The Paducah sun., 1906-04-21

dence district have gathered IN the
therhishways-and- by =
ways and given shelter and comfort
for the night in their living rooms
and drawing rooms. Shelter seems to
have come more easily than food. Not
an ounce of supplies. of course, has
come in for two days. and most of
the permanent stores are in the
hands of the soldiers. who dole them
out to all comers alike. But the hun
cry can not always find the military
stores. and the news has not got
about. since there are no newspapers
and no regular means of communica-
ton.
An Italian tells me that he was ta-
ken in by family living in a three
story house in the fashionable Pa
ciflc avenue. There were 20 refugees
who passed the night in the drawing
room of that house. whose mistress
took down hangings TO make them
comfortable. In the morning, all the
food that was left, even in that home
of wealth was enough -four and bak-
ing powder to shake together a
breakfast for the refugees. They
were hardly ready to leave that
house when the fire came that way.
and the people of the house, with the
refugees, who included two Chinese,
made their way to the open ground
of the presidio. With them streamed
a procession of folks carrying valua-
bles in bundles.
Criminal BIemishes.
There come out, too, tales OF both
heroism and crime. The firemen have
been at IL for over 46 hours under
such conditions as fremen never fac
ed before and they are practically
out of It. They attempted TO do little
more than give directions. while the
thousands of young west
ern men. who have remained to see
1t through, do the work with troops,
who have all they can do do to han
die the crowds in the streets and pre-
vent panics. The work of dynamiting
tearing down and rescuing is in the
hands of volunteers.
This morning an eddy Of fame
from the edge of the burning whole
sale district ran up the slope OF Rus
sian Mill at the highest eminenee in
he city. All along the edge of the
lill and up the slopes are little frame
houses, which hold Italians and Mex
cans. A corps of volunteer aids ran
along the edge of the fire, warning
people out of the houses. But the |
lanes ran too fast, and two women
we're caught in the upper story of an
DID frame house. A young man tore
/ rail from fence. managed to scale
t and reached the window. He seized
,ne woman and managed to drop her
)nto the rail. down which she slid
without hurting herself. But the roof
ell while he was struggling with the
,ther. and they fell together. in the
lanes. There must have been hun
ireds of such deeds OF herolsm and
iozens OF such eatastrophes.
There is darker side. too. At
east four men have been shot for
ooting. There are no wharf rats in |
he world worse than these which i'm |
est San Francisco's water front. The
error and the presence OF the
roops, who have kept most of these
,eople penned up in Portsmouth
quare with the Chinese, kept them
n bounds for the day. The policemen
hot one of them and this had a good
fleet. But today they broke loose
nd joining with the rescuers, began
O go through the buildings. In the
arly afternoon one of them came
taggering out OF winehouse on
ireen street, his arms filled with
hampagne bottles and already half
runk with brandy which he had
ound in the wreck. A soldier of the
9Th caught and held him. The or
ers of the troop are discretionary
he soldiers in charge stood him
gainst the burning building and
hot him before he knew what they
Tere going to do. Three others were
hot in the back on the run as they
ried to get away with their plum
er. There must have been a great