The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-04-24

GETTING AWAY
FROM FRISCO
Grand Opera Singer Arrives
In New York
lin HER SLIPPERS
Tramped Over Ruins-M Many Refugees
Have Reached 0maha--Others in
Portland -vemonters Are
Heard From.

New York, April IA. Olive Fremstad
and Josephine Jacoby, the first mem
bers Of the Mstrepolitan Opera Company
To reach this city fnorn the San Francis
co disaster, arrived az The Grand Cen
trail station yesterday ait 1890 O'Clock.
Marion Weed, who left San Fraucisco
with them stopped Oft at Rochester, This
|is what Mis-. 5acoby said when siie got
IofT the train. Aef
ext 5 o'clock Wednesday awoke
suddenly. was at the Palace Hotel. The
bed WINS flinging this way and the teeil-
INF that wav ! sail, What's thisf'' "
MRS some seconds before | knew it was
an earthquake. There was a terrible
|crnnrhing sound that nobody who ever
heard 1t can ever forget ] ran out Of
The room in my night dress and down
the stairs Suddenly the motion stopped.
It had lasted about 40 seconds. ! went
back To my room. Then there came an
other shock 81 about 81 seconds, and
later another Of about 10 seconds.
AS | looked cut OF the window the
Whole city seemed 10 be ablaze in 10
minutes after the first shock Hall an
hour later things had Quilted somewhat,
and the manager Of the hotel called rs
into the dining room and gave MS coffee.
~'rh~ women OF our company never
said boo; they were as brave MS sol
diers. We had time to pick up a few
things, but even those were not saved
fof the most part. All have are the
eldthes ! wear, the slippers On my feet
and those In which played Carmen the
night before. I've worn them all the
way across the country.
fMel. We marched 10 Union square
seeing strange things ON the way. There
we've great rents in the earth Ne ex-
pected every minute that others would
open and We wotG be swallowed Up,
We were MI waiting TO die almost any
way There was no place TO goy moth
ing 10 do.
we sat around for while in the
square ANA then, little BY little, We be-
can 10 scatter, some in one direction and
some in another. flames sent for Sem
brich and DIPPED to come TO DIR. Tsvis
house. Most Of ts either had friends all
ready or found new ones that were Just
As good. There was little boy, a super
in Carmen" the night before. He look.
ed me lp and took me To a house. had
to walk about 20 blocks to get there
The fire kept travelling and drove ".
out Of that house That night the people
started for another place 70 blocks away,
said. No, | wont move again; I'm go,
ing 10 get out of this GoerIitz had told
us 10 meet again in Union square Thurs
day morning, and We would 20 together
but decided not to wait A man told
ine that tie Oakland ferry was still
running, so off | started on foot. II
was an hours walk, but It TOOK me
two hours because Of the condition d
the streets.
"0h. you've no idea how everything
looked. There was no common level. In
one place the ruins would he heaped III
TO the sky and in another they seemed
I to yawn down into the depths OF the
earth. walked right through China
town, picking my way along crooked
alleys, between all sorts Of dangerous
places
Il kept on walking past these ruins
III seemed TO Ine that the bigger the
I reached the ferry. ! was pushed about
by Cinnamon and men carrying great
bundle. and boxes. II was all confusion
On the other side got on train and
went straight to Chicago.A
Everybody appearc; 70 be delighted
to see the first people out Of the disas-
ter MiIward Adams. MIR. Conried's Chi.
caco manager, telephoned to the direc-
tor this morning that all the principals
or the opera company had arrived safely
in Chicago and would leave for New
York on the Twentieth Century limited
Nine Eames remained in San Francisco
The opera chorus, and other members
Of the company will arrive Thursday