The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-19
NEW PANIC REIGNs
As HOSPITAL FALLS
Mechanics Pavilion, Crowded
with the Injured, Evacuated
in Frantic Haste.

San Francisco, April 1s.-At Me-
alter of panic were enacted The great
.rame building was turned into hos |
iital for the care of the injured, and
here a corps Of fifty physicians, under
The direction of Drs. Miller and Hert,
Jog, rendered aid. Nurses volunteered
heir services and girls from the Red
Cross ship that steamed in from the
government yards at Mare island con-
sributed aid and supplies. -
But while the ambulances and auto
mobiles were unloading their manned
Ind wounded at the building, the march
Of the confagration up Market street
gave warning that the injured would
lave to be removed at once. Every
available vehicle was pressed into ser
rice to get the stricken into the hosp1-
sals and private houses of the western
addition. A few minutes after the last
IF the wounded had been carried thru
The door. some on cots, others in strong
arms and on stretchers. shafts or nre
shot from the roof and the structure
burst into a whirlwind Of flame.
q The Earth Has Sunk.
Down on the harbor front the earth
leems to have sunk from SIX to elght
inches and great cracks appear in the
streets. Car tracks were twisted into
all sorts of shapes, and buildings pc
fore they were destroyed by the hire
were seen to be completely out OF
plumb The flames swept in sheets
across Front street and street cars and
Southern Pacific rolling stock together
with the mail cars were burned to their
trucks.
First Relief Boat Arrives.
Last night the first relief boat loaded
with groceries and provisions crossed
from Oakland while other boats are
reported to have started from Sacra-
mento The Berkeley Chamber of Com
merce has sent word that the town hall
and all public buildings there have been
ugees. The homeless will be fed and
housed until they are able to find
shelter.
The new ferry building did not
escape the wrath of the trembler, and
the tower of this California landmark
Is badly shattered.
At Seventh and Howard streets q
great lodging house took fire after the
first shock, before the guests had a
chance to escape. There were hardly
any exits, and nearly all the dodgers
persisted.
Woman leaps to Safety.
Mrs. j. J. Munson, one of those in
the building, leaped, with her child In
her arms, from the second floor to the
pavement below and escaped unhurt
She says she is confident she was the
only one who escaped from the inferno
Such horrors were repeated at many
points.
In the commission house Of C. D
Bunker, rescuer named Baker was
killed while trying to get a corpse from
the ruins. Other rescuers heard the
pitiful wall Of little child, but were
unable to get near the point from
which the cry issued. Soon the on
rushing fire ended the cry, and the me1
burned to other tasks. J Tonight hun
dreds of iremen and rescuers are pros
trated, the strain Of the continual fight
N the face of the awful calamity prov
Ing more than anyone can stand.
In the crowds at many points people
tainted, and in some instances dropped
Head from reaction following the shock
Havoc Among Chinese.
The earthquake has worked astonish
ing havoc in San Francisco famous
Chinatown. The theaters and JOSS
houses are in ruins and rookery afte1
rookery has collapsed, burying alive
hundreds of the orientals. Panic reign:
among the countless thousands of Chi
nese and they filed the streets, drag
ring whatever they could save from
The wrecks.
The Japanese quarter has beer
burned out and from the part not de
ltroyed the people have fed in terror
packing on their backs what house
hold effects they could tie together
Thousands of men and women and chill
dren from the Latin quarter quit Their
when darkness began to fall am
marched in endless procession toward
The hills or to the water front, franti
TO get away from the city, lest othe
earthquakes follow and the flames tra1
them before they can make their es
lerymen from the Preside, with thei
supply wagons, and the army commits
sary wagons, are aiding In getting tn
fleeing Inhabitants and their baggag
out of the threatened quarters.
Says He Killed a Sufferer.
W. Hussey came to the station a
the Hall Of Justice and told how, at tn
direction Of policeman, whose nun
Der he gave as 615, he had cut the a.
teries in the wrists Of a man pinione
under timbers at the st. Katherine hi
tel, According to Hussey the man We
begging to be killed and the policema
shot at him, but his aim was defectiv
The officer then handed Hussey knit
with INSTRUCTIONS 70 cut the VEINS IN u
suffering man s W rists and Husse
obeyed
Chief of Police Oman directed tn,
no opportunity to Investigate his stol
but the police believe that the awf
calamity has rendered him insane.
Mayor Schmitz has ordered that tt
physical necessities of the sufferers
attended to first. Goldberg, Bowen
Co., have placed all of their stores
The disposal of the city, including tt
provisions contained therein.
Prayed Amid Ruin.
The pastor OF ST. Francis church,
the slope Of Telegraph hill, a fe
blocks from the raging furnace belo'
gathered his flock about him on tt
sidewalk. where all knelt in prayer.
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