Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-04-19
CAL|FORN|ANS
RUSHING HOME.
Affecting Scenes Around Local
Ticket Offices This
Morning.
THEIR PROPERTY IN RUINS.
Up to Noon Today Sixty People Got
Away For Scene of Sorrow
And Death.

A great rush Of residents OF central
California who were In Salt Lake yes
terday, toward the coast began last
night, as they were all anxious to get
home--or what was left of their homes,
without the loss of an hour and up to
this noon over so people had got away.
The scenes at the ticket offices, as these
sorrowing people gathered there for
their transportation. was very affecting.
There were travelling men whose busi-
ness headquarters were masses of ruins
beyond the semblance OF recognition.
and whose commercial future, with
means of support for their families was
clouded In doubt. There were men
whose families could not get word to
them, or they to their families, and who
stood before the railway office counters
with tears in their eyes, and chests
heaying with sobs as they stated the
distress they were in because OF the
were stlll alive or in the next world
There were women tourists whose i'm
mediate family connections and all
they had were in the doomed city. and
might be involved in the general de-
struction. One man said his old mother
who was his all. was in the ruined dis
trlct, and he did not know but that
she had been crushed and cremated in
the flames. In short the mental condi-
tion OF these poor folk was so affecting
that the railway ticket sellers could
not hold back the tears Of sympathy,
and at times could with difficulty prop
erly attend to their duties.
AT THE HOTELS.
At the hotels the expressions OF
horror and anxiety were but a repe-
tition Of what occurred In the ticket
offices as hurried preparations We're
made to leave for the west at the
earliest possible moment. One Of the
guests at the Wilson. Benjamin Il.
Wilson of Berkeley, was one OF the
most anxious people there. for his wife
and children were at home where the
reports of yesterday had spread wide
ruin. The uncertainty was made more
intense by the fact that San Fran cisco
being under martial law, the delivery
OF telegraphic messages had been for
hidden, and so no information as 10
Individuals could be obtained.
ANXIOUS TO TELEGRAPH.
However, the telegraph companies
have been making herculean efforts
to reopen communication and the
Postal Telegraph-Cable company gave
notice that II viii transmit free, do
mestic messages relating to the relief
of sufferers at San Francisco, when
offered by duly constituted relief or
CARNATIONS or public officers In their
official capacity when destined TO San
Francisco. such messages will be
subject TO such delay the condition AT
that point impose
The Western Union ia also receiving
messages under practically the same
conditions, but there Is such rush
and crush at the offices Of both COM
panies not only here, but all over the
west particularly, that 1t is not safe
| for senders to count on any very
| speedy delivery.
RELATIVES ARE FRANTIC.
The anxiety among residents here
having relatives or friends IN San Fran
cisco. IL intense. Frank N. Barrell,
clerk for Sheets & Thomp-
! son OF this city, was I'm San Francisco.
/ and wrote his mother here that he
expected to leave for Los Angeles this
/ week on business. As Mrs. Darrell does
/ not know whether her son had left OF
| not. she was unable To sleep last night,
and walked the floor of her chamber