Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-23

whiskey to the woment unabie longer to
withstand the pleadIhg3 of their children
mothers poured small Quanutles OF tho
fiery liquid into tin ua and other re-
ceptacles and gave Il 8 tise tots to drink.
The natural result wes 10 increase the
pangs Of thirst twenty- told and the sight
Of woe-begone staggefins children was
witnessed by observers
Ehcnpe of PhIIadeIphia Family.
COLORADO SPRINGS. colo. April "a
]. c. GIL. a retired member OF the FIRM
Of King. Hillmsn 8 Gili Of Philadelphia,
arrived in this city FROM San Francisco.
where his party passed through the hor-
rors of the earthquake and subsequent IRE.
Mr.. Gill and his wife aud several prom
inent Philadelphians speut the winter in
Honolulu and on the coast. The party were
guests at the St Francis hotel wednesday.
Besides Mr.. and Mrs. Gin there were in
the party Mr.. w. f. Aunont retired
officer OF the Guard Trust company OF
Philadelphia; Mrs. Aumont. Miss Florence
Aumont. Miss A. NJ. Haehnlen and ].
Millard Kessler
Mrs. Gill and myself we're in a room
on the third floor OF the hotel" said Mr..
Gill. I'VE were awakened by the rocking
of our beds. Then they seemed to be
lifted from their legs. suspended In the
air and as suddenly dropped. while the
plaster began cracking and falling. We
arose and left our room after putting on
a few clothes We felt that with every
step we were treadiuE pn glass and that
the ten stories above US would fall not al
lowing US 10 escape alive. But once out
side the building and with our friends
began to realize what had happened.
II made my way back 10 the room and
carefully packed our suit cases. I came
| across a valuable necklaces and pearl pin
that my wife I'm her haste had left behind.
with hundreds We roar ed IN the park in
front of the hotel several hours. When
we saw the fire was hemnlng in the lower
part of the city we walked toward the
outskirts and were sheltered for a time at
1918 Jones street by MIS- NJ Gwen Early
next morning we decided TO leave the city
and started TO the ferry. Policemen would
stop us and it was with difficulty and
much trepidation that we walked through
the burned district and arrived at the
wharf at 515, just fifteen minutes before
the boat left. g
THE scenes we passed through were
sickening and indescribable. fancy that
scores Of women. wharf rats. who had
looted wholesale liquor houses and were
drunk. were burned to death without being
the. wiser because of their condition"
The GIL party after reaching Oakland
took the first train for the east and will
continue their Journey to Philadelphia to-
day. They lost several thousand dollars
worth Of baggage which they were forced
to abandon at the hotel.
Hair Turns whise In a nay.
The experience through which p S.
Keenan,. a merchant of Terre Haute. Ind,
passed in San Francisco. ne declares. turned
his hair white and his nerves have not yet
recovered from the shock OF the earth
quake. Mr.. and Mrs. keenan, were guests
at the Grant hotel They arrived in Colo
RADIO Springs with all their baggage intact
MY wife and I escaped from our no.
tel with hardly any clothing on" said
Mr.. keenan,. My wife had her stockings
| around her neck After the excitement
OF the irst shock had ibsided returned
/ to the hotel and got sa,,Athings' and I'm
/ ished dressing In the street. j vas f6r-
tunste in getting an exprsssman to take
our trunks to the ferry. We rode so
close to the fire that one side of the
wagon was scorched and we felt the heat
in our faces"
Walter v. Marsh and party are among
the survivors who have reached Colorado
Springs. Marsh is in charge of the Ma
tional Express company's business in
New York, and with his wife was stop
ping at the Savoy opposite the ST. Fran
els hotel, in San Francisco. The sensa-
tion felt by Mr.. and Mrs. Marsh was
not unlike that described by other refu-
gees who have reached here. They made
their escape only half clad and arrived
| in Colorado Springs with no belongings.
Refugees in Salt Lake.
SALT LAKE CITY, April 22.-Iocal
hotels are filling with eastern people who
escaped from San Francisco at the time OF
the earthquake. Mr.. Sternberger of the
frm of New York stock brokers, Stern
berger, Sim & Co.. is here with his wife
son and a maid. He was on the fourth
floor of the St. Francis hotel After hur-
riedly dressing he and his family rushed
into Union square.
1--WE had hardly got seated" says Mr.
Sternberger, when fremen came ,along
asking for volunteers to take bodies from
the ruins Just above the hotel There was
a ready and willing response. It was 6
low building. on which had toppied a
lofty one, and all in the former were
buried in the debris. We heard the stifed
cries and prayers, For Gods sake come
this wayp oh, lift this OH my backP MY
God, I'm dyingP and many others, nerv-
ing us to greater efforts. Finally we got
to some OF them. Bruised, bleeding
blinded by smoke and dust, terrified past
reason, the poor fellows who were saved
fell In the street from utter exhaustion
Those that were pinned away below We
could not reach and their seeming far
on cries Tor mercy and life will ring ir
my ears until death"
story OF Fort Dodge Man.
Charles c. Lanferweiler OF Fort Dodge
Ia, who was at the Grand hotel, says:
II passed through Chinatown Just as a
good shock came, and all Chinatown was
in the streets gesticulating, crying. running
around and acting like lot of monkeys
II left to themselves l know they must all
have perished. The authorities drove then
up the hill and out OF range OF the fire
Superstition mastered them and all sorts
OF gods were produced from all sorts Of
pockets. and joss paper was scattered al
along the way"
Bestor @. Brown, manager of the western
ONCE Of the NJ. c. Lilly company OF Kansas
City, was m a private home when th'
shock came and says that while thingi
danced about. IT was not so terrifying al
TO those in brick and stone buildings.
Henry Herr. a New York travelling man