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Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1729, 21 April 1906, Page 2

CALAMITY IN AMERICA.

afjernoon bulletin. A DOOMED CITY. ALARMING REPORTS FROM THE INTERIOR. (Special Press Association Message.) Wellington, 1.80 p.m. Friday. The latest bulletin states that the entire city of San Francisco is doomed. Fires are still raging. There are no large buildings standing. Reports from the interior are alarming. The Cables. (Official Messago.) .5 a.m. Vancouver advises :—“ There is no outlet from the town of San Francisco, San Jose, or Oaklands. _ All other Californian points are subject to heavy delay.” W H. Renner, Chief Postmaster. Gisborne. Government Bulletin. THE FIRES STILL RAGING. NO LARGE” BUILDINGS STANDING.

(Official Message.) Wellington, Friday afternoon. The last bulletin from San Francisco says the fire is still raging. The entire city is doomed.. Every building in the business district and nearly half the residential section have been destroyed. No large building is standing. The greatest loss of life was in South Market Street. Six hundred bodies have been recovered. St Agnes' Insane Asylum has been destroyed with the majority of the inmates. Eeports from the interior are alarming.

A Few Retails. CITY TOSSED LIKE A FEATHER. l! 1 ••• -! (Received April 20, 8.3 a.m.) London, April 19. The Grand Opera House and Claus Spreckel’s 19-storey office, the finest building of its kind in the West, were crushed like egg-shells. The Western Union Telegraph office in Montgomery Street, a large, old-fashioned edifice of brick, was wrecked. Many millionaires’ mansions, situate on the heights of the city, have been burned. Professor Milne, the famous expert in seismology, whose observatory at the Isle of Wight is the most complete of its kind in the world, advances the theory that the earthquake was possibly caused by the earth’s swinging off its axis, the strain of the struggle to get back causing a breakage of the earth’s crust. (Received April 20, 8.45 a m.) The New York Journal’s San Francisco correspondents state that the first shock tossed the city like a feather blown by the wind, making great buildings rock like poplars in a storm. Within the space of three minutes of dreadful turmoil the city was a mass of debris. Some reports state that the water front shipping was swept into the streets. Many people were drowned. A frightful stench has arisen from broken gas and sewer mains, causing fears of an epidemic of typhoid. The gasworks blew up. (Received April 20, 10.2 a.m ) New York, April 19. Five persons were killed at the suburb of Oakland. There were many fatalities at Santa Cruz, a seaside town GO miles south of San Francisco, and also thirty-six persons were killed at San Jose, 48 miles south of ’Frisco. Two hundred people were killed, and ten thousand are homeless at Santa Rosa, a nourishing city 50 miles north of ’Frisco. Two hundred and seventy inmates perished in the collapse of the Agnew Asylum, near San Jose. (Received April 20, 10 11 a m ) The shipping at San Francisco was less damaged than was at first reported. The Asiatic quarter of the city, known as Chinatown, has been destroyed. The Jesuit church and College, St. Ignatif’s, costing two million dollars, was demolished.

The University of California, at ii Oaklande, previously reported to have y been lost, is safe. y Four persons who were caught 3 undering wore shot. " pi The Mint, aline building near the 3 Post Office, is reported to be afire. [ One hundred thousand people are , homeless. Outside helping is arriving . from all directions. The Cliff House, a famous pleasure resort, at the entrance of the Golden Gate, has been swept into the sea. The damage to property is variously estimated at twenty, thirty, and forty millions of pounds sterling. The lire insurance risks amount to fifty millions. British offices are the hardest hit by the calamity. HOMELESS PEOPLE. TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND WITHOUT HOMEd. ALL GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS DESTROYED. Received 9.7 p.m., April 20. New York, April 19. A Reuter message states that it is impossible to trace individuals in the present confusion, but Englishmen and foreigners staying at the big hotels , are doubtless safe. i The casualties so far are confined to the poorer tenoment section. I General Funston telegraphs to President Roosevelt that there are two E hundred thousand homeless * Food and tents are scarce. 8 All Government buildings have 0 been destroyed, p