Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1906-04-21
Stories Of Eye Witnesses

Sew ldl people came Ia AioAA Jan
Francisco yesterday morning who had
succeeded in getting out OF the city
with verv little but few personal eff
fects. Hon T. B. Hickey and wife
were among the number. He said to
an Appeal representative.
Might before last / slept with my
wife in the park on the ground. To
be enabled to reach the place l paid
a man fifty dollars to go ahead and
edge a way through tie crowd and
find clear spot to ne down, I paid
another man twenty five dollars to
get us down to the boat with our
luggage and we went in a garbage
wagon and were mighty glad to get
that
There is no use describing the scene
of miesry and horror that came under
ones observation at every state The
human brain gets confused with the
succession of impressions. 1t was a
series of fires, explosions tumbling
buildings and dead and wounded
every where. Hysterical women and
wailing children crowding the streets
and soldiers everywhere with fixed
bayonets driving the frantic crowds
away from dangerous localities.
All a chaos of confusion and misery
with dazed crowds watching their
homes go up in smoke.
1t was all mass of charred and
twisted ruin every where. There
seemed no hope for the town when |
got out All only seemed bent on
saving their own lives. I cant answer
questions my brain reels to think of
1t.
Sam Coins Experience
I was ut the Netherland Hotel and
was awakened by the falling Of
plaster on my bed | dressed hastily
and made for the outside The i:dlls
were full of frightened people Men
and women but half dressed and call
ing out that there was an earthquake
At first | did not seem to realize how
severe had been the shock until |
got outside when the wall toppled and
came down. About twenty feet from
me were three people a man woman
and little child. The wall crshed
them out of sight like a flash. 1t
was awful to see three human beings
killed before my eyes hurried
away an das I went along the streets
they were fullof people and presently
saw men with broken arms and
legs who had crawled out Of the ruins
and were begging pitiously for as
sistance No one could help them
and few offered to assist One man
came up to me with half his face
torn away and begged me to hell
him. He took my arm for a few
Go nothing left me and sat down or
4 door step.
Such sights became more frequen
and soon I came across n"mbers o
people bleeding and helpless.
The Ambulance wagons and Rec
Cross Society soon got to work ant
took these cases to the Mechanic:
Pavilion. There We're seven hundred
Of sick and wounded there when tn
fro an,
that they could not remove all an
orders were given not to save thos
who were about to die. These VIII
were able to live if taken ont wer
moved and the rest were burned
was told that the majority wer
burned there.
To describe the awful scene i!
simply impossible. 1t is too horribl
to talk about.
The sight of the crowd strugelin
along to get to the ferry boats is b.
yonds words. The boats were loade
to the guards and people begging by
tericallv to be allowed to get on.
Most of them only had the clothe
on their hacks
All kinds of prices We're paid ft
vehicles to move household good
Many were so dazed that they lie
thousands of dollars worth of gOot
in the streets and carried ava
worthless cats and dogs.