The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-07-06

san Francisco The next morning we
closed the doors and went up town,
got cup of coffee and bun at the
restaurant. then went to the livery
stable, got team and started for San
Jose. It was forty miles We left at
I'm the morning and got to San Jose
at In the afternoon. We found the
roads far more passlble, but the men
still working on them.
We left the team and pony at llv'
cry barn when we arrived In San Jose
and walked up to where he had left
his father He was not there and had
not been seen after Glenn left. We
were greatly worried about him and
Glenn went to hunting for him. He
went to the depot and livery barns and
everywhere he thought he would be
likely to go but no trace Of him could
we find We were so worried we knew
not what to do.
Agony OF Refugees.
The city was full of refugees from
San Francisco, brought in by teams
and autos and the one train that could
get TIN ough. oh, what awful sights,
| thousands of men and women and lit.
tie children lying on the grass in the
parks and under the pepper trees along
the streets. Most of them had only
their night clothes on, bareheaded
barefooted, cold, hungry, and many
sick from fright. The people of San
Jose were doing their best for them
dividing their food, clothes and bed
clothes with them.
Every moment new arrivals came
who had to be cared for. Soldiers
hundreds of them, were put on guart
to watch the people, and after 6 nj
one but physicians and nurses were
allowed in the streets. No Cne was
allowed light for fear OF fire.
1t was something toe terrible to de
scribe while Glenn was hunting fol
his father asked the landlady " she
knew any one by the name of CrusoI
or Thamp. ! had not heard of the aw
fu wreck at Agnew, but thought
would find where Claud and Ada wer,
If could. She said she knew of NJ
one by that name, but would get mi
that evenings paper, that had s
of the thirteen killed at San Jose.
read the list but found no names
knew.
Uncles Name in Dead.
On the same page my eyes caugh
the news of the awful disaster at Ag
, new asylum, and found poor Uncl
Eds name in the list of killed.
called the landlord and told him tina
must go out there and find my brotf
err. They were all so sorry for me an
q did all they could to help me, but the
q told me that | could not go till morr
? ing, If could go at all. No one wa
: allowed out after 6 o'clock and h
said he would make inquiries fol- II,
Then Glenn came and we could d
nothing but wait. We did not u,
:, dress, just lait down on couches
= the back parlor.
The house was full to overflc VIM
|, N Some men even lay on the bare foe
' in the halls Morning came and til
' landlord told me that Agnew was III
. der military rule. No one was allowe
there only the men who would hel
y remove the debris and care fDr tt
" bodies, and those who were nurse
e They said they could not let any or
=. in because they would only be in IL
- way.
DR.. and Mrs. Kelly Killed.
# He said my brother was very like
c. to be already buried as the paper sa
a he was with DR.. Kelly and wife az
|. several others in the sanitarium,
n one-story cottage and that all wel
d killed in there. DR.. and Mrs Kellg
{. bodies were brought to San Joe {
v that morning after the shock al
If buried. He thought it probable th
ID my brother had been buried too
d they were obliged to bury them as ia
e as they were taken out, they were
ID terribly mangled. They he / alreat
ID taken out 40 bodies.
" When | heard all this and kne
Is that could not go there | gave it I
o. and tried to find Claude and Ada.
,r went to the police station and talk,
I'd with several officers. They said th
pt did not know them but would try
,e find them for me. They had been the
,e such a short time that no one kne
l them and did not know their sire
III and number and might have met A
q. and not known her as had never Sc
ne her. | also went to the postmen a.
II tried to find one who had deliver
ID mail to them, but no one knew ar
w thing about them and their name W
w not in the directory.
Killed Instantly.
ch then went to the relief commit
e and asked, but their name was not
the books, but they took their nam,
en as did the police and postmen and sa
at they would try to find them and
ed me know if they did. Afterwards
in found out that Claude was at Agn,
nd digging for his fathers body. He W