The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-23
Hospitals Rock While Earth
Rumbles Warning to Sick,
Who Become Hysterical and
Almost Beyond Management
NEGRO IN COUNTY JAIL
SENDS UP A PRAYER
Prisoners Rolled From BunkS
by Shock EvangeIiStS on
Job Early to Point Peril of
Continuance of Crime.
SAD DAY FOR MISERABLE

n ATIENTS In practically all of salt
Lakes hospitals were startled al
most into nervous prOstration by
the earthquake. In many instances
such as are under treatment for ner-
yOus ailments became impatient and
left their beds. It required the affen-
tiOn of practically all the nurses Mt the
various hospitals TO pacify them. When
IL became known that the shock had
resulted from an earthquake and that
another might follow, some of the pa
tienfS became hSsterical and uncOn-
IrOIIabIe.
Among hospitals the shock was most
severe at St Marks, where the hospi-
tai buildings rocked and medicine bot
ties and glasses were shaken from
tables. Immediately after the heaviest
shock nurses at the hospital could hear
cries from various wards Men and
women left their cots. and though at
tendants attempted to persuade them
10 return TO their beds. they would not
listen.
1t was finally decided to let the pa
tientS leave their cots. and under the
close guard of the entire corps OF
nurses. they were permitted 10 walk
about the corridors of the hospital. The
patients remained restless for nearly
an hour. and when they had been con-
WINGED that there had been no serious
results from the shock, they returned
to their respective wards
The influence upon the patients Of
having a diversion in the weary hOspi-
tai life is considered good by physi-
clans in charge Of the hospital 4 feel
ing of cheerfulness seemed TO prevail
afterwards.
The shocks were not so distinct at
Holy Cross, L D. s. and Keogh-Ham-
mOnd hospitals, but whenever a ner-
vOus patient learned that an earth
quake had caused the tremor to the
building, he rose from his bed and dis
played a desire to dash to the street.
1t was found difficult to quiet some
of the patients through whose minds
had run the awe of HalIey's comet. and
nurses had to explain that its tail had
not hit the earth.
Prisoners Are Jared.
The big steel rotary at the county
jail, which enclOses IS prisoners was
quake that many Of its occupants were
thrown from their hunks. The shock
was much lighter at the state prison.
All the prisoners knew that there had
been a disturbance of some kind. but
none knew it to be an earthquake un-
til they had been so informed by their
keepers.
a few sIeepy-eyed DRINKS in the
drunk house" of the city jail were
disturbed to the extent that they went
to the extreme of attempting to ne
gotiate with Jailer W. H Wilkinson
for a drink.
Though all the prisoners in the ro-
tary at the county jail gave an OUT
cry when they felt the big steel cyl
indeT shake. none were as frightened
as Leonard Washington and Ed Frank
lin, two negroes. who have been
cOOped up for weeks in a small pie
cut cell on the second floor of the
rotary. Washington had been curled
up in his cell. but at the shock he
fell to his knees and. with eyes bulged
out of their sockets and lips trembling.
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