Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-04-23
Interesting DESCRIPTION Of
San Francisco Disaster
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fuse-roafs. etc We left the boar
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su north and pwn u far - See.
end street and lssion street But
nowhere could Ne So any balidlngsI
that hsd been lsft. W. xot 10 New
MONTGOMERY street. where We could
see the ruins o. the Ratio building.
she Palace and Grand nosisx they
were MI In ruins hours before vel
got there. ! rot up in front Of the
Riaif0 hailding but there was no one
near n: Il had all burned. leayinvI
nothing but empty wallis. stayed
NEAR the building for ~ long a. two
hours. hoping that Clarence would
show up. but I could not even ind
anyone who had occupied the bnli i.
INK before The earthquake. was !
left here sione. The other parties try.
Ing 10 set 70 other parts OF the cltylf
and looi friends. went FROM /
The Riaia Ddins up New Montgom .
err streeet the Palace hotel and 9
Market 49, N was yery diTicull
N 80 over the piles 81 ruins which
covered the streets. The Palace hotel
mi surrounding buildings we're anil g
entirely burned out. Nothing left but q
he FalRpg windows and smoiderlngo
,res onNM ~insids. I got out iii incl
of 6Yket street NJ IL wasl
'efy dangerous 10 go e the ruined .
buildings, - every little while tons Z
y stun would fan from THE eighth Y
md ninth stories 10 the sidewalks be. D.
ov and with the dust caused by the "
allsng wAIls and the smoke 10 thick y
could not see any great distance. e
W az far AZ ] could see up Markell
and ~ Montgomery "a incl
crth there was nothing Len hut the
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= Examiner buildings The Examins
: building was only a heap Of brick, y
ron and stone. while the Call puild.'
10 xtood like d giant IN the midst
X The ruins az straight as an arrow
,ut entirely burnt out by the nre,
that the tall steel structures
the earthquake well, but \
heat waA 40 great that every yes
laxe az wood In them burned up and
III the Klnss melted and fell out ~
The wipdows. / passed the Emport
an or where Il had been. on up to
Market and Firth street. bnt every
part Of this part Of the city had al
ready been completely wiped out. AZ
this point l found provost guards WIN
wire cable across Market street. and
,bev would not allow any one to go
farther west, but would allow people
= ~ east 10 the ferry building They
told me ii this point that the nre
had reached out ~ far 40 Sixteenth
and wAs SIN raging westward. with
: front Of about two mica In width.
The noise caused by using dynamite
u blow ID the buildings ahead Of the
are was something terrible. AZ thir
MACE I saw 1 soldier shoot q fellow
Who was plunderinE IN ! ruined stors
across the street. AZ many as TWEEN
~ or thirty have been shot today. 90
they ten me. for pilfering among the
ruins. Al this hour, IL m, on the
18th, fuliy three-fourths o. the city i
ID ruins, including all the business
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