The Iola Register from Iola, Kansas • Page 1

VOL. IX. No. 126. Whole No.

5762. EIGHT PAGES. IOLA, KANSAS, APRIL 18, -WEDNESDAY EVENING. EIGHT PAGES. THE IOLA PAPER PUBLISH ma THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HEWS raSCO IN RUINS HUNDREDS DEAD Shock this Morning at Practically Destroys the City.

THE FLAMES FOLLOW SHOCK (Ill Siv wiiul is coiiiitu up. Mosi niriioii of lliiv.iuil IVUIIWIIJIIK ciiiiil- Itiisiiicss disitici is cullMps'il iiiitl jcix Tlic 111" Music i 'vafnrv Is Tlic lie! as III. pcrsiui'' lu'lii'Vil liol ill I lie ruins. 'I'lio l.ipiii;iii ilry "iils cxpi'cicil lo fall. slori- at Twfiily an.I 'I'lm Ciiy Hall is a i -niiipli If is im lire am! ilucaicns ilu' iii.

ii 1 wii'ck. Tlu- is csiimai lilork. at one half iniiiioii ilollars. Crevice Six Feet Wide. 'Ihc cxciiciiKMit ICviiy and Valcnrrii IIUMC isiii -w uiinuti-s.

cxplosidiis an- luanl as a n-r'viro in XIIT-IM fcft niiniiti's. t'xplosidiis aii- Willi'. I imililiiiKs all! IJIOWII up. car rraclvs arc badly Iwisn-d. TiuTf ariv wildest riiniors as In iln traffic in iho souilu-ni pari of tlu' of lift is at a standstill.

The Pavilinn was con liousrs an- so into an hospital, badly that it is to HK'ITIU Ciaiid iloii.si- snff.i.-d vcre TtKic has hi'cn another wliicli intensified tlie panic. Ilu "'i shoclc was (if short duration and tlu The City is Burnihg and Water is Gat Afier Block Burns apparatus out. the Southern racilii' hospilal many siilVerers wiie taken. are injured on the streets, I alarm soon The Kpiscopal church ai Klevinthj Tho i'ostal Company will street was badly The Sliide ope iia temporary oftict; at Oakland baiur carriaue f.ictory cavid in. soon as a boat can be prix-uied io Fire is liie Palace ho- operators across the 'fhe fore.

Iiowevir, is so fierce betwien tel. which IS bcMm- vacated. Ail .,,,0 ferry, as to MAR-TIAt LAW BY FUNSTON lola Man the Cily Under Military Authority and Troops Patrol the Streets HIGH BUILDINGS TOPPLE OVER Sky Scrapers on and Many are Biiried in ADDED TO THE Creaiesji Disaster of Modern Times of vehicles are to cany the piople from the zone. The aminor and Call biiibiiiius. huKe siiiw- tures, iiio also in iiiiniintnt People Were Asleep.

of the people who were ash ip 'wtie siiil.lenl.v aroused and lushi'd iii- lo the streets undressed. and crashed burying tin- oc-u pants. Thortf wax a prinie in ilown lowii hotels. Tlie I hoii was bailly tlainaued Inn l.ss uf life 1. polled there.

The I 'akne iilld SI Francis hotels stood ilu- People to the tele otbre 'Send messages to fliends ail. I frantic bnaiisi' lb. le r.o wii. The uiiatest d.ima^e the bui iims dune oil sonib i -ii' i where' w. re mo fiair.e ii IS.

Ftre.s occurred in i v. ry bio. that district. TERROR Water Mains Burst and the City Was at the Mercy of the Flames. The latest reports San Fra i- cisco indicate that tlpe shock which cccured ing at 5:10 and lasted: utes Will be one of the greatest asters of modern times.

The loss in property will reach a hundred millicns. perhaps more and the loss in lives will run int4 the hundreds, if not into thousands. The city burning, aid the water supply is cutjoff.tThe Postal Telegraph company bejn forced to abandon its b'uilding. contains the only wire which lished communication with the outside world. This bulldinii New York.

April following message from San Francisco was received by the Western Union at 3:30 New York time: A heavy southwest wind has spriincj up. The section of the ciiy "outh of Market street bounded by this strert, Third. Sansome arid Ninth- streets, is a mats of flames. The Cnll building Just burned and the Anglo California bank was alto destroyed. Every build Ing in the city is more or less dam- by the earthqMakd.

The Southern Pacific Railway company brought a ton of dynamite into the; vicinity of the burning section on Market strest to be used if possible flowing up property. San Francisco, April Cisco was practically earthquake at 5:10 this mprning. The lasted 3 minuted Fran- Iwrepked by an a number buildings were damaged of destroyed. Be great. No I over the city.

Loss of life is reported water, and fire rages a All wires with the exception of one are gone. The city II (posting several millions is in buildings sufferd IJess frame. Terror and is indescribable. ruitjts. Modern thai) brick and The seciii.ii of lla- ciiy from Market street lo sir'it and from the bay has beiii ii.iisi coiiiplrtely v.reckod.

biiiliiinjis and inciuiliiifx the departnieiit stores liavc coilaii.sed. Hundreds of jicoide in ilie tenement dis' ricis reported Killed. Fire Is Raging. Fires are la.niiiK owiiiR lo scarcity of waM -r. jiractically beyond cqniroj.

P.iisjness is jiracticaliy suspended, the ofliceis of tile Posf il Tele.mapli company in Uie Hobarl are wntKcd. as is llH' Press biiildin.u at sTreei. Tlie residence portion is 1,111 nearly imr.v house has been more or iiijuii d. the lepoiis come jn ibe niasni- iiide of I lie disasiii juows. Fiie.s ai-'' raijiiij; in all diieciions and people are out of ibo dinyntown sc lien.

Tile lor-s of may readi iiuo bundreils and iiiillloiis of doUars wiunli of piopeiiy lias luon disiroyel. Newspaper Offices Wrecked. Ilolels ill (lie uellijly of Tl)ild and m.iiUel Mr.ei.< ale badlN' shaken. The Call biilldjiiKs as well as ibe Western Fiiioii biiildiiif; Is badly wrecked. an modern siriic- till.

s. Tile diparimini in this neighborhood are also but il.e eat ilrCiiake occurred at an hour wiieii liny were empty. i Farther east on street to-' ward IVrry Slipj). is ooou-: pi'd by clieap lodsin.i; bouses, lui I liole's. Here tlie loss of life is repon- ed very Fiivs are hiirninj; at a.

number of on street, After the waier inain.s biiisted. dyna- iiiiie was used to check the iiiaKe ii impossible to reach the boai al time, i.he fin' tends from the feiry to From sirei o'V till, east ami pretty much all sollili id sneel iilll. lO Severn li sTeei. There are spreadiui; tires in th opark section and wesieni division. There is no way of estiniat.iai; ibe iiiimlur of dead If may be ll be ilioiisands.

There i any and is is wbell Xiff will be '11 :1 PosU.l v. ale ai laKii'iu ilieir livt-s in lii-ii bands, as the e.t!'.: and the lire is wiihin li.ill bliK'K Thf S.Miiui Fe rouiitl ma chill'' sliops a. Poiiii Kiebliie.inl the li.iy tliUe eidlapse.l. special train carrying; the Calili nia Supreme Court with new- correspondents and otbeis. le:" bis afieinoon tor tieneial Fuii-ioii lias esiablisbed bnv in San Tiie mayor has do i I'-viiy saloon in tin- cit.v.

Fires are ra.i;iii:; oevrywliere ami the fiiiiiieii are usinjx dynamite. The Palaee and Ciand Hotels lia been destroyed. TIM Kxaminer. Call and Ilialio hiiibi iim.s are ablaze. The Call i.j swayiiiR and expected lo topple.

The Southern Pacific buiMinu shock felt afire and the Postal Tcle.tjrapli P.tiild was clearly indicaled 'lis; is almost a wreck. i The Siin.set Ttdephone huiidin.i? on Hireei and the Western I'niiwi at Pine and reels are entirely demolished. War Oliver, in-the al)- sence of Si'cn taryi Talt. 'Seiieral Cie.eby, commandinK tlie Paeific at San Francisco, lo CO operate Willi the local aiith- and use all' resources at. Mn lommand to assist in allcvi.iting the I ion.

Tile San Franci.sco earthquake aeios.s the entire continent, S. the weather hii- ii.m here showed a violent riijoiii eiulii iliiriy t.his morning. Tho iii-i; iimeiit at twelve t'orty-five was recordiii.ir violent vibration.s. Tho San Francisco by the instni- iiieiH thus entire contin- 111 still is BLOW UP The Entire Business Section of Francisco Is Doomed. FUNSTON ON SCENE.ESTIMATES OF DEAL lola Wan Ordered Out the MiJilsry.

Which Is Parading the Streets. San Francisco. April .1. ni.) Hundreds of people art; kilji and probably one thousand injured. The I'avillion i- COHM ed into a liospital.

liiindied victims bein.i; iieand'l there, em ire waier from is ablaze. The poslonice is badly shaken ami is entirely collapsed. The fishniarkel at ibe coriu'r of Clay and streiis ha-, ci.l- lapsed, si people. Fire Chief Sullivan and wife were badly injured. The dram! opera house is imrniti.ii The ten sioiy ai Tenth and and Mission streets, adjoiiiin.i; Ciiand opera house, is apparenlly doonii-d, as ale biiibliarS ilie ihiiaiie and St.

Pal ehiirch: many jteople aii' inn from the Palace Hoit I. lakltm liu'ir personal effecis. The fjas works soiiih of hiivi- been blown up and started an Frar.ci'sco. '11 a. m.i I'llb Ihi' wind coeies fl'tle wev; blowiiij; ibe Iluii 1 'Vi' bay.

iioihiii.u can the imi of eiiy. The wi iiotih wr. ek'-d. Flames iii Ibe sixieensloiy Call iiiiildiiiu in Il Tile back iif the iioek building compit bas fall, out. Thi' biiiiiided by SaMSOnie.

California, Pine and ic.i doomed. The daniaKe already is limaJed'ai forty milliins. The following buildiims are d'Stioyed: The Pacific States Telphone company. Uialto. ihe Xatoma and the iw -stoiy Life bnildinji.

Thirty bodbs in tlie The mayoV appointed a relief com millee of Tiie military patioU- till' SI reels, was orriered out by Ceneial Fie.biick Funsion. They banks and other esiablisli- ments and ordered to shoot any one detected of The banks are open Ihi'ie was a S'1 of dep.isiiors lo draw out money. tlie s.iloons are closed. Cieneiai Funsion i-alled all the alde troops for if necessary. Tlie boanl of snpervk-'firs will imineillat.

ly' to take measures for relief and protection to the sufferers by llie disaster. Chief of illie Fire De- San Francisco, l.s.—The P.n ace hoti 1 is now 011 lire. Otlur biii lire 'lie Clau.s striiciure, si'V-'iiie-i! stories Ph and fii-'aiiell store. 'IT soMih side of si net. lui we.

Foiuili and Fifth is now 1 and the ll.iii are all diieciioiis. Tii. eiiy is now iiiid law. 1 business s.eiie if San J'laneise strove caib.d for ance i I trie depai aie! tlial il.Mialilit. aV.i:!a!«ie lo bio WUp bilii iu'-is in onbr 'o the I 'le Hi Perhaps Thousand.

Art heved to Have Perished in the Terrible Catastrophe. ceilditioil. injured. floih he ami 'Ills wife were 500 IN THE MORGUE bin nre in that section of 1 pat Itneiii Sullivan inj a precarious eiiy. purl ion of I lie sever.il mlU's from the seel ion is in fiaines.

The lire bewail at second street, niul Is rapirtly movini; i-astward Slioiild ihe wind Increase 11 may sweep the entire sec- lion of the city. In Oakland five were kille.l by the collapse of tho Fmi.ii. Tile Core block at A Report from Los Anoeles Concern ing the Number of Dead. I.03 April ion bnild- fiom San there are already five hundred biidies In the and Pine Oihers are beilic; in CI iisianilv. There is a jam among Mieets, flames and probably peopbl at the ferry S.icr.imenio.

and periiaps thousands of persons ai veil to 1M in Fianris-- a 11 nil of ill'- i liiiiiilr- of buildings in tlo city fali. 11 an-! tires are destn. imr ciiy. ciiit-s alonj; eoa-i siiffiie.l bin II will Ic bonis llie full ni of file 'Ibe Postal leb emp'ovi lia- beeii forced lo'bave ihc ofliee. ONE NEWSPAPER All Will Issue From a Today.

IN FRiSC Single Pl.i!. San n- papers havini; had ilii-ir power cut have conibinud and will issue paper for all from ilie or il which has iis own plant. MILES OF SAK Swallowed up in the Earthquake. Tax ing the Telegraph Wires With it. Sail Fiaiieivco.

1 I 1 freiii irii repoiis Ihief mi of railroad s.ini. out of as 1 Sllb of till- belW.ell snail and Itenelea iakini; all i it. Pleiisanion si veral cars bui i' 1' on the main IN NEW YORK LATER THAN ILL' The News Did Not Reach the E.v Until Ten Forty O'clock This Morning. srekiim to cross the i to Oak- of the The residence section which was badly shaken, rei.orts loss of life or serious ilamasP. nuiiu ilioroimhfaiv.

block Valencia hotel, afiVe-story frame siil)Stanlial buildings weie desiroy- at Valencia and Seventeenth, topplcl. ed. Tho fire is raging in all over, burying seventy-five people. be toial loss. Practically Ihe entire waier f.ont i.s land.

on filer If wind comes up San- sdimitz has sent to Oakland F.anci.-co will expe. ience the I est coiiflasi'aiion of modern times. York, 111: III ilii- llie com pany foilowinir "i a leiric eartiiipiaiie shock was 1 i San p.irticular d.ii.:- age in the disirici east and (I NIarket strett. praciically six or eiiihr blo'k-? in the maiiiif a Ins and The district is nor seriously dama I small damaee is done whole city. jieisons 'r killed and woundtd." down town districts.

Fires are at nieda and Kerkeley. Ihe on i The lanhquake shock afler Santa IJarha that San ond was felt as a. The fact bay cities have not been able to communicate with Los Angeles would A brisk wester- 1 too. have sutjrered from ndicate they jthe shock. HEATHS MAY NUMBER THOUSANDS ndications That Reports of Disaster in San Francisco Have Fallen Short of Actual Facts.

Chicago, federal an- horilies in this city declared today bey have received information Indi- aiin.i; ilie repons of llie disaster in an Francisco haye fallen short ol! actual facts. Superintendent of Mails We.st de- lared tliai he had been informed hy fficials of the railroadn carryinK the. lalls between iK've anrl the Pacific oast that it is certain that the death SI will run into ihe thousands. 'T OTHER POINTS ALONG COAST Did Damage at Points in iCalifornia. Other San Fiaiii isco.

earih- lii.l or jess at oth- I puiiifs the I 'oast. hoiel I on ilie Sacramento riv- wseeke.l. No one Was injured II AI one pliice hetvs-een Spris nd T-a! siai ions ill marshes a disMiue of a mile and a half tho omliein Paciiic tracks sank three to ix and at anoiher point near one feet of track went out. There re ai crevices eacli si.le of the rack through Snisuni iMarshes and is reported that a sreat ocean of has the lowlands jeiwet.i Siiisum and Beneia. Tracey, county, cars in rbe yard started to iiir an i liad to lia Idocks placed ilieiu.

chimneys III- l.iioei.eii Napa scarce .1 uliiili- jiaiii-uf window jjlass was The shock was lelt. as far cast Nevada. iTOGK AFFECTED BY DISASTER Depressed in New York- Today by News of the San Francisco Earthquake. New York. April pi'ices of on Wall depressed oday iiy the news of the Sail Fran- disaster.

There was heavy sell- iim. dedine.s aniountin.i; to iwo dollars or more beinfc urtmeroiis. The Pacific roads were, especially affected. THE SHOCK -AT SACRAMENTO No Loss of Life Is Reported, There Is Great Confusion. But QUAKE FELT WASHIN8T0N The Government Instruments Sho That It Reached Across the Continent.

Washington, April Sac! anil mo. sov )0ro slioi'k occiirreil hero early liioiniiifi. Tlui-e Is ureal, con- 'ii mi lo.ss of life is reptnted. FiaticiM'o, IK. a.

ni.) liie has broken out on llie Miirb ol Mai ker sUti 'i and Is iiou Willi ill one block of the Palace iiot. I. Water mains i.avi! burst and- ili. lire department is pr.ictically help I'lmost confusion e.xisls. All iiiisiness is suspendej.

this tiu f- is only one wire out of iiaii I-'iancisco, a Postal wire. The iy badly damaged. The nxnn is a total wreck. The p'iwer of every, kind is gone and there a.e no gas or Neither the Palace hotel nor the St. Francis KOttc, that Ls so far as outside iiiK the inside plastcriifg, is Between the Postal ofiice the front-there i.as been great Rfe which Is burning fitjrcely and there Is little or no watec The fire Is turning both (CoQttuued oa page 2.).