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The Washington times., 1906-09-28

The national baseball commission Yes
tcrday fined players MCjiyun. OF IT,
Shreveport club. and Holly and thinner
man. OF the New Orleans club 500 each
for aying d. an outlaw league this
season. The s.. Louis National League
club has q claim on the players VINO
viii be eligible on payment OF fines 20
play with rational agreement clubs
THAT fellow belongs TO the union"
erawled a National League club owner
the other day as re watched q temper
airy umpire work, one whom lie had
what he says Ill bet he's Uun up
against some regular umpire on the
staff. who said to him. See here; don't
YOU speak too clearly when yoa umpire
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-25

Mayors of many towns respond to
the appeal of mayor to organize for
relief Of the sufferers.
Gen. Carter at Chicago wires war
department that he has shipped 800
stewards tents to San Francisco.
The war department has received a
telegram from Gen. Funston detailing
arrangements made for supplying the
concentration camps with water and
stating that no water famine is an
ticipated.
Thousands of sufferers have lined
up in the parks pleading to the SOL
diers to distribute drinking water.
Food and drink are needed at once
by 100000 people. Famine and pesti-
lence are feared. -. s.~
Insane asylum at Agnews wrecked
and later burned; 275 inmates killed,
800 escaped and are roaming about the
country. ~" ! :. d. 49,.
Hawaii shaken by an earthquake.
At many points the ground sank
four to five, feet, breaking the railway
tracks and bridges, suspending traffic
on nearly all railway lines in Cali
jornia. : Ri 3. i. ,s. .z Mn. &
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BRIEFS OF THE CATASTROPHE.

Telegraphic wires have sunk out of
sight and in many places the poles
are down for thousands Of feet.
Congress appropriates $780, 900 for
relief of the sufferers. -
Director Conried, of the Metropolitan
Opera company, of New Work, has
received a dispatch from Nahan
Frankie, concert master of the Metro
politan Opera company, who is at Oak
land CAL, saying that members OF the
opera company are all safe. ~ 49,.
The report that the famous Cliff
house had toppled into the sea can
not be verified, and is probably un-
true. rs, - = {
A report from Santa Cruz says that
103 bodies, had been taken out of
Agnew's state hospital, near Santa
Clara. Official estimates place the
number of injured insane patients
at 207, and of these 50 were not expect
ed to live. ~ ;&4G9 y. 'a.2*:. ~ :. " @
Gloomy report as to loss Of life
received from Healdsburg, Geyserville,
Cloverdale, Hopland, Ukiah and other
towns in .Mendocino and Lake eoun.
ties. -a $ 4 .ys=. .s 1910
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-25

day Of hope. Its time of 0verwhelm
ing disaster and peril has ended, and
its future is now a subject of general
consideration.
The fire is practically under control.
A clear sky over the Mission district
shows that the fire there has been ex-
tinguished. The spread of the flames
toward the western addition, the best
part OF the city remaining, has been
stayed, and the only portion of the
conflagration that demands the atten-
ton of the tiremen is that extending
from the Mob Hill section down to the
northwestern part of the water 'front.'.
The western addition danger was
averted at $3.50 o'clock Friday morn
ing by the use Of guncotton, dyna-
mite, and two streams of water. The
explosives were handled by the chief
gunner of the Mare Island navy yard,
and his accomplishments proved him
to be a master of his profession.
Relief Work Started.
The work of relief was started early
in the day. A big bakery in the
saved district started it's fires and
$4,000 loaves were baked before night.
Thousands of people were in line early
in the morning before the California
street bakery. The police and mill
tary were present in force, and each
person was allowed only one loaf. The
homeless people in the parks and va
cant lots were provided Tor as speed
lily as possible. ~.
Thousands of members of families
are separated, ignorant of one an
others whereabouts and without
means of ascertaining. The police
have opened up bureau of registra-
ton to bring relatives together. ~
1t is impossible to secure vehicle
except at extortfonate prices. One
merchant engaged a teamster and
horses and wagon, agreeing to pay
$50 an hour. Charges of $40 for car
rying trunks a few blocks was com
mon. The police and military seize
teams wherever they require them,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-25
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS.

Senator La Toilette, of Wisconsin,
In a senatorial speech on the rate bill,
declared the house measure inadequate
to meet the requirements of the peo-
pie.
IN a message to congress President
Roosevelt denounced the decision of
Judge. Humphrey in the Chicago beef
packers case as miscarriage of JUS
tice:~ The president declared that
Judge Humphreys Interpretation of
The law made the will of congress
abortive, and that he did not believe
other judges would follow the decis-
ION.
President Roosevelt sent to con.
gress the life insurance reform bill
prepared by the recent Chicago cone
vention and a message urging legisla-
ton to put an end to the abuses re.
Gently disclosed.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-25

creek, respectively. Not bank stands.
insurance Offices, brokerages, real es-
tate offices, all that once represented
the financial heart of the city and it's
industrial strength.
Go up Market street from the Ferry
building to Valfira street and nothing
but the black fingers of jagged ruins
point to the smoke blanket that passes
low overhead. Visit what was once
California, Sansome and Montgomery
streets, and you must ask painting
fireman to direct you out of the LADY,
rinth of grim blackened walls.
Chinatown is no more. Union square
is barren waste.
Loss in Money Is Incalculable.
1t is hard to estimate the loss in
money. 1t may be said that practi-
cally all improvements on real es-
tate and a great part of the personal
property are gone. The loss will Ger
tainly be more than 100000. The
last assessment gave the value of
land and improvements in San Fran
cisco at $402,000,000. The insurance
held in San Francisco was estimated
at from $350,000,000 to .$300,000,OO0.
All day the fire, sweeping in dozen
directions, irresistibly completed the
desOlati0n of the city. Mob hill dis
trict, in which were situated the home
of Mrs. Stanford, the priceless Hopkins
Art Institute, the Paramount hotel, a
marble palace that cost Mrs. Oelrichs
$5,000,000, and homes of a hundred
millionaires, was destroyed.
It was not without struggle that
Mayor Schmitz and his aids let this,
the fairest section of the city, suffer
obliteration. Before noon when the
flames were marching swiftly on Mob
hill, but were still far off, dynamiting
was dragged up the steep debris laden
streets. For distance Of mile
every residence on the east side OF
Van Ness avenue was swept away in
vain hope to stay the progress of the
fire. -
Everywhere Blackened.
All the district bounded by Octavia.
Golden Gate avenue and Market street
was blackened ruin. One picked
his way through the fallen walls on
Van Ness avenue as he would cross
an Arizona mesa. 1t was an absolute
ruin, gaunt and flame lighted.
Last Big Hotels Destroyed.
Another wing of the flames roared
through Union square, where last
night thousands had slept or huddled
on the ground under the shadows Of
the Dewey monument and the tower
ing St. Francis hotel, the twin prides
of San Francisco.
Yesterday the St. Francis escaped.
To-day it fell. In the space of two
hours the flames had blotted it out.
Tonight only the charred skeleton re-
NAMED.
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in the Quilted Grand building, but the
firemen saved the ground floor. 1t
will pay out money just as soon as it
cials.:
A corner of the city near the Pa
cific mail wharves at Second and Bran
nan streets, was not ruined, and the
sailors home is intact. The Postal
Telegraph company has restored its
cable connection with the orient by es-
tablishing a. station at Ocean Beach.
but there is no service yet for deliver
ing messages there.
Citizens in Stupor of Despair.
Quilted through it's entire magniti-
cent financial quarters by the swift
work OF 80 hours, and with a black
ruin covering more than seven square
miles out into her very heart, the city
now waits in a stupor the inevitable
reign of starvation and of possible an
archy that must crowd close upon the
disaster of the last dreadful day.
Nothing worthy of the name of a
building in the business district, and
not more than half of the residence
district has escaped. OF it's popula-
ton of 10000, 100000 are homeless.
No estimate can be made of the
dead. Five thousand would be as
near accuracy as 500.
Worst Disaster in Nations History.
This is absolutely the greatest disas-
city, and one of the great fires of his
tory. Beside it the Chicago, Boston
and Baltimore fires are almost unim-
portant.
No American city ever was so COM
p1etely destroyed as this, and, outside
of the earthquake, the fire probably is
the greatest in American history. The
city had population of more than
100000 people. Not more than one
fourth Of these have escaped to Oak
land or the peninsula
All the hospitals except the free
city hospital have been destroyed, and
they have been dragging the injured,
sick and dying from place to place of
safety all day.
Chastity Scene of Ruin.
Marius sitting among the ruins OF
Carthage saw not such sight as
presents itself in the dim haze OF the
smoke pail. Ruins stark naked, yawn-
ing at fearful angles and pinnacled
into a thousand fearsome shapes, mark
the site of what was three-fourths of
the total area of the city.
There is no business quarter; it is
gone. There is no longer a hotel dis
trict, theater route, place where
Night beckoned to Pleasure. Every
thing is gone.
Financial District a Waste.
There is no longer a downtown dis
trict. A blot of black spreads from
East street to Oklavia, and is bounded
on the south and north by Broadway
and Washington streets and Isla!s
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-25

At 1888 o'clock Thursday after
noon Los Angeles experienced dis
tinct earthquake shock of short dura-
ton. Absolutely no damage was
done, but thousands of people were
badly frightened.
The city of Santa Rosa, in Sonoma
county, is reported entirely destroyed
by the earthquake, and it is feared
that the loss of life there is very
large.
At San Jose the loss of life is not as
great as was at first reported, only
Is dead being reported.
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their wishes being enforced at re-
volver point if the owner proves indis
posed to comply with the demands.
Mayor Schmitz looked weary, but
he was energetically at work at his
desk having had little or no sleep. A
policeman reported that two grocery
stores in the neighborhood were
closed although the clerks were pres.
ent. Smash the stores open!" or.
dered the mayor, land guard them -
Suffering Is Terrible.
The restitution and suffering is in.
describable. Women and children
who had comfortable happy homes a
few days ago slept Thursday night
If sleep came at all--on hay on the
wharves, on the sand lots near North
Beach, some of them under the little
tents made of sheeting which poorly
protected them from the chilling
ocean winds. The people in the
parks are possibly better provided in
the matter of shelter, for they left
their homes better prepared. Instruc-
tons were issued by Mayor Schmitz
to break open every store containing
provisions and to distribute them to
the thousands under police super
vision. The young Mems Hebrew as.
sociation's hall near Golden Gate
Park has been stocked with provisions
for the use of needy victims in the
adjacent fields.
Both the mayor and Chief OF Police
Oman, when asked for statements, ex-
pressed: themselves as thankful that
the fire was virtually controlled. Chief
Oman said that the order of the city
astonished him. He thought it due to
earlier severe measures taken by the
soldiers and police in shooting down
offenders.
Robbers Shot Down.
Fourteen men were killed by SOL
diers guarding the mint, and Police
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-25

man Joseph NJ. Myers. was bayoneted
and killed by>a national guardsman
over a dispute as to authority. The
men at the mint were killed for at
tempting robbery. Two men were
shot and killed by Policeman Flood.
The policeman on entering his home
encountered stranger. who attacked
him. Flood shot him dead. Special Po-
liceman Snyder killed man, but the
details are not known.
The only bank in the huge ruined
district that escaped destruction was
the Market Street bank, at the corner
of Seventh and Market streets. It is
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-25
NEWS OF AWEEK
TERSELY OUTLINED
4 SUMMARY OF THE MOST I'M.
PoHTANT EVENTS AT HOME
AND ABROAD.
TOLD IN CONDENSED FORM
Complete Review Of Happenings Of
Greatest Interest from All Parts
Of the Globe-The Latest Foreign
| Information.
THE FRISCO HORROR.

The 'EN1SCO dOHdOh.
The heart of San Francisco is in
ruins. A stupendous earthquake shat
tered the city. Fire followed natures
upheaval and increased the damage a
.housandfold.
The death list in San Francisco is
now estimated at 5000.
Twenty thousand persons were in
jured in San Francisco and near by
towns.
Property loss is placed at $500, 000,-
900 in San Francisco. The number of
buildings in ruins or burned is placed
at 10000.
Capt. Powell, in charge of marine
headquarters at San Francisco, advised
the navy department that the marine
headquarters, together with 100000
worth of supplies, were destroyed.
Grave fears are felt for the safety
OF Gen. and Mrs. E. S. Bragg of Fond
du Lac, Wis. who were known to be
In San Francisco at the time Of the
disaster
The railroads and the express COM
panies are bearing their part in the
work. Practically all have offered to
carry everything for the suffering peo-
pie OF the California coast free of
charge.
The Postal Telegraph company has
volunteered to transmit all messages
relative to relief work free of COST
Congress made $1,0OO,0O0 available
from the national treasury. More than
another million was raised by private
subscription.
Los Angeles experienced distinct
earthquake shock of short duration.
Absolutely no damage was done, but
thousands Of people were badly fright
ened.
One of the big losses of the day
was the destruction of St. Ignatius
church and college. This was the
greatest Jesuitical institution in the
west.
Provisions are being sold at fancy
prices and even water is being vended
by the glass.
All of San Francisco's best play
houses, including the Majestic, Column
bia, Orpheum and Grand Opera house
are mass Of ruins
Nearly every famous landmark that
has made San Francisco famous over
the world, has been laid in ruins or
burned to the ground.
The Chinese theaters and joss
houses are in ruins and rookery after
rookery has collapsed, covering alive
hundreds of the celestials.
The University of California at
Berkeley, by some remarkable freak
ESCAPED from serious. injury. The
buildings are practically intact.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-25
MISCELLANEOUS.

An earthquake shock of unusual vio-
lence at Calumet, Mich, spread con-
sternation through the mining coun.
try and caused the death of one man
and the serious injury of four others.
A gift of 1900 pennies, saved up
in a bag, representing the absolute
self-denial for the year of nine-year-
old Raymond Shannon from candy
and other childish luxuries, was the
most cherished gift received on Easter
by the sisters of St. Francis hospital,
in Trenton, N. J.
Dependency because the trial board
had recommended his dismissal from
the department, Christopher A.
Schreck, Chicago policeman, killed
himself.
The fifteenth continental congress of
the Daughters of the American Reyo
luton met at Washington.
A bitter race war is threatened at
Springfield, Mo-, as the result Of the
lynching and baking OF three negroes,
declared to have been innocent of
crimes charged.
United States trade with North
American countries exclusive of Can
ada, Mexico and Cuba, reaches $780,.
100000 year. -.>
The Vatican sees new hope in
France. The Catholics, together with
the old nobility, are making a hard
fight in the elections.
Services of peculiar interest were
held at the English Lutheran church
! of Alexandria, Ind, when tablet was
unveiled commemorative of the mem
DRY of the unknown, donor in German
town, Pa, who six years ago donated
a sum sufficient to erect a handsome
$4,000 church..
Two officers and five men were killed
and IA men injured, eight seriously,
when charge Of powder exploded In
gun turret of the battleship Kear-
sarge: in Cuban waters.
Nine men have been killed in riot
in the southern part Of Phillips count,
Arkansas. - 49, = %',S
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Staboing at Winona.
Thirty Injured.

Duluth, Thirty 1aborers we're
more or less seriously injured by the
giving away of a trestte that connects
Ore Locks No. and No. of the Du-
luth, Mis3abe & Northern railway.
The accident happened when about
100 men, applicants for positions on
the DOCKS. were crowding to get to the
foreman, who was doing the hiring.
In the rush a portion of the rail on the
trcstle gave way, thirty of the men
being precipitated to the ground be-
low, a distance of about forty feet. AL
of the injured were taken to local hos
pitals It is thought none will die.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-25
Blow to Fruit Markets.

Chicago, April 21.-Chicago fruit
markets will feel in the immediate fu-
ture the effects of the earthquake in
California. The loss is expected to
reach huge figures.
Millions of cans of those California
products are believed to have been III
the immense warehouses which haze
been destroyed by the\hames.
Several Chicago merchants are said
to have had on the docks of San Fran
cisco at the time of the earthquake
large quantities of goods for shipment
to the far east. -
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Inc andiarV Fire.

Minot, N. Dan incendiary set fire
to the house on the farm of Ben E.
Combs, on the Mouse river, and all of
the farm buildings were destroyed.
August Otto, who rented the farm. had
retired for the night when the fire
broke out. hole had been dug under
one corner Of the house and paper and
kerosene placed therein and the fire
started. The. family were aroused in
time to escape death in the flames, but
Otto was badly burned in attempting
to save some of his household goods
There is no clue to the psrpetrator of
the crime.
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Jury of the Flames Is
Finally Stayed and
Quarter Of City
Saved.
AWFUL SUFFERING Of The DESTITUTE
Refugees Numbering 100000 Spend Night Ur-
der Tents or in Parks---Bread and Water
Famine Feared 500 Robbers Shot Down
by Soldiers---Work of Restor-
ing City Begun.

Ferry Building, San Francisco, CAL,
April 2O-The fire is under control, it
having been checked at Van Ness av-
snue and in the Mission district. The
Gre is still raging north Of Russian
hill toward the bay, but will not spread
west.
Probably a fourth of the city is safe,
Measures are being taken for the re-
lief of the destitute.
San Francisco, April 21.-San Fran
cisco's darkest hour has dawned into a
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-25
Switchman Is Killed
Accidentally Shot

Brainerd, Minn.-The little daueh-
ter of George Brundette, living east of
Jenkins, was accidentally shot. the
bullet from rifle penetrating the
brain. Death ensued in "a hours. A
6ve-year-old brother was carrying the
rifle when it was discharged
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-25

Queen Wilhelmina, of Holland, has
sent a cable message to President
Roosevelt, expressing sympathy with
the sufferers from the calamity at San
Francisco, and the foreign minister has
transmitted his coincidence to the state
department through the Netherlands
minister at Washington.
Orders have been issued by the war
department to army officers to pur-
chase at Los Angeles Immediately
100000 ,rations, and at Seattle $780,
900 rations and hurry them>to San
Francisco.
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Lawyer Faints After Plea.

Coshockton, O., April 21.-As the eli
max to a sensational. plea of four
hours in the Ben Dickerson murder
trial., Attorney Thomas Roche tainted
away in courtroom and had to be car
ried from the room and placed under
a physicians care.
Attorney Adams, who took sick at
the conclusion OF his plea, is still con
fined to his bed. Three days of argu-
ment have gone on, and the end is
not yet In sight. i
The attorneys are apparently at the
breaking point from the strain ... (
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Broke Awav

Saltwater, Minn.-James c. Hall, one
of the quartet of alleged train robbers
who were pardoned and discharged from
the state prison, made a daring
escape. He left without his pardon
papers or the money due him, and was
found after lively chase walking the
Omaha railway track near Lake Elmo,
going at good gait in the direction of
St. Paul He is believed to be insane.
Switchmau Is Killed
Willmar, Minn.-Newton Meyers, a
switchman in the local railroad yards,
was killed by box car passing over
him. He was twenty-!hree years old
and unmarried. His relatives live at
Necedah, Wis.
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leaves ABOUT $1,UUV,OUV 10 uef son,
Gen. George H. Harmon.
A grand total of 100000 in contri-
buttons to the starving Japanese was
reached when the American National
Red Cross, through the state depart.
ment, cabled an additional $4,000 to
the japanese Red Cross.
Sir Chentung Liang Cheng, Chinese
minister to the United States, takes is.
sue with Representative DENLY regard
ing frauds in issuing certificates and
raises the question Of whether his re-
call should be demanded by the Amer
lean government.
Geronimo, chiefs of the Apache tribes
Of Indians. who is critically ill at his
home on Fort Sill military reservation,
said: II am praying to the white
mans God who has made me, man
fit for Heaven to spare my life for a
few years longer, to spare it until am
freed from custody and see my people
in free homes"
A statement issued by the Equitable
Life Assurance society showed that
q, 1856 small policies had lapsed. Few
Of larger amounts are allowed to de-
fault. - - 49,: :
Mayor George w. Guthrie, Of Pitts
burg, broke all records when he refused
a season pass to baseball games. The
mayor considers baseball passes form
of graft. ~ !, =. I
Clifford Stokes, aged IA. and Louis
J. Schultz, aged %, were drowned in
lake near Taylorville, Ill They at
tempted to row across the lake in an
old boat, which sunk with them few
feat from the shore. .5s#, r.. sss.