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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1906
Page
1
Report from Sacramento states San Jose has been razed with 95 percent of buildings destroyed. Santa Rosa is said to be inflamed. The St. Agnes asylum was wrecked and about 400 killed.
Berkeley was demolished at 1 30 P M after a second shock following an earlier quake. Buildings left standing at first collapsed before noon. Federal troops rush to the devastated district to aid relief efforts.
A long distance telegraph from Sacramento Star reports 3,000 dead and widespread destruction in San Francisco after the Cliff House collapsed into the sea. Buildings including the Call Exam Chronicle News offices burned or ruined, Valencia hotel collapse kills 75, wholesale district wiped out, city hall ruined, with no tidal wave or harbor shipping loss reported.
H K Miller of the National board of fire underwriters says standard policies exclude earthquake caused fire damage. A crevasse six feet wide opened at 18th and Valencia Street, distorting streetcar tracks. A Postal Telegraph report from Dallas says nearly 3,000 dead in San Francisco with the city described as a seething furnace.
In San Francisco at 1 P M on April 18 the Valencia hotel collapsed trapping about 75 people. Rescue teams rush to the scene as emergency crews battle debris and search for survivors in a developing disaster report.
A Santa Fe headquarters report sets the toll at 10,000 amid Southern California disaster. A committee led by Mayor Dunne has raised 26000 for Vesuvius victims and plans to distribute funds with San Francisco while seeking more donations.
James A Forehand reports from San Francisco at 11 am that fire and earthquake damage are severe with great loss of life and the Call building in full blaze. The fire nears the Postal Telegraph office and workers move out as water shortages hinder firefighting efforts.
Water from bay lines and relay pumps struggles to reach the blaze as ruptured water mains flood streets, hampering firefighting efforts in the city.
In San Francisco on April 18 eight blocks on the south side of Market Street collapsed as a spreading fire hindered firefighting. Officials report no lives were lost in the hotel collapses.
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