The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-04-19
COAST CITIES WRECKED
SANTA ROSA, SAN JOSE AND SAN.
IA CRUZ SUFFER SEVERELY.
DEATH LIST REPORTED LARGE

DEATH LIST REPORTED LARGE
Buildings of Leland Stanford Univer-
sity eroIished-Aenews Insane
Asy UNI Total Wreck and over
Two Hundred Inmates Killed.
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Los Angeles, April 19.-Reports
from districts outside of San Francis
co indicate widespread damage by the
earthquake.
AT San Jose, the Vendome hotel an
mex was badly wrecked and ten or df-
teen people killed. The Doherty block
was completely burned and one wom-
an killed. DR.. DeGrow was killed and
his wife badly injured. Every busi-
ness building was demolished. Mar
tial law has been declared and the
militia and 500 deputies are guarding
the streets. 1t is estimated that fifty
people have been killed. The postof-
ice was partly wrecked, the Preshy
terrain church totally demolished and
the court house wrecked.
Passengers arriving from other cit
les in California bring tales of death
and disaster from Santa Cruz, Mon
terey. Gilroy and HOLSTER. The death
list at Santa Cruz is reported large.
Santa Rosa is total wreck, and TO-
600 people are homeless. The loss Of
life will probably reach hundreds.
Main street is piled many feet deep
with fallen buildings. Not one bust.
ness building is left intact. The four
story court house is pile of broken
masonry, destroyed by fire. Citizens
fed to the fields and hills to watch
the destruction of the city. The water
system was destroyed by the earth
quake.
Supervisor Fred Horner of Oakland,
who returned from San Jose in his
automobile, states that the Agnews
insane asylum near that city, is to.
tai wreck; that many of the inmates
were killed and that the remainder
are running around loose, terrorizing
the community. The superintendent
Of the institution and his wife were
both killed.
DR.. Stone, superintendent of the
Napa state hospital, telephones that
an automobile arrived there with
news that Santa Rosa is in ruins, and
that between 200 and 500 people are
killed.
Stanford university and Palo Alto
suffered. At Stanford MANY of the
handsome buildings were demolished
and two people were killed. One of
them was Junius Robert Hanna of
Bradford, Pa, and the other was Otto
Curtis, fireman. Six other students
are lying in the Palo Alto hospital
with bruises, cuts and internal in
| juries.
A dispatch from Milpitas says that
the state hospital is damaged and
useless and that DR.. Kelly is killed.
The number of injured is unknown.
1t is asked that physicians and nurses
be sent there.
long distance telephone message
from Salinas. ia miles south of San
Francisco, gave the following informa,
ton:
1 "One hundred and twenty bodies
have been taken out of the Agnews
insane asylum and there are probably
$50 more corpses in the ruins. The
magnificent structure was demolished
Eight dead Italians were taken ou
of the Italian hotel at San Jose. Al
that place the Presbyterian church
st. Patrick's cathedral and the higl
school were destroyed. The new Hal
OF Justice at San Jose, just completed
at cost of 100000, was demolished
All but two Of the university building
at Stanford are in ruins At LON;
Prieta, eighteen miles from SAINT;
Cruz, a mine house slipped down tn,
3 side of mountain, burying ten me,
in the ruins.