The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1906-04-27
HOW THE DEVASTED
CITY NOW
LOOKS

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| by a staff correspondent of the Sacra-
mento e. and in part is as follows:
They were still blasting up the h lis
of the skyserapers on Market street as
| trudged up Mission. This blasting
process is no child's play. Fragments of
the exploding structures, such as pie es
of stone and iron bolts. rained down after
che of the blasts as far as a quarter of
a mile distant. Yesterday a man stand
ing two blocks away from one b asst had
his leg. broken by a flying missile. As !
passed Fourth and Mission, two bui d
lings on Market street were blown up
at once. In a few minutes two amb
lances flew past on a hurry call. towaid
Market. | suppose some POOR fellow was
hurt. The force of the explosions has
broken many windows in the mint,
which the earthquake left unframed.
CATTLE DEAD IN THE STREET.
AT First and Mission streets We ices
encountered a strange obstruction. At
the nom mt of the earthquake a hard
of bulls was being driven from tie wlter
front up Mission street toward But her.
town. 1t had got as ar as First street
when down came great masses OF $ on
from a building. Probably a oozen
horned bulls lay across the 70 adway,
dead. under stone blocks that had str lck
them. Then the fire cams a.ong. ara
partially roasted them. You could see
their mouths wide open. as if the poor
beasts had been gasping for air when
they died.
THE WINGLESS ANGEL STANDS.
The ruins of the city hall presented a
strange picture. You can see the blus
sky through the dome any way you turn.
Overhead the bronze angel of Justice,
weighing many tons, looms victorious
above all the desolation. This angel was
to have had wings, but they were omit
ted by the sculptor when 1t was found
that they would offer too great a can
for the wind. And so the angel without
wings stands there unseathed. Beneath
You can see sets of columns with sort
S ctions of entab.atures above TIL m,
such as you have seen in pictures of
ruins in Athens. Here and there sand
stone columns still hang from the steel
framework Of the dome; and the Lick
monument, ~alleeoaical of Ca ito mas
history. is out in front, without a ser;
and the green palms are growing around
it. But all else about the city hall is
ruin.
You cannot begin to imagine INV
utterly AFFECT is the picture of destruc-
ton that spreads before the eyes Of a
man who leaves Van Ness avenue t,
traverse California street over. Mob Hill
and down to the ferry. Pinacles OF
burned palaces dot the smoking land
scape like SO many headstones in a
graveyard.
We're it not for the Fairmount. which
ss.ll stands on the hill. you wouldn't be
able to get you bearings at all. TIL
two marble lions at the front sta rway
are al that are left to show where tn
Huntington mansion stood. The heat
Knocked half the mead off one Of the
lions. while it distorted the Other SO it
locks like a gargoyle imagined by Dore
Alongside the Charles Croker resi-
deace and the Fred Crocker rss.d nee.
next door, are smoulder.ng on the
ground. DIagonally across the $ ret
you will know, from your familiar
With the oea ity, that the Stanford r 8
iaence on~e stood there. but barring pos
$ bly, a chimney. there is nothing above
sAe debris to show you the place. A sort
o. platform. paved with melted glass. IL
al that remains CT the Hopkins insti-
tGte OF art the scene of many a fash
ionabie bal naasque OF San Franeisc ,ts
society. ! got up on this platform. Just
In time TO see the clouds caused by ,ha
cynamiting OF all that remained of he
Examiner building down on Mark /,
street.
''out in the center OF Ca ifornia street
lie a long string of the twisted iron