El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-10-05

in addition to this many We're wounded:
The people rushed from the buildings at
the first great Nremor of the earth, out
the shock cam9 so quickly that many
one of the citizens tells me of how
he and his family crawled under
heavy wood table and thus escaped DE,
stT11cfion. The streets rose and fell
so that people running along them We're
sometimes thrown against the bulld-
ing while falling and thus crushed.
DR.. Alfred Pirie, rich Canadian cor
fee and banana planter VINO 4osI
something like 100000 in the earth
0uake told me today of some curious
instances which reminds one of Pom
peii When the ruins were eXcaVa,teu
many people were found Just as they
appeared in the acts of their ordinary
work when killed by this mighty
catastrophe.
sat amid the ruins with q shoe on his
knee and his hammer raised in the
act of striking the sole. We found
women sitting at their sewing ma
chinesl their heads bowed over their
work. In one case the wife OF Cen
traI American diplomat was giving her
baby a bath when the house EEL ana
crushed both her and the child
Strange Features of the Earthquake.
Tell me your own experience, Mr..
Prize" said L
Myself and my family were unin-
jured," was the reply, but nevertheless
the shock was terrible one ana we
had a narrow escape. My mouse mas
walls over three feet in thickness and
it was so built that only the interior OF
it was destroyed. I had several cana
dian girls visiting me at the time the
earthquake occurred We had Just sat
down to dinner 1t was already dark
and the electric lights were turned on
We had been talking about earthquakes.
and one of the girls had said she had
felt a slight tremOr that afternoon w e
had warned her that there was little
danger, but just at that moment the
floors rose and the inside walls began
10 fail in We were all thrown from
our chairs to the floor. The table was
overturned. At the same time the IlShI
went out. The screen was thrown n
against the door, shutting 1t tight, ana
we had a great scramble trying to get
out We would rise, and be again
thrown to our knees. As soon as we
the house for the children who were
in different rooms. Two OF my ItIe
ones were in the hands of the nurse
taking a bath. and third was IN PEG
with a fever We carried them out into
the streets and finally made our way
sounded Like Battle.
81 cannot describe the scenes at that
time" continued Dr. Prize me VANS
were everywhere falling, and the NOISE
was like the cannonadlnS OF DaItle-
The people seemed to be crazy Ihey
were shrieking and crying, and many
were on their knees PI Ills; ~, l AS
was choking with ashes: The mer-
chants and clerks had all run out OF
the stores, and no one paid any atten-
ton TO saving his goods. At the, same
time it was dark. When the earth rose
if threw off the switch at the electric
light plants, and this saved many
lives. Had it not done so the town
would have been filled with live wires
and many would have been killed by
them An electric wire caught me II
the neck Just as I ran out of the door
and had the current been on I should
have persisted. As it was, tried TO gel
some coal oil and went to a store anC
! asked for 1t. The merchant was out II
the street He told me that there was
a five gallon can in the rear Of the
store and that could have it for moth