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SAN FRANCISCO.

MANSIONS DYNAMITED. THOUSANDS OF DEAD. MANY CITIES IN RUINS. MILLIONAIRES RUINED. AUSTRALIAN PLAYERS SAFENew York, April 20. It was decided at noon to Idynamite all the residences on the east side of Vauneris Avenue between Golden Gate and Pacific Av&iues, The distance is a mile, This is the most fashionable quarter of the city.

Fiirinost Hotel on Nob Hill, 'which has just been built at a cost of three million dollars, is blazing.

Thirty-six Salvation Army buildings, their provincial head* quarters, public hall and industrial institutions have been burnt.

The Government lost stores worth 2,700,000 dollars, looting is rampant despite the death penalties. A sailor bayoneted one thief.

General Funston has telegraphed that a tidal wave destroyed the Terminal Island seaside resort.

: J.The rich are flying to the Bay cities from San Francisco. The poor remain, being unable to meet the boatmen’s exorbitant demands.

Six of the Pacific and Saint Francis hospitals were saved from fire by dynamiting all the surrounding buildings. The residences of Messrs Huntington, Flood, Baldwin, and scores of other millionaires have been burnt.

London, April 20. The Times states that the British offices hold about twenty millions of insurances in San Francisco.

The London banks have offered aid to the San Francisco banks. Many English organisations are contributing liberally. New York, April 20. The cities of Santa Rosa (61 miles north-east of San Francisco), Healdsburg, Gesserville, Cloverdale, Copland and Ukiak were destroyed and many people were killed.

’'There are a thousand dead at Santa Rosa. The Mechanics pavilion has been temporarily converted into a morgue. The hospital was burnt and only ten out of a hundred patients were saved owing to the swift advance of the fire. Guncotton and navy shells are being used instead of dynamite, the supply of which is exhausted.

It is stated that a hundred million dollars’ worth of securities are stored in tlie deposit vaults in the burnt out banking quarter. It is unknown if they are safe.

Mrs Hermann Oelrich and W. K. Vanderbilt fear they will be ruined owing to be uninsured. Ten thousand frantic Chinese and thousands of Italians, Spaniards and Mexicans fought until the soldiers restored order.

London, April 20, The London stock markets are weak. Insurance shares fell heavily and investment stocks are lower owing to the fear of insurance companies that they will be compelled to raise and pay claims.

London, April 20. Despite the dynamiting of a mile of residences on the east side of Vanner’s Avenue, the fire has spread to the west, involving the whole of the millionaires’ suburbs. There is no definite news in regard to the shipping. The members of the Confried Opera Company took refuge in Saint Francis’ Hotel. M.'Caruso, the eminent singer, Is safe. Wellington, April 21. The following cable has been handed to the Press by the Premier. The message is from the Superintendent of the Pacific Cable Company in ’Frisco: — “ The fire is still going on and will probably consume the whole city, except the streets situated between Golden Gate Park and Webster - street. Here there is water, allowing the fire department ■*“’Ghance of success. “ The number of refugees struggling to leave the city is probably 200,000. “Thecity is suffering terribly from lack-of water.” The Latest. ft THE OULOOK BETTER. WATER AND BREAD HOPEFUL. New York. At San Bruno (a few miles south of San Francisco, and the headquarter of the Western Meat Company) the Roid abattoir was destroyed by fire. Three hundred

cattle rushed into the streets, trampling t:pon and goring people. During the fire at San Francisco a menageri broke loose. The frantic animals, roaring terribly, created a panic in the neighbour* hood until they were shot by soldiers or perished in flames.

A committee of bankers inspected the banks’ vaults, and reports that everything is intact. The vaults are securely guarded. The bankers are confident that depositors will be paid in full.

’ Bankers and merchants are conferring at Oakland respecting the rebuilding of the city on a greater scale than ever. They are also considering measures for the prevention of financial panic. Eleven clerks, apparently dead, were found in the debris at the Post Office. They have been without food and water for three days. They are now recovering. The police poured into the gutters all alcohol from the saloons and grocers’ stores. They seized all provisions, which they are distributing sparingly to large number of applicants. The water famine is even more serious than the scarcity of food. _ Furious fighting took place until the military seized and dispensed the available supply of water. Hundreds of people wandered the hills in search of water. They drank anything. The mains are nearly repaired, audit is hoped that ten million gallons a day will soon be available.

The parks present a piteous aspect at night. All social distinctions have disappeared. Rich and poor, criminals and respectable people, Chinese, foreigners, negroes, society belles, and . factory girls, are all huddled together, yet disposed to help one another. Many of the refugees died of exposure.

Five babies were born in the parks. Many thousands of refugees have left the city. All towns in the vicinity of San Francisco are threatened with shortage of food.

Stations for the relief of sufferers at San Francisco have been established at Golden Gate Park and the Presidio military reserve. Arrangements have been made to bake fifty thousand loaves daily in the undamaged area; also to deliver daily ten million gallons of water.

A special train with one hundred surgeons .and trains full of provisions and tents have arrived.

The Hamburg-American line cabled a gift of five thousand sterling. The gift was declined by President Roosevelt with an expression of warm thanks, Cabinet having decided that foreign assistance is not needed in view of the bountiful response on the part of Americans.

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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3642, 24 April 1906, Page 3

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SAN FRANCISCO. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3642, 24 April 1906, Page 3

SAN FRANCISCO. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3642, 24 April 1906, Page 3

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