Show SAW EARTHQUAKE FROM OAKLAND j i C F Williams Arrives in Salt Lake and Tells of His Hist t Experiences I I BUILDINGS SEEN TO SWAY COLLAPSE AND FIRE FOLLOWED I THE SHAKING I Words lords are inadequate to describe i iI I the sight sj bt of San Francisco being rocked i tId M d swayed by the terrible earthquake that visited that city last Wednesday I morning When the fire broke out it was a terrible spectacle to contemplate i and one ont that I will never forget fOrge t as long longas as I live I viewed it from Oakland across the bay and my wife and I are ale I thankful that we were out of the doomed city I IThe The foregoing was the preface to t a 1 graphic story told last night at the th i iI Knutsford I by C 5 F Williams of Nor NorI Norristown i Pa who ho arrived in Salt Lake I on a late latt train with his wife thankful that they were not asleep in iii a hotel in iii inthe inthe I I the city of San Francisco Fancisco when the hor horrible horrible horrible catastrophe that has shocked the entire world overtook the Golden Gate city Continuing Mr Williams said My l and I hud had arranged to leave j San Francisco Wednesday morning but wo we w wanted to have alook around I Oakland before we took the train for forthe fo foI the east We e arose early and took al a I ferry boat across the theba hay bay and ha bat hardly har arrived at Oakland when w j were startled 1 by the sudden n quaking qua kili n of the th tb earth parth The paroxysms of old Mother Earth were terrific t and at t we did not what wes WS taking I IJ place J lac Tin TIlt ground swayed under our otlY I feet and anti then the earth seemed to g ginto go I into terrific convulsions O i i iI I U All of a sudden u n the full rull realization t i that hat we w were ivere Wf re an earth earthquake e earthquake quake dawned dan d upon boUt both myself and my lIly wife and although the shok k last lasted ed td d only about a out three minutes it seemed lp W rue me of much longer eJ duration I stood st Od horror stricken in my tracks d and ancl unable to in collect my Involuntarily my gaze craze az e was ia attracted ted tedI S I I across the bay of Sun S n F Ind the sight that I will nl t indelible ll I buildings s 11 I in ci mKe 4 G li nl g 4 J I 1 ti r r 5 1 SAW SA W EARTHQUAKE S FRO OAKLA n nC Continued C from froin Page P gc 1 S minute mIde to see se them topple into in fr S street Many smaller build im 1 I j fn tn great heaps h of f debri debr the Call Can building buDding that great UHF tow I ir r Stone And mortar that was the th r V t SP 04 Franciscans Fra cl was u 1 wrenched w ed heck hack b ck into d fell Th The Chr lir iT i 11 m building that was not yet comi t hut but which had bad its brick walls t around the st was g ga ga a wrench but bat withstood t l terrible tremor and I did not see It again S S SS S Other the buildings buit shook and nd swayed and ind trembled until they fairly danced before my m eyes e es until I imagined I wa waon waon waon on a whirligig aDd ami n became faint and sick Then the fire broke out in different cit sections e of the doomed d omed city and up up into the early morning atmosphere presenting a spectacle that I can cand describe d only in one w way y and that m is isby by calling clUng it terribly grand Great Grea t Scott The thoughts that arose arc e in my mind In those tho e few w iso ments menu are still with me meAs meS meAs As S he recalled the awful l scene ene that t at spread before his eyes eye that bea but ut fatal morning Mr Mi William fees blanched and he covered hr eyes with his hand as though be lie would blot Not out ent t tot of ot his mind what bad had been imprinted there here to remain until he goes to fete JUs grave With an effort he threw off his Jib emotion and aDd then theft resumed his Ms story tery I Continuing he said S The t as 18 terrific in d dand and many houses were thrown down owa in plain view of my wife and myself We W did IId not know but that we would woul l i le e killed by falling debris but it was as soon s over and we felt sate safe We watched the fires bursting forth in San Franci Francico co and saw the terrified people rush PUSh ru Ing from their homes on un the hills gd realized that the confusion and f right had bad suddenly taken possession of the people who had been so rudely awak aWk awakened awakened ened and thrown out of their beds must have been indescribable inde The uThe smoke awoke began to roll up p f om rn the burning bun ng buildings and formed great get clouds that moved skyward in 1 giant t masses of et black through ran tan red and varicolored glints of or fire Are thai caused ones mind to conjure up vis ions of the infernal internal regions Then the great clouds of fire and smoke in one great Teat blanket of black and red and hung over the city eity like a huge hute pan 11 The uThe wind finally came canIe up and Ii a few hours hoars it was as blowing a gale gaJe Now ow and then the black pall would be blown bI n S aside and we could get a glimpse gUm of ot the burning burng seething furnace In the theart art 4 sity We mas inns massive MaSsive sive flames Rames shooting gut of ot the win dows of o buildings as a S their timbers crackled In the fierce h heat hear and then floors would fall taU sending up column of sparks spark and cinder and the yie would pin be closed in Iii 11 Mack ack whit the fi renewed wed headway bedway way fro from frn i the Mn J D ape pe of ef d bris tb h had b n into Inti th Ui many furnaces 0 S SI hI I ld go on for hours h is d I c r ri the awful bt Ut sight be a repe rE p df what I ready y t tolI tM j t j lice flee it to say in conclusion tro O i l that r ry j T Tand vr and I left lef the s r y sible that II iere rere f tl UI in being out and fr in i S continue dur lr r ii mevi a r Is IsU I s U ilen rayer 1 n 1 kD of f t us to e 1 t |