Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-04-23


homeless. Food is very scarce. Tn
/ provision honses are all destroyed
and all government buildings in tn
city are gone.
(Signed) FUNSTON.
Los ANGELES, April 19.-Santa f,
officials nave received bulletin from
San Francisco saying the earthquak,
there at O'Clock last night was th,
worst yet.
OAKLAND. April 19.-Details o
the San Francisco horror at midnight
estimate the dead at 1000 Two nun
dred and seventy five inmates of st
Agnew's insane asylum are dead
The number injured is placed at g..
600; homeless. 100000 Property
loss in San Francisco is estimated at
f2o0,00O,O00. The area burned up tc
the present is 10 square miles. com.
prising 1870 city blocks.
NEW YORK, April lg.-Pierpont
Morgan has subscribed S25. 900 to the
relief fund for San Francisco suffer
ers.
KANSAS CITY, April ia mass
meeting Of the citizens will be held
tonight to act regarding the San
Francisco catastrophe.
= BERKELEY. Cali, April l9. g
: Every brick building in San Il
= Jose is either completely de- 6
, nollshed or badly damaged. {,
> reports are meager, but justi- &
= fy the statement that many q
= lives are lost. g
. The state insane asylum at =
: Agnew, near San JOSE is de. il
= stroyed and the loss of life is Z
- believed to be frightful. The &,
. helpless patients were victims =
= probably to the number of 200. i
= Down the coast the earth 81
: quake swept, carrying destruc- &
. ton almost everywhere. Los j
. Angeles appears practically &
3 .alone as the only town which 3
. mas escaped even slight dam g
j age. g.
3 In Santa Rosa the desolation z
3 promises TO be deeper and {,
! more widespread than at al %
: most any other place except s
; San Francisco. Santa Rosa is g |
: in flames and the entire town . |
: is doomed. @
; NEW YORK, April 19.-At -
: 11;45 the Postal Telegraph G.
; company received the following g
; direct from San Francisco by 6
; by way of Oakland: 9
: THE fire is still raging and -
: the entire city is doomed. Q |
: There is no water except along q
, the bay and shore. and the .
; to check the flames. The pow +
!, der supply is exhausted; even 9,
: the powder in the government g,
!. arsenal is gone, and 1t is GER 8,
: tain the fire cannot be check s,
; ed until it burns itself out. 6,
; Every building in the busi- Z,
; ness section and one-half of the g
I, residence section has been de- 8,
3 stroyed now. There Is not a &
; large building left" g.
!, OAKLAND, April 19.-Tne :,
: San Francisco fires have as =
!, sumed such proportions that g,
: dynamite and guncotton, and 6
: even field guns at the Presidio G
!, cannot stop them. The flames :,
!, are rushing through the fine .
!, residence section, and are g
'. an nVar,r hand Tho y.
!, panic in the city is increasing. s.
: Owing to the meager traffic &
2 facilities 1t is impossible for 8
+ but few TO get away at time. g
= Tho number of persons killed 6
!, by the falling buildings during &
: the earthquake have been g
: doubled by the number killed 6,
3 by fire. e.
MADISON, Wis, April 19.-Presi-
dent Charles X. Vanhise of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, one of the best
known geologists in the country, for
merly with the United States geo
logical survey, says;
"A disaster at San Francisco has
lblB Uftn tNpSfNtu bF 5'iNhioNS-
In a signed statement he says:
Scientists have known for many
years that San Francisco is danger
ously located and would probably
sooner or later be subject to severe
shocks. The fear has been repeatedly
expressed that San Francisco would
be the first to show the effect OF IN
earthquake upon steel structures, for
it mas been well understood that San
Francisco has the most dangerous 10.
cation with reference to earthquakes
of any large city in the United
States"
CHICAGO, April 19.-Prof. J. Paul
Goode of the University of Chicago.
says:
"An earthquake is as simple as the
breaking of a timber | believe the
seat of disturbance at San Francisco
is about seven miles below tbs surface
Of the earth. 1t probably is slip
ping of the crust OF the earth. Gen
orally one block of crust slips up
while the other slips down. The TO.
cus of the disturbance may be noted
bv the dirertiou of the cracks in the