Show HUMOROUS SIDE OF THE QUAKE Tod Goodwin Gets Albert Mc Me Cornicks Version of San an Francisco Disaster II MAKE CLERK GIVE UP CASH HOW HO LINDSAY ROGERS SPENT S T I FIRST DAY AND NIGHT BY TOD GOODWIN Silhouetted against the garish tints that hat rose from the ruins of San Fran Franisco Francisco Francisco cisco isco the grim ghost of humor stalked the he terrible streets and now that the worst vorst of vi the horror is over those of lighter hoart heart who passed through the attendant tt dangers are becoming nor normal normal normal mal enough to remember some sonic of the fOrms forms the spectre took Albert McCornick who arrived from the he scene of the disaster on Friday has a clear idea of a 3 number of Inci mci Incidents incidents dents which happened in the course of ot othis his wanderings during the terrifying hours he spent in the doomed city and ando h hi o interested the friends who crowded about him yesterday with a conglomerate crate erate series of tales Meets Lindsay Rogers After the breaking break ng of day and I had recovered sufficiently from the shock hock to go back to the hotel I made madea a rush for my room and ran into Lind Lindsay LIndsay Lindsay say Rogers who was bent on the same mission that of getting some fresh clothes As we mounted the Palace stairs trunk after trunk came crash crashing crashing crashing ing ng down and every step we took was dangerous I helped Rogers with his stuff and he In turn lighted matches for me while I gathered a few things together Then we made another rush for the foot of the stairs Just as we got there the last clerk was leaving the desk and catching him by the coat I said I want my ny money Nothing doing said the clerk were vere getting out of here but I hung on demanding my money which was in inthe inthe inthe the safe and I got it Then I told the clerk lerk that my room was a little ittle disordered disordered disordered dered and to have the plaster put back backon I on the walls before I turned returned r to the I city in a few days I A porter came running up to us and offered to get my trunk to the St Francis for 10 while the luggage I was fairly raining into in to the Palace court I told that guy that he could have the trunk and gave him the key to up near the roof Then we got out Hundreds in the Streets There were hundreds of people in inthe inthe inthe the streets and about one out of every hundred was carrying a baby the other ninetynine were clutching a dog a 8 parrot or a cat I never knew there were so many In the world The feline affinity In some cases was Avas marvelous for instance I saw one wo woman woman woman man with a kitten hugged to her bosom while her two children clung desper desperately desperately desperately to her skirts as they made their way toward the park I intended to go to the St Francis but that looked pretty close to town and then I met C D Porter who said he knew my family famil and ard offered to share his bed I asked him where j it was and pointing to the top of a ten story building he told me he had a afine afine fine room up there Skidoo for you I says and as I looked a great geat stone ston crashed down don in front of the entrance Then a big bull came running up and forbade any anyone one going into the build ing so Mr Porter PorteL had the same room Toon I had out in the park English Was Twisted Down In front of the St Francis Caruso came running out and demand demanded ed to knew what he should do He ha haa had hada a fat valise in one hand and a line o of English that was twisted out of shape Lindsay know who he was am and was peevish enough to care less at sue suea such sucha a time so in answer to hIs inquiry h he said How the h do I know you d dago Ive got troubles t of my own There was as a lot of bravado about abou Rogers until he found it was impossible to get out of town and then he got s so worried that we e never neer got separated That night at another hotel uptown where I thought I would be safe from the fire I awoke to see the flames a block away and heard the dynamite so v close that it seemed right under me and I wait I put Dut on all th the clothes I had took two blankets ant anta and anda a comforter manager to get three bot ties of White Rock and started In the tin wake of the great crowd which ha had preceded me to the park Preserves Mineral Water 11 I put a bottle of the mineral water wate in each coat pocket and carried th the third one I gone twenty steps step when a fellow snatched one of o the bot ties from me and anti as I turned on him hima a woman took to k another bottle I start started started ed to run to save the third and a fellow fello tripped me and th bottle smashed There was wild scramble for the broken bits and the mob eagerly went wert after th the few remaining drops dr ps and I had a thirst like the arid belt Whether It was the great American America sense of the ridiculous or general genera hysteria I do not know but everybody was laughing at everybody else el e and every other costume that appeared app ared in ina ina Ina a crowd was greeted with wi th roars of laughter II I went with Mr Rogers to find his hi daughter who was In inscho school l there and when we arrived the inmates were get getting getting getting ting ready to move to a safer place everyone dressed in the best things they possessed Later we went back out of curiosity to see If the building was still standing and It seemed com corn completely completely deserted We went In and the place was silent save for a faint sound that seemed to come from the base basement basement basement ment We rang and rang the bell and finally a begrimed individual appeared In the hall hail spade in hand It LIt was an old Janitor of or kindly mien who said Sure an Give Olve been diggin in the basement fer two hours Is the fire here hereAfter hereAfter hereAfter After being reassured on that point he said s id Orm about through an all th an iviry crucifix in th tl place Is safely burled buried out of ot harms way To Ferry in a Hack HackI I went back to the park and after a long search found a fellow with a hack who guaranteed to get me to the ferry lerry and I took a chance He was true to his word and I crowded through the gate to the first boat On the other side there was a mob about one of the trains and Bob White of the and Charlie Law Lawrence La Lawrence w wrence rence rence were arguing with the conductor who absolutely refused to let them on the train White stood It awhile then grabbing the little con pitched him clear out in the crowd and the two dashed aboard and refused to budge After I got on the car I would have crawled under a seat rather than leave and I only left that Pullman once be between between between tween Oakland and Ogden I got off at Sacramento to send a telegram and the agent said What kind of a guy are you Theres of these things filed flIed ahead of this You Tou can walk to Salt Lake and beat this wire Se SeAnd SeAnd SeAnd And this is the story of a young man manso manso manso so calm in the midst of ot the panic of earthquake and the fury of fire that he peacefully slept that second awful night contented as a padre sunning himself in the gardens of ot the Mission Delores in the splendid idle forties when San Francisco was a sand pile in inthe Inthe inthe the bay |