The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-04-21
THE CALIFORNIA DISASTER
News Items Regarding the Great
Destruction of Property in
the Golden State.

The following i. taken from the combined
ia ne of the Call. Chronicle and Examiner OF
Thursday April 10, and published from the
office of the Tribune at Oakland, Cal.
Market street, which has been the pride Of
San Francisco since lS49 is simply owe black
mass Of ruins. Ii Is estimated that up to the
present time the Gre and earthquake had
done $50, 900, 900 damages to this thorough
fare alone. The damage TO the entire city
will probably aggregate 1000. 900, 1000.
The Emporium, the largest department
store 10 the West is a mass OF ruins.
From the present appearance of things it Is
probable that 20 or more insurance companies
will be ruined.
ALI the City's theaters including the Males
tic, Columbia and Grand Opera House are .
mass Of ruins.
Apparently the earthquake was more VIC
lent in the Mission han in any other portion
Of the city. In places there were depressiohs
Of ten feet.
The City Hall that cost 5 7,OOo,o 900 is a
mass of ruins.
The magnificent new store of Hale Bros.
| was dynamited. The new Flood building Ut
| Market and Powell streets is destroyed. Inc
| Union Trust building and Woolworth-C Crock
| er Bank are gone. The Palace Hotel, famous
the world over, withstood the siege until D
| o'clock this morning when it was consumed by
fire. The Mechanics Pavilion covering an en-
| tire block, and which had been used as a huge
| morgue and hospital early in the disaster,
went up in flames in a quarter of an hour.
The magnificent st. Ignatius Catholic
Church on the corner of Var Ness and
| Hayes streets and costing over 1,OO0, 0OC
was destroyed by Ere.
The Examiner, Call and Chronicle build
| ings checked the fire up Kearney street fol-
a time but finally succumbed.
When the Winchester Hotel on ThirC
street crumbled into ruins Market street a
far as Seventh street was burning as a single
block.
One by one the familiar buildings in tn
wholesale district went down, among then
Levi Straus h Co., Zsllerbach & Co., Hol
| brook, lderrill & Stetson, Hicks, Jude Co.
| w. w. Montague, Donohoe estate building
| Bancroft building all places that have mad
the San Francisco business district. From
| Mission to Market and east to Ninth thu
| many-storied structures were Quilted. True
many Of these places had crumbled when tn
| earth shook, but evidence of this was removed
in the path of the flames.
Passengers arriving on trains from othe
cities in California bring tales of death AM
disaster from nearly all of item. TIL loss o
life and property in San Jose was great, !
being estimated that nearly so people wer
killed and many mo e injured. The Ven
dome Hotel Annex was badly wrecked, be
tween 10 and Is people killed there. Every
business building In San Jose was demolished
to such an extent that nearly all will have &
be torn down.
B rke.ey escaped with little damage, a few
oh imneys being thrown down, and the wall
of some of the brick buildings slightly dam
aged. Not one of the buildings of the Uni
versity was affected by the shock.
At Niles large bouldsrs were dislodge'
from the hills and crashed through the pip
line Of the Spring Valley Water Co., helpinI
to cripple the water supply of San Francisco
The damage done by the earthquake a
Martinez is estimated at $50. 600.
From Santa Cruz, Monterey. Gilroy an
Hollister come reports that all of these cite
have been completely wrecked, the damag
at HOLSTER being greatest, even all of tn
frame residences at that place bsing RACED t.
the ground. Tn death list at Sarta Cru
is reported to be very large.
The State Insane Asylum at Agnew, nea
San Jose, is reported demolished. The sup
erintendent and his wife being killed and Il
nurses injured. Oyer 200 of the inmates es
capped.