Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-05-21
kanR FRANcl9co EARTHQUAKE
1ePARATEs KIN FOR EIGHT
YEARS.
.f3AppY REUNION OF FORMER
1oWANs IN Los ANGELES
Mother and Son Reunited After
Mourning Each Other az Dead
Visit Of Uncle to Iowa Leads to Dis
eovsry That Both Escaped Death in
aster-Advertisement Aids.

story, which appeared in q recent Is
sue of LosAnugeles paper Is Of interest
1 20 Iowa people thru the fact that the
Mrs. Rogers mentioned was born in
Creston. her father being Ed c. Russell
at one time editor Of a paper called
she Democrat. The story follows:
The sun that fingered balefuny be-
hind curtained skies Cor a week IN
Los Angeles, broke with radiance yes
terday for the first time in eight years
in the life Of Mrs. May Rogers, No
z34 South Eastlake avenue. II was
spring in her heart, for her son was
found.
Over the long distance wires from
/. PERKS his glad young voice came 10
her and IL was the sweetest music
her ears had ever heard.
That was in the morning. Night
found them reunited IN her pleasant
little home with more 10 tell OF their
long search and its despair than ever
the hours Of one night might hold.
Perhaps a generation VIII not see
the end Of the strange confusion O.
lives and their untangling following
the ruin era o. the northern city. Not
MANY Of these romantic experiences
have been happier n SEQUEL than the
reunion between Mrs. Rogers and her
son Chester Bacon here Yesterday.
When they parted IN San Francisco
! day before that everteul April morn
ing. she went from their home at
O'Farrell and LeavenHorth streets TO
ct. yincents hospital. TTenty-frst
and Howard streets. where she was
training as nursa Chester. then
4 less than sixteen years OF age went
to his work
Quake Separates Them.
She remained at the hospital that
night and morning broke Cor them in
delirfum Of change, The lettering
city groaned under the te-nb!or's sick
enfng quake. On every hand was the
crash Of falling city followed by
wall upon wall OF fame.
Unable TO leave the care OF the
manned to seek for her son, Mrs. RoE-
ere became a good soldier in The army
administering to the stricken city and
contented herself with a mothers
prayers.
s The little hospital was unsafe and
i they took its cots to barn to receive
the injured. This position Eas made
impossible by the course Of the d!sas-
tor and they were received by the
troops at Twenty-ffth and Noe
streets.
For three nights Mrs. Rogers slept
upon the ground In the hills near that
camp. Meanwhile her boy was IN
vacant lot three or four blocks away
and neither ever knew Of their near
mess at that time until yesterday.
They exhausted every available ave-
nue. Of information without finding
any trace Of the other. The pretty
Young mother, then a widow. went
3 about her work with such courage as
her anxious heart could summon. The
boy, without funds. left the ruined
city within a few days and found
work at Santa Rosa
A few weeks late. despai-nis Of his
mothers life Chester began 20 van
der. working on farms IN Washington.
Montana. Nebraska anG Idaho Later
he went TO Riverside county. working
for some time on the Verde rancA
near victorville.
The mother came 20 Los Angeles
five years atteruard 20 become tn
bride off Halsev Il. Rogers. con-
tractor He died e year ago and sac
was again alone.
Uncle Furnishes Clue.
x Meanwhile her son chancec 70 come
upon the address OF his mothers
brother. Edward G. Russell. editor or
the Daily Alaska Dispatch at Juneau.
He wrote 10 mis- uncle eighteen
months ago, but Russelrs answer
& never reached the boy and Russell die
not have his sisters address.
A few weeks ago Russell was back
at his old home Corning, Iowa. n
4 marry the sweetheart OF his boyhood
& and while there obtained his sister :
4 Los Angeles address.
He telegraphed her thst the boy
was alive and we'll. but that he had
lost the address. After his honey
moon he found the boys letter in his
safe and again telegraphed his sis
ter. She Immediately went 10 Victor
VILE. but Chester had left the rancr
there and no one knew where he had
gone.
Then she advertised IS she had
often done before. and yesterday he!
answer came
That is why the winter ~ her life
\ has turned TO spring and why birds
are singing in the heart, Eher'
mourning reigned before.
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