Historical Clippings Book (HC-03) (210 pages)

City In Agony: Q uake, Fire Of Perched on a great stone face from the facade of a building ruined in the earthquake and fire of 1906, this San Francisco resident was waiting for a street car after the resumption of service. 19¢ North State Rallied To Aid Disaster Area By David Deas The earth heaved in agony along the San Andreas Fault 60 years ago tomorrow and San Francisco, almost astride that giant wrinkle in the earth's crust, trembled and burst into roaring flames. The first great shock came shortly after 5 a.m. on April 18, 1906, and lasted about three minutes. Residents who were not trapped by tumbling walls poured out of homes and hotels in their night attire as buildings crashed around them, wide cracks opened up in the streets and water mains exploded. Reign Of Terror The terror and panic were indescribable. Buildings swayed and crashed, burying occupants. Fires broke out in almost every block in the district south of Market Street. Fire departments were almost helpless. There was virtually no water, and equipment sometimes was By John R. Adams Bee correspondent SANTA ROSA — Situated 20 miles from the San Andreas Fault, Santa Rosa was 1-e for disaster in April 1906. Spring rain had transformed the plain on which the city is built into a water-logged sponge. It was 5:12 a.m. that April 18 when the 40 seconds of jolting shock waves started. About 100 persons were killed outright. Scores of others were missing. Most of-the dead were buried under collapsed hotels, rooming houses and private residences. In Flames The greater portion of the downtown business area was Santa Rosa, Atop ‘Sponge, ’ Soaked Up Jolting Shocks destroyed. Whole city blocks were piles of brick and charred ruin. Many of the devastated and partly ruined buildings were burned by the fire which followed. The aftermath of the quake seemed equally brutal. One man, trapped in the Occidental Hotel wreckage, was abandoned by work parties and died in the spreading fire that crews were unable to stop. Another man was trapped in the path of advancing flames and could not be saved. The major structures destroyed included most of the hotels, rooming houses, the courthouse and Hall of Records. Santa Rosa’s population then Scores ¢ the de +¢ deve Guardsmen, who wniown area, aN mS Rosans earthquake took Be lov still were missing command in the notl clean-up operation: over after and fire of 1906. The scene above city, rushing business section, taken was about 6,000. Residents recall being rolled out of bed. Others died as they ran into the streets and were crushed by falling buildings. Widespread Impact It was one of the worst quakes in recorded history. The fault broke for a distance of 250 miles from the Upper Mattole in Humboldt County to San Juan near Monterey Bay. It was felt from Coos Bay, Ore., to Los Angeles, a distance of 750 miles. Its greatest earth displacement was horizontal at a distance of 21 feet at the head of Tomales Bay, southwest of Santa Rosa. The Cities of Healdsburg and Sebastopol also were damaged. when these photos were taken after shows National past the ruins of trapped in damaged stations. Buildings were dynamited to keep the flames from spreading. Sidewalks were torn up and street car tracks badly twisted. On lower Market Street, block after block of substantial buildings were destroyed. By 10 a.m. the entire waterfront was ablaze and the Grand Opera House near 10th and Mission Streets was burning fiercely. The unchecked fires spread from building to building in the commercial district and in the tenement areas south of Market. There was no way of estimating the number of dead. A dispatch sent from San Francisco at 10:55 a.m, declared: “It may be hundreds, It may be thousands. There is hardly any water and it is impossible to say when the fire will stop.” The earthquake hit Sacramento at 5:12 a.m. Although the tremor did no material damage in the city, it rattled windows, swayed chandeliers and shook’ trees. Capitol Swayed A. W. Edwards, who lived at 7th and P Streets, saw the dome of the Capitol sway with the motion of the earth. “I was awake when the shock began,” he said, ‘‘and I ran to the back window immediately to look at the Capitol. I could see the dome swaying back and forth quite easily. It looked to me like it was shaking from northeast to southwest. The entire upper part of the Capitol trembled like a leaf until the shock passed off.” Patients at the Sacramento Hospital, especially the aged and those with nervous disorders, were badly frightened by the quake and prisoners at the city jail screamed to be released from the old building. Southern Pacific Co. trains which had been dispatched to Oakland from Sacramento had to return to the Capital City when it was learned that a mile and a half section of track had disappeared from view in the Suisun marshes. John T, Skelton returned to his home in Sacramento during the afternoon and gave a vivid first-hand story of the destruction, the fear and the suffering in the burning bay city, "Robbers Swarmed' “T was at the Golden West Hotel in company with other Sacramentans and we got out in a hurry,” he said. “Every plate glass in the vicinity had been shattered and in many places we found the sidewalks six feet out of gear. “All of the electric and gas ‘plants went out of commission land tonight the entire city will ‘be in darkiiess. Robbers just armed until the soldiers were jcalled out and I fear the scene ‘tonight will be horrible beyond \description as the entire city jwill be sn darkness. . “Tots of smaller buildings lsouth of Market Street were down and hundreds of people were delying in the ruins to get ithe dead and injured out.” . Skelton said many Sacramenhe covld determine none v injured. Pag heard from Fred Kiesel, iAlden Anderson, Louis Breuner ‘and wifc, H. Heilbron and wife, liam Petrie, Dr. J. A. McKee, eman and wife, Al or two mort nes I do not recall.” San by the thousands }Pa s the bay on ferry boats became so dangerous they = = a THE SACRAMENTO BEE Brought Terror To were discontinued when people fought to get aboard, trampling women under foot in the panic, overloading the boats until they listed to one side as they steamed across the water. Fires continued to spread through the city during the night and fire menran out of dynamite, their only effective weapon Sunday, April 17, 1966 Page B5 Streets Of SF A forest of chimneys was all that remained in this section of posh Nob Hill after the fire. The district was one of the last San Francisco areas to take life after the disaster. Suisun, Gridley, Yuba City, Roseville,’ Lincoln, Galt, Lodi and Red Bluff, and in Reno, Nev. San Jose was struck hard. Buildings were wrecked, electric power and gas lines were knocked out, fires erupted in various parts of the city, several persons were killed and many ‘tans were in San Francisco to,bodies were lying about, burned lattend the opera but as far as\and blackened by the flames,. mento, commander of the 2nd) citizens fled their homes. That city also was placed under martial law. Aid From: North Aid for quake victims also came from residents of Redding who sent money, 500 boiled hams and canned goods. Klamath Falls, Ore., dispatched money, a carload of flour and potatoes and a carload of cattle. Davis fed trainloads of refugees. Woodland sent provisions and took care of refugees. Chico sent money and food and Lodi provided relief funds and a carload of boiled eggs, bread, cooked chickens and baked benns. A business man from New York, John S. Pinney, in SanFrancisco at the time of the catastrophe, had praise for Sacramentans who responded so quickly with offers of help. “When the people of Sacramento acted so promptly and so generously in equipping a relief steamer and barges to carry the first provisions and bedding to reach the destitute in San Francisco,” he said, “they did exactly the right thing and did it well. “Collectively and individually the Sacramento relief party was ** . thoroughly imbued with the generous, noble spirit of the citizens who sent them on this mission of mercy.” against the raging enemy. Blazes skipped in a dozen directions into residential sections. Martial Law Alter darkness thousands of the homeless, loaded with blankets and what provisions they could carry, made their way to Golden Gate Park and the beach to spend the night. President Theodore Roosevelt placed the city under martial law at 9 p.m. and hundreds of troops began patroling the streets. Cavalrymen drove crowds of the curious from the danger area into higher sections of the city. The Navy ordered war vesseln anchored off Santa Burbara to lund armed Marines in San Francisco to help protect lives and property. Food supplies were running short. All the markets in the produce district were destroyed. Farm wagons could not get into the city because of the ruins. At 10 a.m. two days after the quake, word came out of smoldering San Francisco that the fire had been checked at Van Ness Avenue and in the Mission district but was. still roaring north of Russian Hill toward the bay. It was not expected to spread west. A fourth of the city would be safe. Cry For Food a A great cry went up for food) ,° and water, bread and milk, for) ~ the suffering refugees. Bread was sent over from bay area bakeries. Half a million pounds of canned beef were discovered in South San Francisco. Shiploads of flour destined for Alaska were seized at anchor in the bay and turned over to bakers in Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley with instructions to bake bread for the refugees. It was estimated there were 200,000 to 300,000 persons in the ravaged city without food and Staggering Toll When San Francisco authorities totaled up the losses in the devastating quake and fire they found that some 500 persons were dead or missing and 30,000 buildings had been destroyed Burton M. Hodson, right, a Sacramento photographer who had a studio at 813 K St., and an unidentified friend have lunch in a park during a picture-taking assignment in the bay city. steps they subscribed $50,000 tosmen to establish temporary aid the refugees. headquarters in the Capita ljwith a financial loss of $500 milA score or more of the city’s. City. They pointed out Sacra-jlion. Seven square miles of San women kept vigil at the SP de-. mento was in no danger of beFrancisco had been wiped out. pot offering assistance to all ar-. ing destroyed by earth tremors rivals: because of its location on a soft Steaming coffee and stacks of. P@d of alluvial soil “a mile or sandwiches were on hand for. more in depth” which would homes. They camped out in. the hungry and those who cushion any seismic shocks. public squares, vacant lots and/peeded additional aid were. Jt was not only the fire which along the beaches — in any bareltaken by wagon to the Odd Feldrove San Franciscans from spot they could find, including}jows Temple where another. th.eir homes: The threat of cemeteries. staff of women volunteers cared. 4nother serious quake continued Hungry families were fed in. for them. for two days. There were addi front of the Ferry Building and ae tional shocks at intervals durin the public parks. Citizens Rally ing Wednesday, the first day, H. L, Walther of Yreka, Sis-. ,, and on Thursday, both day and) kiyou County, brought grim Never before has Sacramen-. pjght, stories to Sacramento about the. '® come forward in such num-. The first big shock Wednes San Francisco scene, bers to assist those in distress,"". qay morning also was felt in “Not one half of the horrors. it Was reported in The Bee on. oakland, where there was much’ of the situation have been told,”. 4Pt! 20. “The citizens stood in\damage and a number of perfront of the courthouse this he said, ‘I made a search of the sons killed and in Berkeley, entire city for my family (visit2 ing vere, seittiont te but upwards of $50,000 had been\santa Rosa, 55 miles north of. as it was like looking for a{Subscribed ., It was a moStithe bay city, nearly 100 persons needle in a haystiack, I came magnificent offering vand were killed and many buildings here hoping to get some news of showed hetten than all the words destroyed. them in this city, in the world that Sacramento The shock demolished the felt the need of the San Fran-)stare mental institution at Ag cisco homeless.” news near San Jose, burying Clubs, lodges and civic groups. many inmates in the ruins “In my tramps through San. took up collections or planned Buildings rocked in Rio Vista, Francisco I saw sights tha t\benefit affairs to raise funds for!Redding, Colusa, Woodland, . were simply appalling, Dead. the stricken city. Dixon, Marysville, Oroville, Col, H. I. Seymour of Sacra‘Appalling Sights’ Infantry Regiment, embarked his troops on a special train and headed toward the ravaged city during the morning upon) the order of Goy, George C.' . People of every condition in life iwere sleeping out on the ground lin the parks and squares and ihundreds of women and_ chil‘dren were moaning for water and food, The wounded were. Pardee. ‘everywhere and today every-. dhe colonel’s regiment had body will be suffering for food,”. companies from Placerville, Sacramentans answered thejChico, Colusa, Vacaville, Wood‘call for help. They sent vastifand, Nevada City and Marys-! tities of food and clothingjville. . lon relief boats and trains, Stand-} Merchants of Sacramento in:! ing in front of the courthouselvited San Francisco business-.

City In Agony: Q uake, Fire Of Perched on a great stone face from the facade of a building ruined in the earthquake and fire of 1906, this San Francisco resident was waiting for a street car after the resumption of service. 19¢ North State Rallied To Aid Disaster Area By David Deas The earth heaved in agony along the San Andreas Fault 60 years ago tomorrow and San Francisco, almost astride that giant wrinkle in the earth's crust, trembled and burst into roaring flames. The first great shock came shortly after 5 a.m. on April 18, 1906, and lasted about three minutes. Residents who were not trapped by tumbling walls poured out of homes and hotels in their night attire as buildings crashed around them, wide cracks opened up in the streets and water mains exploded. Reign Of Terror The terror and panic were indescribable. Buildings swayed and crashed, burying occupants. Fires broke out in almost every block in the district south of Market Street. Fire departments were almost helpless. There was virtually no water, and equipment sometimes was By John R. Adams Bee correspondent SANTA ROSA — Situated 20 miles from the San Andreas Fault, Santa Rosa was 1-e for disaster in April 1906. Spring rain had transformed the plain on which the city is built into a water-logged sponge. It was 5:12 a.m. that April 18 when the 40 seconds of jolting shock waves started. About 100 persons were killed outright. Scores of others were missing. Most of-the dead were buried under collapsed hotels, rooming houses and private residences. In Flames The greater portion of the downtown business area was Santa Rosa, Atop ‘Sponge, ’ Soaked Up Jolting Shocks destroyed. Whole city blocks were piles of brick and charred ruin. Many of the devastated and partly ruined buildings were burned by the fire which followed. The aftermath of the quake seemed equally brutal. One man, trapped in the Occidental Hotel wreckage, was abandoned by work parties and died in the spreading fire that crews were unable to stop. Another man was trapped in the path of advancing flames and could not be saved. The major structures destroyed included most of the hotels, rooming houses, the courthouse and Hall of Records. Santa Rosa’s population then Scores ¢ the de +¢ deve Guardsmen, who wniown area, aN mS Rosans earthquake took Be lov still were missing command in the notl clean-up operation: over after and fire of 1906. The scene above city, rushing business section, taken was about 6,000. Residents recall being rolled out of bed. Others died as they ran into the streets and were crushed by falling buildings. Widespread Impact It was one of the worst quakes in recorded history. The fault broke for a distance of 250 miles from the Upper Mattole in Humboldt County to San Juan near Monterey Bay. It was felt from Coos Bay, Ore., to Los Angeles, a distance of 750 miles. Its greatest earth displacement was horizontal at a distance of 21 feet at the head of Tomales Bay, southwest of Santa Rosa. The Cities of Healdsburg and Sebastopol also were damaged. when these photos were taken after shows National past the ruins of trapped in damaged stations. Buildings were dynamited to keep the flames from spreading. Sidewalks were torn up and street car tracks badly twisted. On lower Market Street, block after block of substantial buildings were destroyed. By 10 a.m. the entire waterfront was ablaze and the Grand Opera House near 10th and Mission Streets was burning fiercely. The unchecked fires spread from building to building in the commercial district and in the tenement areas south of Market. There was no way of estimating the number of dead. A dispatch sent from San Francisco at 10:55 a.m, declared: “It may be hundreds, It may be thousands. There is hardly any water and it is impossible to say when the fire will stop.” The earthquake hit Sacramento at 5:12 a.m. Although the tremor did no material damage in the city, it rattled windows, swayed chandeliers and shook’ trees. Capitol Swayed A. W. Edwards, who lived at 7th and P Streets, saw the dome of the Capitol sway with the motion of the earth. “I was awake when the shock began,” he said, ‘‘and I ran to the back window immediately to look at the Capitol. I could see the dome swaying back and forth quite easily. It looked to me like it was shaking from northeast to southwest. The entire upper part of the Capitol trembled like a leaf until the shock passed off.” Patients at the Sacramento Hospital, especially the aged and those with nervous disorders, were badly frightened by the quake and prisoners at the city jail screamed to be released from the old building. Southern Pacific Co. trains which had been dispatched to Oakland from Sacramento had to return to the Capital City when it was learned that a mile and a half section of track had disappeared from view in the Suisun marshes. John T, Skelton returned to his home in Sacramento during the afternoon and gave a vivid first-hand story of the destruction, the fear and the suffering in the burning bay city, "Robbers Swarmed' “T was at the Golden West Hotel in company with other Sacramentans and we got out in a hurry,” he said. “Every plate glass in the vicinity had been shattered and in many places we found the sidewalks six feet out of gear. “All of the electric and gas ‘plants went out of commission land tonight the entire city will ‘be in darkiiess. Robbers just armed until the soldiers were jcalled out and I fear the scene ‘tonight will be horrible beyond

\description as the entire city jwill be sn darkness. . “Tots of smaller buildings lsouth of Market Street were down and hundreds of people were delying in the ruins to get ithe dead and injured out.” . Skelton said many Sacramenhe covld determine none v injured. Pag heard from Fred Kiesel, iAlden Anderson, Louis Breuner ‘and wifc, H. Heilbron and wife, liam Petrie, Dr. J. A. McKee, eman and wife, Al or two mort nes I do not recall.” San by the thousands }Pa s the bay on ferry boats became so dangerous they = = a THE SACRAMENTO BEE Brought Terror To were discontinued when people fought to get aboard, trampling women under foot in the panic, overloading the boats until they listed to one side as they steamed across the water. Fires continued to spread through the city during the night and fire menran out of dynamite, their only effective weapon Sunday, April 17, 1966 Page B5 Streets Of SF A forest of chimneys was all that remained in this section of posh Nob Hill after the fire. The district was one of the last San Francisco areas to take life after the disaster. Suisun, Gridley, Yuba City, Roseville,’ Lincoln, Galt, Lodi and Red Bluff, and in Reno, Nev. San Jose was struck hard. Buildings were wrecked, electric power and gas lines were knocked out, fires erupted in various parts of the city, several persons were killed and many ‘tans were in San Francisco to,bodies were lying about, burned lattend the opera but as far as\and blackened by the flames,. mento, commander of the 2nd) citizens fled their homes. That city also was placed under martial law. Aid From: North Aid for quake victims also came from residents of Redding who sent money, 500 boiled hams and canned goods. Klamath Falls, Ore., dispatched money, a carload of flour and potatoes and a carload of cattle. Davis fed trainloads of refugees. Woodland sent provisions and took care of refugees. Chico sent money and food and Lodi provided relief funds and a carload of boiled eggs, bread, cooked chickens and baked benns. A business man from New York, John S. Pinney, in SanFrancisco at the time of the catastrophe, had praise for Sacramentans who responded so quickly with offers of help. “When the people of Sacramento acted so promptly and so generously in equipping a relief steamer and barges to carry the first provisions and bedding to reach the destitute in San Francisco,” he said, “they did exactly the right thing and did it well.. “Collectively and individually the Sacramento relief party was ** . thoroughly imbued with the generous, noble spirit of the citizens who sent them on this mission of mercy..” against the raging enemy. Blazes skipped in a dozen directions into residential sections. Martial Law Alter darkness thousands of the homeless, loaded with blankets and what provisions they could carry, made their way to Golden Gate Park and the beach to spend the night. President Theodore Roosevelt placed the city under martial law at 9 p.m. and hundreds of troops began patroling the streets. Cavalrymen drove crowds of the curious from the danger area into higher sections of the city. The Navy ordered war vesseln anchored off Santa Burbara to lund armed Marines in San Francisco to help protect lives and property. Food supplies were running short. All the markets in the produce district were destroyed. Farm wagons could not get into the city because of the ruins. At 10 a.m. two days after the quake, word came out of smoldering San Francisco that the fire had been checked at Van Ness Avenue and in the Mission district but was. still roaring north of Russian Hill toward the bay. It was not expected to spread west. A fourth of the city would be safe. Cry For Food a A great cry went up for food) ,° and water, bread and milk, for) ~ the suffering refugees. Bread was sent over from bay area bakeries. Half a million pounds of canned beef were discovered in South San Francisco. Shiploads of flour destined for Alaska were seized at anchor in the bay and turned over to bakers in Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley with instructions to bake bread for the refugees. It was estimated there were 200,000 to 300,000 persons in the ravaged city without food and Staggering Toll When San Francisco authorities totaled up the losses in the devastating quake and fire they found that some 500 persons were dead or missing and 30,000 buildings had been destroyed Burton M. Hodson, right, a Sacramento photographer who had a studio at 813 K St., and an unidentified friend have lunch in a park during a picture-taking assignment in the bay city. steps they subscribed $50,000 tosmen to establish temporary aid the refugees. headquarters in the Capita ljwith a financial loss of $500 milA score or more of the city’s. City. They pointed out Sacra-jlion. Seven square miles of San women kept vigil at the SP de-. mento was in no danger of beFrancisco had been wiped out. pot offering assistance to all ar-. ing destroyed by earth tremors rivals: because of its location on a soft Steaming coffee and stacks of. P@d of alluvial soil “a mile or sandwiches were on hand for. more in depth” which would homes. They camped out in. the hungry and those who cushion any seismic shocks. public squares, vacant lots and/peeded additional aid were. Jt was not only the fire which along the beaches — in any bareltaken by wagon to the Odd Feldrove San Franciscans from spot they could find, including}jows Temple where another. th.eir homes: The threat of cemeteries. staff of women volunteers cared. 4nother serious quake continued Hungry families were fed in. for them. for two days. There were addi front of the Ferry Building and ae tional shocks at intervals durin the public parks. Citizens Rally ing Wednesday, the first day, H. L, Walther of Yreka, Sis-. ,, and on Thursday, both day and) kiyou County, brought grim Never before has Sacramen-. pjght, stories to Sacramento about the. '® come forward in such num-. The first big shock Wednes San Francisco scene, bers to assist those in distress,"". qay morning also was felt in “Not one half of the horrors. it Was reported in The Bee on. oakland, where there was much’ of the situation have been told,”. 4Pt! 20. “The citizens stood in\damage and a number of perfront of the courthouse this he said, ‘I made a search of the sons killed and in Berkeley, entire city for my family (visit2 ing vere, seittiont te but upwards of $50,000 had been\santa Rosa, 55 miles north of. as it was like looking for a{Subscribed ., It was a moStithe bay city, nearly 100 persons needle in a haystiack, I came magnificent offering vand were killed and many buildings here hoping to get some news of showed hetten than all the words destroyed. them in this city, in the world that Sacramento The shock demolished the felt the need of the San Fran-)stare mental institution at Ag cisco homeless.” news near San Jose, burying Clubs, lodges and civic groups. many inmates in the ruins “In my tramps through San. took up collections or planned Buildings rocked in Rio Vista, Francisco I saw sights tha t\benefit affairs to raise funds for!Redding, Colusa, Woodland, . were simply appalling, Dead. the stricken city. Dixon, Marysville, Oroville, Col, H. I. Seymour of Sacra‘Appalling Sights’ Infantry Regiment, embarked his troops on a special train and headed toward the ravaged city during the morning upon) the order of Goy, George C.' . People of every condition in life iwere sleeping out on the ground lin the parks and squares and ihundreds of women and_ chil‘dren were moaning for water and food, The wounded were. Pardee. ‘everywhere and today every-. dhe colonel’s regiment had body will be suffering for food,”. companies from Placerville, Sacramentans answered thejChico, Colusa, Vacaville, Wood‘call for help. They sent vastifand, Nevada City and Marys-! tities of food and clothingjville. . lon relief boats and trains, Stand-} Merchants of Sacramento in:! ing in front of the courthouselvited San Francisco business-.