The Mena weekly star., 1906-04-26


 ,sraos from San Francisco continue
 sr;ve here. A number came Tn
 aav One party was composed
 . VanEtten, City passenger agent
 .so New York Central at Worcester
 < Mrs. Van Etten, MT. and Mrs.
 willans of Riverhead, N. Y. and
 and Mrs. S. Wyat of Fond Du Lac
 Mir. Van Etten was a guest
 ,be California hotel. They escaped
 n inc building clad only in their
 Int clothes.
 feel that we owe our lives in q
 B,t measure to 16 year old mes
 ,ger boy" said Van Etten, Sunday
 St aThis lad, whose name 1 re-
 to sayI have lost after taking it
 wn in my note book, succeeded
 Loaeh his friendship with the cap
 of towboat. in getting him toI
 us to Oakland after myself and
 other couples had tried in vain
 several hours to get some one to sEs the trip" Maurice M. Stein
 rqer of the New York banking house
 Stenberger, Finn & Co, wsls in the &mber that came in from San Fran. &m Sunday. With him were his Efe and son George and Governess,
 ss VanGester. The party was regis Eed at the St. Francis hotel on the |Lrning of the earthquake and like
 IA others had narrow escape. All l their effects, including Mrs. Stein srger's valuable jewels worth pro tbly 5000 were lost.
 |.We saved nothing from the earth l lake and fire but our grips and none use has heard from home" they (d. The ladies are Mrs. F. J. Nc. broy Mrs. T. H. Shepard, Mrs. Laurin Turner and Miss Turner.
 Another arrival describes a number queer freaks of the earthquake. In Ie midst of ruined four story build |gs stood a house of three stories, hch had been lifted on jackscrews Ld timbers to make room for another |ory beneath it. It stood apparently kharmed by the shock. Not piece the underpinning was displaced be of the churches on Van Ness |enue lad steel mosaue-like dome, De building was torn down, all the hlls falling away. but the steel Iructure, invisible at a distance, re |ained supporting the dull gray dome hich seemed floating in the air like balloon. Two theatrical people were hotel in Santa Rosa when the hock came The room was on the 'urth floor The roof collapsed. The oman was thrown from the bed and oth were caught by the descending mbers and pinned helplessly beneath ie debris. They could speak to each lher and could touch one another's ands, but the weight was so great lat they could do nothing to liberate emselyes After three hours rescu s came, cut a hole in the roof and 'th were released uninjured The an had in his room a pocketbook ntaining s100 and his card and q if of cuff buttons. Both were TO. ored to him before he left Santa asa, Among the queer sights wit 'ssed by this narrator was lone oman patiently pushing an upright ano along the pavement a few inches tune, an old man riding a bicycle "a carrying skye terrier. the only ing he had saved, and a woman singly embracing a Japanese doll. | also heard a guest berating the Oprletor of hotel five minutes after shock because he had not been 1 iSened at 5 o'clock according to in Iuctlons, The guest vowed indig | nuy that he would never stop at ae house again and he never will the hotel is not there.
 'ah Francisco, April 23.-A landmark | san Francisco that escaped destruc- n' although every building sur analng 1t was destroyed, is the | nIed States mint, at the corner of | 'lh and Mission streets. Harold | snch an employee of the mint, gave | graphic account of how the flames le successfully fought. He said. Nearly S200, 0,000,0O0 in coin and bull ' are stored in the vaults of the u' and for the preservation of this 4e band of employees. reinforced |
 regular soldiers. struggled seven ufs. A sea af fire surged around | 2 ola Federal edifice. It's little gar 0h was cut off from retreat several | urs.
 uoh shutters shielded the lower | ''S' put the windows of the upper " on which are located the re- 'ry and assay office, were exposed. Y tarred roof over the refinery, 's'l'ated a weak spot in the de- VI Tanks of wood and other in- unable material scattered about
 foof and upper story were lous menace.
 eu the roof were located 30 1 -As ot blue yitriol. the surfaces of 1