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TH3 ROINS OF THE STANFOItD MEMORIAL
CHURCH.
The eastern section of the country Is
only now beginning to realize the wide
spread nature of the San Francisco
disaster. The pictures of the wrecked
and burning city now coming in tell
the story ns It was Impossible to tell it
In any other way.
The most tumbled and tangled dis
trict in the city is not the southern
fringe of Market street, the area where
the devastation was widest nnd the
ALL THAT REMAINS OF GRACE CIIL'RCH,
CALIFORNIA STREETS.
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GRACE CHURCH BEFORE THE
loss of life greatest, but on a little
Strip between Harrison and Valencia,
Seventeenth and Nineteenth streets. It
was In this area that the Valencia
Hotel sank Into the earth. The block
between Eighteenth and Nineteenth
streets nnd Valencia Is twisted out of
all appearance of bouses. The car
tracks at one place run in a wavy line
from one side of the curb to the other.
The asphalt Is broken as though great
bubbles had forced their way through
it
At the corner of Eighteenth and Vn-
Bftllii Wxskeo the Town.
Another Italian campanile, only one
dftgree lower In fame than that of Ven
ice, is threatened. This Is ihe great
bell tower of the Cathcural of Lecce,
one of ths loftiest in Italy about i50
feet. It i-also of great antinulty. Its
weakness Is due to the daily ringing of
its enormous bells.
Aluminum and Lvnd.
Aluminum and lead will not alloy.
They mlr when melted, but separate
wbea cooling.
Devastating Effects of
A SECTION
lencla there Is n hole ten feet wide.
The asphalt Is turned up from the cen
tre of this hole like the petals of a
flower, and from it comes a stream of
clear water. No one can tell whether
this stream conies from a broken main
or from a brook which used to run
down Eighteenth street.
Valencia Hotel sank ten feet into the
earth and pitched forward Into the
street. When the debris of tho hotel
STOCKTON AND
EARTHQUAKE AND FIRE.
was cleared away it was found tl:it
the asphalt pavement before It bad
bulged upward to make a mound four
feet high. The hole into which the
foundations sank Is filled with water.
The big fire obliterated tho old China
town forever. Mayor Schmitr. has in
formed Chief of l'olice Dinan that all
of the Chinese now in the city will be
collected and placed In and near Fon
tana's Warehouses, near Fort Mason,
and that the new Chinatown would be
located at Hunter's Point, on the
southern extremity of tho county on
VIEW AMONti HIE RllNS.
f.na lltlnreii Kiectrlclty.
It Is proposei to dispense with elec
tric light in the streets of rreston.
England, and to substitute iueandes
ceut gas lamps. Advocates of the
change consider that they will get a
butter light than now at cheaper cost.
Xvw French Htamp,
The new French penny stamp will
be printed In two colors, nnd will bear,
like the other stamp of the Republic,
a figure of a woman sowing seed lu a
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Earthquake and Fire
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OF THE CITY. DURING
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FRONT OF ST. MARY'S COLLEGE. SHoAVING DAMAGE DONE BY
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the bay shore. It is several miles dis
tant, from the old Chinatown. All
Chinese who have left the city and
who return to it will be concentrated
at the new point.
MARKET STREET AT
llf!iiiiltcf ln In Knslnnri.
The Itenedictiues from France, who
have settled at Malvern, Englaud, have
merely come home again. . King Ed
ward, the Confessor, founded n her
mitage at Malvern, and after the Nor
mal! conquest, in l(n;i. the hermitage
became i: Ri'tiodiotine priory.
PrlnrvM Knit'i Tltlr.
King Edward has ordained that
rrimess Ena of Battenberg, tho future
Queen of Spain, shall henceforth be
styleu her royal highness.
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in San Francisco.
It is now clodded that the oUl linos
of the city will not be followed, but
tint t Instead new thoroughfares will ba
traced, nil streets made wider tlmti
formerly, nnd a uniform style of archi
tecture ndoiited. For two years Daniel
lttirtiliam, tin architect, had been agi
tating for a city beautiful. He hail ral
lied many business men to Ids support,
but his plans were abandoned by tho
city authorities only two months ago
as beyond all reason In cost.
Now, the twin disaster of earthquake
and lire lias made possible the accom
plishment of Iturnham's dream, which
It hail been adinllled by every one
would transform San Francisco into
the most beautiful city In the world.
Work will begin at once In pushing
I'lirnlintn's Ideas to complete develop
ment, and all the municipal officials
are enthusiastic over the outlook.
Mayor Hchniitz expressed Ids delight
with the plan for the new San Fran-
cls'.;o.
The whole city will be remodeled,"
said Mayor Schmlt!!. "We will start
work right at the water front. Even
the ferry house, which survived the
fire, will be torn down and replaced
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by a magnificent structure on the Burn
liam desiuns. In the water front sec
tion alone we will spend $i",iKXMtl).
New wharves nnd depot will be built,
and market street from end to end
CORNER OF FIRST.
will offer two unbroken lines of sky
scrnpers. Throughout tho city Improve
ment will be carried out exactly ns Mr.
Ilurnhnm has advocated for two years.
"We will have a great boulevard nnd
terrace at Twin Peaks, nnd the severnl
now parks and other beauty spots con
ceived by the architect now will be con
structed. The changes will cost tens
of millions, but the result will be that
San Francisco will stand as the most
beautiful of all cities. I predict that
there will be nothing to compnro to the
new city In beauty nnd utility. We
were too cramped in ouf business
quarters. Now we are going to have
plenty of elbow-room, nnd. besides, we
will have a city that will delight the
eye. All the old ugliness has gone for
ever. "The new San Francisco will be bet
ter than the old, as was the case In
Boston. Chicago, Seattle. Galveston nnd
Baltimore, but on a much larger scale.
Thirty days will see 30,(k)0 men at
work in the burned district."
The delivery of telegraphic messages
to persons In San Francisco was an
impossibility. The messenger service
of both the big companies was paral
yzed. I'.norn In Mexico.
The Boer colony, established In the
State of Chihuahua, Mexico, two years
ago, is doing well. The colonists are
laying up money. They have d spensed
with Mexican labor and are doing their
own work.
The Conntrr'n Ornng Crop.
Last year's production of oranges In
this country wns ltVKio.ooo boxes, or
probably 1,000,000,000 oranges. That
is nn allowance of twenty to each Inhabitant.
ITDRNAOO LEVELS VILLAGE
Several Killed and Many Hurt
in Texas.
FIRE FOLLOWED THE STORM
Tornado Was a Mile Wide and Level
ed Everything in Its Path.
A tornado which swept through
Bollevue, Texas, destroyed every
thing In its path. The entire town
is a mass of ruins, only three build
ings are now standing, at least 11
persons are dead, and a number in
jured. The tornado was followed by
fire which consumed the wreckage.
The town of Bcllevue consisted of
over 2Uii houses.
Among those know killed are: R.
L. Russel, wife and four children; A.
D. Carr, Tom Mount, W. W. Bell,
two members of Gray family.
The seriously Injured: Two daugh
ters of N. E. Smith of Bowie, Mrs.
Gault. Mr. Gray anil five members of
his family, Mrs. McGraw.
A. D. Carr was caught In a build
ing, mushed to death and his body
cremated.
The tornado was a mile wide and
traveled eight miles, leveling every
thing In its path, ruining crops and
destroying Ml farm houscn and barns
on the way. Tills section Is thickly
settled.
All the houses were equipped with
storm cellars and the people ran to
tbO'n as soon as they saw the tornado
nppt (inching. Those who could not
leuch them sulferod.
Fire followed up the work of the
cyclone and rapidly destroyed por
tions of the towns which escaped the
work of the cyclone.
BURNED DISTRICT
Engineer Says Area Covered by Fire
Is 15 Square Miles.
"An engineer states that the area
devastated by fire In San Francisco
approximates 1 0.tiiio acres, or about
15 square miles. There lire few cities
in the world where so much valuable
property Ii contained In nn equal ter
ritory. Within this 15 square miles
were Ino banks, some of the finest
buildings. In the world, thousands of
mercantile and manufacturing estab
lishments anil more than 2:10,000 in
habitants, besides 10,001) transients.
"Notwithstanding the enormous and
widespread destruction the homes of
ItiO.nno people are still standing and
practically uninjured. There still re
main the great ship yards at tho Po
trero, the Parliio mall docks, the
stockyards at South San Francisco,
the docks nnd manufactories along the
water front from Mission creek to
Hunters Point, (lie mint, the post
tifllces nnd a largo retail district on
Fillmore and Devisadero streets."
A very different estimate Is made
by the city engineer of San Francisco
A trifle less than four square miles
or about 2. not) acres were burned over
by the fire following the earthquake,
according to City Engineer Wood
ward, who, completed an official map
of the burned area.
INSURANCE HATE INCREASED
General Advance to Replace Losses
on Pacific Coast.
There will be a general advance In
fire rates in all cities of the Unit
ed States in the near future to en
able the companies to recoup In a
measure their San Francisco losses
Rales have already been raised by
more than a score of companies on
property in New York, the advances
ranging frcm 5 to SO per cent.
A committee of five has been ap
pointed by the Fire Insurance Ex
change to deal with the question of
advancing rates.
Without awaiting the decision of the
committee a largo number of com
panies have Increased rates, with the
intention of rf cooping their San
Francisco lossrs as speedily as pos
sible. The example set will undoubt
edly he followed by all of the other
and the increase will lie general, ap
plying to proKrty In all cities and
sections of the country.
Hall t Henshaw, New York repre
sentatives of seven foreign and out
State companies, announced they had
advanced rates from T to fill per cent.
on property In the congested districts
of New York and Brooklyn.
The Fire Association of Phliadel
phia advanced Its premium rates in
the congested central district of that
city 25 per cent, nnd the American
Fire Insurance announced that It had
reinsured In the Commercial Union
Company of England its entire out
standing risks, except the perpetual
insurance. They al3o had ordered a
25 per cent, advance in premiums of
risks in the business of New York and
similar action will be taken else
where. With the advance- in prem
iums the Fire Association also re
duced from 15 to 10 per cent, the
commission allowed insurance brok-
Charged With Wife's Death.
The Cambridge. Mass.. police issued
a warrant for the arrest of Erich
Muenter, nn instructor in German at
Harvard University, on a charge of
murdering bis wife about two weeks
ago. It is alleged that Mrs. Mnen
ter'3 death was caused by arsenic.
The body was taken to Chicago on
April 17, Imt the case was not made
public until now.
Kansas Democratic Ticket.
The Kansas Democratic Slate
convention made the following nomi
nations for State officers: Governor,
William A. Harris, Lyndon: Lieuten
ant Governor, H. P. Farrelly. Chan
ute: Attorney General. David Over
niyer, Topeka: Secretary of State,
Hugh C. Ahlborn, Smith county;
Auditor, William Bowen. Atchison;
Treasurer, Patrick Gorman. William
A. Harris, candidate for Governor,
was formerly United States Senator
from Kansas
LIVINQ BURNED IN RUINS
Greatest Proportional Loss of Lifr
Occurred at Santa Rosa.
Compared to the population. It is
now believed that in Santa. Rosa thf
greatest loss of life occurred from
earthquake nnd fire, even if this un
fortunate city does not lead In tin
actual number of victims. In a Icttei
received from a former Los Angelei
man the writer says:
"This town Is In nwful shape
Then; Is not a single brick or stout
building standing and scores of fln
residences are In ruins. Fires brokf
out In the business district right af
ti'r the slicck and burned dead am'
living alike. There were three big
three-story hotels nnd while all ol
them fell hut one took lire. From th
St. Ruse I hey took out Hint' bodle!
today. They found a little girl in
these ruins. She was unhurt, but verj
hungry nnd thirsty, having been bur
led four days nnd nights. The tim
bers hud lodged 30 that they protect
ed her. Cases of this kind hava beer
numerous. , . ,
"There would undoubtedly hav
been a great many lives saved if thej
could have been got "out In the first
24 hours), but the task was so great
it was an impossibility."
ANTHRACITE OPERATORS REPLY
Responsibility Will t Be on Miners
Strike Is Declared.
The anthracite mine operators
through their sub-committee of seven,
at a meeting in New York drew up
reply to the latest proposition of tht
nilno workers for the adjustment ol
the differences in the anthracite flelc
iu which they refuse to modify theli
position heretofore announced. Th
operators call upon the miners to re
new for a period of three years the
award of the Anthracite Strike Conr
mission or else to accept the opera
tors' proposition that the Strike Com
mission arbitrate the question as tc
what changes, if any, shall he madt
in the scale of wages fixed by th
commission in its original award. Thf
miners have heretofore declined thli
offer.
The operators, after giving figure!
in detail, say to accept the slidin?
scale of wages proposed by the min
ers would mean nn increase in th
price of coal to the public of "G centi
a ton. The present profit to the oper
ators, they say, is but 20 cents a ton
TRAIN DYNAMITED
Engine Blown to Pieces and Engl
neer and Fireman Are Serious
ly Injured.
A quantity of dynamite p'aoed or
the tracks of the Lehigh Valley rail
road near Yntesville, five miles fron
Wilkes-Barre, Pa., exploded anc
wrecker! a fast freight train am;
severely injured Engineer J. R
Thomas and Fireman H. C. Brown, o'
tills city.
The dynamite had been placed oi
the track within 15 minutes of th
time the train struck it. The engini
was lifted from the track and flung ti
one side, the tank was torn loose anl
thrown high in the air and down ni
embankment, and three heavily load
ed freight cars which were behind i
were torn apart and hurled down tht
embankment.
Slierllf Davis was hastily sum
moned. Imt as yet lias made no ar
rests. Tlie outrage Of-curred near tin
East Boston settlement, where, sinci
the suspension of mining, the Ital
ians have caus?d serious troubles.
CAMPAIGN FUND BILL
Foraker, Knox and Bailey Improve or
Tillman's Measure.
The senate committee on privilege
nnd elections by unanimous vote an
thorized Senator Forakej- to repor1
favorably the Tillman bill to prohibit
Insurance and other corporations from
contribution to campaign funds.
The bill was amended by a sub
committee consisting of Senaton
Foraker, Knox and Bailey, and war
made to apply to corporations of al
kinds and to all elections for presi
denthil and vice presidential electors,
for legislatures where Lnlted State;
senators are to be chosen, and fo,
representatives In congress. I'
makes offending corporations subjec
to a fine of $5,000, nnd an cmploy
of corporations subject to a fine ol
$1,000. ,
The measure does not api 'y to per
sons receiving such contributions.
MONEY PAID TO HAMILTON
Proof That He Had Dealings Wit!
Northwestern Mutual Life.
That Andrew Hamilton, of New
York, had dealings with the North
western Mutual Life Insurance com
pany came out in the testimony befon
the Wisconsin Legislative insurance
investigating committee. Genera
Counsel George II. Noyes, of tht
Northwestern, testified that In 190;
Hamilton had been paid $0,S7 foi
services to the company In obtaining
a refund from the State of New York
on taxes to the company which wert
assessed at $..3,53(;.
Washington News Notes.
The President has sent, to the sen
ate the nomination of Julius Jacobs
to he assisant treasurer of the Unit
ed States at San Francisco.
The senate committee on postoffices
and post roads voted to r.'port favor
ably the nomination of Benjamin F
Barnes, assistant secretary to Presl
dent Roosevelt, to be postmroter o-,
Washington.
Another Shock.
San Francisco had another earth
quake shock atr 10:39 o'clock on tht
night of April 23, which lasted three
seconds. The oscillations wert
from East to West. No damage was
done so far as at present reported.
The courts of Allegheny county, in
an opinion banded down by Judge
S. A. McClung. upheld the consti
tutionality of the Greater Pittsburg
law passed at the recent extra ses
sion of the Pennsylvania Legislature.
KEYSTOi STATE WILLIS'
CAPITOL DEDICATION
Date Fixed President and Members
of the Cabinet Will Be Invit
ed to Attend.
Tho Capitol Dedication commission,
officially fixed October 4 next as the
date for the dedication of tho- new
State Capitol. President Theodora
Roosevelt, nnd probably Mrs. Roose
velt, and the members of the Presi
dent's cabinet nnd their vives will
attend the exercises. - A largo
grandstand will be erected at the en
trance to the Capitol for the dedica
tory exercises. In the evening It is
probable a banquet will be served to
which the President and other dig
nitaries will bo invited. Tho com
mission consists of Gov. S. W. Pen
nypacker, Speaker Henry F. Walton,
Senator John C. Fox, of Dauphin;
Senator W. C. Sproul, of Delaware,
and members of the board of public,
grounds and buildings. The Govern
or will communicate with President
Roosevelt regarding any suggestions
he desires to make relative to tho
dedication.
The central power house of tho
Venango Power & Traction Company
in Oil City, controlling all the elec
tric lighting and street car systems)
of Oil City, Franklin ami their su
burbs, was destroyed by fire, entail
ing a loss of $350,000, with insur
ance of $75,000. The flames origi
nated in tlie boiler room. The de
struction of the power house wilt
cause a suspension of street car
traffic in Venango county for at least
three weeks. The officers of the com
pany expect to have street lights in ,
operation in Franklin nnd OH City
within a week. In tlie meantime the
streets and those business houses
which ure not equipped with private
electrical plants will be in dark
ness. The reception . to be extended the
survivors of the famous Tenth Regi
ment volunteers, yhen they hold
their eight annual) reunion at Do
nora on July 31, promises to ba
equal In any that hasVgnne before. At
the conference between tho commit
tee representing the veteran asso
ciation of the Tenth regiWnt and the
citizens of Dnnora plans were dis
cussed whic if carried ouK will make
the reunion a complete sucVess.
Very few, if any, of the oiVr4irs
in the Clearfield region have take
advantage of the offer extended by
the miners at their reconvened con
vention permitting independent sign
ing of contract under the terms of
the 1903 scale. When the conven
tion decided to allow Independent ac
tion the delegates were of the opin
ion that 00 per cent, of the opera
tors would sign at once. ,
Harold W. Carmlchael, l(i year
old, son of a wealthy contractor of
Wellsburg, W. Va., was killed near
Franklin by the explosion of a num
ber of percussion dynamite caps
which lie carried in his pocket. Ha
and Frank McClaren. anothpr lad.
found the caps and Carmichael dis
charged one of them. The concus
sion set off those he carried in his
pockets.
John Rugli, 83 years old, was
found dead at the gateway leading
into his stable yard at his home In
tlie Eighth ward, Groensburg. Ho is
survived uy two naughters and two
sons. Misses Johanna nnd Amanda,
at hornet and Charles, a member of
the Westmoreland bar, and Albert
Rugh, of Greensburg.
John Z. Murrln was killed and J.
M. Thompson had a Teg and arm
broken by a falling tree at Murrins
ville, Butler county. The men stop
ped to watch the lumbermen fell
trees. One tree, carried out of Its
course by the high wind, fell on Mur
rin and Thompson.
neorge D. C. Miller and J. R.
Dunham, watchmen at the Humbert
tin plate mill, Connellsville detected
three men In the plant stripping the
engines and machinery of brass and
fired at them. Ahout a dozen shots
were exchanged,' but the thieves es
caped. While leaning out of an engine
cab at Hickman Run, Fireman John
F. Brooks's head was caught between
a freight car and the cab and was
mashed to a pulp. Death, was -Instantaneous.
Brooks was 2S years
old. His parents live in Georgia.
Joseph Feinogle, of Pittsburg-,
charged with stealing diamonds and
Jewelry from the store of H. B. Cub
bison at New Castle, where he was
employed, was held for trial at
court, being committed to Jail in de
fault of bail.
Alfred Sweeney, a former resident
of Oil City, was drowned at Minati
tian, Mex., on April 17. His mother,
two sisters and a brother, Joseph P.
Sweeney, cashier of the First Nation
al bank of Sistersvllle, W. Va., sur
vive him.
Andrew Carnegie, in a letter re
ceived by Dr. J. F. Bucher offers to
give $25.0fiO for the erection of a
science hall for Waynesburg college,
providing $50,000 additional endow
ment is raised. Tho college authori
ties expect to raise the required
amount.
Dynamite was exp;oded by un
known persons in front of the gro
,cery store of Martin traub at Plum
er. The front of the building was
wrecked, hut none was Injured.
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