A terrible earthquake is reported to have occurred in San Francisco. Half the city has been demolished, and now lies in ruins. ...
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Advertising : 1,216 wordsMany of the principal building in Oakland, across the bay, suffered from the shock, several of them being badly injured. ...
Article : 26 wordsPortion of the railway track of the Southern Pacific Railway Company has entirely disappeared under water, A crowded passenger train bound for ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 185 wordsMost of the inhabitants were in bed and asleep at the time of the first visitation and these rushed from their homes clad in their night attire, only ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Gorowa "Chronicle" writes:—The Border Brass Band competed at the Albury Musical Festival on Monday but were not successful. The ...
Article : 625 wordsThe magnificent building of St. Ignace Cathedral is ablaze, while the Leland-Stanford University at Palo Alto, 33 miles from the city, is ...
Article : 38 wordsBuildings are tottering and crashing down in showers throughout the city, spreading devastation, death, and injury in every direction. ...
Article : 77 wordsThe earthquake in San Francisco has proved to ba more serious than was at first anticipated. The Premier of New Zealand, Mr ...
Article : 118 wordsLate telegrams from New York state that after making all allowances for hysterical reports, that it is apparent that the situation in San Francisco is ...
Article : 49 wordsTwo regiments of regular troops stand guard over millions of dollars worth of property, which has been thrown promiscously into the streets ...
Article : 39 wordsThe modern steel-framed sky-scrapers have withstood the shock much better than the smaller brick and wooden tenements. ...
Article : 22 wordsOwing to a rush of very important late cable news, we are compelled to hold over the usual instalment of "The Haighs of Hillcrest." ...
Article : 28 wordsFires, which are beyond all control, are raging in all directions, and adding further to the dangers and miseres of the hopeless inhabitants of the ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Mayor of the city has appointed a committee for purposes of safety and has ordered the bakeries and mill stations to supply those who have ...
Article : 51 wordsThe whole of the business district between Market and Howard-streets, and from the Bay of San Francisco as far west as the City Hall, has been ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 104 wordsThe roof and Email towers of the City Hall, which cost seven million dollars (£1,400,000) to erect, have collapsed. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe asylum at San Jose has all collapsed, burying many of the poor unfortunate inmates in the rains. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe huge and palatial building known as the Palace Hotel, which was erected at a cost of 3,000,000 dollars (£600,000) and the ...
Article : 71 wordsMr T. Bent, Premier of Victoria, and Mr J. H. Carruthers, Premier of New South Wales, to-day forwarded to the President of the United States of ...
Article : 53 wordsThe San Francisco General Post Office is completely shattered. The Valencia Hotel and Kingsley's lodging house both collapsed, killing ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 32 wordsThe fires, fanned by a brisk easterly wind, soon endangered the whole of the manufacturing and wholesale quarters of the city. ...
Article : 79 wordsChaos and confusion reign throughout the whole of the city and residents are almost mad with terror. Martial law has been proclaimed by ...
Article : 53 wordsMr James was spoken to by our representative for a few minutes prior to his departure for Sydney last night. He expressed himself as ...
Article : 121 wordsA remarkable incident of official perversity is reported from the German province of Alasca. A fire broke out in the village [?] ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Albury Musical and Literary Festival has come and gone and although the function has not returned its public-spirited and disinterested ...
Article : 574 wordsThe General Post Office and the Grand Opera House have been completely destroyed. The plant and buildings of the San ...
Article : 66 wordsNo ferries are running, and all entry to the burning and practically demolished city has been stopped by the authorities. ...
Article : 24 wordsLatest telegrams state that the fires are now spreading to the residential section. Many buildings, which had ...
Article : 44 wordsLast evening at the Albury Mechanics' Institute what was termed a "Final Concert," was given, the performers being the successful ...
Article : 696 wordsA collision occurred at Malta [?] tween the destroyer Ardent attach to the Mediterranean squadron, and torpedo boat No. 84. ...
Article : 53 wordsIt is at present impossible to estimate the loss of life, but the death roll will certainly run into thousands. The loss and damage to property is ...
Article : 47 wordsUp to 8 o'clock last night the fires had extended over an area of eight square miles, involving the complete destruction of several hundred of the ...
Article : 34 wordsThe damage is now estimated at at least 100,000,000 dollars (£20,000,000). ...
Article : 17 wordsThe "Novoc Vremya" a St. Petersburg daily, in an article on Russia affairs, strongly advocates an Angle Russian entente. ...
Article : 63 wordsAt the Albury Mechanics' Institute, commencing on April 23, the Lilian Meyers Dramatic Co. will open. The pieces to be mounted include' "When ...
Article : 115 wordsOwing to the newspaper and telegraph offices in San Francisco having been all either buried or destroyed, only the most fragmentary ...
Article : 92 wordsThe district embracing almost the whole of the wholesale warehouses and manufactories has been swept clean by fire. ...
Article : 51 wordsThe officials of the University [?] Pennsylvania have conferred on [?] Majesty King Edward the decree [?] Doctor of Laws. ...
Article : 24 wordsCrevices six feet wide have been opened in several streets, while the tramcar tracks and rails have been torn up and twisted into all kinds of ...
Article : 40 wordsNews to hand from the Canary lands states that an extinct volca[?] in the Island of Palma is now showing signs of activity. ...
Article : 30 wordsAccording to latest information which has reached London, the flames continue unchecked and are remorselessly sweeping the city from end to ...
Article : 67 wordsAn inquest was held in the hospital this afternoon concerning the death of the Victorian jockey John Butlin, aged 17 years, which occurred last ...
Article : 80 wordsMr. C. R. Saunders, C.M.G., Commissioner for Native Affairs in Zulland, recommends that the disaffect chief Sigananai be fined a thousand ...
Article : 93 wordsTwo ships which were anchored in the bay, were sunk by the earthquake shocks. ...
Article : 17 wordsWhen the shocks occurred during yesterday afternoon thousands and thousands of people hastily fled from the city, leaving their businesses and ...
Article : 41 wordsThe greatest loss of life occurred in the small cheap tenements near the water front, where a dense population resided. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Japanese are now making underclothing of their finely crisped or grained paper. After the paper has be cut to a pattern, the different ...
Article : 132 wordsDetachments of regulars are guarding the banks, while the cavalry and infantry regiments are patroling the streets. ...
Article : 46 wordsMr Pless, who was until lately [?] troller of the Chinese coolies on Nourse Deep Mine, in the Transva[?] gives a total denial to the affida[?] ...
Article : 81 wordsMany of the huge buildings in Eddy street collapsed. One lodging house in this thoroughfare when it fell, killed 200 persons. ...
Article : 29 wordsIt is believed that the originating centre of the disturbance was out at sea. An earth tremor traversed the entire ...
Article : 49 wordsThe chief of the San Francisco Fire Brigade, while directing the efforts of the firemen, was struck by the fulling debris, being instantly killed and ...
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Advertising : 73 wordsThe offices of the San Francisco "Call," "Examiner," and "Chronicle" have been destroyed absolutely. The Western Union Postal and ...
Article : 60 wordsThree distinct severe shocks were felt during the morning, at intervals of some hours. Slighter shocks also occurred during the afternoon and ...
Article : 33 wordsSeen last evening after the final concert, the president of the Festival committee, Dr. Cleaver Woods, (to whom much is due for the inauguration and ...
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The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times (Albury, NSW : 1903 - 1920), Fri 20 Apr 1906, Page 2
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