The Alaska prospector., 1906-04-19
San frsn ,iSCO
 Entirely Demolished

of the city occurred at six o'clock this morning. when severe earth quake occurred causing the collapse of hundreds of buildings all over the city. The number of deaths exceed one thousand. To add to the horror fire has broken out in every part of the city. The telephone building was destroyed and only one telegraph wire is up, so that it is impossible to get details.
 Pandemonium reigns.
 10;0O-All the district south of Market street is burning. The earthquake destroyed the water mains, and the fremen are help. less to stay the flames. It is prob able that the city is doomed to to- tai destruction. The Palace hotel is blazing and the St. Francis is threatened.
 Fully thousand bodies of the dead are piled in the streets, aud 1t IS known that there are many more under the ruins of the many collapsed buildings and tenemenls. A number of office buildings and department stores have been razed to the grohnd.
 A Assure opened in Market stree, which is twenty feet wide and ex- tends nearly three blocks.
 Bremen have started wrecking buildings as the onlv means of checking the flames, which are spreading with great rapidity. Appeals have b.en sent to other cities for aid in fighting the fire, and departments from neighboring towns are being rushed to the city on special trains.
 Thousands of men are at work pairing the broken water mains that the water may be available upon the arrival of assistance.
 Both telegraph offices have been wrecked and messages are being filed in temporary office in the s rect The line is crowded with messages iuquiring for friends and II Is hard to gel press details hrrngh.
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 ,tEy, and here is 10 safety in ,ne streets as walls are falling in all directions. All usiness is sus- pended and pandenonium reigns all over the city. Unless the flames are stopped soon the entire busi- ness part of the city will be des- troyed.
 Twen'y blocks south of Market street has been consumed already.
 10:3O-The Palace hotel is doomed and the St. Francis will be destroyed.
 1O:35-A second shock struck the city at l0:30 this morning. The Call and Examiner buildings were entire wrecked and have been consumed by the flames. The Palace Hotel is entirely de- -stroyed. Over one hundred man qled dead have been taken from tha ruins.
 All south of Market is ablaze. Many hotels collapsed but were mostly deserted before the walls fell.
 The Pacific States Telephone building is afiame. The Mills building is burning The fire is spreading in all directions.
 The fire department is helpless, the only water available being lfrom the bay. Reiays of engines are pumping from the bay but are of no avail to check the flames.
 Flames are increasing in the residence district and the whole city seems to .be doomed.
 Sacramento-The earthquake Q shock was felt here but no damage Il was done. Relief in the way of fire engines and men are being rushed te he city.
 Reports from Oakland, Alameda and outlaying towns say that the shock has been felt but no damage ldone.
 The police are dynamiting build- ings in the endeavor to stop the l spread of the flames, but all at tempts to save the city appear to be without avail.
 San Francisco. 12 NJ, April lS- Summarizing the disaster here as far as is now known there are hundreds of people killed and thou sands are injured. The morgue Is filled and the Mechanics Pavilion has been turned into a hospital. Tine entire water front is ablaze. The postofiice building has been shake,, down entirely. The fish market!has collapsed and the Grand