The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-11
HAVOC SEEN
ON EVERY HAND


ers began rescuing the wounded and
dying from the ruins of their homes
The scenes presented cannot be told OF
in a prOsaic manner
Screaming women, bruised and bleed
ing. some of them bearing the Iifeless
| forms of children in their arms; men,
broken hearted and sObbing. bewailing
| the loss of their wives and children;
streets filled with floating rubbish.
among which there were many bodies
of the victims of the storm, constituted
part of the scene.
In every direction. as far as the eye
could reach. desOlatiOn and destruction
continued.
Joke as They Die.
The first loss of life reported was at
Rietter'S saloon on the Strand. where
/ three prominent citizens lost their
I lives and where many others were
MANNED and imprisoned.
! The dead are Stanley G.. Spencer,
Charles Kelner and Richard Lord
/ These three were sitting at a table
] making light of the danger. jOculariy
| telling each other that they would stay
/ in the city. Suddenly the roof came
down with a crash, killing them
Those in the lower part of the build
! ing escaped with their lives in a mirac-
! flooring We're caught on the bar, peO-
/ pie lodging and resting under the de-
bris.
1t required several hours hard work
J to get them out. The negro waiter who
| was sent for the doctor was drowned
at the corner of the Strand and Tween
| tv-first street and his body was found
! a short time after
Colonel L. J. Park. general manager
of the Gulf. Colorado & Santa Fe, and
| several other prominent men left the
restaurant a few minutes before the
collapse.
City Hall Crowded With injured.
The next place visited was the city
hall. Here were cOngregated fully zoo
persons who were more or less injured
in various ways. One man from Lu-
cas- terrace reported the loss of hfty
lives in the building from which he
escaped. He himself was severely in
jured about the head
On Avenue NJ several women we're
imprisoned in a residence by the. wa
ter and debris They were rescued by
a party headed by Captain NJ Therict.
Several of them were badly hurt but
they are still living
Coming back to fremont street and
going out to Avenue p, by climbing
over the piles of lumber which had
once been residences. four bodies were
! observed in one yard and seven IN one
| room. AS many as sixty bodies were
to be seen lying singly and in groups
in the space of one block A majority
| of the bodies. however, that nave not
been recovered are under the ruined
houses. and it will take several days
hard work to get all of them ont
The body of Miss Sarah Summers
was found near her home on Fremont
and Avenue F. her lips smiling. but
|, her features set in death, her hands
graSping her diamonds tightly The
remains of her sister. Mrs Claude
| Fordtran. have not been recovered.
Infrmary Inmates Are Drowned.
The report from St Mary sfinfirmary
shows that only eight persons escaped
| from that hospital The number of pa
. tien+s and nurses could not be ascer.
! tanned. but the number of inmates wa:
seldom under 100
, Rosenberg school house, which wal
, chosen as a place of refuge by the peO
f pie of that locality, collapsed. Some
of those who had taken refuge -ther'
} escaDed.
; As Sunday dawned the streets were
lined with people half clad. crippled II
every conceivable manner, hObbling a!
best they could TO where they cOulC
. receive attention Of physicians fOl
/ / themselves and summon aid for friend!
$ and relatives who could not move.
: Men Lose Entire Families.
Police officer John Bowie. who re
G | Gently was awarded a prize as the mos
2 popular officer in the city was met b.
| the Post correspondent in a pitiabl
were broken, two ribs caved in and hi
T ! head badly bruised, but his own cOndi
| ton he said was nothing.
MY house, my wife and children ar
n | in the gulf I have not a thing OF
+ earth for which to live"
& Pat O'Keefe, who has for years KEEP
q | aspOpular resort on the beach and VIII
!, is known to every visitor TO Galveston
n | was bemoaning the loss Of his wife an
everything he had on earth. Wher
III
the gulf there is not a Vestige of
4 building to be seen. The great bath
] ing pavilion known as the Pagado, tn
big pleasure resort known as the Olym
pia and MurdOch's bath house are a
swept away into the gulf. There wer
few bodies on the beach. They ha
} been swept into the gulf or driven u
into the rubbish by the waves
g A 3-year-old boy sat holding his hea
: in his hands, making not a murmur
: complaint. He was taken back int
u town, smiling at the joy of human con
? partnership after his awful experience
n He Will probably recover.
= The houses which have escaped do
m struction. have been turned into hos
N pitfalls, as have the leading hotels. Thel
" is scarcely a house left standing who
does not contain one or more OF II
re dead as well as many injured.
Rain Increases Suffering.
The rain began to pour down in to
rents and the party went back dow
fremont street towards the city. tt
misery of the poor people, all MAJ
~ gled and hurt. pressing TO the city fl
medical attention, was greatly au;
IL mented by this rain.
ne Stopping at a small grocery store
avoid the rain the party found 1t pael
IN ed with injured The provisions in Il
is store had been ruined and there w,
n nothing for the numerous customer
who came hungry and tired. The pla
of was a hospital, no longer a store.
ne Further down the street. a restaura
OF which had been submerged by wate
10 was serving out sOggy crackers al
es cheese to the hungry crowd. That w
e.- all that was left
nd On returning to the fremont hot
which is the news center of the cit
re the reporter found the death list to
d swelling rapidly, the accounts comb
he from every portion of the city. IT
ed hard TO determine what section of r
ed city suffered the greatest damage a
Pr loss of life Information from both +
lu- extreme eastern and extreme weste
portions of the city were difTicult to n
tain. but the reports received indica :
that those two sections had suffer
. the same fate that the rest of the ri
had and to a possibly greater degree
Garrison Almost Annihilated
-, Fifteen men, constituting all that /,
NAMED of a company of regular $,