The Searchlight (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 383, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 1, 1906 Page: 2 of 8
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Within that Wine, livlow the l'alaco
(lit bUtWUfeB for uiouo Uciri throe
Ifeelca were n masa of Haines, which
*J6lttkly OfrtjfiiyniJgaktl te othor build
inga. HI]lows of flr« nooniodi *o roll
from Ue business blocks eoon half
consumed to othof blocks In the vie
lnlty, only to climb and loom again.
Saw the Call Building Leaning,
"'iifitt 15-story Call gliding at the
acrrjior of Third And Market streets, as
I j«iSBod, I Haw to bo moro tham. a foot
out of plomb and banging over tlife
street Liko th.) louulnK tower of Pisa
I rom&lned lu San DYattcfttfo until ?
w'clock n|u(l tkon toolc a forry for Oak
land, but returned to the binning city
an hour and a half later. At that time
tlio city seemod doomed. I remained
hot for a few minutes, thon maflo my
way back to tho forry station.
"I hopo I may mover bo called upon
to pass through! ucli an experfaace
again. Pooplo by the thousands and
seemingly dovold of reason, were
crowded around the ferry station. At
the iron gatos (Hey clawod with their
hands as so w&ny maniacs. They
sought, to break flio hare, anil failing
in that, turned upoa each othor.
"Fighting my way to /Jin gate like
the others, tlio thought eanio into my
mind of what rats in a trap wc wete.
Had I not been a strong tu«n I sjiould
certainly havo bpen killed.
"When thy ferry drew up to the slip
and the gates wo*n tljrowm open the
rush to safety was tremendous. The
people flawed through tho pa3sagoway
liko a mountain torrgjat that, meeting
plies over them,
themselves as
n Smoke.
bomt 5 o'clock,
[ftcisco was hltf-
The sun shotio
rocks Io itu prttk,
Those who fell <
best they could.
The City Hi
"I left Oakland
At that time San
don in a pall ef sine!
brightly upon it without any Becaaing
penetration. Flames a(, times cleft the
darkne#*. 'ftiis cloud was five miles
in height nd at It a top changed fa to
n mlllt whit*."
J. IWltor of JU>u^tuji, Tex., said:
'1 VCfis'ln the CJwW'iwi AVest liofel
when the first phdMt came. When I
awoko tho "hojjn waa shajiiu# like a
cradle. "While I was dressing tho
rear wall of tho hotel feij info the din-
ing I ww djey^d by the time
tide eeceiwl aheck rnmo and was going
to ru«h out of tho building, but tho
^>peals of 18 « women qti tjo samo
floor ktopped me. W5th dOnna of tho
ftf.hor mou gursta on tho fifth floor,
wo m/yuyfed to get tho women out.
U was no —uu>«t of t lu? wo-
men woro
"Th first fsvcHfdde was that of
drawee person# in tlje ntrofts,
iu« nbc**,"1 eryhig, ptoiispclaing, 9414
^ Ow. wti'lo bulldinpfc w/ .re tep-
ijfcg dtpm an ourtti tfiew an..} choking
up fh(f siredfe. Many were pipped
only in bodcloWies. *
"It took me two hours to get around
the tire and across the bay. I think
the entire eifl^ will be desijjnyed."
H. Cfc]o, a Iftu'Sc-maJfi w'11 known
over floflntrjj, \Viivj at Mm Vala.ec
kotei, tn tlio taWst: of tho :«eni>n of
Borrcn* Wodi^'sllsv yynbag
Had ^cfn at kouis and Baltieicre.
"M«r God! I pever fcaw anything
Iko It," j And I have
epbn (Wrs*, too. ! v'-s in tho St. Lonis
cyelono find the Baltimore fire. They
were nothing. Man, y«u can't im-
agine it; it'a indescribable. I saw all
San Francises staggering and rocking
and then in flames. I wanted to rush
down and jump in the bay and shut
out all tho awful sights."
Mrs. Agnes Zink, Hotel Broadway,
says:
"I was stopping at S3 Fifth street,
Kd,ii Francisco. Tho rear of that
bouse collapsed and tho landlady and
about thirty of her roomers were
hilled. I escaped simply because I had
a front room and because I got out
tho roof, aa the stairway had collapsed
in tho roar. Out in the street it was
impossiblo to find a clear pathway.
I riaw another lodging house no:.r ours
collapse—I think it mnst bo 39 Fifth
street—and I Know all tho inmates
were killed, for its wrook was com-
plete. In ton minutes tho entire blocl
to Mission street was in flames."
Flames Followed the Dead Wagons.
Geerge F. Williams, a Fullfiian car
conductor on Ihe socond train to ar-
ivo in Ixis Angeks today l'rom San
Francisco, was not in San Francisco
at tho time of tho first shock, but
reached tho city shortly afterward.
He says at that tinio there was little
rush at tho ferry station and that peo-
h) wore both coming and going. He
was in tho striokon city from then un-
til 2 o'clock.
"During tho time I was there," s;*d
Mr. Williams, "the work of rescue and
fighting of tho flames was going on
without intfrmittance. The bodies of
the dead were beiiig carried throjigh
the streets in every manner of con-
veyance. In many plaeos tffo streets
v> ere impassible. On lower Market
street 1 saw a man with a team of
horseg and a. truck on which four
bodies were piled haphazard. As I
stood thijre a building tumbled into
tho strejot which was already blocked
n front. The flajnes came en apace
and tho man unable to s*ive his horses
or tffe bodies, spugkt safety la flighU"
When 'they Blew Up the Palace.
"Tho detonations of exploding dyna-
mite were terrible. At 1 o'clock' tho
destruction f the Palace hotel began.
regiment «f selill^rs formed a
square around the tott'ering building,
charges of dynamite were placed in
ho corridors and then a moment be*
'ore the time for firing they drove the
people headlong before them lor some
distance i« or leu to protect thera/rom
acclionfc
"When J reached tlio city I made
my way to the Palace along Marffbt
'street. Whdfe I left at 2 o'clock the
street was either on flro or ashes and
in owler to gala tho ferry staiion I
was forced to make a wide detour by
Telegraph hill.
Upper Stories Burned First."
"tin*' of the peculiar things about
the disaster jp that many of (,ho build-
ings begun first to btiiii from their
upper stories."
courage and unconquerable spirit.
Several more streets were cleared for
traffic today, whilo the repairing of
water mains, gas mains and electric
station is making rapid headway. Tho
work of taking down and rebuilding
tho ferry tower was begun today.
Tho exodus continues. Constant
streams of men, women and children,
afoot and In every conceivable sort of
vehicle, wind their way toward tho
fen1t . A little bundle on a stick
carried over the shoulder represents
all tlio worldly possessions of many.
It is estimated sixty thousand people
were furnished free transportation out
of tlio city by tho Santa Fo and tho
Southern Pacific.
The relief work is now thoroughly
organized. Many carloads of provis-
t '
ions and supplies are being received
daily. Still many refugees are poprly
protected against exposure. Ycster-
^iay'.s rain, followed by a cold night, is
eaiMatr much distress in tho crowded
CMiWyT For want of dry bedding and
waterjfUDof tents many people walked
so nfe to keep warm aid others huddled
around little camp fires. Everything
was done to all<#viate distress.
As a result of Mayor Schmitz's
sharp letter yesterday to General
Koster, commanding tho national
guard, there was but little shooting
st night. Two looters were report-
ed shot by guards. Several bullets
fired from tho water front struck a
red cross launch going from the
rero district to tho Presidio. Noue
wa- hit. Blue jackets disclaim any
knowledge of the shooting.
EASY PICKING FOR GRAFTERS.
Washington, D. C., April 25.—A new
rural free delivery route has been or-
dored established at Sparks in Lin-
coln county to serve a population of
42D people. Tlrb route is 18 miles
long ami has 105 houses upon it.
At Eastman, District 2G, Indian Ter-
ritory, Jerry Bass has been, appointed
postmaster in place of William Keller.
Representative Stephens' resolu-
tion asking for certain information
about the In.Wan school at Shawnee
lias be'en reposing Quietly with the
committee ou Indian affairs. Mr.
Stephens believes that the resolution
has been so framed thjft he can call
it up as privileged matter if the com-
mittee shows no sign of acting upon it.
Mint out of Washington In order to in-
duce these towns to mako this fight,
whereas It is a fact, and so recorded
at tho time In these dispatches, that
the conferees took the advice of Par-
liamentarian Hinds and decided that
they had no power to incorporate in
their report the names of any towns
not already passed by either one of
tho two houses. This decision was
reached several weeks ago, about the
same time that the conferees decided
to kill tho Warren amendment.
San Francisco, Cai., April 25.—Al-
though it,-j^^Hily a week since the
devastating "ind wa£ 1 'id upon this
olty, work of restoration is al-
ready well under way, showing a
spirit unbroken, a courage undaunted
and a determination seldom equalled
and which JW s never tioen'Fiirpa^sed.
Within the week the people have gone
through the entire gamut of distress,
yet they still maintain a Spartan
Washington, D. C., April 25.
Through some strange notion a num-
ber of Indian Territory towns have
come to the conclusion that tliey can
gi t into the statehood bill in confer-
ence as court towns. Tlio bill already
provides for courts at Muskogee,
Vinita, Tulsa, McAlester, Chickasha
and Aiflmore, and now oiglit more
towns are trying to break in, not be-
ca;; e i f a necessity for these addi-
tion. 1 courts, nor because they want
-the courts vrVy badly, but because of
tlio pro-tige it would give them in the
fi:;lit for county scats. The following
are tlio towns that want the conferees
to take care of them, and the names
of the men representing them:
Wyandotte, backed by ex-Delegate
■■.rvc) ■ Madill, backed by Sam Pow-
er; Wilburton an 1 Chtkota, by Web-
"T Bailings; Weleetka,'by Br. Linn;
Lakemcre and Watumpka, by W. E.
Cranke, and Duncan, by Judge Bill
Gilbert. Misleading reports had been
LATE STATEHOOD PRESS COM-
MENT- *
The senate conferees on tho state-
nood hill have agreed to support tho
s nate measure and it may be taken
lor granted that tho house conferees
v ill yield. No confcironco was nec-
o-mry except as a means of saving
Speaker Cannon's face. Tho house
bill wa4 jammed through as an admin-
istration measure regardless of its
merits and the conference committee
is a method of enabling the bou.;o to
surrender "leisurely." A majority of
tho representatives know that the
senate was right and the house wrong.
In yielding the house will bo surrend-
eiing only to the common sense and
public opinion.—New York Wo-Id
The Gazeto has been an ardent sup-
porter of Congressman Fulkersoii in
his course on the statehood bill, which
has now gone to a conference com-
mittee. It will be remembered that
he refused to follow tho dictates of
the speaker In this matter and voted
to pass tho bill as it returned from tho
senate, which provided for statehood
for Oklahoma and Indian Territory,
without, the New Mexico and Arizona
rider. But one other Missouri repub-
lican member voted with Mr. Fulker-
soii, and it is but natural that these
two gentlemen should receive the
pladit? of the friends of statehood in
all parts of the country. The people
of Oklahoma and Indian Territory are
especially loud in their praise of these
two Missouri republicans and it is
quite evident that Mr. Fulkerson's
actioiy has resulted in strengthening
tho feeling in that country for St.
Joseph as a wholesale city. As an
evidence cf how the people of the ter-
ritory feel in i _ ,natter, we print
herewith a rector, editorial from the
Vinita Chieftain, winch appeared un-
der the heading; "A Friend Indeed."
"Kansas City, Wichita, St. I^uis, Jop-
lin and Topeka jobbers have grown
fat off Oklahoma and Indian Territory
retailers. These cities have always
posed as friends and cl.ampions of ihe
territories. Yet when finally the
chance came to show friendship, when
tho v tes of the representatives would
have secured those rights and privi-
leges of American citizenship for
which wo have been so long fighting,
we found ourselves left without their
support. Of all the neighboring whole-
sale cities only one, St. Joseph, stood
by us. Fulkerson of St. Joo alone
braved the wrath of the speaker and
voted his convictions. We have cause
lo remember Fulkerson and St. Joe.
i friend in need is a friend indeed.
And St. Joe's preformance is worth
ar n ore to us than all the fair prom-
ises of those other cities, which, when
the time came, failed to make good
their friendship."
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