The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • 14

tos MnmkB Daihi (Limes. 14 THURSDAY, APRIL miOCHt, HALF OF THE CITY LYING IN RUINS. tBY THE ASSOCIATED TRUSS P.M. '1 I SAN FRANCISCO, April 18. Earthquake and fire today have put nearly half of San Francisco in ruins.

At least 200 people have been killed, a thousand others injuerd and the property loss will exceed $100,000,000. I Thousands of people are homeless and destitute, and all day long streams of people have been fleeing from the stricken fev? '''i-'i' A I VV i -v, I Hi jS, MsK.M---,....tuuaii&.-:. .,,,.311 wmmf-mmft'it iwV-SS! ts till- fit t4ij'ir i districts to places of safety. FIHES IIAGE ALL DAY. The furious fires have been raging all day, and the fire department has been powerless to do anything except to destroy the building threatened.

All day long explosions have shaken the city, and added Following the first shock ,4 1 minutes, but not nearly so severe. Three hours later there was another slight quake, and reports from districts outside of San Fancisco indicate widespread damage. PALACE AND GRAND GONE. Union Square, San Francisco, Cal. Th Call Building Is the tall structure In the center.

HUNDRED THOUSAND All efforts to prevent the and Grand Hotels were unsuccessful, and both were com pletely destroyed, together with all their contents. BEST THEATERS IN RUINS. PEOPLE HOMELESS. Qen. Funston Wires War Department That Tents and All the Rations Can Be Sent to San Francisco Are Needed.

All of San Francisco's Majestic, Columbia, Orpheum a tK7 ss of ruins. The earthquake demolished them for all prae tical purposes, and the fire completed the work of destruction i ufir I 111 "nil mm 11,1 11M1 .11 11 r. 1 The handsome Rialto and BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS P.M. ClauB Spreckela (Call) Building. (Destroyed.) Corner of Third and Market Streets.

319 feet high. This was Francisco. CITIZENS' COMMITTEE. A general meeting of the Citizens'; Committee has been called burned to the ground, as was everything in that district. MECHANICS' PAVILION MORGUE.

The scene at the Mechanics' Pavilion during the early hours of the morning and up until noon when all the injured and dead were removed because of the threatened destruction of the building by fire, was one of indescribable sadness. Sisters, brothers, wives arid sweethearts searched early for some missing dear ones. Thousands of persons hurriedly went through the building inspecting the cots on which tfie sufferers lay, in the hope that they would find some Wed one that was missing. THE CORPSES LAID OUT. The dead were placed in one portion of the building and the re-mainder was devoted to hospital purposes.

After the fire forced the nurses and physicians to desert the building, the eager crowds followed them to the Presidio and the Childrens' Hospital, where they renewed their search for missing relatives. Up to late this afternoon, more than seven hundred and fifty persons who were seriously injured by the earthquake and the fire iad been treated at the various hospitals throughout the city. for tomorrow morning. It is probable that even with the spirit and willingness shown by the people of San Francsco outside aid will be necessary. "TTT ASHINGTON, April J8.

The first message received from I Geo. 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 is destroyed and about 100,000 people are homeless. Fire still raging. Troops all on duty assisting police.

Loss of life probably 1000. Best part of residence district not yet burned. Funstcn." Orders will go forward from the War Department tomorrow morning to the adjacent posts to carry out Gen. Funston's recommendations. Gen.

A. W. Greely can throw 3000 soldiers Into the city from the Presidio and fortifications adjoining San In the Presidio there are three companies of the Fourteenth Cavalry, three batteries of field artillery and ten companies of Coast Artillery. At Fort Mason, there are two companies of engineers. Fort McDowell has five companies of infantry, Fort Baker has two companies of Coast Artillery and at Alcatraz there are five more companies of infantry.

The total number of tents available is 3345. In an emergency temporary shelter can be afforded by these tenta to accommodate 3000 persons. The Pacific squadron, under the command of Admiral Goodrich, sailed yesterday from San Diego for San Pedro Bay. Secretary Bonaparte said this squadron' can be sent to San Francisco without delay in case Its assistance Is needed. TWENTY BLOCKS AFLAME.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS P.M. NEW YORK, April 18. The Western Union Is In receipt of a dispatch from their chief operator at San Francisco, filed about 8:30 p.m., San Francisco time, In which he states that he has been along Montgomery street to the section formerly occupied by the Western Union building. He says that this whole section is aflame, and is surrounded by United States troops. The block bounded by Montgomery, Bush, Pine and Sansome streets is doomed.

Fifteen or twenty blocks along the water front are now a mass of flames. MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT. A message from the President was received this morning, and it had a cheering effect. George assistance. QUAKE WORKS HAVOC KILLS THREE MEN.

IN ADJACENT TOWNS. Destructive Effect of the Disturbance Felt in Hollister, Salinas, Watson-ville, Monterey, Redwood City, Stanford and Santa Cruz. STIRRING INCIDENTS The front of the Bailey and Montgomery, fell in killing three Capt. Gleason of the Police at noon by the falling of tiling. NEWSPAPER The stcreotypcrs, and pressmen is soon as the shock was felt, rushed Lacist OF THE CATACLYSM.

tBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS P.M.J Hi the highest office building In San Gould also telegraphed, offering the wreckage of the, building. Railroad employes are working tonight to reach some of those who were buried and who ere believed to be still TEN MEN KILLED. BY DIRECT WIRE TO THE TIMES. SALINAS, April 18. Exclusive Dis patch.

Ten men were killed at Loma Priota, In Santa Cruz county, by a landslide caused by the earthquake. The men were at work In a mill which stood alongside a steep hill. When the shock came an enormous section of the hill dropped bodily upon the mill, burying It and killing every person In It. The names of the dead were not obtainable at Santa Cruz, but the report of the calamity has been confirmed tonight from that city. FELT AT SAN BERNARDINO.

BY DIRECT WIRE TO THE TIMES. 1 SAN BERNARDINO, April 18. Exclusive Dispatch, San Bernardino was shaken at 4:20. The town clock was stopped by the vibration which destroyed San Francisco this morning. Miss Mattie Blosser of San Francisco, superintendent of the Penal Mission, became temporarily insane as a result of reports from San Francispo, and rushed wildly down the street predict-lng the destruction of San WOMAN KILLED AT HOLLISTER.

BY DIRECT WIRE TO THE HOLLISTER. April 18. Exclusive Dispatch.) Six. buildings were wrecked here by the earthquake, but only one life was lost. The Grangers' Union building, the largest In the city, was demolished.

The wife of Dr. Griffith' was caught under falling timbers and instantly killed. Dr. Griffith was struck on the head by a falling timber and rendered unconscious for a time. he was restored to consciousness and was told of the death of his wife he became Insane and it was necessary to restrain him.

The property loss ill amount to more-than J100 000. TWO KILLED AT STANFORD. BY THE ASSOCIATED STANFORD. April 18. Stanford and Palo Alto suffered considerably by the earthquake.

At Stanfrbd many of the handsome buildinss were demolished and two people were killed. One of them was Junius Robert Halls cr Bradford. and the other was Otto Gurts. a fireman. Six other students are lying In the Palo Alto Hospital with bruises, cuts and internal injuries.

These ars: Ross Howard of San Francisco; Henry Dearlny of Santa Ana; Frolll, Halbert R. Thomas of Los Angeles; Robert W. Westwlck of Santa Barbara, snd W. Masters of Portland. Or.

OTHER CITIES tBY THE ASSbciATKD PRESS P.H.! OAKLAND, April 18. Passenger? arriving from other cities in California bring tales of death and disaster from nearly all, Santa Crus. Monterey, Gil-joy and HolliUer are reported recked. death lis: at Santa Crus is reported large. Vs it one exception, r.wM.rj at S'snrsird I.

niversity were Zo lives were tost. v. i i to the terror of the inhabitants. there was another within five fire from reaching the Palace best playhouses, including the and Grand Opera-house, are Casserly Buildings were Building on Clay street, near men. Department was seriously, injured ASSISTANCE.

of the Examiner and the Call, out of their buildings and found Fifteen People Lost Their Lives. 4 A "A ous deeds of heroism are reported on all sides. MANY THRILLING RESCUES. There were many thrilling rescues. The deeds of valor performed by firemen and police would fill a volume.

EMPORIUM AND FLOOD BUILDINO The Emporium is reduced to ashes, as is the Flood building. The magnificent new store of Hale Bros, was dynamited in an effort to stop the prog ress of the flames, which ournea witn the same uncontrollable Intensity that was manifested in the Baltimore fire. CITY HALL DESTROYED. The City Hair Is a grand mass of ruins totally destroyed. The surrounding streets' are choked with the debris.

Several other buildings were destroyed, as the huge building tottered to Its destruction. The earthquake which did such terrific damage occurred at 5:16 o'clock precisely. The clock on the dome of the Ferry Building stopped exactly at that time. The Ferry Building Itself was cracked and split, but is still in safe condition. gifigMusigGl PIANO SALE PIANO SALE Many pianos old dilljr.

great aale still sews on. The NEW HIGH GRADE PIANOS FROM JU0 TO $187. cheaper than wa or any ether louse ever could sell them. yOR FUTURE PROTECTION we are not 'advertising prices, but some of the well-known makes we are of-ferlni? are: BAUME1STER. SCHUBERT, WESKR, KRELL.

MA-THUSHEK. FISCHER. KNABE. CHICKERING, HOBART M. CABLE.

CABLE NELSON, SMITH A BARNES, and many others, at prices never before heard of. Select your piano now. NOTHING TO PAY DOWN. You simply pay 12, $4, M. IS per month, or, If you prefer, 60c to $1.60 per week and the moving expenses.

WE WILL GIVE YOU $3S. Corns In tomorrow without fall and learn the prices. OPEN EVENINGS. i gifigMusigGo. C37H39 seeOAimar tos AfistuseM.

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Lot Angelas, Cal. Round-Trip During the summer months to Chicago. New York, Boston and all Eastern Cities, via the Tickets good on trains leaving Los Anjreles at E.50, 5.00 and 11.3up.m. daily, connecting at San Francisco with Overland Limited 1100 a. m.

daily, and Eastern Express 6.00 p.m. daily. K. K. CARISON, Aaent, 03 S.

Spring Street, LOS ANCLES. AN FRANCISCO, April 18. A. H. SHussey came to the station at the Hall of Justice, shortly before 10 o'clock this morning, and told how, at the direction of a policeman whom he did not; know, but whose star number be gave as 615, he had cut the arteries in the wrists of a man pinioned under timbers at' the St Catherine's Hotel.

According to the statement by Hus-sey, the man was begging to be killed, and the policeman shot at him, but his aim was defective, and the bullet went wide of the mark. The officer then handed Hussey a knife with Instructions to cut the veins in the suffering man's wrists, and Hussey obeyed. Chief of Police Dinan directed that Hussey be locked up. There has been no opportunity to investigate his story, but the police believe the awful calamity rendered him insane, and that the incident reported to them has not existed except in the imagination of the man who made the report SUFFERERS TO BE ATTENDED. Mayor Schmitz sent out orders that a coffee house at Stevenson and Third streets had collapsed.

They at once set to work with axes and everything in the way of an implement with which they could provide themselves to rescue those in- TESTIMONIAL TO STEEL. Today's experience has been a testimonial to the modern steal building. A score of these structures were in course of erection, and not one of these suffered. The completed modern buildings were also immune from harm by earthquake. buildings which collapsed were all flimsy wooden or bid-fashioned brick structures.

FIRE FURY WAS WORSE The damage by earthquake does not begin to compare with the loss by fire. The heart of the business section of San Francisco has been destroyed by fire. An area of thickly covered ground of eight square miles has been burned over, and there is no telling when the fire will be under control. MAYOR SCHMITZ ABOUT. Mayor Schmitz was about early, and took measures for the relief and protection of the city.

Gen. Funston was quickly communicated with and by 9 o'clock the Federal soldiers were guarding the streets and assisting the firemen in dynamiting buildings. LOOTERS TO BE SHOT. Gen. Funston realized that stern measures were necessary, and gave orders that looters were to be shot at sight.

Four men were summarily executed before 3 o'clock this afternoon. FOURTEEN HUNDRED TENTS. At a meeting of fifty citizens called by the Mayor, it was announced that 1400 tents would be pitched in Golden Gate Park, and arrangements had been made to feed the destitute in the public squares. THE FINANCE COMMITTEE. A Finance Committee, with James D.

Phelan at the head, was appointed and Mayor Schmitz was instructed to issue drafts for all funds needed on this committee. DESTROYED BUILDINGS, THIRTY THOUSAND. BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS P.M. physical necessities of the; sufferers be first attended Goldberg, Bowen sent word that they have placed all their stores at the disposal of the city, including the provisions contained therein. ESPEE COAL SHEDS SINK.

The sheds over the Southern Pacific's long wharf on San Francisco Bay have completely collapsed, and thousands of tons of coal went into the bay. The long wharf was one of the most important shipping points about the bay, and freight traffic will be Interrupted considerably. OAKLAND SENDS RELIEF. There Is little dynamite available In the city. At 9 o'clock Mayor Schmit sent a tug to Pinole for several cans of the explosive.

He also sent a telegram to Mayor Mott of Oakland. At 10:40 o'clock, he received this reply to his Oakland message: "Three engines an hose companies leave here Immediately. Will be followed by dynamite as soon as obtained." of bodies thus far recovered the figure will be excessive. INDESCRIBABLE CONFUSION. The entire citv presents a scene of indescribable confusion.

The fire fcone is so large that it take3 two and one-half hours to go around It Every automobile, vehicle and wagon in the city was pressed into so-vlce as ambulances. ARMY OF "SPECIALS." Mayor Schmitj appointed 3000 or more special policemen. It is estimated that aside from the city fire department there were 25,000 fire fighters. Marvel- FROM OFFICER OF SANTA FE Trainmaster Klnucan cf the Santa F6 Railroad, who has been in San Francisco, wired that at 7:40 o'clock the entire district bounded by Ferry and California streets on the north, Harrison 'street on the south, and extending for one mile west along Market street, is complete ruin. All ferry slips are wrenched to such an extent that their use has been almost Impossible.

The Saiita F6 road suffered compara- tively little damage, except of- flees in Monadnock Building, I which was absolutely ruined, as was the big structure. -J SACRAMENTO, April 18. A short time after the big shock came a message from Suisun, Solano county, saying that a long section of track had disappeared from view. It was learned later that. In one place between Sprig and Teal stations, in the Suisun marshes, for a distance of one mile and a half, the trade naa sun down three to six feet, and at another point nearly one thousand feet of track went but.

Trains which were dispatched for San Francisco early this morning had to be brought back, and they went to the Bay City by the Lathrop route. The track sunk by the earthquake la near the place where a loaded passen ger train came near going out of sight. It is feared that it win lane several weeks to repair the present collapse, and in the meantime, all trains will be sent by the Stockton route. There are great crevices on eacn Blue of the track through the Suisun marshes, and It is reported that a fcreat ocean of water has flowed over the lowlands between Suisun and Be-necia. 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 tracks dlnappeared.

Reports received from the train dts patcher's office tell of minor earth quake damage at Suisun and Tracy. SANTA ROSA FIRE SWEPT. BY THE ASSOCIATF OAKLAND. April 18. The water Rystem of Santa Rosa was destroyed the earthquake and the place caught fire, the flirtnes sweeping everything before them.

Ten thousand people are homeless ana the loss of lite probably will reach inn the hundreds. Identification so tar The whole business portion of the county tumbled Int ruins. Main strest piled on both sides many reot aeep with fallen buildings. Not one business lulldlng Is left intact. The former four-story Conrthouss a now a pile of broken masonry, nothing ele left.

Citizens fled to the fif Ids and hills to vatch destruction of city. BIO SAN JOSE MORTALITY. BY D1RKCT WIRE TO THE TIMES.) SALINAS, April IS. 11 p.m. I Exclu sive Dispatch.) Later reports from San Jos6 place the number of dead at between 50 and 100.

The information cimes over a railro-id wire to the near- tst point with which connection by telephone remains, It being impossible to get A telegram either to or from San Jose. The new Hall of Justice. Just com pleted at a cost of J300.000. St. Patrick I Church, the Presbyterian Churjh.

tho High School, Rna portion of the state Normal are in ruins. The Vendome Hotel annex collapsed with the first heavy shock, buryln? many guests in the ruins. Thomas O'Toole, a wealthy rancher, well know throughout the Santa Clara Valley, wss taken frcm this building dead. Dr. DeGMW, who slept In his office, was killed "ider the fallln walls of th.

buildlnft. His bodywa taken out of the ruins tals The bodies of eisht Italians wer tiken from the ruins of cheap lodsr-iiig house tifar the railroad yards thU iiiernnon. Many other occupants ts nhice were injured, and it Is lieved there are other bodies SAN FRANCISCO. April 18. Yesterday San Francisco was a thriving city; today she is lrt ashes.

The earthquake which occurred at 6:13 o'clock this morning caused fires to break out in a doien locations. Before the ftre department arrivel, the fires were beyond control, and within one hour It was seen that San Francisco war doomed. HUNDHEDS KILLED. Pen cannot describe the awful scene. Hundreds were killed by falling buildings at the moment of the earthquake.

Hundreds cf injured were imprisoned in wrecked buildings and were roasted to death. Every conceivable conveyance from automobiles to hand carts were pressed into service to convey the Injured and dying to the Improvised -SPREAD OF THE Thirty thousand houses were either partially or wholly destroyed by the earthquake, and the subsequent fire has swept the city frcm one end to the other. Hundreds of buildings are burning without any effort being made to check the fira. By tonight, it is estimated that there will be 150,000 liome-less people, DEAD NOT TO BE ESTIMATED. The numbers of the dead cannot be readily estimated.

Many perished miserably In the broken-down wooden bouses along water front, in Mission and along Market street. Falling walla pinned many victims fast, and they were compelled to suffer untold agonies while fiery names crept toward tlirui. ESTIMATES AT Some that the number of destb wlil reach (he flct're of tut judging from the number Hai! Vendome, San Jose, Where.