Show OPERA COMPANY LOSES THOUSANDS Members of Great Troupe Pass Through Ogden and Tell of Quake THEIR LOSS OVER SAN FRANCISCO BUSINESS MEN GO THROUGH TH ROUGH TO EAST Special to The Herald Ogden April LErnest Ernest Goerlitz man manager manager ager of the Grand Opera company of New NewYork NewYork NewYork York accompanied by his wife passed through Ogden today on the overland limited with members of his company maids and ballets in all This company was engaged for ten appear appearances appearances ances in San Francisco for which ad advance advance vance sales amounted to more mOle than 1443 Two performances had been given when the earthquake closed the engage engagement engagement ment mont The loss to the management in scenery and costumes is estimated at The loss in orchestral instruments is given as asi i The members on the train escaped with nothing more than the clothes they were fortunate enough to wear the rhe company was in excellent spirits notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding standing its great misfortune and the members retain their organization for next season Story of the Star Relating her experience Mme Sem brich one of the stars of the company said saidI I 1 was at the St S1 Francis when the shock came and the plaster and furniture fell on my m bed The piano was thrown across the room I sprang out in my night cloth s and rushed into the hall ball where other guests were running about Some man in the hall bali handed me his overcoat I get got down stairs in my m bare feet before 1 I realized what I was doing I then returned to my room got my clothes dressed hurriedly and got out on in Union square where I met Paul Balcon of the company He was in his shirt shirtsleeves shirtsleeves shirtsleeves sleeves then others of the company came camO and the street began to fill with excited people Mr DIpple helped me to get some effects out of the room When we were going up the hill Dr Tevis Invited us to his home but we were afraid to remain indoors We Ve sat on the steps until the fire drove us away and then took refuge on the sand banks of ot a reservoir We Ve did not sleep that being impossible What I have on now is all that I saved The rich and poor mingled together on terms of equality Each one tried to help the other In attending to tous tous tous us Dr Tevis failed to save his own household goods My loss losE altogether is Version of Gorlitz Mr Gorilla Gorlitz another member of the I company said I We Ye paid a man 25 to get our trunks 1 to the St Francis Later that went ana we lost everything We Ye got an ambulance ambulance ambulance lance to get our goods to the fire line where the police confiscated the convey conveyance conveyance conveyance ance We lost all we had hadI I 1 saw some terrible sights A woman coming down the street with an infant in her arms asked me if I help her revive it I saw at once that it was dead its skull having been crushed in I did not have the heart hart to tell the mother the facts Passing down the street we saw dead and wounded lying on the streets and everything wrecked Dressed in a Wrapper Louise Homer was dressed in a wrap wrapper wrapper wrapper per All she had to wear was some clothes that had been given ghen her ber She in ill her lier night clothes The donated clothes did not fit well Her husband in retting out carried som sorn of his extra and loaned her a pair of trousers to wear wea temporarily She thought the cid eld of the th world had come when the furniture be he began hegan gan bran dancing all over the room She said saidI hI I 1 intend to appear when I go east st t 1 the Cincinnati Musical company I do ec donot donot I not care to say much of my loss I sim simply simply simply ply lost everything A n r m man tn on the train accepted a e too t the toe charge chal e of a list of cloth clothIng clothIng clothing Ing that she felt she had to have havi at Og Ogden Ogden den Edythe Ed the Walker Valker mezzo soprano said sak saki I that when she awoke in her room at the thc i Palace hotel the hotel was rocking like a a L steamer at sea the piano was dancing out to the middle of the room rom and an a tt trunk was landing on the bed b d The Thc thor door d or was battened and she had hail a difficult time in getting out After the first t scare was over r she said everybody seemed to be he cool and collect collected ed She succeeded in getting some rome of o 0 oher her clothes with th assistance of friends and she slept sIc It on the ground gound on Geary Ceary street that night She Stu said Loses Her Jewels I 1 lost all of my jewels and all my cos costume costume costume tume for the Queen of Sheba amount amountIng amounting Ing lug to several thousand dollars Miss Bella Alton high soprano who took Fritzy place with the corn com company pany said her loss in wardrobe and per personal personal personal effects amounted to more than Bessie Abbott soprano was also at the Palace and was awakened by everything eVer falling about her room She escaped in her night clothes to the hall hail The hall hallwas hallwas hallwas was filled with falling plaster Her maid went back and got some clothes and later the two entered and packed the trunks with the flames blazing around them She Shecut Shecut Shecut cut her feet badly on broken glass from froma a chandelier that crashed to the floor The rhe trunks were afterwards burned She said she was out at least lehst 2000 Many of the souvenirs she lost were priceless to her and she could not estimate nor Ir loss an Ways near accurately Paula Ralph said saidI I was routed out of bed like all the rest and did not wait ait to dress 1 I got some of my clothes a little later and ana borrowed some more I did not dare to sleep slee in the house to which I was invited but got some and slept on the tile walk I lost host everything that I had with wJ th the exception of what I have on It is too horrible to talk about In Jn the some soldiers passed with a lot ot oj prison prisoners ers ors abut They made us move Clove out of the way It looked like a funeral procession I learned afterward they came from the county jail jatI Tells His H is Story was another guest at the Palace hotel and the shock nearly threw throw him out of bed He said saidI I threw open the window and I think I let out the highest notes I over ever hit h t in inan all an my life Ufe I do not know why wl y I did this I presume I was too excited to do any anything anything ant thing else elst I skipped out in my night nightclothes nightclothes nightclothes clothes but later got my clothes and packed three trunks I saved the three and lost four others I went up to La Lafayette Lafayette Lafayette fayette square and slept in the grass When I tried to get into the square the soldiers pushed me back I pleaded with them but they would not listen I had under my arm a large photograph of Theodore Roosevelt upon which was writ written written written ten With kindest regards from Theodore Roosevelt I showed him this and one of them said If you are a friend of Teddy Tedd r come in and make yourself at home homeI I lost worth of effects e and eight performances p which would have netted me Paul stated that he was up at atthe atthe athe the he t time and was looking out tut of the win window window dow d ow to see what kind of ot a day It was dg dI going g to be He said Suddenly everything seemed seem d to swing I felt like a bird in a swinging cage and there seemed to come a strange growling sound s like a wild beast in anger nger and a rumbling noise It was the th top story of o f the St S1 Francies and I thought ought t that each ach e sway would be the last I got down d own stairs in my underwear and over overcoat overcoat coat oat c and afterwards met Eames and Sem brich rich b Everyone Eve one was calm and there were no cries or noise The calmness of the he t tc American is wonderful they are the coolest c people in the world and the wo women women women men are as cool as the men My loss is about bout a Tenor Sleeps In the th Air AirA A the leading tenor slept with witha a lot of or others on the bank of a reser reservoir reservoir voir v near the Presidio He sid they suf suffered suffered ered f next day from lack of food We noticed the next daT day he said when we went down do n Market street that the he t fire had melted the wax from the face of o f the dummies in the windOws making them look very comical It did aid me good goodo to t o see how everybody worked I saw wealthy wealth women carrying clothes and pro provisions provisions visions v to shivering and ragged raged people The calamity seemed to place p e everybody on o n a level Jacques Bares tenor said the first sight ight s he beheld after atter landing in n the street was an automobile full run of corpses He said aid s We slept on the ground that night and a nd for the next day or t two to vo we were nearly early n starved Campanari said the door fell ll upon his bed b ed and the piano fell on his trunk smashing mashing s it He said he got out with some ome s blankets and slept two nights in it the streets s Bread was a 2 dollar a loaf and crackers c cents apiece Arc Arcangelo Arcangelo Arcangelo angelo Rossi had to kick his way through the ha t door to get from his room He said he did not care to talk about the misery and wretchedness that he saw He got down to the ferry In a coal car Waldo Story sculptor said saidI I r lost everything I had been at the St Francis three months working on de designs designs designs signs and monumental bas has I had commissions to execute which would have amounted to about Business Men Go Through A number of prominent San Francisco business men who passed through here today oday t from the east held a meeting on the train and decided unanimously to rebuild their ruined interests also to assist in building city a grander gander and more substantial This enthusiasm In the face of an al at almost almost most overwhelming calamity was re remarkable remarkable remarkable and ad is an indication of the spirit I animating the men who made San Fran Francisco Francisc Francisco cisco what It was before the disaster Among those who composed the party paty hurrying back to their stricken city were J 3 K Armsby head of one of the largest Importing i houses house in the world with branches in London Chicago and San Francisco Marshall Marshal Hale the millionaire dry d goods merchant whose enormous business was entirely wiped out A C Carson Caron glove gloe manufacturer J L East Eastland Eastland Eastland land one of San large realty realy owners owner W A Miller Mier of the Standard Oil Oi company C W v T Griffin of Griffin Kelly Kely Co William J Robinson and many other prominent San Francisco merchants and business men Alfred Alred Hertz leader of the German ra or orchestra orchestra orchestra chestra was at the Palace and wa was sha shaken shaken shaken ken out of bed bed Like the rest he lost everything ever thing He stated that they lost all their orchestral instruments valued at atO O Sidney Homer said the thing tha thaT struck him the most was the courage of or everybody He said that when hen the fire engines got pot action he saw a fireman tick stick engnes his head out of a window and shout Come up here some people are ar buried burled alive alve and without a pause a dozen men dashed into the building to save life A milk wagon was confiscated for an am ambulance ambulance ambulance Mrs Caesar Young Mrs Caesar Young of New York was wasat wasat wasat at the St S1 Francis Fracis with Lottie Lotte Millan Illan and they were on the train en route to New NewYork NewYork NewYork York having saved nothing except the clothes they wore The first refugees to arrive from the scene of the disaster came in last even evenIng evenIng evening Ing They were nine in number and were residents resident of Minna street street They escaped es as from their homes in their night nightclothes nightclothes nightclothes clothes and were provided with clothing and food at Oakland On their arrival arIval at Ogden Ogen they the were vere Ver taken in charge by bya b ba a committee and fed at an improvised lunch counter that had been erected at atthe atthe atthe the depot depot Later Lter they the were housed for lor forthe forthe the night Today they will wl be provided with tickets to Omaha by the Union Pa Pacific Pacific and started east They want to make their way to New York to get as a far from the devastated district as a possible Other refugees arrive on every ever train and extensive preparations have been made to take care cre of them here The names of those arriving on the first train are L LBerg LBerg Berg and wife wIe Anna Berg and John ohn JohnBerg JohnBerg Berg living at 30 Minna lInna street Mrs Amelia Berg 57 Minna street Ed Berg Bergand Bergand Bergand and wife wie 27 Minna street and Henry Henr and Dorothy 57 na street street 5 Min Minna lIn lInna Mm |