The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1906-04-20

orders that looters were to be shot at
sight. -Four men were summarily exc.
Cuted before o'clock this afternoon.
From the Cliff House comes word that
the great pleasure resort and show place
Of the city, which stood upon founda-
ton Of solid rock, has been swept into
the sea. Not a thing stands to tell
where the monster stone building once
stood. 1t has been leveled to the founda-
tiOns and only the rock lining the sea
coast remains intact
Reports from districts outside of San
Francisco indicate widespread damage.
San Jose, 80 miles south, lost many
buildings and from | > to 20 people were
killed. The NendOme hotel collapsed
and fire broke out. Stanford university
and PalO Alto suffered. At Stanford
many handsome buildings were demol-
ished and two people were killed. One
OF them was Junius Robert Halls of
Bradford, Pa, and the other was Otto
Curtis, fireman. Six other students
are lying in the Palo Alto hospital with
bruises, cuts and internal injuries. These
are; Ross ID. Howard of San Francisco;
Henry L. Dearing Of Santa Ana, CAL
-Frolli, Halbert r. Thomas of Los
Angeles; Robert W. Westwck of Santa
Barbara and w. IL. Masters of Portland,
Ore.
The courthouse at Redwood City and
other buildings collapsed. Menlo Park,
Burlingame and fashionable suburban
towns suffered Santa Rosa, to the
north, Napa, Vallejo and all towns
around the bay were damaged These
reports, alarming as they We're, created
little interest in San Francisco, where
the people we're in a frantic state They
did not stop to dress, but rushed out in
20 the streets in their nightclOthes.
Stanford Ruin.
The latest reports from Leland Stan
ford University Indicate that magnifi-
cent stone buildings of that institution
have suffered severe damage. Many of
the buildings were ruined by cracks that
split them from cOrnice to foundation.
The loss will reach tens Of thousands.
The university Of California at Berke.
ley, by some remarkable freak, escaped
serious damage. The buildings are prac-
tically intact. Only a few structures
collapsed in Berkeley, the earthquake
shock being slight there.
There is not a brick or stone building
left standing in Santa Rosa and the
entire devastated territory has been
burned over.
Dead bodies are being taken from the
debris Of wrecked houses on all sides.
1t is estimated that the death roll will
foot up from 200 to 500.
Early dispatches brought these &C.
counts Of the earthquake cOnhagration:
It was like a catacIysm. People cried
out to each other as if they feared the
end of the world.
The oscillation was north and south
in nF
parently renewed shocks, with a twist
ing movement that threw sleeping
people out of their beds
In those two minutes the great city
was ruined.
No part Of the city escaped from the
wreck, fire and death. Gas, water and
electric power were suddenly cut off The
business section from the water front to
Tenth street suffered most appallingIy
from the disaster. 1t lies devastated by
the earthquake and by fire.
Fires broke out everywhere in the
Mission, in the western addition, in the
heart Of the city, along the water front
and the fire fighters were helpless without
water In homes where early fires had
been lighted for preparing breakfast the
fires we're started by the tumbling over
of coal or oil stoves, or discOnnecting of
gas pipes. La the saloons, dance halls
and lodging houses on Barbary coast,
where oil lamps were used, the over
turned lamps caused the fires In the
business district, along the water front
and in the Mission, the furnaces and the
earthquake worked destruction together.