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be removed and rebuilt Immediately.
The tower is damaged by the earth
quake mainly in three lower stories
and IT will have to be strengthened by
rods and timbers before the actual
work of removal can be safely done.
The new tower will be of reinforced
concrete.
Estimates Dead at 1000.
San Francisco, April 25.-Coroner
William Walsh estimated that the
total number of dead will not be less
than 1000. His reports are complete
and his estimate is made up from all
the data he has been able to collect.
Coroner Walsh said:
Bodies that the deputy coroners
have found and buried number 800.
No thorough search has been made of
the district south of Market or the
Chinese quarter. Many lives must
have been lost in these sections. South
OF Market street are the cheap lodging
houses, and many of these collapsed
from the earthquake. There is little
chance that half of the inmates of the
collapsed buildings had opportunity to
escape. This is also true of China
town. Shortly after the earthquake
soldiers and police, SO have been told,
buried bodies found along the water
front. have received no official re-
port OF these. The total number of
dead will undoubtedly reach, If it does
not exceed, 1,OOO."
Relief Fund Growing Fast.
San Francisco, April 25.-Money for
the San Francisco sufferers is pouring
in from all over the nation. The total
amount of the relief fund received to
date is $S,470,370.
Old Chinatown Gone Forever.
The big fire has obliterated China
town from San Francisco forever.
Mayor schmitz has informed Chief of
Police Oman that all of the Chinese
now in the city would be collected and
placed in and near Fontana,s ware
houses near Fort Mason and that the
new Chinatown would be located at
Hunters Point, on the southern ex-
tremity Of the county, on the bay.
shore. 1t is several miles distant from
the old Chinatown. All Chinese who
have left the city and who return later
Will be concentrated at the new points.
Alcatraz Island Untouched.
There is one place within pistol shot
of ruined San Francisco that the
earthquake did not touch, that did not
lose a chimney or feel a tremor-
Alcatraz island. Despite the fact that
the island is covered with brick build.
ings, brick forts and brick chimneys,
not q brick was loosened, not crack
made nor CULVER felt. When the
scientist comes to write he will have
his hands full explaining why Alcatraz
did not have any physical knowledge
of the event. The scene from the is.
land was awe-inspiring. The crash
OF q falling city filled the ears Of the
aroused island, but no one understood
what it was all about There was no
earthquake that he knew about, yet
the city, few hundred yards across
the bay, was crashing to ruin. No
man on the island knew what was
the matter until the boat landed at the
shattered wharves.
To Continue Holidays.
Oakland. CAL, April 2b.-Goy. Par
dee has announced that he will con-
tinue to proclaim legal holidays from
day to day as long as the financial
condition of the state is unsettled.
Although the leading financial men
of the state have been holding meet
ings daily since the fire." said Gov.
Pardee, they have arrived at no def
mite conclusion as to when they will
be able to reopen the banks. am
informed that the vaults Of many of
the destroyed banks are still so hot
that Y Will be unsafe to open the
strong boxes for 2 week or more"