The Hawaiian star., 1906-04-20
OAKLAND NOT DESTROYED
WILL CONNECT WITH
Ne YORK CITY TODAY

"Our San Francisco superintendent Is
now at the hut. They are trying to
get battery connected up with the
cable"
Superintendent Gaines official no.
uce regarding the matter is, however
IN the following language:
ITO the Public: 1 received the fol-
lowing from our General Manager at
II So p. m. April 10th. 'McKenna (our
San Francisco superintendent at hut.
Trying TO get a battery to him.
This means that we were unable to
save our batteries and that New York
is trying to send him one from nearest
point"
The Bremen dispatch indicates an
earthquake whose greatest severity
was about the bay of San Francisco
and up to about sixty miles both north
and south. The two extremes of COM
plete destruction of towns are Santa
Rosa on the north and Hollister on the
south and they are about 100 miles
apart The other destroyed towns
are on either side of them, and be-
tween them are dozens of smallr towns
and villages, which must all have suf-
fered equally.
The populations of the places given
as destroyed are as follows, i'm round
figures:
Monterey Observation-Disclosures. 1000
Gllroy ...'..........,......... .2'OOO
Hollister Observation-Disclosures. 1,OOO
Santa Rosa. 900
In the heart of the affected district,
however, are hundred other places.
San Jose with population of 21,OOO, is
directly between Hollister and Oak
land and must have suffered as much
as either.
NapR, a city of 4,O0O is between San
tG Rosa and the bay, and San Rafael
is on the north shore of the bay with
population of 1000.
Between San Francisco and the des-
troyed Santa Cruz i'm direct line are
Sonoma, Petaluma, Suisin, Sausalito
and San Rafael.
Petaluma has population of 1000
Sausalito 1000 and Suisun 600. There
are other smaller towns and villages
all along the route.
Southward from san Francisco and
before arriving at the destroyed Hol-
lister, are among other, the following
Redwood City .......................2, ., ,00C
Santa Clara................ 600
Santa Cruz. uZ..................... 6,OOl
Los Gatos. .....................2,O 2,OOi
! Gilroy Observation-Disclosures. ,00I
! Sanford University Is directly in the
center of disturbance and Is probably
in ruins.
| Directly adjoining Oakland are Ala
media and Berkeley, with populations
of 1900 Oand $1,000 respectively. Hay.
wards, Martinez, Niles, Livermore arc
around the same vicinity with aggre-
gate population Of over 1000. Stock
ton, with a population of $4,000 is only
about seventy miles from Oakland and
the state capitol Sacramento, with q
population of $4,000, is not much far.
ther away
In addition to those named are a
hundred smaller places.
Between the two extremes which
are given as destroyed, are the homes
Of in the neighborhood of a million
people.
The cable names as destroyed places
at the extremes of the disturbance
which seems to indicate as approach
of rlief from both north and south, to-
wards San Francisco through the de-
vastated region.
The Bremen cables outline gives ar
explanation of the delays in getting
| land communication with San Fran.
cisco. For sixty miles on both side.
| OF her, cities are described as 'des-
| troyed." TT Is of course means thu
| uprooting of railroad tracks and the
throwing down of telegraph lines il
every direction, perhaps the destruc'
| ton of roads so that automobiles coulc
not pass them with speed. In means
also that all the neighmoring communi-
ties which might have come to the aii
of the stricken bay cities, are them
selves helpless. Doubtless relief par.
ties are fighting their way with al
possible speed from place to place
The area of destruction is so argC
that some terrible railroad wrecks
are certain to have taken place. Trains
We're running in the district covered by
the shock land they will have beer
thrown from the tracks with fearful
loss Of life.
nnI PAR 0P