East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-04-23
HEARING FROM THEIR FRIENDS,
Pendleton People Are Receiving News
From San Francisco.


Pendleton People Are Receiving News
From San Francisco.
At last Pendleton people are hear
ing from their relatives in San
ing now among those who have been
filled with anxiety since the first news
of the terrible catastrophe.
Early this morning, Lee Drake. ad-
vertising manager for the East Ore
gonian, received the following mes
sage from his brother Fred, who was
employed as ad writer for the big
firm of John Breuner & Co.: "All
right; dent worry. In jefferson
square," Fred.
AS Jefferson Square is in the heart
of the ruined district and near where
Fred Drake worked, he has evidently
been helping in the rescue work.
Miss Nell Whittemore received a
message this morning saying that her
two sisters. Mrs. Gertrude Davidson
and Miss Clyde Whittemore, are safe
in Oakland However, Mr.. Davidson,
who went back to San Francisco to
look for his mother, is now missing.
George O'Daniel has received a
letter from his sister who was living
in San Francisco. She escaped in
safety, though the neighborhood
where she lived was devastated.
Mrs. ]. Sheuerman left Saturday for
Oakland after having waited in vain
for word from her relatives living in
San Francisco.
Mrs. C. E. Troutman has received
a letter announcing that her two
brothers, who were living in the
stricken city, are safe.
Mrs. Judge Fee has received word
from her two brothers who were in
San Francisco at the time of the
earthquake. Both are safe.
The Damage at Oakland.
This morning Mrs. ]. H. Raley re-
ceived a letter from her brother
James NJ. Pruitt, which was written
in Oakland the day following the
earthquake. Among other things the
letter said: H''
THE first reports as to the loss OF
life were greatly overestimated. The
real loss, however, will never be
known, as the fire swept through the
wrecks where many bodies were
crushed. In East Oakland the dam
age is just about the same In each
dwelling house, and that is. the flue
| off at the roof, and bric-a-brac and
glassware demolished, pictures and
mirrors from the walls. During the
| whole day yesterday we were without
a.
problem how to do any cooking
Business was entirely suspended ex-
| cepting the sale of food. The firs
street cars started about noon today
Just at dusk we went out on an ele.
waited point two blocks from our place
where we had fair view of the
| peninsula on which the city stood
and beheld such a display of fireworks
as we never saw before, and hope We
shall not see again. From our poin
| of view 1t seemed to be one continu
Gus flame from the top of the hill II
the northern part of the city far dowr
into the southern part. We could Sc,
the flames shooting skywards to grea
heights, lighting the whole western
sky"
j. II. Kunzie Is Safe.
| Mrs. C. B. Isaacs, Of 613 West Cour
street, has just received a messag
from her father, ]. II. Kunzle, the vel
known pioneer of this county, sayini
that he was unharmed in the Sal
Francisco earthquake. He Is cashie
of bank in the Massachusetts, Lif
building in the heart of the city an
for several days his daughter wa
frantic because she did not hear fror
him. He has wired that he is "saf
but shaken"
Harry Taylor Heard From.
w. F. Taylor this morning receive
card from his brother, Harry +
Taylor, who Is a dental student
] San Francisco. He says he has no az
dress at present, as his quarters wei
: burned. He was stopping at 1S.
+" Market street, in the heart of II
burned district. He was not injurt
u in the earthquake.
VIII Aid Oregonians.
The Fast Oregonian has just recei
s ed the following message from Jeffe
son Myers, president OF the Lewis al
t. Clark state commission, who is now
Oakland, Cal: Oakland. April
. East Oregonian, Pendleton: Plea
say TO your people in eastern Oreg'
that any information or help that
can give them in reference to the
friends in San Francisco will be chee
at 1
broadway, Oakland, Cal. Oregoni
and Journal headquarters. Jeffers
- Myers"