The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-16
1n1oR mnnApo1s nNnEsorA SUNDAY FORMING IS
CHILDREN AND THEIR PETS III
IN THE SAN FRANCISCO FIRE
Of the Uncopne Patience and the Unconscious eros the
Stricken City, Who Proved Themselves Worthy Descen.
of the Courageous :" 49ers' .<#s@."

'tWHAT's the matter''' cried whole city, at
~ everybody awoke with start just before
sunrise the eighteenth of April Houses creak
ing and furniture banging Bricks came Gathering
had caught hold of them and was shaking them back
and forth: Thousands of children boted from their
and ran mothers and fathers the sidewalk
while others too frightened to move held fast to their
beds and waited in silence until the commotion was
A boy Of who had been told when naughty that
Santa Claus would and take him if he didn be-
have, cried out while the house rocking like ship
in Storm - Oh mama, Santa Claus has for me''
she found the empty bed covered with plaster from the
ceiling She called franticaly, Margery! Margeryl'
when little head was poked from under the bedrail
and little voice pped up reassuringy: "Here 1 am,
mother dear when the plaster began drop thought
Id be safer under the bed
Caught in the HsUe. ....-.> =.
In the poorly built homes of the aborng people south
Of Market street much damage done by the earth
in this district told her experience follows:
81 have two brothers and three sisters and when the
into the street. First went to the front door, but that
stuck tight and then tried the back door and
found couldn't open that either You the earth
quake shook the house that the doors wouldn work.
and the windows had iron Stats them couldn
get out that way We saw the people in the street. and
fire. Then knocked at the windows and after
awhile fireman noticed us and came and chopped the
door open. When ran out in the street the fremen
brought clothes and had to dress right there in
the crowd because there was no place else to CO."
Another house not far away caught fire from
plodng lamp When the father had carried the mother
and child safely out the little girl thought of her pets
parrot and two canares Into the burning house she
and rescued all three f.:
'-- Between Doll and Puppies.
many months lived with her mother father and sister
in house street At Christmas time the doctor
had brought her big beautiful doll the first one she
it had cost &c. The family had mother and father
terrier week before the fire four cunning puppies
were added to the household. When the time came to
leave their home that morning. they gathered up few
blankets food. Lauretta carried her doll in
her arms until she found that each one of the family
loaded down. and the puppies had been forgotten Then
she laid the doll her bed smoothed it's dress kissed it
goodbye and ran for the puppies She Placed these
would to the puppies and so they started Off,
. A Test Of Childhood .' ::
Those four days following the earthquake were a
test of childhood such the world has seldom known
Thousands of children saw their homes burning their
schoohouses burning the whole great city burning and
heard night and day the boom of dynamite blowing up
stores churches in the desperate effort
to stop the fire. Many had little nothing to eat and
drinking water hard to nd but they walked
along with their parents going they knew not whe1e they
ose be% an 5 & heads held erect as
walked for countless blocks to park open ground
beyond the fire IS path. -.
live many Italians and Greek fishermen few Mexicans
and Irish aborers It not until the third day
of the great fire that their homes were in danger but
little Carolina, brighteyed italian girl Telegraph
HILL young goat. Before the close of the third
day after the earthquake they were all running from the
horned brown-haired kid Chilly" The next day they
camped in open field the waters edge, and
had nothing to eat but few crackers Carolina was
very hungry wished that old Nanny the kid mother
there to give her cup Of milk Then her father
said: eve must kill the kid and eat it shall all
sarve. Carolina burst into tears threw her about
the playful little pet and said: 'No, no, let go
hungry and they did. On the following morning
they back to their home and soldiers giving
people bread and other food in Washington Square So
little Billy is still frisking with the children Tele
graph Hill. @&.H /
In going about the different camps 7 interested
in what the children had thought Of saving when driven
before the fire. and surprised to find how many had
taken their school books leaving everything else behind
dolluu Of chi