Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 5

EVENING OAKLAND ITOBUNE AFKIJLlS.yuU Mmh i' i Earthquake, Fire and Dynamite Destroy Nearly the Entire City. Thousands of Wealthy Men, Are Now Homeless Bankrupts. WEDNESDAY Ml ill 1 KTTCTAL TO TRIBUNE. DAMAGE DOI III DFAD LIST, OF 111 1II1IB UNIVERSITY ESCAPES TIE CITY BAN FRANCISCO. April IS At noon to-day the known ttUmm AT MECHANIC PAVILION.

Otto "vyiaher, forty-five years of Til ill DAMAGED age. CCon'inusd From Page .) Amalla, Wisher, thirteen years of polloamaa, kfuod la oot- Bide of the store. The west side escaped age. lap. R.

W. Kinney Co. Building at BERKEI4ET, April IS. By a seeming Edwardf Marney, about thirty years northeast corner of Ninth and Franklin CCte, kfild la of age. miracle the big University buildings that stand on the campus elevations escaped harm' in the earthquake which wrought such terrible damage throughout the bay region.

street lost the south wall of the top story. Mrs. Edward Marney, about twenty- woman kCted at Jl TENTH STREET. Main Is Broken and the five years of age. Enquirer Tjuilding Arches of the ar- about twenty-five Unknown man, In aiAiww DWi brought la auto.

1 i cade on the top story-badly sprung and Recorder James Sutton of the University said at 10 o'clock this morning: "I have made a personal examination of the buildings on the campus, and have received reports from deans of the colleges, and It appears that not one of the buildings Is harmed In the slightest Water is Shut Off in City, OTHER DEAD. several of the massive pieces of the years of age. Mr kOad, I lnra, In oollaeps at A terrible fate met five persons who stone cornice were shattered UDon the walk. The front walls of the structure MDOmg at tit were lodging In rooms above the Enr i' 1' 1 1 i are also cracked. e- GREEK THEATER SAFE.

Professor O'Nell of the chemistry de Novelty Candy store, 1069 Interior floor of buratng krtginghoo at and Ml ion. Hoard crylngl TTt partment reports that the damage done to the' instruments the building will pire Theater on Twelfth 1 street near i Broadway. The floor above the the- BIG BUILDINGS IN SAN FRANCISCO DESTROYED BY. FIRE AND DYNAMITE: WELLS, FARg6 CO'S' BUILDING AT SECOND AND MISSION STREETS. 5 ARONS'ON BUILDING, THIRD AND MISSION.

GRAN!) OPERA HOUSE, THIRD AND MISSION. EXAMINER BUILDING AT THIRD AND MARKET. SAN FRANCISCO CALL BUILDING AT THIRD AND MARKET. THE1 NEW. MONADNOCK BUILDING, OPPOSITE CHRONICLE.

EMPORIUM BUILDING. 1 THE OLD FLOOD BUILDING AT FOURTH AND MARKET. i THE LICK HOTEL AND RUSS HOUSE ON MONTGOM- The Tvvclfi'-i -Teet dam is a wxecU. Urn. shook this city as It-haa never uecu.

shaken before iq the history the place wrecked foundation of the arch where the. tide 1 jars overturned and broken. not aggregate -more than $50. California God eak. mT iy i hall has not mark on it to Indicate Sllberberg, No.

1061, millinery Glass ater Is used as a rooming-house, and Bmo finma kOed to ootlip that an earthquake occurred this, morning. The other buildings appear to be In the same condition. The Greek theater has -not a scratch, on its walls." oVe Into Lake Merritt with- the brink oiim house at Valencia and Br- five of the sleepers werei crushed to shattered In front. Novelty Theatir Pronecnium arvh de stroyed and auditorium littered with or There Is ho doubt, however, that the death by the falling of heavy brick eaarthquake shock was felt on the cam Mm WhaJey and 100, kOled la falling bousa, 8tinr and a venue, namental plastering from the ceillns. TWELFTH STREET.

Jam Wbir. wtf, NW Whadoy, pus. The seismograph In the observatory records the quakes. According to this 'instrument It lasted for 28' seconds. The oscillations were from norCh to south.

The record shows ttyat the big quake came at exactly 5:14:48 seconds Bushell's Building A complete wreck, result that the dam will have to be opened up at a great expense to repair the damage. For a distance of 200 feet the street on the south side of the car tracks has sunk and cracked This caused the breaking 6t the main water pipe twenty inches, in diameter and the rush of water lear Marl Whaley, tun addr, badly In- containing also the Empire Theater. It wall which crashed through the roof and burled the people beneath the de- brls. F.lve of them never aw.oke from their slumbers, while others had miraculous escapes. was in this structure that the first loss A.

M. TOWN UNFORTUNATE. The town of Berkeley waa not Unidentlflsd man, burled In remains so' for- ERY STPT HOTEL ON THIRD STREET. i 1 of Valencia-street hotel. of life, which is elsewhere referred to in detail, was sustained.

tunate as the University lit the matter of damage sustained. No lives were ned away the sidewalk for a consider TILLMAN, BENDEL CO. ON MARKET. PALACE HOTEL IS BURNING, AND EXPECTED; TO BE able distance. lost, nor were there' any nota-bte 1 dlsas- 1 ters to bunding, but the aggrtgatl damage in the shape of twisied structures, broken chimtit-ys and falling walls Will be many thousands of dollars.

fThe-First National Bank building, the tallest structure In the city, seems to te unharmed. The Homestead Loan Asso IS THEATER DYNAMITED AT AY MINUTE. t- ciation building Is badly cracked. The steel girders of the Masonic Temple, mm iThe fate of the Wisher family was 1 particularly A father and his daughter were crushed, while" Fre'-da, another daughter, eighteen years of age, was so protected by a chair and a broken 'beam that she was uninjured. In speaking of her escape Miss Washer siMd: 'Father, my sister and myself occu-pied our room together, each of us sleeping in a cot.

When the earth-quake began I did not know what It was, and at first thought that we were Uhl Brothers, between, Broadway and Franklin street Celling broken down, stock mixed up. I R. H. Chamberlain, adjoining Stock jumbled up and shelving shattered. Metropolitan Furniture Company-South and west walls shattered.

St. Paul Building East wall started. W. P. Fulled Co.

Floors caved in, stock of pairrtc inextricably mixed and stock of plate glass in the rear nearly all destroyed. James Cahill, paints and wall paper THE FOLLOWING BUILDING WERE! DAMAGED AND DESTROYED BY THE TEMBLOR: I NEW CITY HALL. MAJESTIC THEATER. ODD FELLOWS' BUILDING. ST.

FRANCIS HOTEL, ONE CORNER HAS- FALLEN OFF. l. THE NEW FAIRMOUNT HOTEL. THE SACRAMENTO Th Majeatlo Thetr la almost a com which Is In process ot construction, tumbled over, two of them falling through the roof of the University laundry building adjoining, and also striking the Telephone Company's building. REMAIN AT POST.

The night operators in the telephone building. Miss McGreer and Miss Young, bravely stuck to their posts throughout the shock, remaining until relieved by the day force. The high school roof feel In, great plot wmk. th rear nd, on th Ninth atrt aid, having fallen out, wall tho roof oavod Into tho auditorium of th In another train wreck. We were In bufldlng.

1 1 1 one a short time ago. Then the crash At ino California street a ho us was Tha Valencia Boarding Housej on Mission street collapsed as a result of the earthquake, and many roomers were burled In the ruins. Four dead Stock mixed in middle of floor and in STREET SIDE HAS FALLEN OUT.j TTTF. nRPTTF.TTM THEATER. i terior furniture ruined.

came. The room suddenly faded away. I was almost suffocated with 8. H. Steward, leather findings.N o.

406 i ANGLO-CALIFORNIA BANK A TOTAL LOSS. dust, but felt no pain," were seen In one room. How many Damage" sustained only nominal. 1 Tears filled the young woman's eyes more suffered a similar fate Is not known. Rescuers are at work In an Merritt Hotfse, northwest corner of i ahakn tm Its foundation and onto tho sidewalk.

1 To dow Hahnemann Hospital at Cal- Henri and Maplo streets, hi badly wreaked. Tho front of two wings were badly amcked. The hospital would have bb oooupfVd within a few day. That' soar people bar not been killed the fact that moat of the power as she thought of her father and Bis holes marking the weak spots in the structure. School was suspended In the high school and throughout the entire school department.

The West Berkeley Bank building. In process of construction, is badly damaged. The walls fell and the roof caved in. Policeman McCoy narrowly escaped death from a shower of falling stones from the bank building. The business blocks at Dwlght Way station, and at South Berkeley are s'ightly damaged.

One or two small chimney firea called for the service of the fire department, but the damage from this source is practically none. 1 BLUE AND GOLD GONE. The Blue and Gold managers at the Twelfth street Plaster oft walls and ter and her emotions overcame her. CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE AT SANSOME AND CALIFORNIA STREETS. MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE BUILDING.

4'' i THE R. G. DUNN BUILDING AT CALIFORNIA" AND attempt to save the lives of those who majy still 'be living. celling throughout the structure. The three Wishers were traveling i theater people, and the father and his Oakland Chamber of Commerce Exhl- 1 bits in' glass Jars destroyed.

These Jars twos daughters did a burlesque operatic turn.) They had only been in California three Weeks. station are destroyed. All of In som Instances were two and three: SANSOME STREETS. Mtrxxr WATT OT? TTTRT.IP.'R' THE WASWTWflTflM 1 paaottoaBr, are tnoapaciuted for 1 1 a Smf vBAAMMa, STREET SIDE COLLAPSED AND ALL THE PRISONERS IGHTII BE KILLED University received word that all th material for'- the book, which was to WA OF DISASTER. ALLOWED TO GO.

RECENT. ARRIVALS. Mr. and Mrs. Marney and did a turn entitled "Lost In Africa." They were Oential Park skating have been issued next Monaay Dy tne Sunset "Press of San Francisco, has been destroyed, the building housing th Sunset Press printing plant having been feet In height and were filled with fruits and vegetables raised In the vicinity of Oakland.

Nearly all the Jars were broken into fragments. C. Salomonson, No. 399, cyclery Windows broken. I N.

Cobbledlck, No. 401, paints-Front badly broken and shattered. Herman N. Card, adjoining, paper stock inextricably mled. THE WHOLESALE GROCERY STORES IN THE LOW- i 's ER PART OFTHE TOWN ARE ALL DESTROYED.

Foatofflo 1 building 4 ta blowing up only recent arrivals In this city, having ruined this morning. 1 come from Denver two weeks ago. VbSap HdssI 1U Sxth tii. Troop. Th new school buildings through not sleep.

At the first shock awoke report from Diamond Canyo: aid by ld a Th unknown man took a room at the lodging house two nights ago. His name i i my wife beside me. She awakened a HOW Bwlft grown daughter in the room with us; and iut th city were greatly, damaged by he earthquake. Prescott School was la not There la no register kept one in ther oom back, separated from says that a landslide occurred then during the earthquake, and that eight people were killed. Their names havt VOW Mji 1 Ok amoca; bouae de Charles I Sturm Shattered glass and 1 us by folding doors.

My first oonOem at the place, and no -one seems to know Cmcs ruined be shelves. ompletely rased and wll have to be not yet become known. was to get the daughter In the rear room out, which had scarcely been accomplished, when the: roof over 'that' caved 1 anything about th man whoa body was Ttn aweeptnc whole Tamal Parlor Columns Bctmlze's H. i found crushed under the wall. .1 in.

I then broke out a front window my wif calling back a daughter ywh sprung. The Inn Windows smashed. The Empir Theater building i lmrae MARTIAL LAV IS was crazed from fright and -wno was rebuilt. The other schools, while very, materially damaged, did not suffer th fate of the Prescott school. IS the contractors will have to repair dlately behind the Kaha building that vainly striving to get out by the A three-story, thirtyj-five room fash fell and caused the disaster.

The theater door, which waa fastened by tne sag- oc the building, we jail got out the front window, our rooms being on the ground floor. 1 ionable apartment house at 565 Eleventh 1 building la a low one and th wall tower- lng high above fell and crashed through the damage from their own purses, tvtth MitcheiL "alter we Santa Rosa Wine Depot Windows and i bottles broken. Hook Brothers Furniture Large front windows broken and stock broken, i FOURTEENTH STREET. Cerrtemeri Glove Store Broken window. street, was moved flv; feet to the eastward froia its foundations, the top of were o'nt and Id.

got my husband safe som of them will be ruined financial- the roof as if It had been so much straw. the first story slanted five or six feet more to the east, leaving the house Wok ly. In speaking on th subject with ARROW ESCAPE. ing bent, and- the whole housed sank sev into tho next house, i wen, paos. fot my I switch and my atockinga, Mr.

Litchell's panta and underclothing, and then I went back and got my diamonds. I round them in th dark by th aparklo. but one: atone out- of one of the rings was gone. Before that, though, I aaw Mrs. Cora Stanford, a woman who weigh 200 pounds and la crippled with rheuma eral feet, the basement underpining Pe- J.

J. Hanifln. liquors Broken windows The Board of Police and Fire Com- HI i a TRIBUNE- man Councilman Baccus 1 said, "I cannot say whom the lng demolished. i mlnionera held a meeting in the City Probably seventy persons wer In th and bottles. ''K' i i John P.

Maxwell, hardware Front house, and not one was Among Hall this morning and declared mar the residents a woman and her 6- On of thos who had narrow escape from death was A. B. Van Slyk. who was trying to get out of his room when th crash cam. Th wall earn through the roof and Van Blyke was thrown up against th door of his room and waa pinned In so that, could net tism, eitting on ine winaow.

am ground Moor room near us, and begging someonei to help her. I don't know bow I ever aid it, but I lifted her out of teh window and helped her to th lady's, next door, and friend of her aoo cam and took her away with them. N. tial law in Oakland. months-old baby; Mra Bouck and her Mow.eQ-Dohrmann Co.

Large plate damage to the school buildings will rest. The structures themselves are in an awful state. The damage at this time cannot be estimated. If the con- Orders were issued to Companys A -years-old child, and, Mrs. Hansen and windows broken -and extensive damage their tw children, I and years old.

"Tom Lewis, a young man of 20, living KATWXRD. April 11 Th. shook was oareely a aerer a at Baa Leandro, and Fifth Infantry, N. G. re Others stopping there were Mrs.

Orchard wrought among tancy glassware and port for duty immediately. i and -granddaughter. It years of age; Miss china, on both Fourteenth and Washing but the puouo damar wa wore. The move until, hi door waa cut away. He The soldiers were told that they are Kottlrtger, Mr.

Buchanan, Andrew Stur- tractors have te pay for th ruin to 1 1 across the waa th nero oi in occasion. He brought two ladder and' placed them, at the upper balconies, and the people la tho upper stories, oam down over them. Lewis proved a hero. He helped every oney and they wer all soon -out without accident, except that a tank of water in th attio for fire pro-: tection, burst and came down Into th ton street fronts. tevant, and W.

Davenport. Public library 'waa Terly cracked In waa finally, liberated, however, UtU the TELLS OF QUAKE. to parade. the streets of the city, keeping the thoroughfares free from I Probably the on to notice the the buildings, several of them will be practically ruined a dosea direction, and In pUee pleoe 'quake wa J. L.

Mitchell, for thirty-five people. years Southern; Pacific ticket agent at The house In which th five people met dropped out. Th Palmtaa; Pleasaaton and for th last two years The Oakland Traction Consolidated rooms below, especially on- O. C. Tuner.

After the peopi were out Mr, Lewi helped them to get their belongings out. Ho was just too -good for The houee had "recently been bought try Dan T. Meek, of Oakland. and his wIe ha-e another houE. Sh waa their death thla morning on Twelfth employed in the ear department of the won for hi axpertene.

Miss SYeda as aoon as ah got out or the building, waa taken, to the home of. Mr. Frd Boraln. at 189 Seventh trt, wbr Is betner tek-m ear of by tender trlands. With her aoraer of and Caatro streets, occupied by R.

R. Kodgera' drug ator. waa sent notice to the Board of Police and aame road at West Oakland, who had atraet near Broadway, la the earn nous been sick for some weeks with pneumo The tea to have been given by th Misses Downey at their hoaaa In Berkeley on Thursday afternoon, AprU 1906, baa been indefinitely postponed. nia but had recovered sufficiently to have in this one, but wa so afflicted by th eartliquage that eh could not seen. In which th solitary man who was killed Fire Commissioners, that, they would i not run cars into the business district also severely dealt with, specla21y th 'i returned to wora eoupi of days before.

"I seemed to at intervals during the night. 'crackling sounds, as of I her In tSu earthquake of 18S8 met his i in the city, thus doing all in its power I I father and sister goo. Miss Wisher stock noloeed, and th rear wan of th Ha Brothers' new bulldlna; waa crack- "Whea Governor Cumnslna of lvw ac-eused the Senate of being ths su servient tool of veitd Interests the Hon. lev Fl-kins naturally felt that it was nt in light wood being broken In the room," fata. structure was erected, about that time and has been known as the to keep people from flocking the 1 Th nuMia aehool Wn nnfm I fela that her occupation la gon End her End he said to a TEIBUNB reoorter todpy.

todpy, to show the proper resentnient--Cb--3 central portion vof the city. closed until means of livfllhood ttken from tie Mmday. Eushf'I block,.