The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-22

cisco, the grim ghost OF humOr Stalked |
the terrible streets, and now that the !
worst Of the horror is over, those of
lighter heart who passed through the
attendant dangers, are becoming nor
NAL enough to remember some of the |
forms the spectre took.
Albert Mccormick who arrived from
the scene of the disaster on Friday, |
has a clear idea of q number of Incl
dents which happened in the course of
his wanderings during the terrifying
hours he spent in the doomed city, and
he interested the friends who crowded
about him yesterday with conglOm-
crate series of tales.
Meets Lindsay Rogers.
After the breaking of day and
had recovered sufficiently from the
shock to go back to the hotel, / made
rush for my room and ran into Lind
say Rogers, who was bent on the same
mission, that of getting some fresh
clothes. AS mounted the Palace
stairs, trunk after trunk came crash
ing down, and every step we took was
dangerous / helped Rogers with his
stuff, and he in turn lighted matches
/ for me while 1 gathered a few things
together. Then we made another rush
| for the foot of the stairs.
Just as we got there the last clerk
was leaving the desk and, catching him
by the coat, l said, I want my money
" Nothing doing said the clerk;
| were getting OUT of here but 1 hung
on demanding my money, which was in
the safe, and L got it. Then 1 told the
clerk that my room was little disor-
dered, and to have the plaster put back
on the walls before I returned to the
city in a few days.
"A porter came running up to us and
| offered to get my trunk to the St
Francis for SO, while the luggage was
fairly raining into the Palace court I
told that that ha hax fIa
| trunk, and gave him the key to 435
up near the roof Then we got out.
Hundreds in the Streets.
There were hundreds of people in
the streets, and about one out of every
hundred was carrying a baby; the other
ninety-nine were clutching d dog, a
parrot or a cat. 1 never knew there
were so many in the world.
The feline affinity in some cases was
marvellous; for instance, I saw one wo-
man with a kitten hugged to her bosom,
while her two children chung desper-
ately to her skirts as they made their
way toward the park
L intended to go to the ST Francis
but that looked pretty close to town
and then 1 met c. D Porter, who said
he knew my family, ard offered to
share his bed. ] asked him where il.
was, and pointing to the top of a ten
story building, he told me he had a
me room up Inere. 'SkldOO, for you,
L says, and as l looked a great stone
| crashed down in front of the entrance
Then big bull came running UP and
forbade any one going into the build
! ing, so Mr.. Porter had the same room
l had-out in the park
English Was Twisted.
Down in front of the st. Francis
Caruso came running out, and demand
| ed TO know what he should do. He had
a tat Valise in one hand, and line of
English that was twisted out of shape
Lindsay didn't know who he was, and
was peevish enough to care less at such
| a time. so in answer to his inquiry he
| said, How the h do I know. Won d
dago; I've got troubles of my own
There was a lot of bravado about
/ Rogers until he found it was impossible
/ TO get out of town, and then he got so
worried that we never got separated
! mat night at another hotel uptown,
| where L thought 1 would be safe from
/ the fire, I awOke to see the flames a
DOCK away, and heard the dynamite so
/ close that it seemed right under me
/ and l didn't wait. I put on all the
| clothes L had, took two blankets and
| comforter, manager to get three bot
/ ties Of White Rock, and started in the
| wake Of the great crowd which had
! preceded me TO the park
Preserves Mineral Water.
II put a bottle Of the mineral water
| in each coat pocket, and carried the
| third one. I hadn't gone twenty steps
/ when a fellow snatched one of the hot
/ ties from me. and as 1 turned on him.
a woman took another bottle I start
| ed to run to save the third and a fellow
| tripped me. and the bottle sma shed.
| There was wild scramble for the broken
bits and the mob eagerly went after the
/ few remaining drops and had a thirst
like the arid belt.
Whether IL was the great American
! sense of the ridiculous, or general
/ hysteria, / do not know, but everybody
| was laughing at everybody else, and
every other costume thai appeared in
a crowd was greeted with roars of
/ laughter.
| Il went with Mr.. Rogers to find his
daughter who was in school there and
when we arrived the inmates were get
! ting ready to move to a safer place
everyone dressed in the best things
/ they possessed. Later we went back
out of curiosity to see if the building
was still standing. and it seemed COM
/ pletely deserted. We went in, and the
place was silent save for a faint sound
/ that seemed to come from the base
ment. We rang and rang the bell and
/ finally a begrimed individual appeared
in the hall spade in hand.
ut was an old janitor of kindly
mien, who said: Sure, an Owe been
/ diggin' in the basement fer two hours
Is the fire here?
/ After being treasured on that point
! he said: Dim about through an all
| tn roserieS an iviry crucifix in tn
place is safely buried out of harms
way
To Ferry in Hack.
''I went back to the park, and after
a long search found a fellow with a
! hack who guaranteed to get me to the
! ferry, and / took a chance. He was
true to his word and / crowded through
the gate to the first boat.