The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-04-27
THREE MEN EXECUTED

Refugee Relates That Soldiers Shot
Men on Roof of Burning Building
to Save Them from Being
Roasted Alive.
Salt Lake City, April 26.-That three
men were shot to death on a blazing
root in San Francisco to keep them
from being burned alive is solemnly as
serted by Max Fast, a garment worker,
who came here yesterday.
when the fire caught the Windsor
hotel.'' said Fast, there We're three
men on the roof and it was impossible
to get them down. Rather than see the
crazed men fall in with the ROOF ana
be roasted alive, a military man direct
ed his men to shoot them which they
did in the presence of 500 people.
II saw great stones fan on men near
the city hall crushing the life out of
them. In Union square / stood beside
q who died actually from fright
and thirst. Her last request was for
water, but we had none to give her.
Soldier and Policeman Clash.
cat Jefferson square a policeman or
dered 4 soldier to talk up a dead body
to put it in a wagon. The soldier or
dered the policeman to do 1T. Words
oNowed and the soldier shot the po-
liceman dead"
John Cashnear, an old soldier from
Spearfish, S. D, saw military men
shoot a negro near the city hall. The
z had been robbing the corpse of
q NJ and to get a ring from her
swollen finger cut the finger off.
But the most CHASTITY of all is a state
ment by Willis Anles, a Salt Lake mar
who escaped to Los Angeles. He says:
While / was walking about the
streets / saw mar after man shot
down by the troops. Most of these
were ghouls.
chewed Earrings From Ears.
.One man made a trooper believe n
Of the dead bodies lying on a pile of
rocks was his mother and he was per-
mitted to go up to the body. Appar-
entity overcome by grief, he threw him
self across the corpse. In another in
stant the soldiers discovered he was
hewin diamond earrings from the
ears of the dead oma
Here where you get what's com
ing to you,' said one of the soldiers, and
with that he put a bullet through The
ghoul. The diamonds We're u i'll
the mans mouth afterward."
The soldiers referred to in the
above dispatch were undoubtedly mill
itia men. All reports concur in the
statement they We're reckless while the
United States troops seem at no time
to have failed in discretion or good con-
duct.
Chicago, April 24.-soi Allenberg, a
New York ~bookrnaker, has arrived
here. He was at the st. Francis hotel.
II was sick in my room when the
shock struck us" he said, and friends
helped me out to a boarding house on
the hill. There I had to pay 81 for a
FrrS tho y.acf Of tho 6ov
1T was two miles from the fire aud
! thought ! was safe enough when 1
got into bed at noon, but about two
hours later they awoke me to tell me
that the fire was only two blocks away,
and we got out only a short time be-
fore the house went up in flames.
N ex~aggeration of the horrible
scenes on the street is possible. There
was one poor fellow pinned to earth
with a great iron girder= across his
chest. 1t in turn was weighted down
by a mass Of wreckage that could not
be moved. He could not be saved from
h flames that We're sweeping toward
him, and begged a policeman to shoot
him.
The officer fired at him and missed
through the debris and cut the arteries
In the mans. wrists. The crowd hur-
ried on and left him to die alone"
Portland. Ore, April 24.--Geo. NJ
Cook of Chicago is here. He gives a
lowing the earthquake. He said:
But In wrecked Chinatown / saw
the most awful sights. that will live
with me always. The nimsy wooden
buildings stood right in the path OF
the flames. The firemen said they must
30 by dynamite: they hoped to make
q stand. Twenty buglers went through
the street, up every stairway and into
every passage. to warn the frantic Chi
nese. who In the hour of danger rushed
teadlong into their quarters.
Thirty or forty old Chinese-some
the pioneers of the yellow race in San
Franeisco-would not leave. All around
them their brethren. reused 10y the
buglars, scampered to safety with
trinkets. gay-colored clothes and amy
thing they could seize in the rush.
Children. streamed behind, but the old
Chinese would not move. The buglcrs
tugged at their long queues, but sill
they would not go. And so they We're
left to perish, smoking their opium
pipes. calmly to be drugged .nto OBJ
lfvtOn OF their fate.
Then am the explosion. High
9 the street. mingled with flying
boards and dirt and cinders, were doz-
n of human bodies that whirled and
spun and twisted In the air a hundred
times. They We're the martyrs of Chi
llAtOWn announcer second and they We're
on the earth. battered. mangled and
torn out OF all sembIance to human
beings. and the fire swept over them.'
Denver. Colo. April a4.-Anong the
refugees from San Francisco who ar
rived here were two Chicago men, Ar
thur Woodson n j. II. Fiske. Mr..
Woodson said:
After breakfast I hustled around to
get over the bay to Oakland. A few
hacks were in commission, and a reg
ular auction was held over the seat
sold to each passenger. The prices
charged ranged from $40 to 500. l
got q seat in n CT the hacks for SS5.
There We're three other men in it that
paid $50 for seats. We had to go to
h ferry in q roundabout way. and
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