Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-04-19

killed. and the policeman shot at hinf.
but his aim was defective. and the bui-
let went wide of the mark. The officer
then handed Hussoy a knife. with in
structions 10 cut the veins in The suf
fering mans wrists. and Hu=sey obey
ed orders TO the letter.
Chief Of Police Oman directed that
Hussoy be locked mp. There has been
no opportunity 10 investigate his story,
but the police believe that the awful
calamity rendered him insane and that
the incident reported to them has no
existence excepting in the Imagination
of the man who made the report.
The Anglo-C California bank has also
been destroyed. Every building IN the
city has been more or less damaged by
the earthquake.
The Southern Pacific Railway com
pany has brought n ton Of dynamite
into the vicinity of the burning section
on Market street to be used n possible
In blowing up property to prevent the
spread Of the fire.
Up to II o'clock about 400 dead had
been brought to Mechanics pavilion
and others were being brought in.
The south side Of Market street, be
tween Fourth and Fifth streets, was
swept by fire, and the flames spread in
all directions. 1t seems that the entire
business section of San Francisco
must be destroyed,
General Funston, commander of the
Preside, has turned out the entire
force of soldiers at that point.
The whole north end of the city is
wrecked, and the flames are spreading
In all directions.
The postofice was badly shaken and
has entirely collapsed.
The fish market, at the corner of
Clay and Merchant streets, has col
lapsed, killing six people.
a ten story building at Tenth and
Mission streets, adjoining the Grand
Opera House, has been burned, and
other buildings between the theater
and st. Patrick's church are doomed.
The gas works. south of Market
street, have been blown up and started
another big fire in that section of the
city.
A portion of the Mission, several
miles from the business section of the
city. was destroyed.
The newspapers, having had their
power cut off, have combined and will
issue one paper for all from the office
of the Chronicle, which has its own
power plant.
There was a great rush at the banks
by depositors, who wanted to draw
out their deposits, but the banks de
cided to keep their doors closed. BY
order of the chief of police all the sa-
looms have been closed.
In Oakland five persons were killed
by the collapse of the Empire building.
The fire began at Twenty-second
street and rapidly moved eastward.
The Gore block, at the junction of
Market and Pine streets, is probably Il
total loss.
The Santa Fe r~oundhouse and ma
chine shops at Point Richmond, across
the bay, have collapsed.
The Valencia hotel, between Seven
teenth and Eighteenth streets, on Val
encia street, a five story frame build
ing. toppled over into the street. bury
ing seventy-fve persons in the debris.
only the first story remaining intact.
Many hundreds undoubtedly lost their
lives in a Il similar to this.
A house on Fourteenth street, near
Valencia, was wrecked, killing two
people.
Many of the firehouses are dam1Gnl
so badly that it is impossible TO CT
the fire apparatus out.
A lodging house OF Seventh strac,.
between Howard and Mission. kloHI
as the Kingsley, collapsed. 1t Is ga
fire, and eighty people are bclieTel 4
be buried in the flaming ruins.
At Eighteenth and Valencia strer
there is a crevice in the street siX IT,
wide. and entire sidewalks arc ;,A
I'D. The street car tracks are badly
twisted all through the southern sec
ton of the city. and traffic is mt a
standstill.
The Episcopal church, on Eleventh
street, is badly damaged, and at the
S%tudebaker Carriage factory. on Tenth
and Market streets, the top story caved
in, badly wrecking the entire building.
-Four thieves have been shot by sol
diers for looting.
The latest reports show that the en-
tire district surrounded by Vallejo.
Howard East and Sansome streets.
embracing practically the entire whole
sale portion of the city. has been swept
clean by the fire; also the district
bounded by Market. Eighth and Fol.
som streets has been devastated. In
the latter districts are included most
of the city's finest and most substan-
tial buildings.
According to Il dispatch just received
by the Western Union, the whole city
of San Francisco is about gone, cspe-
cially that portion south of Market
street.
The latest reports say that the San
Francisco situation is desperate. Fire
is still raging %furiously in all quarters
of tbo ritv The loss is now estimated