The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-19
SANTA ROSA GONE
One of California's Prettiest
Cities a Total Wreck.
Fire Finished Destruction Begun
By the Earthquake.
OTHER TOWNS RUINED.
Healdsburg, Geyserville, Clover
dale, HOpIand and Ukiah.
All Go Down in the General
Destruction.
OTHER TOWNS RUINED.

San Francisco, April 19.-Via Oakland.
Reports from the interior are most
alarming Santa Rosa, one of the pret-
tiest cities of the state. in the prosper
Gus county of Sonoma, is a total wreck.
There are 10000 homeless men, women
and children huddled together. The loss
of life is not to be estimated. 1t will |
probably reach the thousands As the
last great seismic tremor spent its force
in the earth the whole business portion |
tumbled into ruins The main street is
piled many feet deep with the fallen !
buildings. Not one business building is !
left intact
This destruction includes all of the |
county buildings. The four story court
house with its dome mounting high into
the heavens, is merely a pile of broken
masonry. Nothing is left. Identifica-
! tion is impossible.
What was not destroyed by the earth
quake has been swept by fire. Until the
was hope of saving the residence dis
trict It was soon apparent that any
such idea that might have been enter
tanned was to be abandoned.
This was appreciated by the citizens
and they prepared to desert their
homes. Not even their household goods
were taken. They made for the fields
and hills, to watch the destruction OF
one of the most beautiful cities of the
west.
Messengers bring the saddest tidings
of the destruction of Healdsburg,
Geyserville, Cloverdale, Hopland and
Ukiah. This report takes in the coun-
| try as far north as Mendocino and Lake
| counties and as far west as the Pacific
! ocean These are frontier counties and
| have not as large towns as farther
In every case the loss of life and
/ property is as shocking as here.
Leland stanford Damaged.
1 Oakland. April 1s.@Reports from
Leland Stanford university today
Indicate that the 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 VIII
reach tens of thousands.
The University of California at
I Berkeley, by some remarkable freak,
escaped damage The buildings are
II practically intact Only a few struc-
= lures collapsed in Berkeley, the shock
being slight there.
6 At Watsonville the Moreland acad-
eny was destroyed by fire and several
/ buildings collapsed. Shocks were also
- felt at Monterey, and Pacific Grove,
: bat little damage was done. At the
: Del Monte hotel three chimneys fell
: through the roof, killing a bride and
I groom and one of the hotel help, and
=
/ HOLSTER the Grangers' Union ware
house has been destroyed. Mrs. Grif-
fifth was killed and her husband went
insane from the shock.
, Hospital Ruined.
t Sacramento, April 19.=Governor
Pardee has received a dispatch from
/ Malpetas that the state hospital is
= damaged and useless, and that DR.
Y Kelly is killed. The number of In
: jured is unknown. 1t is asked that
t provisions and nurses be sent there.
The court house at Redwood City
r and other buildings collapsed. Menlo
S Park, Burlingame and other fashion
s able suburban towns suffered Santa
r Rosa, to the north, Napa, Vallejo and
I all towns around the bay were dam
aged. These reports, alarming as they
were, created little interest in San
r Francisco, where the people were in a
frantic state. They did not stop tc
Z dress but rushed out into the streets
, in their night garments.
San Jose and Santa Rosa.
Los Angeles, Cal, April 19.-At San
: Jose the Vendome hotel annex was
: badly wrecked and 10 to Is persons kill
I ed. The Doherty block was complete
ly burned and one woman killed. DR.
, McGToW was killed and his wife badly
injured Every business building was
! demolished. Martial law has been de-
clared, and the militia and 500 deputies
are guarding the streets. 1t is estima-
ted that so people have been killed. The
l postofice was partly wrecked. the
Z Presbyterian church totally demolished
l and the court house wrecked
Passengers arriving from other cities
in California bring tales of death and
= disaster from Santa Cruz, Monterey
! GilrOy and Hollister The death list al
l Santa Cruz is reported large
St AgneVV's Asylum Demolished.
/ Los Angeles, April 19-A long dis
! tance telephone from Salinas, 115 miles
e south Of San Francisco, gave the fol
: lowing information:
! "One hundred and ten bodies have