Day of Panic Night of Terror in San Francisco
San Francisco trembles as a massive earthquake devastates the coast. Reports say Leland Stanford University buildings collapse, Agnews asylum wrecked with hundreds dead, Berkeley and Salinas suffer severe damage, and fires ignite the wholesale and retail districts. Troops patrol streets under martial law as dawn reveals ruined landmarks and firefighting struggles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Leland Stanford University
Stanford
Palo Alto
Agnews
Bay
Berkeley
University of California
Oakland
Alameda
Salinas
Monterey
Sacramento
Stockton
Watsonville
Vallejo
Howard
East
Sansome
California
Ica
Earth
Heaven
Portsmouth Square
Chinatown
Barbary
Montgomery Street
Vast San Francisco Earthquake Devastates City
The city endures two shocks as thousands flee burning blocks. Fires race through Market and California streets while hotels and offices collapse. Debris chokes streets, hospitals panic, martial law forms as firefighters, militia, and Oakland volunteers battle columns of flame and rescue the injured.
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Market Street
Water Front
Oakland
Bay
Seventh Street
Mission
Howard
Valencia
Seventeenth
Mission District
San Francisco
City Hall
New Post Office
Call
Hobart
Merchants’ Exchange
Great Mills
Ninth
Phelan
Examiner
Monadnock
Grant
Parrott
Palace
Grand
Market
California Street
Wall Street
Union Ferry
Stevenson Street
Claus Spreckles
Grand Opera House
Caruso
Metropolitan Grand Opera Company
Oakland Fire Department
Water Department
Hill
Schmitz
Funston
Presidio
National Guard
California
Santa Clara Valley
Overland Terminal
Montgomery Street
Montgomery
Sansome Street
Board of Supervisors
Committee of Safety
Druys
Congress Increases Relief Aid To San Francisco Sufferers
In Washington on April 19 the senate relief bill for San Francisco quake victims was amended by the appropriations committee to raise the aid from 500000 to 1000000 dollars. The measure now awaits final passage amid broader debate on disaster assistance.
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Washington
Senate
San Francisco
House Committee On Appropriations
Relief funds authorized for California earthquake victims
Senator Perkins introduced a joint resolution to authorize War Department supplies and a 500000 relief appropriation for California quake and fire survivors, with immediate transmission to the House. Miss Fern Pratt of Andrews plans a June wedding in Baton Rouge to How ard Warrell, an electrician. An Elkhart man requests exhumation of his amputated hand due to twitching sensations. Mrs. Minnie Strouse of Garrett sues B and O for 10000 after a wreck blamed on a dispatcher. Wabash rumor of an infant's remains in a back yard provokes inquiry. bones deemed human but amputated in origin.
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Washington
Senate
Perkins
Secretary of War
California
House of Representatives
Fern Pratt
Andrews
Haton Rouge
Howard Warrell
Miss Pratt
United States
Robert McGee
Elkhart
Minnie B. Strouse
Garrett
Baltimore and Ohio Railrroad Company
Albion
Wabash
Will Meet at Marion Endorses Ministers in Liquor Fight
The spring convention of the churches of Christ in the fifth district, meeting at West Creighton Avenue Church of Christ, decided to hold the next gathering in Marion on Sept 19 and 20. The committee on resolutions endorsed the local ministerial association for fighting liquor traffic and thanked the local congregation for hospitality during the convention. Delegates from Decatur, Huntington, Wabash, Marion, Gas City, Markle and others attended chaired by district officers E. Daugherty, J. H. Vinson, M. F. Rickoff, A. M Gillespie.
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Churches of Christ
Fifth District
Creighton Avenue
Church of Christ
Marion
Committee On
Phaeaaeami
Rickoff
Effie Cunningham
Jones
David Freeze
Wabash
W. A. McKown
Decatur
Huntington
Gas City
Markle
Association
E. Daugherty
J. H. Vinson
M. F. Rickoff
A. M. Gillespie
Edgar F. Daugherty
Thes
Miller
T. J. Lege
Goshen
G. G. Wilson
Harlan
Christian Endeavor Society
Horace G. Murphy
Indianagees
Murphy
J. E. Rose
Muncie
Cephas Shelbourne
Huntihaton
C. H. Wharton
Boy Struck By Horse In Peru Accident
Clyde Dorn of Peru while moving a house with a capstan driven horse threw a stone at a animal to speed its pace. The horse kicked a boy in the face causing serious injury. Five Wabash men start a small boat trip down the Wabash and Mississippi rivers toward the Gulf of Mexico led by Hoyt Summers, Charles Story, Scott Lunz, Wade Laidlaw, and Frank Williams. The North Indiana M B Conference met at Alexandria and surprised Bristol by assigning Rev. C H Murray to the Bristol church. he had led Waterloo M B Church for a year and the congregation regrets his departure.
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Clyde Dorn
Peru
Wabash
Ohio
Mississippi
Gulf of Mexico
Hoyt Summers
Charles Story
Scott Lunz
Wade Laidlaw
Frank Williams
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Aguin
Second
Eighth
Folsom Streets
Union Station
Highth
Spreckley
Columbia
Orpheum
Thirteenth Infantry
Angel Island
Coast Artillery
Manadnock
Palace Hotel
Tay
Hill District
Warehouse
Sullivan
Fire Department
California Hotel
Hayes Valley
Dinan
New Montgomery
Grand Hotel
Old Palace Hotel
Mutual Bank
Royal Gaking Powder CO
New York
Redwood
Third
Market Streets
Big Call
Hills
Hayes
St. Ignatius
Pacific Coast
Southern Pacific Company
Pacific Trade
Financial District
Mutual Life
Anglo-Californian Bank
Mission Dolores
Yerba Buena
Congress
House
of Christian Churches
Commend Ministerial Association
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