DETAILS OF THE DESTRUCTION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8090, 21 April 1906, Page 2

DETAILS OF THE DESTRUCTION.

TYPHOID EPIDEMIC FEARED. New York, April 19. Five peoplo were killed at Oakland. There wero many fatalities at Santa Cruz, also thirty-six were killed at San Amos. Trto hundred were killed, and ten thousand arc homeless at Santa Bosa. Two hundred and seventy perished at Agnow Asylum, near San Jose. The shipping at San Francisco was less damaged than reported. The Asiatic quarter was destroyed. The Jesuit Church College of* Saint Ignatius, which cost two million dollars, was demolished. The University of California is safe. Four looters wero shot. Tho mint is on fire. There are 100,000 poople homolcss. Outside help is arriving from all directions. Tho Cliff Houso pleasure resort was swept into the sea. The damage to property is estimated at botween thirty and forty millions sterling. The fire insurance risks amount to £50,000,000, British, offices being hardest hit. London, April 10. Tho New York " Journal's " correspondent states that the first shock tossed the city like a feather in tho wind, making buildings rock like poplars in a storm In throe minutes the city was a mass of dobris. Some reports state that the water front was swept by a tidal wave, shipping being swept into the street, and many peoplf boing drowned. There is a frightful stonoh from' broken gas and sower mains, which will, it is feared, cause an epidemic of typhoid. The gasworks blew up. The Grand Opera House and Claus Spreckles' office, the finest building of its kind in the West, were crushed like egg-shells. The WestornUnion Telegraph Office was wrecked. Many millionaires' mansions were burnt. Professor Milne, seismic expert at the Isle of Wight, suggests that tho earthquake was possibly caused by the earth's swinging a little off its axis, ths strain in its struggle to get back breaking the earth's crust.