The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1906-04-26
EXPERIENCES OF
THE SURVIVORS
HEART RENDING TALES or suF.
FERiNG AND PRivATIoN.
GRocER's BAND is SHOT OFF
Soldiers Soon Put a Sto1 to His
Greed-Live Girls Fingers
Cut off-Shot to Pre-
vent Cremation.

ifornia. B.. Starikoff, an elevator boy,
enroute to his home in the east, tells
thrilling tales of his sufferings and
wanderings for two days in San Fran.
cisco. He was finally given passage
for what money he had and taken
free the rest of the way. He said he
saw grocer on Friday with stock
of bread charging one dollar LOAF
for it. The grocer would take loaf
in one hand and a pistol In the other
and come to the door with one loaf
at time to sell. A spectator told
the soldiers, who shot the mans
hand off, confiscated the bread and
distributed it among the hungry.
Cut Girls Finger of.
Colorado Springs. Colo, April 25.-
Passing through this city today on a
Denver & Rio Grande train, bound for
Chicago, where her parents reside,
was a San Francisco fugitive who
said her name was Miss Logan. She
were bandage on her left hard and
said that while she lay unconscious
upon the floor of the lobby of the st.
Francis hotel in San Francisco aftei
the earthquake last Wednesday morn
ing, the third finger Of ner Icft hand
was cut off and she was robbed OF
rings that she had worn there. The
young woman is about 20 years OF
age and is almost prostrated with
grief and indignation.
Shot to Prevent Cremation.
Salt Lake, Utah, April 25!-That
three men were shot to death on a
blazing roof in San Francisco to keep
them from being burned alive is sol
Iemniy- asserted BY Max Fast, gar
ment worker who came here yester-
day.
when the fire caught the Windsor
hotel at Fifth and Market" said Mr..
Fast, there were three men on the
roof and 1t was impossible to get them
down. Rather than see the crazed
men fall in with the roof and be
roasted alive, the military officer di-
rected his men to shoot them, which
they did in the presence of 5000 peo-
pie. saw great stones fall on three
men near the city hall, crushing the
life out of them. In Union square l
stood beside woman who died actu-
ally from fright and thirst. Her last
request was for water and we had
none to give her."
GhouIs Instantly Killed.
Salt Lake, April 25.--Willis Ames,
who arrived home today, says.
while was walking about the
streets / saw man after man shot
down by the troops. Most of these
were ghouls. One man made tho
troopers believe that one Of the dead
bodies lying on pile of rocks was
his mother, and he was permitted to
go up to the body. Apparently over
come by grief. he threw himself
across the corpse. In onother In:
slant the soldiers discovered that he
was chewing the diamond earrings
from the ears of the dead woman.
Here's where you get what's coming
to you,' said one Of the soldiers, and
with that he put bullet through the
ghoul. The diamonds were found in
the mans mouth afterward."
Asylum Presents Awful Sight.
Denver, April 25.-Npthing could
be more terrible than the calamity at
Agnew's asylum, San Jose, as describ-
ed by R. L. Drinkwater, who arrived
home today. He fed to San Jose
from San Francisco only to find that
he had gone from bad to worse, He
said today: I'VE went to Agnews,
where We had a friend, and found the
asylum in ruins and 200 demented
creatures buried there. 1t was sight
to transfix one with horror to see
scores of men and women strapped
to trees all over the grounds, crying.
shrieking and cursing. Ordinarily
Troublesome in their way, the excite
ment of the falling Of the building had
made them mad indeed, ana their un-
canny looks and fiery eyes were terri
BILE to behold Nothing could be
found for them, as there was no place
to put them, and every saue man
woman and child available was oig-
ging to release the other unfoftunates
buried in the ruins.
More Thieves Killed.
San Francisco. April rs. = Three
thieves were killed this morning, one
while dropping from a second story
window with loot Tne others are inn
prisoned aboard the flagship Chicago.
A hospital launch filled with wounded
was fred upon last night, but no one
was hurt. A regiment of regulars
from Vancouver barracks has replaced
the militia in Oakland. All state
troops viii likely be sent home before
the end Of the week.