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TKLfRI'HONK No. 4«t
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TKI*KI*IIC>NK No. 4«i
PUIt’K 25 CKNT
SECOND EDITION
HUNDREDS KILLED; THOUSANDS HURT
Latest News of San Francisco’s Awful Horror—The
Loss Will Reach $60,000,ooo===First
Shock Lasted Three Minutes.
San Francisco, April 18, 2:45 p. m.—
The summory of death and accidents
so far as known in the earthquake
disaster this morning is: Hundreds
killed and thousands injured.
The Mechanics Pavilion has been
turned into a hospital.
The entire water front is ablaze.
The postoffice has entirely collapsed.
The fish market collapsed, and six
persons were killed. The Grand opera
house on Mission street, between Third
and Fourth streets, is burning, and
several ten-story buildings in the same
vicinity are aflame.
The gas works were blown up and a
new blaze started on South Market
street.
KILLED IN OAKLAND.
The Empire building in Oakland col
lapsed. and a score of people were
killed.
HUNDRED BLOCKS BURNED.
A hundred big blocks in the business
district have burned down entirely.
RELIEF COMMITTEE.
Mayor Schmitz has appointed a re
lief committee, and they will begin
work at once.
RUN ON BANKS.
The depositors started a run on the
local banks, and the institutions were
promptly closed. The militia is guard
ing the city, and instructions have
been issued to kill anyone caught
stealing.
Complete House Furnisher--G. P. GOGGIIM—Complete Hotel and Restaurant Furnisher
MUM CARPET SALE
This 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.
6-WIRE TAPESTRY CARPET $1.15 yd.
PRO-BRUSSELS CARPET, looks like Tapestry, 60c yd.
G. P. GOGGIN
Complete
House
Purnisher
$100 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 GUS BROWNS
* I rHIS 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 Brown
Che leading Clothier and furnisher
As Long as they
Last
84 pairs Men's Kentucky Jean
I’ants, per pair. $1.25 I
32 pairs Ladies' White Kid and
Satin Sippets, per pair.1.00
1(> Dress Suit Cases, eac .3.00 I
4 Cakes Fancy Soap for. 25c
Ingersoll Watches, each.1.00
We have got everything we ad
vertise and we don't limit you in
quantity. Hut the fakers advertise
goods which they never had, and
never will have with all their fake
selling out. Have you missed their
ad. lately'!* Come to us and we will
tell you why it is missing. The
fakers tried to he tricky, hut do as
we told you before, handle their
goods very carefully.
Surprise Store
FRONTS!, opp. (ester Ave. |
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. BWANTON.
NEWSPAPERS COMBINE.
All the daily newspapers of the city
have combined, and will issue one
paper from the Chronicle building,
which is still uninjured.
BIG BUILDINGS COLLAPSE.
The twelve-story Mutual Life build
ing, at the corner of Kearney and Mar
ket, collapsed, but so far as known no
one was injured. The sixteen-story
Call building, which partly collapsed,
is still burning, and the flames con
tinue to spread.
ENTIRE WHOLESALE DISTRICT.
The indications are^that the entire
wholesale and retail districts will fall
a prey to the flames.
OPERATORS DESERT BUILDING.
The Postal Telegraph operators de
serted the building after keeping their
lives in their hands for hours. The
Western Union building is threatened.
SHOCK LASTS THREE MINUTES.
The first shock this morning lasted
three minutes, and the second shock
one minute.
LOSS $60,000,000.
The loss will probably a gregate at
least $60,000,000.
San Francisco, April 18.—An earth
quake this morning shook the entire
coast of California, and opened a fis
sure on Market street, wrecking build
ings and starting a hng4 conflagration.
ONE THOUSAND DEAD BODIES.
Fully one thousand dead bodies are
piled in the streets, killed in the crash
of falling buildings.
WATER MAINS BROKEN.
The water mains 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
flames.
APPEALS FOR HELP.
Appeals have been sent to other Cal
ifornia cities for help, and their fire
departments are bein rushed here by
special trains.
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 temporary 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
district of the city will be consumed.
Twenty blocks south of Market
street have been burned already.
The shock wa felt at Sacramento,
but there was no damage there.
10:30 a. m.—The Palace Hotel is
doomed, and the St. Francis is in dan
ger.
A SECOND SHOCK.
San Francisco. April 18, 10:30 a. m.—
A second shock occurred at 10:30
o’clock this morning. The Call and
Examiner buildings were totally
wrecked, and then the conflagration
I started.
100 DEAD IN PALACE HOTEL.
The Palace Hotel has been con
i sumed, and over a hundred dead have
j 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 is help
less because of the breaking of the
water mains by the upheaval of the
earth.
The fire 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 so 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 fearful cataclysm that has
engulfed the city, and the horror of it i
all is beyond the power of pen or
tongue to adequately describe.
MILITIA CALLED OUT.
Governor Pardee has called out the
militia, and the police are dynamiting
buildings to prevent the spread of the
awful conflagration.
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 wen* hurled In the ashes,
and who were still alive after six days’
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
attain completely gulet. The fall of
ashes and dust has ceased, and the
smoke and vapor even have practically
disappeared. Hut on all sides is one
awful scene of desolation, and hot lava
• ——
beds and ashes and huge 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
trlot The secretary states that rein*
deer have been given to missionary
societies, to Laplanders and other
whites without government authority,
but none to the natives.
Governor Hoggatt is instructed to
reclaim these reindeer tor the govern*
mem.
TWELVE PERSONS KILLED
IN A FIGHT IN CHURCH
Nugget’® Special Service.
• IKNKVA. April 1*1 As M Jarow
i sky. th* Russian minister to the Swiss
republic, was entering a church her*
to attend Master Sunday mass, four
anarchists sprang at him with knives
Jamwsky had be* n warned of a prob
able attempt upon his lif*-, and he was
accompanied to th* church by detec
tives. A fight ensued in tin- church
ai l* Jarowsky the detectives and the
unarehHts al! using revolvers.
Twelve* persons \\e*re killed in the
I church, and many were wounded.
Sixt > * live-art* is have been made, and
tile affair may lead to international
•om plications
Geneva has long been the home of
Russian nihilists and revolutionists,
and the Russian revolutionary propa
ganda is direc t, d from this city.
FORMOSA
EARTHQUAKE
KILLED 109
Nugget's Special Service.
ToKlo. April 16—Official figures
show that only ]fi9 persons were killed
in the recent earthquake in Formosa.
The earthquake altered tile face of the
i land and destroyed tin* town of Kagl
totally
DIED OF
INJURIES
Nugget's Special Service.
WASHINGTON. |> <\, April 16 —
1-leut Graenio, who was injured in
tie K'ursarge <xplosion some weeks]
ago. died yesterda> of Injuries re
ceived.
CONGRESSMAN
COMING
Nugget's Special Service.
WASHINGTON. I» <\. April 16 —
Representative Janes F Watson, of
Indiana, the Republican whip of the j
house, will visit Soulheastern Alaska.
Nome and Valdez during tin* summer
F'r ngreasman Watson Uv« s at Rush
ville, hid . and has represented his
district since 18116.
THE JAPAN
FAMINE
Nugget’s Special Service.
WASHINGTON. D C. April 17 —
I’nifttl States Gonsul Harris, at Nag
asaki. in a ivpnrt t«* 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.—
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
tile ladles who so kindly donated cake
and other good things for the scoeial
held lust 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.
ASToRlA. or. April 1*1 -Following
an Kast**r custom, the Greek residents
• »f this cits yesterday hanged Judas
Iscariot in effigy and riddl* d tie- figure
with a hundred bullets.
THE WOODMEN’S BALL.
The first annual ball of the Arctic
Woodmen will be givenon Thursday
evening, April lit. at A. li hall. The
Woodmen are royal entertainers, and
they hav. spans! no expens* t<» make
this ball one of the finest social events
of the season
The Gutta-Percha Girl is soon com
ing. Have you met her?
" NAME ON CVCRy RICCK "
joyyyiEys
Chocolates
FRESH TODAY
Somebody at home will be waiting
tonight for a box.
The “Name on Every Piece” is
the guarantee.
FOR SALE BY
ELLY b CO.
Wholesale and Retail
Druggists
UNTIL
Reduction EASTER
Sale Suits
0N Coats and
Millinery
We carry the most complete line of
Ladies' and Children’s hurmshings in Nome
SAUNDERS SISTERS
Munsing
Underwear
FARCY CRY GOODS
Kabo
Corsets
Entire Stock
Of #2.50, #1.00, #4.ix) ami #5.00
LADIES’ WAISTS
Special, $2.00 each
NEXT TO MINERS AND MERCHANTS BANK