The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-22
TWO NIGHTS AND
DAYS or HORROR
Thrilling Experience of Two
Men and Two Women Who
{ Survived Earthquake. -
FACED DEATH FOR HOURS
TERRIFYING EFFECTS OF THE
USE OF DYNAMITE.

Los Angeles, Cal, April 21.-Most
thrilling Of all stories yet related Of ad-
ventures In stricken San Francisco
during the days OF horror and nights
of terror. is that cf a party of four,
two women and two men. who arrived
here yesterday dftcr having spent a
night and the greater portion Of two
days on the hills about Golden Gate
park.
The party was composed Of Mrs.
Francis Winter, Miss Bessie Marley,
Dr. Ernest Nv. Fleming and oliver
Posey, all prominent local people
b. All were guests at the Palace Tues
day night. They returned with feet
swollen and bruised from miles of
walking over ragged, broken streets,
with flesh scared and blistered from
Cinder and flame, and with eyes still
rilling with the awful horror Of the
scenes and events Of which they had
been part. = --
Women Were Frustrated.
The women FASTENED to a local hotel,
where they remained all the afternoon
and evening, Frustrated from the
shock and the exposure and denying
themselves even to all friends. Mr..
POsey went directly home, but DR..
Fleming, unxempt and disheveled.
went to the chamber of commerce to
give suggestions for succoring the
stricken who had not been fortunate
enough to fee from the city Of desc
lation.
1t was on his advice that the relief
committee made purchases of lint and
DandageS to send north. He said the
number killed has been greatly exag-
gerated, but that hundreds, probably
thousands, are suffering from burns,
and tens and hundreds Of thousands
from hunger and exposure.
The party of which he was a member
was formed fin the streets of San
Francisco Wednesday morning after
the second shock had made the Palace
untenable. They were strangers until
then. ...-.-
Cr.' FIeming's Story.
To a reporter zDr. Fleming told of his
adventures.
Il was sleeping in, a room on the
third floor of the hotel" said DR..
Fleming, when the first shock oc-
CURED. An earthquake i'm San Fran
cisco was no new sensation to me. I
was there In 1853, when a boy 10 years
old, when the first great earthquake
cane But that was as the gentle
rocking OF a cradle to the one of
II awoke 20 the grooming of timbers.
"a grinding, creaking sound: then came
! the roar from the street PIastering
ton was as though the buildings were
stretching and writhing like a snake.
The darkness was intense. Shrieks of
women, higher. shrilier- than that of
the creaking timberS. cut the air. I
tumbled from the bed and crawled.
scramblinss toward the door. The
twisting and. WritEing appeared to in
Women in Night Robes.
The air Mas oppressive. seemed
TO be saying to myself. VIII it never.
never stop?' 7 wrenched tie lock from
the door and threw it open. Just then
the building seemed to breathe, stag
ger and right itself.
But I fed from that building as
from a falling wall. I could not be
lieve that it could endure such a shock
and still stand.
The next L remember / was stand
ing in the street, laughing at the I'M
holy appearance of half hundred men
clad in paJamas-and less.
Were Without Escort.
The women We're in their night
robes; they made a better appearance
than the men. The street was a rain
bow Of color in the early morning
light. There was every stripe and hue
Of raiment never intended to be seen
outside the bOudoir.
Il looked at a man at my side; he
was laughing at me. Then for the
LIbl time L became aware that i was
In pajanas myself. 1 turned and fled
back to my room. % ..--
There dressed, packed my grip and
FASTENED back to the street. r.. All. the
big buildings on Market street toward
the ferry were Standing. but 1 marked
four separate fires. The fronts of the
small buildings had fallen out into the
streets and at some places the debris
had broken through the sidewalk into
cellars.
Flames Were Growing Brighter.
Il noticed two women near me. They
were apparently without escort. One
give to be back in Los Angeles again.
That awakened a kindred feeling,
and prOffeTod my assistance. 1 put
my overcOat on the stone steps of d
building and told them TO sit there.
IN less than two minutes those
steps appeared to pitch right forward
to be flying at me. The grooming and
writing started afEesh.
But I was just stunned. I stood
there in the street with debris falling
about me. It seemed the natural thing
for the tops of buildings TO careen and
for fronts TO fall out. I do not even
recall that he 7woIneIl screafned. /
didn't seem TO be part Of it at all.
THE street gave a convulsive shud-
der and the buildings somehow righted
themselves again / thought they had
crushed together above my head.
THE two women arose and started
20 walk 1 followed in a kind of aim
4 FILED with moving things again.
- Flames Growing Brighter.
But the rainbow raiment had dis
appeared; all were clad in street
clothes Everyone was walking; but