Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 1

d-rxd i .1 1 T9 11 mm VOL, lxv Oakland; California; Wednesday evening aprTl is, i90 NO. 49 'IS DEATH 'Mm BBSmiiCTiON SWEEP' -ffiE'' MA eiTlES! Jl i 7 1 TmSMORNINO AT 5d448 O'CLOCK AN EARTHQUAKE SHOCK WAS EXPERIENCED IN OAKLAND AND A NUMBER OF OTHER CALIFORNIA CITIES. THE TEMBLOR LASTED FOR 28 SECONDS. MANY CHIMNEYS IN PRIVATE HOUSES. MERCANTILE ESTABLISHMENTS AND MANUFACTURIN INSTITUTIONS WERE KNOCKED DOWN.

IN SOME CASES HOLES WERE i TORN IN THE WALLS OF BUSINESS BUT NO STRUCTURES WERE ENTIRELY EMOLJSHe5d. WATER FOR A TIME WAS GUT OFF FROM CONSUMERS, AND TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE COMMUNICATION WASINTO CRUSHED TO DEATH IN A ROOMING HOUSE. IN SAN JOSE AND SAN FRANCISCO THE LOSS OF PROPERTY AND LIFE WAS EXCESSIVE, ESPECIALLY IN THE LATTER PLACE, WHERE THE EASTERN PAkT OF THE CITY, INCLUDING THE PALACE HOTEL, THE CALL BUILDING, THE CHRONICLE BUILDING AND THE CITY HALL AND A NUMBER OF OTHER STRUCTURES WERE REDUCED rO ASHES. BY FIRE WHICH BROKE OUT IN THE DISMANTLED STRUCTURES. THE LOSS THERE WlLL RUN INTO MA1SIY MILLIONS.

1 a THE CALL a IS Five people were killed in the Empire Building on Twelfth Street, STANFORD BUILDINGS DOM SAN' FRANCISCO, APRIL 18-THE SAN FRANCISCO Tr X- near Broadway. The! dead are: CALL BUILDING IS ON FIRE, AND AT THIS WRITING IT SEEMS CERTAIN THAT IT WILL BE TOTALLY Keep Keep your heads. Keep your courage! Don't exaggerate. Don't get panic stricken, An earthquake fhock of great violence and long duration is an appalling calamity but a panio is infinitely worse. Reason, oourage, and calmness dissolve' in times of panio like snow in a spring thaw, and confusion, irresolution prevail at a time when judgment and action are the supreme necessity of Beware of crediting and circulating wild rumors, and avoid idle lamentati on.

A great disaster has befallen San Francisco Oaklandand several other California cities, due to mysterious elemental DESTROYED. FLAMES ARE RAPIDLY EATING AWAY THE PALO ALTO. April 18. All the untver- i ity. buildings here but one are a total OTTO WISHER, forty-five years of age.

AMELIA WISHER, thirteen years of age. EDWARD MARNEYk about twnty.fiye years of; age. r- i 1 flRS EDWARD MARNEY, twenty-five years old Unknown man about twentvifive veara nf ficr. wreck. STRUCTURE DESPITE THE EFFORTS MADE TO SAVE THIS MAGNIFICENT BUILDING.

STREAMS OF WATER ARE BEING TURNED INTO THE BLAZING PILE, BUT SO INTENSE IS THE HEAT THAT THE WATER; BE-COMES STEAM, AS SOON A IT REACHES THE FIRY JOHN JUDD dropped dead of heart disease. disturbance. There has been widespread damage to prop FURNACE. mm OF ASYLUM GREAT. DAMAGE HAS ALSO BEEN DONE TO THE BUNKERS HVII EXAMINER AND CHRONIC BUILDING.

erty and considerable loss of life. Careless and imperfect is construction responsible for nine tenths of the damage and a'grwt majority of the casualties; It may be a thousand" years before there is such another i- 1 I disturbance inthis locality, but the consequences of this one is an admonition not to Repeat the errors of thW Bast. UaB.but nue was acareely tho resldsBo of its pastor. K. Banborn.

at 1171 Tenth areinue. was so badly damaged that the family was oompeOed to more out. i dThHhe and an an aa aa aa -f 'V 1NISTE in It The damage is so far from being irreparable that it should Supervisor fred Horner, who returned from Ban Jose In his auto this after- nopn states that the Agnews asylum. Is a total wreck. Jthat many of the Inmates were killed, and the remainder are Th Board of PoUea and Firs Coramla lonara thla mornlnc Mt tb ttreet -1 -mpiorea deantnc up dabria left by the artbquaka.

Gang of man witS wacvos. dishearten no one. Therefore it is wise to take couhsel of reason and courage, and shun the fearful infection of timid, the superstitious and weakminded. Now is, the time for the ciiizen of Oakland and Ban a eemplately ooHapsea. Many th bunker fen Into th.

bay amrinr thonaanda of too of ooal T1 Lone "Wharf on of th mot Important ahlpplnf points about tba bay. and trwigbt will Interrupted SHEDS ABJEJESTROYED The anal lran1rra wtifa fnv irtHHdnr around terrorizlns the plcka and shovel, have been sent to community, been dotes- duty on Adam's wharf, suf- The-' superintendent of the Institution The Brooklyn Presbyterian church on the MTtnl dlatrlota "of the city and are busily at xrk reiyiwluy, aa far aa possible, traces: of tbo earthquake. ierea aestrucuon before the earthquake. The Immense framework was thrownt down and the heary beams and rods of? iron twisted and distorted. (Continued on Pas 1) and bis wife were both killed.

Cast Fifteenth street and Twelfth 1 ave- oonviAtrably. MAWDP MATT A.PPB: A I i i i i i 1 1 1 i 1 1 I tt rJVU OAKLAND: THE EARTHQUAKE THIS MORNING VISITED UPON OUR CITY A GREAT CALAMITY. YET IS A SOURCE OF MUCH SATTSFAmW wk vnn. I FRpMA TO CO-'? OPERATE WITH THE, AUTHORITIES INr MAINTAINING PEACE AND ORDER. I AS MANY BUILDINGS ARE IN AN UNSAFE CONDITION TH PUBUC ARE ADMONISHED TO KEEP OFF THE STREETS, AGAirXST CONGREGATING IT IS ALSO VERY ESSENTIAi THAT PRliCAUTION BEUSED'IN THE BUILDING OF FIRES UNTIL THE CHIMNEYS HAVE BEEN INSPECTED AIJDREPA1RED.

THOSE WHO HAVE KOT jTOIER GASQR Qtt, STOVES ARE jADVISEDTHAT DANGER p.IAY BE AVOIDED BY MOVING THEIR TOVES OUT OF DOORS 7 PRANK.