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THE OPERA COMPANY SAFE,
CONR1ED, HEARs, THAT MI THE
SINGERS ARE UNFRAMED.

Those NJ the Palace Had. Time to Escape,
and Sembriah N Eames Weren't I'm
Danger-Fe9rs for Safety of Chorus
and Orchestra Brought n Crowd.
Heinrich ConE3ed, director OF. the Metro
politan Opera Company, which opened in
the Grand Opera House, San Francisco, last
Monday night. vas greatly alarmed about
the safety Of; the opera singers.
Mr.. Conried received word at midnight
that the singers were all safe but that all
of the scenery had been destroyed in the
fire that consumed the Grand Opera House.
All last evening there were about 100
relatives OF members Of the chorus and or
chestra at the offices of the Metropolitan
Opera Company waiting for news.
There was plenty Of time, for those at
the Palace Hotel, where most Of the COM
pany stopped. to get to places Of safety.
Nine. Sembrich and some Of the singers
were at the st. Francis, which is outside the
burned district. Nine. Eames is a guest at
the home Of DR.. Tevis.
Many inquiries were made at the Opera
House as to the safety Of the members Of the
orchestra and chorus. The friends Of the
opera school were also among those who
came for news. The orchestra and chorus
were quartered, however, In small lodging
houses, and their friends were not disposed
to be satisfied with the reports that Mr.. Con-
ried left at the Opera House.
The company arrived in San Francisco on
Saturday night from Kansas City. 1.-THE
Queen of Sheba" was sung on Monday, and
on Tuesday Carmen was given. Yester-
day afternoon "Ie Nozze di Figaro" was to
be sung at the matinee, and @Lohengrin' at
night.
The company will come Immediately
back TO New York. Mr.. Conried said yes
erday afternoon, "and il 1 could get the
myers here by next Monday. 1 would give
a season Of one week at the Metropolitan"
The two performances given there drew
houses amounting to $40, 900. The ad-
vance sale for the .Femaining fourteen per-
formances amounted to more than $120, 900.
All that Ia lost as we'll as the expense of
transporting this vast company to San
Francisco and back. ! nave telegraphed
M. Goerlitz to bring back the singers with
the greatest speed and comfort possible"
When Herr Conried was told that the
Grand Opera House had been destroyed
by fire, he said; ...,s =.
Il am glad that it happened in the morn
ing when there was no one there instead
OF at night, when an opera was being sung"
The members Of the Metropolitan Opera
Company in San Francisco are as follows,
exclusive Of the chorus which numbers
about 100:
Sopranos, Mines, Bessie ABBOTT. Bella
Alien, Emma Eames. Paila Ralph, Marie
Rappold. Marcella Sembrich and Marion
Weed.
Mezzo sopranos and c%ontraltos: Mines.
Olive Fremstad, Louise Homer, Josephine
Jaooby, Helen Mapleson, Florence Null
ford, Johanna Poehlmann and Edyth
Walker.
Tenors: Messrs. Jacques Bars, Alois
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OTHER CITIES RUINED.
San Jose. Napa and Salinas Reported De
strOyed-Insane Asylum Wrecked.

San Jose, Napa and Salinas Reported De
strOyed-Insane Asylum Wrecked.
Los ANGELES, Cal, April 1s.-DespatoheS
received here indicate that San Jose, tho
city of flowers, is in ruins, and so are Naps
and Salinas. The State insane asylum at
San Jose is also in ruins. Information con.
veyed by an automobile messenger is that
half the inmates are dead.
OAKLAND. Cal; April 1s.-Santa Rosa,
90 miles north Of here, is at the mercy of
destructive fire. No statement Of the loss
OF life has been received. The damage is
reported to amount to more than a million
dollars.
= A conductor or a San jose train reports
that the insane asylum at Agnews, near San
Jose, is a total wreck, many of the inmates
being killed. 1t is reported that attaches
of the institution who were about at the time
were saved. The building is a total wreck
The ruins took fire shortly after the coll
lapse. There were about TOO persons In the
building. Scores Of the inmates who
escaped death are roaming about the coun.
tryin a state Of panic.
Los ANGELES, Cal, April ls.-At Salinas
the damage will exceed ST. 500, 900. Two
persons are known to nave been killed,
and many were seriously injured. The
.S~preckels sugar factory, three miles from
here, was destroyed causing a loss Of ST..
800 900. At Wasonviue the Moreland Aoad-
envy was wrecked. and the wreckage caught
fire n destroyed all Of the buildings,
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OAKLAND PERRY CRIPPLED.

1t is a terrible night along the water
front at Oakland. The ferries do not reach
the town direct, but transfer their pass an
gers to trains which run about a mile and
a half into the city; but these tracks are
out of commission, twisted in the general
scramble OF made lands, and the refugees
are walking TO the town.
We are having our own little fires along
the waterfront, and in the light of the
burning buildings there passes a constant
procession of haggard men, some of them
only half dressed, loaded down with valu-
ables, and dragging crying children or sup
porting half collapsed women.
One man started to carry a woman who
had collapsed through exhaustion and
fright all the way into Oakland. Al the
end Of the long pier he, too, collapsed, and
thew were found there fainting in each
others arms by a relief party from Oak
land.
All along the hill district people are sitting
even at midnight watching that red sea of
flames which fills all the western horizon,
and which shows where the gayest, most
careless of American cities has become in
a night the most desol1te.
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property was sacrificed TO save the city
from total destruction.
Panic swept over San Francisco and the
neighboring towns at the first intimation
that there had been a seismic disturbance.
Thousands fed in terror from their homes
expecting every minute there would he
further shocks to add to the ruin already
wrought. The feeling of helplessness and
fright was accentuated by the bursting
forth of flames from scores of dismantled
and tottering buildings. Scores Of thousands
ere wandering the streets tonight. home
less, despairing and utterly %terrorized by
the frightful play of natures most violent
forces.
Fire is raging in a hundred centres Of
desolation, and the best the authorities
can do is to stand impotent and see the
flames eating their way to the edges of the
city, hoping against hope that there may
come favorinE circumstances to prevent
| utter destruction. Tonight the property
loss from shock and fire is roughly esti-
mated at 800 900, 900,
Gen. Funston, in command of United
States troops at the Presidio, declared the
city under ma rtial law as soon as the extent
of the horror became apparent, and troops
and police are working together to save
life, protect property and recover the dead.
The ca earthquake shock cavcd in 40 many
of the fire engine houses that the dena IT.
ment would virtually prove powerless even
had the water supply not been destroyed.
The Palace Hotel was destroyed by fire
in the afternoon, after it had withstood
the terrific force or the earthquake early
in the day. and its annex, the Grand, vent
with it. The sixteen story Spreckels build
ing, twisted by the shock, was finished
by fire. The Hearst building went down
before the seismic force and fire. Score
of the best buildings in the city nave been
either shaken and twisted to pieces or
burned.
Almost the entire area east of Sansome
street. between Market and Vallejo streets,
containing the principal wholesale houses
of the city, has been devastated and lies
in ruins. The 81, 0 1000 City Hall was torn
by the earthquake, the steel ribbed dome
uncovered and the entire building wrecked.
In Market street near the City Hall the
earth was ripped open and a gaping assure
six feet wide left to tell the horrible poeer
Of the disturbance. y. ,
Mayor Schmitz promptly established his
office at police headquarters and named
q committee Of safety. He sent word to
bakers, milkmen and other purveyors of
foodstufTs to husband the supply on hand
so that the homeless may be cared for.
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the streets, and the work they Id is proved
by the presence at the temporary morgue
Of many corpses on whom the oAy mark
is a burn about the hands or feet. This
lasted for only an hour. After that the
electric power was cut of
The food problem is already troubling
the authorities. Mayor Schmitz has ordered
grooers and dairymen and bakers to hold
their supplies at the disposition of the
authorities. The food will be distributed
equally, rich and poor sharing alike.
Tho Southern Pacific long wharf has
settled into the bay, and thousands Of tons
of coal have gone with it. A section of
LENA Priata, a mountain near Santa Cruz,
slid into the valley below, engulfng a saw
mill and fifteen men.
The fire department Of Los Angeles has
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BUILDINGS THAT FELL.
Grand Opera Hous Among the Structures
THAT Are Totally Destroyed.

SAN Francisco, April 1s.-1he following
is a list Of the larger buildings that have
been damaged or destroyed:
Grand Opera House, entirely destroyed.
Pacific Union Club, front injured, assures
in the wall.
City Hall. collapsed in the shock.
Palace and Grand hotels, destroyed by
fire.
Chronicle building, destroyed by fire.
Era miner building, destroyed by fire.
destroyed by fire.
Post Office building and United States
Mint, destroyed by fire.
Postal Telegraph and Western Union
buildings, dynamited.
Pacific States Telegraph building, burned.
Rialto building, destroyed by fire.
st. Ignatius's Church, total loss; the
interior ruined and the walls so badly
cracked that they will nave to be pulled
down.
Concordia Club, Van Ness avenue, walls
so badly cracked that they must be torn
down: almost total loss on contents
st. Luke's Episcopal Church, Van Ness
avenue, walls badly damaged: will rave
to be rebuilt.
California Hotel. Bush street. upper
floors wrecked.
Winchester Hotel, Third street, total
loss, walls falling during the earthqu AXE
shocks.
st, Francis Hotel. walls cracked, but not
seriously injured.
Lick House, roof fell in and walls partly
collapsed.
Upham Building, Pine and Battery streets,
totally destroyed; loss $500 900,
Crocker Building, Post and Market streets.
not much damaged.
Hearst Building, fell in ruins; total loss.
Residence Of Claus Spreckels, seriously
damaged.
Gail Building, destroyed,
Little damage was done to the Chronicle
Building, a new structure.
Valencia Hotel, a frame structure,
smashed to fragments and many persons
in it killed.
The rear wall of the Monadnock office
building, eleven stories high. and partly
erected, collapsed.
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NEW WORKERS AT THE HOTELS.
Some OF Those Registered NJ the Palace,
the st. Francis and The Lick.

inc ~. fTbnClS Nuu me LICK.
OAKLAND, April 1s.-New Workers who
we're registered at the Palace, San Fran
cisco, are H. s. Taylor, l.. Mandel, d. B.
Blanton and wife, C.. P. Armstrong, J. H.
Tanner, r Written, G.. Rubenstein and
wife, J. o. odurnell, 8. Kohn, B. Weyl,
Hamilton G. 9odgers, G. r. Williams and
party, Ithaca; j. H. Tonner, Itha ca; T. ].
Mitchell, T. M. SHREDDER, DR., A. Ryder,
J. s. Mayo, L.. Sichel, s. X. Green, F. s.
Whedon, l.. Ham, C. H. Neither, Z. A.
Kline, A. NJ. Andrew, A. Petry, G. Lowen-
stein, F. H. Wilkinson, W. H. Finn and
wife, E. A. Coe, s.. Hecht. E. Fisher, H, B.
Smith, A. Weinstein, j. Mitchell, L. l..
Harris, all Of New York city.
st. Francis-F. A. Baker. j.. s. Kennedy
and wife, and T. S.. johnson and wife, New
York: II. G. Ingersoll and wife.
Lck-W. s. Cox, j. n Cox, j. Cox, j. F.
Cox. all of New York city; Joseph Hamilton
Cooperstown.
Grand-O. H. P. Noyes, H. Black, c. W.
Murray. all Of New York; s. Biggs and wife,
Rochester. : .E,..a
California-Miss Elizabeth Wagner.
''Commercial-M. A, Francis and wife.
,aIso a party from Albany, n. Y; Mesdames
Misses Jennie G. and Harriet c. Hart and
Miss Helen Tanner:
Ramona-E. d. Meader and wife, C and
A. Woodford. Rochester,
= Hamilt on-Char les Bridge. Albany: J
Busscy and wife, New York.
Occidental-F. Smith.
Teminus-J A. Flahim.
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wandering the debris Uttered streets seek
ing loved relatives, seemingly unconscious
that the flames are still ravaging what is left
of the city.
First estimates of the disaster were
totally inadequate. In the first shocks, last
ing three minutes, at 5i13 O'Clock this morn
ing, between 1000 and 1000 persons we're
supposed to have persisted. Bodies of
more than 500 of these have been recovered
Then at IL o'clock came the final shock.
the most severe of all and it ia feared that
the loss of life by this was heavier than the
preceding disaster. Rows of buildings COL
lapssd along Market sire ct and Front
street, and quickly burned. All Of them
contained victims whose identity passed
away with the ashes of buildings.
One hundred blocks Of downtown busi-
ness houses are in ruins and the waterfront
has sunken 40 that the bay is spreading
over many blocks in that part OF the city
The morgues are filed and the work OF
gathering the harvest Of death has begun.
The area covered by the flames approxi-
mates ten sqGare miles late tonight, with
the CONFEDERATION still raging. The force
of the earthquake cut off the city's supply
of water in the morning and the fire king
held sway, with the frantic people fighting
with dynamite to stay the progress of the
flames. Tons Of dynamite were used to
destroy huge buildings in the Faith Of the
flames, and millions of dollars worth of
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PARTIAL LIST OF THE DEAF

SAN FRANCISCO, April 18.-The following
is a partial list Of the dead:
Annie Wheelan, killed while asleep in her
bed at home, 1882 Sacramento street. The
chimney Of an adjoining cottage fell upon
the roof under which the girl was sleeping
and she was buried under the brick and
mortar.
Unknown father and son, 1877 Langdon
street; killed under a falling wall.
billed under caving wall.
- Baker, Second and Stevenson streets.
w. Komfeld, IL years old, ss41i Folsom
street.
William Vail. 4 years old, $50 Stevenson
street.
Anna Webster, IA Williams street.
William Cuellman, ITO Eddy street.
John Thrapy, fish market, Montgomery
and Sacramento streets.
Geronimo Stagman, 5ls Merchant street.
Philip Busalacchi. fish market, Seventh
and Minna streets,
Louis Paladini, Montgomery and Mer.
chant streets.
Mrs. Hart Drumm.
Of City Hall.
Police Sergeant Steve Bunner, ST.; killed
at City Hall.
= King, 900 Mission street.
Sake Iehido, 420 Stevenson street.
F. Miyikai, 42S Stevenson street.
Mrs. Ida Heelip, Geary and Stockto on
streets.
DR.. Stinson, we'll known physician, killed
In his room on the eighth floor Of the Cali
fornia Hotel. Stinson was in bed when the
walls crashed n buried him under a pile Of
Gebris.
UNKNOWN DEAD.
Three Chinese; two unknown white
women unknown white man; sailor: un-
known man, Hayes and Polk streets; un-
known man, Wilcox House. Second and
Jessie streets.
Otto Setner, 16 years old. 1894 Pierce
street, rushed into the room Of his father
when the awful shock came and shouted:
+Oh, papa, ] am dying" The child fell
dead in his fathers arms.
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WATCHED PENDULUM SHAKE,
Students OF Carnegie Technical School
Observe Effects OF Vibrations.

PIrrsBuRo, April 1s,-The earthquake
was recorded in Pittsburg this morning By
the Foucault pendulum, which is suspended
from the ceiling Of the Carnegie Technical
School. Since the eruptions at Mount
Vesuvius the pendulum has been acting
strangely and has been watched with
great interest by the students.
This morning at s15 o'clock, while the
Students were listening to a lecture the
pendulum ceased its easy movements,
caused by the earth's motion, and indu geo
in a series Of short spasmodic vibrations
which made the pendulum swing rapidly
For fully three minutes the phenomenon
continued, the students and professor
alike gazing in astonishment.
There was the greatest excitement among
the students and the professors anpounc'1
that something Of extraordinary importanH"
was happening, In less thar half an holf
afterward news was received at the schoo.
OF the disaster in San Francisco. For tn
greater part of the morning the pendulum
continued its irregular motions.
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STANFORD UNIVERSITY RAzED
ONLY ONE or FIFTEEN RUELD-
INGS EEFF STANDING.
\ Student and a Fireman Killed and Six
Students InJured-LOss More rhan
81 900 .OOO-The Buildings Planned
With the idea OF Resisting Earthquakes.

81 DOC .OOO-The BuilulnSB Ftahneu
With the idea OF Resisting Earthquakes.
PAIo'ALro. Cal, April 1s,-The buildings
Of the leland Stanford ,Jr., University we're
RACED to the ground by the earthquake
to-day. Only one of tho fifteen. completed
buildings is left standing. :
Two persons were killed by the collapse
Of the buildings, a student and Otto Curtis,
a fireman. Six other students lie in the
hospital suffering from wounds sustained
in the collapse and ensuing fire 1t is feared
some will not recover. 50
The loss is put at more han 81, 225 900,
as the buildings have been steadily in course
Of construction since the institution was
founded.
Stanford University was opened for the
instruction Of students in 1891 and the
last register showed about 200 in
attendance. 1t is the richest university in
the United States, having an endowment
Of about $50, ooo, 900 and an especially COM
plete system of buildings. This building
plan was nearing completion.
The architecture was Of the California
mission style. A series of low. one story
buildings, arranged about a large quad
rangle, was enclosed by outer quadrangles
Of higher buildings. These included a
reference library and the Stanford Memo
rial Church, the finest and most expensive
church in California
Apart from this central mass Of buildings
was a complete series Of structures for
the Use Of the engineering department. a
museum, a chemical laboratory, called
the most complete in the country, and two
d~ormitories, one for men and one for
women. The former housed 400 students.
A great general library and a gymnasium
were in course Of construction and were
to have completed the building scheme.
The buildings in the one story inner quad
rangle which held most Of the class rooms
were almost foolishly substantial and were
built with the idea Of resisting earthquakes.
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Burgstaller, Enrico Caruso, Andreas Dippel
Giovanni paroli and Albert Reiss.

Burgstaller, Enrico Caruso, Andreas Dippel,
Giovanni Paroli and Albert Reiss.
Barytones. Messre. Bernard Begue, Giu.
seppe Campanari, Eugene Dufriche, An.
tonic Frankie, otto Goritz, Adolph Mthl-
mann, Taurino Parvis, Antonio Sootti' and
Anton Van Ro6y.
Bassos: Messrs, Robert Blass, Marcel
Gourmet, Pol Plancon and Arcangelo Rossi.
Technical director, Eugene Castel- Bert.
Stage director, Eugene Dufriche.
Conductors: Nahan Frankie, Alfred Hertz
and Arturo yigno.
Chorus master, Pierro Nepoti.
Ballet master, Luigi Albertieri.
Premiere d~anseuse, Mile. Blanca Froelich
Master of transportation, Frank de Fon'
tanet.
Librarian, Leonard Mapleson. I
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shock Ia Felt in Ottawa,

OTTAWA, Ont. April 1s.-The tren,ors Of
the San Francisco earthquake were re-
corded in Ottawa this morning at the Gov
eminent observatory. The new seismo-
graph installed lately showed that the first
Vibrations arrived in Ottawa at S:19:S0,
This compares almost to the minute with
the time first reported from the stricken
city. The maximum disturbance reached
Ottawa at S:35. ..,....
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ANOTHER DISASTER ACCOUNT.
100 Blocks OF the City Burned and the
Losses Estimated at 500 900 900.

OAKLAND, Cal, April is.-Successiye
earthquake shocks of tremendous force
followed by fierce CONGREGATIONS, tore and
burned ont the heart of San Francisco to-
day, devastated vast areas in the residence
district, killed hundreds, and more likely
thousands, Of people.
Daped and half insane survivors are
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SITUATION At MARE ISLAND.
Three WarshlDs There in Commission
Navy Department Not Anxious.

Navy Department Not Anxious.
WASHINGTON, April IS. of the vessels of
the Navy in commission, the receiving shin
Independence, the collier Saturn and the
torpedo boat destroyer Perry are at the
Mare Island Navy Yard. Besides these
there are nve or six vessels, including the
gunboat Bennington, which was blown up
at San Diego, Cal. last fall, out Of COM
mission and undergoing repairs. Officers
OF the Department are not worrying over
the ships that were in the water at the Mare
Island Navy Yard.
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No investor has ever lost a dollar.
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Free Transportation OF supplics.

The Export Shipping Company annoano'.
that 1t will undertake the t~ransYort4n''
Of all supplies for the relief of San frtorlseo
free Of charge.
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The Southern Pa cifc train despatchers
say that service on the Western division is
sage that a mile and a half OF track has sunk
into the Suisun marshes. Trains which
were despatched for San Francisco early
in the morning had to bc brought back and
cent to the Bay by the bathrop route. When
the track sank a loaded passenger traincame
near going out of lsight. A switch engine,
too, sank three feet into the mud with the
tracks.
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offered its services, but the San Francisco
fremen have declined them because they
have no water.
Although a fierce gale is blowing up the
coast many relief ships ara reported headed
this way. The Pacific squadron was on
it's way from San Diego. to San Pedro for
target practice when the disaster was
reported to Admiral Goodrich. He started
for San Francisco under forced draught
at once.
-Four theatres. the Grand Opera House,
the Orpheum, the Majestic and the Coluni-
bia, are gone.
10 PAY INSURANCE CLAIMS.
1t is reported that the local insurance
adjusters met in San Francisco and decided
to pay all losses, whether caused by fire
or earthquake. What was their authority
for arriving at such a decision the report
does not say.
Insurance Commissioner +. Myron Wolf
announced at noon, however, that the
eighty FIRE insurance companies repre-
sented at San Francisco had decided to
pay dollar for dollar, not discriminating
between fire and earthquake losses. Only
two Of The companies are Pacific Coast
concerns.
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-15
NOTICE

Notice is herby given thut on Mon
day August 6, 1906 at zO'clock D. On.
in front of the court house. The
County Treasurer of Ormsby County
State Of Nevada, will sell at public
auction to the highest bidder IL OF the
purchase price to be pa4A in cash. The
property known as the Ornsby County
Agricultural Grounds, together with
all buildings situated thereon. No Did
for said property will be entertained
for sum less IMAM 100000.
Full terms of sale will be given upon
application at the office of the County
Clerk.
The Board reserves the right 10
reject any and all bids. BY order
of the Board of County Commission
ers.
! J. 2. WOODBURY.. Chairman
H. B. Van Etten, Clerk
| The above sale is hereby postponed
to Saturday, September Is. 1906 at
2 p. m.
BY order of the board of county com.
missioners.
H. B. VAN ETTEN. Clerk.