Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-04-26

ruins, leaving $50 still buried. Two
hundred lunatics are roaming the
country.
At San Jose the Vendome hotel and
its annex were badly wrecked. Ten
or fifteen persons were killed in the
wreck. Fifty others were killed in
the general wreckage of the town,
which includes all the public build
ings,
Death and Devastation Everywhere.
The same story of death and dew
astation comes from Santa Cruz, Mon
terry, Gilroy and HOLSTER. The
death list at Santa Cruz is reported
to be large.
At Salinas, down the coast near
Monterey, the town practically was
destroyed, and the damage to prop
erty is estimated at upward of ST.
100000, with ten reported dead. Sac
ramento, Stockton, jacksonville and
other towns report huge damage. Red
wood City, Menlo Park and Bur-
! lingame also suffered.
Across the bay from San Francisco
the destruction was great, but the
conditions there are much better than
in San Francisco. At Berkeley, the
seat of the University of California,
many buildings were thrown down,
and the university buildings them
selves were cracked, damaged and
shaken to their foundations.
The dead in Oakland Alameda and
Berkeley are numerous, but no de-
tailed accounts or records have been
received here.
Bounds of Devastated District.
But the great disaster, the full
weight of the earthquake, fell upon
San Francisco.
The area burned over is bounded
by Vallejo, Howard, East and San
some streets-which embraces prac-
tically the entire wholesale district
of the city, the fine retail district and
office building district along Sansome
and California streets-and the great
commercial and banking district along
California street, where most of the
banking and brokerage houses of the
city are located. Block after block
Of banking houses are now masses
Of red hot ruin, and it will be months
before the money that was housed
i, In their valuable vaults can be
reached.
The second district that was swept
clean by the fire is that bounded by
Second, Market, Eighth and Fulton
streets-that is, from the Union sta
ton on the water front at the foot
of Market street back to Eighth.
This district contains the finest Office
buildings, hotels, retail stores, thea.
tiers and shops of the city.
The landmarks of the city-its show
places-the Spreckels building, the
g Call building, the great Phelan block
}, and the immense Palace hotel, said
:, to be one of the largest in the world
practically are in ruins. The Males
tic, the Grand, the Columbia and the
Orpheum theaters are piles of smok
ing ruins.
d Chinatown Wiped Out
:. Chinatown is now a Renaissance
h The Chinese theaters and joss houses
l. are in ruins and rookery after rock
d cry has collapsed, covering alive hun
n dreds of the celestials. Panic reign
h among the countless thousands Of tn,
IS Chinese and they fill the streets
y dragging whatever they could saw
A. from the wrecks.
y The Japanese quarter has beef
e burned out and from the part not de
d stroyed the people have fed in terror
lie The flame-swept area covers over te
e. square miles.
AS night descended upon the cit
N of death and destruction the fact tina
N there are no lights brought on fires
~ terror which was accentuated by tn
m third sharp shock which came jus
lie before dark.
d. AS the flames spread into the res
At dence districts people left their home
and fed to the parks and squares.
n The city resembles one vast shan
ID bles with the red glare OF the fiji
* throwing weird shadows across tn
he worn and panic-stricken faces of tn