Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-24
TERRIBLE TALES TOLD
SOME OF THE HORRORS OF THE
EARTHQUAKE.

SAIL LAKE CITY. April 24-That three
men were shot to death on a blazing roof
III San francisco to keep them from being
ouFheu aive Is solemnly asserted by Max
rast' garment worker, who came here
yesterday
When the fire caught the Windsor Hotel
AT 9TH and Market" said Mr. Fast there
were three men on the roof, and 1t was I'M
possible to get them down. Rather than
see the crazed men fall in with the roof and
De roasted alive, the military officer direct
ed his men to shoot them, which they did
in the presence of 5o00 people / saw great
stones fall on three men near the city hall
crushing the life out of them In Union
square l stood beside a woman who died
actually from fright and thirst Her last
request was for water, and we had none to
give her. AT Jefferson square, / saw a
fatai crash between the military and the
police. policeman ordered soldier to
take up a dead body to put 1t in the wagon
and the soldier ordered the policeman to
do 1t. Words followed and the soldier shot
the policeman dead
Shot While Robbing Corpse.
John Cashnear. an old soldier from Spear
fish, S. D.. saw the military shoot a negro
near the city hall. The negro had been rob-
bling the corpse OF a woman, and to get a
ring from her swollen finger, cut the finger
off. THE sentry on duty near Van Ness
avenue" added Mr.. Cashnear, ordered q
friend of mine who was entering his home
to come out of there. as 1t was about to be
dynamited. My friend waved his hand
back toward the soldier saying, This Is my
house and l have 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 Agnew Asylum, near San Jose.
as described by r. l.. Drlnkwater of Dem
yer. He fled to San Jose from San Fran
cisco only to find that he had gone from
bad to worse He said last night:
Scene Of Horror at Agnew.
I'VE went to Agnew where We had a
friend, and found the Agnew Asylum in
ruins and 200 demented creatures buried
there 1t was a sight to transfix one with
horror TO see scores of mad men and wo-
men strapped to trees all over the grounds
crying, shreking and cursing. Ordinarily
| troublesome in their way, the excitement
of the falling building made them mad. In
| deed. and their uncannny 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
I am the king, you cannot kill me-
want my supper. I want my dinner
Just the vagary Seized them they
called out their disordered thoughts nor
even guessed their true condition"
But most CHASTITY of all is the statement
by Willis Ames, a Salt Lake man, who es-
capped to Los Angeles He says:
CHASTITY Work of Ghouls.
while l was walking about the streets
1 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 soldier dis
| covered that he was chewing the diamond
| earrings from the of the dead woman.
| Here Is where you get what is coming to
| YOU said one of the soldiers, and with
| that he put a bullet through the ghoul.
| The diamonds were found in the man.
mouth afterward-"
Already the beggars are seeking to profit
by the misfortune of San Francisco, and
character of refugees have been proved
imDosters.
(Note-The soldiers referred to in the
above dispatch were undoubtedly militia
men, All reports concur in the statement
that they were reckless. while the United
States troops seem not to have failed In