EXTRA— THE NOME NUGGET — EXTRA
VOL. O. NO. 40.
TKUOPHONK No. 4<t
N'OMK, ALASKA, WKDNKSIJAY. Al'KII, In. I !»<>< >
TKIjKI'IIONFj No. 40
PRICK -Jr, CKNTN
1,000 Dead Bodies Already Piled in Streets
---Earthquake Opens Big Fissure in
Market Street—Fire Depart
ment Is Helpless.
Nugget’s Special Service
SAN FRANCISCO, April 18, 19o6.==
An earthquake this morning which
shook the entire coast of California
and opened a fissure on Market
Complete House Furnisher—G. P. GOGGIM—Complete Hotel dnd Kestdurdnt Furnisher
TFiis is the greatest Carpet Bargain ever offered
in Nome. There are 35 patterns in this lot*-all
rich colorings of Persian and Floral Effects
3-ply All Wool Ingrain Carpet
2-ply INGRAIN CARPET 82^? yd.
WOOL WITH COTTON WARP, Ingrain 65? yd.
COTTON AND WOOL INGRAIN .45? yd.
9-WIRE TAPESTRY CARPET $1.15 yd.
PRO-BRUSSF;LS CARPET, looks like Tapestry, 90c yd.
G. P. GOGGIN
Complete
House
Furnisher
S100 Bed given away May 1-take a chance, it will cost you nothing
Dead, Dead, Dead, Who?
The Cheatem Street
Ky-kys
The Greatest Sale ever seen in Nome
is now going on at QUS BROWNS
HTHIS is not a sale, such as is conducted by the Cheatem
* street Ky-Kys, but a bona fide clearing sale of sea
sonable goods,well selected, well made and which are just
what they are represented to be.
A legitimate house like that of Gus Brown, always does
business along legitimate lines.
(Bus IBrown
She leading Clothier and furnisher
KRANT KNOCKED OUT
Nugget's Special Service.
SEATTLE, April 17— M. Lundee
knocked out Krant in this city last
night in tiie third round with a blow
on Kraut’s jaw. Krant broke two
bones of his right hand in the first
round. He did some game fighting,
but he was outclassed.
The Ganz-Turner fight has been
postponed until May 25.
MUSHERS FROM
THE OUTSIDE
Tom Roust, the owner of the cele
brated discovery claim, Kugruk river,
where a phenomenal strike was made
last fall by William Myers, arrived in
Nome last night front the outside.
Roust was accompanied by Barney
Nellson, Larry Stevenson and Peter
Christensen. They came by way of
the Valdfz-Falrbonks trail. The party
will leave for the Kugruk Friday
morning.
NOTICE TO MASONS.
Masons are requested to meet in
formally at Masonic hall on Thursday,
April 19, at 1:45 p. m„ for the pur
pose of attending the funeral services
of the deceased wife of Bro. C. H. F.
Niebuhr. F W RWANTON.
street, wrecking buildings and start
ing a huge conflagration.
ONE THOUSAND DEAD BODIES
Fully one thousand de id bodies
i--—■—
FINE CO 'PER ORE.
It I. II. Marshall, wlui is inter■, sled
in the copper mine ut the head or
American river. Part Clarence district,
recently received a tine sample o ft he
rock. It having been brought down
from Teller by Prank Rice. The ore
is excellent in quality, and Mr. Mar
shall states that he has received an
excellent report on a quantity that was
sent out to the TJacoma smelter lust
fall
COFFEE CREEK
BENCHES ARE GOOD
'Pin' strike made recently on tin
Knyal group, on the right limit of
Coffee creek. Kougarok, by Alfred
* 'ary and tin- Heyman Bros., \vhi<*h
was exclusively reported in The Nug
get of April f), has caused eonsidemldi
excitement in the Kougarok. Thirteen
holes were sunk to bedrock, and not a
blank was found. Pans running ;
high as $1 US have been obtain1 d Th
ground is comparatively shallow, and
it wi he worked extensir'y th •< m
| ing .* i.imnor. \
ARRIVES FROM NORTON BAY.
<\ II Niebuhr reached Nome vaster
day at 1 o’clock. Tin news of the sad
and sudden death of Mrs. Niebuhr
reached him at Isaac’s Point u native
carrier having been dispatched from
< Miinik by Kdward A. Hansen with u
letter for Mr. Niebuhr, informing him
of his bereavement. Mr. Niebuhr had
a premonition that something wa ■
wrong, and instead of going up the
Koyuk, as lie intended, he was on
route for Nome. J ulius Carstens met
him at Topkok with a team of horses,
and the fast trip was continued t«»
Nome. Mr. Niebuhr Is almost com
pletely prostrated by hls severe afflic
tion.
The funeral of Mrs. Niebuhr will
take place Thursday afternoon at Pil
grim church, and the services will be
conducted by Rev. John White, of St.
Mary’s.
FOUND OLD CHANNEL
It has long been thought, by some
mining men at b ast, that a river chan
nel at one time entered Bering sea
where tin' old cemetery is now located.
It was at that place where tlie phe
nomenal beach strike was made in
1899. The tundra near the cemetery
is no wbeing prospected by K. F. Scan
lan and others. Mr. Scanlan has found
pay at a depth of about 60 feet. The
gold is not like “beach gold," but
Is evidently from a creek or river chan
nel, being bright and uuite coarse. In
sinking, Mr. Scanlan has found three
distinct runs of gold, and heis satisfied
that an extensive pay channel will be
located. Farther to the northward.
R. J. McArthur, W. L. Sutton and
others have located the same channel,
it is thought.
WOMEN ENTOMBED ALIVE
Nugget's Special Service.
NAPLES. April 16.—Easter Sunday,
while soldiers were at work excavat
ing in the town of Ottajano, devastat
ad in the recent eruption of Mount Ve
suvius, they unearthed two aged
women, who were buried in the ashes,
and who were still alive after six days'
i entombment. They were protected by
a fallen wall from the hot ashes, stones
and scoriae emitted from the volcano
during the terrible days of eruption.
VESUVIUS IS AGAIN QUIET
Nugget's Special Service.
NAPLES, April 16.—Vesuvius is
again completely quiet. The fall of
ashes and dust has ceased, and the
smoke and vapor even have practically
disappeared. But on all sides is one
awful scene of desolation, and hot lava
beds and ashes and huBe deposits of
scoriae cover the places where but a
few days ago were pretty towns and
smiling and fruitful farms.
It is estimated that at least two
thousand persons perished during the
eruption, while the property loss will
reach several millions.
MUST GIVE UP REINDEER
Nugget’s Special Service.
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 16 —
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock
has transmitted to Governor HogKatt,
of Alaska, Instructions relative to the
distribution of reindeer In that dis
triet The secretary states that rein
deer have been Riven to missionary
societies, to Laplanders and other
whites without government authority,
but none to the natives.
Governor HoRRatt Is instructed to
reclaim these reindeer for the govern
ment.
are piled in the streets, killed in the
crash of falling buildings.
WATER MAINS BROKEN
The water mams were broken by
the opening of the earth, and the fire
department is helpless.
The Palace Hotel is now blazing, but
the St. Francis is sti safe.
TENEMENT HOUSES COLLAPSE
Tenement houses all over the city
collapsed, and in the business district
several department stores and office
buildingns were razed to the ground,
huge masses of debris being piled up
in all directions.
FISSURE OPENED UP.
As a result of the earthquake a fis
sure opened on Market street twenty
feet wide and three blocks long.
WRECKING BUILDINGS.
The firemen have started wrecking
buildings to stop the progress of the
i flames.
APPEALS FOR HELP.
Appeals have been sent to other Cal
iforma cities for help, and their fire
departments are bein rushed here by
special trams.
A thousand men are working to re
pair the water mams so as to get
water.
TELEGRAPH OFFICES WRECKED
Both the Western Union and Pacific
Postal Telegraph offices have been
wrecked, and messages are being filed
m temporal y offices in the street.
WHOLE CITY ABLAZE.
Houses are ablaze in all parts of
the city, and there is no safety in the
streets from falling walls.
PANDEMONIUM REIGNS.
All business is suspended, and pan
demonium reigns. Unless the flames !
are soon checked the whole business j
district of the city will be consumed.
Twenty blocks south of Market
street have been burned already.
The shock was felt at Sacramento, j
but there was no damage there.
10:30 a. m.—The ralace Hotel is
doomed, and the St. Francis is in dan- i
ger.
A SECOND SHOCK.
San Francisco, April 18. 10:30 a. m.—
A second shock occurred at 10:30j
o’clock this morning. The Call and J
Examiner buildings were totally
wrecked, and then the conflagration
started.
100 DEAD IN PALACE HOTEL.
The Palace Hotel has been con
sumed. and over a hundred dead have
already been taken from the debris.
All that section of the city south of
Market street is ablaze.
MANY HOTELS COLLAPSE.
Many hotels have collapsed, most of
which, however, were deserted by
their occupants before the walls fell.
The Pacific States Telephone build
ing is aflame, and the big Mills build
ing on Montgomery street is burning.
WHOLE CITY DOOMED.
The fire is spreading in every direc
tion. and the fire department it help
less because of the breaking of the
water mains by the upheaval of the
earth.
The fi**e department i s pumping
water from the bay, with relays of
engines, but there is no check to the
flames The flames are increasing in
the residence district, and the whole
city is doomed.
“LAST DAYS OF POMPEII.”
The scenes are so terrible and the
destruction already is 60 great that
the “last days of Pompeii” are being
enacted, so awful is the horrible real
ism.
MANY GO INSANE.
Many people have been driven in
sane by the ♦earful cataclysm that has
engulfed the City, and the horror of it
all is beyond the power of pen or
tongue to adequately describe.
MILITIA CALLED OUT.
Governor Pardee has called out tho
militia, and the police are dynamiting
buildings to prevent the spread of the
awful conflagration.
FROM BONANZA CREEK.
VV I. Blatchford return'd List night
from Bonanza or» ek. Norton bay.
wln‘n* h»* has mining interests. Nelson
Bros, ar** prospecting preparatory to
hydraulic work next summer Olsen
La»iont;igne ha\- .1 dump out on
No. 3 Bonanza.
The natives are killing large num*
!»• i - - f ■ l ibou at th» headwaters of
th* I’ngatolik T«»m Moon, tin Norton
bay old-timer, killed seven recently.
Some prospecting Is being done on
the Koyuk with a steam plant
FORMOSA
EARTHQUAKE
KILLED 109
Nugget’s Special Service.
ToKlo, April 16.—Official figures
-diow that only 109 persons were killed
in the recent earthquake in Formosa
The earthquake altered the face of tie
island and destroyed the town of Kagi
totally.
DIED OF
INJURIES
Nugget's Special Service.
WASHINGTON. O C., April 16
l-ieut Graemo. who was injured in ;
the Kearsarge explosion some week' j
ago. died yest«*rda> of injuries re- j
ceived.
CONGRESSMAN
COMING
Nugget’s Special Service.
WASHINGTON. !> <’. April 16 -
11*‘preseiit«i11ve Janes K Watson, of !
Indiana, the Republican whip of the I
house, will visit Southeastern Alaska.
Nome and Valdez during the summer
Grngreasman Watson lives at Rush
ville, Ind and has reprc*sented his
district since 1X96
THE JAPAN
FAMINE
Nugget’s Special Service.
WASHINGTON. I) C . April 17 —
Hnitcd States (Vinsul Harris, at Nag
asaki. in a report to President Roose
velt, says that the famine in Northern
Japan is terrible, and is due to the
failure of the rice crop.
TO MARRY
HEIRESS
Nugget's Special Service.
COLORADO SPRINGS, April 17.— i
The announcement Is made here of the
engagement of Carl M. Johansen, of
Fairbanks, to Miss Edith Tribe, daugh
ter of Thomas Tribe, a retired million
aire and capitalist of this city.
CARD OF THANKS.
The Pilgrim church wishes to thank
the ladies who so kindly donated cake
and other good things for the scoctal
held last Friday night at Pilgrim
church, for the benefit of the free
public library, at which over $100 was
realized. J H BRAND.
Young America Potatoes for sale at
Diamond Fruit Co.'s. $4 a box.
JUDAS
ISCARIOT
HANGED
Nugget's Special Service.
ASToRIA, Or. April 10.—Following
an Faster custom, the <»reek residents
of this city yesterday li&nged Judas
Iscariot in effigy ami riddled tin* tlgur**
with a hundred bullets.
THE WOODMENS BALL.
The first annual ball of the Arctic
Woodmen will hi* gi Viiion Thursday
evening. April 11*. at A It hall The
Woodnnn are royal ntei tamers, and
they have spared no expense to make
this ball one of the linest social events
of the sea si hi
The Gutta-Percha Girl is soon com
ing. Have you met her?
Chocolates
FRESH TODAY
Somebody at home will be waiting
tonight for a box.
The “Name on Every Ptece” is
the guarantee.
FOR SALE BY
ELLY b CO.
Wholesale and Retail
Druggists
UNTIL
Reduction EASTER
Sale Suits
UN Coats and
Millinery
We carry the most complete line of
Ladies' and Children's furnishings in Nome
SAUNDERS SISTERS
Monsing
Underwear
\
FANCY DRY GOODS
Kabo
Corsets
Entire Stock
Of #2.50, #3.00, #4 00 and #5.00
LADIES’ WAISTS
Special, $2.00 each
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