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SAN FRANCISCO IS WIPED OUTBY EARTHQUAKE AND FLAMES;

OVER ONE THOUSAND LIVES LOSTBIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF SAN FRANCISCO, WRECKED BY EARTHQUAKE AND FIRE

OverGreatCoast

Pity isWipedOut by~Shockand Fire

c;AN FRANCISCO April 18.-At midnight San Francisco is in ruins. The fire is still rag g, and it looks now as if theSAN FRANCIbUU, Apn o »

The^ Qf 1|fe lg esí!mated at ,,000 persons in this place alone. 1 he pecuniarylast vestiges ot tne cuy win y .

100 000 people are homeless. Martial law has been proclaimed. Terror reignsloss will amount to °yjr^X'Zmei^bfaSe^ty away are driven insane. Ghouls robbing the dead are summarily

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loss of life has been great, and the end is not yet.

HUNDREDS ARE KILLED ;THOÜSRWDS ME HOMELESS

Entire Families Buried Under the Debris.People Fall Dead in street From

Tèrror.Ghouls Are Robbingthe Bodies

PITIABLE SUFFERING EVERYWHERE

(Special to The Times-Dispatch.)SAN FRANCISCO, April 18..The greatest earthquake ever

recorded in this country, followed by a fire which has swept over

many square miles of the very heart of San Francisco, to-daycaused the loss of 1.000 or more lives and swept away $200,-

000,000 worth of the most valuable property in the city. The fire

is still burning and it looks as if the entire city will be wiped out.

With San Francisco as its heart and centre, the earthquakehas spread ruin and disaster through a region having a radius of

nearly a hundred miles.San Jose, nearly sixty miles to the south, has been wrecked,

and villages even farther south have been partially,destroyed, while

inland for a hundred miles and ninety miles to the' north loss of

life ;ind great property damage hai been caused.The great buildings, of the Leland Stanford University are re¬

ported to have been toppled to the ground by three shocks of the

earthquake, and the University of California has been partiallyruined. The insane asylum at Agnew's is a ruin and the inmates

have escaped.' CITY UNDER MARTIAL LAW.

The loss of life outside of San Francisco has not even been

estimated. Wires are down in all directions outside of the city, and

only the most meagre details are to be obtained. Thousands of

people are homeless and many are huddled in the parks and pub¬lic squares be.tide the household goods they were able to save.

The city is under martial law, and all the down-town streets

arc patrolled by cavalry and infantry. Details cf troops are also

guarding the banks. Almost all the principal buildings have been

destroyed, anil others are in imminent danger. Over all the scene

of desolation hangs a dense pall o? smoke. The report comes from

Palo Alto that a 11 but one of the buildings of the Leland Stanford,

Jr.; University has been wrecked, and that the splendid memorial

church, one of the finest structure's of its kind in the world, is a

mass of ruins. One student is known to have lost his life.In Oakland five persons were killed. San Jose and Sacremento,

Berkeley, Alameda and other places heard from suffered severely,hut report no loss of like. The dreadful earthquake shock came

without warning at precisely 5:13 o'clock this morning. itD motion

apparently being from east.to west. At first the upheaval of theoarth was gradual, but in a few seconds it increased in intensity,MULTITUDE OF FIRES.

Amid a pile of bricks and mortar, which heap up about the

telegrapher, I am sending this story of the awful calamity that has

befallen San Francisco.-a calamity that in seriousness and mag¬nitude makes the recent eruption of Vesuvius appear trivial.

, It was exactly at,5:15 o'clock this morning that the city was

tossed about like a feather by the wind, The earth seemed to sinkfor a moment, and then the buildings to rise in the air like a balloon.

Then there was another sinking, the like of which no mortal' ever

experienced a second time. Then the buildings of the town rockedand wobbled like a frail thing in the storm.

As I said, no' mortal man can experience the peculiar sensation thataccompanied this upheaval, for no city can twice withstand sucha shock.

Three minutes after the awful earthquake the town was a mass

of lorn streets, and the city filled with automobiles and hacks. Im-

(.Ccmtiiiucil un Third PaVe'.)-"." *

THE MAGNIFICENT $7,000,006 CITY HALL.

MANY CITIES: DESTROYED;~

LOSS OF LIFE VERY GREATDestruction General Around San Francisco.About 300 Killed at

Santa Rosa.insane Asylum and Hotel Destroyed.Plf-nQiirf- T?pçnrt Plnnops Tntn Siña.

il'.y Associated Í-vchb;)j SAN i'U.ANClSCO, April IS,.Re-liiii'Ls from ciili's near San Franciscoshow Uiq dost ruction wan general.

¡ Hiiniíi llosa, sixty miles north, ¡h inl'líiiaes and ihn tlftmago is over n mil¬lion dolíais. Tlio loss of llfo is notKnown.

Al Napa many buildings wero shut¬tered, ami tho Iobs win nnioiuil lo

$30.0.000, No loss uf llfo Is reported.Al Vallojo tho damage) was slight

In comparison with thai, suffered inoilier eitlen, Tho loss will bo aboutÇ 111,000.

CLIFF NQÜ3Í LOST;SANTA ROSA RUINED

(Hy AssoolaU-.l t'ross.)| SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., April 18.Ffoin tlio ClliT IIouso comes wordthat tho groat, pleasure report andshow place of tlio city, which stoodupon a foundation of si*"'' «'ock, hasbeen swept Into Hip sen. Not n thingstands (o tell whero tho monsterstono building once stood. It hl.sbeen .lovolod to tho foundation, andonly 111 o rock lining tho soacoast re¬

mains in! act.lir. Stono, HiiiK'i'iiitoniloiii of iho

Napa State Hospital, telephones tho(¡ovcrnbr's office Unit an aulomoblloarrived there with news that Rauta

Unan i¡¡ riiinotl, find thai between200 ¡nul ü00 lH'oplc an' Killed.

SALINAS SHAKEN;PEOPLE IN TERROR

iLiy As.-f,clan-»l l'i'css.)SALINAS, CAL., April IS.*.At.

5: .1 r, o'clock this morning, throeshocks p£ earthquake ¡hook Salinas,lasting, respectively, llvo, Hirco undforty-two seconds. Thny ('¡uno fromtho northeast and southwest. ' Thedamage is ? 1,500,000. No lives werelost in Sailor..;. A. Armstrong, ofSantu Cru«, jmiipod from tho win¬dow of tho .lol'fyers House and brokeit log.Among tho buildings destroyed in

Salinas aro the Kord and Stanbuiybuilding, dry goods; Kilts' Hall, Ma¬sonic Imilding, i ho Knights of Py¬thias building, armory, l'oit & Irv¬ing'h sloro, Logan c.wli'iy, (-.dd-Kol-lows' building, C"ity Hall and sevoral.smaller buildings, Ejyoiy window Intho city was broken. Chlniuoys lon-pled over and crashed through roofs,Slireekels's sugar factory, three milosfrom town, was dosirnyoil, causingtlamagii of $1,500,0,00, 'I'ho lligliSchool liulldiiig was wrecked. Sev¬oral stores lost* their entire slocks.

At 2:';*' o'clock tliis aftoi'iioon an-j

oilier shock was experienced, bul. no

lives were lost. Several men, womenand children were cut about Ihe faceby flying glass. There is intenso ex-

cilomont.At, Oilier rinces.

Salinas Is cut off from wire coin.muiilcallon with Sau Francisco, IISmiles north.

AI Wntsouville thn .Moreland Acad¬emy was destroyed by liro and sev«

oral, buildings collapsed. .

At Mom lerey and Pacifie droveI here was a slight, shock thai, causedllltlo damage. I

At tho Delmonl, Hotel three chl m-noys fell through tho mof, killing a

bridal pair and a holol sorvairt, and! injuring several othor porsona.

At HolUsler Granger's Union Waro-house was destroyed. Mrs. Griffithwas killed and lior husband becamecrazed on account of tlio shock,

| INSANE ASYLUMi AND HOTEL RUINED

I (By Associai«.» *ioss.)l.OS ANG.l.l.l-S, CAI.., April IS.--

News collie:) lo his oily firm NUO8,u small Iowa ¡n ihe Saina Clara

\'alley, alioul lil'ieea juili's from Sau

¡Jose, stating' .thai the t'lii'tlKiuako

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THE GREAT CITY IN MS ;FLIES HIE STILL RAGING

The Latest Reports Indicate That Entire SanFrancisco Has Been Wiped Out«-_

Pecuniary Loss Will ¿Be Over$200,000,000

CITY IS NOW UNDER MARTIAL LAW

(By Associated Preiis.)SAN FRANCISCO, April 18..At midnight the fire still-roars.

Fleeing inhabitants can see from miles around the pillars of firetowering skyward. The crash of falling ruins and the muffled re¬

ports of the exploding dynamite reach trie ear at regular intervals.A disaster that staggers comprehension, and in peint of terror ofdamage is unprecedented'', on the coast, has not yet reached its cul¬mination.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 18..10 P. M..It looks now as ifthe entire city will be burned. The Associated Press men are try¬ing to get matter to Oakland by boat, but they are very uncertain.The government is furnishing tugs but the* confusion is so greatthat they cannot be relied upon. It will be impossible to sendfull details for several days.

At io o'clock the fire was unabated and thousands of people;arc fleeing to the hills and clamoring for places on the ferry-boatsto cross the bay.

The damage is now believed to have reached $200,000,000 andfifty thousand people are thought to be homeless.

10:10 P. M..The newspapers have ceased all efforts to collectnews and the Associated Press is compelled to act independently.

RUINS OF GREAT CITY HARK PATHOF EARTHQUAKE AND TERRIBLE F1RE5

Ity Assoclutc'il 1-rcas.)SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., April 18..Earthquakes and fire to¬

day have put nearly half of San Francisco in ruins, At least 200

persons have been killed, a thousand injured, and the propertyloss will exceed one hundred million dollars. Thousands are home¬less and destitute, and all day long streams of people have beeafleeing from the stricken districts to places of safely.

It was 5:13 this morning when a terrific earthquake shockshook the whole city and surrounding country. One shock appar¬ently lasted two minutes, and there was almost immediate collapseof flimsy structures all over the city. The water supply was cut offand when fires broke out in various sections there was nothing to

do but let the buildings burn. Telegraph and telephone commu¬nication was cut off for a time. The Western Union was put com¬

pletely out of business, and the Postal Company was the only'company that managed to get a wire out of the city. About io

o'clock even the Postal was forced to suspend.Electric power was stopped and street cars did not run. Rail¬

roads and ferry-boats also ceased operations. Fires have been rag¬ing all day, and the fire department has been powerless to do any¬thing except dynamite buildings threatened. All day long explo¬sions have shaken the city and added to the terror of the inhab¬itants.

Following" the first shock there was another within five min¬utes, but not nearly so severe. Three hours later there was anotherslight quake. Reports from districts outside of San Francisco indi¬cate widespread damage. San Jose, fifty miles south, lost manybuildings and from fifteen to twenty persons were killed. Theannex of the Vendonie Hotel collapsed and fires broke out.

Stanford University and Palo Alto suffered greatly. At Stan¬ford many of the handsome buildings were demolished and two

persons were killed. One of them was Julius Robert Hanna, ofBradford, Pa., and the ether was Otto Gurts, a fireman.

Six other students are lying in the Palo Alto hospital, with*bruises, cuts and internal injuries.all California students.

The courthouse at Redwood City and "other buildings, collapsed.