The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-05-08

Z Ter OF the superintendent OF the insti-
a tuition on Saturday. The following ex-
o tracts are made from IT, II Is dated
@ the 27th OF April:
j. Just line to tell you We are sti.i
{ living ana well. We are I'm tents ON
5 the lawn and fairly comfortable.
1. though II Is storming and IL is hard to
e Keep warm and dry
we are getting out from under the
horror OF II somewhat now. ana are
able TO get little sleep I shall never.
be able to get away from the heart
; rending sights and sounds as Il seems
To me. They are fixing things wonder
fully well and nearly all of the pa-
uents are under shelter We have
plenty to eat and IL sickness does not
break out we viii get along all right
for awhile.
None of us has had clothes off since
the disaster. You can not imagine the
terror of 1t all. ! awoke with n sens.
of danger and jumped out of bed into
mamas room as my room crashed i'm
behind me. Papa pulled us into a
doorway and said, 1T has come. let us
all go together And we clutched each
other to go to our death. But the aw-
fill shake and crashing ceased and we
We're still there, able to crawl out on
the balcony. from which we reached
the ground by means of ladder. We
escaped with our nightgowns only. but
nave since saved considerable clothing
ana can keep warm. 1 lost my watch
ana all of my pretty thingst They
soon began to bring out the bodies of
'he ueau ana the wounded, the latter
screaming In agony. Some were buried
he doh,
backs for hours before they could be.
,aken out. We gave wine and water.
to the wounded and soon the doctors
ana nurses were attending them
Ihe lawn was strewn with bodies
and the blankets were soaked with
blood, 1t was like a battlefield. All
are now being treated in hosnital fonts.
and are doing remarkably well. EN-
ployes injured have been taken to hos.
pitals in town Our girl was badly IN
jured but we hope she will recover IF
Is too heartrending to see so many
crippled for life.
The great, beautiful building that
was to be model institution. lies in
ruins before us and a hundred dead
bodies were taken out and as many
more injured. Miss Holmes was kill
ed crushed beyond recognition. Her
mother stood at the ruins for three
days waiting for the men to find her
pody. Forty men We're kept digging
ana risking their lives in an effort to
get out the bodies of the dead
; you can not imagine the tragedy.
not having seen it. And yet this is
not the worst-San Francisco, dear old
CITY, Is gone. and oh, the suffering.
thousands have come down this way
IN their night clothes, without water
ana food, fleeing from the flames
san lose Is, much damaged, all of
the business portion gone. and about
twenty killed. We are having hard
rains and neither nurses nor PATIENTS
have enough clothing. We find many
heroes and heroines among us.
we are all safe and more fortunate
than some of the people in this part
OF California, so do not worry, maybe
it is best for u.s."
FROM JAS. S. M M'CANDLEss.
Following are copies of two letters
from j. S. McCandless to his brother
John. Mr.. McCandless went up on the
China and had good opportunity to
observe from the deck of the steamer.
the conflagration that was devastating
San Francisco. He missed the earth
quake and does not seem to express,
any regrets at his luck in that respect.
These letters are dated Oakland April
END and 25th and are as follows:
Dear Bro. John:
We'll we have had some stirring
things since we reached here.
Il Will commence at the first and
l am sending you a lot of papers,
winch can tell you more than / can.
Some of the articles are sensational
but you can tell which is good and true.
we saw the smoke, or rather we
ran into the smoke, on Thursday morn
ing 70 or so miles from the heads and
when we passed the Farallones we,
could see great columns of smoke over
Frisco. Then we knew there was a big
nre. We got pilot about ten miles
OFT shore. He had not been ashore for
three or four days but said they had
felt very heavy earthquake on We'd
nesday morning at SIG and that San
Francisco had been burning ever since.
we dropped anchor, off Meiggs'
wharf at 11:05 and could see the fire
over on Montgomery Street and up on
Mob Hill right below the new Fair
mount Hotel. After passing quarantine
we up anchor and steamed to a point
opposite the Pacific Mail dock and an
chored alongside the steamer Mongo-
lia The shipping had all left the docks
ard anchored in the stream. From our
new location we could see the fire on
the upper end of Market street and all
over the Mission. When night came,
we could see Russian Hill on fire and
the Croker, Flood and Stanford build
lngs burning and also the Fairmount.
buildings We're being blown up all over
the city The whole lower part of San
Francisco has gone up in smoke. the (
iire extending as far up Market Street
on the South side as 2lst st. and to- \
van Ness Ave. on the North. They n
made heroic stand at Van Ness Ave-
nue. where they blew up every build
ing ON the East side Of the avenue.
ny doing this they saved the Western
Addition.
II Jumped across the avenue from n
Bush 10 Franklin and burned West
TWO blocks deep and then stopped. The
Spreckels mansion Is eone but the mass