Eyewitness recounts San Francisco quake horror and exodus
Helen Dare describes awakening to the quake shattering San Francisco on April 19 and her perilous escape through ruined streets and blazing fronts. She details collapsed churches, toppled mansions of Spreckels, crowded sidewalks, frightened families, and the chaotic scramble to reach Oakland and Stockton amid fires and collapsing docks.
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Helen Dare
San Francisco
Oakland
Stockton
Los Angeles Examiner
Golden Gate City
Mayor Schmitz
Eleanor Martin
Fair Estate
Pacific
van Ness Avenues
Thut
John D. Spreckels
Pacific Avenue
la Guana Street
Rudolph Spreckels
Gough and
van Ness Avenue
St. Bridget’s Stone Church
Fairmount
Call
San Bruno Hills
Pine Street
Telegraph Hill
Coal vein found near Coal City prompts drill shaft
A four foot vein of good black coal was found on the Sunbottom farm near Coal City at a depth of forty feet. A home company formed to develop the find will sink a shaft immediately, within a mile of the Eastern and Illinois railroad.
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Clay City
Sunbottom
Coal City
Eastern and Illinois Railroad
Haugen Re-nominated From Fourth Iowa District
At the congressional convention in New Hampton Gilbert F. Haugen was nominated again for representative of Iowa's Fourth district. Three opponents withdrew before the meeting leaving Haugen unopposed.
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Des Moines
New Hampton
Gilbert F. Haugen
Ohio moves to strip Vandorn Iron Works of charter
In Cleveland on April 26 a petition in quod warranty seeks to cancel the Vandorn Iron Works company charter and corporate rights in Ohio. Ex State Senator O. Ke Harrison, assistant in the attorney general's office, filed the petition in the circuit court of Cuyahoga County.
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Ohio
Cleveland
Vandorn Iron Works Company
Cuyhoga County
KE. Harrison
Attorney General
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Akes
Orleans
Maine
Cane
California
Roe
Windsor
Claus Spreckels
Walter Hobart
Amy Crocker
Porter Ashe
St. Dunstan
Sutter
Van
Leavenworth Street
Powell Street
St. Francis Hotel
Union Square
Kearney Street
Montgomery Street
Market Street
Postal Telegraph Office
Western Union
Conried
Water Front
Post
Washington
Washington Street
Ory
Southern Pacific
San Jose
Niles
St. James
East Oakland
Aistament
Haugen
Uneeda
National Biscuit Company
INE Noh Sig Furniture Store
North Side Square
Nat'l Bank
Iowa
Stuart’s Market
Hatsiws
R. Stuart & Son
Northwest Corner
The
R. H. Mapel
Lemley Grocery
Square
Ross & Moothart
Harry Ross and
L. L. Moothart
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