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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8089, 20 April 1906, Page 2

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SITUATION BECOMING DESPERARE. FIBE BUBNING IN ALL QtfABTEBS. JEOQPS GUABDING PBOPEBTY, A Committee of safety . fobmed. food supplies fob the homeless. Bcceived 19, II.81) p.m. Londo.v, April 19. ■Late Kef York telegrams state tlut allowing for hysterical reports, it ii ■ apparentjthe situation at San Francisco it becoming desperate. Fire ii burning furiously in all quarters. , Tiro * regiments of regulars guard million* . worth of properly, placed in the streets to avoid the flames. ~^i The Mayor appointed a Committee of Safety, and ordered the bakeries and milk stations to supply the homeless. Eighty insurances companies resolved not to discriminate between fire and earthquake losses. The Conriod Opera Company lost all their scenery and personal luggage. * Many inmates of the asylum of San Jose were burned in the ruins. THOUSANDS BEPOETED " KILLED. INFLUENTIAL BUBUBB DEBTBOYED. EYE WITNESSES' DESCBIP. TIONB. PEOPLE DUMFOUJSTDED AND INCOHERENT, THBEATEN TO SHOOT INTERVIEWEES, Beoeived 20,13,98 a.m. ' ;* LoHDOH, April 19. '; General Funaton has praetioally 3f established martial law in San Fran- ■ $ eisoo. t ji The Federal authorities at Chicago "g have been advised that the killed .'% number thousands.- „f| Another account says two thousand'- ••$ five hundred were killed. .jE It is reported that the subu'b of | Berkeley was destroyed, it contained ? the University of California and other '• State iiwututiois.

Eyo witnesses state th« streets bulged and waved as if about to crack. The peoplo were duiufoundod tod vincoherent and threatened to shoot if? pestered by interviewers. REFOBTED LOSS OP A BQUADEON. .u, MANY NEWSPAPEH MEN ite

KILLED. • || Deceived 20,18.28 a.m. ft Losdqjt, April». -,S What is apparently a bascl«w. r*>- "'1 port states that the Amoricat*»fcifio' ''j squadron sank while anchored l in the 'j Bay. _ Ug Communication was for a long line 3 limited to one wire. - ,T It is feared that many journalist*- g were killed through the collapse of they Examiner and " Calls " ten storeyedl -■■ * buildings. . SENSATION IN SYDNEY.. 'l| MESSAGES OP SYMPATHY. '<Ji Received 20, 1.0 a.m. *!■ Sydsbv, ApeU IK. 1 Details of the 'Frisco disaster' J croated a sensation here. A large number of cables wero sent, making enquiries about tho safety of relatives, jfl Hons. Carruthers and Bent sent a joint - v« telegram of sympathy. * Vaß 'FRISCO MAILS CONSIDERED 'lll safe. l ;m tidal WAVE NOT aNTlCltated. $ Auckland, April 20. ,« The mail steamer Sonoma was timed V to leave San Francisco for TsUnd port, aud Auckland to-day. ,flB Messrs. Henderson A MaePerUoe, -JH local agents, think, however, tIM thesteamer will be delayed for Some days, -J® in view of tho nvmeadons nature of' ■ jjW the casualty and the fact that the 1 Jrajj

' ■ ■ ■ tefiFflestroyed. and that tlic' cargo for shipment by the steamer has also met with a like fate.; _ iftnay be pointed oitwat thiipnlails from the Eastern States r inoluclwg British maili, come to Oaklands, across .the harbor from Saa Franefflco. They are brought: over by the ferry steamers, and transferred > to th» mail steamer. It is not, therefore, likely that any oE the British mails would be in the San Francisco Post Office at the time of the disaster, i As to tjia priests of a tidal wave v accompanying the earthquake, it is considered very prSbiblo by local persons interviewed. One well-known gentleman, who has made several visits across the Pacific, said, upon being questioned, ''There arc too many Islands between Auckland and San Francisco for anything like a tidal wave to reach Auckland. These Islands would act as a natural break

to the strength of a tidal wave sweep- ,*** ing ofer the ooean towards New lZealand, and' although some rise in tides may oocur, I do not think that we need hate any fiar of any disaster." BECOBDED IN WELLINGTON. Wsllinbtox, April 19. The first wares of the 'Frisco earthquakeswere registered on the siesmograph at 1.2. this morning. CONDOLENCE FKOM NEW . ZEALAND. Weihsgtox, April 19. Mr Seddon hie sent messages pf condolence on behalf of the Government and the people of New Zealand to the President of the-United Statesj and,to the Mayor of 'Frisco and to Mr Stephenson' Sifiith. New Zealand Government ageit.