The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1906-04-26

10 blocks along Van Ness avenue. con-
tanning the homes of many millionaires
and apartment houses, TO be blown up.
Hundreds OF police. regiments oi sol
diers and scores of volunteers were
sent into the doomed district TO warn
the people to fee. These herocally
responded 10 the demand of law. and
went bravely or. their way. trudging
painfully over the pavements with the
little they could get together. Every
available wagon was taken by the mil
itary to carry powder. Heavy charges
were exploded. and the handsome
buildings were reduced to mass of
wreckage. But it ayailed nothing, for
several hours later the flames attacked
the debris and in a short time spread
TO surrounding residences and were
eating their way over Mob Hill.
General Fgnston is cooperating with
Mayor Schmitz. whose orders to all
officers are to kill without warning all
malefactors. When men have been
needed to carry out the plans OF res
cue, they have been pressed into SER
vice. In a few instances ii was nec1s-
sary to resort to the cooked revolver
and drawn sword after which there
was no hesitanCy.
One Vast Scene of Ruin.
Across an alley from the posto1fiCe
stood the Grant building. one of the
headquarters of the army Opposite
the Grant building on Market street
the ruins Of the Hibernian Savings
Bank doomed up, its former beautiful
frontage transformed into hideous
aspect. This was the great bank OF the
middle and poorer classes, and its loss
will cause possibly greater sorrow
south of Market street than perhaps
the loss of any one institution. From
this point down To the ferry the same
story could be told of each successive
block.
Wednesday night the north side of
the street had been untouched and hope
had been expressed that the great
Flood, Croker. Phclan and other
buildings would be spared. but they
today are included in the list of de-
stroyed property. The Palace Hotel
still stands, huge monument to the
awful disaster, its blackened walls and
empty interior bearing little resem-
blance to the huge hosiery of a day
ago.
The handsome, gigantic St Francis
Hotel, on Powell street, fronting on
Union square, is ruined she'll This
was one of the high steel structures
that had detied the terrible trembler,
but it is another sad tribute to the
completeness Of the devastation that
has visited San Francisco
Outlying Towns Damaged.
San Jose. Cal. April 21.-Ninetaen
persons were killed in San Jose by the
earthquake OF Wednesday, and the en-.
tire business quarter WAS wrecked.
The damage is $1,000, 900. One hun
dred and ten persons were killed and
20 were injured, mostly patients at
Agnew's Insane Asylum, near San
Jose. The asylum was ruined.
At Hollister, one man killed; $780,
600 damage The Southern Pacific
tunnel at Wrishts nearly a mile long,
caved in.
At Gilroy. 100000 damage none
dead
Stanford University Damaged.
Reports from districts outside of San
Francisco indicate widespread damage
san Jose, 30 miles south, lost many
buildings and from - to 20 persons
were killed. The annex of the Ven
nj hrnl{
out. Stanford University and Palo
Alto suffered greatly At Stanford
many of the handsome buildings were
demolished and two persons were kill
ed One Of them was Julius Robert
Hanna, of Bradford, Pa, and the other
was Otto Curtis, a fireman. The mem
| orial church, one of the finest of its
| kind in the world, is a mass of ruins.
Six other students are lying in the
Palo Alto hospital with bruises, cuts
and internal injuries.
The court house at Redwood City and
other buildings collapsed. Menlo Park,
| Burlingame and other fashionable
| splace suffered greatly
Santa Rosa in Ruins.
DR.. Stone. superintendentof the Napa
| state hospital, telephones the COVER
| nor's Office that an automobile arrived
| there with news that Santa Rosa is
ruined and that between 200 and 300
people are killed.
At Napa many buildings were shat
| tered and the loss will amount to
| $500, 000. No loss Of life is reported.
At Vallejo the damage was slight
| in comparison with that suffered in
other cities The loss will be about
| $4,000