Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-04-18
PAVILION NOW
GREAT h0RGUE.
Three Hundred Dead Bodies
Have Been Collected in
Single Building.
RELIEF FROM LOS ANGELES.
special Train Bearing Supreme Court
Judges and Newspaper Cores
pondcnts to Leave az Once.

Los Angeles. April ls.-Information
from San Francisco is that Mechanics
pavilion II being used as morgue.
Three hundred dead bodies are reported
already gathered at that place. The
wind is blowing a gale. and the flames
are said to be making Roadway.
The shock Of the earthquake was felt
as far south as Santa Barbara. The
fact that Oakland and San Jose and
other bay cities have not been able to
communicate with Los Angeles would
Indicate that they, too, have suffered
from the shock
A special train carrying the supreme
court, now IN session at Los Angeles,
will leave here In few hours. THIS
train will also take newspaper corrs-
spondents and probably may OFFER as
sistance If It Is needed Gen. Funston,
commander Of the Preside. has turned
out the entire force of soldiers at that
point and established martial law in
San Francisco. The mayor has closed
every saloon In the city
There is a jam of panlostricken
people al the ferry, seeking TO cross
the bay to Oakland. Fires are raging
everywhere. and the firemen are using
dyna mite. The Palace and Grand ho-
tells have been destroyed.
Mayor schmitz has sent TO Oakland
for more dynamite.
Fires are reported at Oakland, Ala.
media and Berkeley
The Call and Rialto buildings are
ahla2e. The lofty Call building Is
swaying and expected TO topple over,
The Southern Pacific building next door
to the Postal Telegraph, is aflre.
POSTAL IN RUINS.
The Postal building is almost an en-
tire wreck, but communication Is main
tanned with Los Angeles on q single
wire.
The Sunset Telephone building on
Bush street and the w L at Pine and
Montgomery streets,are entirely wreck
ed
Up TO II o'clock about 400 dead had
been brought to Mechanics pavilion,
and others were coming In all the time.
The soldiers are maintaining order as
far as Is possible, but the population
has no thought Of anything but escape
from the city. Shocks continue at in-
tervals. At 9.20 and at 10 o'clock there
were heavy shocks that did further
damage and brought increased panic.
The Nevada bank block, and the w. L..
buildings at Pine and Montgomery are
utterly demolished a clearinghouse at
Second and Stevenson buried many VIC
Tins, six having been taken out. II Is
said buildings We're destroyed at Salt
mas, about 100 miles south OF San Fran
cisco.
Nothing has been heard from San
Jose ana other cities south OF San Fran
cisco on the coast.
When the first shock occurred at i;1S
a. m. most Of the population were IN
bed and many lodginghouses collapsed.
with every occupant. There was no
warming Of the awful catastrophe.
First came a slight shock followed al
most Immediately by a second and then
the great shock that sent buildings
swaying and umbling. Every able
bodied man who could be pressed into
service was put TO work resculng the
victims. Panic seized most Of the peo-
ME aud they rushed frantically about.
Toward tho ferry building there was a
/ rush OF those neeing to cross the bay.
/ som, carried their effects and somt
! were hardly dressed. The streets were
| filled Immediately with panic-stricken
people and the shocks sent them into
| unreasoning panic. Fire lighted up the
| sky In every direction IN the breaking
! dawn. In the business district deyas-
! tation met the eye on every hand. II
| Is reported that two ships at anchor
! IN the bay were sunk.
The area bounded By Washington
! Mission and Montgomery streets and
| extending 10 the bay front. IS devastat-
| Cd. This represents the heart of the
| handsome business section