. LACIAMANDA, 427 Stevenson street. LIND, PETER, Western Meat company. MMICALI, 423 Stevenson street. MINZZ, MYRTLE, 25514 Langdon street; killed under caving wall.

McCffl RL, Third'street. McICZNZIZ, Haight street. PALADINI, LOUIS, Montgomery and Merchant streets. STAGIIAN, GERONIXO, $18 Merchant street STINSON, woU known young physician, killed in his room on the eighth door of the California hotel; Stinson was i bed when the walls crashed and buried him under a pile of debris. SCHWINNET, ADOLPH AND AKELIA, husband and wife, Geary and Howard.

THRAPY, ZOKN, ash market, Montgomery and Sacramento streets. TAIL. WELLIA11, 4 years old; 280 Stevenson street. WEEELAN, ANNIE, killed while asleep in her bed at home, 2782 Sacramento street; the chimney of an adjoining cottage fell upon the roof under which the girl was sleeping and she was buried under the brick and mortar. WEBSTER, ANNA, 14 Williams street.

BLYCER, Second and Stevenson streets. it Etaratz STEVE. S. sergeszt of police; kMed at city hall BITIIGE, FRANK. native of Lifland.

IS5 years old; killed by walls falling upon him, at 235 Geary street PHILIPP 21 larirmt1 and cm, WELL1E, 1547A Ellis street. CROWDER, 3ERS. LENA. 14 Seventh street, relative of Policeman McIntyre. rEmat MAX.

policeman; killed at entrance It Ian otrzuntAx; WILLIAM 110 Eddy street MRS IL A. 2527 Setter street IDA. Geary and Stockton streets. 1 GETZ MESLIE Sixteenth and Folsom streets. EDSTEL, KNOWE.

WILLIA. Injurd br fa ISH.11)0. SAMIE. 420 iltevenses street Mellin wall AZI IV NV za-LIAx, injured or ramnit WLIL Led died at Mechanics' perinea. XORNFELD.

12 years old; 931 Folsom Itx" laNCI 20 Xi 0 9stion street- LACIALMANDA 427 Stevenson street LIND, PETER, Western Meat company. MITIKAL 423 Stevenson street. RINSE, MYRTLE. 25514 Langdon street; killed under caving wall. MOCANN, Third'street.

McICZNZIE, 115 Haight street. I-MARINI, LOUIS, Montgomery and Merchant streets. STAGIIAN, GERONIXO, ills Merchant street STINSON, well known young physician, killed In his room on the eighth floor of the STINSON, woU known young physician, killed in Ids room on the eighth doer of the California hotel; Stinson was bed when the walls crashed and buried him under a vile of debris. resort and Dhow place; resort and show place; CONCOZDIA CLUB Etaxinnta, Southeast corner Van Ness avenue and Post street; fissures in the side and rebuilding will be necessary. COLUSSNIA TEEATZ21, I Powell street; destroyed by 'earth Cliff House and All Its Occupants Reportei Dashal Into Sea.

NOTED RESORT BLOTTED OUT CONCOZDIA CI Iff House and All Its cell- CLUB BUILDI th NG, soueast corner Van Ness aye- HIJIDBEDS DIE III TOWNS I nue and Post street; fissures in the side and rebuilding will pants Reportei Bestial be necessary 1 Powell street; destroyed by earth- COLUMBIA ino ea. unirn nrqnnT ni IITTrn MIT NOTED RESORT BLOTTED OUT quake. CROCKEII-WOOLWOZTZ 3317axia, Junction of Post and Market streets; burned- DEPAZI-MENT south side Market, between Fourth and Fifth streets; damaged. xxiitarmat livrtzprisre, southeast corner Market and Third 111.101014 CROCKEB-WOOLVIOZTZ Butulnina, junction of Post and Market streets; burned. EMPORIUM EMPAZTMESIT BTORE, south side Markets be- tween lrourth and Fifth streets; damaged.

ZDEPOILITTIC DEPARTMENT STORE, south Side Market, be- Fifth sres amage. tween Fourth an EXAMINER litnixprisre, southeast corner Market and Third Surrounding Country I Is Dayastated by-the Earthquake and the Resulting Fires. Surroundi ng Country Is Da yastated iy-the Eartshrinaka and th a Resellin Fires. g' tug ilikpiit tae aulting Fires. streets; collapsed streets; collapsed.

DESTROYED. MONADNOCE BUILDING, 11 stories. being built; front cracked by earthquake and sides fell out. MUTUAL LIFE California and Sansome streets; twelve stories; destroyed by are. IrAT0314 BUILDING.

Second and Market streets; destroyed by fire. zZikra. BurramorG; wrecked by earthquake. ODEPELLOWIP MALL, southwest corner Market and Seventh streets; burned. ORPEEUM TMEATER, 119-11 O'Farrell street; destroyed by fire.

O'PA1LRELL STORE; ivrecked by fire. PACIFIC STATE8 smx.Byzoirn COMPANY. Rialto building. Mission and Market streets; destroyed by fire. pActrzo UNION CLUE, northeast cornet, Post and Stockton streets front Injured and fissures in rear wan.

PACIFIC MUTUAL, INSURANCE CO. BUILDING, northeast-corner Montgomery and Sacramento streets; burned. BLEratoTT Burramire, south side Market. between Fourth and Fifth streets; damaged. PALACE MOTEL, southwest corner Market and New Montgomery streets; burned to ground at I p.

loss $1,000.000. PLAN junction Market and O'Farrell streets; wrecked by lire. POSTAL BurraaNG, 614 Market street; shattered by collars of Hobart building; wrecked by tire. POSTOPPICE, east side Seventh street; between Mission and Stevenson; collapsed. SAE' PRANCISCO GAS A3fD ELECTRIC COMPANY'S POST STREET PLANT; damaged.

SANTA 11E 110UNDEOUSE AND STACEINE SEOPS at Point Richmond; collapsed. ST. DOMINIC'S CMRCM AND MONASTERY, in Pierce street; total loss; Interior of church wrecked and large fissures In the walls. The parochial house. In the same block.

Is a partial wreck. The loss to the parish is 9300.000. SPRECEZELS BUILDING, seventeen stories high. southwest cor- ner Market and Third streets; wrecked by lire. ST.

FRANCIS MOTEL. Union square; exterior cracked and seamed. 4 EPISCOPAL CIEURCE, Van Ness avenue and Clay street; will have to be pulled down. IT. IGNATIUS AND COLLEGE, north side of Hayes: between 'Van Ness avenue and Franklin street; burned: cost 92.000,000.

4 IT MAZD5 in charge Sisters of Mercy. northwest corner First and Bryant streets; burned. SFRECXEMEt, CLAIM. MOUSE AND STABLES, southwest Der, Van Ness avenue and Clay street; badly damaged and will have to be rebuilt. STUDZBAICER OLZILIAGE FACTORY.

Tenth and Market streets, top floor caved in. wrecking entire building. SUNSET TELEPEONEI BUILDING, Bush street; destroyed by amuse JwillgJOIL 11 stories. being built; front cracked by earthquake sides fell out artiTlfgEE LIED 1317EILDESG, California and Sansome streets; twelve stories; destroyed by are nurrintorG; wrecked by earthquake. ITATtliarril4e.

MITELDING. Second and Market streets; destroyed by zri Zikra ILitia southwest corner Market and Seventh ODEPELLOWEP streets; buraid. streets; burned. ORPEE1721 TREATER, 119-11 O'Farrell street; destroyed by tire. O'FARRELL gTORE; reeked by tire.

Rialto bu CO STATE8 wELEpEolrn MEPAlfir. ilding. Mission and Market streets; dhstroyed by fire. pAczno UNION CLUB, northeast corner Post and Stockton strepts: front Injured and fissures In rear wall. PACTFIO stuTuALL EBTECRANCE CO- 713CrLDr Naw no'rtheast- corner Montgomery and Sacramento streets; burned.

PA-SLEOTT BUILDING. south side Market. between Pourth and Fifth streets; damaged. PALACE MOTEL, southwest corner Market and New Montirom- ery streets; burned to ground at p. loss $8,000.000.

PlECLAN BUILDING, junction Market and O'Farrell streets; wrecked by fire. POSTAL BUILDING, 634 Market street; shattered by C011aPle wrecked by fire. POSTAL BUILDING, 634 Market street; shattered by collapse of Hobart building; wrecked by tire. POSTOPPICE, east side Seventh between MISSIOU and Stevenson; collapsed. BULLETIN.

BULLETIN. 7 SCENES OF HORROR ALL DAY. SCENES OF NACTOILIES; many were destroyed by earthquake and dames; names of buildings not given. ITEM ROUSE adjoining California hotel In Bush street; Chief Sullivan and wife, sleeping In engine house, severely bruised by bricks crashing through the roof' from hotel; Sullivan died In the afternoon. bILILNET, Clay and Merchant streets; collapsed.

burying persons In wreckage. 4 moon BUILDING, southwest corner Market and 'Fourth streets; damaged. ACTOR-TESS; naany were destroyed by earthquake and dames; 1- LosAngeles. Cal April 19. 1 a.

rm--tSpte Santa at 11 o'clock last night. got a bulletin saying that the earthquake at San Francleco. at o'clock last night was the worst yet- San Erancisco. Cal, April 19 I a. m.It looks now as if the entire city would be The Merchante Exchange building, one of the handsomest and most substantial edifices in the city.

Is in flames. as is also the Crocker-Woolworth bank building. The former building is a fourteen storY structure, seven floors of which are occupied by the Southern Pacific railway company as offices. Ars on A In sraLIAA Ara 1 A rtvtli 10 I ma I' etorr GAB WORKS, out of Market street; blown tap. GORE BLOCZ, Market and Pine streets; wrecked by fire.

GRANT BUILDENG, 1096 Market street; damaged. GRAND OPERA MOUSE, north side Missouri. between Third s.nd Fourth streets; entirely destroyed by fire. GRAND ItOTEL, southeast corner Market and New Montgomery streets; destroyed by fire. RAWSILAIA 21ATX18.

Post street. near Olympia club; walls are badly warped and twisted and roof fallen In. 210118A2T BUILDING, 682 Ntarket street; roof caving in from earthquake; ruins burned. 310Tii; IITAANADA. 1000 Butter street; badly damaged; stone UPKthil BtrazonEG, Pine and Battery; destroyed; loss $550.000.

UNION TRUST COMPANY ButrzorerG; blown up by dynamite. UNION PEWIT DEPOT, water front- at East street; Injured. VALENCIA. NOTED, Valencia street; wrecked by earth. quake.

toppling Into street. burying seventy-five persons. lreaaauut, PECX its CO. wholesale grocers. 3114S? East Street damaged by fire.

'toping about roof fell. iTAxatuf-Alccaicait Butz BUILDING, southeast eorner Montgomery and Sacramento streets; burned. KINGSLEY ROTEL, Seventh street between Howard and Mis-. sion; collapsed and caught lire, trapping eighty LICE MOUES, west side Montgomery, between Sutter and Post streets; walls and roof largely caved in. irPPMAN B3103, DWI' GOODS STOZE, Twenty-second and Mission streets; destroyed by fire.

MACH DRUG COMPANY, 13 and 15 Premont street; destroyed by lire. MAJESTIC THEATER, purchased by the weeks ale for $80,000, was to have been opened by them with Sarah Bernhardt MECHANICS' 1NsTrruTz. Library building. i Post street; cornices fell to street; building slightly Injured. MERCHANTS' BUILDING, 431 California street; burned.

MILLS BUILDING, northeast corner and Bush streets; burned. Mills Building Ilemmed In. The Crocker-Woolworth building is a twelve story terracotta and granite structure. and stands directly opposite the Palace hotel. The Immense D.

O. Mills building is axle-rounded by fire. and will probably succumb. The Lick house, Occidental hotel, and Russ house, in this Immediate vicinity, are In minent danger Cliff House a Ruin. Prom the tliff house comes word that the great 'pleasure resort and show place of the 4 city.

which toed upon a foundation of solid rock, has been swept Into the sea. Not a. thing stands to tell where the mon ster stone building once ortood, It has been leveled to the foundation and only the rock lining the seacoast remains Intact. note' Noted aesort The Cliff house stood on a. rocky bluff over, looking the Pacifies ocean.

It was probably fifty or sixty feet Nova the water and was a. favorite resort for thousands on bright days. both winter and summer. It was a favorite pastime of visitors there to sit on the west of. tbe hotel and watch the hundreds of sea lions and seals bluff over- as probably ter and was a on bright isitore there is hotel and ks and seals wzmprzzar UNION 3317ILDEBTG, Pine and Montgomery streets; wrecked by fire and blown up bt dynamite.

virurrE zotrsz, largest department store In city, northwest corner Kearny and Post streets; walls badly cracked; sill plate glass windows gone; every piece of stock in building removed before 9:30 a. in. WIIECIIISTEll MOTEL, Third atreet; totally destroyed by shock. 't i buildings. Death and liesolation Everywhere.

The same story- of death and devastation come from Sante Crux. Monterey. Gilroy, and The death list at Santa Cruz 1. reported to be large. At Salinas, down the coast near Monterey.

the town practically was destroyed and the damage to property is estimated at upward of $1.000.000,, with ten reported dead. Sacramento, Stockton. Wattionville, and other towns report huge Redwood, City. Menlo Park. and Burlingame alsoArufterect.

Prince Suburbs Suffer. Across the bay from San Francisco the destruction was great. but the conditions there are much better than in San Francisco. At Berkeley. the seat of the University of California.

many buildings were thrown down, and the university buildings themselves were cracked. damaged, and shaken to their foundations. The dead In Oakland. Alameda, and Berkeley are numerous. but no detailed accounts or records have been received here.

Mounds of Devastated But the great disaster, the full weht of the earthquake, fell upon San FraneUscoq---- The area burned over is bounded by Valle-So, owar6, East, arid Sansome streets-- which 'embraced' practically the entire sale district of the city, the line retell district and office building district along Sian- some and California streetsand the great commercial and banking district along California street, where most of the banking and brokerage houses of the city ard Iucated. Block after block of banking hcuses are now masses of red hot ruin. and it will be months before the money that was housed In their valuable vaults can be reachea, District a Ruin. The second district that was swept clean by the lire is that bounded by Second. Market.

Eighth. and Fulton streetsthat Is, from the Tinton station on the' water front at the foot of Market street back to Eighth. This district contains the finest Moe build-Inge. hotels, retail stores theaters, and shops, of the city. The landmarks of the cityits show places the Spreckels building, the Call building, the great Phelan, block, and the immense Palace hotels said to be one of thelargest in the world, practically are in ruins.

The Majestic, the Grand. the and the Orpheum theaters are piles of smoking ruins. ChIliatown Wiped Out. Chinatown Is now a The Chinese theaters and joss houses are in ruins and rookery after rookery has collapsed, covering alive hundreds of the celestials. Panic reigns among the countless thousands of the Chinese, and they ell the streets.

dragging whatever they could save from the wrecks. The Japanese quarter has been burned out and from the part not destroyed the people have Bed in terror. The fiameswept area covers over ten square miles. Another Shock at Night. night descended upon the city of death and destruction the fact that there are no lights brought on fresh terror, which was accentuated by the third sharp shock, which came just before dark.

As the. flames spread into the residence districts people left their homes and fled to the parks and squares. The city resemble one vast shambles with the red glare of the ars throwing weird shadows across the worn and panic-stricken faces of the homeless, who are wandering the streets or sleeping on piles of mattresses and clothing In the parks and on the sidewalks In those districts not yet reached by the fire. Scene of Dire Grandeur. Forgetting for a moment the terrible suffering, physical and financial, that trail in the wake of the the scene presented by the flame is one of unspeakable grandeur.

Looking over the city from a tittch tin In the 'western addition the flame can be seen rolling for mileatand miles, while In the midst of the tongues of red fins can be seen the black skeletons and falling towers of the doomed buildings. At regular intervals the booming of the dynamite tells of the work of the brave army of men-that are atterriptineto MeV. the city from complete annihilation. The troops from the Presidio, the Thiv buildings. I JAMUL and llesOlatiOn Ev here.

The same story of death and devastation comeo from Santa Crux. Monterey. Gilroy. and Hollister. The death list at Santa Cruz comeo from Santa Cr.

Monterey. Gilroy. and Hollister. Ths death list at Santa Cruz if reported to be large. At Salinas, down the coast near Moitterey tho town practically was destroyed.

and the DAMAGE IN OTHER CITIES. 4 PALO ALTO-Leland Stanford Jr. university practically de- YALLE30Some damage to property; loss no liveS lost. stroyed; one report says only one building Is left standing; REDWOOD CITYCourthouse and other buildings collapsed loss many millions of dollars; several lives lost. SACRAMENTOBuildinge rocked like cradles; postotfice and AGNEWSInsane asylum 'decked by quake and subsequently few brick buildings.

damaged. burned; 275 inmates others roaming around country. and ball of railroad track sunk three to six feet sugar factory destroyed; loss loaded passenger train nearly engulfed. High School building. Elks' hall, Masonic temple.

armory. SANTA BOSACourthouse reported demolished and SOO per-city hall, K. of P. building. Oddfellows building many bust- sons killed; tify in flames; loss.

$1,000.000. nese houses completely destroyed. WATSONVELLZ--Moreland s.cademy destroyed by are; several A San Francisco, April 18. ISpeciatlThe heart of San Francisco is in ruins and only a miracle can save the city front almost total destruction. A stupendous earthquake shattered the city.

Fire followed natures upheaval and increased the damage thousandfold. Fight Losing Battle with Fire. A3 day and into the night men have fought I loeng battle with the flames, and at this hew it looks se if the limit of bum resistance has been reached. la will be a week before the roll of the dead I. known.

Tonight, the earlier. reports -of 1,000 slain which were thought to be gaggeratea ere sadly admitted to be undrestimated If i The seriously injured will reach total of IMO, while 100,000 persons are homeless. the property toes at 8 o'clock was estimated 613200.000.000. It has grown since then, and increasing every hour. Death Comes with the the lirst shock.

which lasted almost five minutes, and which atarted the wrecking' of the city. came just at daybreak. and through a day of terror the people have fought. aided by soldiers to check the following 11 that have burned over ten square miles of the heart of the city. destroyed more than 130 city blocks.

besides the small fires that rage bi different parts of the town. At midnight the fire stM is burning Eercely in every -direction. checked on two aides by the Water of the, bay. and held back from the other two and from the main residence districts by the half gale that has fanned Its all day. No Water to Tight Blames.

he firemen and the 4.000 soldiers who are 1 fighting the fames and rescuing the dead end injured have labored all day without 'ater for the earthquake snapped the water mains and left the city helpless. Dnamite and powder were the only stencles left with which to battle. Many of the finest buildings in the city were kvea' to the ground by terrific charges at explosives in the hopeless effort to stay the horror of Are. In this work heroic sol, diem. policemen, and firemen were maimed et killed Flames Furnish Only Light tonight San rrancisco Is without street tar service.

There is no light, except the Are of the flames--for the gas plants have blown' up or shut off for purposes of safety and the earthquakes destroyed the mach1- 11117 in the elettric light Netrit a quarter of the population of the titY either has fled to the hills and other sup4 FZtll Points of greater safetyor axe home. leo tonight. Martial law ha been proclaimed. nearly I 4400 soldiers are patrolling the streets with orders to ahoot all vandals. i i While the center of the earthquake was in 1 din Francisco, the destruction and death toter the coast for miles, and the scenes In 11111 Francisco are being duplicated on a entailer scale in half a dozen of the nearer trundreds Dead at Santa Rosa.

Rant is a total wreck and there are IIMCO homeless In the city. The loss of life 4. PrlblY wilt reach into the hundreds. The 'r "halt business portion of the city is tumbled t-, ruins." Mein street is piled on either II4 mane' feet deep with fallen buildings Xot one business building is left intatt. The tvizr story courthouse Is a pile of broken 464427.

What was not destroyed by earth- take' nee wept by fire. The citizens have Ul to thee fields and hills to watch the de- 1 struction of the city. Tits water system was eettroled by the earthquake. Great trniversity a Wreck. 'I, 1 Leland Stanford given to the 1 Deoni ts ur ars.

Stanford In memory other I San Francisco 1.9.peciaLlThe I ruins and only trona samost tot A stupendous eity. 111re folio increased the 0s1 Fight Loal A.3 day and int I losing battle hoz it looks sA statues has bet itwIllbeawes I. known. 1,000 slain "hie' gsratetV art sad touted if anyti The seriously ADA while The property 1, 613200.000,000. increasing set Death Co The first shoc minutes, and wl the city.

Came jt a daY of terror 111 soldiers. to that have burn1 the heart of thi 130 city blocks. rage In differet midnight the fir every -direction. water of the bs etter two and tricts by the hs ell day. No Wat, he firemen al tfhting the tial and injured ha, rater.

for the water maths an Dinamite ani atencles left ef the finest 1 to the et explosives in the horror of fit diets, policemen et LUI.d outrigl Flames, Tonight Ban ear service. etre of the film b' 'D111 uP or sht and the earthq 1117 in the slot Neal'', a Alum 1 1 1 buildings collapsed. 3CONTEILEYChimney fell through roof of hotel, killing a bride and groom and a hotel 1COLZISTEISGrangers' union ivareholuse destroyed; woman killed, her husband went Insane. BAN JOSEMany, buildings wrecked; sixty-five persons killed. NAPAMan buildings shattered; no loss of life reported; property loss, 8300.000.

STOCKTONSanta F6 bridge over San Zoacitan river settled several Inches. terror was at height. When the sun at last broke through the mist that drove In from the bay and the people saw and lealized the devastation hope almost lett them. Women lay down in the streets to await the death that seemed Inevitable. Others fainted ana lay where they fell.

Humanity Was forgotten, and the primal instinct of man seized on the people. The dead and helpless were left where they fell in that first wild frenzy of terror. Men In the dellrum of fright leaped over forms that lay In their way and ran on, not knowing where they wet. going. Impelled only by the dread of unseen horror and for lite; Before the first.

rush of horror had passed the tho.usande of persons, and children of every national1t3r and color were streaming down Market street to the ferries. Out on the bay away from the toppling swaying buildings and the horror of death and' desolation seemed the only place of safety. Order and sanity were thrown, to the winds. Panto Seizes Whole City. None knew where to turn.

They fiedlike panio-stricken animals towards any place that offered shelter, finding death or Injury In the open streets, and fearing each Instant that a new shock would bring their homes down upon them, At hundreds of places the streets had opened from the shock. especially in the made land At others, where the watermains had burst, basements were flooded. streets torn up. and buildings undermined. names Burst from Ruins.

Hardly were the people of the hill district out of 'their houses when the dawn to the east was lit up In a dozen places by fires which had started In the business district below. The first of these came with a sheet of fire which burst out somewhere in the warehouse district, near the water front. Men from all over the upper part of town streamed down the hills to help. There were no cars running and none could, for the slots of the cable care and the very tracks were bent and tossed with the upheavals of the ground. The fire department responded.

Chief Sullivan of the fire department was egad, killed by the cupola of the California hotel, which had fallen through the roof of the fire house where he was sleeping. His assistant rang In a general alarm. The firemen, making for the nearest points. got their hoses out. There was one rush of water and the flow stopped.

No Water to Fight Fire. The great water which carries the chief water supply of San Francisco ran through the ruined district. It bad been broken, an the useless water was spurting up through the ruins In a dozen places. The firemen stood helpless, while fire after fire started In the ruined houses. Most of these seem to have been caused by the Ignition of gas from the gas mains, which were also broken.

The flames would rush up with astonishing suddenness, and then smolder in the slowly burning redwood of which three quarters of San Francisco Is When day came the smoke hung over aU the business part of the Farther out nres were going in the Hayes Valley a middle class residence district, and in the old mission part of the city. Fight Fire with Dynamite was the only thing left with which the fire might be fought and this was b-u-II--t- When day came the smoke hung over aU the business part of the Farther out gees were going in the Hayes Valley a mid- res die, class idence district, and in the old mission part of the city. PI ht lire with risrsernite irks the only thine left with O. i 1. 1 contorted.

In place the tracks bay. sunk ten feet, in other places they bare been torn to pieces. It will be days before the city can communicate with its sister cities by railway, and appeal for food and fresh water to be sent by steam'ers from coast points are; beteg sent 1 which congregate on a large rock about 200 feet from the mainland. In stormy weather the waves frequently swept over the top of the building. Gift of Sutro Baths.

One hundred yards north of the Cliff house are situated the famous Sutro baths. which were built Into the rocky bluff. The bathe ars constructed of steel and brass and ere said to be among the finest In the world. They were built at a cost of about half a million dollars by the late Adolph Sutro. who.

before his death. gave them to the city of San IPTIMCISCO. The great structure Is about 000x300 feet and the top le probably 2)0 fest above the ocean. tlere on Sundays and holidays thousands of boys and girls gathered to swim, both winter and summer. Fire Spreading Everywhere.

Oakland. Cal, April lire Is Increasing In violence. It Is spreading in all di-. rections in both the business and residence It Is reported that while a building as being blown Up with dynamite a premature explosion killed fifteen men. The Terminal hotel at the water front and Market street.

fell and buried tweniy persons under the These were Incinerated and there is no possibility of learning their Identity. ch about 200 1 my weather ths top of Is probably MO test holidays thousands to swim. both I. Le )IIity of learzdzig b. 1 i screamed to each others begging for help and asking each other what bad happened.

Many fled in terror to the basementa--others fainted or fell terrorized in their.own homes. They were safer than those who rushed Into the streets at tbe first awakeningtop these were struck down by showers of falling brick. Buildings Sway and Crumble. Buildings tottered on their Some rose and fell, and, when falling. the fronts or sides burst out as if from explosions, hurling tons of brick.

mortar and timbers Into the streets. Great rents opened la the ground. 'rhos, who remained indoors generally escaped death or injury. except In cases where the entire buildings C011apsed, although hundreds were hurt by falling plaster. pictures.

or flying glass: It is believed that there are more or less Injured persons In every family. in the, city. The great skyscrapers stood the strain much better than the brick building, or even the heavy stone ones, and but few of them were badly damaged by the Sint shoCk, most of them standing, with the terra cons. brick. or stone filling burst out, mere skeletons of their former appearance, waiting for the fire to complete the destruction.

There were exceptions even to this. The great eleven story Monadnock Mc building, in course of construction, which adjoined the Palace hotel. was an exception, part of it falling while the rear wall and great cracks were made across the front Dawn Lights Up Horror. The dawn was Just breaking when the to complete the destruction. Ther were exceptions even to this.

The great eleven story Monadnock ogle buildin g. in course Of construction, which adjoined the palace hotel. was an exception -part of it falling while the rear wall collapsed. and great cracks were made across the front 1:111. 7, teenth infantry from Angel island the coast artillery.

and the militia are patrolling the streetswith orders to shoot at any person seen robbing the dead or wounded or looting the wrecked storesso that it practically is impossible to cross the streets. Blames Creeping on Dead and Injured. The worst feature of the night is that the temporary morgue and hospital. established in Mechanics pavillon. now crowded with the dead and Injured, is threatened with detruction by fire.

The troops. the tremen. and the police are Judng dynamite to hold back the flames from the building, but are holding men in readiness to move the wounded if the area reach the etructurs. Leave Dead to Burn. Through all the streets automobiles and express wagons are hurrying, carrying the dead and injured to the morgues and the hospitals.

At the morgue in the hall of justice. fifty bodies were on the slabs. The Eames rapidly approached this building and the work of removing the bodies to Jackson square. opposite. began.

While the soldiers and police were carrying the dead to what appeared safe places. a shower of bricks from a building dynamited to check the progress of the sweeping fames injured many ot tho workmen and sent soldier after soldier hurrying to the hospital. The work of removing the bodies stopped and the remainder of the dead were left to possible cremation in the morgue. City Shut Off from World. offers of relief have poured in all dayfrom Ievery directionbut tre city is isolated from the World except by telegraph.

The railway tracks for miles are destroyed, twisted, and A The greatest fear now Is that pestilence will follow the disasters and the city authorities and the health department are striving to arrange for a fresh water supply for the city, immediately. Number of Dead Never It will be many days before the complete etory of the ruin wrought by ill double calamity of earthquake and lire that visited San Francine will be written and then there will still remain untold countless tales of pitiful tragedy. The exact lose of life will IIver be known as hundreds of unfortunates have been Incinerated In the flames which mad. the rescue of those buried under toppling steeples and falling walls imposilble. Boar Precedes First Shock.

The Iirst shock was at 11:13. and It came without warning save a slight reverberating rharb the motion of the earth being from east to west The upheaval was gradual. and for a few seconds It seemed as if the entire city eras being lifted slowly upward. and then, after perhaps live seconds of the sickening rising sensation the shock Increased In vio 'c city then, vio its ot no, nl Moo. It to wort )041.

re Ds oi n4ol, Lturo to lite )041. re used wherever It was thought the Barnes might be checked. Mayor Schmitz. aroused from his bed by the shock. runhed to his -office in the ciLY Mel, hurrying through showers of brick and stoneonly to discover- that the new city hall, built at a cost of over $7.000.000, was a wreck.

The roof had fallen. the walls were bulged. the lowersexcept the main, domebad crushed down into the courtyard. and the destruction seemed complete. His first appeal was for the troops from the Presidio but he discovered that Abe police his bed Isv stoneonly to discover- that the rew city kali, built at cost of over $7.000000, was a wreck.

The roof had fallen the walls lvere bulged. the lowersexcept the main, domebad crushed down into the courtyard. and the de- struction seemed complete. Ilis first ttnnest wee for the troont from the 1 lence. Chimneys began to fall, the houses trembled violently, swayed, and some fell with crashes.

In 11.11 instant the panto began. People driven from their beds ran -nnelothol Into the Streets'. screaming, crying', and pritying.rThey mbled 'eople A All ma 1 1 tw.