Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-04-21
RUINED AREA
A WIDE ONE
OTHER AND SMALLER CITIES
SUFFER, IN COMPARISON, AS
MUCH AS FRISCO
SANTA ROSA LAID LOW

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that City and Many Deaths Are Re-
ported-universitles Utterly De-
stroyed
San Francisco, April 1s.-Reports
from the interior Of the state are
most alarming. Santa Rosa is a total
wreck and contains 10000 homeless
people. The loss Of life will probably
reach into the thousands. Not one
business building is left intact, and
the greater portion Of the residence
section is destroyed.
Other Cities Affected.
Messengers bring the saddest It'd.
ings of destruction from Healdsburg,
Geyserville, Cloverdale, Hopeland and
Ukiah.
This report takes in the country az
far north as Mendocino and Lake
counties, and as far west as the Pa
cific ocean.
In every case the loss Of life and
property Is shocking.
Town OF Bradley Wiped Out.
Los Angeles. April 19.-Reports from
Bradley, town of 500 population, 120
miles south of here, state that the
town is practically wiped out by three
earthquakes yesterday. This Is the
only town In southern California
known to have suffered from the
shock. So far as known there were
no fatalities. Los Angeles escaped
damage entirely.
Stockton Escapes Damage.
Stockton. April 19.-Little or no
damage was done here.
Los Banos Suffers.
Fresno, April 19.-The earthquake
did no damage here, although the
shock was the heaviest ever felt at
Fresno. At Los Ranos. on the border
line OF the county heavy = ~
done and the loss is 81
we're no fatalities.
Awful Ruin at Santa Rosa.
Santa Rosa, Cal, April 10, via Los
Angeles. Santa Rosa Is total wreck.
Ten thousand people are homeless,
and the loss of life will probably reach
hundreds. The whole business portion
OF the city is tumbled into ruins. The
main street Is piled either side many
feet deep with fallen buildings.
Not one business building is left In.
tact. The four story court house is
pile OF broken masonry. Nothing is
left. Identification is impossible. That
which is destroyed by the earthquake
is swept by fire. The citizens fed to
the fields and hills to watch the de.
struction of the city. The water sys.
tenn vas destroyed by the earthquake.
San Jose Fares Badly.
Oakland, Cal, April 19--At San Jose
the Vendome hotel annex is badly
wrecked and ten or fifteen are killed.
The Doherty block is completely burn
ed and one woman was killed DR.. De-
grow was killed and his wife is badly
injured Every business building is de.
molished. The militia are out and
martial law has been proclaimed. The
estimate is fifty killed The postofice
is half wrecked. The First Presbyter-
ian church is totally demolished, and
the court house is wreck.
Sacramento Little, Damaged.
Sacramento, Cal, April s19.-Yester.
days shock was the severest one felt
in this city in many years. No seri.
GUS damage was done. A few cracks
were discovered in the postofflce
building. Slight damage was done to
some brick buildings.
state Hospital Wrecked.
Sacramento, April 10. - Governor
Pardee has received dispatch from
Milpitas that the state hospital ia
damaged and useless and DR.. Kelly
killed. The number of injured is I'm.
known.
Insane People at Large.
San Jose, April 19.-The Agnews tn.
sane asylum is a total wreck. Many
inmates are killed and the remainder
are running around loose, terrorizins
the community. The superintendent
OF the institution and his wife were
both killed.
Universities Are Destroyed.
Oakland, April 19.-The University
of California at Berkeley and Stanford
University at Palo california;
two great institutions of learning -
have been destroyed.
At Berkeley the institution which
was progressing toward the eminence
enjoyed by the most famous universe
ties Of the world is mass of ruins.
At Palo Alto the earthquake dam.
aged Stanford University Ali but one
of the magnificent group of buildings
there have been wrecked, Including
the famous memorial church, which
cost $1,O00,000 and was one OF the
handsomest structures Of it's kind in
the world
Dispatches from Pinola, near Berke
ley, last night said that when the
earthquake struck Berkeley yester
| day the shock seemed I'd 90 directly