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VOLUME 27. Twelve Pages Today. RALEIGH, N. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1906. Twelve Pages Today.

PRICE 5c. fl MR. BLACKBURN PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO CHARGE ll PI Ml ME of Being Physically HE CAN'T SERVE Ringed SHOCK LASTED THREE MINUTES AND CRUSttEI) JURY SWORN TODAY: KRIDERDNTHE STAND Twelve Men- Selected This Morning to Pass Judgment and Taking of Testimony Was llegun Before Noon Krider Says That He Paid Ulnckbum $100 to Settle Case, but That Blackburn Charged Nothing for Legal Services. SCORES Later Details Show That Done in the Business Sections, Many Hotels and Lodging Houses Being in Ruins-Fires Start Immediatily and Spread Over Wide Area Owing to DcstrucMon of Water System-People Terrorized and Thousands Flee for Safety-Cannot Estimate Loss of Life lows: Hundreds of people killed and probably- 1,000 injured. The me chanics pavilion has been converted into a temporary hospital and al ready Beveral hundred victims of the disaster are being treaied there by a corps of volunteer surgeons.

The entire water front, is burning. The postoliice was badly shaken and has entirely collapsed. The fish market, at the corner of Clay and Merchant has col lapsed, killing six people. Fire Chief Sullivan and his wife have been very badly injured. The Grand Opera House is burning fiercely.

A ten story building at Tenth and Mission streets, adjoining the Grand Opera House, is apparently doomed and other big buildings between the theatre and St. Patrick's church many people are fleeing from the Palace hott'H taking their effects. The gas works, south of Market street, have been blown up and started another big fire in (hat section of the city. A portion of the. Mission, several miles from tho business section of the city, is in flames.

The fire began at Twenty-second street and is rapidly moving eastward. Should '-the wind increase it may sweep the entire southern section 'of the city. In Oakland five persons were killed by the collapse of the Empire building. The Gore block, at the junction of Market and Pine streets, is in flames, and probably-will be a total loss. The financial loss is estimated at io.ooo, ti.jo.

Many Hodics Found. San Francisco, a- m. Twenty-one' bauii taken to the morgue. have, beeiw The building: cannot. accommodate any more.

Mayor Schmitx. established headquarters at the hall of justice and has appointed a relief committee of fifty prominent citizens. The military are patrolling the streets, guarding the banks and oilier establishments. They have received orders to shoot any one on sight (lel.ec.ted in llieft. The Jessie street side of the Palace holel is burning.

The burning this hour runs from South sheet on the west to tho water front on the east, south of Market street. North of "Market street from Sausonie lo the water front and from to Washing-Ion. There is also a block burning on Mission street between xweiuy- first and Twenty-second streets. The had their power cut off have combined and will issue one paper for all from tho of fice of the Chronicle which has its own power plant. There was a great rush at the dif ferent, banks by depositors who wan ed to draw out their deposits, but Iho banks decided to keep their doors-closed.

By order of the chief of police all the saloons have been closed. The damage already inflicted is estimated roughly at forty million dollars. Flames Arc Still ICagiugv San Francisco, April IS. 10.1-") a. flames are rapidly Hearing Postal Telegraph Company's building, and are within a block or the Associated Press and Western L'nion building.

The Postal Company is preparing to vacate and this will shut, off all telegraphic com munication with the outside world. From present indications the en (By tho Associated Press; San Francisco, April 18. San Francisco practically wrecked by earthquake 5.10 this morning. Shock lasted three minutes, thousands of buildings damaged and destroyed. Loss life reported great.

No water and fires all over city. All wires with one exception gone. City Hall, costing seven millions, in ruins. Modern buildings suffered less than brick and frame. Terror and excitement indescribable.

Most people asleep and rushed into streets undressed. Buildings swayed and crashed, burying occupants. Panic ifi downtown hotels. Lick House badly damaged, but no loss of life there reported. 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 was done to buildings south of Market street, where mostly they are frame and tenement houses. Fires occurred in every block in that district. tm OF BUILDINGS Most Serious Damage Was burning fiercely" and I hero is little no Wilier.

The fire is burning both on the east and the 'south side of the Postal tel egraph building. The damage by the earthquake apparently extends and lasted three minutes. The streets are blockaded with debris and building a iv being' blown up. The resi- far as heard from. Lnlor reports indicate that the residence section of San Francisco escaped.

The business section of Hie city from street to Mission street and from the bay back has been almost completely wrecked. The Call and Examiner buildings are da-stroyed. Many buildings along Market and Mission streets including the department stores collapsed. Hundreds of people iu the cheap tenement district are reported killed. Fires are raging and owing to the scarcity of water are practically beyond control.

Business is practically ssupendud. The offices of the Postal Telegraph Company in the Iioburl building are wrecked as Is the Associated Press building at "02 Montgomery street. The residence portion is but slightly damaged although nearly every house has ham more or less injured. I As reports conic in the magnitude of the disaster grows. Fires are raging in all diretcions and people are moving out of the down-town section.

Tho loss of life niay reach into the hundreds. of dollars worth of properly has been tle- Ht ro-ocl. In the coufusion which roigns everywhere it is almost Impossible to luaru details of the disaster caused by the earthquake this morning. In general, it may bo said that the district lying between Market and Howard streets, the bay as far west as the City Hall, has been badly-wrecked. The hotels in the vicinity of 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 building, have the interior of the building. The back of the 1 1 story Monadnock building now nearing completion has fallen and the flames threaten to cause great fire loss. The front of the Monadnock was badly cracked by the earthquake. Last Words from 'Frisco. New York.

April IS. The fallowing message from San Francisco was re- ceieveil hy the Western Union Telegraph' 3:30 New-York lime: "We arc having a succession of slight shocks. A heavy southwest wind has sprung up within the last half hour. A. section of the city south of Market street bounded, by this street, Third and Sansonip and Ninth streets is a mass of Panics.

The Call building ut the coiner of Third ami Market streets has just burned and the Anglo-California bank has also been destroyed. Every building 'in' the city has been more or loss damaged by the earthquake. The Southern Pacific Hallway Company lias brought a ton of dynamite into the vicinity of the burning section on street to be used if possible In blowing up property to prevent the spread of the fire." Like Charleston Disaster. Washington, April 18. Director Wal-cott of the geological survey, said that when the news of the San Francisco disturbances reached his office, the question very naturally arose as to whether there might not be some connection between them and the recent Vesuvius eruption, but he has declared that there is no probability of any connection between the two "The Vesuvius eruption," he added.

"Is a purely volcanic phenomenon, but the San Francisco earthquake is much like that of Charleston, S. in 1SSU: that is occurred in a district that is more Or less faulted, and San Francisco is a region that has been visited by earthquake shocks, although most at them were very minute, beine recorded only on the seismograph, but the re- cords of twenty sears show many of these shocks each year at San Finn-Cisco." Two Ships Reported hosl. Los Angeles, April Is. 1-1 a. in.

It is said that buildings were destroyed at Salinas, about a hundred niiles south el San lias been heard from San Jose or Santa Cruz and other cities south of Sun Francisco on the coast. A wireless telegraph company is endeavoring to establish communication with the Pacific squadron at San Francisco from its Santa Barbara office. If is reported that two ships at author In the bay. 'were sunk. Calling For Help.

San Francisco, April IH. a. in. Mayor Schmitz has called for the assistance of the en- tire Oakland fire department and has ordered that; all dynamite available ho used to blow up buildings in order to stay the progress of tho flames. SHOCKS FELT OVER COUNTRY.

(Hy the Associated Press.) Washington, April 18. The- San Francisco earthquake has reached across the entire continent. The seismograph'. at the weather bureau here showed such a violet agitation about, o'clock this morning that. I he pen passed off the recording sheet.

The instrument at. 12 o'clock was still 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 Sun Francisco at 8:15 o'clock this morning was clearly indi- continent still is affected.

The last earthquake that occurred in Stun Frniiciscn wn about, the mid- ()f 190(K 8evml dls. tinct. shocks were felt early iu the mr.ixiiiiir II uitl er illrt lll'U i llll HIV. "HVHIl vp Tho i no i. iioiei wnicu was su vcrely shaken.

The walls collapsed Hlrm-tiir. pat runs were thrown out of their'. beds and furniture was destroyed. In 1904 there was severe seismic disturbance in Los Angeles, which was felt throughout the city and for a radius of several miles all around. No actual damage was done but this was the most sevpro shock that has ever been felt in southern California.

been badly wrecked. Tha largo de partment stores In this neighbor hood were also ruined, but the earthquake, occurred at an hour when they were empty and no loss of life is reported. Deaths Anions Hie Poor. Farther east on Market street to ward the ferry slips, is a section occupied by cheap lodging houses and hotels, and here loss of life is reported to be very great, though the extent of it could not be ascer taiued at this, hour. Fires arc burning in a number of places along Market sir Jet and the water mains having hurst, the ail thorities have resorted, to dynamite to check the progress" of ths flames The residence section of the city, while badly shaken, reports no loss' of life or serious damage.

Three miles of the Southern Pacific, track near Beiiecia, was sunk down for a depth of about four feet. Hotel Topples Over. The Valencia Hotel, between Sev enteenth and Eighteenth streets on Valencia street, a five story frame building, toppled over into the street, burying 75 people in the debris, only the top story remaining intact. A house on Fourteenth street near Valencia, was wrecked, killing two I people. Many of the lire 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 75 to MJ people are believed to be buried in the flaming ruins. At Twenty-second and Mission the dry-goods store of Lipinan is on fire, threatening the destruction of the entire block. Eighteenth aid Valencia streets there is a crevice in the street six feer 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. Hospitals Crowded. At. the Southern Pacific hospital water is being carried into the from outside sources for the use of the pidlenls. Many people suffer ing from injuries are seen on the streets making their way to the different The episcopal church Kleventh street is badly damaged and at the Studebakel' cai- factory on Tenth and Market si reels, the top story caved in, badly wrecking the entire building.

Fire which has been raging in the vicinity of Fourth and Sovenson streets lias gotten beyond tho control of the firemen and the flames have leaped to the Winchester rooming house on the west, side of Third street. Unless the flames can he checked hero the Palace- hotel, one block distant, will bo endangered. The wiiler supply is entirely inadequate and powder is being used tu check Iho flames. The rooms in the Palace hotel were vacated early in the morning and guests aro now returning to gather up their effects. Ail 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 tho-'. poorer -districts and manufacturing territory. Visitors Are Safe. For the benefit of eastern people who have friends visiting in San Francisco, it is safe to say that they have not been iujured, As tho hours go by the excitement grows more intense.

Every few minutes explosions aro heard us buildings are blown up to stop the progress of -tho 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 I horoughi'are of the city, many blocks of substantial buildings have been destroyed. A big lire is raging on the corner of Sansome and Pine streets, one block from tho Associated Press office. The wildest rumors as to loss of life are coming to the newspapers, but it is impossible to confirm them.

No reports have been received outside of San Francisco, but the damage about the bay must be enormous. Oakland is said to have suffered severely. San Francisco, April 18. 9.30 a. m.

12.30 p. m. Eastern time) The facts so far as known at this hour may be summarized as fol- (Ity tb? Associated Press.) April IS. Senator Simmons, of North Carolina, today. presented to President Koosevelt the declination of former Governor Charles B.

Ay-cock of that slate, who was appointed by the president to serve as a of tlie Puu-Americuu Conference which is to be held in Itio Da Janeiro in July. Senator Simmons asked the president to appoint Governor Aycock, but it appears now that he did not consult with Governor concerning the matter prior lo making the request of the president. Governor Aycock assigned as his reason for declining that he is so busily engaged with important matters that he undertake the additional work. SOUTHERN WILL (liy Hie Associated Press.) lti-limoml. April IN, Stockholders of the Southern Kaihv.iy in special session hi-ii- voted an fifty year four cent, bonds.

The stockholders adopted 'resolutions approving the scheme devised by the directors-'. for "the general the different of the Southern This bond is p'irt d1' scli-'me for extending and strengthening -the system. PERKINS LOST FIRST ROUND til? Associated Press.) New York. April 1v -Justii-e Crecn-bautn today' dismissed the' writ of habeas corpus "'which wv.s -issued, to secure the release of licorgc-'W. Perkins, the who was arrested a ago on complaint tlfal.

ho hail given, funds of the. New -York I-ife Insinauee as a to the republican, campaign fund. The arrest of Mr, lVikins. who had been under, parol in tile custody of his 'counsel, was conlir.ucd. OFFICIAL VERSION OF THE EARTHQUAKE (By the Associated Press.) Washington, April The weather bureau this afternoon issued the following special report regarding th: San Francisco earthquake: 'The great San Francisco earthquake of April IS," 1906, was registered upon tho bosch-omori seismograph at tin; weather bureau office at.

Washington, beginning at hours 19 minutes, twenty seconds 75th me ridian time. Tho record shows a disturbance of considerable magnitude at Washington, although not severe enough to be felt by individuals. "The stronger -wava motion began at 8,25 a. that is, about five niiuutos after the first imperceptible tremors. The recording pen was carried entirely off the record sheet by the violence of the motion from 3 2 to S.35 a.

m. After the latter time the-, motion gradually diminished over longer period of "time, but did not entirely cease until about 1 p. m. The vibratory motion of the ground at Washington was really a comparative slow and deliberate motion, each back and forth movement-taking 13. 20 seconds of lime.

The largest, movement, of' the ground 'registered before the pen went off the sheet amounted to about four-tout lis of an inch or a to and fro movement nearly one-half inch in the surface ol' tin: earth in this city. (Signed) "WILLIS L. MOORE, "Chle of Bureau." ISSUE BONDS Hy S. L. ROTTER.

(iieensboro, N. April Milliken opened court at 9:30 this morning and Judge Bynum stated that the defense excepted to both the order to consolidate the indictments and the decision overruling the demurrer. Judge livnum announced that the defendant entered a plea of not guilty to each and alt of the indictments. It was agreed that the prisoner be not physically arraigned before the courtand in order to preserve the formality of the proceedings the arraignment was entered upon the record. A panel- of twenty-live had been drawn for this term of court and the names of twenty-three were put into the hat and drawn by M.

Vanstory, a Cute little soldier in Khaki. The other two were sick and were not in court. Oddlv enough the first name drawn was No. 13, E. Wilson.

Mr. Mooorefield of Walnut Cove, was sworn bv direction of the prosecution. He was n'uestioned by Mr. Britt. He paid his taxes and had not formed an expressed the opinion that the defendant was not guiltv.

He was peremptorily challenged and excused, H. P. Montgomery of Montgomery was called in his place. In the same manner D. E.

Wagoner was peremptorily challenged by Mr. Britt and P. L. Kiger of Yadkin was called in his place. This two of the peremptory challenges Two, are permitted to each side.

The prosecution at this point passed the jury. Then Mr. Bradshaw for the defense challenged Win. Cunimings of Monroe-ton and P. Kiger, also two peremp- -tory challenges.

The defense then announced themselves content and tho clerk of the court, Samuel L. Trogdon, empaneled the jury, which is constitut- ed as follows: C. E. Wilson, of Schley; Lee Anthony, of Footville; Ellis Fuueett, of Shallow Ford; W. C.

Roper, of Dry creeK; Bray, of Coleridge; It. 1). Hauser, of Panther Creek; S. E. Tate, of Stanbach; K.

Coltrane, of New Market; Gilbeit M. Holt, of Fay; H. P. Montgomery, W. M.

Koberts, of Stoneville. and J. W. Cook, of Buck Shoals. Judge Lewis explained the nature of the cause to the jury, going over the charges in the indictment.

The first piece of evidence was offered by Judge Lewis. It was the certificate of the election of E. Spencer Blackburn to the fifty-ninth congress, signed and sealed by the Secretary of State J. Bryan Grimes. Krider First Witness.

W. K. Krider Was the first witness sworn. He was examined by Judge Lewis. Lived in Rowan county.

March Hi, 1H05, he heard his" wagon and team had been seized for violation of the in- ternal revenue. 'Phoned to know if Blackburn was in Greensboro. He was, and told witness to come over and see him. About March 19 or 20 Blackburn went to Salisbury and saw witness, who asked htm to look after the matter for him. He said he would look after witness' interests.

In the latter part of May witness gave bond in Salisbury. Saw Blackburn a day or two later at latter's house in Greensboro. "He told me he had seen Mr. Holton, Col. Chapman and they had agreed to let me compromise for one hundred dollars.

I told him finally I must go, and asked him what he was going to charge me. He told me he could not charge me anything. I paid him $100 in bills for the compromise money. That was to go to the government for the compromise." "Did you ever hear from the defendant anything after that in regard to that compromise?" "I think I wrote him twice before ihe next court In Charlotte a short time afterwards, but received no answer." Blackburn did write that he had seen the commissioners of internal revenue and enclosed witness a letter from Collector Parkins at Asheville addressed to Blackburn dated in July, 1905. The letter enclosed from Hai'kins to Blackburn asked that Blackburn put up costs for his client and addressed him as attorney.

Blackburn wrole a few words with this enclose lo Krider telling him to pay over the $23 to him or tho collector. Tho envelope containing these two letters was an official one with Spencer (Continued on. Second Pace.) Um Angeles, April IH. II a. in.

(1 p. in. our time). I' 1 I o'clock ttbout four Iiuudrcd dead had liecn brought to Mechanics pavilion, San Francisco, and others were being brought in. Ijos Angeles, April 18.

II u. m. The Call biiildiiix li ing westward. Sim Francisco, April IK. HM.

n. in. (l.3 Eastern time) The Palace Hotel is now on lire. Other buildings on lire art Hie Cluuss Speckles' 1 structure, seventeen stories high, the Phelau building and the O'Farrell store. Tlio south side of Market street, between Fourth andd Fifth streets, is now on lire, and the flames arc spreading in all directions.

The city is now under martial law. It seems that tlu entile business section of San Francisco mustbe destroyed. Chicago, April IK. The federal authorities in this city declared today that they have received information indicating that the deaths in the San Francisco earthquake will run into the thousands. Superintendent ol Malls West declared that he hail information to this effect from officials of Hie ralh-oads rallying the through mails between here and Hie Pacific roast.

Sail Francisco, April 1 S. 8.00 a. in. A disastrous fire has broken out on fliu-Vmlliside of Market street and is now within one block of the Palace Hotel. The water mains have burst and the lire depart- ment is practically ncipiess.

ino-ui-niost confusion All business is suspended. At this moment there is only one wire out of San Francisco a Postol wire. The Postal building is badly damaged. The operating is a wreck. The power of every kind 1b gone, and there are no lights either gas or electric Neither, the Palace Hotel nor the St.

Francis is gone, that is, as far as the outside goes, but the Inside plastering, is greatly damaged. Between the post-office and the water front there has been great damage by lire which is tire business district both wholesale eated by the weather bureau's instru-and retail will likely fall prey lo the me.nts, thus showing the entire flames which arc increasing in intensity, fanned by a stiff breeze. The fires are spreading rapidly and unless the wind comes up from the west and blows Hie flames toward the hay nothing can stop the destructiou of the city. The whole m-rlli end of the city is wrecked, ami Hie Humes are spread-; ing in all -directions. In tho absence or water the fire department has re-n (in, um-.

of (Ivnainlte and nnildings are being demolished in' thej hope of staying the conflagration. The block bounded by Sansome, California, Pine and Buttery streets, is practically doomed, tho flames sweeping clear across it, in great sheets from Pino street with no an-naratus about, for its salvation. Fire nus taken hold of the 1 story Call building on Third street and the flames are now burning fiercely in I.