Show HORROR CANNOT BE DESCRIBED Stories Told by Survivors Who Have Reached Los Angeles From Earthquake Center SCENE AFTER FIRST SHOCK STREETS FILLED WITH WI H PEOPLE WILD WITH TERROR Los Angeles An eles April 19 Survivors of ot the San Francisco earthquake arrived in this city citi today at noon on a n train over flyer the Valley line of or the Southern Sou thorn Pacific Many lInn of or them were in a pitiable pitiable pitiable ble condition as a a result of their ex cx experiences experiences They relate stories graphic in detail and almost unbelievable Egbert H Gould president of or the Chicago Car Heating company of Or Chi Chicago ChiI Chicago I cago was one of ot the three persons to arrive in Los Angeles on the first train from San Francisco which reached rea here I at atoll 11 Ii today Story of Fire and Blood As one who passed through the th ter tor terrors rots of those thoe hours between and lid 8 yesterday morning the I tion of ot the scenes sc nes Mr Gould witnessed sed sedis Is js a story of fire and nd blood jI t was asleep on the seventh floor of the Palace hotel he said at the k I 1 time of the first quake I was thrown out of my m bed and half way across the room Immediately realizing the th im imi import i port of the cur ce and fearing that the building was about to collapse I Ii i made my tay down dov n the six flights nights of stairs and into in o the main corridor I Iwas Iwas was as the first r t guest to t appear The clerks derks and hotel were were run running runnIng ning about as if it they were mad Within two minutes after I had appeared app ared other guests Jr ests began be an to flock fiock Into the Few If 11 any of thena in wore other than their night clothing clot Men lIen women and children with blanched faces stood as if dazed The children I and women cried the men were hard hardly hardly ly Jess affected Wires Were All Down I returned to t my m r room room a and l got t my clothing then walked to the offices of the Western Union In my pajamas and bare feet to telegraph to my mr wife In Los Angeles Angelos I found the telegraphers there but all the wires were down I sat eat down on the sidewalk picked pi kod th tIis broken glass out ou t of the soles s les of my feet leet and put pu t my on Al All 1 this I suppose took a little more than twenty minutes Within that time be below below below low the Palace the buildings for more than three blocks were a mass of oi flames which quickly communicated to other othOr r buildings The scene waa wa a terri tern terrible terrible ble one Billows of fire seemed to roll from the business blocks soon half consumed to other blocks in the vi vicinity vicinity only to climb and loom again Like Leaning Tower The Call CaB building at the corner corni of or Third and Market streets as I passed I saw to be more than a foot out of plumb and hanging over the street like the leaning tower of Pisa PI sa I remained l lin In San Francisco until 7 and n then took the ferry ferr for Oakland out tut returned to the burning city o n hour hou and a t half later At that time the city seemed doomed I remained but bu t for a n afew afew few minutes minute then made my m way back to the th ferry station statton I hope I may never be called upon to pass through such an experience again People by bythe bythe bythe the thousands and seemingly devoid of reason were crowded around the ferry err station At the Iron gates they clawed with their hands as so many maniacs They sought to break the bars and failing in that turned upon each other Fighting my way to the gate like the others the thought came into my mind of what rats in a n trap we were Had HadI I i not been a strong trong man I should certainly 1 have been killed Rush to the Ferry When the ferry drew up to the slip and the gates were thrown open the rush to safety was tremendous The people flowed through the passa passageway eway like a mountain torrent that meeting rocks In its path dashes over them Those who fell saved themselves as best they the could I 1 left Oakland at about 5 At that time San FranciscO was hidden in ina ina a 5 pall pan of smoke Tho The sun shone bright brightly ly upon it without any seeming pene penetration penetration i Flames Flam S at times cleft the I darkness This cloud was five live miles in height and at its top changed into a milk white Rescuing the Guests J I Ritter of or Houston Tex said saidi i HI I was in the Golden West Vest hotel when the first shock came When I awoke the hotel was shaking like a cradle While I was vas dressing the rear wall wail of ot the hotel fell Into the dining room Toom I was dressed by the time the second shock came and was going to rush out of the building but hut the ap appeals ap appeals appeals peals of or the women on the same floor noo stopped me With W th some of the other men guests on the fifth floor we man managed managed managed aged to get the women out It was wa no slight task most of the women were hysterical The first sight outside was that of naked and persons in the streets running about crying cr ing screech screeching screeching screechIng ing wild with fear while buildings were toppling down around them and choking up the streets Many were wrapped only in bed clothes It took me two hours to get around the fire and across the bay I think the entire city will be destroyed R It A Cole a horseman well weIl known over the country was at the Palace hotel In the midst of the scenes of hor horror horror horror Wednesday morning My y God I never aw saw anything like j it said Mr lIr Cole and I have seen I things too tool I was as in the St Louis cy cr cyclone dope clone and an 1 the Baltimore B fire fir They were nothing Man lIan you cant imagine it iti Its indescribable I saw sawall all San Francisco Fr i Q atger and n rocking and then in ln flames I wanted anted to rush down and jump ju m In the th ba bay bY and shut out all aU aUthe the awful sight right Mrs Agnes Agne Zink Hotel Broadway Broad ay said saidI S I x was w a stopping at t 35 3 Fifth street in San Fran The rear of f that jj t house hoube collapsed mid and the h landlady ly aDU about thirty of the roomers root were killed k I escaped simply because bec use I had a front room and when I got out the th roof and an stairways had collapsed ed in the rear half of the house Out in the street It was impossible to find a clear at path pathway pathway way wa I saw another lodging house near ours 1 think it must have been 39 Fifth street and I know all the inmates were killed for its wreck was complete In ten minutes minute the entire block to Mission street was in flames S |