The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-23
THOSE WHO ESCAPED
TELL STRANGE TALES
narrowing and Amusing Experiences Were the Lot Of
All Who Survived the Earthquake and Fire-Queer
THINGS Seen and Heard in Frisco.

Salt Lake, Utah, April 23.-scores of
Salt Lake people were in San francisco
at the time OF the earthquake and
many returned yesterday bringing
mass Of information. E. j. DAILY, a mine
owner, escaped with his wife and four
children. He left the Charlemagne
hotel in his automobile, but the police
wounded. Nevertheless he says:
F.'The policing of the city is perfect
under the circumstances, and I want to
give unstinted praise to the chief and
his brave men. We finally got over to
Oakland and in a half-starved condi-
tion entered restaurant there. Six
of us ate hearty meal and the check
was only $l.60. We were astonished,
but it is the law among these people
that no more than cost shall be charged
anyone from San Francisco. Finding
our eyes affected by the heat and ashes,
they treated us with more than ordi-
nary care. When he finished [ asked
for the bill and said: emo, sir, we
charge nothing to the people who come
from that awful trial over yonder.'''
Freaks Of the Quake.
Another arrival describes a number Of
queer freaks of the earthquake. In the
midst Of ruined four-story buildings
stood house Of three stories which had
been lifted on jackscrews and timbers to
make room for another story beneath it..
It stood apparently unframed by the
shock. Not piece Of the underpinning
was displaced.
!. One Of the churches on Van Ness av-
enue had a mosque-like dome. The
building was blown down, all the walls
railing away but the steel structure in
visible at a distance remained support
ing the dull gray dome which seemed
floating in air like balloon.
{ Two theatrical people were in a
hotel in Santa Rosa when the shock
came. The room was on the fourth
. floor. The roof collapsed The woman
was thrown from the bed and both were
caught by the descending timbers and
pinned helplessly beneath the debris.
They could speak to each other and
could touch one another's hands, but
the weight was so great that they
: could do nothing to iberate themselves.
After three hours rescuers came, cut a.
hole IN the roof, and both were re-
leased uninjured. The man had in his
room -pocketbook containing 800 and
MS card and a pair Of cuff buttons. Both
were restored to him before he left
Santa Rosa.
A@1@AASS CoplS 1Jlu.
), Among the queer sights witnessed bv
thls narrator was lone woman patient
~ pushing an upright piano along the
pavement few inches at. time, a. man
rld1ng a bicycle and carrying a skveterri-
Japanese doll .
: He also heard a guest beratino tho
proprietor of the hotel five minutes az.
ter the shock because he had not been
Wakened at O'Clock, according tn: in
hIfucI1ons. The guest said indignantly
that he never would stop at that house
again. The house was destroyed.
In a Sorority House : j..
Miss Ina Boutwell,, a student, tells
or incidents at Stanford university. "A
2lIl was dressing III a room in the
Sorority house when the floor gave wav.
Her companion looked up, saw that she
was gone, and shriokcd, '"Whete are
you, May?'' .- ~
On, l am in the parlor.' replied
the girl calmly. as she wriggletf out Of
the heap OF plaster and mortar below.
= One man, at least, according to Miss
boutwell,, missed what would have been
the experience Of a lifetime because
ne did not wake. This man, whose
name she did not know, was still sleep
III.
''The buildings that are mostly oc4
stroyed,'
Many Laughable Scenes.
"There were ludicrous scenes even
in the saddest hours, and I cannot for,
get them,' said L. E. Ryter, a Salt
Lake mining man.
~ never saw SO many parrots, cana,
ryb1rds, mockingbirds and pet dogs to-
gether in my life. saw pet dog on
the seat Of an automobile, the owner
of which would not stop to take in g
~" wounded man on the sidewalk.
"One thing will always remain in
my memory. On pile of rubbish was
thrown the body of a man shot thru
the heart, and on his chest was pinned
, placard:
g Take warming
Sorize those who would steal or make
trouble.
A Pitiful Sight.
81 met one poor crazy woman who
stopped us to say that they had killed
her husband and might as well xii
her. Then she changed her cry an(
said she was a cow and asked us tt
take her away. Our hearts were con
vulsed with pity, but what could W.
do9 We left her talking to the mex
conner and could only hope that thos
finally in authority would care for her.
cit was grand to see the spirit o
men who had lost fortunes themselve
in cheering up the poorer ones who ha
lest things of no great value. Why,
lost $200,o0O,' said one. What is you
baby carriage to that? Cheer up.
will all come out in the wash.
A $50 "Fare.' -.
"The acts of some of the express an
carriage drivers, however, were out
rageous. | witnessed one case in from
of the St. Francis hotel. Afte
much parley man got an expressma
to agree to take himself and wife
the ferry for 500. A bellboy ran on
and said What yer dom, that felle
there's got $50 for that trip S
the man had to pay $50 or walk. H!
wife could not walk so he paid it,
Forced to Abandon Search.
Dr. George V. Schramm, a youn
medical graduate, says:
80 AS I was passing down Markt
street with a new-found friend a
automobile came rushing along wit
two soldiers in it. My Doctors bade
protected me-. but the soldiers invite
my companion, husky six-footer to g