Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1906-04-19

precautions have been taken to pre-
vent disorder and footing. -Four thieves
were shot BY soldiers for footing. The
soldiers have orders to shoot without
warning any person acting In suspi-
cious manner. The city hall has been
burned, as well as many of the princi-
pal business blocks, and the hall of
justice is threatened. Measures have
already been taken for the care of the
destitute. They will be fed and pro-
tected in Golden Gate Park and the
public squares.
Supervisor Fred Horner, of Oakland,
who returned from San Jose, states
that the Agnews asylum, near that
city, is total wreck; that many of
the inmates were killed and that the
remainder are running around loose,
terrerizing the community The ruins
took fire shortly after the collapse Of
the Institution. There were about 100
persons in the building. The superin-
tendent of the institution and his wife
We're both killed
The Palace hotel is destroyed, the
Postal and the Western Union build
ings and the magnificent new Union
Trust company building, II stories in
height, have been dynamited.
Santa Rosa In Flames.
Reports from cities near San Fran
cisco show the destruction was gem
eral. Santa Rosa, so miles north, is
in flames, and the damage there is
over s1.000,000. The loss of life is not
known
At Napa many buildings were shat
tered and the loss will amount to
100000. No loss of life is reported
At Vallejo the damage was slight
In comparison with that suffered in
other cities. The loss will be about
$4,000.
The court house at Redwood City and
other buildings collapsed. Santa Rosa,
to the north, Napa, Vallejo and, all
towns around the bay were damaged.
These reports, alarming as they were,
created little interest in San Francisco,
where the people were in a frantic
state.
The experience has been testi-
monial to the wodern steel building. A
score of these structures were in the
course of construction, and not one
suffered from the earthquake shock.
The completed modern buildings were
also immune from harm from the seis-
mic movements. The buildings that
collapsed were all flimsy wooden and
old brick structures. The damage by
earthquake does not begin to compare
with ire loss by FIRE
The President Shocked.
President Roosevelt manifested pro-
found interest in the news Of the earth
quake at San Francisco. He sent the
following kilograms to Governor George
C. Pardee, at Sacramento, and Mayor
Eugene g. Schmitz, at San Francisco:
washington, April 18.-Hear rumors
Of great disaster through an earthquake
at San Francisco, but know nothing OF
the real facts Call upon me for any
assistance I can render.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
Later in the day he sent the follow
ing dispatch to Mayor Schmitz;
II share with all our people the hor-
ror felt at the catastrophe that has be-
fallen San Francisco and the most
earnest sympathy with your citizens
If there is anything that the federal
government can do to aid you it will
be done.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
He also sent the following dispatch
to Governor Pardee:
ut was difficult to at first credit the
news of the calamity that had befallen
San Francisco. feel the greatest
concern and sympathy for you and the
people not only of San Francisco, but
of California, in this terrible disaster.
You will let me know if there is any
thing that the national government
can do.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"