The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-24
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took trains out Of Oakland not knowing
where the trains we're going. Miss Frem-
stad got as far as Ogden, Utah, on a slow
train and waited over until the Overland
Limited, which was the train which Nine
Jacoby and Miss Marion Weed of the COM.
panv had taken, came along and Joined
them. At Chicago they made known
their presence to Millward Adams, the
manager of opera there, and he put them
on the Twentieth Century Limited yester-
day morning, Miss Weed left the others
at Rochester.
Nine. Jacoby seemed to have the more
thrilling experience of the two. She had
to spend Wednesday night with her maid
and Miss Weed in a park, after having been
driven by the fire out of two houses, those
of friends who had given her shelter. She
said:
Il was sleeping on the third floor OF the
Palace Hotel when ! was awakened by the
earthquake. As opened my eyes lsawthe
chairs dancing and the pictures falling A
piano was sliding about. The table In the
middle of the room danced about. l rushed
as l was into the corridor. 1t was crowded.
not get near him. Miss Weed joined me
in the corridor and | told her we must
stick together. She was also in her night
gown. We went down to the street, where
a man gave me his coat. There was panic
After a few minutes presence OF mind
returned to Ms and we went back to dress
| never put on clothes SO quickly. Inc
only foot gear | could find was the Carmen
slippers, which ] intend now to keep for
aver.
While We were dressing the telephones
in our rooms were ringing and the people
in the Office told us to flee for our lives.
We hurried out and joined the thronR IN
the streets. Everybody seemed mad, l
saw CarIso again, but he was so excited
that there was no stopping him in his
flight tharo
We found Nine. Eames and Nine. Sembrlch
and Herr Dippel and others Of the company.
Manager Goerits was there. too. and he
told us all to stav there until he could ar
range to get us out of town, soon he sent
word for Eames and Sembrich 10 go to ir;
Tevis's house. The Others Of US stayed
around for a time and then gradually the
company began 10 break up, looking Tor
something to eat and SOM water to drink.
Then | remembered a friends house
and Miss Weed and | found II after a walk
of twenty blocks. We stayed there until
the fire drove us out. At night we went to
the house of another friend up beyond
Mob Hill. We were welcomed, but again
the fire drove us out after an hour or two
and so we went to n little park at 10 O'Clock
at night and sat there the whole night
through. | have seen no e2aggerauon Of
the terror printed anywhere. The people
we're simply uncomfortable and mad,
Many Of them we're half clad. Some Of them
carried ridiculous things.
MIR. Goerlitz had told some OF the com
pany to meet in Union Square, the next
morning. but Miss Weed and | had heard
that we could get to the ferry house and on
we started soon after daylight. 1t was
an hours walk, but 1t took us, w hours,
SLOW we ever reached the ferry | do not
know. We missed one boat by just a min
ute. Before the next one went there were
more than 5000 persons jammed together
waiting for it. Those immense boats can
carry 1000 persons in a crowd ordinarily
c o~, s11i to Oakland. / had money enough
to pay my fare and we iourneyed on until we
met Miss Fremstad at Ogden, and then
reached Chicago, where Mr.. Adams be-
friended us
Jacoby was asked what had become OF
Fred huffman of the company. She shouted
with laughter as she replied:
He never woke up, He never woke up,
Mr.. Lestelbert knocked on his door and
told him TO get up because there was an
earthquake. He said all right and then
went 10 sleep again. The hotel people had
to wax him at o O'clock and get him out
He never woke MP himself
Miss Fremstad when asked about scenes
at San Francisco. said:
ut was simply hell, to put It bluntly.
Miss Frenstad was at the Hotel St, Dun
stan at Van Ness avenue and Suffer street
She had appeared IN NHrIhcL we u4SH'
before, and when she reached her rooms
al midnight her arms were filled with flow
ers and these we're the first things she
picked up when she fled from the hote
five hours later. She was not seriously
frightened and dressed herself and just as
she Was ready to go out her maid came
running in. The plaster was falling IRON
the ceiling and the chairs were dancing
around. Miss Fremstad said that she anG
the maid. with other guests OF the hotel
- - E..ln M r- nnar tha hntn
and there they sat practically the entire
day, Miss Fremstad continued
Il had been in the open park only a rev
minutes when | realized that had my arm'
full of flowers which ! received over thu
footlights only a few hours before. l say
sick and wounded persons being carried
by. and | said that they should have I'M
flowers. sent them to a hospital near by
I later made a sort of counter a my TRUNKS
and got some coffee and chocolate IRON th'
hotel and some crackers and bread from
nearby stores. and gave them to the THIRSTY
and hungry people. Finally, we venturet
back to the hotelto get a meal for ourselves
While we we're there another shock came
and all hands rushed out ana "oulo noI g
in there any more.
in the afternoon Mr.. Sheldon came anc
said hat he had sent his uncle and aunt e
the ferry, and that they, had got througi
ali right. He told me that he thought h'
could take me over to oakland ana n'
press wagon for our trunks, and we etartee
For the Penthouse. There was a genera
belief that the f%erryhouse was cut on an
so there vas no stampede at that ume
serted ser de except o Z for half a dozen Chinese an.
myself and maid, Marie. We we're the ONLY
passengers on the O'Clock boat to Oak
land. LID,
know there il was going, but told Marie
that we must get on It, | got my trunk
checked. When the train started and tn
conductor came through ! asked him wher,
we were going, He said II vas q SOY
cara IL II was. 90 long as we were goint
somewhere away from Oakland,