DESTRUCTION OF GREAT BUILDINGS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8091, 23 April 1906, Page 2

DESTRUCTION OF GREAT BUILDINGS.

LOOTING BAMPANT, ISLAND DESTROYED BY TIDAL WAVE. MANY OTHEE TOWNS DESTEOYED. New Yobk, April 20. It was decided at noon to dynamite all the residences on the cast side of Van Ness Avenue, between the Golden Gate and Pacific Avenues, a distance of a mile. This was the most fashionable quarter. The Fairmost Hotel, Nob Hill, which has just been built at a cost of three million dollars, is blazing. Thirty-six Salvation Army buildings, their provincial headquarters, public halls, and industrial institutions have been burnt. The Government lost stores worth 3,700,000 dollars. Looting is rampant, despite death penalties. A sailor bayoncttcd one thief. _ General Furston is informed that 11 tidal wave destroyed Terminal Island, a seaside resort. The rich are fleeing from the Bay .cities, but the poor remain, being unable to meet the boatmen's exorbitant demands. The San Francisco College and the College of Physicians were saved by dynamiting all tho surrounding buildings. The residences of Huntington, Flood, and scores ef other millionaires have been burnt. The " Timos " states that the British oflices hold about twenty millions of insurances in San Francisco.

Santa Rosa, Healdsburg, Guerneyille, Cloverdale, Donland, Ukiak (over 100 miles from San Francisco), have been destroyod, manv pcoplo being killed.

A thousand deaths have occurred at hanta Rosa, where the Mcchanios' Pavilion has been temporarily converted into a morgue, the hospital being burnt.

Only ten out of 100 injured were saved.

_ Owing to the swift advance of the fire, gun cotton and navy shells .were used instead of dynamite, which is exhausted.

It is stated that one hundred million dollars' worth of securities arc stored in the deposit vaults in the burnt-out banking quarters. It is unknown if they are safe. Mesdames Hermann Oelrich and W. K. Vauderbilt fear they are ruined owing to being uninsured. Ten thousand frantic Chinese and thousands of Italians, Spaniards, and Mexicans fought until soldiers restored order.

Shocks wore felt at Las Angelos, Honolulu, Bosnia, and Manila. The shock at the Quiney Mine, Calumet, Michigan, killed a miner and is. jured four, a mile below the surface.

Despite the dynamiting of a mile of residences on the east side of Van Ness Avenue, the Ore spread west, involving the whole of the millionaires' suburbs.

There is no definite news regarding the shipping.

The members of the Confricd Opera Company took refuge in the Saint Francis Hotel, Caruso, and are safe. London, April 20. Tho London stock markets arc weak and insurance shares fell heavily, investment stocks arc lower owing to the fear that Insurance Companies will be compelled to rcaliso to pay claims.