The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-04-21

| Fire house adjoining California ho-
rel on Bush street; Chief Sullivan and
wife sleeping in engine house, severely
| injured by bricks crashing through the
| roof from hotel
! California hotel. Bush street, upper
walls collapsed and upper floors
wrecked.
Postofice. finest building of its kind
in the country. ruined by fi"e.
The building in course of construc-
! ton to be occupied by the Hammlm
| baths will have to be rebuilt. II is on
| Post street near the Olympia club.
| The walls are badly warped and
twisted and the roof has fallen in.
! San Francisco Gas q Electric Com
pany's Post street plant. only slightly
damaged
81 Francis hotel. exterior slightly
cracked and scanned, but not seriously
damaged.
Pacific Union Club. Post and Stock
ton, front damaged and assures in rear
wall.
St Dominicis church, Pierce street:
| total loss. The interior of this church
is wrecked and there are large assures
i'll the walls The structure will have
to be pulled down. The parochial house
Loss to the parish about 100000.
The ornamental top of St Dunstan's.
the apartment house at Sutter street
and Nanness avenue. fell into the
| street.
The Concordia Club building. on Van
nes savenue, has several assures in the
side and rebuilding will be necessary.
The Hotel Grenada, badly damaged.
! The Postal Telegraph and Western
! Union Telegraph Companies buildings
were blown up to stop the progress of
the flames.
| The Merchants EXCHANGE building.
| one of the handsomest and most sub
| stantial edificeS in the city, is III
| flames, as is also the Crecker-Wool-
worth Bank building. The former
i building is fourteen story structure
seven floors of which are occupied by
the Southern Pacific as Offices. The
CroekerWo Woolworth building is 4
| twelve-story terra Gotta and granite
structure and stood directly opposite
the Palace hotel.
The immense Mills building is sur
! rounded by fire and will probably suc-
cumb.
The Lick house, Occidental hotel
and Russ house, in this immediate vi
cinity, are in imminent danger. The
| Majestic theater at Market and Eighth
streets was burned. the Columbia
wrecked by the earthquake and the
Central razed by the flames.
The 100000 Fairmont hotel is still
standing and suffered little damage.
The Odd Fellows Temple on Market
street, the st. Nicholas hotel and the
Parrot building are gone. while the
Ia b,n tn 81,
the earthquake shook the city.
Nearly every big factory building
has been wiped out of existence and
complete enumeration of them would
look like a copy of the city directory
Many of the finest buildings in the
city were leveled to dust by terrific
charges OF dynamite in the hopeless
effort to stay the horror of fire In
this work many heroic soldiers, police
men and firemen were maipled or
killed outright.
Fearful Loss at Salinas.
Salinas, Cal, April 1S.-At Sis &. m.
to-day three shocks of earthquake Wis
tied this town, lasting respectively five.
three ard forty-two seconds. They
came from the northeast and south
west. The damage will be two and
half millions. No lives lost, but
number of people were injured. Among
the buildings destroyed in this town
are the Ford & Stanbury building, dry
goods; Elks' hall Masonic building,
the Knights of Pythias building, Ar
mory, Porter & Irving store. Logan
Cyclery Company. Odd Fellows build
ing, City hall, Masonic Temple, and
several other small buildings.
CDrppLlp'c cI1par factnrv a bn1It tbra1
miles from town, was entirely dc
stroyed, with loss of 81 800 600. The
high school building was wrecked
Another shock was experienced at
2:25 p. m.
At Wabonille the Moreland Academy
was destroyed by fire and several
buildings collapsed.
Shocks We're also felt at Monterey
and Pacific Grove, but little damage
was done.
At the Del Monte hotel three chin
neys fell through the roof, killing a
bride and groom and one of the hotel
help, ard injuring several others
fatally.
At Hollister the Changers Union
warehouse has been destroyed.
Mrs. Griffith was killed and her hus-
band went insane from the shock.
san Jose ana Fa'o Aito SuHeT.
Oakland, April 1S.-San Jose, fifty
miles south, lost many buildings, and
from fifteen to twenty people were
killed. The Stanford University and
Palo Alto suffered. At Stanford many
of the handsome buildings were demol-
ished and two people were killed
One Of them was Junius Robert
Hanna of Bradford, Pennsylvania, and
the other was Otto Curtis, a fireman.
Six other students are lying in the
Palo Alto hospital with cuts and
bruises. These are Ross D. Howard
of San Francisco Henry L. Dearing OF