The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-24
KILLED HUMANITY
Soldiers Prevented Three Men from
More Horrible Death.

Salt Lake, April 24.-InaC three men
were shot to death on blazing roof
in San Francisco to keep them from
being burned to death is asserted by
Max Fast, garment worker, who came
here yesterday.
"When the fire caught the Windsor
hotel at Fifth and Market" said Mr..
Fast, "there were three men on the
roof, and it was impossible to get them
down. Rather than see the crazed men
fall in with the roof and be roasted
alive, the military officer directed his
men to shoot them, which they did, in
the presence of 5000. '
men near the city hall, killing them.
In Union square l stood beside a wom-
an who died actually from fright and
thirst. Her last request was for water,
and we had none to give her. At JET
ferson square I saw a fatal clash be-
tween the military and the police. A
policeman ordered a soldier to take up
a dead body to put it in the wagon,
and the soldier ordered the policeman
to do it. Words followed, and the SOL
der shot the policeman dead.
"John Cashnear, an old soldier from
Spearfsh, S. D., saw the military shoot
negro near the city hail. The negro
had been robbing the corpse of wom-
IN, and to get ring from her finger
he cut her finger off, The sentry on
duty near Vanness avenue ordered a
friend of mine, who was entering his
home, to come away as it was about to
be dynamited. My friend waved his
hand back toward the soldier and said,
This is my house and [ have a right to
90 in. The soldier instantly killed
him.
-"On the other hand, I want to say
| hot ha w III M
and helpful.'
Terrible Scene at Asylum.
Nothing could be more terrible than
| the calamity at Agnews asylum, near
| San Jose, as described by R. l.. Drink,
water of Denver. He fed to San Jose
from San Francisco only to find that
he had gone from bad to worse. He
said last night:
awe went to Agnews, where we had
a friend and found the asylum in ruins
there. It was sight to transfx one
with horror to see scores of madmer
and women strapped to trees all over
the ground, crying, shrieking and ours
ing. Ordinarily troublesome in thei
way, the excitement of falling build
ings made them mad indeed, and their
uncanny looks and fiery eyes were ter
rible to behold. Nothing could be done
for them, as there was no place to pu
them, and every, sane man and woman
and child available was digging to re
lease the other unfortunates buried il
the ruins. Oh such cries as cam'
seemingly from the bowels of tn
earth, 'The devils have got mel
am the king, you cannot kill mel
want my support. I want my dinner!
just as the vagary seized them the,
called out their disordered thoughts
,, never guessing their true condition.
Ghoul Mimicked Mourner.
The most CHASTITY of all stories o
survivors is that of Willis Ames,
! Salt Lake man who escaped to Lo
. Angeles. He said: "While I wa
) walking about the streets, I saw ma
after man shot down by the troops
Most of these were ghouls. One ma
. made the trooper believe that one o
u the dead bodies lying on a pile o
rocks was his mother, and he was pei
: mitted to 90 up to the body. Appal
!, emily overcome by grief, he threw hin
/, self across the corpse. In another il
q slant the soldier discovered that b
e was pulling the diamond earrings frol
/ the ears Of the dead woman:
|, I" Here is where you get what
$ coming to you, said one of the 50
S diers, and with that he put a bulle
: thru the ghoul.
: Already beggars are seeking to prof
by the misfortune of San Franclsc
g and two men arrested while begging
) the character of refugees have bee
nroved impOStOrS.