Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-04-22
REFUGEES TELL TALE
OF GREAT SUFFERING
Party That Escaped From The Pal
ace Hotel Finally Arrives
10 Los Angeles.
MEN Seen IN THEIR PAJARAs
Doctor who Managed to Get Out in
Time Describes the wierd sersa-
tons Tha. He Felt while in Big
Building While it wriued like
Snake.
(By Associated Press }

Il
LOS ANGELES, CALL. April I'll
'Mostt thrilling of all stories yet re-
lated OF adventures in stricken San
Francisco during the days of horror
and nights of terror, is that of
party of four, two women and two men
who arrived here yesterday after
having spent a night and the greater
portion of two days ON the hills about
Golden Gate Park.
This party was composed of Mrs.
Francis Winter, Miss Bessie Marley.
DR.. Ernest w. Fleming and Oliver
Posey, all local people All we're
guests at the Palace Tuesday night
They returned with feet swollen and
bruised from miles of walking over
ragged. broken streets and with
flesh scared and bIistarrd from cinde.
and lame.
Party Formed in tive Street.
The party was formed LIMO eth,
streets or san Francisco Wednesday
morning after the second shock. had
made the Palace Hotel untenable
They were strangers until then.
To reporter Or. Fleming told
of Ids adventures. Il was sleeping
In rom on the third floor OF the
hotel said DR.. Fleming. when the
ilrst shock occurred An earthquake
in San Franchises was no sensation to
me. was there in lSl;S. then 10Y
10 years. when the first great Garth
quake ca1nc. But that was gentle
rocking Of The cradle to the one
of Wednesday,.
IL awoke to the srcaning of tim,
bers. the grinding creaking' sound,
then came the roaring plastering
and wall decorations fell The scnsa.
ton was as though the buildings were
stretching and writhing like a snake.
Darkness Intense.
The darkness was intense Shrieks
of women. higher. shriller than that
of the creeking timbers cut the air.
tumbled from the bed and crawled,
scrambling toward the door, The
twisting and writing appeared to
Increase. The air was oppressive.
Il seemed to be saying to myself,
VIII 1t never, never stop wrenched
| the lock, the door of the room swung
back, against my shoulder Just then
the building seemed to breathe, stag
ger and right itself.
But fled from that building as If
from falling wall. could not be-
lieve 1t could endure such a shock
and still stand.
Men Clad in Pajamas.
The next remember was stand
ing in the street laughing at the un-
holy appearance of half hundred men
clad in Bajamas-and the women
were in their night clothes. They
made better appearance than the
men, The street was rainbow of
colcrs in the early morning light.
fhere was raiment of every hue
and in many cases raiment never
intended to be seen outside bou.
doir.
Il looked at a man at my side;
he was laughing at me. Then fol
the first time became aware that
was In pajamas myself turned
and fled back to my room.
There dressed, packed my grin
and hatened back to the street. Al
the big buildings on Market street
toward the ferry we're standing bu,
marked four separate fires. The
front of the small buildings had faller
out into the streets and at some
places the debris had broken through
the sidewalk into the area way"