The Red Cloud chief., 1918-01-31
y to be ready to leave in the early
corning for Retalhudehn where Hard
La a .un.n 10 nnnn Of

ia "a weie TO open temporary Of
,ces.
..onday, 31st. Last day of the year.
,uch an eventful year in many re-
Gets it has proven to be. The US
al few tiemors occurred to keep us
l~e..u.4Dcring, but nothing mo-
tou occurred during the day. At
.ght, while Herbert, Mr.. Morley, Mrs.
aui were paying Bridge, some
.e mot mysteriou5ly called Mr..
ak NON the yaT, ~ad.nonishing HIM
cover his head against cold. 1t
c,l there WaJ az extraordinary
o.. iI tho at. ard fear of a vol-1
Gnic eruption OF Sta Maria was in
s .yr the FIR time | saw Mr..
lark worried. Heretofore his calm
.ad been the main-tay Of US all. New
g we're event ctowdIng him so much
TO make hrl lo.c hiss good humor
I'D wit, but this uneypiainablc Light
al hinl quite worried. lcleg AZ
ere sent TO oil points on the South
n division and not until morning did
70 know that it was caused by the
urning OF three thousand cadavers
n the cemetery. During the earth
uakes the tombs and nitches had
| Broken open and the corpses were
trewn everywhere causing danger to
| The entire population, especially those
rom the old cholera burying ground.
| During the early part of the night
occurred the second eclipse Of the
| 1oon in conjunction with Saturn. A
| ,out ten came Walter and Morley on
| heir way back to the Legation from
| the Wireless Station. Dear little Wal
ter, he has surely shows himself a
nero during these trying times, never
once leaving his post, helping all with
lrcless efforts, working literally day
and night, he has countless times be-
lied his frail looks by displaying u
per- mans strength. What a fortunate
hing DR.. Leadell had left. Never any
help at the best of times, he would
nave been impossible ! am sure under
UGH circumstances as these. Walter
and Morley returned to the Legation
and the strange bedfellows that the
earthquake had thrown together once
more settled down to pass in this dear
refuge the last night of the year,
thankful indeed for such .staunch
friends as the three Clarks had proven
themselves to be. Truly adversely |
shows US who our friends are and too,
show what is in us, bringing us all
down to first principles. Thus were we
shown the great tender heart and the
true kindly spirit of Mrs. Clark, with
a thought for everyone, no matterh how
.owly, and her constant good nature,
he was truly a revelation to US both.
Our eternal gratitude will be theirs,
not so much Tor what they did as for
their manner of doing it.
January LIST. A new year. Mr.. Clark
said he'd rather put his money on the
tail end OF it than on the beginning,
and SO would we all of us. We man
aged to get up a wonderful New Years
dinner. Out at the Sance the big tur-
key we had been saving for New
| Years and which LorcnZa had rescued
from the ruins, had been killed and
dressed. Mrs. Roller had saved some
of her Christmas mince meat, and SO
| with the addition of such vegetables
and canned goods as. we had on hand
we succeeded in getting up quite a
wonderful meal-turkey, baked sweet
salad, olives and to cap it all a good
old bottle OF Veuve Clicot. Such hi
larity and good cheer even in the
midst of alarms. Surface hilarity
and surface good cheer however for
underneath u hearts ached for those
4 poor pcople who had lost their all,
I N ny tpu Why hAAGN Ao"y Wv
heitef, or covering during those bit
ter co.l nights-cold as only the trop-
les grow cold during the winter
month. This proved the last night
1.-The Eo.ler5 spent with us. After VAC
Hating, changing their plans with
each auecnoGing shake, they managed
finally 90 come to some decision, not
however ithsut some protest frnns
Madame. il,rv left in the eaIly morn.
ing for a f'lica in Costa Cuca, psar
Ayutia as / understand il belonging
10 q friend OF A.r. KS. Up to the last
moment she protested, hoping, no
doubt Mrs. {. WGGld urge her to re-
main with her in the ear, but Mrs.
c. had had enough Of her utter sol
irhncss and inCap2city and was thank
ful to be- rid Of her at all costs, and
especially 30 when we found out KS
secret calling.
Wednesday, January End. In the
afternoon Mrs. Jessup came to see us
looking as fresh as if such things a.
ruined homes and earthquakes didn't
exist. They had taken refuge In a
sitio near the Calvario church. Along
with them was young MIR. Simmons
and Mr.. Gray of the West India Oil
company. Mr.. Gray is the ran whose
conduct toward Herbert as represent
: alive of the Aguila Oil company has
: boon 80 scurvy and | "a surprised to
! ind him with Jessup.
The Simmons Of the grocery store
also were camped in the sitio as were
tho Madeau's of the American hote
Q and several native people, The lot il
i large, extending from Seventh t
i Eighth avenue and near Eighteenth
street so they were fortunate indee,
4 TO still own it as Mr.. j. had tried hare
to sell it before the upheaval, Late
i Mrs. Clark and ! walked owe to thei
place with Mrs. J.. and later went u
to the Concordia Plaza to buy butter
If This was my first trip to town sine
coming TO the car. 1t didn't prov
IS to be quite 30 narrowing as antici
pated. Some of the streets had bee
s cleared of the worst of the debris an
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