Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-04-22
HUNDREDDEADN SANTAROSA
Partial List Of Killed aud Injured in
sonoma County Seat,
BUSINESS SECTION is IN RUINS
stocks of Food Removed from
Structures Unburned and There
Appears No Danger of
Famine.

known dead now totals fifty-eight and II is
believed that 100 is a conservative estimate
Of the number OF people who lost their lives
in the awful catastrophe which visited this
city on Wednesday morning Five bodies
were recovered today from the wreckage
and the search has hardly begun.
The entire business section is in ruins
and practically every residence in town is
more or less damaged. fifteen or twenty
being badly wrecked. The damage TO resi-
dcnces caused principally by the sink
ing Of the foundations, which let many
structures down to the ground. The
brick and stone business blocks, together
with the public buildings, were all thrown
fat The court house. hall OF records, the
Occidental and Santa Rosa hotels. the
Athenaeum theater. the new Masonic tenn
pie, odd Fellows block all the banks
everything went, and in all the city not
one brick and stone building is standing,
except the California Northwestern depot.
It is almost impossible for an outsider to
realize the situation as 1t actually exists
here. No such complete destruction of
citys business interest ever before resulted
from an earthquake in America. The very
completeness of the devastation is really
the redeeming feature, though for 1t puts
all upon the exactly same basis CONNER
cially speaking. Bankers and millionalres
are going about with only the few dollars
they happened to have in their pockets
when the crabs came and are little better
off than the laborer who is digging through
the debris. Money has practically no value
here now, for there is no place to spend
It and this phase of the situation presents
it's own remedy.
Food supply IL Ample.
Almost everyone here is sleeping out
doors, being afraid TO enter their homes
except for a short while at time until
repairs have been made There are plenty
of provisions. Some have been supplied
by other towns and much has been brought
in from the surrounding country. Two en-
tire blocks of buildings also escaped being
swept by the flames which Immediately
broke out in a dozen places at once, or
soon the shock was over, and from
the tangled ruins of these buildings COM
plete stocks of groceries. clothing, etc, are
being dug out and added to the common
store. Then before the fire gained head
way, several grocery stores were emptied
of their contents in anticipation of what
might follow The city is under full mar
tial law, Company { of Petaluma having
been called to assist the local company in
preserving order. Many deputy shertffs and
special police have also been sworn in, but
no trouble yet has occurred and none is
and well managed and all in need of as
sistance are supplied. The work now re-
quirng the principal attention Of the au-
thorlties is the removal of the wreckage
TO search for the bodies of those missing
and known to have persisted. Forty ma
rines, under command Of Captain Holcombe
arrived today from Mare Island and did
splcnddly. working in the search. Forty
two bodies were buried today.
Partial List of victims.
FRESNO Cal, April 2l.-Followlng is a
list Of the killed and injured in Santa Rosa
The dead:
GEORGE AND WILLIE BLUTII.
AON A. BlU.
j. bRATl<ER
Mis-. " H. BROWN
X. b. CHURCHILL
MR.. AND MRS. l.. w. CARTER.
DREN. H
WILL DAY.
j. DOMENICONI.
SMITH DAVIDSON.
Mr. AND N, MRS. ELEY;; -,... ,----
MISS PHOEBE GREEN.
n. L. JONES telephone man.
DAVID KENNEDY.
ELI LOEB, Third street.
w. II. MALLORY. insurance man, Sa1
Francisco.
MRS. MOKE AND CHILD
TRUEMAN MCORD.
MRS. G. MANNING AND CHILD.
Harry f. NEWMAN, burned alive
MILES PERRMAN.
MR.. PEDEGO.
NELLIE REED.
MR. RICHARDS.
FRED SCHIEFFER.
CHESTER SHEPPARD.
SHIRIKE 9Japanese(;
WALTER III, SMITH.
r. b. KNAPP, travelling man from Bos
b. GopDENI
ARMOND MUCHELIATTL
WILLIAM wESTRAN, from Redwoo
city, Eagle hotel
Prof II. t. Ardley of Berkeley
Paul Anderson.
George Baylor and son.
Mr.. Baldwin of California Electric com
pany, slightly.
Mrs May Cunningham, slightly.
Wayne Day. now in Petaluma.
Mrs. Marie de Vassett
Mrs. Ed Taught.
Miss Finkenstedt.
J. e. Folck, boot and shoe man from s.
Louis.
MIR. Given.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. HesseI milliners(
Lyman c. Hill.
Mrs. Homer Hateman, Sacramento. gel
ting along nicely
Mrs. Hyde.
Mrs. l. n. Jones, slight
w. ID. Johnson, slightly.
Paul johnson, slight
Paul Jones.
Charles kayser,
II Kang.
Mrs. Ell Loeb.
DIR. r. c. Light
Gertrude MeElhinney Week.
Ralph G.. Miller.
Joe McDonoUgh.
Barney Mullen
Mike McDonOugh.
Mrs. McAndrews.
T.. O'Brien.
Mr. Palm
G.. T.. Porter.
j. Richardson,
Mrs. Rose of Unique restaurant.
Mr. ROsenbaum.
Mrs. Myrtle Rhodes.
Mr. and Mrs.. Robertson.
Mr. and Mrs. Robinson OF Western hote
Mrs Hilda Robinson.
Mrs. Renck and child.
Mrs. Sykes.
Mr.. and Mrs Lee f. Stone and child no
az Petaluma.
Nick stanford, Los Angeles
George Sing, Chinese merchant.
Judd Scott, now at 3l5 Second street.
John Wheelan.
Mrs NJ A. Young, slight now at 8
Second street