Frisco Cable Details San Francisco Earthquake Fire Devastation
San Francisco reports describe the earthquake and fires tearing through the city walls collapsing and water mains broken. Fire spread rapidly with many buildings burned including the Palace St Francis Fairmont and other landmarks. Martial law declared and relief efforts under way as citizens panic and losses mount reaching into the millions.
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Whosale
Buides Market Street
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Epate
Ted
Sixteenth Street
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van Ness Avenue
Hays Valley
Octavia
St. Francis
Fairmont Hotel
San Francisco Responds to Call of the Cable
Telegraphers work at the burned district office as the Commercial Cable Company aims to restore the San Francisco Honolulu line. Messages will be delivered only to applicants while the city rebuilds after the fire. The Oakland office is believed to be active, seeking to reestablish the old headquarters site.
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Bishop & Co
Honolulu
San Francisco
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Eley
San Francisco-Honolulu
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Commercial Cable Company
Oakland
Earthquake Ravages California Cities in Widespread Destruction
A damaging earthquake severely strikes Oakland and neighboring regions. Santa Cruz Monterey Gilroy Hollister and Santa Rosa suffer extensive destruction with many lives affected or lost. The disaster's scale prompts urgent warnings and relief efforts.
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Santa Cruz
Monterey
Gilroy
Hollister
Santa Rosa
Storms and disasters loom over Europe and North America
Tornadoes electric storms floods and earthquakes devastate regions from Huntish Columbia to California and Mexico while European meteorology warns of cataclysmic crust changes. Reports describe a Courrieres disaster linked to atmospheric conditions and looming dangers across the Eastern hemisphere with forebodings of further catastrophes.
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Europe
Courrieres
France
Germany
Heriin Observatory
Conrterieres
Frave
JF. Kemp
Department of Gealogy
Columbia University
Juta
Herlin University
Dheer
Frisco Cable Man Waiting For Battery
A vague Frisco cable note reports a San Francisco superintendent trying to obtain a battery from New York after a delay. The message, sent to the public, touches on a battery shortage and an official reply from New York.
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Frisco
Untitled Bottomley Safe Breach Mail Message Fragment
A fragmented cable report describes Bottomley Safe being broken into and references a banking house and a New York cablegram to Vice President Reynolds of the United States Paper Export Association. It mentions Mey Bottomley and relatives sending a message from New York, with limited readable details.
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Bottomley
Siohsp & Go
Mey Bottomley
Conna
New York
T. @. Reynolds
United States Paper Export Association
Reynolds
Francisco
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