The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-06
The Outside Towns

/ is at hand to investigate every annIf
cant where there is the least question
OF his or her condition Canned and
aired fruits are greatly needed
the work of clearing the devastated
; district is being hurried and the debris
is being hauled out OF town by the
California Northwestern and Petaluma
and Santa Rosa railroads. Flat cars
are run up Fourth street and after be-
ing loaded are taken back to the steam
me and thence to the country. where
they are dumped. Many of the bust
ness houses are rushing up temporary
structures to cover goods so that BUSH
ness can be resumed while new build
ings are being erected. The bank vauIts
are believed to be intact, but there will
be no effort to open them for some time
to come for fear of fire
COW BURIED IN A CRACK.
Charles ]. Pease, superintendent of
the Shafter ranch in Marin county.
has written John K. Orr from O,ema
that Bolinas, Inverness and Tomales
were badly shattered, and that In
Olema and other places the earth open
ed in great cracks. A cow was caught
in one of these openings and buried
alive. The home of Mr.. Pease at Ole
ma was thrown from it's foundations
and completely wrecked. No loss of
life had been reported.-San Francisco
Examiner.
LAKEPORT SHAKEN
LAkEPORT, April 18.-A severe
earthquake shock at $40 this morning
did considerable damage in this town.
The County Teachers Institute is in
session here and the hotels were filed
with guests. The shock caused most of
them to rush TO the streets in night at
tire.
A large portion of the firewall of the
Lakeview Hotel crashed through the
porches and brick frame annex The
tow story brick walls of Masonic Hall,
in course of construction, is reduced to
ruins. Several other brick blocks were
cracked, chimneys toppled over
throughout town and show windows of
business houses the full length of Main
street were shattered. No one was in
jured. The loss to the Masonic Hall
is about $4,000.
DESTRUCTION AT ALBION.
ALBION, April 1S.-This morning at
5:26 a heavy earthquake shock was
felt. There is a great amount of dam
age done. The telephone lines are all
down.
The Occidental Hotel, Mendocino
City, is wreck.
All the big sawmills in this region
are badly damaged. They will have to
shut down for some time.
The county roads are all blocked by
big land slides. The Fort Bragg and
Southeastern railroad is blocked by
land slides for the entire length.
Large gangs of men are repairing the
county roads and bridges.
All the houses here are moved from
their foundations and some will have
to be torn down.
So far as can be learned there were
no lives lost.
EARTHQUAKE AT ANDERSON.
ANDERSON, April 1S.-An earth
quake occurred here this morning at
$50.
Chimneys tumbled down and win
dows, dishes and furniture of houses
were demolished.
There arc many wide assures in the
earth. Slides along the Southern Hum
boldt Lumber Company railroad took
place. The damage TO the railroad and
saw mill viii amount to several hundred
dollars. The damage 10 the Southern
Humboldt Lumber Company's dam
across Indian Creek will run into the
Several slides have been thrown into
Eel river and Indian Creek. Telephone
line is damaged.