Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1906-04-19

OAKLAND. Cal. April 10. - san
Francisco. devastated by an earth
quake and swept by flames, is now un-
der military rule and completely cut
off by telegraph from the east.
Earthquake and fire have caused the
greatest calamity California has ever
known. In San Francisco it is estimated
that a thousand persons have persisted,
while as many more are suffering from
injuries. The entire business portion
of the city is in ruins, and the flames,
which, owing TO the lack of water
through the breaking of the water sys-
TEN mains, cannot be checked except
by the blowing up with dynamite of
buildings in their path, are still sweep
ing through the city.
A late special dispatch says that the
Pacific squadron, which was at anchor
in San Francisco bay, was sunk by the
earthquake.
The earthquake shook the city from
its lowest foundation to the top of its
tallest building and within two min
utes had turned the City Of the Golden
Gate into a panic stricken scene of
death and ruin.
Fire. breaking out in a hundred diff
ferent places at once. took up the work
of destruction where the earthquake
ceased.
All that remains of more than 200
. blocks. OF eight square miles, Of busi-
ness and handsome residential blocks
are smoking ruins, under which hun
dreds of people. it is feared. are bur-
led.
At intervals the earth still trembles.
The sky is crimsoned by the great CON
Migration, which RACES without cessa-
ton.
Deprived of water even to drink and
power. the city sits in the flare of her
death pyre, waiting helplessly for the
end.
The fire is spreading in all directions
in the business and residence quarters.
While a building was being blown up
with dynamite premature explosion
killed fifteen men. The Terminal hotel,
at the water front, fell and buried
twenty persons under the debris. They
were incinerated and there is no pos
sibility of learning their identity.
The mint is abaze, and from outside
indications it will be impossible %
save it. The fire surrounds it OIL every
hand.
The country suffers great loss IN
the destruction of Stanford university,
which is credited with greater wealth
than any other institution of learning
in the world and with an endowment
second 10 none. only two OF its build
ings now stand amid the ruins.
The important buildings destroyed
are the Palace hotel, Call building,
Spreckels building, Pacific States Tele-
phone building, Rialto building, Hearst
building. Mutual Life building. Grand
Opera House, Gore block mot finished
Postal Telegraph building, Western
Union and Associated Press. Union
Ferry docks, Winchester hotel st,
Luke's church, Upham building, 81.
Dominica church, Concord club and the
Hotel Grinado.
1t is utterly impossible at present TO
estimate the property loss, for the ex-
tent of the conhagra tion cannot be told
until the fire has burned itself out.
: Thousands of people are homeless, and
=. many are huddled in the parks and
public squares beside the household
goods they were able TO save.
The city is under martial law, and All
the downtown streets are patrolled by
i cavalry and infantry. Details of troops
are also guarding the banks. Most oi
the principal buildings have already
Il been destroyed, and others are in im-
minent danger. Over all the scene OF
desolation hangs dense pail Of smoke
10 Communication with outside towns
:! is almost entirely cut of, but the re
! port comes from Pslo Alto that all bui
}. two of the buildings of the LELAND
Stanford. Jr., university have peer
n wrecked and that the splendid Memo
rial church. one Of the finest structures
/ of its kind in the world, is a mass Of
u ruins. One student is known TO have
T. lost his life In Oakland five persons
', were killed. San Jose and Sacramento
> Berkeley, Alameda and other places
" heard from suffered severely.
l. The dreadful earthquake shock came
T. without warning at precisely OIL
e o'clock in the morning, its motion ap
parently being from east to west. A
l. first the upheaval of the earth wal
gradual, but in a few seconds it in
creased in intensity. Chimneys begaI
ITO fall and buildings to crack, totterini
Ion their foundations. The people be
A Icame panic stricken and rushed int
~ The streets, most of them in their nigh
4 attire. They were met by showers o
N falling buildings, bricks, cornices an
sAwalls
Il N Many were Instantly crushed I
Meath while others were DREADFUL