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THE GREAT EARTHQUAKE.
Thrilling Description of the Great
Quake and Fire that Wiped out
San Francisco.
Personal Experience of W. S. Liven-
good and Family During the
Trying Days of the Great
Calamity.
OAKLAND, CAL., May 1. 1908.
Epitor StArR:—Your telegram of
April 19, addressed to the San Fran-
cisco Chronicle, inquiring whether my
family and I escaped the earthquake,
resched me on the 28th, having been
forwarded by mail from Chicago. I
presume you received my postal card
of April 20th, apprising you of our
safety, ere I got your telegram. I did
not try to get a telegram to you, be-
cause it was impossible to communi-
cate with the outside world by wire for
some days after the quake, and even at
this late date, when order has been
somewhat evolved from chaos, private
telegrams are accepted only subject to
delay.
Yes, we escaped injury from the
quake all right, but the fire caught us
and left us some hundred dollars poor-
er than we were before. Still we es-
caped so much more fortunately than
thousands of others did that we have
no complaint to utter. Indeed we
count ourselves among the lucky ones,
as we suffered no bodily injury what-
ever, and were not left entirely desti-
tute as so many thousands were.
NOT SCARED OUT.
Doubtless many exaggerated reports
of the disaster have reached the East.
It was bad enough as it was, but the
people here are filled with hope and
courage and have already set earnestly
to work to rebuild the great metropolis
by the Golden Gate. It is to be ex-
pected that for years to come the
earthquake bugaboo will be used to
frighten timid folk out of the notion of
coming to California. But as for me
and my house, after having experienced
the great quake in all its intensity, and
witnessed most of the attendant hor-
rors, we would rather remain in the
Golden State and take chances with the
quakes, than to return east of the
Rockies to dally with the tornadoes
and blizzards of the Cyclone Belt, or
the thunder and lightning of the Alle-
ghanies.
We are leaving California a month
earlier than we had intended, on ac-
count of the quake, but not because we
are afraid to stay here. 1 am due in
Seattle, Wash., by the first of June, ac-
cording to a contract made before the
earthquake came. The quake, how-
ever, put a premature stop to my en-
gagement in San Francisco. I have
another job awaiting me in Portland,
Or..however, and will leave for that
city May 3, to remain until June 1,
when I will proceed to Seattle to re-
main there until fall. After that my
plans are unformed. but we will prob-
ably return to California for the winter.
THRILLING EXPERIENCES.
The earthquake and fire which dev-
astated San Francisco seem like ancient
history to us who have been through
it. I will jot down here, however,
some of our personal experiences dur-
ing the first few distressful days of the
catastrophe.
My wife, daughter and I were asleep
in our beds on the top, floor of a six-
story brick apartment house. the Al-
calde, at 725 O'Farrell street, near the
business cenier of San Francisco, when
the shock that shattered and sundered
many of the city’s proudest structures,
as well as thousands of humbler habi-
tations, was felt. The upheaval was of
such violence as to bid the soundest
slumberer awake. As we awoke our
ears were assailed with the crash and
din of toppling chimneys, falling walls
and breaking glass and china. The top
of the house where we were, rocked
and swayed like a treetop whipped by
a gale. Our beds pitched, tossed and
heaved like a bucking bronco until we
thought we would be precipitated into
space, but we managed to hold on.
We expected momentarily that the
walls of the room would cave in on us
and the whole building collapse as a
house of cards.
Thousands jumped from their beds
and rushed frantically into the streets.
Being so high up, the thought of flight
never entered our minds. We thought
if we had to die, we might as well face
the inevitable in our beds as elsewhere,
so we hugged our pillows and resigned
ourselves to our fate, our one consola-
tion being that there was not so much
brick and mortar to fall on us up there
where we were, than if we were quar-
tered on one of the lower floors. I
heard no screaming. I guess we were
all too frightened to “holler” or say
much. We were even too bewildered
to do much thinking, but I ean truth-
fully say that I have often been fright-
ened a great deal worse from far less
cause.
AFTER THE FIRST SHOCK.
In the first lull of the awful convul-
sion and noise, I called to our daugh-
ter who was sleeping in the next room:
“Frances, are you all right?” to which
she responded “yes.” I then got up
and helped her accross the quaking
floor to our bed, and crawled in after
her, all three of us huddling together
there until the worst of the quakes
were over.
There was a series of shocks, cover-
ing a period of some minutes, I don’t
pm
know how nany, the first, as usual,
being the hesviest and the one thst
did practically all of the damage.
When I finally ventured to get up,
our rooms were a sight. Broken
china, glass, books and everything that
was not securely fastened to the wall
or shelves, littered the floor. From the
front window, in the gray dawn, I
could see the streets strewn with bricks
and other debris, with here and there a
house in partial collapse, while hun-
dreds of people were prancing frantic-
ally about in their night clothes, some
crying and others looking too geared
to know where they were or what do-
ing.
As far as I could see from my elevat-
ed position I could see scarcely a
chimney or smokestack standing.
What surprised me most was to see
that the building we were in was go
slightly damaged. I could not observe
that a single brick bad been displaced,
and the walls were not very seriously
cracked or sprung. It was a new build-
ing and well constructed, the brick
work being reinforced with steel.
VIEWING THE RUINS,
Within half an hour we had made
our toilets and started out to investi-
gate the extent of the damage to. the
city. When we reached the first cross
street, we came in view of the City
Hall, half a dozen blocks distant, and
were horrified to see this magnificent
structure, which covered several acres
and cost over $6,000,000, in ruins. Only
the skeleton of the great dome, 335 feet
high, and surmounted by a figure of
Progress 27 feet high, was standing.
We walked down Hyde street to get a
closer view of the wreck of this colossal
magnificence. En route we saw other
buildings in jumbled heaps and police
and firemen digging among the ruins
for dead or injured people. By thie
time, also, we noticed huge columns of
smoke ascending from more than a
dozen different places, most of them in
the manufacturing district south of
Market street, the great business ‘thor-
oughfare of the city. It became ap-
parent to us then that the ruins of
buildings had taken fire and that flames
would complete the havoc the earth-
quake had begun. The nearest fire was
within a quarter of a mile of our aparc-
ments, and it behooved us to get away
from that section of the city before the
conflagration became general.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
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The radiant face, the noble form, the
lady-like courtesy, the helping hand
are jewels of rarer worth than dia-
monds.
MEMORIAL DAY.
Each recurring May is a reminder of
the dark days of the sixties. The: liv-
ing today, who were on the stage of ac-
tion forty-five years ago, can well recall
those stirring momentous times that
thrilled the American people. both the
north and the south. The music of fife
+ nd drum reverberated from every val-
ley and hillside in our land. It was
then our homes were tested to the ut-
most, sending forth husbands, fathers
and sons, and leaving wives and daugh-
ters to care for farm and shop, while
they should be braving the storms of
battle. Those heart-rending times
when grief ran so deep no utterance
could be given. endearing embraces
without a word, partings with » signal
only of farewell. Truly those were
stirring times that seemed then that
memory must ever dwell on the sad
and hallowed scenes. But with the
fast fleeting years, how we have out-
grown'them all! With most, today the
Civil war is hardly a memory. A few,
whose wounds were keenest, may yet
have the indelible impression, and
often recall the trying days of the 60s,
but the larger remnant so seldom re-
vert to them that they are quite for-
gotten. But may we never so far for-
get that in each bright May of coming
years we will go forth with the blos-
soms of spring and strew the lowly,
grassy tents where sleep our fallen
brave.
Bring flowers, bright flowers,
dewey jewels beset ;
Scatter them freely, lest we forget:
And for centuries to come may we hal-
low the day
By bringing our flowers on the 30th of
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=A Few Quotations of Interstl<
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Cloverseed at $8.75 per bushel.
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Timothyseed at $1.75.
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