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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1906
Page
11
A massive quake devastates a major city causing hundreds of deaths and extensive building collapses. Water supply fails as a raging fire follows, with limited means to combat the blaze. Officials report hundreds of millions in losses and widespread ruin.
Reports from San Francisco describe a quake at 6 15 am and a massive fire that burned for three days, razing ten square miles, injuring and homelessing hundreds of thousands. Water mains failed, dyn ami te was used to fight flames, martial law was declared, and relief poured in from across the nation as estimates put losses in the hundreds of millions of dollars and deaths in the hundreds.
Destruction from a major earthquake and ensuing fires devastates Santa Rosa in Sonoma County and reaches Healdsburg Geyserville Cloverdale and Ukiah. Thousands feared dead and tens of thousands homeless as main streets and county buildings collapse. Frontier counties report widespread ruin and loss.
San Francisco April 19. The daybreak sun exposed the massive destruction from the disaster that struck the city. From the eastern hills observers saw ruined districts where grand structures once stood, now only frail walls and twisted debris amid smoke and ash.
Dawn reveals a city scarred by a night of flames that consumed many of San Francisco's finest structures. The blaze spread in multiple directions from the north beach to the south and shipping districts, destroying warehouses and manufacturing concerns and leaving the entire district in ruins. The fire traced Market Street route through Third and Townsend streets, with extensive damage across the city.
California governor George C. Pardee issues a proclamation after the San Francisco earthquake and conflagration declaring Thursday April 19, 1906 a public holiday for the state. The aim is to allow citizens to aid the distressed, restore calm, regain confidence, and avert financial panic.
Thousands of refugees migrate to Oakland amid San Francisco upheaval as residents seek safer areas. City officials urge calm while aid networks mobilize to assist displaced families and establish temporary shelters.
Washington reports prompt action by the war department to mobilize all available resources for the quake relief. Supplies will be sent quickly to shelter the homeless and support authorities, with Secretary Taft and General Funston coordinating a dawn conference and Gen Bell directing orders from the White House.
Paris cables President Fallieres telegraphing deepest sympathy to President Roosevelt for the United States distress after the San Francisco earthquake. Many San Franciscans, including Spreckles family members in Paris, are anxious as Miss Lurlin Spreckles prepares to marry Spencer Eddy, secretary of the American embassy at St Petersburg.
The Southern Pacific company seeks to restore rail and wire communications with San Francisco after 29 hours of disruption. North communications are cut above Santa Rosa. south trains halted past Fresno. east wires cut west of the Utah line. A Sacramento to Oakland route via Stockton is being tested. BE Harriman orders restore communications at any cost, directing efforts on three lines.
Western Union Telegraph company wired orders to San Francisco Chicago and other hubs on April 19 to finish aerial cable and wire installations for a new office. The dispatch speeds up equipment delivery with shipments of ten infies of gear reportedly included in the consignment.
At noon Mayor Charles A. Bookwalter consulted Indianapolis businessmen before sending a telegram to San Francisco mayor HE E Schmitz authorizing a draft for 10000 to aid suffering residents. A general relief call urged donations with any excess to go to the Red Cross society.
London residents express deep sorrow and readiness to aid San Francisco victims if financial relief is needed, though many expect Americans to handle the recovery without outside help. Church groups and societies voiced condolences while relatives sought news at the American embassy and AP offices.
Reports from Brawley California say the town of about 500 residents was nearly destroyed by yesterday's quake. Southern Pacific officials list the destruction of the bank building Paulin building and main storefronts with many adobe houses razed. No fatalities reported.
In New York on April 19 underwriters faced bewilderment estimating California quake losses with notes of a $100,000,000 property value collapse and burn. a Baltimore 1904 parallel looms, though fire underwriters face different liability.
Sheriff M C Martin and wife recount a San Jose earthquake. The back of a building collapsed, many streets filled with wrecks, eight known dead including two firemen, the St James hotel damaged, and the asylum at Agnew’s reported collapsing with numerous inmates dead or injured.
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