The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-04-22

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The Scene at Midnight.
Il Is midnight, and have been one of a
privileged few conducted by Waterman
and guard OF honor through the town.
have come, have seen and l have been
conquered.
The first object l was shown was the
calaboose or jail There was one man In 1t,
a tramp. when the shock came. He escaped
with his life and they let him go on general
principles. He is some distance from WIN
tiers at the present time, as he was sprihllne
when last seen The Jail would be improved
in appearance if it had roof and Wills
Next saw the Chadwick building. There
were three women and man IN 1t when
the shock came. The women escaped by
the front door in the nick of time. The
man was the poor fellow sent with a
crushed skull to Woodland. The building
itself is simply heap of bricks. unsym-
metrically piled in the center of the lot on
which it stood. Morrison's hardware
store, next door. has the walls standing,
and that is all.
The upper floor of the Masonic building.
in which the traditional goat was concealed,
yawns open to the eternal stars. which to-
night CLEAN out with brilliancy and
fixedness contrasting strongly with the rents
OF ruins on which they look dowu.
Scene OF Havoc.
BY side alley Main street was reached.
and here the havoc wrought could only be
compared to the aspect OF Paris during the
last days of the Commune. The most
furious bombardmeEt could have done no
more. 1t was Il perlous job, but when the
barrier was passed and the little party was
invited to peer into the stores and public
buildings momentarily threatening 10 topple
over on their heads there was 10 desire to
linger.
Substantially built structures were de-
molshed even more completely than those of
the lighter order. Some OF the granite blocks
lying on the sidewalk measured two feet by
one, and as for the safes aud similar heavy
objects, they had been tossed about like
chat.
Tie encampment was visited Of course
Some of the men were laughing for fear
they should cry, and all of them preferred
to sleep on the ground with friendly
blanket between them and mother earth,
lest they should fall out of bed. Sixteen
women were found sleeping in one tent.
Around the Campfire.
A large campfire had been lighted on the
east side of the railroad and around this
sat number of figures, irresstbly recall
ing the picture of Samuel Max and Caspar
in the opera of Der FreschutZ" The
tourist cars were not in the same favor as
the tents and their tenants were not numer-
Gus.
choly Specters walking about in the open
streets, because. as they said, they wanted
to be awake and have their wits about them
when the next shock came
1t is a situation of extreme contrasts. A
man sitting in haunted house waiting for
ghostly visitors can hardly feel a greater
sense of dread expectancy than the citizen
of Winters who sees above him the calm
heavens, before him the rigid unbroken line
of the foothills. in the middle distance the
glow OF the campfire aud IN the foreground
the forms OF weary sleepers stretched on
the earth which may at any moment receive
them into its BOSOM
1t is quite clear that the focus of to-day's
disturbance has been shifted to the north
ward and has been located near Winters.
Elmira and Vacaville got off lightly. The
direction Of the shocks has also perceptlbly
changed.