The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-04-27
THE FALLEN CITY =
Now i'm Ruins But IT'S Citizens Full of Nope
for the Future

walking as fast as possible, to the
high parks back of the city.
| WOMEN HARNESSED TO CARRIAGES
"Fire was bre aking out in hun
dreds of places over the city and
the streets were becoming crowded
with hurrying refugees. Where they
were unable to procure horses men
and women had harnessed them
selves to carriages and were drawing
their belongings to places of safety.
AS we passed through the residence
district where wealthy people lived,
we saw automobiles drawn up and
loaded down before houses. Their
owners remained until the flames
came too near and then, getting
into the machines, made for the
| hills.
"We. saw, one man pay s., 900 for
an automobile in which to take his
family to place of safety.
"Before night we reached the
summit of the Alta Plaza. People
half clad, unfed, hystercal. search
ing for loved ones, crowded the
ground. Beneath lay the burning
city and as night fall came on it
presented a scene indescribable.
eve passed the i hit sleepless,
with panic stricken multitude. In
the morning Thursday we started
toward the harbor, with the assist
ance of soldiers from the Presidio
who had already been on duty "a
hours. We got to the wharf and
hoped to get a launch to Oakland.
We were unable to do SO, but we
were kindly treated by an old skip
per who was himself in deep grief
because his mother had been crushed
to death in her little house. He
gave us coffee the only nourish-
ment we had had, excepting a few
crackers, in "a hours.
"The skipper saw the govern
ment boat coming in the bay and
said if we could reach the Preside
wharf we could escape on the govern
ment boat.
ave therefore hurried toward the
Preside, greatly impeded by ifs
sures, which stretched long dis
tances and around which we had to
make our way. At the Preside we
were taken on board with other re-
fuges and short time later we were
safe in Oakland.
HOUSES RELIED AND 1UNIBLED
81 climbed over dead bodies,
picked my way around flaming debris
md n over almost inst noun
able obstacles to get out of San
Francisco" said C. C. Ken dali,
retired Omaha capitalist, upon his
arrival here last night.
81 arrived in San Francisco the
night previous to the earthquake. l
was awakened about Sis in the
morning by being thrown out of my
bed in the Palace annex. l rushed
to the window and looked out. The
houses were Keeling and tumbling
like playthings. l hurried on my
clothing and ran into the street.
Here saw many dead and the de
bris was piled up along Market
street.
AZ went to the Office of the Palace
hotel and there men, women and
children were rushing about. crazed
and frantic, in their night clothes.
The first shock lasted only IS
seconds, but 1t seemed to me two
hours.
ia few minutes after 1 reached
the Palace hotel office the second
shock came. 1t was light compared
with the first, but it brought to the
ground many of the buildings that
the first shock had unsettled.
''Fires were breaking out in every
direction. Market street had sunk
at least four feet. l started for the
ferry. 1t is only few block from
the Palace annex to the ferry, but it