The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-19

nut great loss Of life. II the earthquake
spread as generally as that it will he many
days before the extent Of the damage is
known, for small farms. settlements and
mining plauts must AVE suffered equally
vith the cities.
@ OAKLAND GETS OFF EASY.
Oakland got of comparatively easy.
Although many houses went down, the list
OF known dead is only five. Alameda,
which In supposed to get hit the hardest
from Pacific Coast earthquakes, reports
none dead. 1t is said that there was some
damage to the buildings of the University
OF California at Berkeley, five miles from
fere. Word comes from Sun Diego that a
strainload Of physicians, nurses and yolun-
teef helpers is being rushed through to
San Francisco. They will be needed, for
the regular forces of aid are absolutely
worn out.
Oakland is clogged with refugees.
PEOPLE nave thrown open their houses,
the hotels being filed. and men and women
are preparing to sleep on the floors. A
continual succession of reports shows that
they are dynamiting buildings again, and
late arrivals who sneaked past the Gordon
O ftroops and came over by rowboat report
that the water supply has given out again.
At about 0 O'Clock there were sounds like
the rattle Of musketry. Whatever caused
them. report has it that it was the firing
Of United States troops in battle with
looters. ,
Confirmation has just come in of a re-
port which was about earlier'in the day to
the efec. that the roundhouses and yards
Of the Santa F. at Port Richmond were
destroyed, With some loss Of life to en-
ployees,
SAL; JosE'S DISASTER.
The report of the disaster in san Joss
grows. We have the rumor now that So
per cent. of the buildings. in that city are
destroyed. II this is true, the loss Of life
In that city, which has 10000 inhabitants
and a heavily populated outlying farming
district, may have been az large as that in
San Francisco. The whole Thirteenth Inv
fantry has been sent over from Angel Island
20 help out.
y FIRE. HASN'T RE tCHED THE HILLS. !
1t is entirely possible what with the wind
and the failure of the water supply that
the fire may creep up thu hills during the
hight. sweep the residence district and COM
plete the destruction of san Francisco,
II has not reached the hills a. yet. how
ever. There was a rift in the smoke a few
minutes ago, and through it we made out
ths outlines OF Russian Hill and the white
walls Of the Paramount still unscathed,
MOST OF THE VESSELS ESCAPE.
In the general disaster no one has paid
much attentionto the shipping In the harbor.
Hundreds Of vessels lay tied up at the docks
that fringe the city almost to the Golden
Gate. They had plenty Of warning, how
eyer, and most Of them slipped their cables
and slid ont into the stream. While the
waterfront fire took all the little buildings
along the wharves and most Of the ware
houses, with their stores of wheat and
tucIciIoiiiSe' llhcSeb" bit pltIS 'icin
selves and few vessels were burned. The
anchorage in the bay was crowded.
There was some indignation because GER
tain ~ferryboats. under orders, refused to
come into the docks and take people away
in the hours when the troops permitted the
refugees to leave the city. 1t was reported
in the morning that two vessels were
wrecked.
+ TIDAL WAVE DIDN'T mi
It ia impossible to confirm this. Early
in the day the fear Of a tidal wave added
to the terror in the town. 1t did not come,
however. Even if it had, it would have
affected only the thinly populated district
lying out toward the Pacific Ocean. The
greater part of the city fronts on the bay,
into which the ocean runs only by the mar
row Golden Gate.
BEE AND wHIsKEY MAKE A HE'LL.
Although the Mayor early in the day
ordered all the saloons closed a man arriv-
ing by boat late tonight said that "bssr
and whiskey made an awful hell of it,"
He added that the disorder was frightful,
that some soldiers have got drunk and are
bayoneting the crowds and that the mob
about the Palace Hotel before it burned
got clean away from the .oldiers and made
the streets a hell Of disorder.
Blasting the downtown buildings which
were in tho way OF the flames added to
the disorder, He learned from the firemen,
who are coIlapsing by scores and being
rushed to the temporary hospitals, that
the supply of dynamite is giving out. When
this happens the city will be at the whim
of the fire. The recurrence s OF mild shocks,
especially a stable one at Q O'Clock, are
followed by wild panics and rushes through
fhe streets which the troops check with
difficulty.
s osmany small details OF the disaster,
each a disaster in itself, come to hand,
that one hesitates to know where to begin.
Some of the docks and freight sheds along
the waterfront literally slid into the Bay.