The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-04-22
bruised, BURNED,
\ WEARY REFUGEES
'Thrilling Tale Of Horror Told
! by Guests Who Escaped
4 the Disaster.
LOS ANGELES DOCTOR
!, REC0UNTS EXPERIENCE
Went Through Hours of Agony
Almost Beyond Power
of Words.

tthrilling of all stories yet related Of ad-
VENTURES in stricken San Francisco dur
k,ing the days OF horror and nights Of
women and two men, who arrived here
yesterday after having spent a night
|. and the greater portion OF two days on
n the hills about Golden Gate park.
This party was composed Of Mrs.
Francis Winter, Miss Bessie Marley,
| Or. Ernest w. Fleming and oliver
4 Posey. all prominent local people.
ii Feet Bruised md Flesh Scared.
All were guests at the Palace Tues
day night They returned with feet
u swollen and bruised from miles Of
ID walking over ragged, broken streets,
L with flesh scared and blistered from
cinder and flame, and with eyes still
|, rolling with the awful horror OF the
E scenes and events OF which they had
kbeen part.
|r Frustrated From Shock.
The women hastened to q local hotel.
where they remained all the afternoon
|5and evening. prostrated from the shock
|itselves even to all friends. Mr., Posey
went directly home. but DR.. Fleming
Etunkempt and diskeveled. went to the
|hChamber OF Commerce to give sugges-
htions for succoring the stricken ones.
who had not been fortunate enough to
Zee from the city of desolation.
Gives Advice for Relief.
IA It was on his advice that the relief
kscommittee made purchases OF lint and
/ bandages to send north. He said the
number killed had been greatly exag-
gerated, but that hundreds, probably
thousands are suffering from burns,
and tens. and tens and hundreds Of
thousands from hunger and exposure.
Party Formerly Strangers.
u The party of which he was a member
|Twas formed In the streets Of San Fran
icisco Wednesday morning after the
| second shock had made the Palace un-
Ftenable. They were strangers until
then.
Pfl To a reporter DR.. Fleming told of his
adventures:
r Sleeping on Third Floor.
at was sleeping In a room on the
. third floor Of the hotel" said DR.. Flem-
d ing. when the first shock occurred. An
|esarthquake In San Francisco was no
new sensation to me. / was there in
|rIS6S, when boy Of 10 years old, when
1.-The first great earthquake came. But
n that was as the gentle rocking OF a
k,cradle to the one Of Wednesday.
Ia Awoke to Groaning Of Timbers.
'T awoke to the groaning of timbers,
grinding. creaking sound; then came
y the roar from the street. Plastering
ehnd wall decorations fell. The sensa-
fntfon was as though the buildings were
p tretchins. and writhing like a snake.
frThe darkness was intense. Shrieks Of
women, higher, shriller than that Of the
breaking timbers, cut the air. I tum-
-7bled from the bed and crawled, scram-
Hbling toward the door. The twisting
and writhing appeared to increase.
tt Air Was Oppressive
y, 'The air was oppressive. seemed
y 70 be saying to myself. VIII it never
[Inever stopT wrenched from the lock-
!, the door Of the room swung back
[lagainst my shoulder. just then the
building seemed to breathe. stagger
sand right itself
Vi, But 1 fled from that building as
|. from a falling wall. I could not be-
/, heve that 1t could endure such shock
land still stand.
liz Queer Sights In Street
|sS THE next / remember I was stand
hg lng in the street laughing at the un-
|lbitoly appearance Of half a hundred men
smlad in pajamas-and less.
|dW ''The women were In their night
J Cobes; they made a better appearance
Pnrthan the men. The street was 4 rain
!ow of color In the early morning light
se'here was every stripe and hue of raj
sHnent never intended to be seen outside
he boudoir.
[TI"I looked at a man at my side; he
~ sas laughing at me, Then for the
rst time 1 became aware that / was
ocsp paJamas myself 1 turned and fed
e Eack to my room.
lip Returned to Dress.
Ia l''There l dressed, packed my grip
Ma nd hastened back to the street. All
/ se big buildings on Market street to-
IA gard the ferry were standing: but 1
4 aarkeG four separate fires. The fronts
Z &C the small buildings had fallen out
|sf5 hto the streets and at some places the
lebris had been broken through the
into cellars.
\ ~ Found Distressed Women.
Fy Ell noticed two women near me. They
arere apparently without escort. One
AID to the other, What wouldn't l
|iAhiye TO be back In Los Angeles again
c5rl'That awakened kindred feeling and
= proffered my assistance. put my
vercoat on the stone steps of build
tstlg and told them TO sit there,
|tbs, Steps Seem to Fly at Him.
m' In less than two minutes those steps
,.Jppearcd to pitch right forward-to be
'r'ylng at me. The groaning and writh-
:. lg started afresh,
bur- But l was Just stunned l stood
h''lere In the street, with debris falling
coout me, 1t seemed the natural thing
IN 7r the buildings TO careen over and
,,F the fronts TO fall out. / do not
I'D 'Iven recall that the women screamed.
eoidnt seem to be a part OF 1t at all
~, Buildings Right Themselves.
The street gave d convulsive shud-
|, MT and the buildings somehow righted
l rfeh rehaeiVes again, / thought they had
asned together above my head
40 f'Ihe two women rose and started TO
ak. i followed them I'm n kind OF
|e' MESS sort OF way. The streets were
aed with moving things again.
l. h Street Clothes Donned.
Ihysb But the rainbow rniment had dis