The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-04-22
DAYS d TERROR
IN. !. EARTHQUAKE ] 4 |:
Thrilling Story Told BY Little ,:tls,
Party Who Reached Los
Angeles in Safety
MA d SCENE u IN CITY
Buildings Toppled, Walls y ;l| ssof. Fire Fire
Suddenly BlrstaAcro's
Streets.
MADDENlNG SCENE IN CITY
s(Bys A ssociated Press.)

4 los ss4ANG ELE;S, CAL, April 2l.--Most
ventures in stricken San Francisco dur
ing the days Of horrors and nights Of
terror is thai Of 4aepartytso + four-two
womcn$anG two nen--who arrived ycster-
day after having spent a, night and the
greater portion of two days on the hills
about Golden Gate Park This party
was composed or Mrs. Francis Winter,
Miss Bessie Marley, DIR. Ernest W. Elem
Ing and Oliver Posey. all prominent local
people. All we're guests at the Palace
Tuesday night. They returned with feet
swollen and bruised from miles OF walk
ing over ragged, broken streets aud with
flesh scared santl bliEtered from cnders
and flame.
The party was formed in the streets
of san l1ranolsco Wednesday morning,
after the second shock had made the
Palace Hotel untenable. They we're
strangers until then.
Story of Adventures.
TO reporter Dir. Fleming told of his
adventures:
II was sleeping In room on the third
floor OF the hotel" said Or. Fleming.
when the first shock occurred An earth
quake In San Francisco was no new
Sc nsation9 to me. L was there IN 1865
when n boy 10 years old, when the first
great earthquake came. But that was
y gentle rocking of n cradle to tho one
OF wednesday.
n gentle rocking OF a cradle to the ona
Of Wednesday,. A H,it
II awoke to the grooming Of timbers,
the grinding, creaking sound;athcn came
the roaring street, PlasterlnG ana wall
decorations fell. Tho sensation was na
though tho building was stretching ami
wrlthing like Il snake. Tho darkness was
Intense. Shrleks OF women higher
shriller than that OF the creaklng timbers,
cut tho air tnmbcd from the bed
and crawlcd, scrnmblins toward tho
door, The twisting and writing ap-
peared to increase.
"rhe air was oppressive. ] seemed
TO DO saying to myself, 'Wlll 1t never
never stop. wrenohedlfthe lock, me
door OF the room swung back against
my shoulder,
.Just thon tho building seemed to
breathe stngger and right Itself Hiit
T fled from that building as from fall
Ing wall. could not believe that ~
could endure such n shock and slill stand
-'The next remember ] was stand
ing in tho street laughing at tho unholy
apnearance of half hundred men clad
IN pajamas and less, The women were
IN their night robes They madc a bet
ter appearance than the men, Tho street
was n rainbow Of colors In the early
morning light, There was ratnent OF
every hue, and In many cases never IN
tended to he seen outside boJdoir.
looked at man at my side, He was
laughing at me. Then, for tho first time
became. aware that was In phjalnhs
myself, turned and fed back TO my
room.
Buildings Collapsed
nrhere dressed, packed my "trip anu
hastened back to the street All the big
buildings on Market Street toward the
ferry we're standing, hu, | marked -FOUR
separate hres7 The front of tlle small
buildings had fallen ouLinto the streets,
and at some places the debris had broken
through the sidewalk into cellars
II noticed two women near me- They
we're apparently without escort. ono SAID
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