The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-04-23
PAID S1OO FOR RIDE
FROM CITY TO FERRY
Fleeing Citizens We're Wild to
Get Away From Awful
Disaster.

DENVER. Colo, April 22.-Pinned
down in the dispatchers rooms
of the Southern Pacific depot at Third
and Townsend streets, San Francisco,
when the earthquake occurred. w H
O'Nein. claim agent OF the San Pedro,
Los Angeles 6 Salt Lake railroad, man
aged to escape from tho building. and,
making his way to the ferry landing.
waited two hours for boat He reached
Denver tonight
Saw Buildings Rocking.
THE Southern Pacific depot overlooks
the wholesale district" said Mr.. O'Neill,
land as l looked out OF the window after
eXtricatng myself from the tangle OF
furniture. It looked as II every building
In the territory within my gaze was rock
Ing. Many OF them tumblcd down as l
watched, and great clouds of dust rose
above them like a pail. Fires started
here and there. The part of the city l
had to pass through was a complete
wreck There was not whole building
Felt Several Shocks.
There seemed to be several waves due
to the earthquake. The first shook me
up considerably as l eat in the dispatch
ers office, Tho next threw me TO the
my feet az soon as 1 could and by that
time there seemed to be reaction and
another wave seemed to come from the
opposite direction from which the first
came.
Had the earthquake occurred later.
thousands would have been killed In the
wholesale district"
Passengers Knocked Down.
Il was on a Southern Pacific train
twenty miles from San Francisco when
the shock came" said Frederick Droege
OF the Licking Rolling Mills of Coving-
ton. KY. who arrived here last night
"A number of passengers were tumblcd
out OF their berths into the aisle The
conductor stopped the train and looked
find out what 1t was. Some one sug-
gcsted an earthquake and we gave him
tho laugh.
Saw Fssures in the Earth.
We went on O few miles. and looking
out OF the windows, could see the chiu
iS neys OF the houses had fallen over Fur
ther on Two great assures appeared on
each side OF the track where tho earth
had opened. A little further We saw that
tne santa Fe tracks next TO ours. had
nll. Then We Acknowledged that n was
an earthquake all right
Notwithstanding the news We got from
5I Inc city, everybody on the train went in,
There was not building in sight that
was not damaged. but the steel buildings
stood the strain until the fire came.
Thirty-Ton Mill Lifted.
In one building 1 saw n thirtx-to,
stamp mill that had been standing on the
SIound moor, lifted IN with tho floor and
showed through the iron gJrders of tho
senand selnnS Sntil s 1t stood entirely above the
Arthur Woodson of Chicago, who was
In the Palace hotel at the time of tbe
earthquake. sald VI '"e
Paid 500 Hack Fare.
AFTER breakfast / hustled around n
get over the bay to Oakland a fau,
haeks were In commission, and ree,,.
!ar auction was feld over the seat soid
20 eaeh passenger. The prices charged
one Of the hacks for SIS. There VII Ia
three other men In 1t that paid s5o "oe soe
seats We had to go to the fsrrSS y'V LOT
way and when we bad ~ ia
cred several blocks, two men hafed ~
driver. They offered 500 aniacn teu .he
privilege OF riding to the ferry The rhe
1rlFer TOOK one up on tho box with hin,
handed me my S35 and made mo sat n',,
20 that his 800 passenger could eet into
MS carriage So INTO
Offered SIS for Ride.
hailed tho next hack thar c.o
along and got on the box with tbo lame lame
mother Fellow from the sidewalk cai,ad
'ut that no would give sn 10 ho ou ,i
% the ferry, but | told the acL 6Ia's 6aAen ,
nat | would throw him off the hox - t
stopped as he had no room either ,ns,de ,ds
'r outside FOR another passenger ''''
Left $500 Behind.
- M Nichols. New York traye,,no
eiesfnan. ned from the Palace hotel iaawes