Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-04-27

near the city hall, crushing the life out
| of them.
In Union Square l stood beside a wo-
man who died actually from fright and
thirst Her last request was for wa
ter and we had none to give her.
AT Jefferson square l saw a fatal
clash between the military and the po-
! lice. A policeman ordered a soldier to
! take up dead body to put it in the
wagon. and the soldier ordered the po-
! liceman to do it, Words followed and
the soldier shot the police IAN dead
| John Cashnear, an old soldier from
! Spearfish S. D., saw the military shoot
! had been robbing the corpse of a woman
and to get Il ring from her swollen finger
| cut the finger off.
Soldler Kills Policeman.
"The sentry on duty near Van Ness
avenue" added Mr.. Cashnear, ordered
| friend of mine who was entering his
! home to come out of there as it was
about to be dynamited. My friend waved
! his hand back toward the soldier saying:
| This is my house and l have a right to
] go in The soldier instantly killed him.
| On the other hand, | want to say that
| the soldiers were generally kind and
| helpful and deplored these hasty actions
of their comrades just as much as we
| did"
|
Nothing could be more terrible than
| the calamity at sAgnews' asylum near
| San lose rs described by r. Lee Drink
water of Denver. He fled to San Jose
from San Francisco only to find that he
| had gone from bad to worse. He said
! last night:
| I'VE went to Agnews, where we had a
friend. and found the asylum in ruins
| and 200 demented creatures buried there
| .i,rht r,,t,Sr Th hon
ror to see the scores of maddencd men
and women strapped to trees all over the
grounds, crying, shrieking and cursing.
Maniacs Become Violent.
"OrdinariIy. troublesome in their way,
| the excitement of the falling building
made them mad. indeed, and their I'M
canny looks and fiery eyes were terrible
| to behold. Nothing could be done for
| them as there was no place to put them
and every sane man, woman and child
available was digging to release the other
unfortunates buried in the ruins. Oh,
| such cries as came seemingly from the
bowels of the earth The devils have got
me. Let me OUT 1 am the king, you
cannot kill me- / want my supper. |
want my dinner Just as the vagary
seized them they called out their dis
ordered thoughts nor even guessed their
! true condition.
| Many Ghouls Shot.
But most CHASTITY of all is the state
ment by Willis Ames, a Salt Lake man
who escaped to Los Angeles. He says:
while | was walking about the streets
| saw man after man shot down by the
troops. Most of these were ghouls. One
man made the trooper believe that one of
| the dead bodies lying on a pile of rocks
was his mother and he was permitted to
go up to the body. Apparently overcome
| by grief he threw himself across the
corpse. In another instant the soldiers
discovered that he was chewing the dia
mond earrings from the ears of the dead
woman. Here is where you get what is
and with that he put bullet through the
| ghoul. The diamonds were found in the
mans mouth afterward."
| Already the beggars are seeking to
profit by the misfortune of San Fran
| cisco and two men arrested while beg
! ging in the character of refugees have
been proved imposters.
Saw Children and Wife Dead.
PORTLAND, Ore, April 24.-J. 2.
O'Brien, general manager of the Harri-
man lines in Oregon and Washington,
was asleep in his private car at the
Townsend street depot in San Francisco
when the earthquake occurred Wednes-
| day.
I'VE knew nothing about the disaster
! for several hours after it happened said
Mr. O'Brien, until about s o'clock.
when man rushed into my car shouting
that the city was burning. 1 did not
believe him but went outside. where |
saw. the fire stretching for half a mile,
AS [ stood there l saw q man crying as
if his heart would break. He said he
was going to jump into the bay, as he had
just seen his wife and four children
taken from the debris and carried to the
morgue."