Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-04-19

parks were hlled last night with peo
Irls from across the bay. Many arc
without friends or money. Systematic
aid is being organized kilograms Of
sympathy are coming by the hundreds
from all parts Of the globe. The Daily
News office is gone. on every eide
we're death and suffering yesterday
Hundreds were injured. either burned
crushed or struck by pieces from build
ings The number Of dead is no, known
but e is estimated that az least 500
met death IN the horror.
Oakland. April lo.-At II O'Clock
las, night the Occidental Hotel was de.
rroyed by the flames. which then
swept unchecked across Montgomery
street, aud attacked The block bounded
By Montgomery, suiier, Bush and Kear.
ncy streets The new Merchants -,
change building was a mass Of flames
from the basement 20 the tower, The
uHion Trust building and the CrockeF
Woolwofth bank were both ablaEe
and the Chronicle building and other
buildings in that block we're threatened
by flames
shortly after 10 o'clock the hre had
eaten he way southwark from Ports.
mouth Square 10 kearney and CalifoT
mia streets The entire section front
ing on the west side OF KeaTney street
was one mass Of flames. An the build
ings adjoining the Hall OF Justice were
ablaEe, and the dremen were striving 20
save the structure by using dynamite
Al that hour the hames had eaten their
way westward into the residence sec
tion as FAR as Cough street, Al this
point by dynamiting block after block
tho hFemen succeeded 10 checking the
hFe for q time.
Dispatches from oakland late last
night say
The earthquake has worked astonish.
ing havoc In In san Franchises IA
nous Chinatown. The josshouses are
In ruins. and FookeFy after Fookery has
collapsed, covering alive hundreds OF
Celestials. Panic Teigns among the
Chinese. and they hll the streets. drag
ging whatever they can save from the
wreck. The japanese quarter has
been partly burned, and from the part
not destroyed they have ied 10 the in.
terror, packing on their backs what
household effects they could tie 70
getheT.
When darkness began 20 fan thou
sands OF men and women and children
from the Latin quarters marched IN
endless procession toward the hills or
10 the waterfront, frantic 20 get away
from the city, lest other earthquakes
follow and the flames trap them before
they could make their escape.
ArtilleTymen from the Preside with
their supply wagons are aiding in get
ting the fleeing Inhabitants and their
baggage out or the threatened quarters.
Liquor stores Looted.
Despite the vigilance Of the police
and soldiers many places were pill
laged in the wholesale district. Liquor
stores we're broken into and stripped
clean. AS q result scores Of vagabonds
were lying drunk in the streets.
The ruin in the commission and
Wholesale district was complete, the
danes tonight having completed the
paralysis Of the early morning. Un-
der the fatal shock an the rookeriss
used as commission houses, many Of
them relics Of the days OF '4s, col.
lApsed. Under the debris were killed
and buried hundreds Of horses hitehsd
10 the vegetable wagons which we're
drawn up to receive their days supply.
TIE dead horses were piled Aigh and
the wreSkage blocked the streets until
the advancing eOnhAgtAtioa tuTnsd an
that section Of the town into q vast
funeral PyTa
TAs new ferry huilding ala not e.