Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-04-26
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THE FRISCO HORROR.

The heart of San Francisco Is In
ruins. A stupendous earthquake shat.
tered the city. Fire followed natures
upheaval and increased the damage a
;housan1fold
The death list In San Francisco Is
now estimated at 5000
Twenty thousand persons were in
jured in San Francisco and near cy
towns.
Property loss is placed at $300,O00,a
600 in San Francisco. The number OF
buildings in ruins or burned is placed
at 100000.
On Fourth street, in the Cosmopoli-
tan hotel, where some 200 persons were
stopping, ii is now known that over
100 were killed. 1t is quite certain
that $50 persons or more lost the.p
lives in the Brunswick hotel, at Mis-
sion and Seventh streets.
Eighty bodies were taken from a
four-story building at Fifth and Mlnna
streets, used as lodging house. There
are 60 other bodies in sight.
Real estate dealers in Los Angeles
announced the donation OF all the va
cant houses on their lists for the shell
ter of homeless refugees. The period of
the donation is 80 days.
San Quentin prison is intact. This
walls were cracked and few chimneys
were upset, but no further damage was
done.
Money had little value. The family
that had the foresight to lay in the
largest stock of foodstuffs on the nrst
day of the disaster is rated highest in
the scale OF wealth.
w. w. Phelps, grandmother OF the |
o. o. f., has arrived in Oakland and
opened temporary headquarters. He.
has issued an appeal for aid to every
lodge in America.
The railroads and the express com.
panies are bearing their part In the
work. Practically all have offered ia
carry everything for the suffering PEG.
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 s1,000,0OO available
from the national treasury. More than
another million was raised by private
subscription.
Los Angeles experienced a 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 a 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
escared from serious injury. The
buildings are practically intact.
Grave fears are felt for the safety
of Gen. and Mrs. e. S. Bragg of Fond
in San Francisco at the time of the
| disaster.