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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EACLE. NEW YORK. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 18. 1906.

Suffer SAN FRANCISCO BUSINESS CENTER DAMAGED. Looking South From California and Stockton Streets. Spring Ailments Pimples, boils, eczema and other eruptions, loss of appetite, that tired feeling, fits of biliousness, indigestion and headache, are some of them. They are all radically and permanently cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla, which thoroughly cleanses the blood and restores healthy functional activity to the whole system. This spring take Hood's Sarsaparilla In liquid or tablet form.

100 Doses $1. Is on fire, threatening destruction of the entire block. At Eighteenth and Valencia streets there Is a crevice in the street six feet wide, and entire sidewalks are torn up. The street car tracks are badly twisted all through the southern section of the city, and traffic is at a standstill. At the Southern Pacific Hospital, at Mission and Fourteenth streets, water is being carrSid into the building from outside sources for Ibe iis of the patients.

Many people suffering from injuries are seen on the streets making their way to the different hospitals. Episcopal Church Damaged. The Episcopal Church on Eleventh street is badly damaged, and at the Studcbakcr 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 gut-ten beyond the control of the firemen and flames have leaped to the Winchester Hotel, MARKET STREET, LOCKING SOUTH FROM SPRING VALLEY RESERVOIR HILL "ri This District, Known as the "Mission District," Here Shown, Was the Scene of Great Devastation. From Constipation A Sure and Safe Tii-'ii-( Constipation is most oftrn caused hy a toririd.

liver or failure of the stotunrli aud bowels to perform their proper functions. The ooiitlitiou is commonly tine nt first to irregular habits of living and improper food, and if properly treated can be readily relieved. It in. how. ever, too often 'aggravated nud iniule chronic by the use, oh medicine, of powerful and expensive drugs, which purge and perhaps give temporary relief, lint are so drastic in effect us to' damage the.

tender lining of the stomach and bowels, leaving a condition worse titan tit tifst. This can, however, be iivoitW. and the bowels gently nnd thoroughly opened by the use of Nature's own remedy the famous Natural Mineral Laxative Water IirNYAIU JANOS which has been relieving suffering mankind nil over the world for nearly half a century. One dose. tumblerful, drunk on arising in the morning (slightly wanned for best results), will, within hour, bring a delightful and refreshing relief.

A whole bottle costs but a trifle, nnd it Is best to keep one always on band. Every druggist keeps it. at Mount Weather were clear and distinct. Professor Moore was not prepared to say whether the eruption of Vesuvius has any. thing to do with the present earthquake.

Albany, April 18 The seismograph In th Geological Hal showed marked agitation at 8:26 o'clock this morning and continued tha record for about an hour. The vibration was shown to come from west to east. No person has been found here who perceived the shock. Washington WilTAid Sufferers. Washington, April 18 I'pon hearing th news of the San Francisco earthquake, Assistant Secretary of War Oliver, In the ab sence of Secretary Taft, who is at the capi-tol, telegraphed Major General Grcely, 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 situation there.

Washington, April 18 Repeated attempts were made to-day by the Navy Department to get news of the San Francisco disaster by means of wireless telegraph, but without avail. The navy has a station on Goat Island, which is In San Francisco Bay, and has anotner station on the Farallone Islands, and a third at Point Arguella, near Port Harford, on the California coast, through which It was hoped communication might be established by means of the other two stations with trans-continental telegraph lines. The telegraph communication to the station near Port Tarford has not been com pleted, however, and attempts to get wireless dispatches through were unsoccessful. It Is not believed that the wireless masts on Goat Island have been affected by the earthquake and wireless service would doubtless be possible if land communications could be established with the wirelesa station near Port Harford. THE STRICKEN CITY.

Business and Residential Sections) Where Lives Were lost and Property Wiped Out. Most of the loss of life and damage to buildings caused, by the earthquake in San I Francisco was In the level sections of the) 1 city. The greatest loss of life occurred) south of Market street, In what is knownrt as the mission district, corresponding some-' what to the East Side of Ney York. This is a large residential and manufacturing district, and is the only large level area in the city. Between First and Twentieth streets Is a residential section principally, running through which Is Mission street, on which is located many manufacturing and business concerns, and the new post office and Grand Opera House, which have been damaged.

The Mission district Is the home of th great mass of the working people of the city. Its level streets aro somewhat monotonous, with their two, three and four story redwood frame dwellings, and four and five story apartment houses, also built of redwood. The majority of these apartment houses are occupied by the more prosperous working classes, as were the Kingsley and Valencia, both of which collapsed, burying altogether 150 persons In their ruins. Market Street the Heart of the Business Section. The great main thoroughfare of San Francisco la Market street.

So much is this so, that it can almost be said that there is not another city in the United States which has a single street bearing to Itself such an important relation. Market street divides the city, generally speaking, into the hilly and level halves. Tha many steep hills for which the city is noted are nearly all located north of Market street, and there is as yet no reports of damage to buildings on these hills. The damage that occurred north of Market street was along the water front, and back for a quarter of a mile In the business center, which Is largely built on made ground. Character of the Damaged Section.

What is now Montgomery street tho Wall street of San Francisco was once on tho bay front. A large area, a quarter of a mils wide, was filled in, and on this made ground the greatest damage to the business district occurred. Such buildings as the magnificent new Merchants' Exchange, the finest office, building In the city, was built on this area which was once covered by the water of San Franciseo Bay. The Postal Telegraph building, which was partially wrecked. I8 also within this area, as are the Custom House, the old post ofllce, the marketing district and many of the city's largest commercial This damaged area north of Market street BRAIN WORKS Clea.r a.nd Clea-n ON Grape-Nuts "There's a Reason" let "Thp Road to Wfllvillp" In pkgi.

SAN FRANCISCO OLD AND NEW- Montgomery North From Pine, Before and After the Horse Car Era. closed. The damage already inflicted 1b estimated roughly at $40,000,000. In Oakland Ave persons were killed by the collapse of the Empire Building. The Gere block at the junction of Market and ine streets, is in flames and probably will be a total loss.

The Are has reached Market street, near Third. The building next to the Clans Spreckels building at Third and Market is In flames and the fire extends along the south side of Market to Fourth. The following buildings on New Montgomery street, between Market and Mission, have been destroyed: Pacific States Telephone Compauy, Rialto building. Mission and Market; the Xatoma 1 building on Second nnd Market; the twelve story Mutual Life building on California and Sansome has also been destroyed Fire Raging on Mark Street. The fire is coining down Market street and Is now less than one block from the Postal Telegraph Building, No.

534. The Palace and Srand Hotels are in great danger of fire from Third and Mission streets. The I'oslai Telegraph Company and Commercial Cable Company will open a temporary office at Oakland as soon as a boat fan be procured to carry the operators cross the bay. The Are, however, is so fierce between Market street and the ferry (s to make it impossible to reach the boat It present. The fire extends from Ferry to Front street on one side and pretty much all south Market street and out to about Seventh street, wilh sporadic fires in the park section and the western division.

There is no way of estimating the number of th dead. It may be hundreds, It may be thousands. There is hardly any water, and It Is Impossible to say when the fire will stop. The people are moving out of the Palace Hotel. The Postal Telegraph operators who are at their posts are taking their lives in their hands, as the building is collapsing and the fire within half a block.

The Call and Examiner buildings are liable to go at any moment. The Santa Fe roundhouse and machine shops at Point Richmond, across the bay, have collapsed. Newspaper Buildings in Danger. The Examiner and Call buildings are also In imminent danger. A fire which broke out In the Mack Wholesale Drug Company, 13 and 15 Trcmont street, threatens to destroy the block.

Practically the entire water front is on fire. On California and Pine streets the fire reached Sansome street. From Pine and Dupont streets fire can be seen raging in all downtown districts. A brisk westerly wind is coming up and the destruction of the entire business district Ib threatened. Several persons are thought to be pinioned under the wreckage of the fish market between Sacramento and Clay and Commercial streets.

The Hall of Justice is momentarily expected to fall. The City Hall is almost an entire wreck. The damage here is estimated at half a million dollars. The Mechanics Pavilion has been convcrt-' cd Into an emergency hospital. The Grand Opera House has been much damaged.

The Postal Telegraph Company was the jfirst to get a wire, and its offices were besieged with people filing messages. No street curs are running and communication with various parts of the city is slow and difficult. Fire Houses Damaged by Shock. Many of the fire houses are damaged so badly by the earthquake that it is impossible to get the fire apparatus out. A lodging house on Seventh street, between Howard nnd Mission, known as the Kingsley, entirely collapsed.

It is on fire, and seventy-five to people are believed to be buried In the flaming ruins. At Twenty-second and Mission streets the dry ponds store of Liptuan Eaele Souvenir Post Card Coupon. TWENTY-THIRD SERIES. This Coupon, together with ftvi miners, cut from the daily or Sunday Eagle will entitle the holder to any series of Souvenir Post Cards, same to be presented at any Eagle Office. Name Address City and State For further particulars see advertisement on another page in to-day's Eagle.

If sent tiy man, 2 rents in stamps neiwt tei'ettipaiiy a. I) i ies. AflfilfHs' all mall to Souvenir IVST CARD Brujkl vo on the west side of Third street. The water supply Is entirely Inadequate. Powder Is being used to check the flames.

The rooms in the Palace Hotel were vacated early in the morning and guests are now returning to gather up their effects. All sorts of vehicles are being used to carry out of the danger zone everything of value. The loss of life seems to have been confined to the poorer districts in the manufacturing territory. Blowing Up Buildings. For the benefit of Eastern people who have friends visiting in San Francisco, it is safe to say that they Save not been injured.

As the hours go by. the excitement grown mora intense. Every few minutes explosions aro heard as buildings are blown up to stop the progress of the flames. The fires are spreading, and if the wind comes up, San Francisco will experience the greatest conflagration of modern times. On lower Market street the main thoroughfare of the city, many blocio of substantial buildings have been destroyed.

A big fire is raging on the corner of Sanson! and Pine streets, one block from the Associated Press offices. wildest rumors as to loss of life are coming to the newspapers, but it is impossible to confirm them. No reports havo been received outside of San Franciseo, but the damage about the bay musi be enormous. Oakland is said to have suffered severely. As reports come in the magnitude of the disaster grows.

Fires are raging In all directions and people are moving out of the downtown section. The loss of life may reach into the hundreds. Millions of dollars worth of property have been destroyed. 1 Whole City May Be Destroyed. The fires aj-e spreading rapidly and unless tl) wind comes up from the west 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, Pine and Battery streets, is practically doomed, the flames sweeping clear across it In great sheets from Pine street, with no apparatus available for its salvation. Entire Business Section Burning. The flames are rapidly nearing the Postal Telegraph Company's building and are within a block of the Associated Press and Western I'nion building.

The Postal Telegraph Company is preparing to vacate, and this will shut oft all telegraphic communication with tile outside world. From present indications the entire business district, both wholesale and retail, will likely fall prey to the flames, which are increasing in intensity, fanned by a st 11 breeze. 16-Story Call Building on Fire. Fire has taken "jold of the. sixteen-story building on the Third street side, and flames ate now burning fiercely in the interior of the building, but as yet the flames have not spread beyond the fourth floor.

The building is also threatened on the Market street side, only one structure separating it from the flames, which swept everything on the side of Market street, from Fourth almost, to Thin'. The back of the eleven-story Monadnoek Building, now nearing completion, has fallen out and the flames threaten to cause great fire loss. The front of the Monadnoek was badly cracked by the earthquake. Although the fire Is raging on all sides of the Palace Hotel, it has not yet uken tire. The report that the Palace Hotel had vaught fire is erroneous.

Early News of the Disaster. At 10:40 o'clock this morning the Postal Telegraph Company received the following telegram: "At 5:13 this morning a terrific earthquake shook San Francisco, doing particular damage in the district cast and south of Market street, practically destroying six or eight blocks in the manufacturing and wholesale district. The banking district was not seriously damaged, although small damage has- been done over the whole town. Many persons have been killed and wounded, and a portion of the town is on fire, the water sup-l lv being shut off. At this moment they are dynamiting several of the buildings." The As.owiaLed Press office was also badly damaged.

At the offices of the St. Iouis and San Francisco Railroad, in this city, a message was received from the company's agent in Nevada, saying that the earthquake shock was severely felt throughout Xevadu, and that all the wires were thrown down west of Reno. Fire burning at Berkeley. At 11:05 the Western Union received a1 report that a serious fire Is burning at Berkeley, where the state university la located. The report came from Pinola, a station ten miles out of San Francisco, and the nearest point to the latter city which the company had been able to reach up to the time of this dispatch.

Berkeley is between Pinola and San Francisco. The Western Union has received a report from Sacramonlo that the Southern Pacific Railway will attempt to get a train into San Francisco starting from Sacramento and taking a round about route to Vallcjo. which Is on the Hay of San Pablo. From that place the passengers will bo taken by boat tj San Francisco. This round about course was made necessary by the reported sinking of a three-nille section of the railroad company's tracks between Suisuan and Eenecia which are on the direct line between Sacramento and San Francisco.

The road crosses sonio lowland at the point where Its tracks are reported sunk by the earthquako shock. The location of this reported sinking of the earth Is about thirty miles from San Francisco. Streets Blockaded With Debris. The damage by the earthquake apparently extends all over the city. The shock occurred at 5:15 this morning and lasted three minutes.

The streets are blockaded with debris and buildings are blown up. The residence districts are safe so far as heard from. A telegram from San Francisco to the Western Union Telegraph Company reports that three miles of railroad sank out of sight as a result of the earthquake betwet Suissun and Benecia, and all wires were taken with It. At Pleasanton there were several cars burned on the main line, blocking the trains. Up to the time of receiving this dispatch the Western Union had been unable to get into communication with San Francisco.

Say Reports Are Exaggerated. Salt Lake City, Utah, April 18 Reports received by the Salt Lake office of the Postal Telegraph Company from San Francisco would Indicate that the first reports of the earthquake In Sau Francisco were' exaggerated. Superintendent W. P. Shattk was in communication with the San Francisco office of the Pontal Telegraph Company after tie earthquake.

He was informed that It would be necessary for the operating force to vacate the San Francisco offices. This was done, and the operators left the building, but returned within an hour and business was resumed. Sau Kraneinco reported that water mains in Market street had broken. Stilt Lake Is not in communieat Inn with San Franciseo. News Reaches This City.

A report readied this city this morning that a severe earthquake wrecked many buildings and caused loss of life in San Francisco early to-day. The shock was felt at 5:13, San Francisco time. Following the wrecking of buildings numerous fires broke out. The Postal Telegraph office was wrecked and communication was lost at 8:50. New York time.

There has been no telegraphic communication with San Francisco for more than half an hour At about 9:10 the Toslal Telegraph Company had communication with their San Franciseo ofllce, but lost the again almost immediately. In connection the brief 1 mm i mt sage came through the principal danger was from the fires, a number of which had started, and were making great headway owing to lack of water. Tho Western Union Telegraph office at Fresno says that it is the most severe shock ever known. They have no further details. The Postal Telegraph Company learned that the fire was eattng its way along Market street.

The Water mains wore burst by the earthquake so that there are no means at hand for fighting the conflagration. The electric lighting plant of the city has failed and gas mains are disrupted. The damage extends through trie city. The Postal Building was badly wrecked and the operating room Is incapablo of use. A dtsaatrous fire has broken out on the south side of Market street and is now within one block of the Palace Hotel.

The water mains have burst and the fire department is practically helpless. The utmost confusion exists. All business is suspended. At this moment there is only one wire out of San Francisco, a Postal wire. The Postal building is badly damaged.

The operating room is a wreck. The power of every kind is gone, and there are no lights. The Palace and St. Francis hotels stood the shock. People flocked to the telegraph offices to send messages to friends nnd were frantic because there were no wires.

The greatest damage was done to the buildings south of Market street, where mostly they are frame and tenement houses. Fires occurred in every block in that district." SHOCK IN OTHER CITIES. Sacramento and Stockton Feel the Earthquake Washington Seismograph Agitated. Sacramento. April IS The severest earthquake felt in this city In many years, occurred at 5:13 o'clock this morning.

Buildings rocked like cradles. Many clocks stopped No serious was done here. A few cracks were discovered In the stone post ofllce building. Slight damage was done to Bomo nrk'k buildings. Teleeranh and telephone wires are pros- San Jonuuin County.

The correspondent of the Associated Press here has been informed from a reliable that the CHrthnualiC this morning cre- ated great ruction of property at San Fniiu iwro. The loss front the shock and Riib-Kciiuem firi'H will reach into the millions. The fir is still raKii'K. covering an area from Montgomery sir. -ft to the water front ll itud hundreds of buildings iu fue buai- ness section have been ruined.

The fire started In a dozen different places, and is now being fought with dynamite. Three miles of the Southern Pacific track near Henlcin was sunk down for a depth of about four feet. Stockton, April IS A sharp earthquake Eihock was felt here at 5:15 o'clock this morning. The Santa Fe bridge over the San Joaquin River settled several Inches. Washington.

April IS Tho San Francisco earthquake has reached across the entire continent. The seismograph at the Weather Bureau here showed such a violent agitation about o'clock this morning that CASTOR I A lor Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Boars the Signature of the pen passed ofT the recording sheet. The instrument at 12 o'clock was stiil under vibration, showing that the earthquake has not ceased. The seismograph at the Weather Bureau here at 12:45 o'clock was still recording violent vibrations.

The second shock felt in San Francisco at. 8:15 o'clock this morning was clearly indicted by the weather Bureau's instruments, thus showing that the entire continent still is affected. In connection with the vibrations in this city. Professor Willis Moore, of the Weather Bureau, said, to-day, that the eruption of Vesuvius was recorded during its entire period on the magnetic Instruments of the research station at Mount Weather, a few miles from this city in Virginia. Professor Moore stated, however, that this was not an earthquake record, but rather that Vesuvius acted like a powerful wireless transmitter and Mount Weather as the receiver, Vesuvius with its eruptions thero disturbing the electrical potentials, which disturbances sent out electric magnetic waves that encircled the earth.

The records mriod that the wire was working the San Sacramento and San Fran-Francisco ofllce reported that a number of ciseo and no communication could be had I with an Franciseo this morning. Chim-buiU nigs had collapsed and that the dead aeys and water tanks were shaken down and injured are being taken from the ruins at Suisun. Solano County, and at Tracy, as fast as possible. At the time this mes- ti START'S" I the n.im! people think ul wlii-u tticv hi nk of ijyu- rivihU. Stuart Iv.

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