Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-04-18
PROBABLY NO UTAHNS HURT.
Still Home-Folk Are Very Anxious
And News is Awaited With
Excitement and Fear.
SOME OF THOSE WHO ARE THERE
District Where Fire Broke Out and
over Which Il Swept With Such
Disastrous Results.

| Inc calamity or an earthquake on the
coast comes home very sympathetically
60 Salt Lake, for the town is full Of
people to whom San Francisco Is as
a next door neighbor. and to whom the
| catastrophe brings the most intimate
| concern. The nearness of It all, brought
| people In hundreds to She bulletin
| boards this morning, while the tele-
phones of the newspaper offices and
the Associated Press were constantly
| ringing.
PEOPLE DEMAND NEWS.
People demanded kilograms. They
wanted TO hear from friends and rela-
tives. and wanted to be assured that
they had passed unframed through the
great upheaval, despite the fact that
us death list was reported Indefinitely
as thousands As more complete
details came local concern grew more
definite, as people could then tell
whether their personal friends were
Involved in the most seriously affected
districts or were somewhat removed
from the vortex The extra editions
Of the Deseret News were sold as fast
as the people on the streets could buy
them, and thousands were sold.
and then the people began TO crowd for
the telegraph Offices viii" Clawson.
the web known salt Lake artist, who
has been on the coast for the past eight
years. was the subject of many in
quires, while "Wally" Young, tho
sporting editor OF the San Francisco
Chronicle. was asked after anxiously,
as IL was feared he was IN the high
Chronicle building. which was report.
ed as badly damaged. However, tho
fact that the earthquake occurred after
the morning papers had finished maxi
Ing copy" and their forces had re.
tired for the days sleep, makes II I'm.
probable that many deaths occurred Ia
reportorlal forces.
THE LOCALITIES AFFECTED.
From the description OF the earth.
quake contained In the earlier dis.
patches IL would seem that Il was
heavier east OF san Francisco than IN
the city proper, and that 1t centered
near Benica, where the Southern Pa
cillc tracks along the bay shore werd
Inundated In san Francisco the en-
tire town Is divided into ,south OF
Market and the rest OF the city
south OF Market the toiling massea
principally reside men who live In
crowded tenement houses with theit
families, because the district in neal
the big shops and warehouses Of tho
bay front Buildings here are mostly
poorly constructed and Of wood. and
the fire raging there will bring Inn,
mediate want and suffering to thu
great toilng class Of the city,
THE BIG BUILDINGS.
on the north wing OF the Bay front
taking In Barhary coast corresponding
20 this wing south OF the Ferry station,
vice, instead OF poverty Is rampant
and fire there would carry much lest
destruction 20 the people who make up
the life Of San Francisco. The ceutei
OF the city is at Third and Market, cd
the corners of which are located the
can. the Chronicle and the Examined
buildings, Just below them on Market
Is the Palace hotel which marks the
upper limit OF the present fire zone
and across Market from the Palace OF
Montgomery street in the big busiuesi
district which takes I'm large section
aud from which the hght Is no dolh
conducted to prevent the spread