The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-07

assistance, and with my children I
started for the place where 1 knew
she had been stopping. We picked our
way through the debris, taking the
middle of the street for our path We
saw dead on all sides of us lying
among the lumber and bricks. l do
not think the neWspa pers are giving
out the full extent of the damage: il
seems that they have agreed to sup
press facts rather than injure the city
in a tourist or business way
I'VE were on our way to our friends
when we received a severee shaking
Two young girls who We're ahead of us
made a dash for a church that was
standing open. Knowing the danger of
being in structure of that kind
prevented them from entering. An
other shock followed that one and the
church belfry fell with crash. I do
not believe two minutes elapsed from
the first shock until the belfry fell.
"A little further along We passed
building or, rather, the ruins of
brick building. for there was nothing
but pile of bricks, level with the
street. and outside of what was once
their home was the family standing
in a group and in a dazed condition.
men we met dLi oIC WHICH Will q
wrapper over her nightdress running
about aimlessly and in her hand was
a cage containing parrot. She said
all of her clothing and effects had been
destroyed.
when we reached the hotel where
our friends We're stopping We found
them in CONSERVATION and unprepared
for any action. I helped them get
do foh ah
for an opportunity to move them. One
wagon after another passed by, but we
were unable to secure their services,
but after a time there was one driver
who showed an inclination to help.
When I asked him what he would
charge me he said a dollar. I was so
that 1 asked him again and
he said that was the price if the gen
tleman in the back had no objections
to his taking me. 1 asked the gentle |
man and he said he would do anything |
he could to help us and if we would |
paw the driver the dollar it would be |
all right. I found that the gentleman |
sitting in the wagon wanted to move |
MS baggage and had bought the out |
ii. Before we reached our destination |
he wagon was filed with refugees.
s.Once we had moved I began to |
search for milk for the babies and Sc
cured a half glass; there was moth
ng to be had to eat and they were
almost famished In little while L
saw a milk man and begged him for
| supply; his wagon was filled with
ans that were running over With the
precious food, but he refused to give
ne any seeing that / had a half glass.
explained to him that it was all the
,abies had to eat and they were
hungry He said there were others
Who had not had that much and there
hould be no favoritism. He finally
-ielded to my entreaties and gave me
small quantity of cream for ten
ents This merely shows that there
vas a spirit of fairness marking the
ctions of some of those who had
lenty in dealing with the sufferers
Tho had nothing.
IT do not think I fully realized the
xtent of the damage until two days
fter the disaster. 1t was then that
re secured the services of an Italian
D drive us to the ferry SO that we {
ou1d get as far away from the scene
s possible. When we got to the ferry t
ne mob was so great that a child was {
OF safe; there was danger at all times /
f being trampled to death. The san | {
Francisco people had such faith in the E
ty and were so proud of it that they {
-ould not be convinced, or they did
OF realize, that the earthquake or any c
Their calamity, could have wrought a
Ich havoc If this feeling had not f
Sisted there would have been a less T
4rious loss of personal effects. Z
There has been wide range in the S
cries as to the number of deaths; no f
he can correctly state it and there il
an inclination on the part of the
eople to hide the facts. AT one time F
lie number was given out as two hum t
ed, but I am confident that 1 saw b
lat number of bodies as I made my g
ay along the streets. At one place G.
ongside a fence. there was what APP
Jared to be a number of piles of
I inquired what they We're
T, and man who seemed to be over
eing some men who were digging a n
ench, told me they were bodies wait q
g burial in the trench that was be- N
2 dug"