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All Is In Ruins
[Continued from Page I.]
Residence District
Destroyed
The fashionable residence district
has been completely destroyed. Many
linger in that section of the town and
helplessly watch the flames consume
the remainder of their homes.
The outlaw element is appearing on
the streets in great numbers. It Is be
lieved it is congregating here from
other sections of the states. The soldi
ers hare killed four ghouls.
The Mechanics pavillion, where 506
bodies, rescued from debris, were await
ing identification, is in ashes. Two
hundred corpses were cremated.
There is not a single street in the
city where life is safe. Everywhere
are there fatal accidents almost con
stantly from'falling walls. More than
3,000 injured are now in hospitals.
Many of these are threatened and
wounded people are being constantly
removed from one temporary place of
refuge to f not her. The French and
German hospitals are threatened and
patients are being removed from them
at this time. They are being taken
to improvised tents in Golden Park.
Ten square miles af territory have
boen devastated in the choiclst portion
of the city. A thousand city blocks are
in ruines and 150 business blocks are
completely burned. ?
Cannot Q-et News
Washington,AprilI&? The California
delegation is unable to hear from mem
bers of their families. It is believed
no special messages of a purely person
al character are permitted to go throgh.
New York, April 19? No one can get
any word from relatives or friends in j
San Francisco.
That the people received the news of
the San Francisco Sre an earthquake in
a manner as satisfactory as they did,
which was not the best, was due to the
fact that telegraph operators remained
at their posts after the buildings in
which they were situated began falling.
Thu statement was made by the Weet
ern Union and Postal Telegraph eom
panies in answer to the numerous criti
cisms.
Seattle To Help
Seattle, April 19? A citizens' com
mittee has appealed to the people of
this city for assistance for the stricken
city of San Francisco. I. A. Nadsau Is
chairman of the committee.
Detailed Statement
Impossible
Seattle, April 19? It is impossible to
get a detailed and connected account of
of the San t rancisco Sre and the dam
ages resulting elsewhere in California
from the terrible earthquake of yester
day. Only one wire to the South is
working. It is crowded with thousands
of messages. Many of them are a day
old already. Howard James, vice
president of the great Northern Steam
ship Company, has left for San Fran
cisco on a special train. His family Is
tbere and he can get no word from them .
He fears they have been killed.
Material Comes
?Washington, April 19? Upon receipt
of a message from Gen. Funs too, call
ing for 1000 tents and all rations tkat
could be sent by the war department,
the latter ordered the commissary at
Vancouver Barracss to far ward tents
and 200,000 rations to the stricken city.
Los Angeles
Physicians Help
Loa Angeles, April 19? A) special
train containing "5 physicians and four
coaches of trained nurses left here last
night for San Francisco. Another
train load left this morning ft 30 o'clock
The latter train carries 100 extra police
men.
Oakland, April 19? ? A Special train
load of physicians and nurses arrived|at
lo A. M. from Loe Angles.
Detailed Statement
Impossible.
Seattle, April 39? Steamship offices
are in receipt of telegrams from San
Francisco which led them to fear that
the harbor there had been destroyed.
NOB HILL ABLAZE
Oakland, April 19?2 p. m. ? Nob Hill
is now all ablaze. It Is reported that
six more small settlements in the vici
nity of San Francisco have been wiped
out. A majority of the inhabitants in
each town perished. Police Sergeant
Steve Brunner, sr. was killed by the
falling walls of the city hall.
Santa Cruz, April 19? The court
house and six other large buildings
were razed to the ground yesterday.
Twenty persons were killed. Napa
has keen partly wiped out and many
were killed.
Early Morning Story
?
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fatally injured. The latter is believed.
The Chronicle building is tottering
and it may fall any minute.
The elegant home of Claus Spr.ckles
kas collapsed and two servants were
killed. The St. Ignatius church and
college, costing $2,000,000, have been
destroyed. The Golden Gate park is a
total wreck. The great building cover
ing the children's play ground collaps
ed. The Cliff House was swept into
the sea. There is not a vestiget of it
left, The big ferry depot at the foot,
of Market street has .been wrecked.
The Occidendental and California hotels
have both ^collapsed. The roof was
blown off the Lick House.
A mysterious explosion has just beer
heard and the ekrth is trembling more
violently.
It is feared that there ha-r been great
loss of life in the basements of the Call
and Examiner buildings.
Situation Appaling
The situation is appalling. Mothers,
wives, sisters, fathers, husbands, sons
and friends serched the morgues for the
dead ones all night. One hundred and
fifty were taken into custody having
beea driven insane by the agony and
excitement.
A large portion of the dead met their
9cd at the lTrst shock in the streets.
They rushed out of doors with the be
ginning of the disturbance and the
falling buildings crushed out their
lives.
The only hope of saving the city is
by the use of explosives and the supply
of these has been exhausted. The
Southern Pacific is rushing special
trains in all directions to secure more.
This morning the people are praying
in the streets All hope seems to be
gone and none is cherished.
The Southern Pacific building col
lapsed this morning. All the theatres
in the city are burned to the ground or
were wrecked by the various shocks.
The loss up to date exceeds $200,000
000.
Yesterday's
Late Story
san Francisco, April 18 ? 6 p. m.? At
sis o'clock the hsart of the city is
wiped out. People are fleeing across
the bay. The ferry landings are jam
med with people to get passage on the
Oakland boats. The burned city will
be practically deserted tonight except
by the workers.
The city is under martial law. Gen.
Funs ton, with regulars from Presidio,
is in command.
Police, soldiers, firemen and volun
teers are dynamiting buildings with
.the hop of staying the progress of the
flames. However, they continue to
e n est fine frijowr^
^ AH. The Very jfewes! Things iti j^llineiy^
. . B. M. Behrends, Mercantile Co.
i B | (]0O. BlaRchard, ManagBr.
spread aud there is no water with which
to combbat them.
The streetsrare filled with debris aDd
locomotion is difficult in the extreme.
Communication with the 'outside world
has been practically cut off. There
has been only one wire working all the
afternoon, and |dispatches must neces
sarily be in the form of brief bulletins.
The dead will reach fully 1,000. Four
hundred bodies are lying Id the
Mechanic's pavilllon. The city morgue
was closed early in the afternoon. It
Is so full of the dead that no more can
be cared for there.
The Call building, the Examiner
1 building, the Palace and Grand hotels,
' the Spreckles, Rlalto, Phelan and a
hundred other sky scrapers are nothing
but charred skeletons, and the people
are being held back in the streets to
prevent further casualties from falling
buildings. The walls of the Examiner
building collapsed like an egg shell,
without warning, and it is believed
fully 20 persons were killed by them
?nd are now in the ruins.
The huite city hall, costing more than
$7,000,000 and occupying two blocks
collapscd at 4 o'clock and is now a mass
; of rnins.
i More than 200 residences have ool
! laped and many others are in ruins.
The earth is still trembling and fur
i ther disturbances ore feared.
Hundreds of people who jwere sleep
icg in lodging houses in the district
south of Market street are among the
j dtad.
Government Will Aid
| Washington, April 18? Representa
tive Tawney, chairman of the commit
tee on appropriations in the house pre
sented resolutions authorizing the
president to extend all possible aid to
San Francisco through the war and
?avy departments which are directed
to get in touoh with the situation and
to distribute tents, food and such other
things as are required and available, and
to place the ships of the government
the disposal of the city. They were
adopted.
Stanford Univ?r?ity Demollied
Oakland, April 18?6 p. m.? A tele
phone message just received says the
Leland Stanford. Jr, university at
Palo Alto has been demolished.
The telegraph companies have beeD
forced to* leave San Francisco and open
headquarters here.
San Jot* Goes Too
Sail Jose, April 18? Earthquake*
have visited this place at irregular in
tervals this afternoon. Many, buildings
have been demolished, several hun
dred people are reported as havinp
been killed.
FEAR WAR
Crisis Confronts People Of
Servia
(Special Dispatch to Daily Alaskan.)
Belgrade, Servia, April 19--The Ser
vian cabinet has resigned, and the re
signations have been accepted by King
Peter. The resignations were due to
the'refusal of King Peter to|sanction the
retirement of the regicide officers in
his army. A revolution is imminent,
King Peter is notified the hs must ab
dicate within SO days. He refuses to do
that and an outbreak is feared.
DIRIGO COMING
The Dirigo will arrive from Juneau
tonight.
Elks'' Meeting
There will be a regular meeting of
Skagway Lodge No. 431, Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks, at their
hall, Thursday, April 19, at 8 p. m.
There will be initiation.
Ail visiting Elks are invited to at
tend.
J. E. Barragar, Sec'y.
W. W. Boughton has received a con
signment of Marguerite Havana Cigars.
If you want a good sweet smoke call
for them. ?
Will Reopon
Will re-open the Railroad Restau
rant within a very few days. Your
patronage solicited.
John Wllliami.
A large quantity of the latest maga
zines received at Mulr's on the Jeffer
son.
Jefferson Goes Down
With 411 On Board
Will return to Skagway in 10 days with more goods
consisting of Ranges, Stoves, Granite and Tin
ware. Doors. Windows. Glass, Paints, Oils,
Lime, Cement, Cutlery, Guns, Amunition,
Base Ball, Tennis and Golf Goods, Fishing
Tackle, Bicycles and Bicycle Repairs.
All kinds of Plumbing Goods.
. Plumbing: in all its Branches.
J. M. TANNER,
The Hardware Man.
r* Do not overlook us wh?n in need of hard
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u ?
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