Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-04-24
SHOT TO AVERT TORTURE
Soldiers Said 10 Have Shot Three
Doomed Men Who Otherwise Would
Have Been Burned Alive
.FlENDlSH WORK OF GHOULS
Summary Stopped by Bullets
From Rifles.
TERRORS OF THE WRECKED ASYLUM
Associated Pro-. DIlpatoa OT spoolalwIrol

Salt Lake City, Utah, April "a
That three men were shot TO death on
% blazing roof In San Francisco TO keep
them from being burned alive is
solcmnly asserted by Max Fast,
garment-worker, who came here yes
terday.
when the fire caught the Windsor
Hotel at Fifth and Market Streets" "
said Mr. Fast. "there were three men
on the roof and IL was impossible to
get them down. Rather than see the
crazed men fall In with the roof and
he roasted ,alive the military officer
directed his men Co shoot them, which
they did in the presence of 5000
people. ] saw great stones fall on
three men near the City Hall, crush
ing the life out of them. In Union
Square / stood beside a woman who
died actually from fright and thirst.
Her last request was for water, and
we had none to give her. AT jefferson
Square / saw "a fatal clash between
the military and the police. police
man ordered a soldier TO take up
dead body, TO put IL In the wagon
and the soldier ordered the policeman
TO do it. Words followed and the
soldier shot the policeman dead.
John Cashnoar, an old soldier from
/ Speak Fish, S. d., saw the military
shoot q negro near tho City Hall. Tho
negro had been robbing the corpse Of
q woman and TO got "a ring from her
/ swollen finger, cut the finger OF.
The sentry on duty near Nanness
/ avenue, 80 added Mr. Cashnear.
"ordered a friend of mine, who was
/ entering his home, TO come out Of
there as it was about 20 be dynamited.
My friend waved his hand back
| toward the soldier, sayingi This Is
my house and / have q right to 60 in.
The soldier instantly killed him. On
the other hand, / want Co say that tho
soldiers we're generally kind and help
ful and deplored these hagty actions
of their comrades just as much as we
did. -
Nothing could be moro terrible than
the calamity at Agnew's Asylum, near
San jose, as described by R. T. Drink
water Of Denver. He fed 20 San jose
from San Francisco, only 20 find that
he had gone from bad 10 worse. He
said last nights
"We went to Agnew's, where we
had friend. and found the asylum in
ruins and 200 demented creatures
buried there. It was n sight to trans
fix one with horror TO sec scores Of
madmen and women strapped to trees
all over the grounds, crying, shrieking
and cursing Ordinarily troublesome
in their way, the excltement of the
falling building made them mad, in
deed and their uncanny looks and
fiery eyes were terrible to behold.
Nothing could be done for them, as
there was no place TO put them and
every sane man, woman and child
available was digging Co release the
other unfortunates buried in the
ruins. "
But, most CHASTITY Of all is the
statement by WilTis Ames, a Salt Lake
man who escaped to Los Angeles. He
says:
"While / was walking about the
streets i saw man after man shot down
by the troops. Most of these were
ghouls. One man made the trooper
believe that one Of the bodies lying
on a pile Of rocks was his mother and
he was permitted to 90 up to the
body. Apparently overcome by grief,
he threw himself across the corpse.
In another instant the soldiers dis
covered that he was chewing the
diamond earrings from the ears Of the
dead woman. Here is where you get
what is coming to you, said one OF
the soldiers, and with that he put a
bullet through the ghoul. The dia-
monds we're found in the mans mouth
afterward. "
Already the beggars are seeking to
profit by the misfortune of San Fran
cisco and two men arrested while beg
ging in the character of refugees have
been proved impostors.
The soldiers referred TO in the
above dispatch were undoubtedly
militiamen. All reports concur in the
statement that they were reckless,
while the United States troops seem
AT no time TO have failed in discretion