The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1906-04-19

| Pulls went TO the building 10 rellght the
| fuse and the charge exploded while he
| was there
! The injured officer Is graduate OF the
/ artillery school al Fortress Monroe, Va
! He is 30 years old, single and native OF
! Chicago
Reports from the interior are most
alarming Santa Rosa. one OF the pretu-
| est cities or the state, In the prosperous
| county OF Somoma. Is a total wreck There
/ arc 10000 homeless men, women and chill
dren huddled together. The loss OF life is
not to be estimated. II Will probably
reach the thousands.
| "A the last great seismic tremor spent
its force In the earth the whole business
| portion tumbled into ruins. The main
street Is piled many feet deep wipth the
| fallen buildings Not one business build
| ing is left intact
This destruction includes all OF the
| county buildings The four story court
house with It's high dome is merely a
pile Of broken masonry. Nothing Is left
| Identification Is impossible.
FIRE FINISHES AWFUL WORK.
What was not destroyed by the earth
quake has been swept by fire Until the
flames started there was hope OF saving
the residential district II was soon np-
parent that any such idea that might
have been entertained was 10 be aban-
doned
This was appreciated by the citizens,
and they prepared TO desert their homes
Not even their household goods were
taken They made for the fields and shrls
TO watch the destruction OF one of the
most beautiful cities OF the west
OTHER TOWNS WRECKED.
Messengers bring the saddest tidings
| of the destruction OF Healdburg Geiser-
vile. Cloverdale Hopland and Ukiah
| This report takes I'm the country as far
oh
/ and as far west as the Pacific ocean
These are frontier counties and have not
as large towns as farther south.
In every case the loss OF life and prop
] erty is as shocking as here.
The fire I'm San Francisco is unabated
The San Francisco hotel and Merchants
exchange are gone. The Fairmont hotel
is threatened
A portion of the Mar kIIopkns Institute
OF Art Is destroyed. The entire structure
will probably GO The Chronicle building
is a skeleton The James Flood building
Market and Powell streets, is leaning
TOWN ENTIRELY WRECKED.
Los Angeles, Cal. April 19.-Reports
Southern Pacific, 100 miles south OF Los
Anseies, state that the town was
quake Of yey,sSay Pes out = she the osP G;
town in Southern California known
60 have suffered from the ho,ck
say the following buildings there. ali
brick structures were destroyed:
Brawley bank building, Paulln build
buildings OF the town In addition
dozens OF houses were razed. SO far
as known there were no fatalities
had population OF about 500
The earthquake did no damage at
Fresno, although II was the heaviest
on the Border line OF the county heuvy
ds,,,Sig. damage was was done Several brick
$4,000 There were no fatalities.
stockton suffered little or no dant-
age.
FLAMES ON MOB HILL.
oakland Cal. April ia correspond
ent OF the Oakland Tribune. writing from
San Francisco AT 10 a. m SAYS:
At this writing there seems to be prac-
tically no hope of saving any OF the city
OF San Francisco Those who were most
sangulne OF the ultimate success OF Inc
iremen In controlling the flames have
now given phope and are fleeing from
the flames In despair
Many people are being burned alive inn
prsoned in tho doomed buildings. where
the rescuers could not reach them The
last big structure TO burst into flames was
Grace church at the corner OF California
ana stockton streets,
The entire district from Channel 10
Broadway and from the waterfront To
Octavia and Golden Gate avenue WIS a
mass OF flames The ST. Francis hotel,
which hitherto escaped the breath 0f the
great furnace, was one OF the last build
ings 10 take fire. The flames seem entire
ly beyond control
Tho nre-hshters have destroyed block
after block OF residences with dynamite I'm
tho hope OF hemmlng in the flames. but
after each such effort the blaze would
leap across a seeming impossible gulf
FLAMES ON Mob HILL.
San Francisco. April 10. s a, m-The
fire Is working up TO California street hlll.
known as Mob hill 10 Is already up 10
Pine and Mason streets and the annex
20 Hopkins Art Institute IL on fire.
one engine Is working at this place
with a limited water supply Across the
street is tho Fairmount hotel recently
eerctcd by Mrs Ocrichs This building
viii probably stand as 3, Is entirely fire.
proof.
Adjoining tho Hopkins institute s. the
Stanford mansion. To ne west tho flames
have spread 10 Fillmore and Goden Gate
avenue ard north 20 Sutten and tcaven-
worth. Tho art treasures are being rc-
moved from the Hopkins institute