The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-21
ANXIOUS FRIENDS
AWAIT MESSAGES S.
FATE OF SAN FRANCISCO SUI
FERERs GENERALLY UNKNOWN.
Suspense and Inability of Telegraph
Companies to Deliver Messages
=: Wears on Nerves-Telegrams Re-
ceived Today Give Meager Assur-
ances of Safety of Few. .s~4e >.

Minneapolis people who have rela-
tives or friends in San Francisco are
anxiously awaiting tidings, either in
the newspapers or by private sources,
that their people are safe. Knowledge
that most of those who persisted dwelt
in the poorer sections of the city, and
that it is impossible in the confused
state of affairs to get telegraph mes
sages into San Francisco from the out
cred, is little consolation. They know
that their friends are hungry and
thirsty, and that they are probably
without shelter. They may be sick or
injured, so until direct word sis re-
ceived, anxiety must be great. =. I:
Many Minneapolis people remember
Eli, King, a former resident. O. B.
King, his father, today received tele-
gram from Palo Alto, April 49,; 1t
reads as follows: II. i.
I ."Big earthquake this morning. Ter
. rible destruction. All safe and well.'
Mr.. King is cashier of the First Ma
tional bank of Palo Alto, which is
thirty-fve miles from San Francisco.
i A neighbor of Mr.. King is X. C. Board
man, formerly with the Journal, but
: now. an employee Of the San Francisco
4 Chronicle. =. Since Mr.. King escaped
8 unhurt it is likely that the family of
& Mr.. Boardman also escaped. .4aoy
II Mrs. Owen P. McElmeel, GIG Twelfth
! from her brother, Frank " Cornish, at
i torney at San Francisco, dated Ala
! media, April 10, that he and his family
! are safe. Mrs. McElmeel's father and
, mother are spending the winter" at
: Santa Cruz, and her sister, Josephine
: Cornish, is a student at the University
:. at Berkeley. All are reported safe.
, Mrs. e. j. Edwards, 1911 Vine place
; got one Of the first personal messages
r thru from Frisco today. It came from
q President David Starr Jordan of LIE
,. land Stanford Jr., university to- assure
4 Mrs. Edwards, President u ordanas sis
liter, of the safety Of his family, tt
(which he also added that all the faculty
Iwere safe.
1 Mr.and Mrs. A. Kruger of Chicago
= avenue are greatly agitated over thu
III fact that so far every effort to receive
I}news from their son and daughter, Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Hamilton, has been O.
n no avail Mr.. and Mrs. Hamilton oc
q cupied apartments, within a few block
= of Inflated Market street, and as man,
J., the destroyed by fire, they feel tina
3 NOTHING but a miracle can have save
1 the lives of their relatives Mr.. Ham
% i ilton, who was formerly a Minneapoli
"A newspaper man, was on the repertoire
81 staff of the Examiner, but no informe
o ton as to their whereabouts has bee
~ received at Hearst s Chicago office.
ri Major John Bigelow 922 Henne !
n avenue; received a: telegram toda
~ which states that at the time Of sen6
r, ing it, Mrs John Bigelow and he
"a daughter, Mrs. Gardner-Hodgson an
( their relatives were safe. They al
NJ visiting at the residence of Mrs. Dodg
g which is located on Jackson and Franz
l. lin streets one block east of Van Mes
mark the limit of the fire it is suppose
that the Dodge residence is still stant
Ses1 The family of A. v. Hoyt Of Fift
M avenue and Miss Mary Hoyt, one (
"a the teachers of the Longfellow schoo
4 is greatly distressed as to the wher
e- abouts Of their relatives in San FRA
W.. cisco, A brother, w. II. Hoyt, arrive
It. to leave for San. Francisco as soon
ors a message. is received. His broth
III and wife, Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram b. Hoy
~ - formerly Of Minneapolis, are residen
- of San Francisco, and Mr.. Hoyt's bus
~ ~ ness was in one Of the large downtov
>. buildings which did not collapse uni
= q CLOCK in the evening, after t
on earthquake: They entertain fears tn
III Mr.. Hoyt was downtown when the d
ofHs astert occurred.
!. q Frank T. Corriston, Mrs. F. P. He
wood, Mrs. Frey and Mrs. G. H.7Fsri
OF. have relatives in Palo Alto and sta
80 ford. Their sisters, Mrs. David Cla
rs and Mrs. Motz, with their families, g
n near$sthe5 disaster stricken city, n
~. Clark is one Of the professors of Lat
ed in Stanford univ ersity and they ha
re a family of five children. Mrs. NJ
on on has been spending the winter in P;
. % Alto, altho her home is in Butte, Mo
Is Her two sons are at Stanford univ
an sity. Their Minneapolis relatives ha
- been unable to receive any news FIR,
n them. ~: ~. NJ
DIR. and Mrs. Harry B. Child have
81 sister, Miss Mabel Moore, in Sal
F. Cruz, with whom they have tried
III vain To communicates sEE