Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-04-18
WaterWOrks Demolished and Destruction Of Entire
Business Section is Feared. Three Miles OF
Railway Sink From Sight, Last Shock Shortly
After s A. N. Two thousand People Re-
ported Killed. Wires Down and Details Of
Disaster Not Fully Known.
(From this mornings Extra Edition.)


SAN FRANCISCO, CAL APRIL lszv1A AsHfoRK ARIZONA,
AT 5l3 O'CLOCK THIS MORNING. THE MOST TERRI
FIC EARTHQUAKE KNOWN HISTORY OF THE PACIFIC
COAST BUILDINGS ToPPLED FELL EVERY DIRECTION.
THE POLICE PATROL IS cARTNG THE DEAD FROM
INGs FIRE BROKE IN WHOLESALE BUILDINGS NEAR
THE WATER FRONT AND IN OTHER LOCALITIES THERE Is NO
WATER TO FIGHT DYNAMITE IS BEING USED. THE POS
tai TELEGRAPH BUILDING IS PARTIALLY WRECKED AND MOST
OF THE POSTAL EMPLOYEES FLED FOR THEIR LIVES AT 1880
COMMUNICATION SINGLE WIRE WITH ASHFORK AND LOS
ANGELES WAS RESTORED. THE SHOCK WAS FELT AS FAR
AS SANTA BARBARA BUT NOT FELT AT LOS ANGELES
ALL THE POWER LINES IN THE CITY ARE WRECKED. THE
PACIFIC CABLE IS NOT DAMAGED THE LOSS OF POWER
SERIOUSLY CRIPPLED COMMUNICATION THE POSTAL E1
ECTRICIAN OTHERS ARE NOW ENDEAvORNG TO RESTORE
COMMUNICATION 1T IS UNSAFE YET TO REMAIN IN THE OF
F1CEs. THERE HAS BEEN SLIGHT SHOCK EVERY FEW MIN
UTEs HEAVY ONE. THERE WAS TERRIBLE PANIC
IN THE CITY EVERY ONE RUSHING TO THE STREETS. MANY
HUNDREDS ARE REPORTED KILLED ON SOUTH MARKET ST,
WHERE FIRE IS RAGING. THERE WAS NO DAMAGE OF
SERIOUS NATURE OR LOSS LIFE THE RESIDENCE DIS
TRICTs EARLY ESTIMATES PLACE THE LOSS OF LIFE AT Ell
EVEN HUNDRED
THE WATER AND SEWERAGE ARE sPoUTING INTO THE
STREETS GROUND AS RESULT OF BROKEN MAINS.
THE TO SPREAD IN ALL DIRECTIONS AND
THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WHOLE CITY IS FEARED.
HOUSTON TEXAS APRIL lS.-v1cE PRESIDENT FAY OF THE
SOUTHERN PACIFIC ARRIVED HERE AND REPORTS THAT THE
DEAD WILL REACH TWO THOUSAND
CHICAGO APRIL ia ROCK ISLAND MESSAGE SENT AT
5 SAYS THAT SAN FRANCISCO is BEING BEsET BY CoNTN
UoUs EARTHQUAKES AND THAT THE FIRE is WORKING TOW
ARD THE DOCKS UNMoLEsTED, AS THE WATER WORKS ARE
OUT OF COMMISSION.
NEW YORK APRIL 1s.-HUTToN co, MERCHANTS RECEIv-
A DISPATCH AT l45 THE BEST AND MOST ACCURATE
INFORMATION REGARDING BAN fRANClSCO lNDlCATES THAT
THE WHOLE BURNING FROM THE HIGHEST POINT OF
SAN JOSE, SAN FRANCISCO CAN BE SEEN ABLAzE'
NEW YORK APRIL 18.-A WESTERN UNION MESSAGE FROM
SACRAMENTO SAYS THAT THE HEAVY EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS
STOPPED AT Sis THREE MILES OF RAILWAY ARE SUNK OUT
OF SIGHT BETWEEN SUSAN AND BENECIA AND THE WIRES
WENT WITH THE TRACK AT PLEAsANToN THE RAILROAD
CARS WERE TURNED OVER. AT TRACY THE CHIMNEYs FELL
THERE ARE BIG BERKLEY AND OAKLAND BOTH SUB
uRBS
LOS ANGELES APRIL iS.-THREE HUNDRED DEAD HAVE
BEEN COLLECTED IN SAN FRANCISCO THE MECHANICS PA
WILLIAM HAS BEEN CONVERTED INTO MORGUE 4MoRE CORP
sEs ARE CONSTANTLY BEING BROUGHT IN THE FLAMES ARE
BLAZING DOZEN PLACES THE UTTER RUIN OF THE BUS
MESS SECTION IS INEVITABLE
OGDEN UTAH. APRIL ia WIRE FROM THE UNION PACI
WEST OF HERE SAYS THE EARTHQUAKE SEEMS TO HAVE
EXTENDED SEVERAL HUNDRED MILES.
SAN FRANCISCO, 8 P. M.-rHE LAST SHOCK WAS NEARLY
AS SEVERE AS THE FIRST. MANY BUILDINGS WHICH sURv1v
THE SHOCK AND SERIES OF QUIvER1NGS TUMBLED
WHEN THE FINAL HEAvE CAME 1T ADDED TO THE PANIC AL
READY PREVAILING AS NEARLY AS WORDS CAN TELL. THE
EARTHQUAKE BEGAN WITH SLIGHT TREMBLE FOLLOWED
BY HEAvM0 SENSATION. WHICH DEVELOPED INSTANTLY
MTo A SEVERE SHAKING AND ENDMG IN TERRIFIC SHUD-