Tokio, 19th April.
The worsb earthquake ever experienced in California occurred yestenlay morning.
Immense damage has been done. Scores of big buildings have been ruined and many persons have been wounded but there are no details yet of the loss of life. All the telegraph wires out of San Francisco are down, The shock lasted a full minute.
Fire broke out among the ruins vad scores of buildings have been burned, aod the fire alarm disabled The water supply is destroyed
The city 's ab the mercy of the inmes—Owr own correspondent, isauod the above' as an extra Lowlon vid Bombay, 19th April There has been a severe eurthduke at San Francisco, where mildings have collapsed with loss vtlife, "The telegraph is interrup:-
Later, The San Francisco earthquake eourred at five o'clock in the worning and lasted three minutes, clothes, People rushed out in their night The North-eastern quarter, which the manufacturing and whole. sale district, suffered terribly. There was lesser damage through out the city.
Itis roughly estimated that a hundred people have been killed and a thousand injured, The collapsed buildings ignited in all directions and the Hames lreatened the whole city. Combating them was most' difficult \sing to the wind and the rupture the gas and water-mains. The Stemen are blowing up buildings in their path, terror and excitement are indescribable.
The deadliest collapses were of the five-storey Valencia hotel, Saying seventy-five, and ofa tenewent in the flaming ruins, louse, which buried eighty The earthquake was felt through-cut the Western States and the seismotic instruments at Washington were viol olently agitated, Herald and S, C. & C. Gazette
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