New-York tribune., 1906-04-19


and vehicles of every description. Many ply
sicians have arrived at the hospitals and Of
fered their services.
THIEVES SHOT BY SOLDIERS.
The city is under martial law, and precau-
tions have been taken TO prevent disorder
and looting tonight. -Four thieves We're shot
by soldiers to-day for looting. The soldiers
have orders to shoot without warning any per-
son acting in a suspicious manner. The destl-
tute will be fed and protected in Golden Gate
Park and the public squares.
Many of the fire houses damaged so badly
that it impossible to get the apparatus out.
A lodging house in 9TH street, between Howard
and Mission streets, known as the Kingsley,
collapsed 1t caught fire and seventy-fve TO
eighty people are believed to be buried in the
ruins.
| Many people suffering from injuries are seen
in the streets making their way to the hospi
| tails. The Episcopal Church in 18th street is
| badly damaged, and at the Studebaker car
| riage factory, at 10Th and Market streets, the
| top story caved n badly wrecking the building.
|
| street between Market and Mission streets.
have been destroyed: Pacific States Telephone
| Company, RiaIto Building, Mission and Market
| street, and the Natoma Building, at 2d and
| Market streets. The twelve story Mutual Life
| Building, at California and Sansome streets,
| has also been destroyed.
There was great rush at the banks by peO-
the banks decided to keep their doors closed.
The greatest destruction occurred in that part
of the city which was reclaimed from San Fran
cisco Bay. Much of the devastated district was
at one time low, marshy ground, covered by
water at high tide AS the city grew it became
necessary to fill in many acres of this low
ground in order 10 reach deep water. The Mer-
chants Exchange Building, a fourteen story
steel structure, on the edge of this re-
claimed ground It had just been completed, and
the executive offices of the Southern Pacific
Company occupied the greater part of the build
ing
SLIGHT DAMAGE IN RESIDENCE PART.
The damage by the earthquake to the resi-
dence portion of the city, the finest part of
which is on Mob Hill and Pacific Heights, seems
to have been slight On Mob Hill are the homes
of many of the millionaires who in the early
10's became wealthy through mining invest
nents or the construction of the Central Pa
cifc Railroad. They include the Stanforls
Hunttngtons, Hopkins, Crockers. Floods and
others
The magnificent Paramount Hotel not yet
completed, stands on the brink of Mob Hill, over
looking the bay. The hotel not seriously
damaged The construction of the hotel was
started by Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs. of New
York, as a monument TO her father, United
States Senator Fair, but she recently sold it fol
100000.
To the westward of Mob Ill., on Pacific
Heights, are fine new houses but little injury
was done to any of them.
The Palace Hotel was a seven story build
ing, about 300 feet square 1t was built thirty
years ago by Senator Sharon, whose estate
was in the courts for many years At the time
it was erected the Palace Hotel was the bes
equipped hotel in the West
The offices of three morning papers, THE
. Chronicle" THE Call' and THE Examiner,
are within a hundred feet of each other Th'