Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-05-05
1NFORD
STUDENTS
EXPERIENCE
,aleIu Boy Tells of the Crash
Ine IL The College Walls
D1her Incidents

|, A. eI41, W8hGt hhSieshsS
a q s.l would not care to give my exper-
We, senses. hi the earthquake, but to put
ice n record the appreciation many felt
ega Or the prompt relief efforts that were
Ah Made by The people of Oregon and the
ny remarkablo enterprise and public spir-
ut ht Of the southern Pacific railroad.
ps Was Rough House.
viii, we were awakened by plaster fall.
ih,ng from the ceiling and at first thought
part he boys were having a rough house
When things began to fall in the room
u snd a large dresser fell over onto our
ID beds with a crash, we jumped up, out
m nto the middle Of the room and kept
b ourselves from falling by holding on
10 table. The large four-story cut
stone building was rocking and shak.
sing, and we began to realize that it
was an earthquake. We were not much
scared just then, because we did not
IQlrknew its terrible effect and thought it
" would ease up, but it grew worse for
F3o seconds. Began to think where we
q would light before the shaking was
over.
How 1t All Felt.
"It- felt like sitting on table and
someone shaking it up and down rap
idly, and then shaking it sideways. 1t
sounded as though telegraph poles
were being jammed up against the
floor from below us. The rooms were
filed with dust, marble slabs screwed
to the walls were torn off like rotten
wall paper. Pianos were rushed about
the rooms like paper balls.
How They Got Out
"We stayed in our room long enough
to put on shoes and a few clothes and
started for the ground. As soon as W.
were out in the halls we began to un
derstand what had happened. The hall
ways were filed with great chunks Of
0Irock, plastering doors were ajamb, and
there was general chaos. The students
who had any experience with earth
quakes got out before the worst tremb'
lors were over. One doorway we went
through was nearly blocked with stones
weighing several hundred pounds, that
IN came down one to four floors-the caps
Q and silIs of the windows. BY the time
we got out nearly all had escaped and
several hundred stood around looking
lat the wreck from the outside. 1t
was remarkable sight to see the
walls cracked so you could almost
Jump through them, and but for the
fact that this building was erected un'
der Senator Stanford's personal super
vision, and that he watched every de-
tail Of construction, it would have gone
down like several other buildings.
Saved the Boys Lives.
"The stones in great many places
h.A were linked together with iron bars
and but for this superior construction
ba ii is awful to think what would have
happened. The $50 students all owe
their lives TO the old senator's fore
sight, thoughtfulness and conscien
fious care in constructing Eneina Hall
This same statement can be applied
10 the girls hall
Six Boys Buried.
While we were all looking at the
NJ sbattered building from which We haG
|ust escaped the night watch came run
ming out and said six boys were buried
where q large chimney had gone dowr
and taken along four rooms and the
roof, through to the basement. 1t re
quired all the students who could worh
In the fallen space and an improvised
block and tackle to handle the larger
rocks and timbers, and it was two
hours before all the injured students
were zeeovere6-the last only being
dead He was probably smothered tS
death. Tke other Eve were soon res
tored But it was wonderful that they
got out dive. The damage which the
earthquake has done 10 the other build
infs at Stanford has already been suf
feisptIy described in the newspapers
n win be rebuilt and school will open
~ usual next fan.
xxow Reltef Was Planned