300,000 PEOPLE IN THE PARKS.
IN WANT OF FOOD AND WATER, THE MINT SAVED. HEAVY MORTALITY IN OTHER TOWNS. PACIFIC SQUADRON SAFE. Received 20,11.14 p.m. New Yobk, April 20. The Merchants' Exchange, Mrs Stanford's residence, and Mark Hopkin's Institute of Art were burnt. Some of the pictures in the latter were saved. A hundred thousand people passed Wednesday night [in the parks, and probably three hundred thousand on Thursday. Want of food and water is causing much suffering. Thousands are wait* ing while soldiers distribute water. The sale ot food to the rich has been prevented. They were buying largely. Wednesday's shock occasioned heavy mortality at Santa Cruz, Palo Alto, Napa City, Monterey, Gilroy and Hoilister. Spreckle's sugar factory at Salianas was destroyed. The employees, by desperate efforts, saved the mint, with sixty million dollars.
The Pacific Squadron is safe at Long Beach,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8090, 21 April 1906, Page 2
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143300,000 PEOPLE IN THE PARKS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8090, 21 April 1906, Page 2
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