Bisbee daily review., 1906-04-28
P, B. JohnsonsSeeS Frisco Just Before and After Terri
 ble Disaster,
CHlNkS DYNAMITED
 IN THEIR VILE DENIS.
Wonderful Energy Being DiS- played by People Who Lost Everything - Widespread Charity Cause for Praise.

In San Francisco two days before the earthquake and fire, away for eight days and then back again, few have had the opportunity to fully ap- preciate the havoc and ruin that was wrought in the California metropolis II. manner as striking as H. B. Johnson, who was in Bisbee yester- day on his way from Seattle to Cana nea.
 Johnson was guest at the Palace hotel, which now lies in ruins, on Monday of last week, leaving for Seat tie the following morning. He was in the stricken city again on last Tues day, spending the greater part of the day. viewing the destruction caused by the earthquake and fire.
 q walked up Market street to Kearney." said Johnson yesterday, and what I saw will last me the rest of my life. l never imagined that srch a calamity could befall a we'll built city. On every hand were tp isted iron, piles of building stone, and in some places where frame build ipgs had stood there was nothing but Gs hes.
 
 g, ound cellars, was the worst sight of all. I have no doubt that there are hundreds of human beings buried under the ruins in that part of the city They are slaves. opium fiends and dis eesed men and women, Niho never kLew what happened.
 ''In cue place saw where Market street had sunk five feet. It began ar the edge of the sidewalk and ex- tended for several yards in all direc- tions. Not far from there the ground had been raised feet
 Tn one place I saw a hole fifty feet long and ten feet deep. It was where one of the gas mains had blown up. throwing dirt and pavement in all directions. .,
 As late as last Tuesday they were still removing bodies by the score tbat the number of killed will be many more than the people of San Francisco claim. It will be several thousand. ;.a..
 T talked with some of the soldiers who were in Chinatown when that part of the city was blown up to stop the progress of, the flames. They first tried 10 get all the Chinamen out, but just as the dynaMite was aboutSto ex- plode, scores Of them rushed back into the buildings and locked tnem- telyes in their. rooms. They were all blown up with the frame build ings.
 Everywhere I saw the soldiers kill ing dogs and thrpVing their bodies into the smoking embers-r Dozens of them were found gnawing at the bodies of those who had been killed. but not found until the dogs were discovered eating the human flesh.
 Oakland suffered considerably. Some of the buildings are in ruins. some h1ve been so badly damaged that they will have to be rebuilt, while others are propped up to keep them from falling into the streets. In Oak land I saw hundreds of women, who were suffering. Many of them have lest their homes, others their chil- dI en, while a number had every rela- tive killed in Frisco.
 'I did not believe that the people of this country could be so charitable. Trains are arriving all the time, bring ing food and clothing to the sufferers. Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been arriving daily in telegrams."
 Johnson states that the people are showing wonderful energy so shortly after the disaster. Ground is being cleared for new buildings everywhere. He predicts that San Francisco will be rebuilt on a grander scale than ever.