Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-04-21
GREAT EARTHQUAKE
San FranciscO's Terrible Mis-
fortune Murder Of Master
Mechanic Malone

SAN FRANCISCO, April 1s, 1906, $40 p. m Especial to the
BONANZA from the Sacramento Bee)
A dispatch just received from the Sacramento Bee says that the entire dis
trt south of Market street has been destroyed and the entire section east of
Keamey is in ruins This is the wholesale district Of San Francisco.
This section is Oh made ground it having been filled in by the pioneers of
California in the early SOS In 40, the argonants who braved thedangers Of
a sail around Cape Horn, and who became good citizens of the Golden State,
landed on the then mud flats of San Francisco. The ground was afterwards
filed in and covers that territory between what is now the waterfront and San
some streets. This district is completely wiped out of existence.
Conditions growing worsee every minute. Damage now estimated at one
hundred millions with prospects of growing worse. Latest reports give deaths
at FIVE thousand. City is a mass of ruins. Dynamite is being used freely in an
ndeavor to save part of the city. Water mains are useless. No water supply
yet at hand. At present thiryfve thousand people are homeless. II is pre-
dced that by tonight the number may reach 100000.
SPECIAL TO BONANZA SAN Francisco, 92O p. m.
The shock this morning lasted three minutes and wrecked many buildings
including the City Hall. The fire started at Folsom and Beale streets and
wpt everything in its path toward the Palace Hotel That handsome struct-
ue is now a mass of ruins, in fact everything between the water front and the
City Hall, extending from the Pacific Mail dock to Suffer street
One hundred and fifty of greatest buildings destroyed in addition to twenty
thousand others Waterfront still burning. No hope of checking flames.
NINA, NEW, April 10, 1906, 10 p. m. Frank Everett
Jr, a religious fanatic, shot and killed Master Mechanic Malone, of the
Nevada and California railroad at this place this afternoon. Everett had
been on a spree and lit is said had dehrium tremons.
Everett accosted Malone and asked him to furnish two engines at nee
as he wished to leave at once
A dispatch from Hawthorne this morning states that Everett has no re-
collection of what happened yesterday. Everett is wellnown in this
section and has been operating at Keller and also at Gardnervne. He is
no relation to Frank Everett, the wen-known and popular mining man of
Atwood.
Malone realized in an instant the condition of Everett and spared for
time by saying that they had n o extra engineers. Everett then whipped
out his revolver and shot Malone through the head, killing him instantly.
The murderer was rushed to Hawthorne the county seat immediately to
prevent lynchng. Malone was a very popular man.
TAN FRANCISCO, April I'D, 1906, 10 a. M. Special to THE
BONANZA from the RENO JoURNAL.-The fire is still raging
throughout San Francisco and there is no possibility of stopping it until it
exhausts itself for want of material The city is doomed. Authorities are
dynamhing buildings in hope of checking progress of the flames. A new
misfortune has come in that explosives are becoming Exhausted even the
powder belonging to the Government is all gone.