Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-25
WORK on CaOCKS and TROOPS
Refugees from nl-Fatod San Francisco Tell
Tales Of Honor.
SOME SOLDIERS nLt INNOCENT KtN
Appaliins story Of Incidents Con-
neeted with Destruction Of Tn
saae AsyIum Told ~ Man
from Drnver.

men were shot TO death on a blazing roof
In San Franciaco 10 keep them from being
burned alive is solemnly asserted by Max
Fast, garment worker who casne here
yesterday. When The ire caught the
vinesor hotel al Hifth and Market" said
Mr.. Fast, there were three men on the
roof and II was impossible TO get them
down Rather than go the craxed men
fan In with the roof and be roasted alive
the military officer directed his men 70
shoot them. which they did in the presence
Of 5000 people. / saw great stones fall
on three men near the city hail. crushing
the life out Of them. In Union square
stood beside a woman who died actually
from fright and thirst. Her last request
/. was for water and we had none to give
her Al Jefferson square I saw a fatal
clash between the military and the police
men. policeman ordered a soldier TO
1 take up a dead body to put It in the wagon
and the soldier ordered the policeman to
do H. Words followed and the soldier shot
the policeman dead"
Dakota Mans Experience.
John Cashnear, an old soldier from
speardsh g. D. saw the military shoot a
negro near the city hall. The negro had
been robbins the corpse Of a woman and
to set ring from her swollen finger cut
the finger on. 'rrhe sentry on duty ncar
Van Ness avenue added Mr.. Cashnear
ordered friend Of mine who was enter
ing his home to come out Of there, as Il
was about to be dynamted. My friend
! waved his hand back toward the soldier,
saying: This is my house and / have a
right to go In The soudier instantly
killed him. On the other hand. want to
say that the soldiers were generally kind
and helpful and depiored these hasty ac-
tions of their comrades just as much as
we did
4 Nothing could be more terrible than the
calamity at Agnsw's asylum, near San
Jose as described by r. l. Drinkwater OF
Denver He fed to San Jose from San
i Francisco, only to find that he had gone
from bad to worse. He said last night:
I'VE went to Agnew's, where we had a
friend and found the asylum IN ruins and
200 demented creatures buried there. 1t
was a sight TO transhx one with horror to
see scores OF madmen and women strapped
TO trees all over the grounds, crying.
shrieking and cursing.
Cries Of Insane.
'4Ordinarily troublesome in their way, the
excitement due to the falling of the build
ing had made them mad indeed and their
uncanny looks and fiery eyes were terrible
to behold Nothing could be done for them,
as there was no place to put them, and
every sane man. woman and child available
was digging to release the other unfortu-
mates buried in the ruins. Oh. such cries
as came, seemingly from the bowels Of
the earth. The devils have got me. Lei
me out I ami the king; you cannot Kill
me- I want my supper want my din
ner.' Just as the vagary seized them they
called out their disjointed threats. nor ever
guessing their true condition"
But most CHASTITY OF all is the statement
nv Willis Ames, a Salt Lake City man, who
escaped to Los Angeles. He says:
while I was walking about the street:
, saw man after man shot down by tht
, troops. Most Of these were ghouls. One
man made the troopers believe that one
of the dead bodies lying on a pile of rocks
was his mother and he was permitted tC
20 up 10 the body. Apparently overcom'
by grief he threw himself across th'
corpse. In another instant the soldiers dis
covered that he was chewing the diamond
} earrings from the ears Of the dead woman
Here's where you get what's coming
; 70 you said one of the soldiers. and he pu
bullet through the ghoul. The diamond
5 were found In the mans mouth after
wards"
: Already the DekBdSh are sCChiN6 " piOlA
r bv the misfortune of San Francisco anC
. two men arrested while begging in th'
q character of refugees have Deen proveC
( iInposters.
4 The soldiers referred TO were undoubt
edly militia men.
All REPORTS concur in the statement tina
4 they were reckless, while the United State
e troops seem at time to have failed II
discretion or good conduct.
Guards OveFAeaIOus.
SAN FRANCISCO. April 2I.-chief Of Po
. lice Dinan announced this morning tina
] | reports OF clashes between police and Ma
tional Guardsmen were greatly exagger
ated. The ofieers OF the department ar
/, | taking their regular details from the cap
tains OF their respective companies and ar
doing patrol duty in conjunction with IN
} regulars. II is believed that before tn
close OF today every militiaman will b
? withdrawn from duty on the streets.
"As far as the police department is con
: cerned," said Chief Dinan, I'VE have en-
: deavored to cooperate with the regular
J. in patrolng the streets and preserving OF
! der. We have had no clash with militia
. men OF the citizens patrol. but there hav
been numerous complaints OF the over
e seriousness Of the guardsmen by citizens
4 | and for that reason we nave ueetned
1 advisable to request the withdrawal OF a
J. bodies OF troops not acting under the direC
3 command Of General Funston.
i policeman Alpers. detailed to duty in a
i automobile, was fired upon by militiame
y at Hayes and Van Ness streets shortl
e after midnight last night. He was speed
s ing TO headquarters and was challenge
, by regulars several times but no eftoi
d was made 10 stop him until he came u
g against the militia patrol at Hayes an
= Van Ness. They commenced TO shoot h'
y fore challenging the automobile party, an
as the offcer dashed by four shots wei
hred By the guardsmen Fortunately a
10 were poor marksmen and Alpers lived
= tell his story TO his company commander
ie connie\ OF Authority.
d Captain OF P0i4ce Martin was informe
IS by miiitiamen in his section last night thi
II there must be no lights He told n
guards that the order was that ligh
II should be permitted until 10 o'clock D. m
= but the guard was obdurate and n
ID captain put IN the evening without light
D. 1T is such little incidents as these th'
make the militiamen undesirable for patr
duty and has called forth a vigorous pr
test from the citizens"
A. Captain Edward Rettenhaus OF Il
~ Marine corps notified Chief Dinan la