Bisbee daily review., 1906-04-20
Bisbee People With Relatives i. in Frisco Held in Tortur- q ous Suspense,
UNABLE TO GET A
 MESSAGE THROUGH.
Coast Wires Are So Demroaliz- ed and the Situation Is So Confusing, to Secure Per- sonal Detail Is Impossible.

ous crush of outgoing business for the local telegraph offices. At 6 o'clock last night the Western Union estimat- ed that as many as 5000 messages for San Francisco and other Califor- nia points. including Los Angeles, had been filed yesterday aud the day previous. The office could not begin 10 handle the private business. and made no effort to get a bulletin service from the stricken district. The Postal vas kept busy with special and reg ular press business. as 1t has been every hour since the catastrophe oc- cured. but time has been found to handle hundreds of messages from Bisbee people who are eager to hear from relatives and friends. All wires are accepted at both offices on the simple condition that the companies will do their utmost to reach the par ties desired. Neither company can guarantee the delivery of messages sent to San Francisco. All Frisco messages go to Oakland, and that of fee uses ferry boats and government tugs to the stricken city. An army of operators are busy at the Oakland of flee of both companies.
 Bisbee people were much excited yesterday afternoon by the report that a shock had been experienced at Los Angeles. There was a stampede for the telegraph offices the moment such 8 report became broadcast. A few minutes later the reassuring news that the shock felt had only eli fohs rhas do done brought great relief. .
 As time passes it is possible to learn the names of many Bisbee peo- pie who have relatives and friends in Frisco for whom they are con cerned. So far as can be ascertained no one has been able to get a direct personal reply from San Francisco or Oakland.
 At the Queen hotel and throughout the city the deepest anxiety is felt for the safety of Mir. and Mrs. Ed O. Rouzer. They were at the Del Monte hotel at Monterey or their honeymoon and their many Bisbee friends became alarmed when the Associated Press dispatches to the Review stated that bride and. groom had been, killed, with many others, at the Del Monte by the falling of that great hotels chimneys. Now. the Del Monte is a femous resort and one at which it is more than likely that many bridal couples ,woAd be stopping at the same time. In fact. it is rather the exception when the big house does not shelter at least a score of newly welded couples. There is reason to hope, therefore, that Mir. and Mrs, Rouser are safe. The Review made every effort to obtain the names of the unfortunate ones of the Del Monte last night and the night previous, but could not get a line on that im- portant news. Urgent requests for the names were sent to the Associated Press offices at Denver and Chicago and many of the coast papers, includ- ing the Hearst syndicate were asked for the information
 The situation in California. however, is so far beyond control tbat the newspaper men who are on the scene cannot possibly secure details and where details are available the tele- graphic facilities are necessarily ex ceedingly meager. Many personal messages were sent to Mir. Rouser yesterday. but up to late hour this morning no answers had been receiy ed. That is no special grounds for fear, since TO one else has heard from any portion of the devastated country
 T am afraid I have lost one or my oldest and dearest friends, H. w. Aiken, a Bisbee miner, said in the Review office last night. 'The dis patches say that the Winchester was enc of the first buildings to go down and my chum, Robert Kyle, lived Tn that house We were boys together in Ireland, and we visited the old place together only last summer. am exceedingly anxious to hear from him."
 This note of personal anxiety was re-echoed in the Review office many times last nigLs- The telephone was kept hot with eager inquiries, and the only answer which could be given was, ''The situation does not improve.
 Alfred Louis, sign painter, is anx- ious to hear from his father, Charles H. Louis, who is somewhere in San Francisco and from whom he has not heard in some weeks.
 Mrs. J. B. Wickwell has been try ing to get communication with her husband ever since word of the coast horror reached Bisbee. Thus far she has been unable to get into com munication with him. He is at San Francisco.
 Worries for Parents
 Like dozens of others in Bisbees Mrs. A. T. Sowle telegraphed yester- day regarding her parents. who re side at Salinas, Cal. Up to a late hour last night she has been unable to get any answer Salinas is report ed to have suffered to great extent but information from that and other points is difficult to get.
 Pete Johnson Alarmed.
 First reports from San Jose yester day brought consternation to Peter Johnson, whose wife and children are in that city. He made several ef forts during the day 10 get reply to teiegrams to his -amily. but suffer. ed the same fate as others, and could