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MORRIS COUNTY CHRONICLE, TUESDAY. APRIL 24, 1906 taken to the morgue dead of knife mes, finding nothing to conwounds, given for no other reason, it dually went out, leaving the seems, than the madness of panic. standing, but completely There are 10,000 Chinese in the quarter, and there are thousands of Italfornia and Sansome streets ians, Spaniards and Mexicans on the Mutual Life Building, a modother side. It seemed as though every ure of architectural beauty, one of these, with the riffraff of "Barthe flames were soon comWASHINGTON bary Coast.' made for that one block An attempt was made to Governor Pardee of Cali of open land. The two uncontrolled ut the fire was irrepressible. President Roose asking S gained, and in a few mostreams met in the centre of the square the Pacific squadron to Sa and piled up on the edges. There they e big building was beyond under speed in order that fought all the morning, until the e Anglo California Bank was may help the unfortunste United States soldiers restored order the flames and came down President Roosevelt na with their bayonets. Cabmen, drivers of express wagons of protest to Argentina de d again attempts were made ments published in the offi and trucks, hired at enormous prices, mite to clear a space which ( of the Argentine Foreign carted away from the lower city the event the flames from spreadvaluables of the hotels which saw their ing that republic at the er buildings, but freely as the other nations. doom in the fires which were breaking was used the fire crept and out. Even the banks began to take om one structure to another Senator La Follette ma out their bullion and securities, and, ually loud report showed that on the Rate bill before under guard of half dressed clerks, se at Eighteenth and Market lery and empty Senate floo to send them to the hills. whence d blown up. The fire caused ported the Bailey amendm came the salvation of San Francisco. losion quickly communicated The President sent to the One old nighthawk cab, driven by a directions. As the gas house nomination of Major-Gener cabman white with terror, carried feeling of despair overcame Corbin to be Lieutenant-Ge more than a million dollars in curwho were performing the Alaskan cable and tele rk. rency and securities. Men, pulling paid the Government $14,50 rott Building, in which was corpses or injured people from fallen a greater amount than in an le chambers of the State Subuildings, stopped to curse these promonth. cessions as they passed. rt. the lower floors being deThen the vandals formed and went The Navy Department ha n immense department store, to work. Routed out from the dens fied that three warships a d, though its massive walls along the wharves, the rats of the have gone to Kobe, Japan all destroyed. needed in Chinese waters. San Francisco waterfront, the dritters further down Market street, my of Sciences and the Jenwho have reached the back eddy of European civilization, crawled out Building and the History OUR ADOPTED ISL and began to plunder. A policeman kindled and burned like so, The Hawaiians contribut der. Sparks carried across caught one of these men creeping over $800.000 to the Federa through the window of a small bank street ignited the Phelan in excess of all cost of adm on Montgomery street and shot him and the army headquarters Captain William M. Mori nia, General Funston comdead. But the police were keeping fire ty-first Infantry attacked lines, beating back overzealous reswere burned. band in the mountains on cuers from the fallen houses and the ring the bay, the waters of of Samar, in die Philippines burning blocks, and for a time the the firemen good service eight. Three soldiers were vandals plundered at will. locks, the fire took the Rialto There was a report from the wreck Major-General Wood, sinc 1 handsome skyscraper, and of the Valencia Hotel that the ground command of the troops in scores of solid business fairly sucked it in. The basement was pines, has had the troops D smoldering piles of bricks. full of water, so that when the rescue engaged in maneuvring ar nd commercial houses, supmarching. The officers and corps got through the debris they be fireproof, though not of found the bodies floating about, complained that they are ild, burned quickly, and the flames could be heard even cessively in the severe clin drowned or crushed. They tell of people thrown from windows and killed Ils, which were out of the on the pavements below by the first e. Here many thousands.of DOMESTIC. great shake, of people crushed in the gregated and viewed the awThe mother of the late W streets by the debris which fell from of South Norwalk, Conn., the upper stories of buildings. The the first orders issued by widow to recover his body, people were so sickened by horror that olice Dinan was for the closalleges, the widow caused they would believe anything. ry saloon in the city. This from the grave. As the. day wore on and the wind ken to prevent drink-crazed Three men in an auton changed the fire along the water front rioting in the streets. naped the three-year-old son burned itself out and ran on further chmitz sent out word to the Mrs. William M. Richards down south of Market street. This nd milk stations throughout front of his mother's home gave a comparatively clear passage to at their food supplies must The father, whose home d for the homeless. Provisthe Ferry buildings, and the troops perYork, is separated froi.. his mitted genuine refugees to pass to the made to place tents in every Southern Pacific ferries, which were William Becker. a retired e city, and those who have thy tanner of Milwaukee. loaded down with people, many of 1 be given food and shelter. self by shooting in Mobile them still half dressed. At nightfall the morning the prisoners the city prison on the fifth the troops cut off this privilege, probspondent through ill health ably for fear of rioting and disorder. A Hall of Justice were transThe Franklin medal, vote rons to the basement of the Then it was almost impossible to cross gress, was presented to the street. Later they were removed to Philadelphia, Secretary Ro From Ingleside comes word that the vay jail. the presentation speech, an Cliff House, the great pleasure resort vor also established a base ador Jusserand accepting th and soon had forces out and show place of the city, which stood Commission of Emigrati upon a foundation of solid rock, has y could accomplish most. Watchorn, New York Harb been swept into the sea. Not a thing were sent down to the lodgceived word from Washing stands to tell where the monster builddistrict near Market street. allow any more tickets to ing once stood. It has been levelled to as found that many frame immigrants who may W the foundation, and only the rock linbacked with people, had colthrough to San Francisco, un ing the coast remains intact. ying their occupants in the word is sent to him. The State Insane Asylum at Agnews The Chicago, Burlington is a total wreck. Many of the 600 or ers jumped into the wrecks Railroad was fined $40,000, 700 inmates in the building were burout the dead, the dying and its officials $10,000 each, in ied under the ruins. One hundred and 1. Practically every physigranting rebates and the twenty bodies have been taken out, and e city immediately volunpaid. there are probably 150 more corpses assistance, and soon there in the ruins. Charges that the "Yellow equipped medical corps orHardly had the building fallen, beagain at work in Albany, N hich began ministering to fore there issued forth a wild-eyed and half of insurance companies ly made. dishevelled army of maniacs the surs bodies were taken out in vivors of the calamity. They screamed It was reported that Cipri g house district, and hunand laughed and wept as they scatPresident of Venezuela, is hen volunteered to go into tered over the country in all directions. b get more. the United States. To them the earthquake rumbling tentious City Hall, costing Judge Lurton, in the In under their feet meant nothing, and bounded by Larkin and McCircuit Court severely criti the fall of the building a mere trivialeets and City Hall avenue, cial operations of the Cincin ity. With the superintendent of the shattered by the earthquake, ilton and Dayton deal. It asylum and his wife both killed, and ins later were burned. Ex-Postmaster Clayton many of the keepers injured, the horde y years to build the City died suddenly at his home of insane persons followed their own ride of the coast. An alarm H delphia, aged sixty-two. inclinations. in and the firemen respondpostmaster expired about a Many of them were rounded up and Sullivan, awakened by the taken care of by the citizens, but After marking 3.5 feet abo is quarters in a firehouse, scores are still wandering around the ger line at Memphis, the b put on his clothes. As he countryside to the great terror of the River is receding. them the tower of the Caliinhabitants. Using a blanket for a rop el dropped upon his building Dr. Stone, superintendent of the A. Bladgett hanged himself ng through the roof killed Napa State Hospital, has telephoned Hillsboro, Ga. where he wa to the Governor's office that an autopending an examination of hen arrived at the City Hall, mobile arrived there with news that elpless. They hitched their Two daughters of W. H Santa Rosa is ruined and that befire plugs, but there was no farmer living near Dutton, tween 200 and 300 persons have been ly. were instantly killed by th killed. ossible precaution has been of the roof to a cyclone cella As later details are learned it seems ard property. Immediately they were taking refuge. that 30,000 houses were either partially estructive shocks the police Responsibility for the deat or wholly destroyed. Property loss is on guard, and the Governor ty-two miners in the Para estimated as high as $200,000,000. It al Funston, commanding the has been placed on F. W. is estimated that there are 150,000 vision of the United States Fred Dixon, who have been homeless. e asked to send troops. Charleston, W. Va. Some believe the number of deaths nd men from the Presidio, will reach the appalling figures of 2000. Just back from his compa neral Funston, arrived down General Funston places the number of in Walker County, Ala. Pre o'cleok to patrol the streets. dead at over a thousand. J. Stith, of the Stith Coa enth Infantry, 1000 strong. Fire Commissioner E. Myron Wolf Company, at Firmingham, m Angel Island a little later has announced that the fire insurance self by shooting. n patrol duty at once. companies carrying risks here will pay III health caused Rev. F liers were ordered to shoot dollar for dollar to every one insured als caught robbing the dead rector of Ascension Episco with them, with no discrimination berd with their lives the millat St. Paul, Minn., to blo tween fire and earthquake. brains. ars worth of property placed Every building in the triangular sects to escape the flames. Mine operators estimate tb tion between Market street, the Misis under martial law, and all five days of anthracite mi sion, and the waterfront, in San Franwn streets are patrolled by cost the men $1,773,000. cisco, has been destroyed. All the best 1 infantry. Details of troops theatres, including the Majestic, the arding the banks. FOREIGN. Orpheum and the Grand Opera House, mouth square the panic was have been burned. Several of the The shares of fire insure cription. This, the old Plaza great hotels, including the Palace Hotel panies slumped badly in the h the early city was built. and the Grand, are in ruins. London and Berlin markets now by Chinatown, by the The American dry dock trict and by the "Barbary ower Tenderloin. A spur of remain at Port Said, Egypt
