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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-04-25
REVELATIONS Of SECOND DAY

San Francisco, April l9.-Eyery-
thing south of Market street to
Twenty-third is gone, except the
Mint and the fire is still burning.
Post Office damaged by shock and
slightly by fire. Everything north
OF Mission street is entirely gone up
to Van Ness avenue, and past Van
Ness west of Golden Gate avenue up
to Octavia street. Chinatown is
wiped out, also Mob Hill. Fire has
crossed Van Ness avenue east OF
Union, leaving only ruin in its wake.
Nothing Is left in the business dis
trict. Fire is now burning about
Union and Franklin, with prospects
of continuing, with doubtful results.
All that is left now is bounded by
Union, Van Ness, Golden Gate ave-
nue. to Octavia, Hays and Fillmore,
over to Market.
The San Francisco mint, contain
ing S3,OOO,OOO in coin and bullion,
was saved only after heroic effort.
The building is the only structure of
like size that remains standing in the
city.
The total number of dead in all
the California cities visited by the
catastrophe will probably reach
5000, and the improvised hospitals
are unable to care for the injured.
If food supplies do not arrive from
outside within few hours starva-
tion will add many victims to the al
ready horrible death list of the earth
quake and flames.
In brief: City of San Francisco
destroyed; 100000 homeless; not a
business building left standing.
Firemen who go to San Francisco
are returned to their homes, being
unable to render any assistance on
account of lack of water.
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
San Francisco, April l9.-Despite
the vigilance of police and soldiers
many places were pillaged in the
wholesale region. The liquor stores
were broken into and vagabonds are
lying in the streets.
The ruin =. the commission and
the wholesale quarters is complete,
the flames of last night having com.
pleted the paralyzing work of the
morning.
Under the debris were killed and
buried hundreds of horses hitched to
vegetable wagons, which were ready
to receive the days supplies.
The dead horses were piled high
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and fire to-day caused the greatest
calamity California has ever known.
In San Francisco alone, estimates on
the loss of life vary from two hun
dred TO twenty-five hundred. The
entire business portion of the city is
in ruins, and the flames which, owing
to lack of water, cannot be checked
except by blowing up with dynamite
buildings in their path, are still
sweeping through the city.
1t is utterly impossible to estimate
the property loss accurately, though
conservative estimates place the loss
Mt over two hundred millions. Thou
sands of people are homeless and
many are huddled in the parks and
public squares, beside the household
goods they were able to save. The
city is under martial law and all
downtown streets are patrolled by
cavalry and infantry. Gen. Frede.
rick Funston is in command. De-
tails of troops are guarding the banks.
Most of the principal buildings
have already been destroyed. Over
the scene of desolation hangs dense
pail of smoke. Fire burnt over an
area of eight square miles, equal to
one hundred city blocks. The first
shock put the entire waterworks sys-
TEN practically out of commission.
This added TO the horror of the stu
alton.
The dreadful! earthquake shock
came at precisely 5.13 o'clock this
morning, the motion, apparently
being from East to West. The first
upheavel of the earth was gradual,
but in few seconds it increased in
intensity. Chimneys began to fall
and buildings to crack, tottering on
their foundations. People became
panic-stricken and rushed into the
streets, most of them in their night
attire. They were met by showers
of falling buildings, bricks, cornices
and walls. Many were instantly
crushed to death, others horribly
mangled. Those who remained in
doors generally escaped with their
lives.
1t is believed more or less every
family in the city sustained some
loss. Tall steel frame structures
stood the strain better than brick
buildings. Some of the docks and
freight sheds along the water front
slid into deep assures which opened
in tilled-in ground near the shore and
the Union Ferry depot is irreparably
injured. A portion of the new city
hall, which cost more than seven
million, collapsed. Scarcely had the
earth ceased TO shake when the fierce
fires broke out simultaneously in
many places. The fire department
responded promptly, but found itself
helpless, as the watermains had been
rendered useless by an underground
movement. Firemen Lave resorted
to dynamite.
In an amazing short time fire
swept the territory for two miles,
consuming blocks of business houses,
newspaper offices, churches and
hotels.
BY the latest information the
buildings of the California Examiner
and The Chronicle, the Merchants
Exchange, Palace and Valencia no.
tells and other large structures were
destroyed by fire. Everything south
of Market street, from Eighth street
to the water front, and north of
Market street from Sansome to
Broadway is gone. The Western
Union and Postal telegraph build
ings are completely wrecked.
To ,bocl, tho o,rool of ,l, d., ~,
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and the wreokage blocked the streets
until the advancing conflagration
turned all that section of the town
into a vast funeral pyre.
The new ferry building is shat.
tered. Al the corner of Seventh
and Howard streets great lodging
house took fire after the first shock,
before the guests had escaped. There
were few exits and nearly all the
lodgers persisted.
~ To-day hundreds of firemen and
rescuers are Frustrated by the strain
of the continual fight since early
morning. In the crowds at many
points people tainted and in some
instances dropped dead of shock.
The Mechanics Pavilion was
turned into a hospital with a
corps of one hundred physicians. 1t
was later destroyed by the fire, but
not until all the patients had been
removed.
Down on the harbor front the
earth seems to have sunk from 6
to 8 inches and great cracks appear
in the streets. The car tracks we've
twisted into all shapes and the build
ings before they were destroyed by
fire, were seen to be out of plumb.
The flames swept in sheets across
Front street and the street cars and
Southern Pacific rolling stock, to-
gether with mail cars, were burned
to their truck wheels.
Artillerymen from the Preside,
with their supply wagons and the
army commissary wagons, are aiding
in getting the fleeing inhabitants and
their baggage out of threatened
quarters.
All of San Francisco's best play
houses, including the Majestic, Co.
lumbia, Orpheum and Grand Opera
House are a mass of ruins. The
earthquake demolished them for all
practical purposes and the fire COM
pleted the work of demolition. The
handsome Rialto and Casserty build
ings were burned to the ground, as
was everything in that district.
The scene at the Mechanics Pa
vilion during the early hours and
until noon, when the injured and
dead were removed because of the
threatened destruction of the build
ing by fire, was one of indescribable
sadness. Sisters, brothers, wives
and sweethearts searched eagerly for
some missing dear one. Thousands
of persons hurriedly went through
the building, inspecting the cots on
which the sufferers lay, in the hope
that they would find some loved one
that was missing.
The dead were placed in one por-
tion of the building and the remain
der was devoted to hospital purposes.
After the tire forced the nurses and
physicians TO desert the building the
eager crowds followed them to the
Preside and the children's hospitals,
where they renewed their search for
missing relatives.
Up to late hour more than 750
persons who were seriously injured
by the earthquake and the fire had
been treated at the various hospitals
throughout the city.
The stereotyr ,rs and the pressmen
of The Examiner and The Call, as
soon as the shock was felt, rushed
out of the buildings and found that
the coffee house at Stephenson aud
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NOTICE TO TEACHERS

Il trict, No. 20, will receive applica-
tions up 70 APRIL 10Th for Superintend-
ent and four Teachers for the Graded
School, and one for Millville School, also
one for Colored School. None but expe-
rienced First Grade Teachers need apply.
Address j. III. MOORE,
Secretary Board Trustees, Dist. No. 20.
April IS, 1906 1917
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TERRIBLE EARTHQUAKE
and Fire Combined to Wor
the Gretest Destruction OF Modern Times
THIEVES ARE SHOT FOR ROBB|NG THE DEAD

HopeThe City Being Cleared
Purpose Caring Suffering, Conditions
Authorities
can q vork
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-05-24
JOSEPH N 'CAbE
HAS RESIGNED
WITH w. & c. r. RY. CO
FOR PAST EaGHT YEnRs.
Nothing Yet Known rs to Who His
Successor Will BE, as she Resigna-
'tion Was Not Known TO the North
.ern Pacific Officials Uuen Tuesday
Bast-Mr. McCat,e WIN Devote
Himself to RaIlroad Contracting,
First Going to Connecticut

Jespeh McCabe. Woe president and
general manager of the w. Il c. R.
for the past eight years, has resided
mis- position.
The above announcement was made
last evening after the departure of
President Elliott's special train from
the city. 1t created some surprise
and much regret among the friends OF
Mr.. McCabe, who has been popular in
Pendieton during his reign as chief Of
the 'Penuleton-Pascc road.
According to Mr.. McCabe he has
been contemplating resigning for
some time, but did not notify Presi-
dent Elliott until Tuesday. While here
the president made no statement re-
garding the probable successor of Mr..
McCabe, and 1t is not known upon
whom the honor will fall.
After his successor has assumed the
management of the w, & c. r., Mr..
McCape will devote his time to rail-
road contracting work in which he
will be associated with c. S. Beihler,
of Tacoma. Recently the two men
were awarded a contract in Connec-
tIcutt and Mr.. McCabe will leave for
that state In June. However, he will
not remain in the east permanently.
as his firm will do considerable work
in the west also.
Mr.. McCabe was born December 25,
1856. at Celd Springs, Wis. He enter
ed the railway service In 1870. From
1870 to 1879 he was telegraph oper-
ator and agent for the Chicago, MIL
waukee & st. Paul. From 1873 TO
1882 ne was train dispatcher for the
st. Pant, Minneapolis & Manitoba rail-
way at st. Paul and Fergus Falls,
MINI. From January to November,
1885. he was train dispatcher for the
Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis X
Omaha at st. Paul. From November,
1888 to 1888, he was train
dispatcher for the North
ern Pacific at st. Paul. From 1888
to September 1890 ne was division SUI
perintendent at st. Paul for the same
road. From 1890 to 1897 he was di-
vision superintendent for the Northern
Pacific at Tacoma, and from 1897
until the present time, vice president
and general manager Of the w. & c.
n
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-05-24
PIGEONS STOP THE CLOCK.
Three Birds on Minute Hand Delay
Court House Timepicce.

For an hour this morning the big
clock in the SQUIRT house tower was
stopped and for some time the source
of the trouble was a mystery. At last
Janitor Warren discovered three pig
cons percheds upon the minute hand
of the dial on the north side. Their
weight upon the hand was sufficient
to stop the movement of the entire
clock and Mr.. Warren was forced to
ascend the tower and shoe the pig
cons away before the clock could re-
sumo operations.
Before the recent changes were
made in the court house many pig
cons roasted in the Chicken coops"
which adorned three corners of the
roof. Since they have been removed
the birds have been without a home
and in their desperation have evil
IDENTIFY resorted to the hands of the
clock for a perching place.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-05-24

Articles of Incorporation of the
Umatilla Central Railroad company
were filed in the Multnomah county
clerks office today, with ]. p. O'Brien.
general manager of the o. r. 4 N;
William Crooks, formerly attached to
the passenger department or the o..
r. G. n, and James G. Wilson, an o..
r. & n. attorney. well known in this
city, as incorporators, the capital
stock to be s1o0,OSo.
The objects Of the new company as
stated In the articles OF Incorporation
will be to build a branch line OF rail-
road from Pendleton to Pilot Rock, a
distance OF 15 miles, with two branch
lines extending from Pilot Rock: the
first to the north fork OF the John
Day river, into the fine timber belt.
and the other from Pilot Rock to the
junction of Camas and Hidaway
creeks, In the south part OF this
county.
This Is the contamination of plans
which have been under way for o
numberNof months ana II Is believed
that work on the line from this city
to Pilot Rock VIII be started soon
Preliminary surveys have been made
over portion N the route by severa
parties. whose identity has been close.
ly guarded, but who are now thought
TO have been employed by this new
company.
Both branch lines from Pilut Roci
will tap an immensely rich timber
belt and range district and Will pas:
along close to The coal fields in the
southern portion OF this county.
The John Day branch will strike
that stream rear the junction OF Snak,
creek and the Camas branch will
strike Camas creek at the junction oi
Hidavay creek.
With the Hartman officials bach
of the project II is certain that 1t viii
be completed in time, as the genera
policy. of the Hartman system is tc
extend its branch lines into new ter
ritory as In the case OF the Condor
branch, the Tlgin extension and the
new road to Ne built across Oregon a.
announced In Portland dispatch to-
day.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-05-24
SUCCESSFUL CONFERENCE.
Very Profitable and Interesting Session
at Thompson Street Church.

dt
What is declared to have been one
of the best district conferences held
in The Dalles district for several
years, will be brought to a close here
this evening. Since Tuesday evening
the conference has been in session,
and all of the meetings have been
well attended. In return, those who
came were rewarded by hearing some
able addresses. In most instances the
program has been followed as an
nounced. This afternoon the pro-
gram was followed in detail, but this
evening the principal sermon. an
evangelistic service. will be preached
by Rev. Tuttle.
Several of the visiting ministers left
this morning for Walla Walla to at
tend a conference which Is to be
opened there this evening. Following
the close of the district conference
here tonight some will leave on the
westbound night train, while the re-
mainder will go tomorrow morning.
The Following is a list OF the min
listers In attendance at the confer
ence.
Rev. w. ]. Baldwin. Arlington;
Rev. j. w. Mayes, Bickleton; Rev
william Deweese, Echo; Rev. w. w
Carr, Ellensburg; Rev. r. c. March
Fossil; Rev. p. F. Brown, Gilmer
Rev. Henry Brown, d. D., Goldendalei
Rev. Perry Chandler, Heppner; Rev
w. c. Evans, Hood River; Rev. c. M
Carson, Lone Rock; Rev. c. T. Cook
Moro; Rev. Robert Warner, Pendle
ton; Rev. w. C. Jinnett, Prineville;
Rev. w. C. Smith, Prosser; Rev. A
Monroe, wasco; Rev. S. f. Hornr
brook: Rev. A. A. Luce, The Dalfes
Rev. Walter Skipworth, The Dalles.
The following local preachers ar
present: Rev. d. S. r. Walker, An
lteiope; Rev. w. L. Dillinger, Rev. j
X. Craig, Madras.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-05-24

Cleveland, May 24.-The Standard
Oil railroad attorneys were present
when the interstate commerce COM
mission opened its hearing under the
Tillman-Gilles congressional resolu-
tion.
F. B. Westgate, of Titusville. Pa,
independent oil man, testified that
his applications for pro-rates on oil
from Titusville to Vermont, were re-
fused. The roads pro rated west only,
he had been told. Also that through
rates were given on all freight but
oil to 81. Louis.
Emery, an oil producer and re-
finer at Bradford, Pa, testified to
selling luhricating oil to European
railroads He had sold to American
roads before the roads made a con-
tract with the Standard subsidiary
company, the Galena Oil company. ,
Interference by Standard. :
Emery related details of building a
pipe line to the coast. The Standard
interfered through the railroads re-
fusing to allow Emery to cross their
rights Of way. After years of fight
ing and the expenditure of $500, 900,
he secured a pipe line.
John NJ. Sheets, ex-attorney gener-
al of Ohio, and at least one of the
Ohio supreme court judges on the
bench when the suits against the STAN
dard and subsidiary companies were
| dismissed in the first fight against the
trust, has been subpoenaed before the
commission. Sheets will be question:
ed regarding the circumstances lead
ing him to move for a dismissal of the
case. Another former judge will be
questioned along similar lines, -
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-05-24
Low RATES FOR DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE

Agent f. C. Smith, of the o. r. &
N, this morning received announce
ments of special rate of one and q
third fare for return trip tickets from
Baker City, Irrigcn, Walla Walla and
intervening points to the Milton meet
ing OF the Umatilia County Develop
ment league on May 20.
This rate lie open to all without GER
tificate or guaranteed number of dele.
gates and the limits are extended to
Irrigon on the west, Walla Walla on
the north and Baker city on the east
to give people from adjoining coun-
ties an opportunity to visit Milton in
the height of the strawberry season
The people of Milton will furnish
n strawberry festival for the meeting
OF the league on May 20, and large
attendance of people from a distance
as well as local people is expected.
Committees are now arranging the
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-05-24

BEYOND DOUBT
INCINERATED MAN WAS
JOHN HUSSAR, AGED 27
Message Received by Sheriff Taylor
From the Dead Mans Wife at Ma
peryille, Illinois-Private Wilson,
Who Is Still Detained Here. Has
Recognized a Likeness of Hussar as
That OF the Man Who Boarded His
Car at Green River.

1t is now known for a certainty that
John Hussar was the man who was
burned in the freight car at Foster,
and within day or two the widow of
the deceased will be here from Ma
perville, ILL.,, to claim the body. The
following message has been received
at the sheriff's office:
"Naperville, ILL.,, May 22.
Sheriff Umatilla County,
"Pendleton, Oregon.
'Hold remains of John Hussar un-
til my arrival. Am leaving here to-
day. MRS. JOHN HUSSAR."
Also. a letter has been received by
Sheriff Taylor from the chief of po-
lice at Portland. Inclosed with the
same was one from Mrs. Hussar, who
had written the Portland authorities
to see if they could not locate her
husband. According to the letter he
had left Naperville for Portland, and
should have reached there long ago.
The wife had become alarmed
through the fact that her husband had
not called for her letters at the Port
land postoffice.
Wilson Identified Picture.
Inclosed in the letter was a stamp
picture of Hussar. This was shown to
Private William Wilson this morning,
and he at once said it was the pic
ture of the man who rode in his car
and was burned.
Hussar was % years of age and was
a man of medium build. He was a
member of the order of Eagles and
was former soldier. In the picture
he is shown with an "S," the badge
of the Eighth army corps, in the lapel
of his coat.
Body Buried at Echo.
AS Mrs. Hussar stated she would
leave Naperville yesterday, 1t Is pre-
sumed she will arrive in Pendleton
within a day or two. However, the
body of her husband was buried at
Echo, Immediately after the coroner's
inquest, and it is well for her that
such was done. Nothing but the
charred trunk remained after the fire,
and 1t was wholly unre cognizable.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-05-24

San Francisco. May 24.-At secret
meeting of the board of fire under
writer's held at Oakland, definite ac-
tion was taken in the matter of fixing
insurance rate for San Francisco.
1t was decided to double all rates.
Some members favored fixing differ
ent rates for the burned and unburn-
ed sections, but a flat rate for the
entire city was finally decided upon
and all special rates abrogated.
The lines of depositors around the
savings banks are materially smaller
today, and more deposits were mads
than Withdrawals.
AS a result of the opening of banks
for unrestricted business building op-
erations are given a great impetus
The construction of scores of new
frame buildings begun this morning.
Banks All on Solid Ground.
At the Market Street bank the line
at the paying teller's window was
smaller than at the receiving teller's.
The same was true at the Western
National bank and National Bank of
the Pacific. Deposits at the Mutual
Savings bank were comparatively
small, and judging from the line at
the paying teller's window, the heavi-
est run of any of the downtown banks
was made there. All demands how
ever, were paid in full. At the Crock
er Woolworth bank over $4,000 in
gold coin was paid in today before
II o'clock, while the Withdrawals
were very small. At the Union Trust
company the deposits exceeded the
Withdrawals tenfold.
Protest Cancelling Bonds.
The lobby committee on special ses-
sion of the legislature today decided
against the proposition for the legis-
lature to extinguish s177O0O,O0O worth
of unsold San Francisco bonds. AS
surances are received from financiers
that the present outstanding bonds are
saleable, and the money is needed i'm
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-05-24

Etes .Moines, May 24.-The Eumber-
land branch of the Presbyterian
church passed out of his1ury today
when Moderator Corbett officially es-
tabiished the union of the Cumber-
LAND with the Presbyterian church
Both church boards will hut together
until next year, when the actual con-
sDlidation occurs.
Unitarians Not OF ffe Elect.
The assembly also today adopted
Spians for the union of all denomina-
tiOns of evangelical churches along
special temperance lines. The Uni
tartan church was excluded by the III
sertion of the word divine
Two Hundretith Anniversary.
The assembly also today celebrates
the two hundredth anniversary of ithe
first assembly in Ameriun. Messages
from all parts of the world were
'reaf.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-05-24
HORSE WAS KILLED.
Result of Serious Runaway by James
Nelson's Team.

James Nelson, democratic candi-
date for county commissioner, was
unfortunate enough to have a rum
away while driving to Adams last
night to attend the political meeting
at that place. The team he was driv-
ing became frightened as they were
passing the Stony Point and became
unmanageable. While on their mad
course the team ran off a bridge and
one of the horses was killed.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-05-24
DIR, Watson Discharged.

Portland, May 24.-Dr F. Watson.
who was the head of the Washington
school for defective youth, at Van
couver, WASH. for more than is
years and is well known in Portland,
has been appointed to take charge of
a similar institution in Idaho that will
begin its work in September.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-05-24
Bribe Money From Coal Operators.

Philadelphia, May 24.-Fred Vroo-
man, assistant trainmaster on the
Pennsylvania road, was the first wit
ness today before the interstate com:
merce commission. He had the dis
tribution of cars and had received
money many times from coal opera
tors, he testified.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-05-24
WILL REDUCE THE AMOUNT
Increasing the Flat i'm rhilipph,
CurTenCy.

Washington, May 2s.-Lodge nod-
fled the senate he would call up on
Friday has measure authorizing the
Philippine commission to lower the
amount Of silver in Philippine coins
to prevent their exportation at bullion
value.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-05-24
RAILROAD FROM DRAIN TO MARSHF|ELD

Portland, Ore, May 24.-Harriman
has given orders by wire to Portland
and San Francisco officials of the
system to Immediately construct
road 80 miles in length from Drain,
on the Mount Shasta route in Oregon,
southwesterly to Marshfield.
This road will form the northern
portion of the new coast line between
San Francisco and Portland. The