Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-04-20

burning IfanCS INTO lie outiYing ills
trict. and soon block Oh Mission
street between Twenty first and Twen-
ty-second streets. was alllaze This
was several miles from the business
section. and it threatened with de-
struction. should the fire continue TO
spread. the southern residence section
of the city.
From rapid surveys it is probable
now that 10000 houses were either par
TALLY or wholly destroyed by earth
quake, and the subsequent fire has
swept the city from one end to the
other. Hundreds of buildings are burn
ing without any effort being made to
check the Are.
The number OF dead cannot he rough
ly estimated -Four hundred bodies
have been recovered. but hundreds
perished miserably in the broken down
wooden houses along the water front
in the Mission and along Market street.
Falling walls pinned down many vic
tins. and they We're compelled TO suf-
| fer untold agony while the flames crept
| toward them.
1t is believed that from 1000 to 5000
lives have been lost. The number can
not fall far short Of that aud may
prove TO be much greater Fire and
flames have added to the destruction,
| the ruin and despair.
The earthquake worked astonishing
havoc in San Francisco's famous Chi
natown. The Chinese theaters and joss
houses are in ruins, and rookery after
rookery collapsed covering alive hun
dreds of the Celestials Panic reigns
among the thousands of Chinese, and
! they fill the streets, dragging whatever
| they can save from the wrecks.
| The Japanese quarter has been partly
| burned and from the part not de-
stroyed the people have fed in terror,
packing on their backs what house
hold effects they could tie together.
When darkness fell thousands Of
| men. women and children from the
| Latin quarter marched in endless pro
cession toward the hills or to the water
front, frantic to get away from the
city lest other earthquakes follow and
the flames trap them before they could
make their escape.
Artillerymen from the Preside with
| their supply wagons and the army com
| missary wagons aided in getting the
fleeing inhabitants and their baggage
out of threatened quarters.
| Despite the vigilance of police and
soldiers. many places were pllagei
in the wholesale district Liquor stores
were broken into and stripped clean.
As a result scores of vagabonds We're
living drunk in the streets.
A score of cities besides San Fran
icisco are in ruins. Here are the sum
maries:
Palo Alto-Leland Stanford, Jr., uni
versty is practically destroyed. One
report says only one building is left
standing: loss, many millions; several
lives lost.
San Jose-Many buildings wrecked
lsixty-five killed. st. Agnes Insane
Iasylum wrecked and subsequently
burned; 275 inmates killed others
lroaming around country.
Salinas-S -Spreckes Sugar factory de-
tstroyed: loss, 81 100000; High school
building, Elks' hall, Masonic temple,
armory, city hail, Knights OF fytul"s
building and Odd Fellows pu'lo'hs
gone
Napa - Many buildings snaltereu'
property loss. S300,0U
Sacramento-Bu Buildings were Focheu
like cradles: postofiice and brick build
ings damaged.
Suisun-AIile and A half of railroad
troclx SINK three to six feet; loaded
passenger train nearly ensultcd'
Santa Rosa-Courthouse reported de
molished and 800 persons killed; city
| in flames: loss S1,000.00o.
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