The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-24

and japanese and Chinese all had their
bundles with them and just crowded
and showed This was the place where
We ran across the most ruffianism- one
big man showed right along in front OF
poor mother. At another time thought
a big trunk would fall right on her
head. One girl had carried big Nor
ris chair to the pier and had lot OF
suit cases on it. She would sit there
and take out a whisky flask and every
once and awhile take a drink. She look
ed mean. We got over to Oakland and
as soon as we landed we met people who
were right there to show us where to GO
They were very nice and after guiding
US to a train we went to Berkley- We
put up at a small bungalow on the crest
of a hill. There were so many people
at Berkley, more were coming on every
train From there we took the Southern
Pacific train for home
Saw Cracks in Streets.
I'VE went up Van Ness avenue when
we were trying to walk away from the
fire" said Mrs. Loomis, in her sprlghtiy
manner. THE street had a great many
cracks in it; some were large and some
were small. The sidewalk was raised up
in places a foot or more and it was very
rough walking. It was very tiresome
and we didn't see the town like We
had expected, but we saw some Of It
and we went through something that q
great many missed. It was great ex-
perience. We didn't see a. dead man all
the time We heard that there was a
dead man under one of the buildings
that we passed. There wasn't a CHM
ney on any of the buildings left stand
ing I have been through the Topeka
flood, the Chicago fire and now this
Felt Eight Shocks.
I'VE felt at least eight distinct earth
quakes during the day as we were walk
ing along" said Mrs. Burdsell- They
claimed that they couldn't be noticed ex-
hot asT7r1 1Ear1f Ia
those shocks but we felt them distinctly
and and we said as they happened: There,
there is Oner The Japanese and Chinese
were especially indecent and regardless
of what they did. They would come right
into the womens S toilet rooms and they
showed and acted mean we saw one glrl
carrying a bed mattress on her back and
another was carrying cheap painting
under her arm. The earthquake did fun
ny thing a the house near the fort. where
we staid Wedne sday night. A picture
hanging on the wall was turned complete
" around and to the wall It shows that
the house must have twisted away round.
We kept continually meeting the same
people over and over again The woman
who ran the boarding house in RIncon
Hill we afterwards saw at Sacramento.
They hired a yacht for $40 and come across
the bay They also saved most OF their
things. The men had hired a small wag-
on and piled the things on that. There
were a lot of those push carts on the
street with personal belongings on them.
The relief work was very well organized,
indeed, and they were SO kind to every
Screamed at Herd Of Sheep.
THE scenes were so vividly impressed
on my memory that later. on the east
bound train, when I looked out of the
window and saw a great big herd of the
sheep and saw them moving kind of in
waves, 1 just gave a scream. 1 couldn I
help it; they looked just as the ground
did. moving up and down. We saw a num-
Der of people who had lost a great deal.
One man said he had been worth one mil
lion dollars, but was now only worth
about 80 thousand dollars; another lady,
whose husband had just died, had moved
iHtO a new house with new furnishings
and it was burned entirely up saw two
girls sitting in front of a beautiful house
which was wrecked; they had no place to
go and didn't know what to do. though
they had once had the home where they
were sitting. 1t was quite an experience
and We came through it all in such splen-
did fashion. Mother is feeling tired .
Mrs. Burdselfs home is in Evanston,
III, while Mrs. Loomis is living in the city
with her son, Mr.. n. H. Loomis, general
attorney for the Union Pacific who met
them at Denver They were unable to send
a telegram from Frisco, but sent one as
they were bound eastward.