From an interesting letter written by Brother T. A. Kilgore, of Oakland, to Elder W. C. White, dated April 25, we obtain the following news concerning the earthquake experiences:— “Oakland suffered comparatively little. All our people on this side of the bay are safe, and have sustained but little damage, but we are considerably inconvenienced in the way of discomfort in our homes, having had no fires in our stoves since the earthquake. We have not been allowed to build fires under heavy penalties until our chimneys have been inspected and repaired. What little cooking we have had has been done on camp-fires or stoves set out in the yards or on oil or gas stoves. Our church in Oakland suffered little. Cracking of the plastering is all the damage visible, except the loss of the top of the tall chimney. About forty-five out of fifty chimneys came down. “So far as I know, all our brethren and sisters in San Francisco are safe, with the exception of three of Brother Fulton's helpers. A Brother and Sister Sain, and Brother Sain's sister, have not been heard from since the earthquake, and grave fears are entertained in regard to their safety. Brother Fulton told me that these persons had their room in an old building, and he was very fearful it collapsed and caught them. His Helpers’ Home, on Howard Street, was badly wrecked by the earthquake, but all in that building managed to get out alive, and are safe. “Brother Hibbard's home was burned. It would have been saved from the fire had not two miscreants deliberately set a building in that block on fire. These two the soldiers discovered, and after a short pursuit shot them both, but the fire they set burned about four blocks of the town. Brother Figer lost his store, but his home escaped by just one block. Ditto for our Laguna Street church; the fire came up to Octavia Street, and that is just one block from Laguna. Brother Howe's house was badly wrecked by the earthquake, but saved from the fire. It was on the west side of Dolores Street, and the fire burned the houses on the east side. Dr. Sanderson's sanitarium made a like escape. It was on the west side of Van Ness Avenue, and at that avenue the fire was checked. It is a wide street, as you know, and by blowing up all the buildings on the east side of the street they managed to stop the flames there. Dr. Matner's home was saved in the same way, it being on the west side of Van Ness and north of Golden Gate Avenues. It is more than a mile and three quarters in a direct line from the ferry building to the corner of Golden Gate and Van Ness Avenues, the nearest point unburned, and in the other direction north and south, it burned from shore to shore, the city in that part being over four miles wide. The total area burned over is about seven square miles. “The vegetarian café, the Helpers’ Home, the sanitarium branch, and the health food store are entirely gone. Brother Parlin's office was in the Parrott Building on Market Street, which now stands a gigantic ruin. His home, being on Steiner Street, was beyond the fire line, and was saved. Dr. Lamb's place was swept by the fire. The Crocker building, in which the Pacific Press had their city office, still stands, but the inside is burned out.”