Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1906-05-25
ANOTHER LETTER FROn
SAN FRANCISCO.

The following letter from Miss Ollie
Boliner, who is nurse in the General
Hospital Presidio, San Francisco,
CAL, to her mother Mrs. NJ. j. BOliner
OF Van Buren Furnace. Will be of in
terest to our readers.
NJ DEAR NOT HER.
Your more
than welcome letter TO hand. | have
only received one letter from you, but
lots OF mail was lost so I suppose your
letters must have gone with it. / don't
suppose you ever received my tele-
gram as there were ten thousand al
ready filed when filed it, however, /
am glad you heard, for l know how
worried you must have been, 1 must
tell you of something else that l don't
suppose you have heard.
The hospital caught fire one morn
ing this week and one end was burned
off, but no body hurt, and all is we'll
now.
We had little earthquake (Satur-
day) that l didn't enjoy very much.
We do have little vibrations quite
often. but none TO amount TO very
much. just enough 20 keep us guessing
l guess it's getting next to US for We
are always expecting them now. " hen
we don't have them We are disappoint
ed when we do have them we are
frightened half to death.
You ask me if felt the earthquake,
we'll rather think / did feel il quite a
[ little.
I'll tell YOU jut where was and all
about it now-I was on night duty in
the officers Hall and had just settled
down to read a book, every thing as
quiet as you please-I head the noise
and felt little quivering, but thought
it was the heater, pushed back a
little, thought it was going to have a
butt up, but just about that time the
medicine chest came toumbling out in
the middle of the floor, and | started
for the door. when the ceiling began
falling all around me, about that time
she building was swaying to and fro
that could hardly stand up just then
met the night corpsman that was on the
hall with me and he helped me to the
door that led out on the porch and b!
that time il was nearly over. The onl!
thing could think of was well | an
all right so far and have a pretty goot
show, but what is going to become o
my patients. AS soon as could
went back to see if they were all right
but 1 met nearly all of them in tn
hall, operative cases and all, sick one
and everybody else that could walk a
all. Wardrobes. tables, stands
bureaus and everything upset, som
broken. The crashing of dishes AM
bottles was enough to frighten any
body without any thing else.
After everything quieted down,
struck me as being funny, and Ca
see that old madeleine case doing tw
step now in the middle of the floor.
didn't laugh very much at the time
but it certainly did seem funny after
!. wards.
Everywhere you looked you coul
, see people some half dressed some nc
dressed at all. One man came rur
e ming up and said "Miss Boliner l te-
}, YOU | was face to face with my Jesus
: I said it kind Of strikes me we a
were. One of the nurses said to be
patients "now men stay in bed tn
= Lord will take care of you" and on
' man said 81 tell you | had to run lik
a the devil to beat her to the door" a
n the while she was talking to them ST
was making for the door for dear lif'
| told one OF the men that all l sa
of Col. Gorlington The was one OF m
patients) was little pink stripe. L
= said "when he got to the door WI
d lust kicking Captain Welch (anoth'
Il of my patients) out of the way, an
3 said Welch if you can't run step asit
l. and let somebody run that can"
IS was all "fb' | didn't run. 0ecau
> I couldn't. 1t was much as | could d
. to keep nv feet Well, 1 hope v
wont have any more like it any wa
Everybody thinks we wont have an
more hard ones.
y Well, l must say that we are a
ID we'll, but very busy. The hospital
al full of patients now. Lots OF peor
% here are on the grounds yet.
= Now Imust say good bye and
look for letter from you real 500
at Hope you are all well and happy.
good bye with much love, | am
IN vOtedlV OLLlE.