The Alaska prospector., 1906-04-19
OFFICIAL CITY PAPER

it may be thousands. Therc is hardly any water and it is inI,os- sible to say when the fire will stop.
 The big section of city from Market street to Mission and from bay back has been almost com pletcly wrecked wide crevasse: has opened and engulfed whole fewer portion of city it is expected that about 5000 people have dropped in 1 the cravasse besides the buildings and animals.
 Everybody is going crazy about things in Frisco. The fire alarm has been ringing for thirty min utes. The poor and uneducated think that the end of the world has come. They say that Frisco is gone from the map. and that the Pacific ocean extends now to Nevada. They think the whole state of California has sunk like Atlantis of oid.
 1t is reported that all of Berkely is gone. A recent shock engulfed the city. In Oakland the after noon shock did considerable dam age No details.
 San Jose-A severe earthquake here this afternoon demolished many buildings. Hundreds of lives are reported lost.
 Oakland, April 19-From Frisco by courier The entire business portion of the city is in ruins, and owing to the lack of water 1t IS inn possible to check the flames, which continue to spread. The iremon are powerless. General Funston says that the number of homeless persons ha. already reached twcn- ty thousand. While the better part of the residential district is still standing, the fg mes are spreading in that direction.
 The number of dead will reach fully tive thousand. Many of them are crushed and mangled be- yond recognition Workers;cannot quit fighting the fire long enough to bury the dead An appeal was sent to the navy department for the use of the government vessels to carry the bodies of the unidenti- fled dead to sea for burial before decomposition sets iii. The ,le- partment has placen all the yes sels at the disposal of the city for any purpose needed.
 The Valencia Hotel has collapsed killing seventy people.
 The fiissure m Market street IS widening with each succeeding shock. New Assures are opening Il Valencia and 26th St. No lives lost in the Palace or Grand hotels. Tn St. Francis Hotel is still stand ing, but is badly cracked, and even ii il should escape the flames 1t will have to be razed.
 E. cry saloon in the city has been closed ny the police.
 Firo chief Sullivan was caught by fal!ig walls and probably fatal. " injured.
 The Chronicle building is tottcr- ing and will probably soon collapse soon. The elegant Claus Spreck- els building went down, killing two Chinnse servants.
 santa CIara-Magnificent state insane asylum totally destroyed. Over four hundred of the inmates killed two hundred twenty-five bodies already recovered. More than d hundred and fifty still in ruins, over d hundred escaped now roaming about country.
 San Jose---zLIali of the buildings of this city have collapsed. The dead reach hundreds. New hall of justice, costing half a million has collapsed Presbyterian church, St, Patrick's cathedral and high school are in ruins.
 santa Rosa-Not a brick or stone building left standing in this city. All demolished. More than 500 killed.
 Oakland-Saoramento, Berkely. Alencda and many other places badly wrecked. Impossible to get reports. Wires down.
 Oakland-Army dcpet cemmis- sary totally destroyed by fire. Nothing saved. Large stock await ing shipment to Manila.
 Saiinas-Earthquake recorded yes rerday coming from northwest. Half of city destroyed. No lives lost. Damage $2 100000.
 Washington, April 18.-Roose- welt has told warm friends of his that lie dtsSrcs to enter the Senate ! a5 successor to Platt at the end uf his administration. It is pre- dicted that he will be candidate for the presidency again in 1912. Washington, April 1S.-The Senate has confirmed the nomina-