The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1906-04-21
SAN FRANCISCO'S CALAMITY.

The calamity that has befallen the
people OF San Francisco is terrible
one. Many are dead, Others are dying,
thousands are homeless, many are
hungry, the business life of the city is
disrupted, and all is choas. Where
peace, happiness and plenty reigned
supreme on Tuesday, now all is sor-
row and misery If not absolute terror.
II must be a pitiful scene today, and
while we say 1t, how many realize at
this distance how truly pitiablc IL is?
All day Tuesday $50, 900 souls In San
Francisco went about their business
or social duties and pleasures, and
there was little thought Of the NOR
row. Abiding in the faith that their
great metropolis would be Boston in
five years, a Chicago In ten and a
greater New York in fifteen, business
men busted themselves over great
transactions and prepared TO build
higher structures. Not reckoning
that death and destruction were to
come ere the morrow's sun should ban
ish darkness, $4,000 people sought
their home or social pleasures in the
evening hours just as 10000 will In
Cache tonight, and then they retired
in confidence that they would on the
morrow resume their business and
pleasures as they had ever done
And no warning came TO the sleep
ers until they awoke ere dawn in
the midst of what must have seemed
hell itself The earth heaved and
quivered, men started from their beds
with blanched faces, the women and
children screamed in their terror, and
the crash of falling buildings struck
the chill of death TO the stoutest
hearts The shock lasted three min
utes, and who can doubt that that
time seemed an eternity. Families
rushed to the streets for safety, only
to be caught under falling walls. The
husband saw his wife and children
crushed at his side and the wife and
children were made husbandless and
fatherless even as they were rudely
awakened from their slumber. The
earth seemed rlven under foot-to
stand still seemed certain death, TO
move seemed TO invite 1t. Men, wo.
men and children were fren2ied.
In an hour the sun shone the same
as yesterday, but It's beams fell on the
most widespread devaslatio the
greatest ruin, human woe and misery
ever wrought on American soil. 200,-
600 people were homeless, without food
and clothing; the whole business Sec
tion Of the city was jumbled pile OF
brick and steel; the costliest and most
magnificent buildings in the city were
scarcely better than the humblest hut
the day before-all was ruin,
And then came that terror Of ter
rors, fire, and the hungry flames are
still licking up the palaces and huts
of rich and poor. The fire king has ragged
with little opposition, for the fire
lighting apparatus was destroyed by
falling walls and watermains had
burst. What was not destroyed by
the quake is 10 be consumed by fire
and at this writing it is believed that
few, if any, of the residence sections
of the city will escape the connagra
ton. All is despair,
The one ray OF light Is the respon
siyeness of the human heart anC
pocketboOk from all corners OF this ma
tion and the globe. Congress voted
Sl,000,000 relief, and every city ant
town OF consequence has offered an!
aid asked for, and many have sen
without asking tie need Utah is re
spending with the rest, the l.. ID.
church giving $4,000, Salt Lake cit.
several thousand, Logan and the othe
towns what they can,
The sympathy OF the nation
aroused as never before, and in tn
face of such disaster men recogniz
their helplessness TO prevent and thei
inability TO alleviate greatly, Me
come TO know that once under tn
crust manklnd's heart beats tru
everywhere.