he brick and stone business blocks,
together with the public buildings, were thrown down. The Court House,
Hall of Records, the Occidental and Santa Rosa Hotels, the Athenaeum
Theatre, the new Masonic Temple, Odd Fellows' Block, all the banks,
everything went, and in all the city not one brick or stone building was
left standing, except the California Northwestern Depot.

In the residential portion of the city the foundations receded from
under the houses, badly wrecking about twenty of the largest and
damaging every one more or less; and here, as in San Francisco, flames
followed the earthquake, breaking out in a dozen different places at
once and completing the work of devastation. From the ruins of the
fallen houses fifty-eight bodies were taken out and interred during
the first few days, and the total of dead and injured was close to a
hundred. The money loss at this small city is estimated at $3,000,000.

The destruction of Santa Rosa gave rise to general sorrow among the
residents of the interior of the State. It was one of the show towns of
California, and not only one of the most prosperous cities in the
fine county of Sonoma, but one of the most picturesque in the State.
Surrounding it there were miles of orchards, vineyards and corn fields.
The beautiful drives of the city were adorned with bowers of roses,
which everywhere were seen growing about the homes of the people. In
its vicinity are the famous gardens of Luther Burbank, the "California
wizard," but these fortunately escaped injury.

At San Jose, another very beautiful city of over 20,000 population,
not a single brick or stone building of two stories or over was left
standing. Among those wrecked were the Hall of justice, just completed
at a cost of $300,000; the new High School, the Presbyterian Church and
St. Patrick's Cathedral. Numbers of people were caught in the ruins and
maimed or killed. The death list appears to have been small, but the
property damage was not less than $5,000,000. The Agnew State Insane
Asylum, in the vicinity of San Jose, was entirely destroyed, more than
half the inmates being killed or injured.

THE STANFORD UNIVERSITY.

The Leland Stanford, Jr., University, at Palo Alto (about thirty miles
south of San Francisco), felt the full force of the earthquake and was
badly wrecked. Only two lives were lost as a result of the earthquake,
one of a student, the other of a fireman, but eight students were
injured more or le