The Salina Evening Journal from Salina, Kansas • Page 1

1IEUBEE ASSOCIATES PEESS TIVE O'CLOCK LAST EDITION A VOL. 21. SALINA, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, APlilL IS, 1906, NO. 93. stories high Phelan building and DEATH LIST UNKNOWN EARTHQUAK suip ht mite The City Hall.

The city hall, which was ruined by the earthquake, was one of the greatest public buildings in the United States. It cost of eitv of San Francisco $5,000,000 to complete itl DiSTURBElTcONTINENT AND BY. FLAMES Railroad Sinks From View. San Francisco, Apr. 18.

A telegram from Saeramento reixrts that three miles of railroad sank out of sight as a result of the earthquake, betw-eeu Suisan and Benelea, taking all wires with it. At Pleasanton several cars "were burned on the main line, blocking al Itrains. RUN INTOTH0USANDS San Francisco Desolated Today by a Great Double Disaster. DEATH LIST IS ENORMOUS After the Earthquake, Which Wrecked the City, Fire Now Threatens the Entire MetropolisLoss Over Forly Million Dollars. O'Farrell store.

The south side of Market street, be tween Fourth and Fifth streets is on fire and the flames "are spreading in all directions. The city is now under martial law. It seems the entire business section of San Franeisco must be destroyed. Mayor Schmitz has ealled for the assistance of the entire Oakland fire department and has ordered that all dynamite available be used to blow up buildings in order to stay the flames. State University May Go.

Aat 11:05 it is reported that a serious fire is burning at Berkley, Avhere the state university is located. WERE PANiG-STRICKEN People Hastened to Leave the City in Fear. San Francisco, Apr. IS Every able bodied man who could be pressed into serviee was put to work rescuing victims. Panic seized the most of the people and they rushed frantically about.

Toward the ferry building there was a rush of those fleeing to the cross bay section. Few any effects and some were barely dressed. The streets were filled with people and the frequent occuring shocks sent them into unreasoning panic. The area bounded by Washington, Mission and Montgomery streets, ex-tending to the bay front, is devastated. This represents the heart of a handsome business seetion.

MAY BE OTHER CITIES No Report From San Jose and Other Bay Towns. Los Angeles, April IS. Informa tion from San Francisco says that already five hundred bodies are in the morgue. Others are. being brought in constantly.

There is a jam of panic stricken people at the ferry seeking to cross the day at Oakland. Mayor Schmitz has sent to Oakland for more dynamite. Fires are reported at Oakland, Ala meda and Berkeley. The earthquake shock was felt as far south as Santa Barbara. The fact that San Jose -and other bay cities have not been able to communicate with Los Angeles would indicate that they aoo have sullered irom the slioek.

A special train carrying the Califor nia state supreme court, with news paper correspondents and others, left this afternoon for San Iraneisco. Martial Law Established. General Funston has established martial law in San Francisco. The major has closed every saloon in the city. J4 ires are -raging every where and the firemen are using dynamite.

The Palace and Grand hotels have been destroyed. The Examiner, Call and Rialto buildings are ablaze. The Call building is swaying, and expected to topple. The Southern Pacific building is afire and the Postal telegraph building is almost a wreck. The Sunset telephone building on Rush street and the Western Union building at Pine and Montgomery are entirelv demolished.

THE WRECKED CITY San Francisco Covers a Large Terri tory and Has 312,782 People. San Francisco is the eighth city in point of population in the United States, according to the census of 1900 having a population of The city was originally built around the outside of a semi-circle of land ex tending into the bay The consolidat ed city and county now has, however, an area of forty-two square miles. At the widest point the city is six miles wide. San Francisco is accustomed to earthquakes of more or less severity, and this fact has caused the building of many frame houses. But recently the more magnificent residences have been built of granite and stone.

These are the buildings which the dispatches state stood the shock better than the frame or brick buildings. Market street, where the damage was the greatest, is the street which divides the old and the new portions of the city, and upon this street is the largest part of the retail stores. In all the history of the city the damage by earthquake has never equaled the present disaster. THE PALACE HOTEL Something About the Buildings Injured by the Shock. The Palace hotel is one of the most magnificent buildings of the kind, and is said to be one of the very largest hotels in the world.

It occupies an area of 275x350 feet and is nine stories high. The hotel will aeeomis.o- date more than 1 ,200 guests and was built at a cost of $3,250,000. The St. Francis hotel is a large structure and is located about three blocks from the Palace. The Liek house, one of the hotels damaged, is also one of the foremost of San Fran Cisco's hotels.

Telegraph Communications Cut OS and May Expect the Worst. San Francisco, Apr. 18. The Postal Telegraph company is preparing to vacate its building. This will shut off all telegraphic communication with the outside world.

The whole city is threatened with destruction. There is no way of estimating the casualties. The dead may number in the hundreds, and may be in the thousands. The property loss so far is estimated at $50,000,000. ENTIRE CITY DOOMED The Flames Are Devouring the Business Portion.

San Francisco, Apr. 18 (11 a. Unless the wind comes up from the west, blowing the flames toward the bay, nothing can stop the destruction of the city. The whole north end of the town is wrecked. The flames are spreading in all directions.

The sixteen story Call building is in flames; Back of this the eleven story Monadnock building, nearing completion, has fallen out. The block that is bounded by Sansome, California, Pine and Battery streets is all doomed. The damage already is roughly estimated at $40,000,000. The following buildings have been destroyed: The Pacific States Telephone company building, the Kialto, the Natoma, the twelve-story Mutual Life building. Thirty bodies are in the morgue.

The mayor has appointed a relief committee of fifty. The military is patrolling the greets, having been ordered out by General F. D. Funston. It is guarding the banks 'and other establishments.

1 The soldiers have been ordered to shoot any one detected in stealing. The banks are open but there is a great rush of depositors to draw out their money. All saloons are closed. Flames Spreading Rapidly. San Francisco, Apr.

13 (10:15 a. coast time). The fire extends from the ferry to Front street on one side and pretty much all south of Market street and out to beventh with sporadic fires in the park section and western divsion. There is no way of estimating the dead. There may be hundreds and there may be thousands.

There is hardly any water and it is impossible to say when the fire will stop. The Postal Telegraph operators remain at their posts at the peril of their lives, as the building is threatened with collapsing, an dthe fire is within a block. The Postal Telegraph company will open a temporary office at Oakland, across the bay, as soon as a boat can be procured to carry the operators there. The lire is so fierce now betwen Market street and the ferry, however, as to make it impossible to reach a boat at present. The fish market at the corner of Clay and Merchants streets, has collapsed, killing six.

Grand Opera House Burning. The Grand opera house is burning fiercely. A three stroy building adjoining is also apparently doomed, as are other buildings between the theatre and St. Patrick's church. Many leople are fleeing from the Palace hotel.

The gas works, south of Market street, was blown up and this started another big fire in that section of the city. A portion of the "Mission," several miles from the business section is in flames. The fire began at Twenty-second street and is rapidly moving eastward. It may sweep the entire southern portion of the city. In Oakland five persons were killed by the collapse of the Empire building.

The Core block, at the eorner of Market and Pine streets, is in flames, and probably will be a total loss. Santa Fe Round House Falls. The Santa Fe round house and machine shops at Point Richmond, across the ba have collapsed. PALACE HOTEL ON FIRE The World Famous Hostelry Is Burn- i in Now. San Francisco, April IS, (11:15 a.

The Palace hotel is now on fire. Other buildings now on fire are the Claus Spreckles structure, seventeen PRESIDENT PAYS HIS RESPECT TO THE CHICAGO JUDGE. IN SPECIAL MESSAGE He Urges Congress to Amend tho Trust Law So That a Judge Cannot Overturn the Measure. Washington, April IS. In a special message delivered to congress today President Roosevelt declares the result of the recent trial of the "beef packers" in Chicago was a "miscar riage of justice," and that the interpretation placed bv Judre Humphry on the will of conirress "is such as to make that will absolutely abortive." Raps Judge Humphrey.

The message, which is the most sensational iir character, is based largely on a letter to the president from At torney General Mood-, in which the latter reviews the proceedings of the case of the government against the packers. The president says it is clear that no criticism attaches to Commissioner Garfield, as what he did was pursuance of a duty imposed on him by congress, lie refers shaq- ly, however, to the decision of Judge Humphrey, saying that congress could not have foreseen such a decision and that he can hardly believe the ruling of the judge will be followed by other judges. He declares that such an interpretation of the law as that placed on it by Judge Humphrey "comes measurably near making the law a farce." lie recommends that congress pass a dee- Iatory act seating its real intention. The president also requests congress to confer upon the government, by statute, the same right of appeal, in criminal cases which a defendant now enjoys, when the merits of the case have not been determined. THE DEMOCRATS MEET To Talk Over the Rate Bill in the Senate.

Washington, Apr. IS. The demo cratic senators met in conference today for the purjMise of exchanging their views on the railroad rate bill. The meeting was called with the dis tinct understanding that no binding action will be attempted. CALLED HIS BLUFF.

New York Will Give Preacher Oppor tunity to Make Good. New York, April 18. The City of New York is going to give Rev. Dr. Cortland Myeiv, pastor of the First Baptist church of Brooklyn, an oppor tunity to make good his statement that if he had money he could close every poolroom in the city within six months.

The money for the expenses will le furnished by the city ami Dr. Mvers will be given free rein to pro ceed with his fight. "Poolrooms are being operated in the city iir violation of the law," said Dr. Myers to' Third Deputy Police Commissioner Mathot in the JeflVr- on Market police court today. "It is foolish to say they can be sup pressed.

Why, I could do it myself, closing up every one of them in six months, if I had the money." "I am authorized to grant you the necessary money," saut JUr. Mattmt. "I agree, then, to close the pool rooms in six month," replied Dr. Myers. The clergyman has been summoned to appear in the police court as the result of a.

letter he wrote to Police Commissioner I'ingham, enclosing a list of fifty alleged poolrooms in the city. Dr. Myers is president of the New York Society for the Enforcement of Law, which he will use in his campaign. SWIMS TO MEET WIFE; DROWNS Rcconcilation of Couple Near When Husband Perishes in River. Evansville, Apr.

18. Thomas Leasure; aged 2T), a wealthy fanner living in Kentucky, near here, was drowned this afternoon. Leasure recently was separated from his wife and the couple had agreed to a reconciliation and arranged a meeting for today. Leasure lived on one side of Rough river and his wife on the other. When Leasure went to the river he saw his wife waiting on the other side to greet him.

He had no way to cross the stream and reach her and he plunged into the water to swim across. He was within a few feet of the other bank when he was seized with cramps and drowned before the eyes of his wife, who is frantic with grief. The friends who had gathered at the river with him tried in vain to rescue the man. Miss Julia Burns spent yesterday at her home in Solomon. San Francisco Earthquake Affected the Entire Country.

Washington, Apr. 18. The San Francisco earthquake reached across the entire continent. The seismograph at the weather bureau here showed violent agitation about this morning. The instrument at 12:45 was still recording violent vibrations.

The second shock felt in San Francisco was clearly indicated by the instruments, thus showing that the entire continent is still affected. Orders Navy to Help. Washington, April IS. Assistant Sveretary of War Oliver, in the absence of Secretary Taft, has tele graphed to Major General Greeley, commanding the Pacific division at San Francisco, to co-operate with the local authorities and use all resources at his command to assist in alleviating the situation. The Banking District Escapes.

New York, Apr. 18. At 10:30 o'clock this morning the Postal Telegraph company received the following telegram: "At 5:13 this morning a terrific earthquake shock occurred in San rancisco, doing particular damage in the district east and south of Market street, practically destroying six or eight blocks in the manufacturing and wholesale districts. The banking district is not seriously damaged, although small damage was done over the whole town. Many are killed and wounded.

FUNSTON IN COMMAND The Kansas Soldier Has Ordered Out the Troops. San Francisco, Apr. 18. General Funston has called out all available troops for service if necessary. The board of supervisors will meet imme diately to take measures for the rehet and protection of the sufferers.

Chief of Fire Department Sullivan is in a precarious condition. Both he and his wife are injured. EXTENT0F EARTHQUAKE Did More or Less Damage at Other Points. San Francisco, April 18. The earthquake did more or loss damage at other points along the coast.

A hotel at Colhnsville on the bacre- mento river, was wrecked, but no one was injured there. At one place between Sprig and Tealsarons in the Suisan marshes, for a distance of a mile and a half the Southern Pacific traeks sank three to six feet and at another point nearly one thousand feet of track went out of sight. There are great crevices on each side of the track through the Suisan marshes and it is reported that a great ocean of water has flowed over the lowlands between Suisan and Bencia. At Tracy, San Joaquin coun ty, the freight cars in the yard start ed to rolling and had to have blocks placed under them. At Woodlands chimneys were knocked down.

At Napa scarcely a whole pane of win dow glass is left. The shock was ielt as tar east as Hazen, Nev. A TON OF DYNAMITE Will Be Used in Blowing Up Property to Stop Fire. New York, April IS. The following message from San Francisco was received at 3:30 by the New York Times: That section of the city south of Market street, bounded by Market, Third, Sansome and Ninth streets is in a mass of flames.

The Call building has just burned and the Anglo-California bank has been destroyed. Every building in the city is more or less damaged by the earthquake. The Southern Pacific has just brought a ton of dynamite into the vicinity of the burning section on Market street to be used if possible in blowing up property. AT SACRAMENTO ALSO The Shock Was Severe But No Deaths Are Reported. Sacramento, April 18.

The severe- est earthquake felt in this city many years occurred at 5:13 o'clock this, morning. Buildings were rocked like cradles, but no' serious damage was done. Slight? damage to the post office and some other briek buildings resulted. No Loss of Life at Sacramento. Sacramento, Apr.

IS. A severe earthquake shock occurred here early this morning. There is great confusion, but no loss of life is Chicago Hears That Death Rate Will Be Very Large. Chicago, Apr. 18.

Authoritative reports this afternoon from San Francisco say it is certain that the death list will run into thousands. The shocks still continue at intervals. FULL DETAILS WILL BE SLOW. Will Not Be Known for Several Days the Extent of Damage. April 18.

Hundreds and perhaps thousands of persons are believed to be dead in San Francisco as the result of an earthquake. It is reported that hundreds of buildings in the city have fallen and fires are destroying the city. Many cities along the coast have suffered but it will bo hours before the full extent of the damage is known. CONGRESS MUST ACT. Secretary Taft Says Decision on Canal Must Be Made.

Washington', April IS. Taft today told the senate committee on inter-oceanic canals that the question of the type of the canal must be determined at once or Chief Engineer Stevens will be placed in a position where he will be compelled to suspend work. IT AFFECTS PRICES. New York Stock Market Felt the Depression. New York, Apr.

IS. The prices, of stocks on Wall street were depressed today by the news of the disaster to San Francisco. There was heavy selling, the declines amounting to $2 or more in many cases. The Pacific roads were especially affected. COMMUNICATION STOPPED.

The Last Wire Into the City Abandoned. San Francisco, Apr. 18, (11:20 a. The Postal Telepragh company's employes have been forced to leave the office. TWO SHIPS WENT DOWN.

It Is Reported That Two Sank in the Bay. San Francisco, Apr. IS. It is reported that two ships sank in the bay. MAY HAVE SHOWERS.

Weather Man Says Kansas Will Get Rain Tonight. Chicago, April 38. Forecast until p. m. Thursday.

For Kansas: Probably showers tonight and Thursday; cooler Thursday and in north and west tonight. For Missouri: Partly cloudy to night and Thursday; possibly in the west Thursday; cooler Thursday af ternoon. DOWIE CAN GET IN Court Allows Him Freedom of Zion City. Roekford, 111., Apr. IS Following the filing of a bill to set aside the conveyance of property in Zion City, Judge R.

Wright of the circuit court today granted an injunction restraining Voliva and others from interfering with or in any way preventing Dowie from going to Zion City and re maining there. The injunction also gives Dowie the right to hold reli gious services the tabernacle. LOSES HIS JOB. A "Higher Critic" Preacher Quits His Pulpit. Springfield, 111., Apr.

IS. Opposition to sermons tinged with alleged "higher criticism" is given as the cause of the resignation of lie v. Chas. Clayton Morrison of the Christian church of this city. Mr.

Morrison is a graduate of the University of Chicago and was pastor of the Monroe street church there before accepting the pastorate hee four years ago. His resignation was unanimously accepted at a special meeting by the full board of the church officials. Ever since Mr. Morrison assumed charge of the loeal church there has been a disposition on the part of a number of the members to criticise his -liberal methods. In order to relieve the situation the pastor handed in his resignation.

QUIET AT SPRINGFIELD But the Soldiers Still Patrol the Streets. Springfield, April 18. Practically normal conditions prevailed here this morning, except for the presence of the state militia. Soldiers are still guarding the jail and the principal streets. Pending the action of the grand jury, the sheriff has suspended Fires are burning in a number of places on Market street.

After the water main burst, dynamite was used to check the progress of the flames. The residence section, while badly shaken, reports no loss of life nor serious damage. Some of the Wrecked Buildings. The Valencia hotel, a five-story frame at Valencia and Seventeenth streets, toppled over, burying seventy-five people. A lodging house at Seventh street between Howard and Mission streets known at the Kingsley.

collapsed, caught fire, and eighty persons are believed to be in the ruins. The Lipman dry goods store at Twenty-second and Mission streets, is on fire and the entire block is threatened. At Eighteenth and Valencia streets there is a crevice in the street six feet wide. The street car tracks are badly twisted and traffic in the southern part of the city is at a standstill. Many fire houses are damaged so' badly it is impossible to get the apparatus out.

At the Southern Pacific hospital many sufferers have been taken in and many injured are on the streets making their way to the hospitals. Ihe Episcopal church on Eleventh street is badlv damaged. The Studebaker carriage factory has caved in. Fire is threatening the Palace hotel, which is being vacated. All sorts of vehicles are being used to carry the people from the danger scene.

The Examiner and Call newspaper buildings, huge structures, are also in imminent danger. Business Section Ruined. The business section of the city from Market street to Mission street and from the bay back has been almost eompcltely wrecked. Many buildings along Market and Mission streets, including several department stores, have collapsed. Hundreds of people in the cheaper tenement districts are reported killed.

Fires are raging and owing to the scarcity of water are practically beyond control. Business has been suspended. The offices of the Postal Telegraph company in the Hobart building were wrecked, as is the Associated Press building at 302 Montgomery street. The residence portion is but. slightly damaged, although nearly every house has been more or less injured.

A Second Shock. At o'clock this morning there was another shock, which intensified the panic. The shock was of short duration and the alarm soon subsided. THREATENEDBY fire City May Experience the Greatest Conflagration of Modern Times. San Francisco, Apr.

18. Practically the entire water front is on fire and if the wind comes up San Francisco will exierienee the greatest conflagration of modern times. On lower Market streets, the main thoroughfare of the city, block after block of substantial building has been destroyed. Fire is raging in all the down town districts. A brisk westerly wind is coming up and the destruction ofthe entire business district is threatened, mentarily to fall.

mentarily to all. The city hall is almost a complete wreck and the damage here is estimated at $500,000. The excitement increases. Every few minutes explosions are heard, as buildings are blown up. The wildest rumors are spreading as to the loss of life.

Mechanics Pavilion has been converted into an emergency hospital. The Grand opera house has suffered severe damage. San Francisco, Apr. 18. San Francisco was practically wreclfed by an earthquake at 5:10 o'clock this morning.

The shock lasted three minutes, and thousands of buildings were damaged or destroyed. There is no water, and fire rages all over the city. All wires, with the exception of a single one, are gone. The city hall, costing several million dollars, is in ruins. Modern buildings suffered less than those of brick or frame.

The terror and excitement are indescribable. Fire Completes the Ruin. A disastrous fire has broken out on the south side of Market street, and at 8 :50 a. m. was within a block of the Palace hotel." The water burst and the fire department is practically helpless.

The utmost confusion exists and all business is suspended. The plastering is falling from the inside of the Palace and St. Francis hotels. Between the "postal office and the water front great damage has been done by fire, which is burning fiercely. The streets are blocked with debris.

Buildings are being blown up. The residence part of the town is safe, so far as heard from. People Were Asleep. Most of the people were asleep, when they were suddenly aroused and rushed into the streets undressed. The buildings swayed and crashed, burying the occupants.

There was a panic in the down town hotels. The Lick house was badly damaged but there was no loss of life. The Palace and St. Francis hotels withstood the shock. People flocked to the telegraph office to send messages to friends, and were frantic because there were no wires.

The greatest damage to buildings was done on South Market street, where there were mostly frame houses. Fires occurred in every block in that district. Disaster Grows jn Magnitude. As the reports come in the magni tude of the disaster grows. Fires are raging in all directions and the people are moving out of the down town sec tion.

The loss of life may reach into the hundreds. Millions of dollars in property has been destroyed. The Path of Destruction. The district lying between Market and Howard streets, from the bay as far west as the city hall, is badly wrecked. The hotels in the vicinity of Third and Market streets were badly shaken.

The Call and Examiner building, as well as the Western Union building, were all badly wrecked. All were modern structures. The large department stores in this neighborhood were also ruined, but the earthquake occurred at an hour when- they were empty. Farther east on Market street toward Ferry Slips is a section occupied by cheap lodging house and hotels. Here the loss of life is-reported very great.

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